CASEIN MANUFACTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 August 1922, Page 6

CASEIN MANUFACTURE.

PROSPECTS REVIEWED. The manager of the Casein Company, Mr. Holt, addressed the annual meeting of the Tikorangi' Dairy Company yesterday on the prospects of casein for the coming season. He said when he came to New Zeauand last year things did not look too well for casein, but matters had considerably improved. For the past season he thought the company would be able' to pay the suppliers about £25 per ton for' the casein supplied, which would mean about. 14d per lb additional pay-out. For the coming year the company expected to advance about £27 per ton for firstgrade casein, which would show that the prospects had considerably improved. Whether this price could be maintained throughout the season or not, he could not say, but he hoped it would. He thought these figures would induce suppliers to supply more skimmed milk during the coming season. He had investigated the results of separating in New Zealand and in Denmark. The work done by separators in New Zealand was “beneath contempt,” and would not be tolerated in Denmark. This was no reflection on the managers, but on the machines. A separator should not- be run for more than one and a-half hour, to ensure good separation. More attention should be paid to separating, so that fat could be kept out of the casein and further add to profits. Samples of casein examined h a d shown about 34 per cent, of fats. This percentage* of fats in the 40 tons of casein produced by the company last year would contain 130 or 140 or more boxes of butter. He believed that the Tikorangi factory had not sufficient separators to enable each machine to be run for not more than one and a-half hour. Next year he proposed to institute a superfine grade of casein, for which £2 per ton extra would be paid.