AAK has more than 140 years of experience of innovating and customising solutions based on vegetable oils and fats. In close collaboration with our customers, we use our expertise to create added value solutions across the food, confectionery, and cosmetics industries. AAK has a long experience of how to customise solutions for the dairy industry within product sectors such as ice cream, cheese, whipped toppings, yellow fats, fermented milk products, milk drinks & powders, and coffee whiteners. Our value-adding vegetable oil solutions replace or complement the use of standard oils and milk fat. The AAK dairy solutions are designed to satisfy specific needs such as: cost optimization, improved nutritional profile, improved functionality and strong sustainability targets. This presentation will focus on different case studies which highlight how vegetable oils and fats can be used as an ingredient in order to create new and innovative dairy products. The case studies will include examples of how the addition of vegetable oils and fats can be used in order to; optimise the utilisation of milk components, thereby increasing the overall profitability for the dairies, creating healthier dairy products and enabling different health and nutrition claims for the end products. New opportunities for product development can be achieved by improving the functionality of dairy products, and how  the sustainability profile of both traditional dairy products and plant-based dairy analogues can be influenced by vegetable oil/fat inclusion will be discussed.