more cheese then i've ever seen

pierette has been really great with getting me cultured here in switzerland. she set up a private tour for her and i at a cheese factory. she knows the lady who helps run the place and bribed her with jam and apple juice.
when we got there we had to put on a long white coat and a hat for sanitation reasons. susan, who was the co owner of the place talked alot about the cheese process and all that goes into it. they make four different types of cheese there. one of the cheeses that they were making is about 800 grams and it takes 10 liters of milk to produce. the milk comes from local farmers who bring it to the outside of the shop and have it pumped in. they dont go into the shop with the milk for sanitation reason. the milk is pumped in throught a tube and then weighed. after it is weighed it goes through a whole mess of tubes and into a big huge vat that holds atleast 3,000 liters. it looks like a big mixing bowl. the mixing bowl gets heated up and mixed up good and they add things to it and then when its ready , big fat tubes bring it into this other machine which is full of these cans. the cheese is sprayed into the cans and then pressed to drain out the liquid. after a short time they have to flip the cans so the cheese rotates, otherwise the cheese would be stuck in the can. im still pretty confused with the whole cheese process. i think after it is pressed it goes into a salt water tank for many hours which is where it gets its outer skin. after that it sits for alteast 3 months, and every day they wash them with a damp rag to keep them moist so they dont loose to much weight. for a while they were having to wash all of them by hand, but now they have a machine that washes them and can wash up to 300 an hour or 3000 i forget. also everday the cheeses nead to be flipped.
the dairy farmers come twice a day 365 days a year. so its hard for susan and her husband to take a vacation. they both seem really happy though because they are living there dreams. susan wanted to own a small shop and her husband wanted to specialize in this one type of cheese.
their cheese is shipped to a bunch of different countries including the united states. i took some pictures and even if i knew how to get them on the compouter i wouldn't because i was asked not too.