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Set Yogurt

Yogurt is the most popular of the cultured milk products. The process for manufacture of set yogurt includes the following steps:

Milk pre-treatment

  • Protein concentration
  • Fat standardisation
  • Heat treatment
  • De-aeration
  • Homogenzation
  • PH reduction
  • Cooling
  • Inoculation and heating
  • Flavour dosing
  • Filling
  • Bacterial fermentation
  • Final cooling

Capabilities

Each stage of yogurt manufacture requires careful selection and control of raw materials, processing conditions, and equipment. SPX's wide-ranging experience in this field ensures consistent high-quality products. Find out more.

Process Diagram

Benefits

  • SPX offers an enormous range of resources to the dairy industry in process engineering, equipment manufacturing, project management - for both large and small projects - and world-class development facilities.
  • Our range of product recovery and waste reduction processes are designed to reduce effluent costs and minimise loss of valuable product. These processes include:

    • "Pigging" systems to maximise product recovery from pipework
    • Flotation plant for pre-treatment of dairy effluent
    • Special clean-in-place (CIP) software programs to minimise drainage and water usage
    • Membrane concentration systems for recovery of product/water mixes for recycling or sale
    • Optimisation of plant layout at the design stage - i.e. built-in waste reduction
    • Automation software and instrumentation for accurate monitoring and control.

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