CHEESE - PACKAGING

Packaging of cheese

After the pressing stage, the handling and packing of cheese is dependent on its variety, and the following examples give the detailed explanation regarding it.

Emmental cheese

A pressed block shaped Emmental cheese is wrapped in cling film and stacked on specially designed pallet which can be mechanically turned during the ripening or storage period. The smaller block shaped Emmental could be packaged mechanically in a cryovac bag. This type of packaging material is laminate of different layers of plastics, and the sequence of operations is as follows.

The bag loader indexes one of the taped bags in to position, opens it, and then automatically loads the block of cheese before depositing the bagged product on to the in-feed conveyor of the vacuum chamber.

An operator straightens the neck of the bag to ensure that a perfect wrinkle free heat-sealed closure is obtained after the air has been removed with in the chamber of the machine.

A second operator carries out the visual inspection as the cheese passes through a check / weighing station and a weight label is applied.

The cheese passes through the shrink tunnel and is placed in a plastic box or card board container.