--- title: Greek Yogurt Producer Cuts IBC Liner Residue 90% description: A Greek yogurt producer was leaving up to 44 lbs of finished product in every IBC liner. See how the Squiz System recovers it, with numbers you can check. --- CDF Customer Story [cdf1.com](https://www.cdf1.com) Squiz® System in the Field # How a Greek Yogurt Producer Stopped Losing 44 Pounds of Yogurt Per Liner A story about residual product loss, and what happens when the right liner meets the right evacuation system. Customer Leading Greek yogurt producer Product Greek yogurt (finished) Solution Squiz® System + Squiz® liners, in production today Results 90% less residue per liner, at documented system performance The Situation ## 400 IBCs. 15,000 liners a year. One product too thick to leave on its own. A leading Greek yogurt producer runs a high-volume operation built around **400 IBCs** and more than **15,000 liners per year**. Greek yogurt is thick. Thick enough for a spoon to stand straight up in it. After every dispensing cycle, a substantial amount of finished product stayed behind, adhering to the inside of the liner. The line kept running. The orders kept shipping. And every single IBC was quietly leaving usable yogurt, and money, behind. The Problem ## Up to 44 pounds of finished yogurt left behind in every liner. The application review identified up to **44 pounds** of finished Greek yogurt remaining in each liner after every run with their conventional IBC liners. Across 15,000 liners a year, that adds up to hundreds of thousands of pounds of usable product going to waste, a six-figure annual product loss before counting the labor and packaging costs stacked on top. Every dispensing cycle required dedicated operator handling. Throughput was capped by the manual step. Liner and container consumption ran higher than it needed to. And the manual emptying carried real health and safety exposure for the team. 44 lbs Residual per liner Roughly 20 kg of finished yogurt lost per IBC 15,000 Liners per year Across 400 IBCs in active rotation 6-figure Annual product loss Before labor and packaging costs The CDF Application Review ## The first step was not a product recommendation. It was a review. CDF's team evaluated viscosity, fill method, IBC configuration, and yield targets. Greek yogurt at finished consistency does not flow on its own under gravity. A standard liner will always leave significant residual product behind. The review identified mechanical evacuation as the right approach for this product, and the recommendation followed: the **Squiz® System**, paired with the dedicated Squiz liner, reinforced to carry the load of winding. The Solution ## Mechanical evacuation, engineered as one system. The Squiz System winds the liner from the top down during dispensing, in sync with the plant's pneumatic pump, pressing finished yogurt steadily toward the dispense valve instead of leaving it pooled in folds and corners. The system is a mobile, stainless steel frame that integrates with the producer's existing IBC fleet and dispensing points, with no fixed installation and no electrical connection. The Squiz liner is designed as part of the system. The two are engineered and validated together, and together they evacuate the IBC consistently, run after run, with no operator intervention during dispensing and no manual scraping to recover residue. Running at the system's documented performance, an average of **0.1 to 0.2 percent** of product remaining, residue per liner drops from up to 44 pounds to roughly 4.4: **90 percent less trapped product**. The Result ## 90 percent less residue, in numbers you can check. That recovers roughly **40 pounds of usable yogurt per liner** that was previously lost. Across 15,000 liners a year, it keeps up to roughly **594,000 pounds**, nearly 300 US tons, in the supply chain, a six-figure annual recovery on product loss alone. Manual liner handling during dispensing goes with it, along with the heavy, repetitive lifting tied to manual recovery. Modeling the full process cost, product loss, operator labor on dispensing, liner and container consumption, and the system itself, the operation's annual cost on this process projects to fall by roughly forty percent, approaching half by years four and five as the equipment amortizes. The inputs behind the model are walked through in the application review. ### About these numbers The operation's figures (400 IBCs, 15,000 liners per year, up to 44 pounds of residue per liner) come from the application review of this producer's process. The residue and recovery figures apply the Squiz System's documented performance, an average of 0.1 to 0.2 percent of product remaining after dispensing, to their container size and volumes. In manufacturer trials on thick cosmetic creams, measured with weighed liners before and after, product waste per liner fell by 94, 95, and 96 percent. Every application is confirmed by trial before any recommendation. 90% Residue reduction per liner From up to 44 lbs to roughly 4.4 lbs per liner 594K+ Lbs recovered per year Nearly 300 US tons of finished yogurt 0 Operator intervention During dispensing, once the cycle starts SQF Certified · ISO 9001:2015 Certified · GMP Manufacturing ## What is your operation leaving behind? Request an application review and find out. Our team evaluates your viscosity range, fill method, IBC setup, and yield targets before recommending anything. 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