Arla Foods expands Pronsfeld site

Arla Foods has inaugurated a new production area at its site in Pronsfeld, near Bitburg-Prüm in the Eifel district. Following three years of planning and construction, Peder Tuborgh, CEO of Arla Foods, along with the chief minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Malu Dreyer, joined forces to inaugurate the new production systems.

A total of about €110 million was invested in the construction of a new milk drying tower, a new creamery and additional milk preparation and processing capacity.


Until now, around 1.4 billion kilogrammes of milk have been processed annually in Pronsfeld. Thanks to the new production facilities, it will be possible to process an additional 450 million kilogrammes of milk every year. This corresponds to a volume of 40,000 tonnes of butter and 42,000 tonnes of milk powder annually.



“We will be using our various powdered milk products to supply our growth markets in Asia and Africa as well,” says Tim Ørting Jørgensen, head of Arla’s Consumer Central Europe division (CCE). 



German dairy butter and the blended spread Arla Kærgården will be produced here for the German market and for countries in Central Europe. 
 The Pronsfeld location is the largest production site in Arla’s entire network.