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FEATURE: MILHAO FILLS NICHE WITH NON-GMO

Reason for Being," which brings product improvements to
customers and Academia de Lideres, which through Milhao
University, offers professional improvement to employees.
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with a well-known business school in Latin America.
The corn sales desk was launched to meet wholesale
and retail needs, while construction of the new Goianira
mill started.
New corporate management was implemented in 2016
with the help of the school, and the next year, over-thecounter popcorn sales was implemented.

Left: A Milhao employee walks past
a roller mill.
Right: Milhao
directors Luciano
Carneiro, left, and
Leandro Carneiro.

Milhao has three quality control laboratories, each
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physicochemical analysis and microbiological analysis.
"To ensure our GMO-free quality and our well-preserved conventional identity, we do rigorous and unique
testing in our laboratories and we create innovative diagnostics in partnership with a global leader in the development of rapid detection technologies for GMOs and
mycotoxins," da Luz Lima said.
Milhao has corn storage capacity of 20,000 tonnes
with room to expand to more than 40,000 tonnes,
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square meters with a total construction area of 21,700
square meters.
RIGOROUS PROCESS
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tion can be doubled to 36,000 tonnes per month with the
Milhao said it does a rigorous job in seed selection, acquisition of machinery, over a period of three years.
this year partnering with EMATER-Go and the Federal
At the beginning of the milling process, raw material
University of GOAIS on testing 20 new maize variet- is received in grain hoppers, following testing for transies in four selected farms. Producers are located within genic materials and mycotoxins. It is then carried to the
a 250-kilometer radius of the facility. Agronomists ac- pre-cleaning process, with all raw material directed to the
company and guide the producers in selection of seeds, grain storage system, which includes metal silos with fulcare in the cultivation, harvesting and safe storage.
ly automated thermometry and aeration control systems.
"Upon arriving at Milhao's mill, the corn is subCorn processing is completed in distinct stages,
jected to a detailed process that evaluates the conven- including:
tional preserved identity," da Luz Lima said. "Once
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approved, the grain goes through the cleaning steps,
present in the grain. It includes multiple machines
selection, degermination and through the grinding masupplied by IMAS, including cleaning machines,
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aspiration channel and stone sack.
testing before delivery of the product to the customer."
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