March 10, 2010
Ireland's biggest dairy bottle in-plant operation is being set up this summer by Nampak Plastics. The plant, in partnership with Northern Ireland’s largest dairy processing business Dale Farm, will be built in Ballymena, Northern Ireland alongside Dale Farm’s Pennybridge dairy. It represents a £3 million investment by Nampak and a "significant investment" by Dale Farm to develop the dairy.
     The plant will operate four blow-moulding machines, manufacturing more than 100 million milk bottles annually. Bottles from the plant will also be exported to other dairies in Ireland. A minimum of 10 per cent recycled HDPE will be used. Twenty jobs will be created when the plant becomes operational.
     The Dale Farm through-the-wall operation will be Nampak’s sixth such facility, with others in Glasgow, Oakthorpe, Severnside, Manchester and Chadwell Heath.