In Northern California, Laura Chenel’s Chèvre, an award-winning goat cheese processor, recently installed a customized washer from CM Process Solutions to clean and sanitize its process buggies used to transfer cheese from the mixer to the packaging department at its newly expanded Sonoma County plant.
“These buggies handle millions of pounds of cheese annually,” explains Charles Willard, senior project engineer. “This is still done in small batches, 400 lbs. at a time, so these buggies are an integral part of the process stream. Once the cheese has been processed, the buggies must be cleaned and made ready for the next cycle.”