Tetra Pak’s Grainy Cheese Vat E4 is a fully automated horizontal curd-making vat designed for cottage cheese production. It features a totally enclosed system that meets USDA standards, ensuring a hygienic process by minimizing airborne contaminants. The vat includes a hot water-heated jacket for gentle curd cooking and agitator knives that produce consistent curd particle size. Next-level automation allows for uniform process control and ultimate repeatability. Available in capacities of 6,000, 12,000 and 18,000 liters, it is completely CIP-able (Clean-In-Place), making it easy to maintain. This innovative vat drastically reduces human interaction, enhances efficiency and ensures the highest product quality, making it a valuable addition to any dairy processing facility, the company states.

Nelson-Jameson is a source for both rigid and flexible packaging solutions to meet specific needs, offering new products and customizable solutions. Dairy producers can use tubular roll stock for the Tetra Pak Automatic Bag Former to manufacture either flat or gusseted bags, delivering them to the blockformer which ejects the cheese block into the bag.

Kusel Equipment offers LI Vats and its Elips-E-Stir Agitator to help companies deliver the premium texture consumers demand. The units’ heavy-duty construction maintains precise alignment for consistent, high-volume production. The unique Drainer/Washer/Cooler reduces water consumption through advanced UV recycling technology and increases whey recovery. The precision-engineered Drainer/Creamer ensures the perfect cream-to-curd ratio in every batch, according to the company.

The Hydron Sanitary Hydroheater from Hydro-Thermal delivers instant, consistent and efficient heating for superior results, unlike traditional heat exchangers that can cause uneven heating and contamination, the company states. Hydroheaters allow companies to capture more valuable byproducts like whey protein concentrate while improving efficiency and profitability. Hydron was recognized with the ADPI/Dairy Foods Breakthrough Award as a best solution for cheese producers looking to optimize their process, the company says.

Hart Design & Manufacturing offers Crumblers and Crumble lines, which the company says are designed to streamline cheese production by reducing cheese into uniform crumbles with ease and precision. Featuring a complete system with an infeed conveyor, crumbling machine, and anti-caking agent dispenser, this line ensures consistent quality and smooth downstream processing. Typical Crumble Lines component machines are designed to efficiently infeed, crumble and discharge crumbled cheese into a tumble drum, discharging to a downstream process, the company states. Capacities depend upon the operator, product size and environmental conditions.

The MechaTron 3-A feeder from Coperion was designed specifically for use in food and dairy industry process applications where equipment must meet 3-A sanitary levels or equivalent. All welds, radii, seals, surface finishes, gaskets and contact and non-contact materials meet 3-A standards. The company says available product features include AC and DC drive packages, an FDA/USDA accepted Coni-Flex flexible conical feed-hopper, helix configurations for feed rates from 0.30 to 330 cubic feet (8.5 to 9,300 liters) per hour and an unmatched ability to disassemble, clean, reconfigure and service from the non-process side of the feeder.