Friday, March 29, 2024

Fonterra opens plant in Indonesia

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Fonterra has today officially opened a blending and packing plant in Indonesia – its first manufacturing facility in the country.
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Fonterra chairman John Wilson said the NZ$37 million plant was Fonterra’s largest investment in ASEAN in the last decade and will support the growth of Fonterra’s brands – Anmum, Anlene and Anchor Boneeto – in Indonesia.  

“Fonterra has been supplying high quality dairy nutrition to Indonesia for more than 30 years and today it is one of our most important global markets. The opening of our new plant is an exciting step forward in our relationship with the country and local dairy industry,” Wilson said.
The plant, which took 11 months and close to one million man hours of construction to complete, was built to Fonterra’s manufacturing design standards and technology.

“Fonterra is built on generations of dairy expertise passed down through our farming families in New Zealand. 

“This history has allowed us to develop world leading technology and capabilities to produce, manufacture and export high quality and safe milk and other dairy products to more than 100 countries around the world. We’re proud to be able to bring this expertise to Indonesia,” he said. 
Fonterra managing director Asia, Middle-East, Africa (AsiaMEA) Johan Priem said the investment strategically positioned Fonterra to help meet Indonesia’s continuous growing demand for dairy nutrition.

“The country’s large and increasingly affluent population is looking for highly nutritious foods for all ages. This is fuelling dairy demand growth which is expected to increase by 5% every year to 2020.

“Our new plant has the capacity to pack around 16,000 MT of dairy ingredients a year – that’s a pack of Anlene, Anmum and Anchor Boneeto every second, or 87,000 packs every day, which will go a long way in helping Fonterra meet this growing demand for dairy.”

 said the plant located in Cikarang, West Java is already having a positive impact on the local community.

Minister of Local Government, Social Housing and State Services Paula Bennett said the new facility reflected the strength of the relationship between NZ and Indonesia.  

“On behalf of the New Zealand Government, I wish to congratulate Fonterra on today’s official opening – it reflects the increasingly interconnected nature of global value chains, and more closely links our economies together. 

“Our governments have set a target to grow two-way trade to NZ$4 billion by 2024 and dairy continues to be a critical part of this relationship,” Bennett said.

 

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