Foremost Farms USA will close its Chilton, Wisconsin, manufacturing facility in July 2020. Built in the 1940s, the Chilton plant makes Italian cheeses including Provolone which is sold into the foodservice market for sandwiches. The 53 employees who work at the location were informed of the company’s plans.
The center has full-scale engineering capabilities, from cheesemaking process design to mechanical, automation and electrical engineering to manufacturing of processing solutions itself.
October 23, 2019
Tetra Pak, Vernon Hills, Ill., announced the opening of a €25 million site in Olsztyn, Poland, with sales, engineering and manufacturing facilities for cheese production solutions.
Using anaerobic digestion, the venture will in turn produce 10,000 MWh of thermal power, enough to heat 800 homes per year.
June 18, 2019
Wensleydale Creamery, UK, partnered with Iona Capital, a UK-based environmental fund manager, to produce over 10,000 MWh of energy per year from a byproduct of cheesemaking.
Today, Mosaic boasts a national sales force and coast-to-coast broker and distribution network.
June 20, 2018
La Clare Family Creamery, Malone, Wis., and Saxon Creamery, Cleveland, Wis., and Lamagna Cheese Co., Verona, Pa., combined forces to create Mosaic Meadows, a company of family-operated cheesemakers.
Recent lower milk prices have led to lower input costs for processors, strengthening balance sheets and opening the door to expansion opportunities.
September 15, 2017
Every year, U.S. dairy farmers produce 3 billion more pounds of milk than the year before. For the past few years, production growth has outpaced processing capacity growth, yet dairy processors are struggling to keep pace, according to “Dairy Processors Race to Keep Pace with Milk Production,” a new report from CoBank’s knowledge exchange division.
Dietz & Watson prepares the vast majority of its branded product at its Philadelphia and Baltimore, Md., facilities.
February 28, 2017
Earlier this month, two products produced under the Dietz & Watson label by cheesemaker Deutsch Kase Haus, Middlebury, Ind., were voluntarily recalled because they may have contained Listeria monocytogenes.
With these upgrades, the facility is now equipped to test cultures in real-world environments, as well as manufacture and age cheese.
January 11, 2017
DuPont Nutrition & Health, Wilmington, Del., announced a substantial investment in its New Century, Kan., laboratory, which serves the North American cheese industry.