DeLaval opens $1m training center in Kansas City
The DeLaval Training Center is the result of a $1m facility renovation investment in robotics and food safety. It features the new Voluntary Milking System VMS V300.
The DeLaval Training Center will be the home base for the Dairy Management Advisory (DMA) training program on the new VMS V300 as well as Herd Navigator, the analysis system that detects both pregnancies and herd health issues such as mastitis and ketosis.
Food safety
Fernando Cuccioli, DeLaval regional president, North America, said the company is looking forward to not only hosting its own staff members and dealers, but also producers and other industry specialists, such as veterinarians and nutritionists.
DeLaval Cleaning Solutions, a division of DeLaval Inc., brings the food safety aspect to the training center.
Steve Harris, sales director for DeLaval Cleaning Solutions, said DeLaval works on technologies for cleaning, sanitizing and disinfecting applications for all dairy, food, and beverage processing industries.
“With ever-increasing concerns from consumers about their food, it’s so important to us that our trainings here have a heavy focus on food safety,” Harris said.
Increased audience
The food safety training comes from an existing DeLaval training course, the DeLaval Cleaning Solutions Academy. With the renovated facility as a center for the program, more people can learn about the products, applications, equipment and Clean in Place (CIP) functions of a safe food supply, the company said.
“The training center really came together quite quickly,” Cuccioli said.
“It’s something we began planning over a year ago, but the bulk of the work took place in the last six months.”
“We believe the training center will foster excellence in technology and food safety throughout the dairy industry, not just within DeLaval,” Cuccioli said.
The company’s Waunakee, Wisconsin, training facility will continue to serve the needs of the VMS Classic for producers and DeLaval technical services staff.
