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Bühler sells 10,000th Dolomit roller mill
UZWIL, SWITZERLAND - Bühler recently sold its
10,000th Dolomit roller mill, delivering it to longtime partner
Wudeli Flour Group.
The handover ceremony took place June 18 in Wuxi, China.
Around 65% of all wheat milled globally is processed on
Bühler mills, and Bühler has been supplying Wudeli with
leading-edge roller mills - including the four- and eight-roller Dolomit MDDP/MDDQ mills - since soon after Wudeli
was founded in 1989.
Since then, Wudeli has grown from a small workshop to a
company with 35 mills, 19 subsidiaries in six provinces, and
more than 5,000 employees. Its wheat processing capacity of
more than 42,000 tonnes per day now ranks it as No. 1 in
the world.
The handover was testament to this long-term collaboration
and China's vital role in the global grain milling industry, said
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looking forward to developing the partnership further, he said.
Roller mills are the main product of Bühler Wuxi, and the
company remained focused on driving innovation and highly
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vice-president of Bühler China.
"In the past 30 years, Wudeli and Bühler have maintained a
solid and harmonious cooperative relationship," said Zhiguo
Dan, president of Wudeli Flour Group. "In this continuous

AGCO opens office in Morocco
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the northeast of Casablanca, Morocco, that will serve as its
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South Africa, in 2017.
Morocco's suitability as a home for AGCO is both its geographical location on the Northwest of the continent as well
as its key socio-economic role in the region since its return
to the African Union in 2016 and support toward advancing
economic integration of African countries.
Agriculture is a key contributor to Morocco's economy, accounting for about 15% of GDP while generating nearly 40%
of employment. The Kingdom's national agricultural policy
has played a key role in guiding sector development of the
agri-food industry and emphasizing agricultural machinery to
upgrade farm equipment.
"The continent is home to 60% of the world's arable land
and is thus expected to play a major role in future, global food
security," said Nuradin Osman, AGCO vice-president and
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only builds on our presence at a sub-regional level but also
underlines AGCO's vision and strategy for advancing African
agricultural prosperity."
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development through strategic cooperation in equipment,
technology, service, training, software and other aspects, both
sides have formed all-around and multi-level interactions.
Bühler's reliable quality, excellent performance and comprehensive customer service have greatly helped the development of Wudeli. In the future, Wudeli and Bühler will be implementing an all-around collaboration based on even closer
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to make the future bright for all of us."
Bühler sold its 10,000th Dolomit roller mill to Wudeli Flour Group.
Photo courtesy of Bühler.

According to a recent study by the United Nation's Food
and Agriculture Organization, boosting productivity, fostering
competitiveness and ensuring that small-scale farmers have
greater access to markets are key to West Africa realizing its
full agricultural potential. The region presents a great opportunity for the expansion of Agri Parks, an AGCO initiative to
develop integrated agricultural centers in Africa, to support
the transfer of farming techniques and provide training, advice, equipment, crop storage, processing and logistics to the
farming community.
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for agricultural production and rural transformation," Osman
said. "The innovation of Agri-Parks is in developing infrastructure and community through agricultural mechanization."
Agri-Parks take a holistic approach to farm production,
crop storage and processing by grouping together key activities in one location.
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processing and protein production systems - the company's
role is to provide the required technology, equipment and expertise for this networked approach.
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