Holy Cow, it’s National Dairy Month Again!
Dairy farms in the U.S. produce roughly 21 billion gallons of milk annually. And it’s a good thing they do because Americans love dairy.
In fact, Americans are consuming more dairy than ever before. But they’re not just drinking it – they’re also eating a lot of it. Per capita, .
- About 130 pounds of milk per person each year.
- Just shy of 40 pounds of cheese per year.
- Roughly 20 pounds of ice cream each year.
- Just over 14 pounds of yogurt per year.
- About six pounds of butter per year.
- Plus, lots of cottage cheese, cream cheese, specialty milks and frozen ice cream snacks and novelties.
But before Americans can benefit from healthy, high-protein dairy — it needs to be successfully packaged. And that’s where IPM comes in.
Integrated Packaging Machinery (IPM) collaborates every day with producers to meet dairy consumers’ expectations for variety, quality, taste and food safety. IPM works with dairy food producers across the product format and package style spectrum to design, engineer, integrate and install high-speed and high-volume food and beverage packaging systems and sub-systems.
