The above image shows the installation of one of eight new cheesemaking vats at the Carbery Group’s plant in Ballineen, west Cork. This completes a €19m investment to improve efficiency and add capacity as the plant prepares for greater volumes of milk post quota. This will add 15% capacity to the cheese plant, with a daily throughput of 230t. This new equipment is the first of its kind installed in Europe and gives Carbery a world class cheesemaking facility, according to Dermot Curtin, cheese production manager with Carbery.