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SPX to Provide Cheese Plant to the Largest Dairy Cooperative in Chile

Wednesday 05. January 2011 - SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW) today announced that its Flow Technology segment has been awarded a contract valued at more than $19 million to custom design and install a cheese plant for Colun, one of Chile's largest dairy companies.

The new state-of-the art facility is being constructed in La Union in southern Chile for the Cooperativa Agricola y Lechera de La Union Limitada (Colun). The Colun cooperative includes 750 farmers and 1,300 employees, collecting more than 1.2 million liters of milk daily and producing 240 dairy products for consumers in Chile and other countries. These include milk, cheeses, butter, yogurt, dulce de leche and other products.
“As the largest dairy cooperative in Chile, Colun is a leader in the growing South American market for dairy products,” said Don Canterna, SPX Flow Technology segment president. “SPX has extensive experience in designing and installing food and dairy processing plants throughout the world. We look forward to leveraging our global footprint and dairy processing expertise to collaborate with the innovative team at Colun.”
Design and engineering of the plant has already begun at the SPX Engineering Center in Silkeborg, Denmark, with construction scheduled to begin in mid-2011, and plant completion anticipated in the summer of 2012.
The new plant is expected to use SPX technologies, which help improve sustainability by enabling dairy companies to use excess whey and to recover water containing milk components that was previously washed away. SPX is also expected to provide ongoing service and support for the new facility.
SPX Flow Technology manufactures, engineers and installs components and turnkey solutions for the global food processing industry, leveraging its core product lines, including APV, Waukesha Cherry-Burrell, Gerstenberg Schroder and Anhydro.