Synlait Milk Limited
No description from the company. The catalog line you may see elsewhere is generated by us from the category and location, not a statement by the company.
- Type
- manufacturer (our classification of the record, not a statement by the company)
- Role
- Manufacturer (official record)
- Location
- Dunsandel, New Zealand
- Founded
- Not established: our records disagree. 2000 in the founding-year field of our catalogue record; 2005 in the state register (date of the current legal entity).
- Current legal entity registered
- 2005-03-02 (state register record of the current legal entity)
- Website
- synlait.com
- Categories
- Dairy Products, Specialty & Gourmet Food, Supplements & Wellness, Pantry & Dry Goods
- Markets
- China, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, United States
What is established and what is not
No researcher review has been written for this company yet. 14 official records from 6 official sources are on file. 4 other entries are not official records: our own technical checks and searches, open directory listings, our inferences or the company's own statements. Everything is listed below with its evidence type: each entry confirms only what it literally says; none of them is a review. The manufacturing role above rests on the official records listed below, and only as far as each literally goes: a facility registration or licence is not an observation of current production. Nothing here confirms ownership or trading status beyond what each record literally says.
Facts on file, each with its evidence type
- Market access approved: European Union (record type: market-access-eu) [official record; status green] Shows the facility is on the destination market's list of establishments approved for the listed goods. A listing is not an observation of current production. checked 2026-08-22. TRACES NT, European Commission register of approved establishments (DG SANTE)
- Owners named in the company register (record type: ownership-on-record) [official record; status green] Controlling owner on record: Bright Dairy Holding Limited. Names the company's owners or controllers as the register records them. checked 2026-10-13. New Zealand Companies Office (NZBN bulk data)
- Named directors on file (record type: directors-on-file) [official record; status green] 5 directors on file. The register names the people who run the company, so there is someone answerable if something goes wrong. checked 2026-10-13. New Zealand Companies Office (NZBN bulk data)
- No match found on the sanctions lists we checked (record type: sanctions-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public sanctions datasets and found no matching candidate. A name search is not full compliance screening. checked 2026-08-09. OpenSanctions
- Business email on the company's own domain (record type: corporate-mail-on-domain) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows the domain runs its own email rather than a free mailbox. It describes the domain, not who owns it. checked 2026-08-09. Mail server of the company domain
- On the company register (record type: registered-since) [official record; status green] On the company register since 2005-03-02. Shows how long the company has been on the state register, which is hard to fake and easy to check. checked 2026-10-13. New Zealand Companies Office (NZBN bulk data)
- Active legal entity ID (LEI) (record type: lei-active) [official record; status green] A global identifier used in finance; an active one is renewed yearly. checked 2026-08-23. GLEIF global LEI register (golden copy)
- Main activity as recorded in the state business register (record type: registered-activity) [official record; status green] The business register records what the company is registered to do. A manufacturing code supports a maker over a trader, but it is registered activity, not an operating plant. checked 2026-09-18. https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/mynzbn/nzbndetails/9429034950883/
- Street address on file in the state register (record type: registered-address) [official record; status green] The address the company itself gave the register, so post and inspectors reach it there. checked 2026-09-18. https://www.nzbn.govt.nz/mynzbn/nzbndetails/9429034950883/
- No match found in the debarment registers we checked (record type: debarment-clear) [our own observation, not an official record; name search, no matching candidate] We searched the public debarment datasets and found no matching candidate. Absence from these lists is a search result, not a certificate. checked 2026-08-09. OpenSanctions
- Website domain registered (record type: domain-registered) [our own observation, not an official record; status green] Shows how long this web address has been registered. That is the age of the domain, not of the company: a domain can change owners. checked 2026-08-09. Domain registry record
- Registered with the state to export across borders (record type: export-registered) [official record; status green] Required to move goods across borders. checked 2026-10-13. Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand Food Safety), public register
- Legally registered and still active (record type: registry-active-global) [official record; status green] Indicates the company is not dissolved or winding down. checked 2026-10-13. New Zealand Companies Office (NZBN bulk data)
- Recent annual report filed (record type: annual-report-fresh) [official record; status green] The company filed its statutory annual report on time, so the register still sees an entity that meets its obligations. checked 2026-10-13. New Zealand Companies Office (NZBN bulk data)
- Registry ID checks out with the state register (record type: registry-id-verified) [official record; status green] Helps confirm the company on this page is the same legal entity as in the register. checked 2026-10-13. Companies Register (NZBN bulk data)
- Probably related companies, not confirmed by an official record (record type: related-entity-probable) [official record; status green] The same person's name appears on this company's record and on other companies' records whose names share a distinctive word. That makes a link probable, not proven: the register does not say it is the same person. checked 2026-10-13. New Zealand Companies Office (NZBN bulk data)
- Site address listed in a government regulator's register (record type: facility-registered) [official record; status green] Shows the regulator records a site of this company at a named address. A registration is not an observation of current production. checked 2026-10-13. Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand Food Safety), public register
- Line of business as recorded in the state register: Dairy products mfg nec (record type: registry-activity) [official record; status green] Line of business as recorded in the state register: Dairy products mfg nec. Shows what the state itself says the company does, which you can compare with what it promises you. checked 2026-10-13. New Zealand Companies Office (NZBN bulk data)
Claimed certifications, not confirmed by us
- ISO 22000, Food Safety IAF CertSearch
- HACCP
- BRCGS Certification BRCGS Directory
- Good Manufacturing Practice
Import rules for these goods
- EU imports of food of animal origin and many other food categories must be pre-notified in TRACES and enter through border control posts. European Commission (TRACES)
- US imports require the foreign facility to be FDA-registered and the importer to run a Foreign Supplier Verification Program (FSVP). US FDA
Goods family established: Dairy Products (official establishment listing). The exact product, operation and trade route needed to determine a product-specific requirement are not established here. Product-specific import rules not established for the catalog categories Specialty & Gourmet Food, Supplements & Wellness, Pantry & Dry Goods: no record or company text names goods of this kind. A catalog category alone is our classification, not proof of what the company makes or sells.
Check independently
Before a first order, ask for the ISO 22000, Food Safety certificate number, its holder and the products it covers.