Cheesy deal for MCE Engineering
A Derby engineering business is looking to profit from America’s growing appetite for speciality cheese after forming a partnership with a producer in Vermont. MCE Engineering will supply machinery to the Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company in its first transatlantic order.
MCE Engineering has already supplied the company with an automated cheese pegmill, which breaks up curd during the cheese-making process allowing the company to increase its production.
It is the first transatlantic order received by the Derby company, which designs, manufactures and installs food production machinery.
Other clients include Premier Foods, McVities, United Biscuits, Dairy Crest, KP Nuts and Thorntons.
Peter Murray, director of MCE Engineering, said: "There has been a big increase in the demand for independently produced cheeses over in the States and the company needed the curd mill to keep up with demand.
"However much they sell, they are determined to make it authentic and when they couldn’t find a suitable machinery supplier over there, they decided they would look for a company in England, which is the home of cheddar cheese."
