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GEA bags major Irish milk powder contract GEA Process Engineering, headquartered in Soeborg, Denmark, has won an €11 million orde= r to supply a new plant for Lakeland Dairies, Bailieboro<= /span>, Ireland, which will produce various dairy-based powders including whole m= ilk powder, skim milk powder and butter milk powder. The new facility, to be built next to the existing factory, is scheduled to come on stream by ear= ly spring 2010. Specialist services will be provided by eight GEA companies. These include the evaporator from GEA PE France; the drier from GEA Niro; powder conveying equipment from GEA Colby; an= d the powder packing line from GEA Avapac. Powder manufactured in the drier will be transported gently (to avoid breakdown = of sensitive particles) to new powder silos, and from there to the new 25kg-= sack bagging lines, FIBC filling and bulk outloading systems. The 25kg bagging line, including a degassing system,= will have a rated capacity of 12t/h powder packed and is the first order recei= ve by GEA Avapac in Europe for its successful low-intervention packing concept. The contract is being managed and coordinated by GEA Process Technology Ireland Ltd. www.niro.com |