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Dairy Solutions

With Hydrite as your single source chemical supplier, you will optimize your food safety and sanitation to make the best products on the market. Our job is to find creative solutions to increase your profitability and run your plant more efficiently – and we love what we do for you. Your profitability is directly linked to production efficiencies. Hydrite provides solutions designed to shrink the sanitation window, give you more production hours in your day, and produce safer dairy products; this includes applications like:

Milk (whole, skim, 2%, evaporated, condensed, etc.)
Cheese (cheddar, mozzarella, gouda, brie, etc.)
Yogurt (plain, Greek, flavored, etc.)
Butter
Cream (heavy cream, half-and-half, etc.)
Sour Cream
Buttermilk
Cream Cheese
Kefir
Ice Cream
Whey (whey protein, whey concentrate, whey isolate)

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Solutions for dairy processing

Sanitation

Sanitation Chemicals

The sanitation of your plant has a direct impact on the shelf life and quality of the products you produce. The program you implement impacts your production efficiencies, effluent costs, and the life of your equipment. Hydrite produces a complete line of sanitation products for the dairy industry including:

CIP cleaners
Sanitizers
Manual cleaners
Foam cleaners
Conveyor lube
Membrane cleaners
Single shot cleaners
Foot foamer compound
Hand sanitation products
Wetting agents/water conditioners

Water Treatment

Hydrite offers a complete line of chemicals for wastewater treatment. We provide the feed equipment, technical service, and engineering to help you minimize costs and comply with local regulations.

Acids and caustic for pH adjustment
Coagulation for clarification
Odor control
Polymers and flocculants for separation
Phosphorus reduction
BOD/solids reduction

Food Ingredients

Hydrite manufactures and distributes food ingredients to the dairy, cheese and ice cream industries. For your convenience, many ingredients, are available in both granular and liquid forms.

Citric acid
Calcium chloride
Aqua ammonia
Caustic potash
Disodium phosphate
Hydrogen peroxide
Food grade phosphoric acid
Potassium sorbate
Sodium citrate
Sodium hexametaphosphate

Commodity Chemicals

In addition to manufacturing plant sanitation chemicals, Hydrite is one of North America’s largest chemical distributors. We supply a wide array of commodities such as:

Foam Control

Our foam control group offers a full line of defoamers with regulatory approvals. We craft products to eliminate foam which can increase your overall production quotas. We offer:

Silicone based food grade defoamers
Non-silicone based food grade defoamers
CIP and wastewater defoamers
Feed and control equipment

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Membrane Technologies

Hydrite offers a full range of services designed to implement and maintain effective chemical membrane cleaning protocols in your facility. Our sanitation offerings extend from effective detergents to in-plant support and training, ensuring that you not only receive the right chemical products but that your employees use them properly.

Apollo No. 327: A nonionic surfactant additive enhancing membrane filtration system cleaning. Approved for UF and MF polymeric membranes in all food plants.
Hydriflux NP No. 366: A concentrated NaOH based liquid, non-chlorinated alkaline cleaner for reverse osmosis and filtration in membranes.
Membrane Additive No. 531: A low odor, liquid potassium metabisulfite solution for reverse osmosis and filtration for membranes.

Dairy Evaporator Cleaning

Application Spotlight: Dairy Evaporators

Production floor employees know how much of a nuisance a clogged evaporator tube can be. Running almost 24/7, keeping evaporators clean is crucial for maintaining efficiency, product quality, and safety in a dairy production facility. Regular cleaning and maintenance of evaporators extends operational life, saves on repair and replacement costs, and prevents equipment damage or costly downtime. More importantly, proper cleaning helps prevent bacterial growth and contamination, ensuring the final products meet safety standards and maintain their desired taste and texture.

Hydrite is proud to offer best-in-class proprietary evaporator processing aids like Delta No. 594, Prolong Plus No. 598, and Poly-Sperse No. 543. These solutions help prevent scale build up, mineral fouling, white scorch particles, and reduced throughput.

Service and Support

Our focus on training your employees will help you achieve your goal of consistent finished product quality in a safe environment. You will appreciate our unparalleled technical emphasis and passion for true customer service. Many of our service and technical support personnel have prior food industry production experience, making them a valuable resource for their customers.

Production Optimization

Hydrite provides processing aids to help you achieve longer production runs, better finished product quality, easier and faster cleanups and reduced energy costs. Our aids, combined with the expertise of our technical and engineering experts, can increase production of:

Heat exchangers
Membranes
Evaporators
Crystalizers
Refiners
Dryers

Engineering & Equipment

To ensure safe, accurate and economical chemical usage, our service specialists and engineering staff investigate and recommend the proper chemical feed and control equipment.

Detergent feed systems
Bulk and tote chemical storage and transfer
Central sanitizing systems
Central doorway foaming systems
Liquid ingredient storage and feed systems

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Hydrite Technology

Affordable, dependable, flexible, and robust, Hydrite chemical equipment systems are designed to optimize chemical delivery and application in the dairy processing plant. Choose from Hydrite-exclusive and off-the-shelf options that meet your unique application needs. View All Equipment.

Hydri-Vision

Hydri-Vision is patent pending technology for collecting, analyzing, and documenting concentrations of cleaning, sanitation, and intervention chemistries. Food safety, verification and validation as well as quality of an applicable finished product are foundational to this creative solution

Hydri-Pro

Hydri-Pro is patent pending technology for allocating and dispensing cleaning, sanitation and intervention chemistries. Simplicity of its design as well as the accuracy and speed of chemical delivery is foundational to this creative solution.

Hydrite Training

Hydrite offers training and educational programs to help increase your knowledge and understanding of food safety, and improve your company’s operational efficiencies. Our programs cover topics such as cleaning dynamics, CIP verification & validation, food microbiology, and preventative sanitation - just to name a few. An effective food safety program will enable your company to apply these techniques to everyday working operations and effectively uphold food safety practices. Grow your knowledge with Hydrite

Steve Tienvieri

Steve Tienvieri

Senior Lead Microbiologist

26+ Years of Experience

Joel Cook

Joel Cook

Senior Technical Manager

22+ Years of Experience

Glen Giersch

Glen Giersch

ATS Program Manager

28+ Years of Experience

Scott Brown

Scott Brown

Sr. Membrane Technical Specialist

26+ Years of Experience

Carl Garcia

Carl Garcia

Membrane Technical Manager

30+ Years of Experience

Technical Expertise at Your Fingertips

Hydrite’s RITE Team™ is a group of experienced professionals tasked to help food processing companies address critical issues through innovative, sustainable solutions. This unique network of individuals includes decades of experience in microbiology, membranes, CIP performance, product selection, equipment, and troubleshooting. The RITE Team™ is ready to support dairy processors through technical training, program development, and adjacent technology. Meet the Team

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