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Celebrating sustainability successes in dairy processing

Dairy processors share some recent sustainability projects — and their impressive results.
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Kathie Canning
June 28, 2021
Food and beverage manufacturers have made great strides during the past couple of decades when it comes to sustainability, and dairy processors are no exception. In fact, many — if not most — dairy processors have set ambitious sustainability goals and are working hard to attain them.
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Danone North America’s plant is a master of flexibility

The company’s Minster, Ohio, facility has to be nimble to produce a slew of products, including Activia drinks and yogurt cups.
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Anna Boisseau
June 2, 2021
Danone North America is a dairy behemoth — coming in at No. 4 on Dairy Foods’ 2020 Dairy 100 list of the largest dairy processors in North America. And it operates 13 plants to manufacture its many product lines. One of its largest — a 440,000-square-foot facility located in Minster, Ohio — is where the company produces Activia offerings, along with Danimals, Light + Fit, DanActive, Oikos, and Dannon.
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Activia builds a base of wellness-focused consumers

Activia builds a base of wellness-focused consumers

Danone North America’s brand uses its science-backed probiotic benefits to reach gut-health-focused shoppers.
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Anna Boisseau
May 26, 2021
Look at the website of Activia, a brand of Broomfield, Colo.- and White Plains, N.Y.-based Danone North America, and you might assume you've searched for wellness advice. The page features a tab for health professionals, as well as ones saying "What is gut health?" and "What are probiotics?"
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No refrigeration required for KanPak’s Arkansas City, Kan., plant

No refrigeration required for KanPak’s Arkansas City, Kan., plant

The dairy processing facility employs aseptic technologies to create custom shelf-stable liquid-based products for its customers.
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Kathie Canning
May 10, 2021
The small town of Arkansas City, Kan., also known as Ark City, is home to the Cowley County Waterfall, which Yahoo Travel included in its 2014 "Top 12 Most Beautiful Waterfalls in America" list. It is also home to a decidedly less touristy, but arguably equally fascinating, "attraction": a KanPak US dairy processing facility that employs aseptic technologies to create custom shelf-stable liquid-based products for quick-service restaurants, retail and other customers.
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KanPak is a leader in shelf-stable dairy solutions

KanPak is a leader in shelf-stable dairy solutions

The company produces an extensive line of aseptically processed dairy-based and nondairy products for a wide array of customers.
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Kathie Canning
May 6, 2021
With no brands of its own gracing retail shelves or foodservice counters, KanPak US might not be a household name among U.S. consumers. But make no mistake: The company is a dairy processing powerhouse, coming in at No. 88 in Dairy Foods' 2021 listing of the top 100 North American dairy processors (Dairy 100).
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Rutter’s Dairy is in control of it all

Rutter’s Dairy is in control of it all

Rutter’s Dairy manages the quality of its product from start to finish — from the farms providing its milk, to its quality testing, to the trucks it operates.
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Anna Boisseau
April 1, 2021
An old adage says: "If you want something done right, do it yourself." This saying perfectly encapsulates the operations of Rutter's Dairy, which produces fluid milk along with some juice and tea products at its York, Pa.-based plant.
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Rutter’s Dairy celebrates a century of local milk

Rutter’s Dairy celebrates a century of local milk

The company values long-term ties to its community and to the local farmers from which it sources its milk.
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Anna Boisseau
March 22, 2021
York, Pa., can trace its beginnings back to 1741, when settlers from the Philadelphia region founded the city. And Rutter's Dairy, which is based in this area, has an origin story that goes back almost as far.
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Tillamook County Creamery Association has high expectations

Tillamook County Creamery Association has high expectations

The cooperative’s rigorous quality standards extend to not only its own plant operations, but also its process for auditing suppliers and co-manufacturers.
February 17, 2021
Nestled along the Pacific coast in upper Oregon is the town of Tillamook. It’s the name given to not only the town itself, but also the surrounding bay, the county in which it’s located, the local high school and Tillamook County Creamery Association, a 112-year-old cooperative that calls the area home.
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Tillamook County Creamery Association plays the long game to match its values

Tillamook County Creamery Association plays the long game to match its values

As a cooperative, Tillamook County Creamery Association prioritizes forward-thinking investments in product development and community initiatives.
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Anna Boisseau
January 27, 2021
Last year was a monumental one for the world, and a newsworthy one for Tillamook County Creamery Association, too. The Tillamook, Ore.-based cooperative became a Certified B Corporation, donated $4 million dollars to a COVID-19 relief fund and partnered with the American Farmland Trust to help secure farmland for future generations.
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Webinar

4/20/21 to 4/20/22
Contact: Vania

Getting the Job Done Without Being There: Automating in a Socially Distant World

ON DEMAND: This webinar will look at the advances in secondary packaging automation and the role those advances will play in minimizing the number of people needed to install, operate and support automated packaging lines.

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Maryland & Virginia Milk Producers Cooperative Association Inc. (MDVA), Landover, MD

The 175,000-square-foot facility boasts 103 employees, most of whom are dedicated to production, warehouse and shipping, or engineering and maintenance. Production takes place six days a week across two eight-hour processing shifts; a third shift is dedicated to cleanup and HTST processing. Packaging formats include caseless and conventional gallons, quarts and totes, Aarons says.

BehindtheScenes

This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!

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The Dannon Co., Minster, Ohio

Dannon's plant can process more than 3 million cups of a yogurt a day. An array of form-fill-seal machines is the reason.

BehindtheScenes

This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine. To view more Behind the Scenes galleries go to our archives page!

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