AUGUST 2020 DAIRYDAIRY INDUSTRIES international INDUSTRIES www.dairyindustries.com AUGUST 2020 DAIRY INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL DAIRY Bubble tea travels Inside Taiwan gets fresh VOL 85 No 8 Focus on filtration Environmental aspects Cellular level milk Dii COVER AUG 20**.indd 1 15/07/2020 10:12 Contents REGULARS AUGUST 2020 DAIRY DAIRY international international INDUSTRIES INDUSTRIES INDUSTRIES 5 Editor’s Comment www.dairyindustries.com AUGUST 2020 Volume 85 No. 8 6 World News DAIRY INDUSTRIES INTERNATIONAL DAIRY August 2020 14 New Product News 36 New Equipment 37 Diary Bubble tea Editorial Director 42 Working Day... Ross McMahon, CEO, Kendal Nutricare travels Sarah McRitchie Inside [email protected] Taiwan gets fresh FEATURES 85 No 8 VOL Focus on filtration Environmental aspects Editor Cellular level milk 12 News Focus Suzanne Christiansen Dii COVER AUG 20**.indd 1 15/07/2020 10:12 [email protected] Capitalising on consumer demands for functional products News Focus Art Editor 13 Sue Burke US export performance was greater than expected [email protected] 16 Euro View Digital Editor The EU dairy sector is fighting through Covid-19, but Alex Rivers political storms are threatening the industry’s health [email protected] 18 Environment Regular Contributors The Innovation Center for US Dairy has selected six Henrik von Suhr winners for its sustainability awards this year Julian Mellentin Environment 21 Dairy Beverages See page 18 Group Sales Manager A RTD bubble tea debuts for grab and go convenience Mark Neilson [email protected] 22 Cheese Traceability A look at traceability in the world’s most popular cheese Sales Manager Samantha Bull 24 Taiwan [email protected] More producers and new products are driving the nation’s demand for fresh milk in small packages Accounts Yee Yau Technology [email protected] 26 Cheese Making real milk from mammalian cells, TurtleTree is on the cutting edge of dairy technology in Singapore Traceability Publisher See page 22 Neil McRitchie [email protected] 29 Ingredients Launching a functional ingredients brand in a lockdown 30 Laboratory Analysis Editorial & Sales Office Packaging solutions can be tried out at Syntegon Ampack The Maltings, 57 Bath Street, Technikum laboratory in Königsbrunn Gravesend, Kent DA11 0DF UK 32 Safety Tel: +44 1474 532 202 The common contamination culprits in dairy products Fax: +44 1474 532 203 34 Equipment Focus Taiwan See page 24 Batch monitoring and recording can protect manufacturers 35 Filtration Yeo Valley has added a new manufacturing site specialising in its kerned yogurt CLASSIFIED 38 The Dairy Directory Filtration See page 35 www.dairyindustries.com August 2020 DAIRY INDUSTRIES international 3 P.03 CONTENTS√.indd 3 15/07/2020 11:41 ULTIMATE HYGIENE, MAXIMUM YIELD Discover our USDA accepted products and solutions for achieving the perfect cut in all shapes and sizes. 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Industries International Bubble tea is often thought of as a process as much as a magazine product, but DD&B Solutions in the US has instead decided to look at its value as a ready-to-drink product for on-the-go Jenny Deeprose consumption. It seems a very timely way to enjoy bubble tea, Dairy Journalist & when less contact is more and convenience is key. See our Cheese Judge interview on page 21. Finally, the infant nutrition market is set to grow ever larger globally, particularly in Asia. Kendal Nutricare, based in the UK’s Lake District, has decided to take a fresh look at what goes into infant formula powders, and has come up with a winning range of products that capitalises on the British brand globally. CEO Ross McMahon even uses it in his tea. See our Q&A with him on page 42. Dr Fiona Lalor Suzanne Christiansen, Editor Food for Health Ireland Follow @Bell_Publishing on Twitter or LinkedIn for regular snapshots from all of our magazines. 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It Hochdorf’s management From 2015 to 2020 he was focuses on the establish- ment of the ASSAP in 2018 team. As COO, he took over responsible for the manage- and interaction with farmers the management of all pro- ment and optimization of the plant for Danone in Buda- until 31 December 2019. duction plants on 1 July. He production of several plants pest (Hungary). From 2002 The ASSAP programme is replaces the previous COO at Danone/Milupa in Fulda, to 2013 he worked at Mars, part of a government effort Christoph Peternell, who left Germany. He was also re- Bokros (Hungary), a manu- to improve water quality in 190 selected water bod- the company immediately at sponsible for registering the facturer of high-quality pet ies around the country by his own request. German plants and recipes food, as a development en- reducing agricultural and Somogyi is a trained food as a prerequisite for entering gineer, head of a shift opera- non-agricultural pressures. engineer and Hungarian the Chinese market. Before tion and responsible head of citizen. He has held various that, he ran a milk processing production. Frischpack neutral Frischpack of Germany has worked on reducing the car- bon footprint at its Mailling Improved sales for organic BMI in Germany site for years. Together with ClimatePartner, a certified German dairy Bayerische The whey powder business negative impact on the 2019 partner in the field of climate Milchindustrie has (BMI) re- for BMI was dampened in the result. neutrality, Frischpack has ported an increase in sales second half of the year by the Efficiency increases and selected four projects. Two of 9.2% or €55 million to slump in demand from China financing at the expense of of the selected projects are certified according to in- €653 million in 2019. Thom- due to swine fever. liquidity cushioned the addi- ternational standards: the as Obersojer, CEO of BMI With an increase in sales tional costs in Jessen to such Forest Conservation on the notes, “In our three divisions, of 3%, the fresh produce an extent that they did not Amazon project achieves ingredients, fresh products area developed satisfac- have an impact on the bal- a verified carbon standard, and cheese, we were able to torily overall. Due to the ance sheet, BMI says. while the Wind Energy in the Philippines meets the gold provide to the market, using drop in prices, especially for The target output of 100 standard category. our organic competence.” butter, cream and low-fat curd tons/day in Jessen has been A growth driver in the cheese, sales in this division reliably achieved since April, Cheese firm buy past financial year was the were 2.7% below the previ- so that the location now has Industrial investor CGS has ingredients division with an ous year. an annual throughput of 500 taken over Kalt Maschinen- increase of 24.7%, mainly The completion of the new million kg. bau in Switzerland. With Kalt, CGS is building a driven by the sale of organic 35,000 tons hard cheese pro- As a dairy with a strong new industrial group in the lactose and whey deriva- duction dairy in Jessen and share of sales and exports in cheese making technolo- tives, especially to manufac- other construction measures out-of-home consumption, gy sector, as Kalt is a spe- turers of baby food (organic on site have proved to be BMI’s business suffered from cialist in cheese, dairy and products and derivatives in- challenges. the coronavirus pandemic: for process technology.