Continuous butter production system
Efficiently transform cream into versatile butter products, ensuring consistent quality and texture with advanced churning and kneading processes.
Produces and Processes Diverse Butter Products
The Butter Making Machine BUE from GEA is engineered for continuous butter production, tackling diverse dairy processing needs from sweet cream to lactic and salted butters. Utilizing the Fritz process, it features precision heating, churning, and multi-stage mixing to seamlessly integrate into high-capacity production lines. With a throughput of up to 13,000 kg/h, its frequency-controlled drives and PLC automation ensure consistent quality and reduced energy consumption. The fully CIP-cleanable stainless steel design is accompanied by options such as cream heaters and butter milk cooling systems, ensuring compliance with USDA standards. Customization extends to dosing units and process controls, providing flexibility in product formulations.
Benefits
- Enhances production efficiency with continuous butter processing.
- Minimizes energy costs through frequency-controlled drives.
- Ensures high product quality with precise ingredient dosing and mixing.
- Facilitates easy maintenance with CIP-cleanable stainless steel design.
- Adapts to diverse product formulations with customizable processing options.
- Applications
- Lactic butter,Sour cream butter,Sweet cream butter,Butter,Salted butter,Dairy products
- End products
- Butter blocks,Light salted butter,Unsalted sweet cream butter,Whipped butter,Gourmet lactic butter,Butter pats,Clarified butter,Compound butter,Spreadable butter,Buttermilk
- Steps before
- Cream heating,Churning
- Steps after
- Kneading,Ingredient dosing,Vacuum air extraction,Mixing,Continuous discharge
- Input ingredients
- sweet cream,sour cream,water,buttermilk,dairy culture,salt brine,liquid additives
- Output ingredients
- butter,lactic butter,salted butter,buttermilk,butter granules,conglomerating butter lumps
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Capacity
- 1,600 kg/h - 26,000 kg/h (feed)
- 800 kg/h - 13,000 kg/h (final product)
- Automation
- PLC-controlled
- Cleaning method
- CIP-cleanable
- Material
- Stainless steel
- Control System
- PLC and MCC
- Butter Discharge Port
- DIN 11851 union
- Product Connections
- ISO 2852 (TriClamp)
- Temperature Management
- Precise heating to constant temperature
- Dosing Facility
- 3 liquid additives
- Kneading,Mixing Stages
- Multiple stage mixer
- Vacuum Chamber
- Enclosed air extraction
- Cooling Medium
- Chilled buttermilk bath
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Inline Continuous
- Automation level
- PLC-controlled
- CIP/SIP
- Completely CIP-cleanable
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Integration of dosing facility
- Three liquid additives
- Cooling in butter production
- Butter milk bath
- Air extraction method
- Vacuum chamber
- Cleanability
- Completely CIP-cleanable
- Biological compatibility
- USDA certified hygienic design
- Corrosion resistance
- All stainless steel housing
- FDA compliance
- FDA approved seals available
- Control panel type
- Frequency-controlled drives
- Discharge method
- Integrated butter pump
- Compact footprint
- Stainless steel housing with big doors
- Control panel type
- Frequency-controlled drives