Cheese press

Cheese press

Cheese press

Product catalog summary
Overview
The document describes the Kalt cassette press, a fully automatic, computer-controlled cheese pressing system designed for efficiency and precision. It requires only one employee per shift to manage the entire cheese portioning and pressing process, ensuring high weight accuracy and loss-free filling.

System Overview
  • Staedler Control Unit: Features a Siemens touch panel, user-friendly software, pre-programmed and customizable recipes, and online support.
  • Handling Device: Offers fully automatic portioning with adjustable position, speed, and acceleration, ensuring high weight accuracy.
  • Filling Technology: Provides gentle, loss-free portioning with high weight accuracy and short filling times (10-20 minutes). Options for wet and dry filling are available.
  • Cheese Moulds: Made of chrome-nickel steel with customizable dimensions and special perforation for uniform whey purging.
  • Cassettes: Combine several cheese moulds in one compact unit, allowing seamless portioning without curd loss.
  • Press Lid: Designed for any shape with special perforation for uniform whey purging.
  • Pressing Process: Adaptable to customer products with controllable temperature curves and individual pressing for each cheese.
  • CIP Cleaning: Fully automatic cleaning of the entire press, including moulds and lids, ensuring high hygiene standards.
  • Demoulding: Fully automatic and hygienic, using patented Kalt shaker technology.

All-in-One System
The Kalt cassette press integrates five work steps: portioning, pressing, acidification, demoulding, and CIP cleaning. It eliminates the need for a buffer tank and reduces complexity, leading to reliable processes and lower maintenance costs.

Cheese Variants and Press Types
  • Cheese Variants: Offers square and round moulds for various cheese types, including Tête de Moine, Appenzeller, and Emmentaler.
  • Press Types: Includes cassette press, yoke press, conveyor systems/tunnel press, flush-in press, and forms, each with specific volume capacities and degrees of automation.

Accessories
Optional accessories include dry fillers, brand applicators, pH probes, mould trolleys, spice additions, conveyor belts, and more.

Contact Information
Kalt Maschinenbau AG, Letziwiesstrasse 8, 9604 Lütisburg, Switzerland. Phone: +41 71 932 53 53. Website: www.kalt-ag.ch. Email: [email protected].

The document highlights the Kalt cassette press as an economical and customizable solution for cheese manufacturing, emphasizing Swiss quality and expert support for project implementation.
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Catalog excerpts

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CHEESE PRESSES From the manual Multi Press to the fully automatic, computer-controlled Cassettepress

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SYSTEM OVERVIEW It’s hard to get more efficient than this: One employee per shift is all it takes to run the entire process of cheese portioning and pressing with the fully automatic Kalt cassette press and to clean the entire plant thoroughly after several batches. However, the Kalt cassette press is not only characterised by its great efficiency, but also by its precision that enables loss-free filling and high weight accuracy in portioning. Since the plant is designed for batch operation, consistently high product quality can be guaranteed as well as strict batch separation and complete traceability....

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ALL-IN-ONE SYSTEM Five work steps in a single plant The Kalt cassette press performs all five steps involved in the cheese pressing process – from portioning the curd, pressing, acidification, and demoulding the cheese, to CIP cleaning. When the process commences, the curd from the cheese maker is filled directly into the cassette press, rendering the buffer tank obsolete. The moulds and lids will remain in the machine even during CIP cleaning, eliminating any complicated systems and sensors for handling, transporting, and loading the moulds and lids, as well as separate cleaning systems. Our...

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CHROME-NICKEL STEEL CHEESE MOULDS PRESSING PROCESS Kalt press lids The Kalt cassette is made up of several round or square cheese moulds of freely selectable size, lined up side by side. High-quality chrome-nickel steel material makes the cheese moulds particularly durable and hygienic. The Kalt cassette press is designed to precisely meet a wide range of specifications. The respective pressing program is adapted to the customer’s cheese product. The press lids play a special role in the pressing process, as their special perforation ensures uniform removal of the whey from the cheese loaves....

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CHEESE PRESS TYPES CHEESE VARIANTS Square shapes Round moulds The range covers 30 x 10 cm bread loaf moulds as well as 50 x 30 cm Euroblock formats and moulds for production of cheese sticks with dimensions of 120 x 10 cm. Anything from the small round Tête de Moine with a diameter of 10.5 cm to the Appenzeller with a diameter of 30 cm, or the large Emmentaler with a diameter of 82 cm can be produced. Cassette press The patented Kalt cassette press is designed for single and multi-batch operation. The curd is automatically flushed into the round or square moulds, gently pressed, and discharged...

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Flush-in press Pre-pressing trough Yoke press The Kalt flush-in press is designed for single and multi-batch operation. Various formats can be produced on a single plant. In contrast to the cassette press, the cheese must be cleared from the flush-in press manually. Volume Application area Loaves and blocks in various formats Conveyor systems/tunnel press Application area Format-independent cake pressing Application area Small quantities or trial plants Reversing Accessories A vast range of optional accessories is available. Dry filler Brand applicator Various formats can be produced on one and...

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An economical and customisable product range that leaves nothing to be desired – in Swiss quality. Our specialists will advise and accompany you through implementation of your projects. Kalt Maschinenbau AG Letziwiesstrasse 8 9604 Lütisburg Switzerland +41 71 932 53 53 www.kalt-ag.ch info@kalt-ag.

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.