Green Cleaning of dairy milking equipment

Hot wash chemical wash systems of dairy milking equipment are effective but they use large quantities of energy, water and chemicals. The project brings together the farm, technical, regulatory and commercial sectors to develop the next generation of environmentally sustainable milking machine cleaning systems, and aims to introduce them into the Victorian dairy industry. Its legacy will be commercially available products that clean dairy plants effectively using warm water and reuse of chemicals.

AgVet Projects is responsible for the management and delivery of the project. The project’s industry partners include the main suppliers of dairy equipment and dairy chemicals in Australia: Daviesway, Milka-Ware, DairyMaster, Campbell Cleantec, DeLaval, Tasman Chemicals and Westfalia Surge. Using the findings from the project as a guide, some of these companies will be developing their own proprietary systems for the market place.
 

Funding: Sustainability Victoria, Gardiner Foundation
For more information go to Green Cleaning