Research Outline

U.S. Manufacturers for Specific Powders and Teas

Goals

To provide a list of U.S. manufactures or manufacturers that export to the U.S. for the following products: whole milk powder, electrolyte powder, matcha green tea powder, and immunity tea. This information will be used for market research.

Early Findings

Whole Milk Manufacturers in the U.S.

From the American Dairy Products Institute, a member association representing the dairy ingredient industry, some manufacturers of whole milk powder include:

Bluegrass Dairy and Food LLC offers a full line of specialty dairy products such as cheese powders, butter powders and dairy powders (including whole milk powders), and has 2 manufacturing facilities in Kentucky.

DFA also is one of the country’s most diversified manufacturers of dairy products, food components and ingredients, and is a leader in formulating and packaging shelf-stable dairy products, including whole milk powder.
General contact for questions on sales and products is through the contact form.
Chris Allen, callen@dfamilk.com, is provided as the contact for market information

Independent Dairy Commodities provides manufacturing and distribution expertise for dairy powders and dairy powder blends. Its products include whole milk powder.

Lactalis Ingredients is considered the number 1 whey manufacturer worldwide and has 2 plants in the U.S.; Buffalo, NY and Nampa, ID. Whole milk powder is one of its products in the dairy powders category.

Clofine is a manufacturer/distributor of a complete line of dried and fluid dairy products and proteins, including: nonfat dry milk, whole milk powder, buttermilk powder, whey protein concentrates, etc.

The facility is designed to process liquid milk into ingredients such as milk protein concentrates, milk protein isolates, 42% butterfat cream, skim milk powder, and whole milk powder.    
General contact for questions on sales and products is through the contact form.

Summary of Findings

  • In our preliminary hour of research, we determined that information on manufacturers based in the U.S. or exporting to the U.S. for whole milk powder and electrolyte powder is available. A list of U.S. manufacturers for whole milk powder has been provided.
  • We also found that matcha (powdered green tea) is primarily grown and produced in China and Japan.
  • Although information on tea manufacturers was available, it was not clear from the preliminary research which of these specialize in production of immunity tea.
  • We suggest continued research to provide the requested information as elaborated below: