Cheese Dairy Le Noirmont

Adresse	Fromagerie Kälin SA Rue du Doubs 5 CH-2340 Le Noirmont
Phone	+41 (0)32 953 12 16
Fax	+41 (0)32 953 15 35
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The cheese dairy Le Noirmont is a family business built in 1910. Since then is has gradually developed by producing various cheeses. We now have 6 employees working in cheese production and maturing: two cheese-makers, a skilled worker and three non-skilled workers. Two assistants serve our customers in the dairy shop.

Le Noirmont has 21 milk producers with a total quota of 3'300'000 kg of milk. Those producers are mostly situated in Le Noirmont and hamlets of the municipality like Le Peupéquignot, Les Barrières, Le Creux des Biches, others live in the villages Muriaux and Les Emibois.

When Charles Kaelin bought the dairy in 1972, the cheese produced at that time was primarily Le Gruyère and only very small amounts of Tête de Moine AOC were made. When the paring device called «Girolle®» was launched in 1982 the demand for Tête de Moine AOC increased so rapidly that these days the production of Tête de Moine AOC is larger than that of Le Gruyère. Our cheese dairy annually produces about 250'000 items of Tête de Moine AOC (approx. 200 tons), 1500 wheels of Le Gruyère (approx. 51 tons), 300 items of Noirmont (2 tons), 300 items of Franches Montagnes (2 tons) and about 4300 items of Roc-Montès (1.5 tons). We also sell about 7,000 litres of raw milk each year.

Christian Kaelin and his wife Patricia took over the cheese dairy in 1997 and have continued the cheese making tradition.