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FEATURE: BACKING MILLERS' DRIVE FOR QUALITY, SERVICE

"It has been millers who are seeking to produce for
the premium market who are interested in [PeriTec
debranning]. It's no longer a niche technique."
- Bryan McGee, Satake UK

versions of the process."
Debranning, the process at the heart of the PeriTec process, is
not necessarily the solution for all millers. "It's better suited to
the premium end of the market," he said. Debranning is an old
idea, but Satake's development work has given it a new lease on
life. "By reﬁning and simplifying the process so that some of
the objections were overcome, it's created a niche," he said.
PERITEC SELLS IN EUROPE AND AFRICA
Satake UK's responsibility goes far wider than the United
Kingdom, with responsibility for Europe, the Middle East and
Africa in rice, wheat and maize milling and color sorting. In

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Libra scales and SSZ electronic ﬂow balancers supplied with "off
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and available PC programming with modules for yield management,
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One controller capable of control of up to 21 scales, with I/O for PLC
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some territories, such as the U.K. and Ireland and South Africa, the company can offer services to all millers.
"In Spain, France or Italy there's no way we could serve
the whole market, but there are certain customers with whom
we share a historical relationship," said McGee.
In Italy, for example, Satake has been important in color
separation in rice for a long time, but wheat milling has been
dominated by the company's big international competitors
and local manufacturers. "Then we were approached by one
customer who wanted to use our technology," he said. Now
that customer, family millers Casillo, is a big supplier to major pasta producers; it has 18 PeriTec systems in service or on
order, each handling 5 tonnes per hour.
"In Italy it has been millers who are seeking to produce for
the premium market who are interested in it," said McGee.
"It's no longer a niche technique." This echoed the pattern in
the U.K., where PeriTec has been of most interest to millers
producing premium bread ﬂour. And demand has come from
wider aﬁeld, with the conversion of Godrich Flour Mills, the
ﬁrst plant in South Africa to adopt PeriTec.
McGee explained that Satake's debranning machinery is
part of a whole new family of machines. "Historically, machines were horizontally disposed," he said. "Some time ago

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