Tetra Pak® Blender VCC for cottage cheese​​​ blending

Tetra Pak® Blender VCC is the world’s first and only vertical blender optimized for cottage cheese production. The vertical design and smart features ensure gentle and efficient blending, even at low fill levels, for high quality, homogenous cottage cheese. The unit enables you to drastically reduce product waste and ease operation thanks to complete emptying. It allows you to test and develop new products incorporating spices, herbs and fruit pieces easily and efficiently.​​

  • Drastically reduces product waste thanks to complete emptying without manual operation
  • Secures high product quality with gentle agitation and consistent curd/cream ratio during emptying
  • Ensures gentle agitation and consistent high quality at all fill levels
Tetra Pak® Blender VCC Blending of cottage cheese

The world’s first and only vertical blender optimized for cottage cheese production

The vertical design and smart features ensure gentle and efficient blending, even at low fill levels, for high quality, homogenous cottage cheese. The unit enables you to drastically reduce product waste and ease operation thanks to complete emptying. It allows you to test and develop new products incorporating spices, herbs and fruit pieces easily and efficiently.
Tetra Pak® Blender VCC agitator

Working principle

The process begins by pre-filling a portion of the cream into the blender. Then cheese curd is transferred via the Tetra Pak® Drum Drainer. The two specially designed agitators operate independently from each other to ensure gentle, but efficient, blending of cheese curd, cream and additives. Once the transfer of cheese curd is complete, the remaining portion of cream is added. Optional load cells work in combination with control systems to ensure high accuracy in cream and additive dosing. Once the blending process is complete, the final product is transferred to the filling machine.

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Overcoming key challenges within cottage cheese blending

Cottage cheese producers face three main challenges when blending cottage cheese – maintaining a consistent curd/dressing ratio and preserving curd structure is difficult in traditional blenders. And often, these blenders don’t empty completely without manual assistance.
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