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Creating Added Value with

X-Ray Technology

By Georg Hübner*

X-ray systems secure the product
quality and improve the production
sequences at the Bavarian company
Privatmolkerei Bechtel.

FROM A SMALL BROOK TO A
LARGE RIVER
The picturesque Naab meanders
gently through the Upper Palatinate.
It grows from a brook to a river over its
course from the source near Weiden

to where it flows into the Danube near
Regensburg. The Schwarzenfeld-
based Privatmolkerei Bechtel has
also grown from modest beginnings
into a large company in the 110 years
of its history. Managing director
René Guhl is the head of the family
company in the fourth generation.
Over one million liters of milk are
processed daily at the constantly
expanding company headquarters.
The main products are yoghurt, Production runs 365 days a year in a CHALLENGING PRODUCTION
liquid milk and cream cheese. fourshift system. PROCESS
The processing of raw milk into
consumer products consists of
complex steps. Products such as
quark, hard cheese, drinking milk
or butter are produced by means
of separators, butter churning
machines, milk pasteurizers, fi lling
and packing machines and many
more besides. The individual
process sequences differ with each
end product. The mixture of manual
work and the use of machinery is a
further challenging feature of the
manufacture of milk products.

Hazards are created by material
abrasion on the processing
machines, wire breakages or the
ingress of foreign materials through
maintenance work on the building

Food Marketing & Technology 33 February 2020