Dryer control room with Tom Douglas (R) and Bruce
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planuoperatlon.
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BY BARBARA MILLER
Lycoming Co. Correspondent
MIDDLEBURY CENTER
Squirting milk into powder is big
business at a small village called
Middlebury Center located near
Pennsylvania’s Grand Canyon.
This is the home of Dietrich’s Milk
Products who own two of the half
dozen powdered milk plants in the
state. The Middlebury Center
plant, according to Thomas E.
Decker, manager, is one of the
largestpowder operations in north
eastern Pennsylvania. The remain
ing Dietrich plant is in Reading.
As accustomed as old Betsy is to
squirting milk, even she would
find it hard to believe that the
essence of making powdered milk
consists of squirting milk 102 feet
into the air of a “super dome”
where it mixes with 400 degree air
and quickly becomes powder.
According to Decker, the pro
cess mentioned above occurs
every day as part of the company’s
conversion of raw milk to
powdered.
‘The plant can convert 48,000
pounds of raw milk to 6,500
pounds of powder in about one
hour,” reports Decker.
Although the plant changes raw
milk into powdered whole milk,
powdered skim milk, or butter.
Decker stated Dietrich’s special
izes in whole milk powder. “Our
biggest market is whole milk pow
der,” he observed.
Large candy companies who
purchase whole milk powder to
use in the manufacture of milk
chocolate are Dietrich’s biggest
customers.
Situated on 22 acres, the Mid
dlcbury Center plant houses a new
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vertical dryer, a large computer
system and has the capacity of
holding 2.1 million pounds of milk
in five silos.
Two major suppliers of raw
milk to the plant are Atlantic Pro
cessing and the United Dairy Ser
Mini
Mike Klpferl, lab analyst, removes milk powder from a
moisturizer analyzer. Only 2.6 percent should remain in the
powder. The test now takes seven seconds with the new
equipment.
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cooperatives.
The raw milk arrives at the plant
in large tankers and is immediately
tested for antibiotics, acidity, and
bacteria. It must pass those tests
before it goes any further, Decker
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