UFSN-02 unit for cheese string production

Customer

Private producer

Region

Omsk Region

Year of delivery

2022

Equipment

UFSN cheese string forming unit (chechil)

Catalogue section

Cheese making equipment

String cheese — braids, spaghetti and sticks — is one of the most popular dairy snack products, and demand for it is steady all year round. A private producer from the Omsk Region decided to put the production of such cheeses on an industrial footing and stop pulling the strings by hand.

In April 2022 the customer received a UFSN-02 cheese string forming unit. The machine works with heated, plastic cheese mass: it is pressed through a forming head and comes out as a calibrated string of a set cross-section, ready for salting, drying or smoking.

Machine forming eliminates the main problems of the manual method: string thickness no longer varies from batch to batch, the operator does not handle the hot mass, and the section's output no longer depends on the stamina of a particular cheese maker. All working surfaces are made of food-grade stainless steel.

For a small producer, this is an entry into the snack segment with a product of consistent quality: the calibrated string fits the packaging uniformly, looks neat on the shelf and meets retailers' requirements for product appearance. The unit is compact and did not require any rebuilding of the workshop — it fitted into the existing chain between cooking the cheese mass and the salting and smoking section.