Recent and important achievements of DeLaval
In April DeLaval held one of its most important events in 2005, the inauguration of its new milk cooling-tank factory in Wrocław, Poland. DeLaval executives, national as well as international guests and representatives from the media attended.
The Wrocław factory is strategically located close to big potential clients in countries such as the Baltics, Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine to name but a few. The operation employs 140 people in its factory, warehouse, and office, and it is responsible for: Planning, purchasing, components and materials storage, production, quality assurance, new product launches, customer service and claims services, facilities and equipment maintenance.
DeLaval celebrated the sale of their 1 000 voluntary milking system with Open Farm days in the Netherlands. The Dutch sales organisation organised the days at the Bolderdijk farm in the Netherlands. Around 100 people responded to the VIP invitation and both Belgian and Dutch press was present generating local as well as national press coverage.
The second day was open to the public and 600 farmers turned up to inspect the new barn and VMS. They got a good look at the new three row natural ventilation barn, the VMS room with pit, the neatly laid-out machine room, the well positioned office and the new DeLaval cooling tank equipped with flow controlled cooling.
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DeLaval is in the lead of the global Automatic Milking System market with a 53% running market share.
“The total Automatic Milking System market has grown by 50 percent in just one year as the appeal of a better lifestyle and higher productivity is increasing. More and more farmers are choosing a system like DeLaval VMS, making it the most preferred automatic milking solution on the market today”, says Thierry Perrotin Solution Manager VMS.
Together with Australia’s FutureDairy DeLaval will collaborate in developing a new concept for automatic milking suited for Australian conditions. The FutureDairy team, consisting of Dairy Australia, the University of Sydney, the Department of Primary Industries in New South Wales and DeLaval, will face challenges related to capacity (cow throughput), cost efficiency and specification.
“We are excited and honoured to be working together with FutureDairy to adapt our VMS technology to achieve a more flexible schedule for social activities and family life for the grassland farmers of the future. We are committed to providing dairy producers with solutions that give them control over their business and equally important, their lifestyle”, says Mark Brummel, Managing Director, DeLaval Australia.
DeLaval sells the largest sheep and goat parlour in the world
There is a growing demand for cheese made from sheep and goat milk. DeLaval is the world’s leading supplier with a market share of almost 50%. This strong market position manifested itself recently when DeLaval sold the largest sheep and goat milk parlour in the world to a customer in Spain. The agreement includes the milking unit itself, a number of other products, for example cooling tanks, crowd gates, surface coating, lamb/kid feeders and mixer wagons.
“Considering the bright prospects in Spain, not least given the favorable price level of sheep and goat milk, we expect to deliver similar systems to farms with between 2,000 and 5,000 animals”, says Roberto Cosin, Solution/Support Manager Sheep & Goats at DeLaval.
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At the largest dairy fair in Northern Europe, Agromek, held in Denmark, DeLaval won awards for the VMS and the foot bath AFB1000. They both received a Three-star New Product exhibit award. To top it off, out of more than 200 exhibitions stands, the Danish colleagues got the award for best exhibition layout.
During the Dairy Industry 2005 fair in Russia DeLaval calf feeder CF150 was awarded the Grand Prix in the technical exhibition “Engineering of the Third Millennium”. DeLaval activity meter also received a prestigious gold medal. In Russia the DeLaval exhibition stand attracted attention and received a special diploma for modern design, innovative approach of product presentations and special customer programmes.
It seems that whenever the DeLaval cell counter DCC makes an appearance it gets an award! At the International Agricultural Fair POLAGRA-FARM 2005 the DCC was awarded the prestigious PIF Gold Medal. The medal is given to a product that is: innovative, useful, original, reliable, practical and cost efficient, all of which are traits of the DCC.
And at the SPACE Exhibition, France’s main dairy exhibition, the DCC got the “InnovSpace two star award” for best innovation. During the same exhibition the DCC received the gold medal, INEL. D’OR from France’s main dairy magazine. Finally the DCC got a “mention spéciale” at the second largest dairy fair the Sommets de l’Elevage.
Finally, at the Dairy Industry 2005 fair in Russia DeLaval cell counter DCC received yet another gold medal.
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Dairy Farmers of America (DFA) and DeLaval combined forces in September, 2005 to assemble 400 boxes of donated food items, clothing, hygiene products, flash lights, batteries, and first aid supplies, chlorine and bottled water. The truck-load of supplies was shipped to the DFA plant in Franklinton LA. The care boxes were distributed via local milk hauler’s and DFA representatives to the DFA members affected by the hurricane. A group of about 35, both DFA and DeLaval employees, helped to assemble these boxes in the DeLaval warehouses.
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