Report
The Protein Plant
Part Four of the Protein Series, and a More from Milk report. If the UK has the whey, who has the plant to turn it into the forms customers specify, and on what evidence? A register of UK and Irish whey protein capability, the investment cycle reaching the two islands, and the route value Britain does not publish.
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What is inside
- Executive summary
- What the first three reports established
- The UK and Ireland whey capacity register, and how it was built
- The global investment cycle: Fonterra, Tirlán and Lactalis
- Value routes: what is published and what is not
- Price-cycle risk, and three signals to watch
- What it means for processors, brand owners, buyers and smaller cheesemakers
Who it is for
- Processor boards weighing a whey fractionation or protein investment
- Brand owners whose ranges carry a protein claim
- Retail and foodservice buyers listing protein-led dairy lines
- Cheesemakers at smaller scale deciding what to do with their whey
- Anyone preparing for Session Two of Dairy Forum Ireland, THE PLANT, in Cork in March 2027