Müller claims £17m dairy boost

Scottish dairy farmers are set to benefit from a £17 million investment in what will become Britain’s largest butter plant, announced yesterday by German dairy giant, Müller.

The company’s chief executive for the UK and Ireland,
Ronald Kers, told the Semex dairy conference in Glasgow that the new plant at Market Drayton, Shropshire, due to be commissioned in the autumn, would have a manufacturing capacity of 45,000 tonnes of
butter, utilising up to 90,000 tonnes of cream a year.