Family-owned and operated since 1925, Klondike manufactures award-winning Feta, Muenster, Brick and Havarti cheeses in Monroe, WI using state-of-the-art equipment and traditional family recipes. Our ongoing expansion project, which included a state-of-the-art precast concrete addition with a 70,000-gallon brine tank, has allowed Klondike to quadruple production of Brick, Muenster and Havarti cheese using highly specialized automation equipment sourced from Europe. Kraemer Brothers worked closely with the new equipment installation teams to keep the project on schedule, despite the language barrier and differing work habits and procedures.

Because so many of the new systems are automated, the plant increased manufacturing efficiency without adding staff or incurring extra labor costs. The project began in March of 2017 and by May of 2018, the plant was producing cheese in its new 41,000 square foot addition.

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Kraemer Brothers most recent project for this long term client consisted of a dry storage addition. Two additional loading docks and another overhead door allows Klondike Cheese to use the dry storage area for loading and unloading shipping supplies while designating the docks in the cooler for loading and unloading dairy products, ultimately streamlining their shipping and warehousing. A 16,500 square foot project, this project grows Klondike Cheese’s facility to over 241,000 square feet!

Our long-time friends and neighbors at Cedar Grove Cheese, just down the road from Kraemer Brothers in Plain, are enjoying full use of their new cold storage addition. The building’s exterior is constructed out of split-face concrete block along with center scored CMU and metal ribbed siding. Featuring a loading dock for easily transporting the cheese, this facility also has an insulated sectional overhead door that seamlessly connects the new addition to the existing facility. To keep the products cold during storage, multiple ceiling-mounted, high-output evaporators are equipped in the cooler. Kraemer Brothers built the first addition to their plant in 1994, and this latest significantly increases the cheese plant’s capacity of traditional and specialty artisanal cheeses every year – and every morning they buy 30,000 pounds of milk from over 30 dairy farmers in southwest Wisconsin.

Drawing upon our 60 years of experience in the dairy industry, Kraemer Brothers simultaneously constructed three additions for Omega Proteins’ (formerly Wisconsin Specialty Proteins) production facility in Reedsburg, WI with no interruption to ongoing manufacturing operations. Bioriginal, a subsidiary of Omega Proteins and the producer of Simply Tera’s whey protein powder, was able to double their production capacity with this addition. A total of 12,380 square feet, the first addition included an office expansion and a maintenance and shipping area for the wet and dryer processes. The second addition included a silo vestibule extension, silo pads, and an ingredient manufacturing area while the third addition included an intake bay and break area. Needing to keep the area clean and free of contamination, we were able to control the spread of excess construction dust to maintain sanitation in the plant. Simply Tera’s whey protein powder has been acquired by Carrington Farms from Bioriginal. Saputo Dairy Foods USA is currently operating out of this facility in Reedsburg.