Research & Development Partnership
Contract Manufacturing
Cut and Pack
Our proud history consists in delivering solutions of complex and difficult dairy product development challenges, a core competency that we offer to our customers.
NO JOB IS TOO DIFFICULT
Hellenic Cheese has expertise in production facility R&D and an engineering team that delivers solutions
R&D PARTNERSHIP – CUT & PACK SERVICE
The full complement of services provided by Hellenic Cheese showcases our ability to present manufactures and wholesalers with services to create innovative products for the market place.
Hellenic Cheese has its own unique product development process which can be summarised as:
Customers provide a concept brief on their objectives of the project
Then in partnership with our customers, the project undergoes a feasibility study with clear parameters and outcomes that can be measured and quantified
Product design, costing, procurement strategies and manufacturing challenges are identified, with commercial considerations evaluated prior to going into trials and future production
A formal report is provided to the client with potential options that will enable moving forward towards a production phase
FOOD SERVICE & RETAIL PRODUCTS
Hellenic Cheese manufactures a range of specialty cheeses suitable for both Retail and Food Service sectors.
Our current range includes Goats Cheeses, Persian Style Feta, a boutique range of plain, black truffle, and fig infused matured cheddars, and our Marble Blue Cheese that is unique to the Hellenic innovative style.
WHY ENGAGE WITH THE HELLENIC CHEESE SERVICES
Hellenic Cheese’s culture was born out of strong ties to its roots in farming, cheese production and engineering expertise going back 35 years.
Today Hellenic Cheese employs innovative manufacturing and cheese making processes to deliver our products and services with a value added point of difference and solutions to challenging portion control. Our cut and pack solutions include environmental friendly packaging such as monolayer films.
Our Customers
Hellenic Cheese R&D and Engineering department designed and developed a precision portion control (Cold Extrusion Process) which delivers cheese portions to customer specifications for supplying dairy and smallgoods companies with cheese sticks and slices of any shape or size for the current snack pack market Australia wide.
Our clients include Primo Smallgoods, Don, Bertocchi Smallgoods, Menora Foods, The Cheese Rebels Australia, Symons Organic Dairy and others.
PRECISION PORTION CUT CHEESES FOR AIRLINE CATERING
Hellenic Cheese specialises in providing airline catering with precision portion control cheeses, including for Qantas flight services and their airport lounges.
QUALITY ASSURANCE & CERTIFICATIONS
Hellenic Cheese core values are driven by our entrepreneurial spirit to:
The development of production efficiencies as an ongoing process.
To minimize or eliminate waste at all times.
Cross training of all of our employees to maximize flexibility, productivity and skill upgrading.
We are export, organic, plant based, Halal certified and maintain national and international recognised Quality Assurance System including HACCP principle based DFSV and SQF9.0.
Hard Cheeses
Any shape round, square, or rectangular bulk Cheddars, Wash Reined, to hard Parmesan cheeses can be cut to portion control wedges or rectangular shapes from 15g upwards. Packaging concepts include; Flow Wraping, Vac Sealed, Gas Flushed and Thermo Forming.
Soft Cheeses
Round or square White Mould cheeses can be cut and packed into portion control wedges from 15g upwards. Portioned wedges can be individually wrapped with various colours perforated foils or High Barrier Wrapping films have been developed to increase shelf life of the products.
Blue Cheeses
As per white mould cheeses, we can portion cut any Blue cheese fresh or matured and extend shelf life of portion wedges significantly.
xxxx Hellenic Cheese’s dedicated fully equipped Cut & Pack department, is capable of cutting your cheese to any size and any shape, from 10g portions and upwards.
A number of packaging concepts are available, including Vacuum Sealing, Flow Wrapping, Thermo Forming and Gas Flushing.