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Thank you for attending the 42nd Nordic Dairy Congress "New Technologies and Innovations in Dairy Industry"

Welcome to the 42nd Nordic Dairy Congress, which is organised every 3rd year, in Hämeenlinna, Finland, at the Arts and Congress Center Verkatehdas (“fabric factory”) from the 17th to 19th of June 2010. Hämeenlinna is the historical and cultural capital of the province of Southern Finland and it offers impressive and ideal surroundings for the congress.

The theme of the congress will be “New Technologies and Innovations in Dairy Industry”. The target is to offer a comprehensive picture of the latest technology development and innovations in dairy industry. The new technologies will concentrate, among others, on new more economic possibilities in process development offered by new membrane technologies, alternative heat treatments and on continuous production methods. The second focus area will be innovations in the sustainability and dairy quality control. In the difficult macro-economical situation these development targets are connected to each other by the aim for more economical and productive manufacturing i.e. protecting the existence and development of the dairy industry and milk production.

The responsibility for the continuity, coordination, arrangement, quality and standard of the congress is carried out by the Nordic Dairy Technology Council – Nordisk Mejeritekniskt Råd (NMR), which includes representatives from all the Nordic countries through their dairy membership organisations. The main responsibility for the practical arrangements is carried out by the NMR members of the organising country together with dairy professionals in the program committee.

Welcome!

Kari Toikkanen
Chairman of the NMR in congress period 2008-2010

About the Congress

Background

The first Nordic Dairy Congress was arranged by Nordic dairy organizations already in 1920 in Oslo. Eighteen years later the first Dairy Technology Congress took place in Gothenburg by academic dairy folk. These congresses were organised in turns in alternate years, until in the 1970s discussions about merging the two began. The first combined congress was held in Århus using the ordinal number 31 which was generated by totaling the number of the earlier Dairy and Dairy Technology congresses arranged until then.

About the program

The congress programs are based on the work of the committees. The themes have varied from the quality of milk to information technology. The congress programs have included exhibitions and excursions to local production facilities.

The theme of the 2010 congress has to do with the new technologies and innovations in dairy industry.

Organiser of the 2010 congress

The 2010 congress is organized by the Finnish Dairy Technology Council.

The Nordic Dairy Technology Council, NMR

The Nordic Dairy Technology Council, NMR, which was established in 1977, is responsible for the continuity of the dairy congresses as well as their quality and standard. The council includes representatives from all the Nordic countries.

The chairman (president) of the council is Product Manager Kari Toikkanen.

Arts and Congress Center Verkatehdas

Paasikiventie 2
13200 Hämeenlinna
Finland
+358 3 621 6600