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GEA Westfalia Separator Process Serves a Broad Spectrum of puplications
Tuesday 10. March 2009 - Dairy technology at GEA Westfalia Separator Process GmbH traditionally serves a broad spectrum of applications. Besides the main fields of application of milk skimming and bacteria removal from milk, the centrifuges and processes operate in numerous special applications.
One field is the fresh cheese segment which includes quark, labaneh, labneh, Petit-Suisse, cream cheese, double cream cheese. The second major segment of special processes is casein recovery and the third segment comprises lactose production and decalcium phospatization. Further significant segments are above all butter production and butter oil (AMF=anhydrous milk fat) recovery. The latter segments are currently of particular interest to industry to improve fat utilisation. Because the more skim milk powder produced instead of whole milk powder, the more surplus fat is obtained which can be optimally utilized as butter or butter oil.
Process responsibility for butter production
The topic of butter has been anchored at GEA Westfalia Separator for decades. GEA Westfalia Separator developed the first industrial-scale buttermaking machine and, in the course of the years, has brought well over one thousand buttermaking machines to market. The BUE buttermaking machines of the latest generation cover a broad spectrum with capacities of 800 – 13,000 kg per hour. This has enabled the realization of many international projects over the past years.
Owing to its longstanding experience, GEA Westfalia Separator Process is able to offer intensive technology consulting on an individual basis where both butter quality and yield are the primary considerations.
Butter oil has excellent storage properties
Butter oil is of immense interest because it has excellent storage capacities without spoilage. Butter oil can be produced in the dairy with a high degree of purity both from fresh cream as well as from butter. The standard technique for butter oil production is to use three separators: one cream concentrator, one oil concentrator and one oil polisher. Butter can also be processed to butter oil using the same equipment.
GEA Westfalia Separator Process, as market leader in this segment, has been able to realize a series of successful projects in China, Pakistan, Argentina and Brazil, to name just a few.