Ivarson Inc. is a full-service solutions provider for Butter, Spreads, Margarine, Shortening and Cheese production. Our equipment can take you from the raw material inputs to the final packaging with the skill required to produce first-class consumer or industrial products. We have the knowledge base and equipment design to fit the start-up and multinational mega plants, with product quality and efficiency as our top priorities. Our product knowledge gives customers the best resource for development and long-term strategy in the market.

In the past half-century, Ivarson Inc. has introduced equipment to help modernize the manufacturing of Butter. Today, we are the North American processing and packaging machinery market leader. Ivarson supplies Butter-making equipment, Butter storage & feeding systems, Packaging machinery for bulk and consumer products, moisture and fat analyzers, butter reworking systems, butter melting systems and Microfix equipment. We offer state-of-the-art, new equipment and reconditioned equipment to fit your budget.

Ivarson Inc. has developed equipment for the processing and packaging of Spreads, Margarine, and Shortening. We designed the equipment to be robust yet simple machinery that will produce the highest quality products with the minimum complexity. Our knowledge base for these products begins with the oil and ends with the palletized product. We have the solution from start to finish for cups, sticks, blocks or bulk products.

Ivarson Inc. has its roots in the cheese industry. From the earliest days in Wisconsin, Cheese was our primary business. Ivarson supplies specific equipment for various cheese production and packaging. For the production and packaging of Cheese, Ivarson is proud to be a North American partner for Alpma, the leader in cheese technology. Ivarson also offers Kadova cheese molds and Paramelt Cheese Wax and Coatings. Ivarson also has our line of cutting equipment, developed specifically for the North American Market. With our partner company Alpma, we can offer cutting lines with a throughput of up to 8000 pounds per hour!

Our product knowledge and equipment designs have brought us into several related industries. Ivarson has processing equipment for Bakery applications also. We can tailor our margarine and butter equipment to continuous bakery lines or any user of large volumes of fat. Ivarson’s packaging expertise is well established for Yeast, Bouillon, pasty products, or wrapping odd-shaped packages.

In addition to supplying equipment, Ivarson Inc. also has an efficient after-sales service organization with high-quality service engineers for maintenance service and spare parts to maintain your equipment’s production output and reliability.

Ivarson Inc. has been instrumental in modernizing the dairy and edible oil industry in North and South America.

Founded by Len E. Ivarson in 1963, Ivarson Inc. started as a manufacturer's representative committed to quality and the customer. This commitment has established the Ivarson name worldwide as an industry leader.

We have established strong relationships with several leading European manufacturers that share our commitment to quality and the customer.

In 1963, we introduced Alpma cheese processing and packaging equipment from Germany. Working mainly with cheese companies in Wisconsin, Ivarson Inc. installed multiple cheese processing and packaging lines for cheeses such as Camembert, Brie and Feta. Today, we have installed cheese processing and packaging lines throughout the United States and Canada, including Ivarson’s 640 Block Cutter.

Ivarson Inc. has its roots in the cheese industry. From the earliest days in Wisconsin, Cheese was our primary business. Ivarson supplies specific equipment for various cheese production and packaging. For the production and packaging of Cheese, Ivarson is proud to be a North American partner for Alpma, the leader in cheese technology. Ivarson also offers Kadova cheese molds and Paramelt Cheese Wax and Coatings. Ivarson also has our line of cutting equipment, developed specifically for the North American Market. With our partner company Alpma, we can offer cutting lines with a throughput of up to 8000 pounds per hour!

we developed a filling and packaging machine specific to the US market.

The machine was specifically designed to fill and carton the standard ¼ pound butter stick, 4 to a carton we see in stores today. In 1965, we installed the first Benhil model 8360 filling machine and the Benhil 8555 cartoning machine at Union Center in Wisconsin. Fifty-plus years later, this model is still in production, producing the majority of butter consumed in the United States today.

With the Benhil soft butter wrapping machine, we decided to branch out and develop our own line of equipment. The most successful design is the Ivarson soft case packer introduced in 1982, which could handle the soft product packages from the Benhil equipment. The addition of the case packers allowed us to offer our customers semi- or fully-automatic production lines. Ivarson Inc. has also designed and manufactured its bulk packer, cartoner and continuous carton close system in addition to the case packer.

Other key milestones related to butter production include the introduction of Simon butter churns in 1972. This addition allowed us to offer our customers a turnkey production line producing, filling and packaging butter. In 2002, we installed the first frozen butter Reworker from Rothenburg. This introduction changed how frozen butter could be processed, reducing tempering time to packaging temperature while maintaining product quality. Following the Reworker in 2007, the WAL fully automatic bulk packaging line was introduced to the US market. Our latest introduction is the Ivarson Continuous Butter Churn, built to be low maintenance and to meet strict sanitary standards.

In the margarine industry, similar problems existed. The success of the Benhil equipment resulted in many installations for the margarine industry. We also introduced Gerstenberg to the United States, installing several scraped surface heat exchangers to produce margarine. Today, Ivarson Inc. manufactures scraped surface heat exchangers, B-Units and resting tubes many companies use to produce high-quality margarine.

Today, under the leadership of Glenn Ivarson, Lennie’s son, we look forward to the challenges and demands of being an industry leader. With the ongoing development of new machinery and our representation of leading European processing and packaging companies, we look forward to providing our customers solutions with optimum results.