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Technical

28 September 2026 · 5 min read

Clear whey: the technical challenges behind the successful ingredient

Clear whey looks simple in the glass. Behind it sits a demanding, unforgiving manufacturing discipline: pH, clarity, fat, carryover and reconstitution all have to be right, batch after batch.

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Innovation

High-fat WPC: from side stream to value stream

In WPI manufacture, high-fat WPC is usually treated as a side stream to move out of the factory. Understood properly, with its composition, functionality and outlets taken into account, it becomes a value stream.

22 September 2026 · 6 min read

Technical

WPC80 vs WPI: what mass balance really tells us about protein recovery

WPC80 versus WPI is often framed as a pricing decision. Mass balance reframes it as a whey stream utilisation decision, where the route, the recovery and the side streams decide the real return.

15 September 2026 · 6 min read

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