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FEATURE: AL-HAZAA ADDS MAIZE MILLING TO PORTFOLIO

Left: Corn is ground
by roller mills supplied by Bühler.
Right: The plant
uses Bühler's differential proportioning
scale Transflowtron
MSDG.

ing equipment, Al-Hazaa Investment turned to Uzwil,
Switzerland-based Bühler, which it has worked with
multiple times in the past. Bühler recently completed
an expansion of Al-Hazaa Investment's South Amman
flour mill.
That project included expanding the building and installing all new equipment in Mill A, the addition of
a 72-tonne-per-day (wheat equivalent) capacity stone
mill, connecting Mill A and Mill B for receiving wheat
as well as mixing flour between the two, and adding an
NIR system for quality control.
FIRST OF ITS KIND
The 200-tpd mill sits on 22,000 square meters of land
and is several stories tall. The facility has eight storage
silos, supplied by Brazil-based Kepler Weber, with a
total storage capacity of 60,000 tonnes.
In addition to the chip factories in Jordan, there is a significant increase in consumption of gluten-free products
in the region, Khalid Al-Hazaa said, providing another
market for the new maize facility.
The facility's extraction rate is almost 75% for flour,
fine and coarse maize grits and 25% divided between corn
germ (7%) and bran (18%). Products produced include
fine maize grits number 108, coarse maize grits number
101, corn flour (gluten free), corn germ and other byproducts such as corn bran.
Products are packaged in 25-kg and 50-kg polypropylene bags and one-tonne bulk packages for use
by big factories. End users include large producers in
Jordan, including Mr. Chips, Jordina, Hala Chips and

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other well-known brands in Jordan and the region,
Khalid Al-Hazaa said.
The Al-Hasad mill fits nicely into the company's existing businesses, he said. The storage silos provide the
maize mill with its corn needs while the products and byproducts produced at the mill are used in the feed mill that
belongs to the Al-Hazaa group.
Al-Hazaa Investment launched the Global Feed Mill
Company in 2008, building the feed mill to keep up with
growing demand in Jordan and Iraq. Initially, the mill
had a capacity of 240 tpd, but another feed mill line from
Bühler was added in 2016, doubling production capacity
to 480 tpd. The company produces two types of feed, cattle and poultry, for the Jordanian market as well as some
exports to Iraq.
QUALITY IN, QUALITY OUT
Maize used by the mill is imported from Brazil,
Argentina and the United States through the Aqaba
port and transported by trucks to the mill for storage. The silos are equipped with the appropriate ventilation systems to keep the high-specification corn
moist, Khalid Al-Hazaa said. Jordan's corn production is negligible, at under 10,000 tonnes, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Foreign
Agricultural Service.
Overall corn consumption in Jordan in 2018-19 is
estimated at 805,000 tonnes, up 5,000 tonnes from the
USDA's estimate of 800,000 tonnes in the 2017-18
market year.
At the Al-Hasad mill, the imported corn is sifted in the
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