Milk is pasteurized primarily as a food safety measure. A secondary benefit is that almost all bacteria are killed-including those that cause milk to spoil. However, some spoilage bacteria may survive pasteurization.

Admix Inc. offers a wide range of sanitary equipment to suit all your mixing, blending, dispersion and particle size reduction needs whether you require in-tank batch processing, inline mixing & milling or powder induction. Ideal for rework, premixes, milk and whey powder, sweetened condensed milk, yogurt, processed cheese, cream cheese, ricotta cheese, ice cream, margarine, sugars, cocoa, gums, stabilizers and hundreds of other applications, the sanitary mixing and milling equipment complies with 3-A Standards.

Specific delivery productivity levels and individual customer account profitability by delivery location has been largely unknown for many dairy and ice cream companies. Today, with just a modest bit of forethought regarding identification of data sources and desired results, that lack of knowledge should simply not be acceptable to management at any level.

Alfa Laval introduces the TS6 plate heat exchanger, which offers a more efficient solution to this water heating process over former shell and tube HE technology. The key TS advantages over shell and tubes are flexibility, small footprint, quick response time, and expandability/serviceability.

CLOVIS, N.M.-Tom Gathright had never worked for a food company before Southwest Cheese hired him away from the paper and pulp industry. Gathright is the environmental mgr. at the massive new cheese plant that recently sprouted up from the irrigated earth in the middle of the nation’s fastest growing milkshed.

With a strengthening economy, many North American dairy processors and other food manufacturers are poised to take advantage of new market growth, allocating funds to expand operations and in many cases build new plants to meet growing demand.

There will be a homecoming of sorts in San Antonio at the end of March. Dairy and ice cream’s logistics, distribution, and fleet management professionals will gather for the 37th installment of the Dairy Distribution and Fleet Management Conference.

Editors Note: The following showcase of cheesemaking equipment offers details on an assortment of process and cutting equipment items from a number of different manufacturers. For the latest equipment releases throughout the year, please refer the plant operations section of our Buyers Mart.

The lineage of today’s driver and vehicle related on-board systems traces directly back to the cable-driven mechanical tach-o-graph, which was the on-board data collection device until well into the 1970s.

Dannon Company’s Utah plant doubles up to supply the West