Fully jacketed cheese making vat for milk curdling and production of all kind of cheeses; also suitable for producing hard and semi hand cheeses such as Cheddar, Gouda, Edam, Pecorino and many other types of cheese. Machine designed and constructed for milk filling, mixing with rennet, cultures or acids, milk coagulation, curd cutting, stirring of the curd/whey mixture, whey extraction, heating and/or cooling at the vertical vat’s wall and on the vat’s bottom, partial whey extraction, total discharge of the whey/curd mass, C.I.P. cleaning, manual or automatic control of the working and cleaning phases.
Available capabilities: from 2.000 up to 20.000 liters.
Features
- Double-circle tank (“double-O”), with flat-sloping base, triple-walled
- Closed design for C.I.P. automatic cleaning
- Fixed installation without necessity of tilting for emptying
- A special milk inlet to prevent any foam forming
- Fully jacketed vat with heating and/or cooling system at the vertical wall and the bottom of the cheese vat
- Double-circle cutting & agitation system with rotation in opposite directions
- Special design of the cutting blades to minimize the losses and grant the maximum and incomparable yield from the milk.
- No bottom bearings inside the cheese vat ensuring the maximum level of hygiene and sanitization
- Perfect synchronization of the agitators' positioning and rotatory movement
- Cutting and agitation speeds adjustable by frequency converter from the control panel
- Automatic temperature control.
Optional features
- Preparation and automatic dosing of citric or acetic acid
- Control panel for automatic control PLC with touch screen HMI
- Valves with pneumatic operation for discharge of curd/whey mixture
- Bottom special valves for complete discharge of curd/whey mixture
- Whey pre-draining fixed openings for partial whey extraction
- Whey pre-draining and suction mobile device having no mechanical parts, cables or wires inside the cheese vat.
- Working footboards for any need and with any dimensions
- Hot water preparation unit with different capacities
- Hot water distribution circuit, made to measure, for more cheese vats
- Collection and evacuation of the drained whey.
