Tetra Pak installs dairy plant at Hampshire farm

Tetra Pak Cheese and Powder Systems (CPS) has installed a fully bespoke dairy plant at former Formula 1 racing champion Jody Scheckter's Laverstoke Park Farm for processing buffalo milk products.

The Sherborne-based company managed the process engineering from start to finish.

The completely automated system comprises equipment for producing mozzarella, ice cream and pasteurised milk, with a fully integrated single-channel cleaning-in-place and hot-water system completing the package.

This range of equipment has enabled Laverstoke Park to fulfil its need for better processes with greater control and increased throughput, flexibility and product security.

The mozzarella manufacturing plant includes two 1,000-litre tip tanks for making curd, a moulding machine, cheese cooling and brining tables, draining tables and a rotary machine for filing and packing balls of mozzarella into pots with brine.

A 1,000-litre-per-hour pasteuriser, two 2,000-litre storage tanks and a carton machine, which can fill up to 1,500 Tetra Rex cartons an hour, have boosted milk capacity for the Hampshire farm.

The Hoyer ice cream whipper freezer and cone/pot filling machine complete the processing plant.

By using Tetra Rex cartons, Tetra Pak CPS has helped Laverstoke Park Farm fulfil environmentally friendly requirements.

These low-carbon, lightweight cartons are made from natural, renewable resource wood.

They also protect products from harmful light.

Tony Emm, Tetra Pak CPS's project engineer, who managed the Laverstoke Park project, said: 'We work closely with all our customers, from concept through to installation and throughout commissioning and performance verification.

'This helps to ensure consistent results, products and hygiene and safety assurance, together with heightened environmental performance.

'Throughout this project, we liaised with the building contractor and the customer to ensure that all aspects of the installation were exactly as required by Laverstoke Park.

'Tetra Pak CPS integrated a system with the design functionality to suit their exact needs,' he added.

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