Thanks to this advancement, the firm that makes the well-known Irish butter brand can now produce up to 80,000 tonnes of butter annually or 1 million retail packets each day.

Kerrygold is now the second-most popular butter brand in the United States and is marketed in 110 countries worldwide.

To become Ireland's first food brand valued at €2 billion, Ornua hopes that its most recent expansion in Mitchelstown will aid in its growth.

Thirty additional jobs have been created because of the investment, increasing the total number of employees at the Kerrygold Park complex to 180.

Kerrygold Park, with ten packaging lines, two industrial churns, and on-site refrigerated storage for three thousand pallets, is one of the top butter packing facilities globally.

Charlie McConalogue, Minister of Agriculture, Food, and the Marine, and Simon Coveney, Minister of Enterprise, Trade, and Employment, are hosting an official opening ceremony for the new expansion at the Mitchelstown plant.

Jenny Melia, Executive Director of Enterprise Ireland, and Aidan O'Driscoll, Chair of Ornua Co-operative, are joining them. Both have expressed pride in the global recognition of the Kerrygold brand.

“For the past 60 years, Kerrygold has proudly brought the unique taste of Irish grass-fed dairy to the world on behalf of Ornua's Member Co-operatives and the 14,000 dairy families they represent,” they stated.

“We are collectively proud of the success the brand has achieved internationally including in major markets such as the US where Kerrygold is the second largest butter brand.”