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Dairy firm lands funding

A dairy farm has received funding to expand its business, creating jobs and strengthening the region’s dairy supply chain.

One North East’s Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE) has approved over £120,000 to help Lanchester Dairies Limited based at Upper House Farm, in Lanchester, County Durham, increase its production, delivery and storage capacity.

Lanchester originally took on extra work following the closure of the Dairy Farmers of Britain in Blaydon last year in order to ensure the supply chain did not collapse.

As a result their business has gone from strength to strength and eight new skilled jobs are being created with further job creation expected within the next four years.

There are seven stages to the project of investment including buying two finished Milk Tanks that will double the existing holding capacity as well as buying a new Foss milk tester.

This will allow testing through one machine rather than two existing machines, reducing energy and increasing efficiency with the machine running four times faster than existing resources.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .