HRH The Duchess of Gloucester visited Rodda’s Creamery in Scorrier, Cornwall, to mark the opening of the family dairy’s new purpose-built cottage cheese production facility.
The visit celebrated a significant new chapter for Rodda’s, the Cornish family dairy best known for its Cornish clotted cream and butter, following a £6 million investment in specialist cottage cheese manufacturing at its existing Scorrier site.
During the visit, HRH The Duchess of Gloucester was welcomed by members of the Rodda family and the Rodda’s team, before touring the new facility and learning about the cottage cheese making process, from milk curd through to packaging.
Her Royal Highness also met members of the team involved in bringing the project to life and sampled products from Rodda’s new cottage cheese range, before unveiling a commemorative plaque to mark the official opening of the new cottage cheese facility.
Nicholas Rodda, Managing Director of Rodda’s, said: “We were honoured to welcome HRH The Duchess of Gloucester to Rodda’s today and to share this important moment with our colleagues, farming families and wider community.
“Our new cottage cheese facility represents a major investment in the future of Rodda’s and in food manufacturing here in Cornwall. It enables us to build on our heritage as a family dairy, use more of every litre of milk we buy from our farming families, and respond to the growing demand for high-quality British dairy products.”
The new facility has been designed to expand Rodda’s dairy manufacturing capability and respond to growing UK demand for cottage cheese. The site is expected to produce up to 4,000 tonnes of cottage cheese each year and has created 20 skilled jobs.
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