Cottage Cheese Processing

From innovative new automated vats through creaming, Bepex International offers a comprehensive integrated system for producing the highest quality cottage cheese. Our system capability includes food processing equipment with legendary names like Bepex® and Rietz® combined with over 30 years of proven cottage cheese process engineering expertise.

The result is a continuous enclosed stainless steel cottage cheese system that is more productive and more efficient while ensuring consistent product quality time and again.

• Matched-capacity components for efficient production scheduling


• Fast, efficient processing for increase plant output and yield


• Use up to 90% less water with reduced energy cost


• Reduce labor requirements with improved working environment


• Better control over moisture and solids


• More uniform curd with less shattering and loss of fines


• Reduced risk of contamination with enclosed continuous system.

COTTAGE CHEESE VAT The proven Rietz® Cottage Cheese System from Bepex International moves the product from vat to packaging in half the time. Time based on 4,000 gal vat processed conventionally.	WHEY DRAINER Rietz® Whey Drainer drains over 90% of the whey, partially cools curd with reclaimed water in 30 minutes.	WASHER/COOLER The Rietz® Washer Cooler chilled water filters up through the curd, removing whey residue and further cooling the curd in 35 minutes.
CURD DRAINER	CREAMER
The Rietz® Curd Drainer drains off the free water and the curd is lightly squeezed to remove additional water in 22 minutes.	The Rietz® Creamer is where the cream dressing is uniformly blended which optimizes yield in 10 minutes.