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Darigold’s Portland, Ore., plant is solving the puzzle

Darigold’s Portland, Ore., plant is solving the puzzle

Producing over 150 SKUs, Darigold’s ultrapasteurized milk plant in Portland, Ore., has to stay flexible and organized to manage its complicated production schedules.
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Anna Boisseau
January 6, 2020
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Some residents of Oregon's largest city have sought to "Keep Portland Weird," a motto based on safeguarding the city's reputation for farmers markets, artisanal craftworks and an eccentric literary/arts scene. But before it became the de facto capital for millennial hipsters, Portland had a long history of industrial production.
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Graeter’s ice cream plant is different by design

Graeter’s ice cream plant is different by design

Graeter’s ice cream plant blends a centuries-old process with modern technology to create an operation that’s like no other
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Kathie Canning
October 4, 2019
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First-time visitors to the ice cream manufacturing facility operated by Graeter's Ice Cream, attached to the company's Cincinnati headquarters on Regina Graeter Way, might be a little surprised when they step inside.
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Rumiano Cheese Co.’s plant closes the loop

Rumiano Cheese Co.’s plant closes the loop

Rumiano Cheese Co.’s plant strives to ensure nothing is wasted in its cheese-making process.
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Anna Boisseau
September 5, 2019
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Idyllic Crescent City, Calif., is known for being the gateway to Redwood National and State Parks, where some of the oldest trees in the United States live. But the small town, which hugs the Pacific Ocean right by the Oregon border, has another claim to fame.
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Perry’s Ice Cream has the 2019 Plant of the Year

The dairy industry cast its votes online. When all was said and done, the Buffalo, N.Y.-based maker of ice cream, sherbet, sorbet, frozen yogurt and frozen novelties beat out 12 other dairy processors to take this year’s title.
August 5, 2019
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On behalf of the Perry's Ice Cream team, thank you to Dairy Foods for honoring us with 2019's "Plant of the Year" award. This honor is only possible due to the amazing people that work in our plant, along with the loyalty of our customers.
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Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery’s plant gears up for growth

Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery’s plant gears up for growth

New spaces and new equipment are allowing Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery’s plant to meet increased demand for the company’s cultured dairy products
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Kathie Canning
June 17, 2019
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Sonoma County, California, might be famous for its many wineries and picturesque redwood trees, but it's also home to a number of impressive dairy processing operations. One such operation, tucked into the small town of Sebastopol, is a creamery operated by Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery.
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Michigan Milk Producers Association expands plant

Michigan Milk Producers Association expands plant

A recent fast-tracked major expansion added ultrafiltered skim milk concentrate to the products produced at the Michigan Milk Producers Association’s Constantine, Mich., plant.
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Kathie Canning
April 16, 2019
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Constantine, Mich., bills itself as the "seed corn capital of the world," producing more than 10% of the United States' supply. But this Southwest Michigan town hasn't completely "gone to seed." It also lays claim to a dairy processing powerhouse operated by the Novi, Mich.-based Michigan Milk Producers Association (MMPA).
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Schreiber Foods' cheese operations are built to impress

Schreiber Foods' cheese operations are built to impress

Schreiber Foods’ Fairview cheese-converting plant in Carthage, Mo., is notable not only for its massive size, but also for its high level of automation and dedicated partner-owners.
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Kathie Canning
March 7, 2019
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Visitors to Schreiber Foods' Fairview cheese converting plant in Carthage, Mo., can't help but be a bit awestruck. The sheer size of the facility, 330,000 square feet largely dedicated to converting operations and another 140,000 housing a distribution center, is certainly impressive. But the high level of automation found within the various departments is perhaps even more remarkable.
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Toft Dairy's ice cream operations reflect a heritage of quality

Toft Dairy's ice cream operations reflect a heritage of quality

The ice cream Toft Dairy produces at its Sandusky, Ohio, plant is subject to the high standards the company has had in place for all of its products over the last 119 years
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Kathie Canning
February 8, 2019
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Large signs touting "Toft's 'One Quality'" and "Ohio's Oldest Dairy" greet visitors to Toft Dairy's 74,500-square-foot dairy plant/headquarters facility in Sandusky, Ohio. Those two messages amply describe the family-owned company's heritage.
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Perry's Ice Cream is building on family tradition

Perry's Ice Cream is building on family tradition

In its Akron, N.Y., processing facility, Perry’s Ice Cream combines its founder’s recipe and methods with modern technology and a team-based culture.
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Kathie Canning
October 15, 2018
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Life is a bowl of Perry's. Visitors to Perry's Ice Cream's (Perry's) Akron, N.Y.-based headquarters and processing facility are sure to spot that particular saying across signage, corporate literature and even product packaging.
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Graeter’s Ice Cream, Cincinnati, OH

Visitors to Graeter's would spy numerous somewhat peculiar-looking stainless-steel stations, distributed across four and a half rows, housing stainless-steel buckets. These station-and-bucket combinations are vat freezers, or modernized French Pots, and they are the main reason the plant employs so many people. Graeter's has relied on the labor-intensive French Pot process since the company's founding almost 150 years ago.

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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Rumiano Cheese Co., Crescent City, Calif.

Rumiano Cheese Co.’s plant produces award-winning organic and conventional cheeses, along with whey protein concentrate (WPC-80%), dried edible lactose and European-style butter.

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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Turkey Hill, Conestoga, Pa.

2019 is a big year for Turkey Hill Dairy’s Conestoga, Pa., plant: It’s the year it became one of the first major ice cream or ice tea facilities to be run on 100% renewable energy.

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!