After months of pandemic-induced delays, a new Peterborough-area milk processor is up and running. Fairlife – a division of Coca Cola – first announced plans to construct the facility in June, 2018. Launch day, originally scheduled for this past spring, was delayed when personnel responsible for final construction and operational checks were unable to enter […] Read more
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Fairlife Peterborough milk plant now in operation
New Fairlife plant began production after extended pandemic delay
Fairlife plant opening delayed by COVID-19 travel restrictions
It needs experts to help it with final testing of the new Peterborough milk plant
A limit on the movement of people around the world due to COVID-19 means a delay in the start up of the new Fairlife Canada milk plant in Peterborough. Company officials announced today that start up will be delayed until later in 2020. The plant was weeks from receiving its first shipment of Canadian milk. […] Read more
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Peterborough milk processor remains on track for mid-2020 completion
Milk currently available to the Dairy Farmers of Ontario from conventional producers, will be delivered to Coca-Cola’s Fairlife processing plant in Peterborough, as soon as it enters the commissioning phase of development. Representatives of DFO and Coca-Cola Canada made those assertions when contacted recently by Farmtario. Why it matters: The plant will employ 35 people […] Read more
Ontario to host plant for U.S. lactose-free milk maker
A lactose-free milk brand distributed by Coca-Cola will be produced at a new dairy processing plant to be built at Peterborough, Ont. by early 2020. The facility’s first product will be Fairlife Ultrafiltered Milk, a lactose-free product billed as providing 50 per cent more protein and 50 per cent less sugar than traditional milk. Canada […] Read more
Coca-Cola is bringing its Fairlife milk product to Canada
The Fairlife milk brand is coming to Canada by the end of 2018. The product introduction includes building an $85 million production facility in Peterborough to process milk for the brand. Coke’s Fairlife milk product is higher in protein, lower in sugar and it contains no lactose. It is “ultrafiltered”, which the company says means […] Read more
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