Dutch dairy group FrieslandCampina is bringing the majority of its research and development activities under one roof with the opening of a new innovation centre in Wageningen.

The centre, located on the campus of Wageningen University in central Netherlands, includes around 18,000sq m of laboratories, test areas and a pilot plant. Four hundred and fifty staff will be employed on site.

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The company said the centre will allow it to respond “even more effectively” to growing global demand for “healthy, sustainably produced nutrition”.

“Cooperation, knowledge-sharing and mutual inspiration are key to this process,” the group added.

The centre will be opened by Queen Máxima of the Netherlands on 16 October. 

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