In Germany the dairy cooperative Hochwald has opened a new dairy plant three years after construction officially started and after an investment of 200 million euro. In the plant around 250 employees will turn 800 million kilogrammes of milk per year into milk products, such as long-life milk, long-life cream, long-life milkshakes and condensed milk. On the 21.5 hectare property, around 60000 square metres of floor space have been created and the 17 bottling plants can produce up to 1.4 billion packages per year. In the plant is milk processed from 1200 member farms of the total 2300 members farms of Hochwald.