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Tnuva Dairy, Eilon Tavor, Israel
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Tnuva Dairy, Eilon Tavor, Israel
The largest Dairy plant in the Middle East is the TNUVA Facility located at Eilon Tavor, in the northern part of Israel. This Dairy incorporates the most modern technology available and covers an area of approximately 15.000 m2. M+W Group has supplied the complete air technology for the new building as well as the cooling tunnel unit for the cooling-down of the products.
Tnuva is Israel’ s largest food manufacturer and has a market coverage of approximately 70% of the yearly consumption of dairy products in Israel.
The six Dairies, which are spread over the whole country, produce 850 million liters of high quality dairy products per year.
Scope of Service
M+W Group has supplied the complete air technology for the whole storage area, which is sub-divided into three areas, i.e. cold storage, storage for the maturing process and ambient temperature storage.
A cooling tunnel unit for the cooling-down of the products, with a capacity for storing 200 palettes has also be installed. This results in an airflow rate of 1.500.000 m3 being circulated every hour. The refrigeration power for the complete unit is 5.795 kW in total.
Timeline
The construction of the Dairy started in August 2002 and was operational in March 2003.
The Project
The particularly sensitive products which are processed and manufactured in a dairy make extremely high demands on the temperature control system. The temperature in the finished products warehouse is kept at a constant +4°C. By employing special technology, it is possible to guarantee a temperature tolerance of only ± 1 °C in the complete storage area.
The raw materials and packaging materials warehouse is constructed as a double-zone unit. This enables the lower storage area to be kept at a temperature of +18°C at the most, whilst the upper storage area will just about be kept at ambient temperature. It is therefore possible to store commodities which require refrigeration and goods which are not temperature-sensitive in a single warehouse without spatial separation, without having to regulate thetemperature for all stored goods to suit the storage temperature of the most sensitive items, which would require a large amount of energy. The cooling tunnel will be constructed as a two-lane unit. This tunnel in Israel, with its capacity to store 200 palettes, is the largest tunnel M+W Group has built to date. A palette flow of nearly 90 palettes per hour is cooled down from, on occasions, 80°C to the required final temperature of +6°C.
Result
In the Dairy in Eilon Tavor, 250 million liters of milk per year are to be processed to make cream cheese, yogurt and dessert products. Especially in Israel’s warm climate, these products require reliable precision refrigeration.
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