Cheese curd cooling system for crumbled cheese
Ensure optimal cheese quality and yield with precise, gentle cooling for crumbled cheese varieties, minimizing product damage and loss while enhancing operational efficiency.

Cools and Controls Temperature of Cheese Curds
The Tetra Pak® Curd Cooler is a highly automated solution engineered for the precise cooling of cheese curds, crucial for manufacturers of crumbled cheeses like Tvarog and Ricotta. Employing a continuous flow system, it ensures gentle curd handling with minimal fat and protein loss, maintaining optimal cheese quality. The cooler supports capacities from 1,000 to 6,000 liters per hour, ideal for medium to large-scale dairy operations. Its advanced temperature control system stabilizes the cooling process, enhancing whey quality and preventing temperature fluctuations. Integrated with a three-way control valve, it minimizes energy consumption by maintaining a stable cooling water loop. Crafted for smooth integration into existing processing lines, it offers seamless automation and remote monitoring capabilities, essential for efficient operations in the dairy industry.
Benefits
- Ensures high-quality cheese curds with gentle cooling, minimizing product loss.
- Increases production efficiency with continuous and automated operation.
- Lowers energy costs by minimizing cooling water consumption peaks.
- Stabilizes product quality with advanced temperature control systems.
- Integrates smoothly into existing dairy production lines for versatile application.
- Applications
- Adyghean,Ricotta,Tvarog,Crumbled cheese,Cottage cheese
- End products
- Salty adyghean,Cottage cheese with herbs,Crumbled feta,Smoked ricotta,Tvarog pancakes
- Steps before
- Cheese curd separation,Curd collection,Brining
- Steps after
- Cheese maturation,Packaging,Storage
- Input ingredients
- cheese curd,curd and whey mixture
- Output ingredients
- cooled curd,cheese varieties - crumbled tvarog,ricotta,adyghean
- Market info
- Tetra Pak is renowned for providing innovative packaging solutions, specializing in carton packaging for the food and beverage industry. It is esteemed for high-quality, sustainable, and efficient processing and packaging equipment on a global scale.
- Capacity
- 1000 l/h – 6,000 l/h
- Cooling method
- Continuous flow
- Cooling water circulation
- Three-way control valve
- Temperature control
- Precise
- Product outlet temperature stability
- Stable
- Continuous flow cooling method
- Yes
- Gentle curd treatment
- Yes
- Precise control system
- High accuracy
- Automation level
- Highly automated
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Cleaning method
- Manual / CIP
- Cooling water circulation loop
- Yes
- Energy efficiency
- Minimized peaks
- Cheese varieties
- Crumbled tvarog,ricotta,adyghean
- Control panel type
- Smart control loop design
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Discharge method
- Continuous flow
- Cooling method
- Continuous flow cooling
- Cooling water circulation loop
- With three-way control valve
- Temperature control
- Precise temperature control
- Cooling capacity
- 1000 l/h – 6,000 l/h
- Control panel type
- HMI/PLC
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA/ERP