Llaeth y Llan dairy gets royal seal of approval

On 14 July, Prince Charles visited the Gemak-built Llaeth y Llan – Village Dairy yogurt plant.

His Royal Highness was also invited to unveil a plaque at Gareth Roberts’ farmhouse. He says, “I do want to particularly congratulate the whole family on what they’ve achieved here in all these years. Because I can imagine just what a courageous decision it was to diversify and add value in this way.”

The new plant is now in operation, capable of a fully automated continuous blending and processing of 3000 l/h yogurt.

The fully automated processing plant incorporates a continuous inline yogurt mix preparation and pasteurisation system for different recipes. Number of recipes can be entered consecutively at the start of the shift into the Scada system with the desired quantity and destination vessels for a non-stop processing shift with continuous recipe change overs.

Gemak also supplied two CIP units for raw and finished, raw milk reception unit and water chiller.

The new application removes a timely process of pre-mixing and preparing of the blends for the base prior to pasteurisation with a new inline automated liquid and powder recipe blend process in line with the continuous pasteurisation. The benefits of the new system to Village Dairy are reduced labour with 60% reduction in energy use, 70% increase in processing speed, 60% improvement in process controls, monitoring and recording.

Kursat Uysal from Gemak UK says, “We were given the task not only to design and commission a fully automated turnkey yogurt processing plant with improvements in all areas which we have a lot of experience and know how in but also to match/improve on the current product quality, taste and viscosity. We are very pleased to have lived up to our customer’s expectation and delivering on our promise.”