Butter and ghee
Practical Action
Butter moulds (optional).
Butter pats.
Cream separator (manual or electric)
Pasteurising pan (e.g. 10 litres) preferably made from stainless steel, but aluminium is
acceptable. Or jacketed pan.
Refrigerator.
Scales (optional): 0-1 kg +/- 1 g for weighing ingredients, 0-25 kg +/- 100 g for milk
Thermometer (0-100 oC) for checking product and refrigerator temperatures (preferably an
electronic thermometer).
Timer.
Additionally for lactic butter:
Incubator.
Additionally for ghee:
Cheesecloth
Bottle filler (optional)
Lid/cap sealer for bottles (optional)
Equipment suppliers
Note: This is a selective list of suppliers and does not imply endorsement by Practical Action.
The website Small Dairy also lists equipment suppliers, books and contacts for small dairy
processing.
Butter making equipment including butter churns, moulds, vats.
Goma Engineering PVT Ltd Majiwada, Behind Universal Petrol Pump, Thane - 400 601,
Mumbai, India, Tel: +91 22 534 6436/534 0875, Fax: +91 22 533 3634/3632, E-mail:
goma@bom3.vsnl.net.in
Jaya Industries, 235 Jessore Road, Kolkata - 700 028, West Bengal, India. Tel: +91 33
25799337, Fax: +91 33 25513568, Email: jaya.group.ind@gmail.c. Website: www.jaya-
industries.com.
SELAM Technical & Vocational College, P.O. Box 8075, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Tel:
+251 (0)11 646 29 42, Fax: +251 (0)11 646 34 79, E-Mail: selamtvc@ethionet.et, Website:
www.selamethiopia.org/vocational.htm
Butter & yoghurt making ingredients & equipment
Finest Kind, P.O. Box 1, Plettenberg Bay 6600, South Africa, Tel: +27 (0) 44 533
1623, E mail: info@finestkind.co.za, Website: www.finestkind.co.za/equipment.html
Butter moulds
La Prima shops,
Centrifugal cream separator (manual or electric), butter churns and other dairy equipment
Smallholding Supplies, Pikes Farmhouse, East Pennard, Shepton Mallet, Somerset, BA4
6RR, UK., Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1749 860688.
Dairy Udyog C-230, Ghatkopar Industrial Estate, L.B.S. Marg, Ghatkopar (West), Mumbai -
400 086, India, Tel: +91 22 517 1636 / 517 1960, Fax: +91 22 517 0878, E-mail:
jipun@vsnl.com.
Lehman’s, P.O. Box 41, Kidron, Ohio 44636, USA. Tel: +1 877 438 5346, +1 888 438
5346, E-mail: info@lehmans.com, Website: http://www.lehmans.com
Cream butyrometer
Hindusthan Thermostatics, 5- Industrial Estate, Ambala Cantt-133 006 Haryana, India, Tel
+ 0171 2699116/2663783, Fax: +91 171 2699391, E-mail: ht@htindia.com,
Jacketed pans
Winkworth Machinery Ltd., Tel: +44 (0)118 988 3551, Fax: +44 (0)118 984 0270, E-
mail:enquiries@mixer.co.uk, Website: http://www.mixer.co.uk/
Larger mechanised butter churns
Van den Heuvel, www.dairyandfoodequipment.com/en/products/27
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