Danone moves part of yogurt drinks production to Romania

Danone has relocated part of its production of YoPro drinkable high-protein yogurts to a plant in Bucharest, Romania.

The Tetra Pak format of the YoPro drinks is now being manufactured there for markets in central and eastern Europe, the Actimel producer confirmed. These countries include Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia. Danone told Just Food the move had taken place “as a matter of efficiency”.

The remainder of the company’s YoPro range, which features protein yogurt pots and drinkable protein yogurts in recyclable plastic bottles, will still be made at its facilities in Aldaya in Spain and in Bierun, Poland, the company added.

Danone’s Bucharest factory is its sole production site in Romania. It is dedicated to dairy products. Sixty per cent of the factory’s output is sold in Romania and 30% is exported to 14 European countries.

The site employs 150 people and has an average production capacity ranging between 56,000 and 65,000 tonnes per year. Some 400 people work for the company in Romania in total.

Just Food