Glanbia Breaks Ground on $15M Cheese Innovation Center

TWIN FALLS, IdahoGlanbia Foods broke ground on the construction of a $15-million state-of-the-art Cheese Innovation Center (CIC) and corporate headquarters that will support the companys growing export and new cheese product innovation efforts. The new facility, which includes 35,000-square-foot office complex and 14,000-square-foot research center, is slated to open in Spring 2013.

Glanbias CIC will provide additional resources necessary to further collaborate and build relationships with its national and international customers, suppliers and universities in developing new cheese-making processes and products with superior quality and value. The CIC also will help streamline work needed to move products from pilot-plant scale to full-scale production.

Our Cheese Innovation Center (CIC) will allow us to develop new value-added cheese products, processes, services and solutions to meet the changing needs of our customers," said Jeff Williams, president and CEO of Glanbia Foods. Thanks to the superior quality milk provided by local dairy farmers, we are able to expand our products and services to an expanding national and global cheese market. This new Glanbia complex will serve as the bridge to our future."

The global cheese manufacturing sector is estimated to reach $55.3 billion in 2012, with the United States leading the market as the world's single-largest cheese producer, followed by Germany, France and Italy.