DeLaval
We live milk
DeLaval is a market leader and trusted partner for thousands of farmers around the globe – providing integrated milking solutions that are designed to improve dairy production, as well as animal welfare and overall quality of life.
Strategy
In 2023, we sharpened our focus to future-proof both DeLaval and our customers. Automation, digital services, animal welfare and sustainability are all key topics where we can have the greatest impact on farmers across the globe. We pride ourselves on our ability to provide dairy farmers around the world with innovative solutions to contribute to a successful dairy farming business.
Products and solutions
As a company built on innovation, we constantly work to find ways of helping our dairy farmer customers do more with less by providing world-leading milking equipment and solutions. DeLaval offers highly efficient system solutions for milking and other on-farm activities.
DeLaval customers can benefit from advisory and digital services to improve their performance. They can also choose from all-inclusive service plans and consumables including liners and tubes, farm supplies and original parts to ensure milk quality and animal health. By providing better conditions for animals, farmers can improve animal health and longevity while at the same time maintain or improve farm profitability. A healthy animal provides more milk, at a better quality and for longer.
Our customers
We are active across the globe in over 100 markets and modern dairy farmers are increasingly drawing on automated solutions to drive efficiency. Every time we help a farmer find a way to produce more milk from the same herd, we make food production more sustainable. This might involve increasing farm automation, promoting healthier cows to increase their milking lifetime, or introducing an updated working method, a new parlour, better hygiene or more data to make better decisions.
| DeLaval facts: | |
| Net sales 2023 | €1.395 billion |
| Saels in | >100 countries |
| Number of employees 2023 | 4,778 |
| Technical Training Centres | 13 |
| R&D Centres | 7 |
| Production plants | 13 |
| Distribution centres | 6 |
MARKET
The dairy industry is shaped by global trends, which create both opportunities and challenges for DeLaval’s market. The current major trends include:
Technology
Enabling better dairy farm decision making
DeLaval Plus Behaviour Analysis, which provides actionable intelligence for better, faster and more accurate decisions, began its roll-out in 2023.
The farm management tool tracks cow location and uses artificial intelligence (AI) and sensors to analyse individual animal behaviour and help identify cows that are sick or in heat. Real-time information helps farmers to manage their to-do lists more efficiently and effectively.
“By responding to a cow quickly and with the right action, producers can drive the performance of their farm by increasing cow productivity and welfare,” said Joaquín Azocar, Solution Manager, DeLaval Farm Management Systems. “DeLaval Plus Behaviour Analysis ensures total visibility and oversight of their cows.”
The system uses DeLaval BioSensor ear tags, which automatically communicate with nodes installed throughout the barn. The data is shared with the DeLaval DeepBlue AI model, which analyses the information using sophisticated cow behaviour models. The system returns this information to farmers in the form of actionable intelligence so they can make better, faster and more accurate decisions.
