When making cheddar or pasta filata, the whey is removed from the curd using a whey screen and a draining belt. This is called draining. The curd bed is then moved along in a solid mass allowing for acidification i.e. cheddaring and mellowing.
Tetra Pak offers a completely unique processing system for cheddar and pasta filata cheeses - the world’s only continuous production system for such products. This allows producers to achieve very precise salt and moisture content, and a high pH accuracy. A two-belt version is available for pasta filata and a four-belt version with salt dosing for cheddar varieties.
Our draining and cheddaring machines are fully integrated with the up and downstream equipment, ensuring optimum transfer with, for example, overlapping pump-outs.
The alternative, and more common way of draining and cheddaring cheeses is batch production. Tetra Pak also offers processing equipment for this method – which is more suitable for the production of artisanal, low capacity cheese making. In this case, the mellowing and salting are done manually in open finishing vats.
Tetra Pak® Draining Matting machine 2 is the industry's most versatile curd conveyor offering the flexibility to vary your make from matted to granular curd.
The Tetra Pak® Salting Mellowing Conveyor 2 provides the most effective method for achieving and retaining the required amount of salt in the curd.
The Tetra Pak® Finishing Vat O5 is designed to efficiently perform curd conditioning, whey drainage, curd salting and mellowing steps for milled cheddar and stirred curd type cheeses.
The Tetra Pak® Cheddaring 5 machine is designed for continuous production of fused and stirred Cheddar and pasta filata cheese types.
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O Tetra Pak
Wspólnie z naszymi klientami sprawiamy, że żywność jest bezpieczna oraz szeroko dostępna. Od 1951 roku z dumą dostarczamy najlepsze rozwiązania do przetwórstwa i pakowania żywności.
Tetra Pak jest jedną z trzech firm należących do grupy Tetra Laval – prywatnej spółki, która swoją działalność rozpoczęła w Szwecji. Pozostałe dwie firmy to DeLaval i Sidel. Obecnie Tetra Laval ma swoją główną siedzibę w Szwajcarii.