 The former dairy will be given over to canning dog and cat food |
A dairy in Carmarthenshire which closed last month with the loss of 200 jobs has been bought by a local pet food company. Cambrian Pet Food, based at Pencader, intends creating about 40 new jobs.
The firm paid an undisclosed sum to take over the factory site at the end of the year and to adapt its canning plant for cat and dog food.
The closure of the creamery marked the end of 50 years of milk processing in the Towy Valley area.
Cambrian managing director David Davies said his family-owned company had spent �3m upgrading its Pencader plant.
He said the firm was "delighted" with the buy out, which would enable the company to implement long-term development plans.
More than 1,000 people once worked at four creameries in the county. Llandadog's closure was blamed on poor financial performance.
The creamery processed into evaporated milk and rice pudding around 210 million litres of milk a year from farms in west Wales.
It was bought by the farming co-operative Dairy Farmers of Britain (DFB), owned by 3,250 farmers, in 2004 for �75m.
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