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How to manage the dairy supply chain

The dairy supply chain continues to face ongoing pressures including labor and transportation shortages, high fuel costs, evolving regulatory and food safety concerns and more.
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Sammy Bredar
June 9, 2025

Having a proper distribution system is essential to maintaining an efficient and effective dairy processing operation. The dairy supply chain continues to face ongoing pressures including labor and transportation shortages, high fuel costs, evolving regulatory and food safety concerns and more.


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Alfa Laval addresses global food challenges with new innovation center

Alfa Laval works to enable a seamless and ongoing optimization of food processing to positively impact operational efficiency, yield, uptime and environmental footprint.
March 4, 2025

Operation begins with focus on developing new, more efficient ways to extract proteins from plant-based sources and through fermentation-based processing.


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Dairy plants seek sustainability solutions

Dairy processors have a plethora of options to green up their operations.
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Anna Boisseau
June 24, 2021
A company’s environmental sustainability story — or lack thereof — is increasingly influencing consumer purchasing habits. In fact, a recent survey from IBM Institute for Business Value found that 54% of consumers “are willing to pay a premium for brands that are sustainable and/or environmentally responsible.”
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18 Dean Foods plants meet Energy Star challenge

Highlights of the 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report include progress toward 2020 environmental sustainability goals, animal welfare and dairy stewardship updates, and new web-based reporting format on deanfoods.com.
December 18, 2012

Highlights from the 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report include: achievement by 18 processing plants of the Energy Star Challenge for Dairy in just two years, meeting the five-year goal to reduce energy use by 10 percent three years early. 


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Kraft Foods 'wages war' on waste

February 2, 2012

A Kraft Foods executive says, "We're waging war on waste, one plant at a time." The cheese and snacks maker has 36 facilities in 13 countries that send zero waste to landfill.


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