Pelwatte Dairy embarks on full cold supply-chain analysis
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Pelwatte Dairy, one of the leading local dairy brands in Sri Lanka that produces a range of dairy products and saves valuable foreign exchange for the country, has made significant investments to upgrade its milk preservation technologies to cater to the rising demand and to ensure its milk is of the highest quality, the company said this week in a media release.
Pelwatte Yoghurt for instance, was the Pelwatte product line with the third highest sale in FY 2020/’21, also bringing a year-on-year growth of 49 percent. Pelwatte Yoghurt offers 80kcal of energy for each of its 80g cup but has minimum fat (at 3 percent-2.4g). Pelwatte dairy has embarked on a journey to introduce a world-class electronic milk traceability system which can track milk used in its two flagship products –The Pelwatte Yoghurt and Pelwatte Full Cream Milk Powder (as well as other Pelwatte dairy products).
As part of the introduction initiative, Pelwatte Dairy has fortified Pelwatte’s milk cold supply-chain practices, and has launched on a study and analysis of the entirety of its cold supply-chain and thermal preservation systems. Bowser truck’s temperature preservation capabilities, the MCC chilling temperature maintenance and practice of timely route turnover are critical aspects investigated in the current study, the release said.
This, Pelwatte expects will further improve the milk temperature maintenance efficiency in many points of transport and storage such as bowser trucks transportation from MCC to the factory, as well as milk farmer to milk chilling centre where milk is chilled for 4 “C. The critical data from the study will become key inputs in terms of quality testing and screening of milk tested through QA Lab before the processing and production authorisation is given, it said.
Managing Director of Pelwatte Dairy, Akmal Wickramanayake said: “Milk is highly perishable and must be consumed or processed within a very short time – after extraction. Pelwatte ensures that the collection, transportation and processing of the fresh milk required to produce the yoghurt are scientifically and methodically done at all stages of the production cycle. Integration of supply chain technologies to maintain the cold chain of raw milk from farmer to factory is one of the many challenges that a milk collector faces on a daily basis.”