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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.
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Casper’s Ice Cream - Richmond, UT
Casper’s Ice Cream’s newest plant is a frozen novelty powerhouse. The state-of-the-art processing facility produces 350 million ice cream and frozen novelty products annually.
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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.
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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.
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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This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
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