Pictured at the official opening of a new €10 million investment in Moorepark Technology Limited (MTL) Pilot Plant Extension are John Hunter, CEO MTL, Professor Gerry Boyle, Teagasc Director, Michael Creed TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Liam Herlihy, Teagasc Chairman, Cal Flynn, Chairman of the MTL Board, Kieran Downey, General Manager and Professor Liam Donnelly, former Head of Food Research, Teagasc. (Picture: O'Gorman Photography)

A new €10 million investment in Moorepark Technology Limited (MTL) was officially opened by Michael Creed TD, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, on Friday in Teagasc, Fermoy. 

The €10 million investment in the new Moorepark Technology Limited Pilot Plant Extension was made by Teagasc and the dairy companies who are shareholders in MTL.

Today MTL is a modern pilot plant facility containing versatile scale processing equipment across a wide range of applications, making it one of the foremost pilot facilities in the world.

It was set up in the early 1990s as a dedicated state of the art pilot plant to meet the growing Research and Development needs of the dairy industries.

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