DeLaval invests in its automatic milking facility
Automatic milking continues to grow across the world. At the same time, DeLaval has seen a positive customer response on the DeLaval VMS™ V300-series of automatic milking robots. For these two reasons, DeLaval is making an investment to increase its production capacity of automatic milking systems by 50 percent.
“We are grateful for the trust our customers have put in us and our solutions,” said Paul Löfgren, President & CEO at DeLaval. “With this investment we will be able to meet the growing customer demand and increase our production capacity while shortening lead times. This will also ensure that we can keep our focus on continued product development and quality, every step of the way,” says Paul Löfgren, President & CEO.
The new facility for VMS production will be built with increased efficiency using optimised and automated flows. “The VMS focus will be even higher in the Tumba factory in Sweden and our supporting factories and supply chain will also be updated to provide the best support,“ said Löfgren. The planning phase is ongoing, and the ambition is to have the new VMS facility set up within the existing space for VMS manufacturing at the Tumba factory and ready in 2024.
Automatic milking has been growing in popularity due to the need for higher productivity on farms as well as increasing labor scarcity. “The high demand we have seen for our VMS V300-series over the past years and the future expected demand allows us to make this investment,” said Löfgren. “We have seen improvements and changes in milk production throughout our company´s many years of history, and the need to produce milk in a more sustainable way is increasingly important. This investment is a fantastic opportunity for us to continue to develop valuable solutions to improve milk production together with our customers – the farmers of the world.”.
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About DeLaval
Our vision is to make sustainable food production possible. As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our customers, dairy farmers, do more with less by providing world-leading milking equipment and solutions.
Today, DeLaval has approximately 4,500 passionate professionals operating in more than 100 markets around the world. DeLaval is part of the Tetra Laval Group. See more at www.delavalcorporate.com
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Elizabeth Dvorak
Marketing Communications, DeLaval Inc.
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