Dairy

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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