GLASS TANKS FOR CREAM

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 198, 4 August 1928, Page 12

GLASS TANKS FOR CREAM

BEING INSTALLED IN NEW ZEALAND FACIOKIEtS, Some time ago the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Company decided io import a number 01 Huge glasslined tanks for the storage oi cream at some of the company’s butter factories. The Te Awamutu factory is to have two of these tanks installed. Otorohanga factory will have three, and ttie destination of tlie other receptacles ordered has not yet been announced. The tanks, which arirved by the Arawa at Auckland recently, have a capacity of 2000 gallons each and weigh about tons. Mr A. 11. Roberts, manager of the company’s Te Awamutu factory, states that the tanks will ensure greater cleanliness in manufacturing butter, for they are constructed oi metal and lined with special glass, and have no corners or seams within. When the now tanks are emptied after the cream has been held in them for 24 hours for ripening, fheir cleansing will be a simple and rapid process. The tanks also are jacketed to hold a refrigerating mixture of brine. By this means the eream can be held at the temperature required until it goes into the churns. This and other equipment constantly being installed in dairy factories is tim best ally the managers cat! have in then unceasing win- against bacteria and in their content campaign to raise the grade of the output. J