Cheese, Louise! FHI Filter Bags are Really Gouda
If puns make you bleu, this is not the post for you. (More cheese puns here.)
Filtration is essential to food manufacturing – especially for dairy farmers and cheese producers. Filtration concentrates the solids, removes contaminants, allows the addition of microorganisms that are crucial to fermentation, and this leads to better tasting product with a longer shelf life. Filter Holdings, Inc. supports many customers in their production of milk, cheese, yoghurt, and butter.
There are many filtration steps that can be used in cheese production:
- Whole milk concentration
- Cheese brine
- Milk fractionation
- Clean-in-place recovery
- Lactic curd concentration
- Water filtration
- Whey defattening
“FHI does a great job in providing us with the latest updates in filter media – they’ve got all of our bag dimensions on file and whenever we call with a new challenge, they’re ready to go with ideas,” said one customer. “We order from FHI because they produce fast and are always up to speed on what’s going on with new filter media – we like talking with a real person who knows our business.”
FHI’s most recent shipment to a cheese customer included hundreds of bags for a Flex-Kleen baghouse. Fun facts: Flex-Kleen was founded in 1959 and acquried by CECO in 2008 – there are over 80,000 such units worldwide! (Source: CECO website) “We can produce for any baghouse, of any maker, with any fabric – and we ship faster than anybody else,” said Product Manager Ed Kemp, “and of course, we all like cheese!”
Ricotta get going, hope you have a great week.