BAM Ireland has been awarded a contract to develop a new Jarlsberg® cheese production facility and administration building at Mogeely, Cork.

The contract is worth over €25 million and TINE Ireland selected the contractor to carry out the work.

Jarlsberg® is a mild cow's-milk cheese with large regular holes, that originates from Norway, but which is also produced abroad under licenses from Norwegian dairy producers. The location of the proposed building is on a greenfield site adjoining the existing Dairygold Mogeely site. The new facility has an estimated capacity of 14,000T of cheese per annum.

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Construction will start this month and is due for completion in November 2019.

The plant includes warm rooms and cool rooms for the different phases of cheese maturing and flavour development. These contain super flat floors for forklift access. Also provided is a brine room with gantry crane. Specialist equipment includes mould presses and vats for the production of curd and whey.