Plants producing ripening tvarog cheese, their location, production volume of this cheese.
Contents of the zip folders:
01: Stock levels of Śląskie Zakłady Mleczarskie, May-August 1936.
02: List of dairies, including cheese factories, as of 1945.
03: List of dairies, including cheese factories, as of 1945; exact location of the cheese factory in Wrocław: "Wrocław, Psie Pole - F. Tworek".
04: Information about the location of the plants, production and equipment: the plant in Gliwice was located at 11/13 Traugutta Street, and the cheese factory at ul. Śliwki 35. According to the report of the NIK (1966), the production of cheese in 1964 was 878,215 kg, in 1965 - 401,335 kg of ripening acid curd and caraway cheese - 579,215 kg (in the report, in many places, the production of these two products was summed up and given as cheese production ripening acid curd cheese) and the production capacity of the plant was 1,800,000 kg/year. The plant had the following machines and devices: 2 tvarog cheese grinders, 3 gravity rollers, 3 cheese molding machines. In 1965, a molding machine and a grinder were purchased from OSM Katowice for the amount of PLN 68,923.
05: In 1976, Tychy produced 469,423 kg of ripening acid curd cheese. The NIK report on Dairy Cooperatives in 1975-75 shows that no attempt was made to expand cheese production on a nationwide scale and cheese remained a local specialty. Due to the low production in relation to the annual sales of cheeses from 6 plants: Gniezno, Łask, Ogrodzona, Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Tychy (ripened acid curd cheese) and Głogówek - (annual production in total approximately 2,000 tons), no sales of niche cheeses were activated in 1976.
