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Educational sessions
Divided into four segments - specialty milling, product protection, technical
operations and employee management
- this year's I.A.O.M. education program featured 24 sessions on these topics.
One of the best attended presentations
was given by Sunil Maheshwari of Siemer
Milling Co., who talked about the construction of the new 10,000-cwt Whitewater Mill
(a joint venture of Siemer Milling and H.
Nagel & Son) in West Harrison, Ind.
Mr. Maheshwari, vice-president of specialty ingredients at Siemer Milling and
manager of the Whitewater Mill, said
the facility, which began operating in the
spring of 2015, grinds all soft wheat.
One of the notable features in the mill, he
said, is a Bühler TAS LAAB cleaning, grading and aspirating system. He explained
that TAS is a high throughput system that
does an outstanding job of removing unwanted items such as chaff and dirt.
"It's a big improvement from most precleaning setups," he said.
He said the cleaning house is also stateof-the-art and features a Bühler Vega/
Venta grain cleaner-classifier.
"The Vega Venta system is more efficient
with greater throughput," he said. "You can
clean your grain with a different sizing."
Another noteworthy presentation was
delivered by Ashok Sarkar, head of milling technology for the Canadian International Grains Institute (CIGI). He spoke
about the co-milling of wheat and barley,
noting that one of the difficulties of incorporating barley flour with wheat flour has
been its challenging milling properties.
He said recent investigative work conducted at CIGI involved co-milling hulless barley (HB) in various proportions
with Canada Western Red Spring (CWRS)
wheat. The project involved three different
types of barley with differing starch properties - regular starch, partial waxy and
fully waxy - co-milled at three different
blend levels with CWRS. He said thorough evaluations of all resulting flours
from all blend levels were conducted.
"The results were very encouraging,"
he said. "This approach had minimal effect on flour yields and flour functional
properties such as farinograph results.
The most beneficial outcome was that
minimal changes were required in the
mill flow diagrams. The use of HB also
meant that no additional equipment or
pre-treatment such as pearling to remove
hulls was necessary prior to milling."
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Award winners
The I.A.O.M. also presented its most
prestigious honor, the Gold Medal award,
to Joe Woodard, general manager of ADM
Milling's facility in Arkansas City, Kas.
Mr. Woodard is only the 20th person to
receive the Gold Medal award, given as
recognition of exemplary service, in the
120-year history of the I.A.O.M.
An I.A.O.M. member since 1980, Mr.
Woodard was elected the organization's
international president for 2010-11, was director of the I.A.O.M.'s Wheat State District
from 2003-09 and served as the district's
chairman from 1999-2000.
Mr. Woodard also has recently spearheaded the launch of a miller technician
certificate program at Cowley College in
Arkansas City, which offers vocational
training for students interested in milling.
He has worked at ADM Milling since
1979, having held several positions, including miller, mill superintendent, plant
superintendent, plant manager and general manger.
"I feel honored to be in front of you receiving this award," Mr. Woodard said.
"This has been my life and my livelihood.
I am very honored."
Syed Ashraf, vice-president of automation, Kice Industries, Wichita, Kas.,
received the Allied Trades technology
award, which is given to allied trades
or associate members who distinguish
themselves in the area of research and development of milling technology.
"I am totally surprised," said Mr.
Ashraf, a longtime Kice employee who
began his career with Greenway Electric. "It is a great honor. I am lucky I have
great people to work with."
Keith Adams, Bay State Milling Co., noted that Mr. Ashraf aspired to be an airplane
pilot at a young age and traveled over 7,500
miles from his home in India to attend
Wichita State University. Upon graduation,
he joined Greenway Electric, where he was
first introduced to the milling industry.
"Our industry has wrestled through a
transformational period that has taken
equipment and technology that was
designed before most of us were born
and brought it forward to the 21st century," Mr. Adams said. "New standards
for safety, operational control, systems
monitoring and data collection requires
that we do things differently, and that is
where Syed made his contribution."
New officers elected
Mr. Allen was elected 2016-17 president
of the I.A.O.M. at the annual meeting and
safety award breakfast. Mr. Allen has
been an active member of the I.A.O.M.
since 1996. In 1981, he joined Cargill Animal Nutrition. Over the subsequent 14

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years, he held several management positions in Minneapolis; Winnipeg, Man.;
and Mentone, Ind., for Cargill.
In 1996, he joined ConAgra Mills as an
operations manager for their U.S. flour
milling operations in Alton and Chester,
Ill.; and North Kansas City, Mo., plants.
From 2000-14, Mr. Allen was vice-president of manufacturing for ConAgra Mills.
In 2014, he was appointed vice-president
and operations lead for Ardent Mills. He
is a member of AIB International's board
of trustees.
In addition to Mr. Allen being named
president, the I.A.O.M. elected a new
vice-president and treasurer during the
annual conference.
Steve Doyle, vice-president of King
Milling, Lowell, Mich., was elected the
association's vice-president, and will be
in line to be the president in 2017-18. Mr.
Doyle has been an I.A.O.M. member since
1987. He also will serve as the International Milling Education Foundation (I.M.E.F.)
president this year. Mr. Doyle, who has
worked at King Milling for 30 years, will
be the third member of his family to serve
as I.A.O.M. president. His brother, Jim,
was I.A.O.M. president in 2005-06, and his
father, Roland, was president in 1978-79.
Jeff Hole, director of milling at Grain
Craft in Mission Woods, Kas., was elected
treasurer. He is in line to serve as I.A.O.M.
president in 2018-19. Mr. Hole, a native of
Wichita, has been an active member since
1994. He began his career in 1994 at Cereal
Food Processors, Inc., where he held various positions at the company's facility in
Portland, Ore. He has been the director of
milling at Grain Craft since the acquisition
and formation of the company in 2014.
I.M.E.F. scholarship winners
During the conference, the I.M.E.F.,
I.A.O.M.'s philanthropic partner, announced three scholarship winners.
Bryan Lytle and Ramsey Hundley, juniors at Kansas State University, and Alisa Crawford, who works at the DeZwaan
wind-powered flour mill in Holland,
Mich., each received $2,500 scholarships
from the I.M.E.F.
The scholarships will help cover Mr.
Lytle and Mr. Hundley's tuition expenses
for the 2016-17 academic year at KSU,
while the scholarship for Ms. Crawford
will enable her to enroll in the I.A.O.M.
Correspondence Course in Flour Milling.
The I.M.E.F. Scholarship program was
established in 2008 to support the education of undergraduates in the sciences of
grain milling. In 2012, the program was
expanded to include training opportunities
for professionals already in the industry.
Since its establishment, I.M.E.F. has
raised more than $800,000. MBN
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