Newbaze Ireland’s open Carrickmacross plant
Newbaze Ireland’s state of the art facility at Carrickmacross, Monaghan opened today as the China based company announced 60 new jobs as part of $20m Irish investment. Newbaze, a Chinese food production company, spent almost €2 million to set up an Irish production facility to take advantage of the fast-growing demand for baby formula in China.
The company will use the 8,680 sq m facility in Carrickmacross, Monaghan, formerly occupied by Bose. The electronics manufacturer announced the closure of the plant at the beginning of 2015 with the loss of 140 jobs.
Newbaze Ireland Nutrition Food trading as Ireliffey today opened its new professional dairy formula plant marking the completion of a two-year building programme.
The facility specialises in the production and packaging of high quality nutritional dairy powder products. The 60 new jobs will be created 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 described the business as “a strategically important investment” for the country: “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.”
Announcing the completion of the development phase Mr Ding Wei, General Manager, Newbaze Ireland said he was delighted to open the new facility in 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,” Mr Ding Wei said.
Alexa Toomey, Manager, Dairy, Beverages and FDI, Enterprise Ireland said supporting businesses to expand their global footprint to delivering export growth in regional jobs is the goal of EI: “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.
Shanghai Newbaze Industrial Group Co. Ltd is a group company which specialises 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.