Dairy Farmers of America Starts Up $85 Million Powdered Milk Facility in Nevada

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Dairy Farmers of America Incorporated (DFA) (Kansas City, Missouri), a farmer-owned food cooperative, recently completed construction of an $85 million powdered milk production facility in Fallon, Nevada. Construction on the 150,000-square-foot facility began in the spring of 2012, and the building was turned over to the owner last month.

Big D Construction served as the primary contractor for the project.

The milk-drying facility is designed to process up to 2 million gallons of milk per day and produce 250,000 pounds of dried dairy ingredients per day. Product from the Fallon facility is destined for export markets, primarily China and the surrounding Asian region.

Industrial Info's database of active capital and maintenance expenditures in the Food and Beverage Industry across North America and the Sugar Processing Industry and Water Desalination Segment worldwide shows current expenditures of $50 billion and more than 3,000 active projects. The North American portion shows more than 1,900 active projects that total more than $29.5 billion.

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