Parag Milk Foods expands health & nutrition enterprise and commissions lactose plant
The business has ventured into whey protein powders, a by-product or service in the cheese producing course of action. Parag founded India’s initial and only producing facility to create whey protein and launched many whey protein products in the market place together with Avvatar, a branded B2C item, and India’s very first 100% vegetarian whey protein. Via the commissioning of the lactose plant, the company is now intending to add greater value to whey permeates produced through the filtration system of whey protein.
Whey permeate is made up of a higher concentration of lactose, a natural milk sugar with unwanted fat and minerals, that is commonly marketed as a substitute to skimmed milk powder (SMP). Pure lactose, which mainly is made up of edible lactose utilised in confectionaries and food items additives, and pharma quality lactose utilized by the pharmaceutical and diet industries, garners a greater benefit and has a extensive prospective for expansion, the corporation explained.
Parag has as a result proven amenities with a capability to manufacture 40 MT of lactose for each working day. The business claimed it can build lactose for segments this kind of as food apps, toddler diet and scientific nutrition goods.
Globally, the lactose market place size stood at $1.2bn in 2018 and is projected to grow to $1.5bn by 2026, exhibiting a CAGR of 3.7% throughout this interval. The Indian lactose marketplace sizing is between 40,000-45,000 MT and is valued at about $70m, with a significant section of the need satisfied through imports.
This enterprise claimed this presents a big chance.
Parag claimed it has a entirely built-in value chain with command over processes from procurement and offer chain to processing and distribution, which assist to keep specifications of top quality and shipping through.
Devendra Shah, chairman, said, “Being a massive cheese participant, we generally experienced whey protein and therefore lactose as a by-product, to which we want to further more worth-increase to tap into higher top quality substances for the Indian market place. With our conclude-to-conclusion producing abilities across the value chain, we are very well put to aid the PM’s impetus in the direction of ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ by cutting down the import dependence of the country on lactose.
“Being agile in our reaction to marketplace adjustments, we are constantly innovating our product or service choices and concentrating on tie-ups with partners centered on high quality. People have develop into progressively mindful about diet and there is a significant change and desire for reliable models. As the marketplace is shifting in direction of premiumization with a clear thrust in the direction of value-additional dairy products and solutions, we are the forerunners with far more than two-thirds of our portfolio comprising of price-added products and solutions. With the addition of lactose to our portfolio, we are anticipating our Health and Nourishment portfolio to increase even more in the subsequent two years, which will also boost our profitability.”
Parag Milk Foodstuff Restricted, set up in 1992, is the largest non-public dairy FMCG corporation with a pan India existence. It has production facilities in Manchar in Maharashtra, Palamaner in Andhra Pradesh, and Sonipat in Haryana.
Below the brand name Gowardhan, Parag gives classic items like ghee, dahi and paneer, even though underneath the Go manufacturer it produces cheese, UHT milk, buttermilk, lassi and yoghurt.
