The Experts in Stainless Steel Cheesemaking Equipment
One Material. Every Detail Right.
Most equipment manufacturers make a little of everything. We work in one material, stainless steel, and build two things exceptionally well: cheesemaking equipment and drainage products. That focus is exactly what our customers count on.
When a manufacturer splits its attention across a dozen materials and markets, the details slip. When sanitary stainless steel fabrication is all you do, you learn what a cheese vat needs to do at 6 a.m. on make day, how a finishing table holds up to decades of daily washdowns, and where bacteria hide when a weld isn’t finished right. That knowledge goes into every piece that leaves our workshop in the heart of Americaβs dairyland β Wisconsin.
Why Stainless Steel Is the Only Material We Work In
Stainless steel has proven, again and again, to be the best-performing material when sanitation is the priority. It doesn’t corrode, it doesn’t harbor bacteria, and it stands up to aggressive cleaning chemicals and high-temperature washdowns year after year. That’s why everything we build β from cheese vats to the stainless steel drainage products trusted in food plants across the globe β is heavy-gauge stainless, and why our fabricators, welders and engineers have spent their careers mastering this one material.
The Difference Is in the Welds
Ask experts where cheese equipment fails inspection, and they’ll point to the welds. Ours are continuous and sanitary β stronger, smoother and free of the harborage points where bacteria can grow. It’s a detail most buyers never think to ask about, and it’s one of the biggest reasons Kusel cheesemaking equipment keeps performing decades after installation.
Cheesemaking Equipment for Every Step of Production
Because cheesemaking is our specialty, our line covers nearly every stage of the process:
- Micro Vats (50β600 gallons) for farmstead creameries and R&D operations
- CK and TH Series open cheese vats for hard cheeses like Cheddar and Brick
- Cook-Rite enclosed vats for large-scale production up to 50,000 pounds
- Finishing tables with automated unloading for safer, more efficient curd handling
- Curd mills with a quick-change cutting carriage for uniform square-curd milling at up to 11,000 pounds per hour
- Pressing equipment including A-Frame, Long-Horn, and Deli-Horn presses for consistent forming
- Cottage cheese systems to round out your cheesemaking equipment.
Custom Fabrication, Built Around Your Process
No two cheese plants are alike, and because we control our own stainless steel fabrication from start to finish, we never need them to be. Our engineers work from your floor plan, your milk volumes, and your cheesemaking procedures β not a one-size-fits-all catalog. If the question is “can you build this?” our answer is, “yes.”
Proven Where It Counts
We’ve been building for cheesemakers in Watertown since 1849, and today our equipment is at work in cheese plants across more than 40 countries. But the credential that matters most isn’t our age, it’s that the cheesemakers who bought a Kusel vat twenty years ago come back to us when it’s time to expand.
Tell us about your operation. Our sales team would like to listen.
Published on Jul 15 2026
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