Press release
Minister Humphreys opens Newbaze Ireland’s state of the art facility at Carrickmacross, Co Monaghan
From Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment
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Newbaze Ireland Nutrition Food trading as Ireliffey today opened its new professional dairy formula plant in Carrickmacross, Co. Monaghan, marking the completion of a two-year building programme with a capital investment of €20 million. The state-of-the-art new facility specialises in the production and packaging of high quality nutritional dairy powder products.
The opening will result in the creation of 60 new jobs over the next three years, and is supported by the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, through Enterprise Ireland.
Speaking at the official opening Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation Heather Humphreys said:
"This is a strategically important investment for Ireland and Monaghan by a leading international dairy formula manufacturer. Ireland was the first choice for the Shanghai based Newbaze Industrial Group to establish a production facility outside of China. This is due to Ireland’s long-standing reputation of having a developed dairy infrastructure with a safe milk source.
"The Newbaze Group’s decision to invest and open this facility further places Ireland internationally as a location that offers quality raw dairy materials combined with a highly educated and skilled workforce. It is a major signal of confidence in the border region and the future and quality of the Irish dairy industry."
Mr Ding Wei, General Manager, Newbaze Ireland said:
"I’m delighted to announce the completion of the development phase and the opening of this new facility today in the beautiful county of Monaghan. This announcement on the back of our €20 million investment in 2017 increases our capacity to supply our wider international customer base. Newbaze Ireland’s future growth plan is to provide high-quality milk powder products to consumers in the Chinese market and emerging markets such as Africa, southeast Asia and the Middle East by 2020. Newbaze Ireland will provide OEM full-service solutions, to meet global market demand for a variety of milk powder product requirements."
Alexa Toomey, Manager, Dairy, Beverages and FDI, Enterprise Ireland said:
"Enterprise Ireland is committed to supporting businesses to expand their global footprint, with the ultimate goal of delivering export growth and in turn regional jobs for Ireland. Enterprise Ireland is responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment from the global food industry into Ireland and the opening of this new showcase plant reflects highly on the entire Irish dairy sector ecosystem - leveraging on the many advantages of the Irish based support system including quality raw materials, equipment, technology and people."
Newbaze Ireland is among one of the largest private dry blending dairy professional formula manufacturing facilities in Ireland with a main building area of 8,600 square meters, equipped with ISO eight cleanroom structures.
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For further information please contact:
Brendan Doyle, Newbaze Group, 087 227 0024 brendandoyle@newbaze.com
Nicola Corboy, Press and Media Relations, Enterprise Ireland, Email: Nicola.corboy@enterprise-ireland.com Tel: 01 727 2149 / 086 021 0114
Shanghai Newbaze Industrial Group Co. Ltd is a group company which specializes in infant formula manufacture and sales. Since its establishment in 2002, Newbaze has focused on innovation, professionalism and quality. Newbaze has been committed to the research and development of infant nutrition food for more than ten years. It has developed multiple milk powder formulae with different specific purposes through scientific research on infant nutrition requirements. The Newbaze group employs over 500 staff across its manufacturing sites in Shanghai, Quzhou in China and Carrickmacross in Ireland.