11 September 2013
Severe weather impacts Canterbury dairy farmers
As reported in the media, severe weather conditions including high winds have resulted in widespread power outages and blocked roads affecting Canterbury dairy farms including those supplying milk to Synlait Milk.
Synlait Milk is working with its milk suppliers to ensure normal operations are resumed as soon as possible. The Company is focused on trying to collect all milk off farms however it expects that a limited volume of milk may not be able to be collected as a result of the weather.
Synlait Milk lost power to its processing plant at Dunsandel at around 8:30pm last night before power was resumed at around 2:00am this morning.
No damage was suffered to the plant during the outage. The plant is expected to be fully operational by around 6:00pm today.
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For more information please contact:
Michael Wan
Marketing and Communications Manager Synlait Milk
P: +64 27 288 8253
E: michael.wan@synlait.com
www.synlait.com