Amul is all set to reach Mumbai's doorsteps with one of its most modern dairy plants at Virar, a northern suburb of the metro. "This will be the first dairy plant with a fully automatic traffic management system using robots for milk packing operations. It will be inaugurated next month.

The homegrown milk brand, marketed by the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), has many firsts in India, including a 50,000-litre milk reception, processing, automatic online standardization and homogenization line, and dedicated fermented milk products manufacturing facilities with the use of robots. The Virar facility will be Amul's sixth plant in India.