Mondelez International has opened a new production line for its Milka chocolates at its plant in Austria.

The line was installed at the Bludenz factory and officially started operations on 11 July.

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It produces Milka Alpine Milk big-size tablets and Milka Cookie tablets for the European market and has been installed to increase capacity a spokesperson told just-food. The company could not provide details on the site's previous output. However, the new line will produce 350,000 tablets a day.

The spokesperson added Mondelez has invested EUR45m (US$49.3m) in the Bludenz chocolate factory in recent years. The Bludenz factory is its third largest in Europe and produces Milka and Suchard chocolate.

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