Dairy.

Dairy Nutrition is a key part of the development of nations. The team at Pacific Process are well versed in all aspects of the dairy industry from farm to market.

Driving Dairy Nutrition

Dairy nutrition is central to the development of nations. Infrastructure development and innovative technology for dairy production and processing are core to Pacific Process’ business. With project experience, R&D, and innovation in the New Zealand, Australian, UK, and US. markets, we bring perspective and the ability to deliver practical, effective solutions across diverse dairy industries.

End-to-End Expertise

Our team understands the full dairy supply chain, from farm to market. We specialize in project development, production logistics, manufacturing process design, and quality. W we partner with both large and small dairy companies to optimize operations and support growth through strategic investment.

Breadth of Capability

Pacific Process combines product and process expertise with discipline-based skills, covering nearly all aspects of milk processing and packaging. Our capabilities include:

  • Logistics, planning, systems integration, and data management
  • Design processes, 3D modeling, and commercial evaluations (stream return, IRR modeling)
  • Milk separation, standardization, and concentration
  • Milk powders, butter, protein and mineral extractions
  • Cleaning optimization and low-spore production
  • High solids processing and chemical recovery
  • Fire and explosion protection measures
  • Packaging formats across multiple product lines

With this combination of skills and experience, Pacific Process delivers innovative, efficient, and reliable solutions for the global dairy sector.

The team at Pacific Process specialize in dairy industry projects and has accumulated experience in the following areas:

Milk Transport & Reception

  • Tanker systems design
  • Rail tanker milk design
  • Milk tanker design and construction
  • Tanker receiving
  • Raw milk Concentration (MCS)
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Milk Treatment

  • Concentrating (Reverse Osmosis, Ultra-filtration)
  • Pasteurizing
  • Filtering
  • Separation
  • Homogenization
  • Standardization (inline, multi-stream).

Milk Protein Concentrate & Isolates (MPC & MPI)

  • Evaporation, drying and packing
  • ION exchange
  • Membrane filtration incorporating;
  • MF (Micro-filtration) – fat removal, protein fractionation
  • UF(Ultra-filtration) including diafiltration – lactose removal
  • NF (Nano-filtration) – salts and minerals removal
  • RO (Reverse Osmosis) – lactose concentration.

Whey Protein Concentrates & Isolates (WPC & WPI)

  • Evaporation, drying and packing
  • ION exchange
  • Membrane filtration incorporating;
  • MF (Micro-filtration) – fat removal, protein isolation
  • UF(Ultra-filtration) including diafiltration – Lactose removal
  • NF (Nano-filtration) – salts and mineral removal
  • RO (Reverse Osmosis) – lactose concentration.

High Fat Dairy Products

  • Butter and semi-soft butter, AMF and margarine type products
  • Butter churns, butter silos, bulk and retail packing systems
  • AMF separation systems, oil conversion, deodorising, and drum filling
  • Nitrogen blanketing systems (AMF storage and drum filling)
  • Drum handling and palletizing
  • Bulk and retail butter palletizing, stretch wrapping and pallet handing.

Milk Powder

  • Pre-evaporator concentration specification and design
  • Evaporator and drier specification
  • Powder tempering and blending specification and design
  • Agglomeration and instantisation systems specification and design
  • Powder handling and packing specification and design
  • Powder bag (25kg, 50lb) and bulk bag (1 Ton) packing systems
  • Palletizing and stretch wrapping, design and build.

UHT (Ultra High Treated) Dairy Products

  • Milk, dairy desserts, cream and other dairy food & ESL products
  • Plant and process design
  • Sterilization systems
  • Aseptic product storage (‘A’ Tanks)
  • Filling Machinery (Board & Plastic)
  • Pack accumulation systems
  • Downstream case packing, stretch wrapping and palletizing.

Ice Cream

  • Pre-treatment, mixing, blending and aging
  • Pasteurizing
  • Ingredient addition
  • Ice cream mix freezing, filling
  • Rapid chilling, packaging, storage
  • Premium ice cream manufacture.

Cheese

  • From boutique scale to export scale
  • Soft cheeses (Camembert, Brie, Feta etc)
  • Semi hard cheeses
  • Hard cheeses
  • Dry salted (Cheddar type)
  • Brine salted (Gouda type)
  • Cheese milk standardising and pre-treatment
  • Cheese milk ‘starter’ production systems
  • Cheese vats (open manual type, closed automated type, curd washing)
  • Curd salting systems (dry salting and brine salted)
  • Curd draining systems (cheddaring belts, pressing systems)
  • Brining systems
  • Cheese packing systems (block forming, case packing)
  • Palletizing and stretch wrapping.

Cheese Cutting & Portion Packing

  • Consumer portion high speed cutting
  • Portion thermo forming and vacuum packing
  • Cheese portion case packing systems
  • Case palletizing and stretch wrapping

Processed Cheese

  • EMC (Enzyme Modified Cheese) cheese manufacture
  • SOS (Slice On Slice) cheese manufacture
  • IWS (Individually Wrapped Slice) cheese manufacture
  • Pre-mixing of ingredients (blenders)
  • Heat Treatment (inline ‘meting’ and pasteurizing)
  • Chilled roll and individually wrapped slicing systems
  • Portion packing
  • Case packing
  • Palletizing and stretch wrapping.

Shredded Cheese

  • ‘Natural’ shredded cheese systems (unfrozen, free flowing)
  • ‘IQF’ Instant Quick Frozen shredded cheese systems
  • Cheese pre-cutting (shredded cheese)
  • Cheese shredding
  • Carbohydrate addition (natural cut and natural shred)
  • Freezer systems (IQF)
  • Shredded cheese weighing systems
  • Portion packing
  • Case packing
  • Palletizing and stretch wrapping