Jakarta (Antara) – The milk producer of PT Nestle Indonesia provides an opportunity for the media crew to see first hand the process of making liquid milk into milk powder at the Kejayan factory, which is in Kejayan, Pasuruan, East Java.
The Kejayan factory is the first and largest Nestle factory since 1988. The factory with an area of 220,000 square meters produces all variants of Nestle Dancow milk such as Dancow Instant Full Cream, Dancow 3 and 5 Plus and Dancow Choco, as well as for liquid bear brand for the needs of the East Java market market .
Dairy Category Manager Sutarman said every day, 360 tons of fresh milk from 14 thousand dairy farmers in 14 districts in East Java came using a tank truck with a capacity of 1.5-18 tons. For 24 hours 30-50 trucks come with fresh cow’s milk with quality that is maintained.
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Milk brought by farmers is required to be 4 degrees Celsius, so that they arrive at the place of fresh milk reception (fresh milk reception) remains in good condition to be tested for quality.
When the truck enters Fresh Milk Receptionofficer Quality Control will take sample milk directly from the tank to be tested by examination macronutrien, organoleptic Namely testing through the color, taste and odor that can be felt and seen, then the temperature of the arrival, the antibiotic content test, and the alleged forgery.
“If there is an antibiotic content, it means that the cows are sick,” said Sutarman, in Pasuruan, East Java, Tuesday (11/2).
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After passing the quality test, the truck containing milk in the queue for milk is sucked up and flowed to three tubes Silo Raw Milk with a capacity of 100 tons of milk each. Each milk is channeled to do the next process into milk powder or liquid milk in the factory.
After being sucked and distributed into the factory, it will then enter the process of making milk powder. In this stage, fresh liquid milk enters the tube Tippingafter that it flows into the process in the tube scanima To separate fat and water so that milk fat can dissolve in water.
This process can make milk that was initially liquid to be thicker. After that enter the process Homogenesis To equalize the structure of fat so that when dissolved in water does not scump. Then the milk will start entering the large tube spray dryer 6.5 meters in diameter so that milk can turn into powder assisted with high pressure hot steam. This process lasts approximately one hour.
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During this process, the engine will be monitored by three technicians from the control room. They are tasked with ensuring the engine runs well, because all processes have been dicated by the machine. For each variant of milk also has each recipe so that production will not be mistaken.
When the milk is powdered, directly enters the packaging process both for the size of 390 grams for instant dancows or sachet packaging dancows. Every hour hundreds of boxes are neatly arranged with an engine and ready to be distributed.
“Here all the machines, there is no human intervention ranging from making milk to packaging,” said Sutarman.
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Dancow product distribution from the Kejayan factory adjusts to the surrounding market needs. In addition to the factory in Kejayan East Java, Nestle also has a factory in Panjang, Lampung which specializes in producing nescafe coffee, and the Bandaraya factory that specializes in manufacturing cans ready to drink (ready to drink).
The East Java Kejayan factory also has biomass processing as an energy reserves that can be used in the factory. This biomass processing utilizes pieces of wood, the remaining wooden saws, rice husks and corn tubers.
Rice Husk and Corn Bonggol are the most widely used products for biomass because the area around Kejayan is an agricultural area, while pieces of wood and the remaining wooden saws because Pasuruan is a furniture production area.
This is the commitment of Nestle in the application of sustainability so that there is no waste or waste that is wasted around Pasuruan or Kejayan.
In 2022 Nestle also managed to reduce 4 percent of carbon emissions compared to the previous year.
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Reporter: Fitra Ashari
Editor: Mahmudah
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