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Behind the Scenes
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Michigan Milk Producers Association, Constantine, Mich.
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.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery, Sebastopol, CA
New spaces and new equipment are allowing Redwood Hill Farm & Creamery’s plant to meet increased demand for the company’s cultured dairy products.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
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.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
Toft Dairy, Sandusky, OH
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. After all, Toft Dairy, guided by five generations of the Toft and Meisler families, has been producing consistently high-quality dairy products for 119 years.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
Borden Dairy, Dallas, TX
Under Borden Dairy’s new ‘people-first’ approach, employees at the company’s Dallas milk plant understand their value — and are motivated to work together to create the highest-quality product.
This photo gallery contains additional, unpublished photos of dairy processing facilities featured in Dairy Foods magazine.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!
Perry's Ice Cream, Akron NY
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.
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!
AMPI, Sanborn, Iowa
Employees at Associated Milk Producers Inc.'s (AMPI) Sanborn, Iowa, plant might be seeing double, but that doesn't mean there's anything wrong with their vision. Instead, it’s a reflection of a recent expansion that doubled the facility's cheesemaking capacity.
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!
Praline's Inc., Wallingford, Conn
You won’t find any fancy feeder hoppers or blenders in Praline’s Inc.’s Wallingford, Conn., ice cream processing, distribution and headquarters facility. The company believes that the old-fashioned methods still yield the best-tasting ice cream. So plant employees start with a high-quality base, then mix in the variegates and inclusions by hand.
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!
Lifeway Foods, Waukesha, Wis
In August of 2015 — more than a year after it started to make bottles and receive milk — Lifeway Foods celebrated the Waukesha plant’s official revival. The facility finally had begun the production of kefir. Today, the plant boasts more than 50 employees working days and shifts that vary by department. Kefir production — flavored and unflavored — runs five days a week. All kefir is packaged in the 32-ounce bottles the facility makes on-site.
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!
Danzeisen Dairy, Phoenix, AZ
You won’t find any fancy-looking equipment at the creamery operated by Phoenix-based Danzeisen Dairy LLC. Tucked into a mixture of farm, industrial and residential properties in Phoenix’s Laveen neighborhood, the creamery relies on retrofitted vintage milk processing equipment — much of it from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s, and all of it from U.S. manufacturers — to produce its craft dairy products.
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!