School Milk in Thailand: a brief overview

The origins of Milk School Program date bake to 1992, when the project was established by the Thai Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives to solve the problem of unsold milk among local dairy farmers and, at the same time, support milk consumption am...

Si Khiu, a dairy cooperative in north-eastern Thailand

Si Khiu is an agricultural cooperative based in the north-east region of Thailand and dedicated to supporting local dairy manufacturers. More specifically, the cooperative operates with three main goals for dairy production:Before 2003, Si Khiu had mainly been supplying one of the major dairy cooperatives active in the country. That year, however, the cooperative was finally allowed, upon committee approval, to build a new plant and start its own dairy production to provide school-aged children in north east Thailand with free milk in 200-ml pouches and bottles.Sadly, at first production volumes were not big enough to effectively meet the increasing milk demand and, furthermore, the shelf life of such products was too short, especially given Thailand tropical hot and humid climate. That is when Si Khiu decided to go even further and invest in the purchase of an aseptic filling machine for UHT products.Aseptic filling and sealing treatments, alongside aseptic carton bricks, were indeed the perfect solution for the client’s problems, since they can greatly extend products’ shelf life, providing high quality and minimum microbiological risk, as well as significant efficiency from a logistics and warehouse.

IPI’s response to Si Khiu needs - NSA EVO and 200-ml Slim brick

IPI is a leading player in aseptic business, having been providing full roll-fed aseptic systems for more than 40 years all over the world.In 2012 and 2015, the Italian company installed two NSA EVO aseptic filling machines for UHT milk in 200-ml Slim ca...

How Si Khiu faced the COVID-19 outbreak

Si Khiu managed to cope well with the past two past challenging years and turn them into an opportunity: despite school closures and subsequent online learning, the customer actually increased its production to 60 tons per day, making it possible for children to enjoy their free milk at home even when Covid-19 pandemic first hit the country.So far, Si Khiu distributes about 250,000 200-ml aseptic carton bricks per day and is now looking for a new high-speed aseptic filling machine to support the rising demand for UHT milk in Thai market.On this matter, it is worth mentioning that IPI can support its clients in their growth journey with multiple, tailor-made solutions, just the FX120 aseptic filling machine: being an innovative filler where mechanical solutions prevail over mechatronic ones, FX120 can pack up to 10.500 cartons per hour, meeting the needs of those who have even more prompt production pace.

Si Khiu:“Going for aseptic liquid carton bricks has been a wise investment decision”

According to Si Khiu Agricultural Cooperative Limited, “going for aseptic liquid carton bricks has been a wise long-term investment decision. Long life cartons protect milk for months, even in Thailand hot and humid weather, and allow us to provide public schools in Sikhio District with healthy and nutritious products.Being close to us every step of the way, IPI turned out to be a reliable supplier and offered us two NSA EVO filling machines which proved to be just the right fit to our requirements in terms of product quality, maintenance and cost effectiveness.We are extremely pleased to have entered this partnership, which managed to evolve over the years to meet changing market conditions - even and especially when the demand for local UHT milk began rising -.”