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Ellsworth Cooperative Creamery - Ellsworth, Wis.
The cooperative has operated a plant in Ellsworth since 1910, but the facility’s cheesemaking operations began in the 1960s. In the 1980s, Ellsworth began expanding its cheese curd production beyond just local sales. The company now manufactures 180 SKUs in Ellsworth. (It also operates plants in Comstock, Wis., and New London, Wis.).
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Oregon Ice Cream Co. - Eugene, Ore.
Eugene, Ore. is home to Oregon Ice Cream Co.'s 80,000-square-foot plant, which produces ice cream under the Alden's Organic brand: the No. 1-selling organic ice cream brand in the natural channel in the United States.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
Baker Cheese Inc. - St. Cloud, Wis.
The 174,000-square-foot plant processes an immense quantity of milk — 2.35 million pounds — a day. In fact, in the last five years alone, Baker Cheese has produced enough string cheese to make a continuous rope from Earth to the moon, Baker notes. And it plans to grow even more.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
High Road Craft Brands - Marietta, Ga.
The building is home to High Road Craft Brands and its 75,000-square-foot SQF Level 3-certified processing facility. It’s here that the company makes it small-batch, craft-style super-premium ice cream, which boasts a low overrun and 16.5% butterfat, as well as premium gelato, sorbetto and ice cream novelties.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
Darigold - Portland, Ore.
Producing over 150 SKUs, Darigold’s ultrapasteurized milk plant in Portland, Ore., has to stay flexible and organized to manage its complicated production schedules. While the plant might be older on the facility side, Darigold has invested in flexible operation systems to make it functional for today’s needs.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
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.
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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