Our ingredients will give your chocolate and confectionery products a natural richness and mouthfeel for unbeatable creaminess and flavour.

Chocolate & confectionery

Our ingredients can be used in a wide range of bakery applications, our attention to detail ensures that consumers enjoy the premium quality they expect.

Bakery

Ingredients suitable for high quality cheese products.

Cheese

Our ingredients provide a clean, milky flavour to canned milk products.

Canned milk

From bespoke creations to classic crowd-pleasers. Our ingredients hero full flavour, nutritional value and creamy texture.

Ice cream

Our ingredients have your yoghurt and cultured needs covered, ensuring full flavour, creamy texture and nutrition. 

Yogurt & cultured foods

Providing nutritional benefits and a clean, milky flavour to liquid milk and other ready to drink products.

RTD liquid milk & beverages

Our ingredients are perfect for a range of formulations. Natural in richness and a creamy, full flavour mouthful. 

Dips, sauces & desserts

Ingredients to provide clean, milky flavour and whitening to coffee creamer applications.

Coffee creamer

Ingredients that will give your powdered beverages a delicious milky flavour, with multiple nutritional benefits.

Powdered beverages

With a clean, natural taste that adds function, texture and nutritional benefits to your performance products. 

Performance nutrition

A range of specialty ingredients made with the highest care, attention and superior quality necessary for paediatric nutrition.

Paediatric nutrition

A range of ingredients that are nutritionally rich and recognised for helping stimulate cell growth and support immunity. 

Health supplements

Take advantage of the antimicrobial and oral health benefits that can be provided by bioactives. 

Oral hygiene

Take advantage of the antimicrobial and skin care benefits that can be provided by bioactives.

Skin care

We’re excited to introduce Yifan Li, Westland’s Head of Group Supply and Infant Nutrition Sales.

Introducing Yifan Li

Farmers supplying Westland and who have been strong performers in our regional New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards are unanimous when it comes to the benefits entering the awards can bring.

We are growing Westpro’s product reach worldwide

Milk collection on the rugged West Coast of New Zealand is no small feat.

Behind the scenes of milk collection

Join our Head of Ingredients, Tony Rayner, and Global Account Manager, Jonathan Saunders, as they take you behind the scenes at Food Ingredients China in Shanghai last month.

Inside Food Ingredients China

Westland Milk Products are now 100% owners of Pure Nutrition, a dairy blending and canning facility in Canterbury New Zealand.

Consumer milk powder co-pack capability

Westland is in the peak of its milk production season which got away to a strong start after a very mild winter resulted in good grass growth with cows calving in excellent condition.

Milk season off to a good start

Westland Milk Products wishes to advise that Zhiqiang Li is the company’s acting Chief Executive Officer, effective, Friday, January 31 2025.

Change of management at Westland.

We increased the volume of products we shipped out in the last quarter of 2024 following a strong start to the milk season, high demand for our milk products and our ability to process and deliver the higher volume of our product to our customers.

Westland increases sales on the back of increased milk supply and strong product demand

Our Head of Customer Experience at Westland Milk Products.

Meet Nicki Fraser

Westpro has increased its capacity to produce high quality skim milk powder with the addition of product from its sister company Oceania Dairy Limited plant at Glenavy, South Canterbury.

Glenavy plant boosts skim milk powder production

The popularity of bovine colostrum has skyrocketed in recent years, with well-being influencers across all the popular social media platforms talking about the latest colostrum supplements to boost immunity, enhance athletic performance, support digestive health and more.

The Unique Challenges of Collecting Colostrum in New Zealand

Entering Dairy Awards brings reward

Brett Paterson, a Westpro Global Account Manager recently visited Saudi Arabia and Dubai to meet with direct customers and two distributors.

Strengthening our ties with the Middle East.

Westland is proud to announce the successful attainment of ISO 14001 certification, a global benchmark for environmental management systems.

Full team effort behind ISO 14001 certification.

Our Global Account Manager, specialising in the sales of Westpro Milk Powder and Proteins across New Zealand, Australia, and the Middle East.

Meet Brett Paterson

Thank you to everyone who gave us feedback in our Voice of Customer surveys over the past two years.

We value our customer feedback.

Our care for our staff, our communities and our environment recognised.

Westland Milk Products passes comprehensive SMETA/SEDEX audit.

Sustainability Week was a chance for Westpro’s staff to appreciate their role in the success of our journey to embed sustainability in our operation and become more socially responsible.

Sustainability a team effort at Westpro

Westland’s connection to the Yili Innovation Centres (YICs), global innovation powerhouses owned by our parent company Yili, is helping us in our quest for new products, processes and technologies.

Yili Innovation Centres – a huge asset for Westland

Westland continues to perform strongly with an an after-tax profit of $55.9 million in 2023, a further improvement on its outstanding result in the previous year.

Good news in a year of challenges

Westland’s export team welcomes global improvement in shipping services

Westland Milk Products has given its Westpro brand a fresh new look that better reflects the premium nature of the product range.

Boost for Westpro’s dairy range

Westland Milk Products is expected to deliver another billion-dollar revenue financial year in 2023 and a profit of around $NZ40 million. Westland CEO Richard Wyeth said the result, repeating last year’s performance, puts Westland in a strong position to maintain sustainable, healthy trading balances year-on-year.

Westland extends billion-dollar result

Westland Milk Products’ suppliers have helped the company move up global independent rankings for corporate social responsibility.

Suppliers help put Westland in world’s top 5% for ethical management

Westpro is cementing its place as a world leader in the production of high value bioactive ingredients with its new $70 million specialised plant to be built at Westland Milk Products Hokitika facility.

New Lactoferrin Plant further boost for Westland as global dairy leader

Westland has the best of both worlds when it comes to product development. We get support and expertise and work collaboratively with the Yili Innovation Centres, but we also run our own research and development projects using our skilled in-house innovation team.

Product development – a huge focus

Consumer buying habits in China, a major market for our products, are very different to 10 years ago, with a significant shift to online buying across nearly all categories.

Chinese consumers switch to online purchasing.

The first lactoferrin produced at our new $70 million Lactoferrin plant will be heading to customers all over the world before the end of the year.

Lactoferrin Plant will increase Westpro’s product range.

While sports people are the traditional target for high protein foods, there is a growing trend for other demographics, particularly seniors, to switch to a high protein diet for various health and wellbeing reasons.

Westpro products catering for diets high in protein.

Our endeavours to reduce the amount of waste we are sending to landfill is paying dividends according to the results of our second CSR Progress Update on our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy.

Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy making an impact.

Westland is going the extra mile to protect and care for our environment and our community. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy is core to our overall business strategy.

Corporate Social Responsibility core to our business.

We’re being creative in our thinking as we try to reduce the waste we are sending to landfill, and our staff are getting right behind our endeavours.

We are making inroads on reducing our waste.

We have reduced the coal needed to heat the boilers at Westland’s Hokitika plant by up to 45 truck and trailer loads a year due to the success of a heat recovery project initiated three years ago.

Waste heat from our factory reducing our coal use.

India is a potential market for Westpro’s Whey Protein Concentrate where whey protein is used widely as an egg replacer and in nutritional products.

India – a potential market for our protein products.

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 PO Box 96
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Welcome to the latest edition of the Westpro news. This month, we’ve been out and about, capturing a range of stories that have a significant bearing on our Westpro range. You’ll hear from two of our farmer suppliers about what it means to be part of the Westland Milk Products community, and we take you behind the scenes on a daily milk collection run with one of our tanker drivers – a vital part of our supply chain. As farming practices evolve, we’re investing in our milk collection operations to improve efficiency and meet the changing needs of our suppliers. 

We’re also pleased to introduce Yifan Li, our Head of Group Supply and Infant Nutrition Sales. Yifan brings deep industry expertise and a passion for innovation as he leads the charge on new ingredient opportunities in the growing infant nutrition space. 

As always if you want to know more, please get in touch.  

Overall, the 2024/25 season is progressing in line with previous years. On the West Coast we’ve had a mix of weather conditions, kicking off with a wet start followed by an extended dry period. Meanwhile, Canterbury milk production is ahead of pre-season expectations. Generally, cows on our suppliers’ farms are going into winter in good condition. As we look ahead to the new season, we are also encouraging our farmer suppliers to consider supplying colostrum to support growing demand for this high-value product says Mark Lockington, Westland’s GM Environment & Milk Supply.

Season update: Tracking in line with expectations

The team spent time meeting with both new and existing customers and gaining valuable insights on what’s happening in the Chinese dairy industry.

The key takeaway was how rapidly China’s dairy product mix has developed in the last few years, with a clear direction toward valorisation. Use of locally produced butter, skim milk powder, and proteins such as casein is increasing, with exports of some of these products also on the rise.

Milk collection on the rugged West Coast of New Zealand is a critical and challenging task. From navigating remote landscapes to managing unpredictable weather, our transport team ensures fresh milk arrives on time for processing. In this article, we dive into the complexities of milk collection, the investments being made to improve efficiency, and how Westland Milk Products is adapting to evolving farm practices and growing demand. 

We’re excited to introduce Yifan Li, Westland’s Head of Group Supply and Infant Nutrition Sales. In this insightful Q&A, Yifan shares his role overseeing both internal and external supply of dairy ingredients, as well as his focus on driving innovation across our New Zealand group’s growing infant nutrition business. 

Our farmers are at the heart of everything we do. In these Q&A videos, we sit down with two of our dedicated suppliers to hear about their farming journeys, their commitment to quality, and what it means to be part of the Westland community. Watch as they share their experiences and insights from life on the farm. 

A dedicated Westland farmer supplier from Kowhitirangi, who’s cows listen to the radio in the milking shed.  

A proud fifth-Generation Westland farmer supplier, this is his 31st dairy season on his farm in Kowhitirangi. 

 We had a great time at South Island Field Days, sharing what it’s like to be a West Coast dairy farmer and a valued supplier of Westland Milk Products. It was fantastic to connect with prospective suppliers, discuss the benefits of farming in our region, and showcase the support and opportunities available as one of our valued farmer suppliers.  

Connecting with farmers at South Island Field Days 

Stay informed about key industry events that the Westpro team will be attending. This events calendar highlights opportunities to connect with us in person, get in touch and we look forward to meeting you. 

Westpro-Events-Calendar.pdf

Explore our Insights page for the latest updates and expert perspectives on the global dairy industry and our role in it.

Keeping you in the know

April News

Introducing Yifan Li

Behind the scenes of milk collection

Inside Food Ingredients China

Introducing Yifan Li

Behind the scenes of milk collection

Inside Food Ingredients China

Introducing Yifan Li

Behind the scenes of milk collection

Inside Food Ingredients China

Insights from our farmer suppliers

Explore our Insights page for the latest updates and expert perspectives on the global dairy industry and our role in it.

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