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1983
Rank Hovis, the ﬂour milling subsidiary of Rank Hovis McDougall,
has begun a £2.2 million (nearly $4
million) modernization program at
its mill in Felixstowe, England. The
project is the ﬁrst phase in three of
the company’s mill modernization
and development program. Phase
two, completed near the end of
1982, cost £12.5 million (more than
$22 million) and included major
improvements at a number of mills
throughout the country.
Production capacity at Felixstowe will be increased by just over
12%, taking total output of ﬂour to
35,000 tonnes a year.
The mill will be totally reequipped with new wheat cleaning
and milling machinery as well as
additional bin storage for ﬂour and
wheatfeed. The mill building and
warehouse will be modernized and
vehicle loading facilities will be enlarged. The mill will also become
the company’s ﬁrst plant to be installed with the Programmable Logic Control (PLC) computer system.

capacity of 300 tonnes per day. In
its ﬁrst year, the mill will produce
49,490 tonnes of wheat ﬂour. Output will be increased to 70,200
tonnes by 1997. The increased
production will raise CMC’s annual production capacity by 40% to
253,090 tonnes, making the company the second largest ﬂour miller
in the Philippines.
The Venezuelan government will
sell two state-owned grain silo installations to private investors. The
Venezuelan Investment Fund, the
government organization responsible for privatizing state-owned
property or selling government
shares in other enterprises, will
seek buyers for the storage units. It
is hoped that the transfer to private
owners will take place in 1993.

2003

1993

For the ﬁrst time since the middle of World War II, when German
and Japanese submarines interfered
with shipping, exports of ﬂour from
the United States dropped below
10 million cwts (453,600 tonnes in
terms of ﬂour).
Based on monthly data provided
by the Census Bureau, U.S. ﬂour
exports in the past calendar year
totaled 9,246,000 cwts (419,400
tonnes), the smallest since exports
of only 8,599,000 cwts (390,000
tonnes) in 1942, in the midst of the
last global conﬂict.
At the indicated level, 2002 ﬂour
exports fell 12% from the prior
year’s small outgo of 10,462,000
cwts (474,550 tonnes). This was the
third successive annual reduction
from the outgo of 17,752,000 cwts
(805,217 tonnes) in 1999.

Continental
Milling
Corp.
(CMC), the ﬂour milling division
of Universal Robina Corp., is building a ﬂour mill at Davao City, Philippines. The mill will operate at a

General Mills, Inc. is to close its
milling operation in Johnson City,
Tennessee, U.S., and sell the facility, which produces ingredient ﬂour
for industrial customers.

Willem J.M. Thywissen has been
appointed general manager, Bartlett
Europe, B.V., Gorinchem, The
Netherlands, according to Bruce
Cottier, executive vice-president,
Bartlett Agri Enterprises, Inc. of
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S..
Thywissen
will
coordinate
Bartlett’s trading activities in Europe, which involves grain, soybeans and feed ingredients. For the
past 30 years, he has been active in
the merchandising of commodities
throughout Europe.

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“With the combination of Pillsbury and General Mills, there was
excess production capacity within
the system,” said Pat McNulty, director of manufacturing, General
Mills. “The production capacity
from this location will be absorbed
within other facilities throughout
the General Mills supply chain.”
The mill portion of the facility
was built in 1909 and became part
of General Mills in 1933 with the
acquisition of the Red Band brand.
The mill has a daily capacity of
5,000 cwts (227 tonnes of ﬂour),
according to the 2003 Grain & Milling Annual published by Sosland
Publishing. The closing will reduce
General Mills’ total daily wheat
ﬂour milling capacity to 83,400 cwts
(3,783 tonnes) and will cut its total
of wheat ﬂour and durum milling capacity to 87,900 cwts (3,987 tonnes)
from 92,900 cwts (4,214 tonnes).
Jean Louis-Dreyfus, grandson
of the founder of international
grain trader Louis Dreyfus & Co.,
died Feb. 2 in Paris. In tribute to
him, Louis Dreyfus ofﬁces closed
throughout the world. Jean LouisDreyfus, a co-owner of the private
company since 1940, had been its
vice-president since 1975.
From 1967 to 1975, he was
company chairman and chief executive ofﬁcer.
The China-based Sahne Hope
Full Grain Oil Foods Production
Co. Ltd. selected Roskamp Champion, Waterloo, Iowa, U.S., to provide the crushing equipment for its
new oilseed crushing and extraction
facility being constructed in Sanhe,
China in Hebei Province.
Roskamp Champion is supplying
the ﬂaking and cracking mills used in
the preparation plant. It will supply the
ﬁrst 32-inch by 84-inch ﬂakers — 10
ﬂakers, each with 500-tonne-per-day
capacity — to be used in China along
with 12-inch by 72-inch crackers.

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