{"id":11887,"date":"2014-07-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/jobs-to-go-at-canpac\/"},"modified":"2014-07-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T12:00:00","slug":"jobs-to-go-at-canpac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farmersweekly.co.nz\/news\/jobs-to-go-at-canpac\/","title":{"rendered":"Jobs to go at Canpac"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

The co-operative is proposing a restructure at the packing plant in Te Rapa to focus more on baby nutritionals.<\/p>\n

Director New Zealand operations Robert Spurway said the plant would move to operating 24 hours a day on weekdays instead of seven days a week, which could mean about 110 roles may not be required.<\/p>\n

The operation currently employs 330 people.<\/p>\n

Spurway said the company had been considering how to make the site run more efficiently after a reduction in packaging volume.<\/p>\n

Fonterra would try to find jobs for affected staff at its other plants in the Waikato, and elsewhere in the country if necessary, he said.<\/p>\n

The region\u2019s dairy processing plants were gearing up for their busiest time of the year handling peak spring milk production and would have more job opportunities, he said.<\/p>\n

Fonterra employs about 2000 people in the Waikato and had invested more than $150 million in the region in the past three years.<\/p>\n

Canpac is Fonterra\u2019s largest secondary packager of milk powders, branding and exporting more than 300 different nutritional powders, bulk-blended nutritional milk powders, cans, and can parts.<\/p>\n

Up to 40 shipments leave the plant daily.<\/p>\n

Most of its production is exported to China and Asia. The site also manufactures products for the New Zealand market, and for Australia, the Pacific, the Americas, and Japan.<\/p>\n

Spurway said further investment in the Waikato was under consideration but Fonterra had to make decisions based on what aligned with its strategy, and drive returns to its farmer-shareholders.<\/p>\n

The company recently spent $120 million on a new long-life milk processing plant at Waitoa and $30 million on a cream cheese plant at its Te Rapa site. These two projects had created 90 permanent jobs, he said.<\/p>\n

Fonterra was also applying for consents to build a new powder drier at its Lichfield site in south Waikato, which would create 50 processing jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dairy company Fonterra may shed about 110 jobs at its Canpac packing plant in Hamilton.\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_FSMCFIC_featured_image_caption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_nocaption":"","_FSMCFIC_featured_image_hide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t