Portal Lechero

Founded in 2005, Portal Lechero is a dairy industry service provider based in Colonia Suiza, Uruguay selling engineering & services.

Portal Lechero is a Uruguay-based online news portal and training academy (Academia Láctea) serving the dairy sector of Latin America and Spanish-speaking markets. Founded in 2005, it publishes dairy industry news and runs online courses, with both asynchronous and live Zoom classes, on dairy processing topics. Course subjects include dulce de leche technology, cheese making and aged cheeses, yogurt technology, milk treatment, ingredients and cultures, and defects and prevention. It also organises dairy events such as exhibitions, cheese contests, congresses, seminars and technical tours in Uruguay and Argentina. The team is staffed by dairy technologists and instructors, and the courses are aimed at cheesemakers, dairy plant and dulce de leche producers, and industry workers. Membership and group enrolment options are offered.