Hatsun Agro inks pact for greenfield plant.

GEA Process Engineering has bagged a contract from Hatsun Agro Product to set up a greenfield dairy plant for it on turnkey basis at Dharapuram near Coimbatore, a press release from GEA said.

The fully automated plant will process 6.5 lakh litres milk a day to pack 3 lakh litres of liquid milk and 1.5 lakh litres of curd. It will be in production in early 2018. The plant will be equipped with a Reverse Osmosis facility, a novel feature, to concentrate skim milk, a cold process to ensure natural freshness of the products.

The release quoting Abhay Chaudhari, Country MD, GEA India Cluster, said GEA has so far supplied components to HAP and has now graduated to supplying an entire plant on turnkey basis.

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