Curd Drainage, Maturation & Feeding
GEA has worked alongside industry to develop complete systems for curd feeding, drainage and maturation, which give our customers versatile options for processing a wide range of pasta filata cheeses. Our batch and continuous solutions will let you produce the highest quality curd cheeses, whatever your process.
GEA offers fully automated batch maturation and drainage systems that can process up to 1,250 kg of curd cheese. Our continuous drainage and maturation solutions are ideal for processing for higher throughputs. All GEA systems allow maturation both in and out of the whey, are designed to highly configurable, cost effective and sustainable.
GEA technologies guarantee gentle curd handling and programmable, controlled curd heating, cooling and retention times. Teflon coated augers with electronic control, finely adjustable cylinder rotation and guillotine cutters and precisely heated cylinder jackets guarantee reproducible and reliable processing.
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Batch drainage and maturation DMC systems with auger
GEA offers a versatile portfolio of state-of-the-art automated curd drainage and maturation systems used in the production of various types of pasta filata cheese. Batch type DMC systems are available with capacities up to 2,000 kg.
Continuous curd drainage and maturation tunnel systems
Automated, continuous curd drainage and maturation systems to produce various types of pasta filata cheese. The continuous drainage and maturation tunnel system from GEA is designed to produce large quantities of a single type of curd.
Feeding units
Feeder units from GEA comprise an accumulation vat into which the curd is transferred, either by hand or automatically, and which contains a 500 mm auger to transfer the curd to a pneumatically controlled curd cutter unit.
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