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Bühler completes rice,
bean processing facility in China
LONDON, ENGLAND - The Bühler Group announced on Feb. 18
the completion of a turnkey rice and bean processing facility at the
Hangzhou Wahaha Group's plant in Haining, China.
Dedicated to the production of historic Chinese eight treasure porridge under the Wahaha brand, the new Bühler cleaning and grading plant has allowed Hangzhou Wahaha, one of China's largest and
most prestigious food and beverage manufacturers, to make dramatic
improvements to the quality of its end product and reduce the cost of
its eight treasure porridge operations, Bühler said.
Eight treasure porridge is now a popular favorite in China and consumed every day as a convenient, cost-effective and nutritious "fast
food." It is made with various ingredients, including red beans, cranberry beans, myotonin (Chinese barley) and oats, as well as sticky
rice and black glutinous rice to create a rich porridge that can be
simply opened and consumed.
The company wanted to automate its operations, create a more hygienic working environment and achieve the high quality production
of eight treasure porridge that its customers were demanding.
Replacing the existing, largely manual cleaning and sorting process, the Bühler installation involves two complete, compact and advanced lines, each of which can clean and grade the various raw materials. Currently, one line is dedicated to rice and the other to beans.
Each line incorporates Bühler's MTSD De-stoners, MTRC Vibrosifters, metal detection equipment and SORTEX Z+ sorting machines.
Incoming product is mechanically cleaned to remove impurities

that are larger and smaller than the product. Then stones and metals
are targeted for removal, as they are passed automatically to de-stoners and magnetic metal detectors. The produce is then fed through
Bühler's SORTEX optical sorters, which can identify and remove
product defects as well as foreign materials. The sorters eliminate
contaminants such as glass, stones, wood, sticks and soil blocks, as
well as deformed or discolored beans, and discolored or unwanted
varieties of rice.,
Each machine in Hangzhou Wahaha's compact cleaning and sorting solution is fitted with an aspiration system that extracts any dust
or dirt particles to create a hygienic working environment that also
reduces the risk of fungal growth. By automating the entire process
and creating a closed system, human intervention for checking or
adjustments is minimized.
Bühler said it has removed the chance for cross contamination and
boosted Hangzhou Wahaha's throughput significantly.
"Our investment in Bühler's advanced technology and customdesigned solutions has surpassed our expectations. It has drastically
reduced our customer complaints about foreign body contamination,
which are expensive to handle in terms of both customer service and
reputation; reduced our operating costs dramatically; and given us
consistent quality in production," said a spokesperson from Hangzhou Wahaha. "We trusted the Bühler team to deliver and the resulting solution fits our requirements exactly. We look forward to working with Bühler on future projects."

Vortex announces new representative in Africa
DARLINGTON, ENGLAND - Vortex announces the appointment
of Capack Pty Ltd as the company's exclusive representative in
South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Namibia, Zimbabwe,
Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Mauritius
and Seychelles.
Capack (Pty) Ltd offers specialized solutions for handling difficult
dry bulk solids in the chemical, food, pharmaceutical, mineral and
mining industries.
"Capack is a great addition to Vortex's global sales and service

network," said Travis Young, vice-president global business development. "Capack's team is one of the most experienced in Southern
and Eastern Africa for providing dry bulk material handling solutions. We believe our clients in the region will benefit tremendously
from this collaboration."
Capack also represents some of the world's top bulk handling
equipment solutions, including BFM Fittings, Solimar, Matcon
and Stiftex. For more information on Capack, visit the website
http://www.capack.co.za.

TOrNuM to supply dryers in ukraine
KVANUM, SWEDEN - TORNUM AB said it recently received an
order for two continuous mixed flow dryers type TK-12-28-4 from a
customer in Ukraine.
"Our customer has in the past bought several dryers from TORNUM. It is such a great pleasure when our customers repeatedly show their confidence in our technology," said Per Larsson,
managing director of TORNUM AB. "The two new dryers will
be used to further increase the drying capacity needed to take
care of the production of corn, wheat, barley, soy, sunflower and
rapeseed produced on the more than 300,000 hectares of land
currently cultivated."
The TK12-28-4 dryers to be delivered to Ukraine are from the
new series of dryers launched by TORNUM during the Agritechnica
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show, Hannover, Germany, in November 2013.
"We are constantly improving our range of equipment to ensure
we live up to the market's increasing demands regarding quality,
profitability and environmental aspects," Larsson said. "With the
new continues mixed flow dryers, TORNUM offers the agricultural
industry new levels of performance and capacity."
Holding capacity of a TK12-28-4 dryer is 283 cubic meters. Drying capacity is in excess of 80 tph drying corn from 30% to 15%
using a natural gas burner with a capacity of 15,000 kW.
TORNUM AB develops, produces and sells products and systems
for modern grain handling. The company's products include grain
dryers, storage silos, grain coolers, conveying equipment, fans and
complete elevators.
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