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The article focuses on Safeway Inc.'s milk plant in Denver, Colorado. The plant processes a mixture of milk and other beverages on one rotary filler and two carton fillers. The plant operates under stringent local and federal regulations and is maintained to a high degree of sanitation. Several awards received by the plan include Best Overall plant in 2003 and Best Quality in 2005.

The article presents information on the largest fluid milk plants established by Groupe Lactalis in Vitre, France. The Groupe Lactalis facility not only produces more than 1,5 million liters of milk, baby formula, and juice daily, but it offers a bit of a history lesson as well, for anyone interested in the dairy industry. Groupe Lactalis, is the second largest dairy company in France, and the country's number 1 exporter of dairy products. With more than $7 billion in annual revenue, it is one of the largest dairy processors in the world. The company's most prevalent segment is cheese which accounts for nearly half its business. Founded in Laval, a stone's throw from the Vitre plant, the company's cheese portfolio is primarily camembert and brie. But Lactalis also sells a great deal of milk and cream, industrial dairy products and a very small amount of milk-fed veal. INSET: Dairy's History on Display.

Features the dairy firm Stonyfield Farm's yogurt plant in Londonberry, New Hampshire. Processing for organic and natural products; Use of continuous process system; Maintenance of quality and integrity; Transition to organic products.

Features several cheese and milk factories in the United States. H.P. Hood's plant in Winchester, Virginia; Hilmar Cheese Co. in Hilmar, California; Robinson Dairy in Denver, Colorado; Land O'Lakes Dairyman's Division in Tulare, California; Leprino Foods in Roswell, New Mexico.

Reports on the addition of a milk processing system to the production plant of Richfood Dairy in Richmond, Virginia. Information on the VTIS processing system; Description of Richfood's pasteurizing systems for raw product; Details on the plant's cooler addition.

Offers a look at the milk plant of H.P. Hood Inc. in Winchester, Virginia. Features of the plant; Capabilities; Information on the plant's operations.

Features Mayfield Dairy Farms Inc.'s milk plant in Braselton, Georgia. Description of milk processing operations and capacity; Equipment used for production of milk products; Storage and shipping facilities. INSETS: Noteworthy (information on plant and management).;Additional plant features..

Details findings of a Cornell University study, entitled `An Analysis of Processing and Distribution Productivity and Costs in 35 Fluid Milk Plants,' which shows that factories owned by supermarket companies have lower plant and distribution costs than other types of dairies. Correlation between higher wages and costs; Determining factors that caused wide variation in labor productivity and cost per gallon.

The article focuses on the "Dairy Processors Race to Keep Pace with Milk Production" report from the Knowledge Exchange Division of the cooperative bank CoBank. The report cites the growing demand of milk supply in the U.S. and the need for dairy processors to increase milk processing capacity to meet the consumer demand. It addss that dairy cooperatives and processors are focused to increase milk capacity by building and expanding processing plants for milk and cheese products.

High-Tech Quality Check Computerized monitoring system improves CIP sanitation At Marigold Foods Inc.'s Minneapolis milk plant, CIP (clean-in-place) sanitation is playing a growing role in quality control. According to David [...]

Several photographs are presented related to the plant Smith Dairy Products Co. in Orrville, Ohio including manufacturing director Karl Kelbly and marketing director Penny Baker with chief editor Jim Dudlicek, the yellow gallons of milk, and Kelbly while giving a rundown on the processing operation to Dudlicek.

This article focuses on the bottle handling system of the company Kemps. Brian Barth, operations manager at the Kemps fluid milk plant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, was used to hearing the same complaint from his filling room that they kept running out of bottles. Blow mold operators had a myriad of responsibilities. With so much to do it was hard to keep lines full of bottles. If the problem wasn't in blow mold, a trek between the buildings was needed, to check the overhead conveyor. Barth set out to revamp the system, with the help of Dyco Inc., Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania.

The article offers the author's insights on the importance of water management and wastewater discharges on milk plants. The author mentions how countries like Middle East and Africa affected by droughts, and the effect of water shortages on the grain shortages in China and India. Moreover, it offers the views of Roy Carawan for North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Craig Nelson from Food Automation LLC on the said water shortage issues.

The article reports that Saputo Inc. will close its milk and cream plant on October 31, 2010 in Brampton, Ontario.

The article offers news briefs related to the U.S.-based dairy industry. Matanuska Creamery is selling about 1,600 gallons of milk a day. A manufacturing agreement to expand production of pharmaceutical lactose at Foremost's' Rothschild, Wisconsin-based plant was announced by Sheffield Bio-Science and Foremost Farms USA. The 12th annual Dairy Ingredients Symposium will be hosted by the California Polytechnic State University's Dairy Products Technology Center on March 2-3, 2010.

The article reports that British dairy firm Robert Wiseman Dairies, led by its chief executive Robert Wiseman, is expected to open its $184-million plant in Bridgwater, Somerset in September 2008. The plant will have the capacity to produce 500 million liters of milk a year, which is almost ten percent of Britain's fresh milk demand.

The article presents news items related to the dairy industry as of September 2008. Kroger Co.'s grocery chain Smith's will sell the probiotic dairy beverage Yakult in all regional locations. Grocery sales at 7-Eleven Stores in Washington, D.C. have increased by about three percent. Emerald Dairy has started building a new milk powder processing facility in Hailun City in China.

The article looks at the operations of Schroeder Co.'s fluid milk plant in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It discusses the company's use of the Environmental Protection Agency-registered Octave sanitizing system from Ecolab. The article discusses how Schroeder has able to confirm sanitizer dose accuracy with enhanced precision.

The article features the dairy warehouse management system of the milk plant of Dean Foods/Land O'Lakes in Woodbury, Minnesota in 2006. Key issues discussed include background information on the warehouse management system and its primary features and specifications, as well as its contributions to improving efficiency and reducing labor costs in the milk plant.

The article reports that dairy producer Menniu is building a new $31-million lactate milk factory at Ma'anshan City in the Anhui Province of China in 2006.

The article reports on the construction by the Brazilian unit of Nestle SA of a new $32.7-million milk packaging facility in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil in 2006.

The article reports global developments related to the dairy industry. Tony Sarsam was named executive vice presidents of operations and supply chain for Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream. Valio Ltd. plans to build a milk plant in Leningrad Oblast, Russia. Arla Foods agreed to acquire White Clover Dairy. Carvel Ice Cream used a location intelligence software to find sites for franchises.

Reports on Dietrich's Milk Products LLC's use of rotary impingement cleaning machines by Gamajet Cleaning Systems Inc. to clean spray dryers in its milk processing plant. Reduction in cleaning time and water usage compared to traditional spray balls and high pressure water injection.

Provides information on the opening of the milk plant of Santee Dairy company in City of Industry, California. Production capacity of the plant; Details on its production processes and equipment.