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Processors, Inc., where he has held
positions of head miller, milling superintendent, plant manager and director of plant administration while
working at the company's U.S. facilities in Portland, Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Kas., and Overland Park,
Kas. In 1997, he was milling superintendent at Grain Millers, Inc. in St.
Ansgar, Iowa, for one year. Since the
acquisition and formation of Grain
Craft in 2014, he has held the position
of director of milling.
Mr. Jansen, who has been an active
member of the I.A.O.M. since 1995,
will be responsible for
overseeing preparations
for the association's
2018 and 2019 conferences in Atlanta and
Denver, respectively.
While serving as
I.A.O.M. treasurer, he Jansen
also will be vice-president of the I.M.E.F. Mr. Jansen was
the Ohio Valley District director from
2010-16 and served as the district's
chairperson from 2006-09. He was a
district officer from 2005-06.
Mr. Jansen is a native of Effingham, Ill. He has an associate's degree
in electronic engineering technology from Lake Land College in Mattoon, Ill. He is a 2016 graduate of the

Illinois Agricultural Leadership Program and received a certificate in 1996
from Kansas State University and
I.A.O.M. for the Advanced Operative
Millers Short Course. Mr. Jansen has
been with Siemer Milling Co. since
1994, when he started in the maintenance department upon graduation.
He became packing and loading supervisor in 1995, assistant production
manager in 2001 and production manager in 2006. He has been the plant
manager since 2008.
Mr. Jansen is a past-president of the
Teutopolis Fire Protection District and
has been a volunteer firefighter in the
district since 2006.
Educational sessions
The I.A.O.M. educational program
included 22 presentations related to
facility management, product protection, technical operations, employee
management and specialty milling.
John Putnam, Radio Frequency Co.
Inc., discussed the functionality and
advantages of Radio Frequency (RF)
thermal processing for the milling
industry in the area of pasteurization and disinfestation. He said this
includes achieving a FSMA-compliant kill step with a verifiable HACCP system using energy-efficient RF
Macrowave technology.

'Reborn' Henry Simon equipment
unveiled at I.A.O.M.

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milling equipment. We did a pre-release
at the South African Chamber of Milling
Conference several weeks ago, and it was
tremendously received. We are enjoying
the same reception here at I.A.O.M."
Mr. Marriott noted that the roller mill

ARVIN DONLEY

NEW ORLEANS - Flour millers attending the 2017 International Association of
Operative Millers (I.A.O.M.) Conference
and Expo in New Orleans on April 12 got
their first glimpse of the reborn Henry Simon milling equipment line.
Shortly after the expo opened on April
12, representatives from Satake and Alapala, the companies that recently announced
they were partnering to reintroduce the
well known milling brand, pulled away a
black curtain that revealed several shiny,
new pieces of Henry Simon equipment,
including a roller mill and a purifier.
Peter Marriott, sales manager at Satake
Europe Ltd., said millers have expressed
enthusiasm about the reintroduction
of the new and improved Henry Simon
brand of equipment, which has been
used in flour milling facilities for nearly
140 years.
"They've loved the whole concept,
frankly," Mr. Marriott said. "They still
have a lot of affection for the Henry Simon innovation, and they are happy to
see this brand back among the mainline

The revived milling line will be built in the
newly completed Alapala manufacturing
complex in Corum, Turkey.

featured "a lot of Satake technology along
with Alapala's fundamental principles of
good roller mill design." The roller mill features numerous sensors that feed critical,
real-time information to mill operators.
He said the Henry Simon equipment

Eduardo Pimentel of Danisco Brazil
gave a presentation on wheat processing enzymes for enhanced milling efficiency. He said two new enzyme products have been developed to be added
to the water pipeline during the conditioning phase of wheat processing.
The conditioning process may take
from 8 to 40 hours depending on
wheat type and process, before the
wheat is then milled and extracted to
flour and bran. Mr. Pimentel said the
enzyme enables smoother milling by
opening up and softening the kernel
faster and thereby easing the pressure
on the rolls. He said this can give more
flour output, increase the extraction
rate and produce an even more premium flour.
Industrial global trials at wheat
mills have demonstrated extraction
rate improvements from 0.5% to 2%,
energy savings of 5% to 10% and a reduction in conditioning time by 30%
to 50%, Mr. Pimentel said.
Another well attended session was a
presentation on Star of the West Milling
Co.'s new 10,000-cwt flour mill in Willard, Ohio. Gary Pickelmann, corporate
milling superintendent for Star of the
West, said the mill, which began operating in August 2016, includes the latest
milling equipment supplied by BÜhler.
The mill produces soft wheat flour. MBN

will be targeted primarily toward premium markets such as the United States,
United Kingdom and South Africa. It will
be built in the newly completed Alapala
manufacturing complex in Corum, Turkey, which features the latest robotic cutting, welding and assembly technology.
Henry Simon, an English engineer, introduced his line of milling equipment in the
latter part of the 19th century. His equipment was first used in an English flour mill
in 1878, and by 1892 over 400 mills were using the "Simon" system in Europe, Africa,
India, South America, Australia and Japan.
It remained a popular brand throughout
much of the 20th century.
One of the mills that used Henry Simon
technology was Hatap Un, which was established in Corum, in 1961. Around that
time, Mehmet Alapala, the founder of Turkey-based Alapala, entered the sector by
producing wooden sifters that were used
at the Hatap Un mill. Thirty years later, in
1991, the Henry Simon brand was sold to
Japan-based Satake.
Mr. Marriott said he is confident the 5050 partnership between Alapala and Satake
will prove to be a winning combination.
"It's the culmination of a lot of hard
work," he said. MBN
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