Secret of Quality in Whey Production

Undoubtedly, for consumers, the quality of a product is its most important feature. Therefore, manufacturers try to achieve quality in production in order to meet customer expectations. And of course, this is also the same for the production of whey.

Whey is one of the most important by-products of milk technology. In general, remaining liquid as a result of processing milk to cheese is called whey, and contains high amount of significant nutrients such as vitamin B and protein. Because of that feature, whey is used as a source of protein in many products, from sports drinks to baby foods, from food supplements to drugs. 

The use of whey in such a wide range of products leads to the need for more sensitive and more effective process need in production. The requirement of these processes is the clarifiers and cream separators.

The first step in the whey processing is the removal of remaining cheese particles and taking fat in whey as much as possible. First, cheese residues are removed with the clarifier and then the fat in it is taken with the help of cream separator. Lack of removal of cheese residues in whey has negative impact on the next processes. High efficiency in these processes is critical, in the process of whey products, such as tablets, capsules and lactose powder used in baby foods. These residues are able to significantly increase production and maintenance costs, because they can block the filters used in progressive processes, especially membrane filters. Therefore, the selection of the clarifiers and cream separators that will be used in the processes is very important. Cream separators used for the production of whey have to take as much as fat out from a product containing only 0.2-0.4% fat, minimising fat content minimize the losses of manufacturers and helps meet final product-specifications. 

Polat Makina developed clarifiers and cream separators by providing solution to overcome challenges in all processes in the implementations of milk and dairy products to the use of the dairy industry with its experienced technical staff. The separators for milk and whey applications designed by Polat Makina provide the best result in increasing the efficiency and profitability by meeting the expectations of our manufacturers like you in price/performance.