![]() In February 2010, Hilmar announced an additional investment of $100m in the expansion. On 6 August 2008, the company announced the phase II expansion project of the plant. Processing capacity started at a level of two million pounds of milk per day, and is expanding each year with the maximum capacity of 9.5Mlb per day expected to be reached in 2014 – 5Mlb per day by 2009 marked the end of the first phase. "There were over 100 job vacancies needing to be filled during the summer 2007 for the start of operations." Over the initial nine years of production, this will increase to more than 150,000 milk cows and the plant will employ more than 1,500 workers in the dairies. The plant has begun cheese production with milk from ten independent dairies totalling 36,000 milk cows. The facility has been constructed primarily in two phases but will be expanded over a 12–15-year timescale. The plant is projected to employ more than 350 workers by year nine of production but had initially employed 120 people. When the first phase production began in the third quarter of 2007, the $190m (invested over ten years) plant was capable of producing about half a million pounds of cheese a day from an initial milk supply of 250,000gal per day. In December 2005 the California-based Hilmar Cheese Company, along with its partner Steuben Foods, announced a new cheese plant and a facility expansion at the aseptic food and dairy plant in Dalhart, Texas. Jersey herds are being encouraged because of the milk’s higher fat and protein content. The plant nears completion and internally there are 400 workers on site. Stainless steel milk storage silos delivered to the site prior to installation.ĭalhart plant under construction, here a central corridor is being constructed in the cheese processing building.Ī selection of products from the Hilmar range of cheeses (only sold under the Hilmar name from their own retail outlet).įriesian or Holstein cows who will produce the milk for the cheese plant. ![]()
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