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AND SAYS ‘CHEESE’ Cheddar, Emmentaler, Gouda, Edam, Havarti, Mozzarella and more. These are just some of the many types of cheese Vepo Cheese slices, grates, and cubes, in a variety of package formats.
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pecialty cheese maker Vepo Cheese in Oudewater, The Netherlands, processes and packs a variety of cheeses made “the Dutch Way.” That is to say, the traditional Dutch way a familyowned master cheese company in the business for more than 100 years would make cheese. Vepo combines efficient, modern processing techniques with high quality ingredients and old-world style. Grating, slicing, cubing, shredding and packaging an array of “kaas” (the
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Vepo Cheese needed a versatile, spaceefficient and gentle case packer. SOMIC had the answer in the ReadyPack system.
Dutch word for cheese) from The Netherlands and other European countries for retail, foodservice and industrial markets worldwide, the company offers cheeses in hard and semi-hard versions that are portionpacked, tray-packed, wrapped and bagged. This sounds good, but the packaging departments in both of Vepo Cheese’s processing/production facilities in the western portion of The Netherlands have rather limited space. Until recently, they Retail-Ready Magazine
