Food and Dairy tech can supply egg powder manufacturing plant that can produce fine powder from fresh eggs. Our unit egg powder plant is an 100% export oriented unit with advanced features and can be maintained at a low cost. The egg powder manufactured by our plants meet the international quality standards. This plant is fully automated and has a well equipped quality assurance laboratory to test birds, feed and egg powder.
Hygiene is one aspect that we especially take care of while manufacturing plants. We make sure that our plants manufacture pure powder and do not affect the quality. Egg powder manufacturing follows a particular process in the following manner-
Breaking of eggs
Removing the shell
Filtration
Storage
Drying and
Packaging
Each egg contains 50-55 GM slurry which contains 22-25% 'total solids'. Egg powder can be reconstituted and can be used for a variety of purposes including- omelette's preparation, baking purpose and for several other value-added products. While eggs are prone to breakage during transportation, egg powder are completely safe and has a longer shelf-life.
Our egg powder plant processes 50,000 eggs/day and produces about 700 kg egg powder. Space requirement to install this type of plant is around 250 sq. yards. The plants that we provide, conform to the international standards and the level of output can be customized as per the requirement of the company. Egg powder plant is easy to clean and this is necessary in case of eggs. Moreover, this machine do not require high technical operation. This is easy to operate and handle.
Further concentration takes place in the evaporator. This plant operates under a vacuum, which lowers the boiling point of the liquid. Here, the 16% total solids whey is concentrated to 52% total solids by boiling off water.
The concentrated whey is stored in crystallisation vats for up to 12 hours to allow the lactose to crystallise. After crystallisation, the whey concentrate is pumped to the Niro Spray Dryer where it is further dried, leaving Demineralised Whey Powder with a water content of 2%. The finished product is then packed into 25kg or 1-tonne bags ready for sale on the domestic or export markets.
Processing, Cutting and Packaging
To meet ever-increasing demand for Bega cheeses, in 1998 Bega Cheese invested $25 million in the installation of a new Processing, Cutting and Packaging Plant.
The new plant was designed to service an increasing export market in addition to existing local markets. At full capacity, it is envisaged that two thirds of product will go off-shore. It has also been a major boost for the local economy.
For export markets the Bega brand can be cut and packed to specific market labelling requirements. Some customers may want their own proprietary branding or private label on cheddar and processed cheese products. Bega Cheese is also able to service major industrial and food service contracts including burger slices, portion control, government and other similar contracts.
The plant is constructed to the highest standard and is the first food plant in Australia to operate at pharmaceutical grade hygiene standard. The plant is equal to the best in the world in terms of capacity, hygiene and internal atmospheric control.
The processing plant includes two lines for individually wrapped processed cheese slices and one for non-individually wrapped sliced caterers' packs. The Quality Assurance System includes cheese grading, check weighing and metal detection in the packing lines.
The cutting and packaging equipment for natural cheeses includes a vacuum packaging line, a Cryovac shrink tunnel and a bag loader for 1kg, 2.5kg and 10kg blocks. There are two flow wrap gas flush lines for 250g, 500g, 750g and 1kg blocks, and a Multivac portion line which also handles Bega Stringers.
These lines can handle contract specifications and alternative weight packs. Bega Cheese now has the potential to manufacture and distribute 18,000 tonnes of natural cheese and 12,000 tonnes of processed cheese each year.
