At A Glance

Tillamook County Creamery Association, Tillamook, Ore.

Interstate Milk Shipper Plant 030: IMS Ratings — 90% raw milk, 90% enforcement (July 2012)

History: The plant was built in 1949. A whey powder plant was added in 1979 and expanded in 1995. The cold storage capacity was expanded in 1984. In the 1990s, cheese manufacturing and packaging capacities were expanded and automated. In 2000, Tillamook added an Automated Storage and Retrieval System automated warehouse. Last year saw the start of facility upgrades, including a starter room and CIP room and new locker rooms and a centralized break room for production employees.

Size: 307,990 square feet

Employees: About 500 (production and non-production). The facility has three shifts.

Products made: Cheese, ice cream and dry sweet whey powder

Processing capacity: About 1.5 million pounds of milk daily

Storage silos: Five 25,000-gallon silos and three 30,000-gallon silos for cheese production. For ice cream production, there are two 10,000-gallon cream silos.

Lines: One cheesemaking line (40-pound blocks); four cheese packaging lines (various weights and cuts); two ice cream filling lines (56-ounce cartons and 3-gallon tubs); one whey manufacturing line (25-kilogram bags)

Warehouse: 8,000 pallets conventional and 15,000 pallets in a high-rise automated storage and retrieval system (ASRS). There are approximately 21,000 pallet positions, from 650 in cold storage pick bays to 5,600 pallets specifically used for 40-pound blocks. A refrigerated staging area for shipping has seven bays.