| 33 Kelly Deeks Oat specialist Morgan Maw and the Boring Oat milk brand (below). REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT Central Hawkes’s Bay: Apollo Foods - The Apple Press Oat milk flowing from state-of-the-art plant Oj i Fibre Solut ions Packaging 0800 220 500 | oj i fs.com Providing Apollo Foods with quality corrugate packaging, made from renewable, sustainably harvested forestry and recycled wood fibre. Proud to be supporting Apollo Foods Proudly processing apples for Apollo Foods - The Apple Press Samples available on request. Email: info@frupak.co.nz • Tel: 06 878 8520 • www.frupak.co.nz Artisan producers of quality fruit purees, apple juice and apple pie mix - Made from locally grown Hawkes Bay fruit since 1981. Proudly part of the Apple Press journey – We’re not just about the numbers! PKF Carr & Stanton - we’re locally owned, internationally connected and outcome focused Driving business success – it’s just what we do! Contact us for help on your journey. info@pkfcs.co.nz | www.pkfcs.co.nz “We also had the ability to process liquid oat base at scale, and were keen to collaborate.” Four years after setting out on a mission to craft premium varietal juice from the 13,000 tons of cosmetically challenged apples previously left in Hawke’s Bay orchards, apple grower Ross Beaton and food innovation specialist Sally Gallagher are now expanding their beverages portfolio and fixing an unsustainable supply chain with New Zealand’s first commercially produced oat milk. Their production facility at Whakatu was purpose-built for The Apple Press®, and boasts some of the latest and greatest technology in the world. For an investment of more than $30,000,000, the Krones plant is the BMW of bottling equipment from the world’s leading bottle filling specialist, and can produce thousands of recyclable PET bottles per hour. The facility is now also producing Boring® Oat Milk, a brand founded by oat specialist Morgan Maw, and expanding the manufacturing capabilities of New Zealand once again. As Morgan sought a way to simplify the unsustainable international supply chain of oat milk, she found that although New Zealand is a producer of 10 times the amount of food required by our population, it still wasn’t producing any plant milk. Industry insiders told Morgan oat milk could not be produced here, and as a niche product, there would be no demand for it anyway. But Morgan pushed on, and had a breakthrough moment when she met Ross and Sally and saw their PET-compatible factory and recyclable plastic bottles. “We also had the ability to process liquid oat base at scale, and were keen to collaborate,” Sally says. “Just like we do with The Apple Press, we are applying our technology to New Zealand raw materials, and coming up with a product that we can market globally. “As we have taken The Apple Press from New Zealand to Australia, and then into some pretty large retailers offshore in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and China. We have established customer relationships and supply lines to now provide them with Boring Oat Milk as well.” An emerging coffee culture in South East Asia and the well-established coffee culture here at home offer Boring an opportunity to capitalise on Morgan’s development of Boring Barista, with a research and development period completed with the help of her friends at Coffee Supreme. Now a key partner, Boring Barista is Coffee Supreme’s favourite alternative milk option, as it has been developed for and with coffee professionals, and designed to be heated, steamed, and stretched all day long. “The coffee industry is big business, and Ross and I are learning a lot,” Sally says. “As we continue to grow, we are going down that food service path, and a lot of us are being upskilled in the art of coffee.” Boring Oat Milk’s main ingredients are all sourced in New Zealand. The oats come from Harraways farmers in Otago and Southland, the water from Heretaunga Aquifer in the Hawke’s Bay, the sea salt from Dominion Salt in Marlborough, and the Hi-oleic sunflower oil from Pure Oil NZ in Canterbury. For Ross and Sally, who were just the two of them when they started The Apple Press, they are now running a 50-strong team at the Whakatu production facility. “Boring is helping to support that,” Sally says. “We are bringing in people and trying to add value to them and bring them through the business, whether from the factory to the lab or from the supply chain into sales. “We’ve only been going for a few years and that is already starting to happen.”
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