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Airlanco/AGI awarded
substantial CGB contract
FALLS CITY, NEBRASKA, U.S. — Consolidated Grain and Barge
(CBG) has selected a range of conveying and conditioning products
from Ag Growth International (AGI) for its high-speed looped track
grain terminal in Falls City, Nebraska, U.S.
CGB hopes to have the facility, which will be served by the Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad, open during the 2013 harvest.
“CGB is a valued customer of AGI and this is a key multimillion dollar project for both the Falls City/Richardson County
area and AGI,” said Paul Franzmann, senior vice-president of
operations at AGI. “This location will be a great showcase for
the breadth of the product offerings AGI has for commercial
grain facilities.”
AGI, parent company of Airlanco, is a leading manufacturer
of grain handling, conditioning and storage equipment, providing solutions from the farm gate to commercial grain handling
and processing operations around the world. CGB is installing
a myriad of these manufactured products including hoppers,
conveyors, elevators, and conditioning equipment at the Falls
City location.
Airlanco, speciﬁcally, is providing a rail pit hopper and receiv-

ing pit hoppers for unloading grain, aeration fans, transitions, and
ﬂooring for two 105-foot diameter grain bins, two 75-foot diameter grain bins, and one 30-foot diameter hopper bin. Aeration is
used to control the temperature and condition the grain to prevent
spoilage, allowing grain to be stored safely, even well after harvest has been completed.
“CGB is proud to have Airlanco, Union Iron and Hi Roller as
preferred vendors because they produce quality products, provide great customer service and their products are competitively
priced,” said Eric Kresin, regional manager.
Tom Zant, vice-president, commercial products group, of AGI
recently visited Falls City and spoke about the broadened partnership he sees unfolding for Airlanco, AGI, and CGB in the future.
“CGB is building a high-tech facility with AGI components
and our sales staff will be bringing customers, both current and
future, to Falls City to view this showcase facility,” he said. “This
development project will certainly assist in the growth of AGI
companies, including Airlanco.”
Bin-jackers will be on site to begin the erection of the grain
bins as the project continues to move in fast forward.

Mühlenchemie selects flour sack of the year
HAMBURG, GERMANY — An independent jury from Mühlenchemie recently recognized a ﬂour sack from the mill Shree Govindam
Prime Food PVT. Ltd. in India as the ﬁnest ﬂour sack of the year.
Sacks are judged by the designs and the story behind them. This sack
tells a story, or rather several stories, with multiple layers of meaning:
• The three colors of the sack refer to the ﬂag of India.
• The illustration shows a “Halwai,” a member of the traditional caste of sweet-makers. The name comes from the Arabic helva
meaning “sweet.” The Halvai live mostly in the northern part of the
country and the sack comes from Bikaner, a city in northwestern India. Thus, the product name “Bikaner Halwai Special” reﬂects both
the origin of the grain as well as the sweet-makers who live there.
• It also has symbolic meaning. In India with its caste system,
foods must meet strict standards of ritual purity. Most food is therefore prepared in the home. However, food made by the Halwai is
deemed acceptable, an important consideration since sweets are also
offered to the gods and must therefore be pure. Halwai therefore
symbolizes food that is pure and can be eaten without risk. Thus,
the illustration and the product name communicate that this is a very
pure ﬂour, so pure that it is suitable for making sweets that will be
offered to the gods.
Mühlenchemie’s Flour Worlds Museum near Hamburg, Germany
holds the world’s largest collection of ﬂour sacks — over 2,700 of
them from 127 countries. Mühlenchemie noted that no mill is too
small to ﬁnd its way onto the shelves of the “Sackotheque” or sack
library. There are sacks from historical windmills that have been in
operation for over 200 years, and many more from industrial mills
that turn out hundreds or thousands of tonnes of neatly bagged ﬂour
each day. Like all product packaging, ﬂour sacks bear brand names,
claims, promises and pictures, art that is original and imaginative,
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and surprisingly varied.
The museum’s collection
continues to grow, and each
year the museum’s founders
— the owners and executives
of Mühlenchemie — under the
leadership of Volkmar Wywiol
and Lennart Kutschinski select
the ﬁnest ﬂour sack of the year.
Many sacks are illustrated
with scenes that relate directly
to their contents, such as abundant ﬁelds of grain or delightfully fresh bread.
Others bear imaginative and
evocative symbols such as images of the sun, athletes, or
even religious motifs.
The museum staff is currently
An independent jury from
expanding the museum exhibMühlenchemie recently recognized
its from “Flour Art” to “Flour
a flour sack from Shree Govindam
Worlds” to reﬂect the thousands
Prime Food PVT. Ltd. in India as the
of years of ﬂour development,
flour sack of the year for 2012.
its historical and current signiﬁcance, and the vast variety of products made from it. The expansion
will also incorporate exhibits around the ingredients of ﬂour and the
requirements of modern nutrition, to create an experiential museum
where knowledge transfer takes place.
Competition for the ﬁnest ﬂour sack of 2013 stated on Jan. 1. For
more information, visit www.ﬂour-art-museum.de.
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