Dairy Processing Machinery
Tanks, separation, heat treatment and filling for every stage between the milking parlour and the pallet.
Dairy Processing
From the milking parlour to the sealed pack, with the cleaning system that keeps it legal.
Dairy is the largest part of this equipment range and the most demanding application in it. Milk is perishable, the plant is cleaned every production day, and the regulator expects a temperature record for every batch. Forty-odd machines here cover reception, cooling, storage, separation, homogenisation, pasteurisation, UHT, fermentation, cheese, butter, filling and CIP.
Sector pain points
What Goes Wrong In This Sector
Quality Lost Between Parlour and Plant
Milk warms on the road. Insulated transport tanks with clapboards and farm cooling tanks with dimple pad cooling are what hold the temperature across that gap.
Pasteurisation Records That Cannot Be Defended
An auditor wants temperature and holding time, recorded. Plate and tunnel pasteurisers here publish their thermal profiles and run them under PLC control.
Cleaning That Varies by Operator
A CIP set with PLC control, conductivity monitoring and flow switches runs the same sequence every time, and records that it did.
Fermenters Tied Up as Storage
Buffer tanks, aseptic tanks and bright tanks decouple process stages so each runs on its own schedule instead of waiting for the next.
Steam Cost on Long Thermal Holds
Yogurt needs 300 seconds at 90 to 95 degrees C. Regenerative heat recovery in the plate pack is what makes that affordable per litre.
Equipment Bought Stage by Stage That Does Not Connect
A pasteuriser sized for a flow the filler cannot take is a common and expensive mistake. Sizing the whole line against one figure avoids it.
What buyers need
What This Sector Actually Asks For
- Sanitary construction in SUS304 or SUS316L with no dead corners
- Published thermal profiles rather than profiles agreed at commissioning
- CIP connections and cleaning balls fitted as standard on every vessel
- Named control components so spares are locally available
- Capacities built to line flow rather than sold in catalogue steps
- Single unit orders so one stage can be replaced without a new line
Product groups
Groups That Serve This Sector
Plate Pasteurizers
HTST and yogurt thermal profiles on complete skids with pumps, hot water set, balance tank and PLC control.
Tubular UHT Sterilizers
Continuous UHT for thin liquids at 137 degrees C and for viscous products at 95 to 121 degrees C.
Stainless Steel Tanks
Extraction and fermentation vessels built in SUS304 or SUS316L with the jacket, agitator and instrumentation the process needs.
Sanitary Pumps
Product transfer and CIP return duties in SUS304 or SUS316L from 1000 to 30,000 L/H.
Plant Utility Equipment
Boilers, cooling towers, air compressors and chillers sized to the process they serve.
Recommended products
Where Most Buyers In This Sector Start
How we work with you
From Enquiry To Repeat Supply
Send the Product and the Flow Rate
Litres per hour, product type and the container it ends up in. Those three decide most of the line.
Confirm Utilities Already on Site
Steam, cooling water, compressed air and electrical supply, because these select boiler, chiller and compressor types.
Fix the Thermal Profile
HTST at 85 degrees for 15 seconds, yogurt at 90 to 95 for 300 seconds, or UHT at 137. Each needs a different machine.
Size CIP Against Every Circuit
Map the circuits and their flows before the CIP set is quoted, because return flow is what limits cleaning coverage.
Commission and Validate
Load test, temperature mapping and operator training, with the traces kept for the process file.
Further reading
Guides For This Sector
Pasteurisation Versus UHT for Liquid Dairy
Three thermal profiles, three different machines and three different distribution models. Which one your plant needs is decided by shelf life and cold chain, not by capacity.
Specifying a CIP System That Actually Cleans
A cleaning cycle that runs without flow cleans nothing and reports success. Conductivity monitoring, flow switches and return pump selection are what make CIP verifiable.
Balancing a Packaging Line Before You Buy It
A line runs at the speed of its slowest machine, and that machine is rarely the filler. Every speed in this range is published, so the bottleneck can be found with arithmetic.
FAQ
Dairy Processing Questions
Can you supply a complete dairy line?
Yes, and any individual machine from it. Every model has a minimum order of one unit.
SUS304 or SUS316L?
SUS304 for most milk duties, SUS316L for acidic products, aggressive cleaning chemistry or high chloride water.
What control systems do you use?
SIEMENS PLC with touch screen on the process machines, with Schneider electrical components in the cabinets.
Do you supply the utilities as well?
Yes. Boilers, chilling units, cooling towers and air compressors are part of the same range and can be sized against the process equipment.
How do we validate the process?
Validate the thermal profile with a data logger at commissioning and keep the trace. The machines publish their profiles so there is something to validate against.
What lead time should we plan?
Published monthly capacities run from 10 to 100 units depending on the machine. Send the full list for a build schedule.
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