Whey investment for Friesland Foods Domo

Friesland Foods Domo has invested in a whey demineralisation centre in Bedum, the Netherlands. The expanded production capacity and the modifications will enable Friesland Foods Domo to respond more effectively to the demand for products used in infant nutrition.

“By increasing its production capacity in Bedum, Friesland Foods Domo is responding to the growing market for infant nutrition. This makes our production site in Bedum the whey demineralisation centre of Friesland Foods’, says Roelof Joosten, managing director of Friesland Foods Domo.
Considerable investments have been made in the production site in Bedum in the past year, in order to boost the production capacity of demineralised whey products. At the whey demineralisation centre, salts are removed from the whey by means of ion exchange. The product name used by Friesland Foods Domo for demineralised whey is Deminal 90.
The Friesland Foods complex in Bedum is also home to Friesland Foods Cheese, which has in recent years invested in a new preplant (milk processing, rennet production and whey processing), a new cheese dairy for oblong, naturally and foil ripened cheese (15 kilos) and a dairy where cumin Gouda and Maasdam cheese are produced. The total production capacity is 63,000 tonnes of cheese. The cheese is matured and processed in the warehouse. Bedum houses two packing lines for foil-ripened cheese and Maasdam cheese, and the latter is exported directly from the plant in Bedum.