Danya Foods
Surveying the new site ready for the new equipment facilities
Danya Foods Co . Ltd is enjoying considerable progress within the Middle East and North Africa regions , and is planning substantial investment to enhance its success in the dairy products industry .
Based in Northern Europe , the global dairy giant Arla Foods , producer of the recognizable Lurpak butter , is the parent company of Danya Foods . There is DKK 35 Million worth of investment earmarked for more automation in the production processes , as well as warehouse capacity expansions and automation .
Further investments were approved last year to specifically invest in training , systems , process optimisation and production capacity , and the company envisages investments to at least remain the same going forward .
Thomas Nordholt , Regional Supply Chain Director at Danya Foods , explained how the company has adopted new technology to help the firm become more efficient . He said : “ In the last 12 months Danya has gone from manually operated to almost fully automated production . Part of our main investment is purely being able to produce more processed cheese .
“ Another part of it is to automate existing production facilities to reduce conversion costs . For instance , where the company had manual labourers empty pallets , wash glasses before the filling lines , fill boxes and cartons , then pack them onto pallets it now has robotic machinery for all of this .”
208 August 2014