Fonterra Darfield is a manufacturing site on West Coast Road, on the Canterbury Plains west of Christchurch. Fonterra is a New Zealand dairy co-operative owned by thousands of farming families, and this is one of the places where its dairy products are made.
One visitor describes the facility as amazing, with a strong focus on health and safety and on quality. The co-operative's website covers its results, its farmer support and its careers, and it is the main source for the company as a whole.