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Carrs Flour Mills has ordered a
complete modernization of its Silloth mill in Cumbria, England, at a
cost of £1 million ($1.6 million).
The contract was awarded to
Henry Simon, whose design will
provide Carrs with the same capacity as the existing mill (250 tonnes
of wheat per 24 hours) in half the
space currently occupied.
The new mill will incorporate the
latest technical advances, including the first installation of the new
Mark 3 “K” rollermills, and the
H2O-KAY automated grain damping system.
The new plant is scheduled to
produce flour in mid-1984.

Peter Baker, managing director of
Rank Hovis Ltd., was elected president of the National Association of
British and Irish Millers. He succeeds Michael Sargent.
NABIM members also elected
Bob Heygate vice-president. Heygate is director of Heygates Ltd.,
a flour milling company based in
Northhamptonshire.

Toepfer International, owned primarily by InTrade Group, Archer
Daniels Midland Co. and Alfred C.
Toepfer Verwaltungs-Gesellschaft
mbH, had a successful financial
showing in the fiscal year ended
Nov. 30, 1982, according to figures
released in Hamburg, Germany.
Toepfer International, which
is engaged in worldwide trade in
grain, feedstuffs, oilseeds and vegetable oils, had consolidated sales for
the 1982 fiscal year totaling DM9.7
billion. The money sales figure actually was down 10% from the prior
year, but tonnage handled showed a
slight increase over the preceding
fiscal year.

A sophisticated hardware and software computer system relevant to designing and manufacturing flour milling equipment has now
been fully installed by Thomas Robinson, the
U.K. milling engineers. Using this equipment,
Robinson says it can “offer products with the
latest design and speedy information.”

Itochu Corp. Osaka, Japan, and
Tokyo Oil Mills, Inc. have entered
into an agreement with U.S.-based
Riceland Foods, Inc. to produce and
market rice bran oil.
Construction of new facilities to
extract and process oil at Riceland’s
plant site in Stuttgart, Arkansas,
U.S. is under way, and operations
are expected to begin in the summer
of 1994.
Under the agreement, Riceland
will supply rice bran and will extract and process oil. Tokyo Oil
Mills will supply technical assistance, and Itochu will market the oil
in the U.S., in Japan and in international markets.
The three firms’ cash investment
for new construction and equipment
will total nearly $10 million.
Bühler GmbH has announced it
has been awarded contracts to supply flour milling equipment and
systems to various companies in
Romania. The total value of the
contracts is $8.6 million, and the
facilities are scheduled to begin operations in 1994.
One project consists of a complete wheat flour mill, with a capacity of 320 tonnes per day, for
Titan S.A., Bucharest, Romania.
Bühler will provide machines,
systems components, cleaning
and grinding sections and the
flour silo.
Bühler will supply equipment
for a 320-tonne-per-day wheat

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flour mill to Cetate Deva S.A.,
Deva, Romania and provide a
270-tonne-capacity system to Dobrogea S.A., Constanta, Romania.
Both systems will be installed in
existing buildings.
Bühler was awarded the contracts after lengthy negotiations
with Eximpan, the Romanian export trade company.

2003
After deciding the capacity was
not needed, ADM Milling Co.
sold its historic Pillsbury A mill to
a Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S.based real estate developer, who
will eventually develop the facility into a housing, retail and office
space complex. The mill, with daily
flour milling capacity of 11,000
cwts (499 tonnes in terms of flour),
was built in 1881 and is one of three
ADM mills in Minneapolis.
Grainco Australia Ltd. shareholders in mid-August accepted a
A$1.392 per share (92.1¢) merger
offer from GrainCorp Ltd.
GrainCorp has been through an
extensive program of modernization, geographic expansion and
supply chain diversification, including public listing on the ASX
in 1998, merger with Vicgrain in
2000 and the purchase of Allied
Mills in 2002 in a joint venture
with Cargill Australia.
The Budapest, Hungary-based
Szabolcs Gabona Holding Rt has
bought four mills and a grain silo
in Kosice, Slovakia. The sale included two wheat mills, one rye
mill and one maize mill with daily
capacity between 170 and 240
tonnes each, and a 53,000-tonnecapacity silo.
Szabolcs Gabona operates milling, baking and livestock farming
subsidiaries in Romania, Ukraine
and Serbia-Montenegro.

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