Future of Cheese Processing

Masters Gallery Foods builds the cheese processing plant of the future with a green design and high-tech equipment.

June 18, 2019

Masters Gallery Foods Opened Its Oostburg Cheese Processing Plant In June 2018

Masters Gallery Foods might be the largest national cheese supplier you’ve never heard of. It produces millions of pounds of cheese—from aged cheddars and fresh jacks to soft and hard Italians—for nationally recognized brands, as well as food service and industrial partners.

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