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stalwarts say the return of two beloved WA dairy brands to a pair of able and responsible hands will have a positive effect on the dairy industry.

Mundella Foods and the Margaret River Dairy Company have been sold to MMRD Holdings, sparking a return to production at the Metricup facility and the reopening of the Margaret River Dairy Company shopfront.

MMRD is a wholly owned subsidiary of emerging company Artisanal Market, which is jointly owned by Perth-based agricultural investment and asset manager Penagri Group and Research Corporation.

Mundella collapsed into liquidation in August after a 12-month battle to stay afloat.

WA Dairy Farmers Council President Ian Noakes said the sale could be nothing but a good thing for the local dairy industry.

He said even though it would only take up small volumes of WA milk for now, there's room for that to grow dramatically if the new owners explore export markets, which is possible because the Metricup facility is export approved.

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Government have just announced that the SafeWork Australia changes to workplace dust and chemical implementation.

Um, and they are moving some things around there.

So, like the Mandella production facility's in Manjimup, and that's gonna be closed, and those operations are gonna be moved to where the Margaret River Dairy Company's factory was in Metricup on Bussel Highway, and that's a pretty decent parcel-

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... of land over there.

Um, and but pretty much we do have some numbers on their processing capacity, what they wanna get it up to.

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So that Metricup facility in the southwest is expected to produce up to two to three million liters of milk annually to ramp up to a growth target of five million to be processed per annum.

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