Arla’s Aylesbury site starts up production

Arla Foods has seen the first milk for its retail customers come off the filling lines at its new Aylesbury dairy in Buckinghamshire, UK. Arla started building at the site in February 2012. The £150 million (€179.5m) state-of-the-art dairy is set to be the world’s largest fresh milk facility with the most technologically advanced and efficient processing, and an ambition to be zero carbon when it reaches full capacity, the company says.

The new dairy will have a capacity to process one billion litres of fresh milk, sourced from the cooperative’s British dairy farmers.