Synlait Auckland Officially Opened

Synlait Milk Ltd
1028 Heslerton Road
RD13, Rakaia 7783
Private Bag 806
Ashburton 7740
New Zealand
P +64 3 373 3000
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SYNLAIT MILK LIMITED NZX: SML
ANNOUNCEMENT ASX: SM1
20 NOVEMBER 2017
SYNLAIT AUCKLAND OFFICIALLY
OPENED, DOUBLES INFANT FORMULA
PACKAGING CAPACITY
Synlait Milk (NZX: SML; ASX: SM1) has opened its new Auckland site, which is home to its
second state-of-the-art blending and consumer packaging facility.
Located in Mangere, the site was officially opened today by Auckland Mayor Phil Goff at a
ceremony alongside all staff.
“We’re expecting customer demand for consumer packaged products to increase
significantly in the near term,” said John Penno, Synlait’s Managing Director and CEO.
“We’ve invested $55 million into our Auckland site to meet this demand and expect
commercial production to start here in the coming week.”
With an annual packaging capacity of 32,000 metric tonnes (MT), the new site doubles
Synlait’s overall canning capacity to 64,000 MT.
“A tremendous amount of work has gone into this milestone. We acquired this partially-
completed facility in May and have executed a significant programme of work to
commission it in just over six months,” said Mr Penno.
“We have employed a great team of 30 people to operate this facility and we expect that
number to increase to 100 in the coming year as we add additional shifts,” adds Mr Penno.
Mayor Goff said, “It’s a pleasure welcoming innovative, high value businesses such as
Synlait to Auckland. The new site in the high growth commercial district around our airport
will create 100 jobs in our city and increase the amount of safe, premium dairy products, for
which New Zealand is well known, heading to major markets around the world.”
The strategic decision to invest in Auckland has helped to mitigate some of the single site
risk faced by Synlait with their original Dunsandel site in Canterbury, as well as increasing
future growth in business with infant formula customers.

Synlait Milk Ltd
1028 Heslerton Road
RD13, Rakaia 7783
Private Bag 806
Ashburton 7740
New Zealand
P +64 3 373 3000
www.synlait.com Page 2 of 2
“Under the Chinese Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) infant formula rules coming into
effect on 1 January 2018, this second site gives us the opportunity to increase the potential
number of our customer brands we can export to China,” said Mr Penno.
Acquiring the partially-completed site has also allowed additional consumer packaging
capacity to become available much earlier to Synlait than a new development would have.
“We are currently operating at capacity in our canning facility at Dunsandel. Having
Auckland in place means we can meet our customers’ needs and continue to grow with
them,” said Mr Penno.
Registration of the new facility with both MPI (Ministry for Primary Industries) and CNCA
(Certification and Accreditation Administration of the People's Republic of China) is
progressing well.
“We have conditional approval from MPI and we expect to finalise this, along with other
registration requirements, very soon. We expect to commence commercial production this
week,” said Mr Penno.
ENDS

For more information about Synlait, visit www.synlait.com
or contact:

Dan Walraven
Communications Manager, Synlait Milk
P: +64 27 836 7532
E: Daniel.walraven@synlait.com