Alpma
| ALPMA Alpenland Maschinenbau GmbH | |
|---|---|
| legal form | GmbH |
| founding | 1947 |
| Seat | Rott am Inn , Germany |
| management | Gisbert Strohn, Frank Eberle |
| Number of employees | 560 |
| sales | € 100 million |
| Branch | Special machines, plant construction, food industry |
| Website | www.alpma.de |
| Status: 2014 | |
ALPMA Alpenland Maschinenbau GmbH ( original spelling ALPMA ) is a manufacturer of special machines and systems for the cheese and food industry with headquarters in Rott am Inn . With its machines and systems, the company covers all areas of cheese production from milk to the product ready for dispatch. The company has had a branch in Dresden since 1991. In Germany, the company employs around 500 people and around 60 trainees. The group of companies includes branches in France, Switzerland, Great Britain, the USA and Turkey. The globally active company generates around 75% of its sales abroad.
history
The company was founded in 1947 by the dairy master Gottfried Hain sen. founded in Lehen (municipality of Pfaffing). In 1963 Gottfried Hain jun. the company headquarters in Rott am Inn. In addition to packaging machines for wrapping and canning soft cheese and other piece goods, production systems for soft and semi-hard cheese have also been part of the production program since the 1950s. The coagulator for continuous cheese production developed in the early 1970s is one of the company's most important achievements. After the takeover of the Servi Doryl company in France in 2009, the range was expanded to include bassine systems and portioning systems for soft and semi-hard cheese.
Slicing systems have been developed for packaging companies which, thanks to an upstream scanner, achieve high weight accuracy even for cheeses with very uneven perforations. The company, which is entirely family-owned, is managed by Gisbert Strohn and Frank Eberle, who report to a company advisory board.
Business areas
There are the following business areas: process technology, cheese making technology, cutting and packaging technology.
Process technology
The Process Technology division plans and installs systems for milk and whey processing in cooperation with the LTH Dresden branch. This includes the pretreatment of the milk for the cheese making process and the further processing of sweet and sour whey into whey protein products. The so-called CreamoProt process was patented for this purpose.
The following techniques are used at Alpma for the planning and construction of membrane filtration systems:
- Microfiltration (MF)
- Ultrafiltration (UF)
- Nanofiltration (NF)
- Reverse Osmosis (RO)
Cheese making technology
The cheese making technology division specializes in the planning, construction and installation of cheese factories. One focus is the continuous curd preparation with the coagulator with subsequent high-performance portioning MR for the production of soft cheese that is as accurate as possible. Customer-specific plastic cheese molds are developed and manufactured for individual product design. Most of these plastic molds are produced in the French subsidiaries Servi Doryl and Secril. Alpma offers systems for the mold cycle during the draining phase as well as for salting, transferring to the maturing tray and maturing the cheese. The Formatic portioning system, which enables fast format changes, is used for the continuous production of hard and hard cheese in various formats.
Model of a soft cheese factory
Coagulator for continuous cheese curd preparation
Sliced cheese portioning Alpma Formatic
Molds for soft cheese
Mold for pressed hard cheese
Cutting and packaging technology
The Alpma cutting technique deals with the precise weight cutting of cheese and other foods, regardless of shape or consistency. The product spectrum ranges from simple hydraulic dividers to fully automatic high-performance lines (up to 250 portions per minute).
The Alpma packaging machines are designed for the hygienic wrapping of cheese and other foods.
High-performance cutting line for cheese portions
Alpma Multisan packaging machine for quick format changes
Examples of sliced cheese
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Miriam Zerbel: Cheese off the assembly line. In: Welt am Sonntag. April 13, 2014, accessed December 5, 2014 .
- ↑ Annual report 2012 ( Federal Gazette )
- ^ "Our market leaders", Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 19, 2010
- ↑ DMW, Deutsche Milchwirtschaft, 12/2011 (2nd year)., Page 411 - new packaging, 5.2011, page 74
- ↑ a b c d e History subpage on the company homepage.
- ^ A b Kammerlehner, Josef: Cheese Technology, 1st edition, Freising, 2009, page 262; ISBN 978-3-00-021038-9
- ↑ a b IHK magazine for Munich and Upper Bavaria, companies and markets, issue 9/2012, page 40f.