Westland Milk Products to build $70m new lactoferrin plant

Westland Milk Products to build $70m new lactoferrin plant
Westland Milk Products' plant. (Image: BusinessDesk)
Riley Kennedy
Westland Milk Products has announced it's building a new $70 million lactoferrin plant at its Hokitika facility.The investment, supported by its parent company Yili Group, is expected to see production capacity triple for the multifunctional protein. Lactoferrin is a minor protein in milk with growing international demand across a variety of nutritional categories because of its reported health benefits.The plant upgrade follows a $40m investment which doubled consumer butter production at Hokitika.That increased global sales of the pr...

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