As Charles Dickens's Mr Micawber put it in David Copperfield: 'Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19 pounds, 19 shillings and six pence, result: happiness. Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds, ought shillings and six pence, result: misery'.

The choice between a volumetric versus a gravimetric loss-in-weight (LIW) feeder for delivery of high value ingredients is based upon the need to know the exact amount of ingredients delivered and the accuracy of that delivery. In the case of one ice cream maker, a K-Tron LIW single screw S60 feeder provided the answer.

Dale Farm co-operative, which is 100% owned by United Dairy Farmers, decided to look no further than Tetrapak company CPS when it wanted to invest in cheese making equipment and process plant.

Leicester-based weighing specialist Mettler Toledo has provided Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses of Lancashire with an industrial floor scale to provide checkweighing for its dairy products at various stages of production and shipping.

Control of Listeria is one of the major challenges facing the cheese industry. Now Cheshire-based cheese supplier J S Bailey has enlisted the help of anti-microbial technology company Byotrol to eradicate Listeria and ensure that all cheese leaving its factory is Listeria free.