Dairy Innovation West plans to open a $75-million plant by spring that will remove water from milk and thereby cut milk transportation costs in half.
The plant will use reverse osmosis and ultra-high filtration to process milk. The water-reduced milk will then be sent to industrial milk processing plants to make cheese, butter and yogourt.
The province’s milk-hauling fleet will be cut in half and farmers will save about $15 per year on transportation costs.
