Applications on the dairy farm Oskamp

The dairy farm Oskamp is an interesting location for us to shoot some photo and video material, as many WEICON products are used in the agricultural sector. We have already taken some application pictures for our catalogue, our branch flyers and our website on the dairy farm Oskamp and have also shot several product videos there. We discovered this special location thanks to our colleague Anna-Maria.

The dairy farm Oskamp in Laer has been a family-owned business for many generations. Currently, there are 220 dairy cows living on the farm and their milk is processed there, too. In their own farm shop, the family sells cheese as well as a wide range of yoghurt, ice cream, eggs (from free-range hens on their own farm) and many other treats.

The farm has its own dairy. There, regional cheese specialties are manufactured in traditional manual work. “The still warm raw milk makes the best cheese,“ says Heinrich Bego-Ghina, who is responsible for the cheese production on the dairy farm. That is why the fresh raw milk is poured straight into the cheese vat. Yoghurt, ice cream and quark are also manufactured on the farm.

A number of WEICON products are used in agriculture. Whether for agricultural machinery, like tractors, or automatic feeders and milking machines – our products are used in the production, repair and maintenance.

We have already used many products outdoors on the Oskamp farm. The tractor alone offers different possible applications. With WEICON Contact Spray, the electric lighting can be maintained. Our WEICON Cockpit Spray  and our WEICON Screen Cleaner can be used for cleaning the driver cabin. On the telehandler, several grease nipples are maintained with our WEICON AL-W High Performance Grease.

Where many animals are kept, barn doors and pasture gates need to be maintained regularly. For that, our WEICON Zinc Spray can be used. When rusty screws are seized up in different parts of the barn so they cannot be loosened, our WEICON Rust Loosener can help.

A dairy is a highly sensitive area with strict hygiene regulations. That is why products used there should all be NSF-certified. The NSF (National Sanitation Foundation) is the leading organisation in product certifications for food safety. It carries out product tests and material analyses as well as unnanounced field inspections. When a product is NSF-certified, it can be used in the foodstuffs sector.

Several of our products have such an NSF certification. In the Oskamp dairy, WEICON Foam Cleaner is used for the milk tank, WEICON Top-Lube-Fluid for the different compressed air connections and WEICON Repair Stick Multi for a water inlet pipe.

WEICON PTFE-Fluid has been used on the chute of the filling machine for yoghurt. That way, the better sliding of the filled yoghurt cups ensures an unobstructed production process.