Darigold, the marketing and processing subsidiary of Northwest Dairy Association (NDA), has broken ground on a $600 million facility in Pasco, Wash. The new facility will be equipped with two specialized milk dryers and two packaging lines for powdered milk products, two butter churns, two bulk butter packaging lines, and five consumer butter packaging lines. The Pasco facility will incorporate a variety of technologies and conservation strategies that combined could mitigate more than 300,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions per year.
The facility will have the capacity to produce approximately 175 million lb of butter per year, as well as nearly 280 million lb of powdered milk products annually, including products that meet the highest industry specifications for use in the most sensitive applications, such as infant formula.
The facility’s location within the multimodal Port of Pasco on the Columbia River will give it access to both rail and barge facilities, creating transportation efficiencies.
