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DAIRY FARMING

GEA MODERNIZES AND DIGITALIZES DAIRY

PLANT IN CRAILSHEIM-DINKELSBÜHL

The German dairy plant Milchwerk Crail- Digital monitoring of
sheim-Dinkelsbühl has entrusted GEA with historical plant activity
the modernization of its milk treatment
area. The next step will see GEA co-operate data
with the dairy project team to develop an In addition to the above technology,
energy and heat quantity concept for the the customer opted to record the plant
entire plant, thereby unlocking significant history via GEA Codex® Plant Playback.
CO savings potential. This special GEA automation solution ana-
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lyzes industrial processes batch by batch
Technical upgrade of Crailsheim. “Energy efficiency is our top as a software-based video recorder. This
medium-sized dairies priority when we think about the future reveals dependencies, errors, and their

The German dairy plant Milchwerk Crail- of our dairy.” The heat treatment of raw causes, which can be easily fixed. The
sheim-Dinkelsbühl eG has entrusted GEA milk, is immensely important for hygienic software animates SCADA Historian data
with the modernization of its milk treat- cheese production, but at the same time in real time or time lapse. This improves
ment area. From there, the associated it requires a lot of energy if the technology both production as well as product and
cheese dairies are supplied with pretreated and process integration are not perfectly process safety.
– purified, heated, and mixed – milk. In designed. Vögele was convinced by the New heat treatment
addition, GEA will further advance the dig- fact that key technology and components,
italization of the dairy. The customer from such as skimmers, valves, and plate heat technology and process
Baden-Württemberg processes around exchangers, come from GEA. The next engineering
150,000 tons of raw milk from cooper- step will see GEA co-operate with the In order to connect the cheese dairy to
ative suppliers every year and prepares project team of the Crailsheim dairy plant the machine room in Crailsheim, GEA will
it to produce Balkan cheese, pasta filata to develop a comprehensive energy and also technologically modify various tank
cheese Kashkaval, and grill cheese. In June heat quantity concept for the entire plant, farms, fundamentally rebuilding all valve
2022, GEA will commence modernization thereby unlocking significant CO savings blocks and the cheese milk tank farm. To
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of the liquid part, with completion planned potential. ensure high microbiological quality, the
for early 2023. “In Crailsheim they face similar challenges dairy will get a new pasteurizer with sur-
The Crailsheim dairy processes around to many other small and medium-sized plus cream cooling and two new thermiz-
150,000 tons of raw milk from cooper- dairies: Sustainability and digitalization are ers. During the project, the existing CIP
ative suppliers every year and prepares taking hold – and they can only be im- station will be upgraded to state of the
it to produce Balkan cheese, pasta filata plemented by using efficient high-perfor- art. An additional skimming separator is
cheese Kashkaval, and grill cheese. Image: mance technologies and consistent process equipped with GEA proplus, which increas-
Milchwerk Crailsheim-Dinkelsbühl planning,” describes Steffen Rathmann, es protein yield and significantly reduces
Managing Director of GEA TDS. “To tackle fresh water consumption through longer
Energy-efficient raw milk these issues, which are so omnipresent in emptying intervals for the milk separator.
processing the industry, we develop the process and The cheese production technology is com-
“The technical modernization at the technology design based on the specific plemented by two new calcium chloride
Crailsheim site represents the fulfilment conditions on site. It makes us proud to stations which increase yield and improve
of a long-cherished dream,” says Josef have the opportunity to set up the tech- product quality through stabilized rennet
Vögele, Managing Director of Milchwerk nical backbone for the future success of gel. GEA will modernize the dairy without
our customers like Milchwerk Crailsheim.” stopping production.
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ARLA INAUGURATES ITS BIGGEST DAIRY INVESTMENT

TO DATE TO SUPPORT GROWING GLOBAL DEMAND

Arla officially inaugurated a new pro- To help bridge this cap, Arla has invested of 5-7% in Arla’s international business in
duction plant at Pronsfeld dairy in Ger- EUR 190 million in the expansion of its dairy line with the company’s five-year strategy
many. The expansion is Arla’s biggest dairy in Pronsfeld, Germany to increase the pro- called Future26.
investment to date and a key driver to duction of primarily milk powder. Pronsfeld The expansion of Pronsfeld dairy includes
meet the growing in-ternational demand is Arla’s largest dairy, and the investment is a production plant that holds a 51-me-
for sustainable, affordable and nutritious the company’s biggest single investment ter-high drying tower as its centerpiece
dairy products. in a site. The expansion will support the and can process 685 million kilos of milk
expected annual branded volume growth per year, creating an end-product of around

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