Circular Dairy Summit 2024

DPTC presents this exciting event on Thursday, October 24th at The Osprey Hotel, Naas. Co. Kildare and will feature the official launch of the DPTC’s pivotal position statement, “Circular Dairy Bioeconomy in Ireland: Harnessing Opportunities for a Sustainable Future.” Supported by the University of Limerick’s Kemmy Business School and BiOrbic, this summit is a must-attend for anyone passionate about advancing sustainability within the Irish dairy sector.

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ADVANCING THE FUTURE OF SUSTAINABLE DAIRY PROCESSING

We are global experts who enable long-term sustainable growth opportunities in the dairy processing sector.

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Join Our Community

We are dedicated to delivering sustainable, innovative technical and operational solutions to the dairy processing industry. Join us as a strategic commercial partner to drive new capability within the sector.
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Core Capabilities

We harness expertise across the dairy processing sector to deliver next generation dairy processing innovations driving a zero emissions industry.
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Our Research

We address key sectoral challenges from adaptive processing to emerging contaminants and sustainability, delivering real impact for our industry partners.

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Our People

Through our team of academic experts and industry partners we deliver cutting-edge research and development, leading to real business impact.

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About DPTC

“DPTC is an Essential Differentiator for Innovation in the Irish Dairy Processing Industry”

DPTC is a world-class collaborative Research and Technology Centre. We are key enablers of innovation, addressing common sectoral challenges, driving value creation, competitiveness and sustainability in the dairy processing sector.
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We are the Leading Technology Centre for Dairy Processing Innovation

Our Research

Industry-led research programme focused on technical and commercial impact. Agile and adaptable to the needs of industry, changing markets, regulation and external influences.

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Core Capabilities

DPTC has a breadth of expertise across multiple Academic Partners in Ireland. We work in collaboration with our Industry Partners and Associate Members to deliver research and solutions that are impactful and address industry challenges.

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Our People

Expert Academics, Industry Partners, Associate Members and Collaborative Partners make up our rich, multidisciplinary community. Our engagement with key sectoral stakeholders ensures uptake of our research outputs by Industry Partners.

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Knowledge Transfer

Our knowledge transfer framework delivers up-to-date information on the latest emerging technologies, techniques, and translation opportunities for business results, through information seminars, workshops and other knowledge transfer events.

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Associate Membership

The DPTC Associate Membership underpins the core remit of the Centre: to drive long-term growth in the dairy sector by focusing on cost-efficient and sustainable milk processing. We seek strategic partners through our Associate Membership model to bring new ideas and capabilities to the Centre, and to facilitate the translation of our research outputs into technology uptakes for industry.

As a DPTC Associate Member, your company will become a key player in ensuring that the latest innovations in dairy processing technology become integrated in our industry partners sites (and beyond), helping to achieve Ireland’s goal of zero emissions for the dairy industry.

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Case Studies

SENSOR FAILURE INVESTIGATION LEADS TO IMPROVED PROCESS PERFORMANCE AT TIPPERARY CO-OP

CORRECTIVE ACTION ON CONTAMINATED CAUSTIC ACID TANKS POTENTIALLY SAVES ARRABAWN €15,000 TO €20,000 PER ANNUM

MITIGATING THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF DAIRY PROCESSING WASTE THROUGH PHOSPHORUS RECOVERY

NEW PROCESS DEVELOPED FOR WHEY PROTEIN INGREDIENTS WITH ENHANCED THE HEAT STABILITY AT LAKELAND DAIRIES

Testimonials

“We believe the learnings from the projects in DPTC will bring significant benefits to our business and improve the quality of our products, while reducing cost.”
“DPTC’s research on adaptive milk processing will deliver a robust understanding of the food chemistry underlying the techno-functionality phenomenon, which we will then be able to use to identify mitigation or corrective strategies.”
“DPTC offers Unison Process Solutions a chance to showcase and identify new opportunities for our ground-breaking dairy processing technologies to the leading dairy production companies in Ireland.”
“Innopharma Technology Ltd see DPTC as an exciting opportunity to transfer learnings from our pharmaceutical expertise and our process control software (SmartX) to deliver on process optimisation in the dairy processing industry.”
“Siemens Process Systems Engineering (SPSE) is excited to join DPTC : there is great opportunity for dairy processors to adopt our process digital twins for operations, and achieve sustainable production excellence.”

“DPTC is an engine of innovation driving value creation and fostering trust and progress within the dairy processing industry. DPTC has had a huge impact on Ireland’s dairy industry, delivering real benefits and impact for the country, industry and farmer suppliers.”

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News & Events

DPTC Friday WEBINAR Series Continues…

DPTC Friday WEBINAR Series Continues…

August 13, 2024

Many thanks to Mohammadreza Khalesi, Assoc. Prof. in Food Science at Proteins and Peptides Research Group University of Limerick for his excellent webinar given to the DPTC Community. We continue with our Friday Webinar Series next week with a planned presentation...

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