| Arla Foods Cheese Production Line Expansion | ||
Curds and whey being pumped into Curdmaster flexible vat. |
APV Invensys ultrafiltration unit for the treatment of raw milk. |
APV pasteurisation equipment for the treatment of raw milk. |
Heat exchanger for cooling milk before curd production. |
Compomaster fat standardisation unit used in pre-processing of milk. |
Gouda cheeses maturing in environmentally controlled racks. |
Gouda cheese produced at the Falkenberg dairy plant. |
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| Arla Foods Dairy - Liquid Milk Processing, | ||
Scottish cows will supply the new liquid milk processing facility with 150 million litres of milk per year. |
The Isoma bottle turner ensures all bottles are in the correct orientation. |
Phase one of the new dairy was completed in October 2005 and at full capacity it is able to process up to 150 million litres of fresh milk per year. |
Strict hygiene standards demanded by UK supermarkets require inverting open top bottles and air rinsing them before they are filled with product. |
Cravendale, Arla’s own brand of premium pure-filtered milk. |
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| Arla Foods Milk Powder | ||
Artist's representation of new facility being built at Vimmerby. |
Heat treatment of raw milk. |
Evaporation equipment. |
Falling film evaporator. |
Part of the flash cooling equipment in the process plant. |
Filtermat spray dryer. |
Drying belt process. |
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| Blue Ribbon Cheese Facility, Fresno, California | ||
The Fresno County Planning Commission has passed the planning of the new Blue Ribbon Cheese plant. |
Milk will be obtained from a variety of sources, but the majority will come from local dairies. |
The Blue Ribbon Cheese plant will produce mozzarella and Cheddar cheeses. |
Cheddar will be produced in sharp and mild varieties. |
The City of Fresno is the commercial centre of the region; the Blue Ribbon plant will be the largest cheese manufacturing facility in California. |
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| Dairy Trust Milk Processing Plant, Awarua | ||
The Dairy Trust plant was built on a greenfield site in Southland. |
The roof was installed in a single section. |
The completed milk powder production plant is the first investment for Dairy Trust Ltd. |
| Dale Farm, Cheese Production Plant, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland | ||
Dale Farm is controlled by 2,500 dairy farmers in Northern Ireland. |
The facility has made a recent investment in packaging equipment for bagging grated cheese. |
Dale Farm Cheddar is sold under the Dromona brand. |
The facility will use 200 million litres of milk per year. |
The facility is Northern Ireland's leading Cheddar producer and also produces a probiotic Cheddar. |
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| Fonterra Dairy Processing Plant, Clandeboye, | ||
Fonterra Cooperative Group Ltd is generated 20% of all New Zealand exports in 2003 and was responsible for 96% of New Zealand's milk production. |
The new milk drier, which is one of the largest worldwide, was constructed because of a need for extra capacity to satisfy the additional demand from the consumer market. |
Fonterra Friesian cows. |
Fonterra milk being collected from the farmer by tanker. |
Tetra Pak 818 separators are used at the dairy processing plant. |
The Clandeboye facility is now the largest milk powder producing facility in the world. |
| Fonterra Milk Powder Plant, Edendale, Southland | ||
The milk drier will be at the Edendale plant near Invercargill in Southland. |
The area is expecting a boom in milk production up to 2013 and extra milk processing capacity will be required. |
Fonterra has several plants in New Zealand and by the time this project is completed will own two of the largest milk powder production plants in the world. |
The new milk powder drier tower plan has been passed by Southland District Council in contravention of its own regulations but will be subject to strict environmental regulation. |
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| Glanbia Cheese Plant Expansion, | ||
A section of the cheese plant at Gooding, one of the largest cheese manufacturing facilities in the world. |
Once the expansion is completed, the Gooding cheese factory will manufacture approximately 900,000lb of cheese every day. |
Gooding produces 360 million lb of cheese annually; the most popular products include cheddar, mozzarella, Monterey Jack, Swiss, Colby, Colby Jack and Pepper Jack. |
The plant produces 500lb barrels of American-style cheese that are sold as an ingredient in producing processed cheese slices. |
Gooding cheese plant underwent extensive renovation and expansion in 2000, and again in 2004, making it one of the most efficient cheese manufacturing facilities in the world. |
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| Great Lakes Cheese | ||
A ‘super plant’ is being constructed in Adams, New York, by Great Lakes Cheese of New York. |
Great Lakes is one of the largest cheese packers and manufacturers in the US. |
Cheese sales in the US have broken all records because of the recession and discounted lines. |
| Hilmar Cheese Plant, Dallam County, Dalhart, Texas | ||
Stainless steel milk storage silos delivered to the site prior to installation. |
Dalhart plant under construction, here a central corridor is being constructed in the cheese processing building. |
Further construction on the new plant. |
A selection of products from the Hilmar range of cheeses (only sold under the Hilmar name from their own retail outlet). |
Friesian or Holstein cows who will produce the milk for the cheese plant. |
The plant nears completion and internally there are 400 workers on site. |
Jersey herds are being encouraged because of the milk’s higher fat and protein content. |
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| IGI Beyti Dairy, | ||
IGI's Beyti branded UHT milk, an innovation in the Egyptian domestic milk market. |
The production line at IGI Beyti's dairy. |
HDPE bottles passing along the production line. |
Staff working on the production line. |
The range of nectars and juices packaged at the IGI Beyti plant in Noubaria. |
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| Kerrygold, Cheese Production Plant | ||
The new facility was designed to modernise the production at the Leek facility. |
There are 21 lines at Leek and all of this equipment will be transferred to the new building. |
The building process began in February 2007. |
Dubliner is one of Kerrygolds’s best known brands. |
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| Llandyrnog Creamery | ||
Llandyrnog, Denbighshire, Wales |
The cheese is packaged using pre-pack cutters into a variety of forms ranging from 200g blocks to 20kg bulk orders. |
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| Mackie's Ice Cream, Aberdeenshire, Scotland | ||
Mackie’s famous strawberry ice cream made entirely using Scottish produce. |
The Jersey herd is important to keep up the richness of the milk and cream used. |
Only the finest strawberries are used in the strawberry flavour. |
The Holstein herd at Mackie’s is also very important to produce enough milk to achieve production targets. In addition, the farm has supply agreements across Scotland. |
The company is about to launch a new product line, the frozen fruit smoothie. |
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| Nestle Ski Yoghurt Line Expansion, Cuddington, Cheshire | ||
Some of the Ski brand products produced at the plant. |
A representation of the Erca Formseal line. NEST2 |
How the Dosyfruit system integrates into the plant. |
Ski and Sveltesse yoghurt products by Nestle. |
Munch Bunch yoghurt products produced at the Cuddington plant. |
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| Olbernhau Dairy, | ||
Milk is a complicated emulsion made of micelles of fat and protein. |
Milk and whey at the Olbernhau Dairy is spray dried to produce dried whey concentrate and dried milk for use in food production. |
The Olbernhau Dairy produces over 50t of whey concentrate per day. |
Dried whey concentrate is used in the production of a variety of food products, such as chocolate and baby food. |
Whey concentrate contains a valuable source of beta-lactoglobulin. |
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| Open Country Cheese Processing Plant, Waikato | ||
The plant produced 6,000t of cheese in its first year of production. |
The plant accepts around 200 million litres of milk per year. |
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| Parkham Farms North Devon | ||
The cheese produced is genuine West Country Farmhouse Cheddar. |
Parkham uses milk from its herd of 1,750 Holstein cows. |
Curds are more consistent with the new equipment. |
Cheese process equipment was provided by Tetra Pak Processing UK. |
Energy for the plant maybe produced by wind power. |
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| Rachel’s Organic Dairy, Aberystwyth, | ||
Rachel's Organic Dairy completed its Phase 3 expansion in November 2004. |
Rachel's Organic Dairy produces premium organic dairy products such as yoghurt. |
Rachel's Organic is now one of the major processors of organic milk in Wales. |
Skimmed milk evaporator. |
Yoghurt fermentation vessels. |
The yoghurt filling area at Rachel's Organic Dairy, West Wales, UK. |
Cold storage warehousing area. |
Rudolph's Organic Christmas pudding flavour yoghurt - a seasonal special edition in 450g LDPE carton. |
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| Rodda's Clotted Cream Filling Machine Upgrade | ||
Clotted cream is a rich luxury product synonymous with Cornwall and Rodda's is known as a leading brand. |
The Starwheel machine from Packaging Automation can apply lids at 100 pots per minute. |
Rodda's clotted cream is packed in a polyethylene tub in one of many various sizes, which is sealed with a diaphragm and then has a lid clipped on top. |
The Rodda's creamery offers a range of products, including clotted cream, crème fraîche and butter. |
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| Saratoga Cheese Corporation Plant | ||
Automatic stack turner for Blockform-stacks. |
Automatic, state-of-the-art cutting unit for portion cutting of cheese bars. |
A Coagulator similar to the one planned for the plant. |
Filler unit for filling of cheese curd into food-grade plastic. |
Schematic drawing of the Coagulator 2000 S. |
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| Satori Food - Plant Expansion | ||
Sartori's Parmesan cheeses have won several prizes in the US. |
The company produces a range of products specifically for the food service industry as well as its strong retail base. |
Sartori Foods also produces a full range of Swiss-style cheese. |
| Southwest Cheese Production Facility, | ||
Aerial view of the new Southwest Cheese Company plant (January 2006). |
Scherping horizontal cheese vat. |
Schematic of the cheese making process. |
Schematic of a Scherping stirred curd machine. |
Schematic of a block forming tower. |
A large vat used for pasteurising milk for cheese production. |
Cheddar products as produced from the large blocks which will be produced at the new plant. |
[left] Separating and cutting curds; [right] cheese maturation and warehousing. |
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| Them Co-operative Dairy Cheese Production Plant, | ||
Them Co-operative Dairy's new cheese production facility is capable of manufacturing over 14t of cheese per day for the local and export markets. |
The original cheese plant suffered from a lack of space, old technology and the need for manual lifting of heavy loads during cheese production. |
Homogenisation unit. Milk homogenisation gives the cheeses such as blue mould and feta a paler appearance and makes the fat more susceptible to fat cleavage by means of lipase enzymes. |
Milk at the plant is treated by separators using APV microfiltration (MF) to remove spores and other unwanted microparticulates. |
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| Truly Uniq, Evercreech, Somerset | ||
An example of a mocha dessert produced for M&S. |
The company has invested heavily in new equipment at the majority of its plants; this robot arm aids in packing sandwiches for M&S (50 million per year). |
The company also packages dips and salads for M&S. |
One branch of Uniq, based in Annan, Scotland, is one of the UK's leading salmon processing companies. |
Investment has been made in technology, particularly in production for the expanding ready meal market. |
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| Wimm-Bill-Dann Dairy, Kiev | ||
Wimm-Bill-Dann is upgrading equipment at Kiev City Dairy Plant No. 3 to improve operational efficiency and increase the product range offered by the company. |
WBD is also to install a new compressor station at the facility to increase savings by reducing energy consumption. |
Wimm-Bill-Dann is a successful Russia-based dairy and juice company. |
Wimm-Bill-Dann produces over 1,100 dairy products and 150 varieties of juice, nectars and still drinks. |
The WBD factory now makes follow-on milk for infants. |
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| Wimm-Bill-Dann Foods Cheese Production Plant, | ||
Milk processing equipment. |
Alpma Coagulator. |
Alpma cheese moulding machinery. |
The new production line has the capacity to process in excess of one million litres of milk per day. |
Alpma SAN 80/T packaging machine |
Truckle of cheese being sliced. |
Cheese wedges being inspected for quality before packaging |
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| Wiseman Dairy, Bridgwater, Somerset | ||
The Wiseman dairy site in Bridgwater, December 2006. |
The site prior to the start of construction in September 2006. |
Wiseman standard semi-skimmed milk in its HDPE container, which will be made on-site in Bridgwater. |
The milk for the facility will be provided from the Milk Link farm contract assets in the area. |
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| Wiseman Dairy, Droitwich Spa | ||
The site at Stonebridge Cross prior to the construction of the plant. |
Construction underway at the site in 1999. |
The filling hall in 2002 prior to the first capacity expansion. |
The front office at the Droitwich dairy. |
The filling hall after the first expansion. |
The administration block at Droitwich. |