The brand new facility will permit native producers to satisfy home demand for dairy merchandise, reminiscent of butter, which is being shipped from japanese Canada, and improve exports of specialty dairy substances for dietary functions
ABBOTSFORD – A brand new state-of-the-art milk manufacturing plant is coming to the Fraser Valley to assist meet rising demand for dairy merchandise.
The Province is contributing as a lot as $25 million to assist Vitalus Diet’s growth to a 143,500-square-foot facility in Abbotsford with development set to start in summer time 2024 as a part of the discharge of Clear and Aggressive: A Blueprint for B.C.’s Industrial Future. This new plant will assist milk producers within the area and create as a lot as 100 extra jobs on web site.
The initiative displays B.C.’s robust meals and beverage sector that feeds folks within the province and past, and authorities’s dedication to place B.C. as a worldwide and home chief in agritech and meals safety. The Vitalus challenge will concentrate on manufacturing extremely dietary merchandise in a accountable approach.
“In the present day’s funding announcement is a big funding in Vitalus Diet in B.C., and it additionally represents a dedication to the way forward for dairy farming and the agritech sector in Canada,” mentioned Phil Vanderpol, CEO of Vitalus Diet Inc. “Our mission is to proceed to unlock the dietary worth of dairy, however firstly, B.C. is our dwelling, and we’re proud to have the ability to create a big variety of family-supporting jobs, improve exports and improve our contribution to the provincial financial system.”
The bigger manufacturing plant will improve B.C. processing capability by 50% to a brand new whole of roughly 1.4 billion litres of milk processed within the province yearly. The brand new facility will permit native producers to satisfy home demand for dairy merchandise, reminiscent of butter, which is being shipped from japanese Canada, and improve exports of specialty dairy substances for dietary functions. The expanded plant will use many state-of-the-art applied sciences to make sure that B.C. dairy merchandise meet the exacting requirements of high quality required for at this time and the longer term.
“Most B.C. dairy farms are native, family-run companies that present folks with high quality merchandise they’ll get pleasure from with confidence,” mentioned Pam Alexis, Minister of Agriculture and Meals. “This partnership will create extra alternatives for B.C. milk merchandise, extra financial development in our farming communities, and strengthen the meals safety and food-supply system in B.C. and Canada.”
Clear and Aggressive: A Blueprint for B.C.’s Industrial Future lays out the Province’s work to drive new funding, create new jobs and seize new alternatives in rising clear vitality and sustainable industries. Leveraging B.C.’s strengths to create good jobs and alternatives in each group will enhance high quality of life, whereas strengthening B.C.’s numerous financial system at this time and for future generations.
Vitalus employs roughly 135 folks in BC, and when the challenge is full, Vitalus is anticipated to make use of greater than 230 folks.
This new facility will assist greater than 3,000 oblique jobs, together with staff employed on farms and associated to supply-chain logistics.
Supply: Province of BC Information