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Damrow cheese making equipment is 100
years old
The Damrow brand of cheese making equipment, now part of Carlisle Process Systems, is celebrating 100 years of manufacturing stainless steel equipment for the dairy industry
The Damrow brand of cheese making equipment is celebrating 100 years of manufacturing stainless steel equipment for the dairy industry The world famous brand, which is renowned for its high quality products, became part of the Carlisle Process Systems Inc in 2000
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 16 Jun 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Products are now sold in the UK and Ireland, by Dorset based Carlisle Process Systems Ltd (CPS).
Some of the most important Damrow markets are those relating to the production of cheddar, mozzarella and cottage cheese, where in the UK, Mainland Europe and the USA the brand name remains a dominant player.
Damrow, a recognised global leader in innovative technology was founded by brothers Edward and George Damrow, under the apt trading name of the Damrow Brothers Company in 1904.
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In 1907 the partnership was incorporated after their father, William Damrow sold his farm to help the thriving manufacturing business.
By the late 1920s the cheese making industry had spread throughout their home state of Wisconsin and the company had four salespeople.
Since its foundation, Damrow has invented and patented many pieces of equipment, one of the earliest was the cheese vat agitator.
This was introduced around 1925 and uses a travelling carriage with stirring paddles thus reducing the tedious manual labour of stirring the vat with a wooden rake.
Through its distinguished history, Damrow has brought a variety of products to the dairy industry including Curd Mills, Cheese Moulds, Mould and Churn Washers, Finishing Tables, Batch Pasteurising Tanks and Process Cheese Cookers.
Innovative Damrow's biggest breakthrough was in the early 1970s, when it developed the enclosed Double-O cheese making vat, which resulted in the establishment of a manufacturing plant in Denmark.
The automated style of vat represented a major breakthrough for the dairy industry and delivers a much higher curd yield output and is also much easier to clean.
Shortly after the Double-O vat was introduced, the company developed the 'Draining Matting Conveyor', (DMC) 'Cheddaring Belt Machine' and 'Enclosed Finishing Vat' (EFV).
All these units significantly reduced labour costs and introduced automation to the cheese making process after the vats.
In the 1980s Damrow introduced the Cheese Block Forming (CBF) tower to fuse the curds together into 40-pound blocks prior to the cooler.
This was quickly followed by Damrow's newly developed Bulk Cheese Former (BCF) to produce 500-pound barrels and 640-pound blocks of cheese.
These bulk sizes, mainly used in the USA, reduce the handling of the smaller 40-pound blocks and generate less trim, when cutting the cheese for consumer size pieces.
Today Damrow brand equipment is manufactured in the UK, Denmark and the USA.
And the brand continues to offer equipment for all or any part of the cheese manufacturing operation from milk reception to packaging.
CPS technical sales executive Terry Pothecary, who started selling Damrow equipment in the 1980s summarising says: "Damrow equipment is first class and is now used throughout the world.
Its high quality stainless steel construction and innovative features has made it a firm favourite with a massive number of dairies.".
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