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SPREADABLE & PROCESSED CHEESE

Wide range of applications, classic , recombined cream cheese

Spreadable processed cheese, others e.g. mascarpone

Achieve high product quality, food safety & reliability

Technological leadership across the board

  • Mixing, blending and formulation
  • Heat Treatment
  • Evaporation, spray drying and powder handling

Enabling future-proof production solutions

  • Meet investments levels and profitability needs
  • Meet requested functionality
  • Draw upon reusable key units and design elements
  • Are based on best engineering practice
  • Deliver validated performance
  • Gives flexibility to respond to changing production complexity

Full flexibility

We provide full flexibility covering all best-practice lines for spreadable cheese production options:


  • Classic cream cheese
  • Recombined cream cheese
  • Batch spreadable process cheese
  • Continuous spreadable processed cheese

New flavours and on-the-go convenience: The growing category of spreadable cheese

Spreadable cheese is today so much more than just a spread. It can be a cake topping, an on-the-go snack, a cooking condiment or even a topping for green tea. It can be chilled or ambient, high or low-fat, made with fresh milk or recombined powders. Whatever the spreadable cheese products in your portfolio, to taste success you’ll need a combination of market insights, technical knowhow and expertise in the product itself – all of which you can find here.

New flavours and on-the-go convenience: The growing category of spreadable cheese

Spreadable cheese is today so much more than just a spread. It can be a cake topping, an on-the-go snack, a cooking condiment or even a topping for green tea. It can be chilled or ambient, high or low-fat, made with fresh milk or recombined powders. Whatever the spreadable cheese products in your portfolio, to taste success you’ll need a combination of market insights, technical knowhow and expertise in the product itself – all of which you can find here.

WHAT OUR SOLUTIONS DO FOR YOU


Processing flexibility is paramount in such a diverse category, so our technology and expertise support the production of all types of spreadable cheese. Moreover, our solutions are customized to help you switch easily and efficiently between recipes. For optimum productivity, maximum effectiveness and full consumer satisfaction.
 

1. INNOVATION

Consumer trends – Tea-Time

Spreadable cheese is growing in popularity as consumers gravitate to healthy, convenient snacking and seek new experiences such as using soft cheese as a cooking ingredient. Cheese tea, an Asian phenomenon that has reached Europe, is just one of multiple trends exemplifying the potential of this dynamic segment. Watch our film for the full story.

Consumer trends – Tea-Time

Spreadable cheese is growing in popularity as consumers gravitate to healthy, convenient snacking and seek new experiences such as using soft cheese as a cooking ingredient. Cheese tea, an Asian phenomenon that has reached Europe, is just one of multiple trends exemplifying the potential of this dynamic segment. Watch our film for the full story.

A fresh look at spreadable cheese

We have been exploring the production of spreadable cheese for years. Now we'd like to invite you to start thinking of your spreadable cheese processes in a new way.

2. FUTURE-PROOF PRODUCTION & TRENDS

Spreadable cheese is a growing category that offers exciting opportunities globally as consumers seek out new varieties and on-the-go convenience. Increasing demand for fresh tastes and flavours, and the growing use of spreadable cheese in home cooking and for smart snacking, put high demands on your production. Only highly flexible and lean lines can handle multiple recipes with large variations. Combining your unique know-how with our expertise in the cornerstone technologies of mixing, heating and ultrafiltration enables you to produce a wide range of appealing products – from classic cream cheese to spreadable processed varieties made from cheese blocks or powder recombination.

Our versatile lines are designed to unleash your innovation. They support you in creating the customized solutions you need to move your production forward. All to your precise product specifications and desired capacity. From fermented to directly acidified varieties, from smooth textures to particles, from batch to continuous production, and from chilled distribution to aseptic products in ambient packages.

Consumer trends in spreadable cheese

•  Focus on natural, fresh spreads with attractive mouthfeel and texture


•  Willingness to try new varieties, tastes and flavours
•  On-the-go consumption in ambient single-serve portions
•  Growing use as home cooking and beverage ingredient
•  Desire for attractive packaging and presentation

3. LINE SOLUTIONS & KEY ENABLERS 

Best-Practice Line Solutions for Spreadable Cheese

Best-practice Line Solutions

As spreadable and cream cheese is gaining popularity as a healthy and convenient snack, production solutions need to be flexible and efficient to handle a wide variety of recipes. Grow with the help of Tetra Pak's unique expertise.
Download – Best-practice lines for spreadable cheese

Batch Line for Spreadable Processed Cheese

This multifunctional, all-in-one line handles mixing, heating and cooling in a single unit. It is a highly efficient, lean option whose ultra-compact design requires limited floor space. The line flexibly processes cheese blocks, powders and liquid ingredients and possesses heating capability of up to 140°C. The end-products are heat treated and hot filled for chilled distribution with a long shelf life.
Download – Best-practice lines for spreadable cheese

Continuous Line for Classic Cream Cheese

This line produces classic cream cheese from fresh milk. Steps include standardisation of the milk to set the desired fat protein ratio, fermentation of the base and concentration using filtration to ensure a high protein yield. The line handles multiple recipes, full-fat and low-fat varieties, and cold and warm concentration processing. The end-product is hot filled for chilled distribution.
Download – Best-practice lines for spreadable cheese

Continuous Line for Recombined Cream Cheese

This line produces cream cheese from recombined ingredients. It supports high-yield production and allows you to tailor-make recipes approaching the quality of classic cream cheese. The line produces a wide product range – from fermented to directly acidified and low-fat to full-fat varieties. The end-products can be hot filled for chilled distribution or aseptically packaged for long ambient shelf life.
Download – Best-practice lines for spreadable cheese

Continuous Line for Spreadable Processed Cheese

This line produces spreadable processed cheese from recombined ingredients. It supports high-yield production and allows you to tailor-make recipes of consistently high quality. The line produces a wide product range – from fermented to directly acidified and low-fat to high-fat varieties. The end-products can be hot filled for chilled distribution or aseptically packaged for long ambient shelf life.
Download – Best-practice lines for spreadable cheese

Line Solution Key Enabler: Coiled Heat Exchanger

Coiled heat exchanger

Tetra Pak® Coiled Heat Exchanger

Maximize versatility and efficiency in heat treatment

A new generation coiled tubular heat exchanger designed to provide efficient heating and cooling of low to high viscous and smooth to particulate products.

  • Achieve unmatched product versatility
  • Secure excellent product quality and particle integrity – with uncompromising food safety
  • Maximize production and operational efficiency


Capacity: Product pressure up to 300 bar, media pressure up to 10 bar, media design temperature 165 deg C.


Applications: Ideal for an extensive range of products – from smooth, high viscous sauces and dairy desserts to chunky soups and jams with tasty fruit pieces up to 25 mm in diameter.

Features

•  High pressure rating up to 300 bar enables high capacity of high viscous products
•  Coiled mono-tube with only one inlet and one outlet connection ensure gentle mechanical treatment
•  Floating end through the bottom flange secures high hygiene and easy maintenance
tpche optional energy recovery

Options

Energy recovery feature that can cut energy consumption by up to 47%; saving up to 2,800 tons of steam, up to 2,600 megawatt hours on utility water and electricity and reduce carbon footprint up to 23% per year

Line Solution Key Enabler: High Shear Mixer

Tetra pak high shear mixer

Tetra Pak® High Shear Mixer

Fast and reliable ingredients mixing


A complete mixing solution, the efficient mixing system reduces mixing time and produces homogeneous and lump-free products of superior quality, easily adaptable to a wide variety of ice cream recipes and enables quick and easy product changes.


Capacity: 5,000 – 40,000 l/hr


Applications: Perfect for all kinds of mayonnaise, cold emulsion sauces, dips and dressings.

High Shear Mixer Dedicated to Cold Emulsions

Designed to give you unprecedented flexibility, consistent quality and maximum yield, all at the lowest TCO. Our range of high shear mixers greatly increases the efficiency– saving time and energy and ensuring that costly ingredients are fully utilized. Quality parameters such as appearance, taste and mouthfeel are tightly controlled, so you can precisely replicate an existing product, and produce it at a lower cost​.
Tetra pak high shear mixer

Features

•  Dynamic HS mixing head

Patented technology gives full control over product quality parameters allowing high and low shear mixing in the same process


•  Double-shaft agitator

Ensures a homogenous end-product regardless of viscosity


•  Unique mixer design

Ingredient introduction 4-5 faster than standard equipment via the main body of the mixing vessel rather than the mixing head.


•  Vacuum System

Allows rapid ingredient introduction and product deaeration

Tetra pak high shear mixer

Options

  • Multi-Stage Head
  • Twin-screw pump
  • Control of ingredient inlet and product outlet
  • Bin lifter
  • Pressure Vessel
  • Direct steam injection
  • Vibrating powder hopper

4. RESOURCES

Main production challenges and how to solve them

What are the main production challenges facing spreadable cheese producers? And how best to tackle them? We asked Tetra Pak experts Erik Börjesson and Kamila Lopes Abelha for some useful tips.
Kamila Lopes Abelha

Technologies you need for great spreadable cheese

Spreadable cheese processing relies primarily on heating and mixing. But the equipment delivering these process steps varies considerably. So what do you need to know when choosing?

Opportunities ahead for spreadable cheese market

Spreadable cheese market is a global growth market. Where are the top opportunities?