Demolition marks beginning of new era at Camperdown factory

Feb. 25, 2015, 4 a.m.

THE walls are coming down.

THE walls are coming down.

Demolition has started at the former Bonlac factory in Camperdown in preparation for a new $120m milk powder facility.

Demolition began this week on the former Bonlac dairy factory in Camperdown as the resurgence of the south-west dairy industry stepped up a gear.

Most of the old factory is being removed to clear the way for construction of Camperdown Dairy Internationals (CDI) $120 million milk and nutritional powder plant.

The 36-metre-high Niro building, which has dominated Camperdowns western skyline since 1973, is expected to be gone completely by the end of this week.

CDI chief operating officer Tony Addinsall said a long reach excavator was being used to demolish the high sections of the Niro building, so named for the milk drying equipment used in the building.

Mr Addinsall said former cheese rooms and maintenance facilities would also be cleared from the site as part of the demolition project.

Most of the old Bonlac sheds will go, he said.

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