GEA to build powder plant for Amul

GEA is to install a new dairy plant, on a turnkey basis, for the AmulFed Dairy in Gandhinagar, India – a unit of Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF). Production is scheduled to begin in 2018.

The new dairy plant will produce 150 tonnes per day of skim milk powder and 120 tonnes per day of dairy whitener/baby food. When completed, it will be the largest skim milk powder and dairy whitener plant in Asia. Around 90,000 litres of milk per hour will be produced and added to multiple value-added products.

AmulFed already has two milk powder plants in same location supplied by GEA. Together they make AmulFed the largest plant in Asia at a single location. The new plant features hygienic architectural design principles to make it one of the most advanced GEA has built to date, the company says.

Some other interesting features to be included in the AmulFed plant include: the use of a Mechanical Vapour Re-compression (MVR) system from GEA within the evaporation plant; the use of a Reverse Osmosis (RO) polisher to treat the milk condensate from the evaporation plant and recycle the water for reuse within the plant; and the application of a GEA clarifying separator to remove the entire life cycle of bacteria from the milk.

Abhay Chaudhari, GEA country managing director, India Cluster, says, “We will provide AmulFed with a hygienically-superior plant that will deliver peak performance. The AmulFed milk powder plant at Gandhinagar will not be just the largest in Asia but it will also be the most environmentally friendly.”

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