Article: Handle with care: Sinton Dairy automates its cottage cheese operation, but not before finding a system that coddles the curd.(Plant Feature)

Sinton Dairy is mighty proud of its cottage cheese. The Colorado Springs processor is equally proud of the section of its plant dedicated to producing it. But the decision to upgrade its facility was not any easy one to reach.

While the manual three-vat system the company had used for years to produce the Sinton and Nordica brands cottage cheese and sour cream was becoming obsolete, it was difficult for Sinton management to change something that was working so well.

"We had seen some automated systems that really grind up the curd," says Operations Mgr. Bill Keating. "We wanted to automate and to be able to produce more cheese, but we also wanted to take care of the ...

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