Pizza drives cheese sales

Tetra Tebel Alfomatic cheddar equipment is a versatile, modular solution for automatic whey drainage, fusing, stretching, milling and salting of cheese curd - for Cheddar and Mozzarella cheese types.

Alfomatic units are among the largest equipment in the Tetra Pak Processing Systems product portfolio, measuring at least 10 x 2 x 7 metres. Some are 20 metres long.

Tetra Tebel Alfomatic equipment can handle a broad range of cheese types and process a wide variety of moisture and fat contents, at high volume with equal efficiency and uniformity. A single Tetra Tebel Alfomatic can treat 1,500 kilos to 16,000 of cheese curd per hour, depending on the cheese type. So whether the customer wants to automate a small operation, or build up a system capable of processing more than 100,000 kilos (220,000 pounds) of cheese milk per hour, the Tetra Tebel Alfomatic is suitable.

The major benefit of the Tetra Tebel Alfomatic is that many different types of cheese can be made on the same equipment, even stirred and washed curd varieties.

Whereas in the past approximately one unit was sold per year, between March 2006 and the end of 2007 a total of nine Tetra Tebel Alfomatics were sold.

“Sales of the Tetra Tebel Alfomatic have recently multiplied for a number of reasons,” explained the Sub Category Manager Cheddar and Pasta Filata at Tetra Pak Tebel in Holland, Michael Crook.

“Pizza sales are increasing all over the world, and with them the demand for Mozzarella cheese. The world market for pizza cheese is growing by 5% annually.

For more information, please contact:

- Margit Hanquist, Tetra Pak Processing PR Manager, +46 733 365516

- Michael Crook, Sub Category Manager Cheddar and Pasta Filata, +31 582 33 29 56

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