Salem native Brian Civitello is out to reshape the cheese industry. It's a whale of a task, one the proprietor of Mystic Cheese is pursuing through both his product and the way it's manufactured.
“I ran into the same problem time and time again — cheesemakers having poor infrastructure that wasn't made to last,” says Civitello. “So I sprung out this idea to make the world’s first modular cheese factory.”
A year of research and development yielded what he calls cheese pods — whale pun intended — which are semipermanent setups constructed from two shipping containers. The fully functional prototype at Lebanon's Graywall Farm has been churning out the flagship Melville cheese (named after Herman Melville, author of “Moby Dick”) since November.
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