Indian dairy purchases largest continuous butter-making machine in India

The machine, supplied by GEA, produces up to 13,000 lbs/hr of ghee, the Indian equivalent of clarified butter

Indian dairy producer Creamy Foods Limited, located in the state of Uttar-Pradesh, has purchased GEA’s first Model BUE butter-making machine. The Model BUE 6000 will be brought into operation in February 2019 along with other allied equipment.

Creamy Foods Ltd. is one of the largest global producers of ghee, which is used as the primary cooking ingredient in Indian households. “GEA’s equipment will enable us to produce ghee and other milk fat products according to the highest global quality standards,” say Amit and Anurag Aggarwai, directors of Creamy Foods.

The butter-making machine allows for the continuous production of butter from sweet or sour cream, based on the Fritz process. The machine has an I-Churn feature, which allows an operator to control automatically the speed of the churning cylinder. This provides optimally churned butter—independent of fluctuating feed parameters. GEA also provides a readily available supply of spare parts, easing the maintenance task.

The dairy also is purchasing a GEA MSI 600 separator for separating cream from skim milk, a GEA MSE 60 separator for concentrating butter oil and a GEA Ecoclean clarifier for removing solid components from the clarified butter. With this processing line, Creamy Foods will be able to process up to 190 tons of cream, turning it into 76 tons of ghee per day with minimal product losses.

Wayne Labs has more than 30 years of editorial experience in industrial automation. He served as senior technical editor for I&CS/Control Solutions magazine for 18 years where he covered software, control system hardware and sensors/transmitters. Labs ran his own consulting business and contributed feature articles to Electronic Design, Control, Control Design, Industrial Networking and Food Engineering magazines. Before joining Food Engineering, he served as a senior technical editor for Omega Engineering Inc. Labs also worked in wireless systems and served as a field engineer for GE’s Mobile Communications Division and as a systems engineer for Bucks County Emergency Services. In addition to writing technical feature articles, Wayne covers FE’s Engineering R&D section.