Food Ingredients Ireland

Food Ingredients Ireland is the largest dairy ingredients business in the country, assembling a milk pool of 1.4 billion litres annually and processing it into butter, cheese, milk proteins and whey derivatives. It markets over 190,000 tonnes of dairy products and ingredients on a business to business basis to customers in over 40 countries.

Food Ingredients Ireland employs over 440 people at two large processing facilities in Ballyragget, County Kilkenny and Virginia, County Cavan. It operates a joint venture with Corman SA, for the manufacture of butter fractions and dairy spreads in Ireland and has a sales and blending operation in Mexico. The Ballyragget facility is the largest integrated dairy site in Europe, processing 20% of the Irish milk pool and 40% of the Irish whey pool. Food Ingredients Ireland is the pre-eminent Irish supplier of lactose and other whey proteins to the three largest infant formula manufacturers in the world. It is also Ireland’s largest manufacturer of casein – another protein found in milk – and cheddar cheese.

The Virginia facility produces a range of fat-filled milk powders and fresh creams. It has exclusive responsibility for cream and casein procurement and supply to Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur following the renewal of a new five-year contract. It is also the main supplier of milk powder to Nutricima, the Group's joint venture with PZ Cussons plc in Nigeria. In addition to customers who have strong market positions in West Africa such as Senegal, Togo, Mali and Benin.

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