Hokitika's Westland Milk Products is investing 40 million into doubling its butter manufacturing capacity.

Two new butter churns will be installed over the winter.

Westland Milk general manager Hamish Yates says demand for the company's products have quadrupled in a little over three years.

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04 Nov: People in Kaikoura are being urged to look for nationally vulnerable Hutton's shearwater birds, which may have crash landed

03 Nov: Hopes care will speed up at Nelson Hospital's emergency department - as an extension opens its doors

26 Oct: A man's been sentenced to two months community detention and 12 months supervision - after assaulting a Nelson dairy owner over a pack of cigarettes

24 Oct: A man will remain in custody after a standoff with Nelson police and allegedly threatening to blow up buildings

23 Oct: A person's been arrested following a Police incident in Nelson

23 Oct: Nelson Hospital's currently running on generator supply while the network power is being re-established

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