—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 4,1977
102
Dietrich’s Dairy takes surplus milk
By LAUREL SCHAEFFER
Berks County Reporter
MUHLENBURG PARK,
Pa. - “The drying process
itself, takes a very short
time,” explained Tom
Dietrich, grandson of the
founder of Dietrich’s Milk
Products. “When the milk is
brought into the plant it is
pasteurized, After that it
goes into an evaporator
which condences it down to
45 per cent solids, removing
about one-half the water
content. From these
evaporators it is blown into.
large cone shaped dryers
which powders it instantly
by forced hot air.
As Dietrich explained the
process of how whole milk,
which is only 12 per cent
solids is dryed to a powder of
98 per cent, it sounded
simple. This impressive
family-owned operation has
a maximum capacity for
making 100,000 pounds of
milk powder per day. The
company, which used to be a
small retail fluid bottler for
50 years, did not become
today’s powdering plant
overnight.
Surge
stands behind the
man and the
milking system
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Started over 50 years ago,
Dietrich’s Dairy was a small
local bottler. Not until after
the Second World War did
Dietrich’s begin to dry milk,
and that was only a small
basis.
Ifae large (liyer presently
in use was purchased 15
years ago, but, explained
Dietrich “we have only come
to our own in the past three
or four years.”
“The fluid retail business
was phased out entirely in
1969,” Dietrich informed
Lancaster Farming. “We
changed into what our
market demands were, and
what we felt we could do
best,” explained the
enthusiastic assistant
manager, an arbitrary title
Dietrich uses to describe his
position. “Titles aren’t
, needed here since we are
only a small company,” he
explained. Presently the
plant is run by the young
man’s father.
The milk used for
powdering is surplus
'production bought from
cooperatives. Because of
this, the milk does not come
in on a steady basis. When
fluid bottlers are running
their plants there is not
much surplus coming into
Dietrich’s, but during
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