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FEATURE: MILLING INDUSTRY FEELS PINCH FROM ECONOMIC VOLATILITY
challenges, the company opted for a greenfield site
in Harlow, north of its home base. The 450-tpd mill
opened in 2021 and is showing a yield of 78.7%.
The site was designed so there is space for every element
to be duplicated, from the mill to more storage.
Right now, the mill has 6,000 tonnes of storage capacity
and about 1,200 tonnes of final flour storage.
Bühler, based in Uzwil, Switzerland, signed a contract
to supply the milling plant in 2016 and handed the
mill over in May 2021. The company supplied the latest
process equipment, Mercury MES plant automation
and digital services running on Bühler Insights.
Through the automated wheat intake process, 200
tph can be received, taking just eight minutes to tip a
29-tonne load of wheat. Everything is operated automatically
using bar codes, which open doors and start
delivery routes to the raw wheat silos.
From the raw material wheat bins, the wheat is
cleaned again in the screen room. Cleaning is carried
out on the Bühler Vitaris Combicleaner. Water is added
using Bühler MOZL intensive dampening equipment
while Bühler scourers and aspirators remove the dust
from the crease before entering a holding bin. In the
bin, the wheat is weighed before going into first break.
The mill uses all top-of-the-line Bühler equipment,
including Antares roller mills MDDR, Polaris purifiers
MQRG and Sirius sifters MPAK that together process
the wheat into high quality, consistent flour.
Once milled, the flour moves past an online Bühler
NIR multi online analyzer MYRG, which monitors in
real time during milling, continuously evaluating protein,
moisture, water absorption and bran specks.
Satake
supplied
a turnkey
3-tph
REACH
rice mill
to Kipas
Holding
Turkey.
Unique features of the mill include the ability for
" lights out " full automated milling operation. Bühler
Insights provides detailed downtime analysis, operational
efficiency and yield management. It aggregates
all the production data into the Bühler cloud so that it
can be used to drive up efficiencies.
The control screen can go to replay mode so operators
can go through the process from startup of any
run to check where and why a problem might have
occurred.
The facility mainly sources wheat locally and makes
products ranging from various flour types to breadcake
and specialty mixes for the domestic market.
Wright and Sons also operates a purpose-built blending
and packing facility in Delta Park, Enfield, for the
manufacture of specialist mixes that opened in 2014.
Expanding into rice milling
Kipaş Holding Turkey has taken its first step into rice
processing with a mill in Kahramanmaraş, close to
Gaziantep airport, in Turkey. Founded in 1984, the
company is involved in various sectors, including textiles,
cement, paper and more.
The 3-tph rice mill processes paddy rice from the
company's fields. Existing on-site grain storage was
used for the mill, minimizing the building investment.
Satake Corp., through its European division and local
distributor Depart, completed the installation and
commissioning of the turnkey REACH 3 rice mill for
Kipaş. The mill includes six sections: receiving and
cleaning, husking, milling and polishing, grading and
blending, optical sorting and packing.
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