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becoming more and
grow. Education is key
and we at the school believe that we are at
the forefront of ensuring
that the next generation
of millers are fully equipped with the knowledge
required to make a valid contribution to our
industry, long after the current generation of millers have all hung up their aprons for the very last time.
The story of the IFIM School begins back in 1994.
The school was established under a joint venture
between the Moroccan National Federation of Millers (FNM), US Wheat Associates and the
Moroccan Government’s Ofce of Professional Training (OFPPT).
The French language two-year program was built
upon a combination of the Swiss Milling School
and French Milling School curricula aimed at
taking young college graduates with a scientic baccalaureate and building a solid foundation
in milling and cereal sciences. Graduates from
the two-year program receive a nationally
approved qualication as milling technicians. Approximately 30 students per year are enrolled
on the two-year program.
Additionally, the IFIM School undertakes continuing education courses for the regions
millers, and has conducted specialised training
programs in French, English and Arabic for millers
from across Africa and the Middle East. IFIM has
conducted off-site training both nationally, as well as internationally in North and West Africa.
The school has an ISO 17025 accredited cereal
laboratory which serves as an industry and national
reference laboratory, and has a full Buhler Pilot
Mill with a nominal capacity of 800 kg/hr capable
of milling bread wheat in purier and purier less ows as well as durum wheat in a conventional durum ow. A full wheat inspection laboratory and test bakery as well as a full range of laboratory
milling equipment compliment the training facilities.
Some 400 students have graduated since the
inauguration of the school, and have gone on to
operational and management positions throughout
the industry in Morocco, as well as elsewhere inNorth Africa, the Middle East and sub-Saharan
Africa, and have built a solid reputation for the
quality of the school’s education.
The School organises a professional exhibition every two years known under the name of Technical
Days of IFIM. Conferences and round tables are
planned during these days and are focused on the
international market of wheat as well as the new
technologies in the milling industry. The sixth
edition of IFIM technical days was held in May 2015. More than 60 exhibitors coming from Europe
and USA have participated to that event.
At present, IFI is implementing a strategic change
its historic role by integrating a professional school for baking & pastry with a training & research
development centre in the eld of food pasta, couscous & vegetables.
As durum wheat plays an important role in the
Moroccan economy and is the basis for pasta and
couscous production. Both these products are staple
food for the Moroccan population, IFIM wishes to add a training facility and program dedicated to
durum milling and pasta and couscous technology
and to the research and development of analytical
services related to durum and its derivatives.
Going forward, we at the school aim to continue
to work closely with the Canadian International
Grains Institute (Cigi), Winnipeg, Canada, IFIM is proposing to build capacity for milling durum
wheat and pulse crops by creating a Moroccan
National Durum Technical Training Centre
(DTTC). The DTTC’s primary mission will be to
offer vocational training, information, technical expertise and applied research services to the
durum wheat sector in Morocco and other North
African countries (including Algeria, Tunisia,
Libya, Mauritania, as well as operative millers
from the African French zone).
Mahjoub Sahaba
IFIM Milling School
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On the outskirts of the town of
Amasya, stands the impressive and modern ourmill of KOZLU Gida, also
known as Misun. This leading Turkish
mill has chosen FAWEM A for exciting
new packing project. Page 80
ADM FEEDMILL Over the past decade, or possibly longer, one of China’s major
feedmilling equipment companies has been constructing more
than 350 feedmills annually. In 2014 the company built an
astonishing 400 new feedmills around the world.
Many of those mills have been constructed within short time frames and often within 10 months from ground-break to
commissioning.
CTH MILLS
graceful, peaceful and plentiful
country it is today. There was a time following the Second World
War when the country was in a poor
state and conditions were tough
for a population that had not long
annexed itself from the Chinese mainland, and was relying on its
own dedication and resources to
establish a new beginning and to
feed itself.
See the full story on page 56
NEWCOPAN The Newcopan mill, located in the
quaint Tuscan town of Castelorentino just south west of Florence, is a new
mill by Golfetto Sangati which was
built to produce traditional Tuscan
our. However, there is much more to what is
being produced here than rst meets the eye. The Tognetti family, entrepreneurs
in the bakery industry for well over 50
years, are proud to show their new mill,
which was built with the specic aim of processing one of the most typical and ancient cereals of Tuscany, the Verna
wheat.
See the full story on page 50
THE AL BASRA FLOUR MILL Aybakar announces the delivery of Al
Basra our mill in Iraq last month. Owned by Kubba group, Al Basra ourmill is one of the most prestigious our milling companies in Iraq, with the group being in
the milling business since the 1960s.
Currently, Al Basra ourmill is the mostdeveloped ourmill in Iraq. Equipped with Aybakar’s crown jewel CERES II INOX roller mills, the mill exceeds Iraqi and
international standards.
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The weather is pretty eclectic here at the moment. Sun
follows rain follows grey cloud. Ah, well. “Variety is the spice of life,” they say (whoever ‘they’ are).
Not to be outdone, this month we take you on a
whirlwind tour of mills across the globe, each unique and
with its own fascinating character.
First, we stop off at ADM’s rst feedmill in China, constructed by local company Famsun, who also take the
opportunity to tell us about their expansion across Asia
and beyond. The various reasons for the slowing pace of
the feed milling sector in China are also discussed.
Next: Italy. Appropriately for the land of da Vinci and
Michaelangelo, we take you through an artisan mill
combining traditional and modern technologies in the processing of an ancient Tuscan wheat variety. Surely,
Leonardo would have approved.
Then it’s over to the Fertile Crescent, where they say
wheat milling all began. Fitting new technology into
an older mill to operate in sub-tropical conditions is
never easy, but Aybakar have succeeded at the Al-Basra
ourmill in Iraq. Finally, back to Asia, where you’ll learn about CTH’s
latest mill - the newest in Taiwan - and the surprising
bonds of friendship and mutual assistance between
this company and their competitors next door. Other
interesting insights include the challenges of silo
construction in a humid earthquake zone.
Regular items!
We also have all the regular columns our readers have
come to expect: Mildred Cookson gives us another
fascinating peek into milling history, looking at the
redesign - and incredibly fast reconstruction - of
a Liverpool mill in the early 1900s. Food Futurist
Christophe Pelletier discusses consumers’ apparently
contradictory desire for food that conforms to both
past and present standards. UK TAG’s Chris Jackson
examines Australia and Southeast Asia and talks about the
need for farmers to follow the commercial climate. We also bring you a roundup of the latest happenings
in the world of milling, as well as numerous features
and items of interest. Don’t miss the piece on this year’s
GRAPAS award: learn who won, and why. Event reviews
are not thin on the ground: GEAPS, VICTAM, IAOM
and TUSAF.
So why not kick off your shoes after a long, satisfying
day in the mill, and enjoy this magazine with a cup of
coffee outside in the sunshine? Of course, if you’re in the
UK, you may have to read fairly quickly.
XXVII Fefac Congress in Antalya “Social acceptance of livestock and feed production in the EU”
O n 21-22 April 2016, the FEFAC XXVII Congress
took place in Antalya, with the conference title
“Social acceptance of livestock & feed production
in the EU”. At the Congress, the participants discussed
the compound feed industry’s contribution to the circular
economy, the measuring of the environmental footprintof feed production and the responsible sourcing of raw
materials. The discussions on all themes supported the
view that the feed industry can provide solutions to
livestock production with direct benet for consumers and citizens, thereby stimulating increased societal acceptance
of EU’s livestock and feed sector.
In a video statement, European Commissioner for Health
& Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, highlighted the
contribution of animal feed manufacturers to the circular
economy and food waste reduction by using resources no
longer suitable for human consumption in animal feed. The
participants agreed with Commissioner Andriukaitis that
it is of vital importance to assure feed safety and animal health when using unconventional feed ingredients in order
to maintain consumer condence. At the Congress it was highlighted that the current
political attention for circular economy and resource-
efciency provides an excellent opportunity for the feed industry to showcase its contributions to
reducing environmental impacts. A key achievement
in demonstrating the results of this approach is the
development of pre-competitive measurement tools
for environmental performance, such as the Product
Environmental Footprint (PEF). In the Feed PEF Pilot
the category rules for feed production are currently being drafted and expected to be assessed and approved by DG
ENVI in 2016.
All presentations given at the Congress can be found on
the FEFAC website.
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where plans were receiving their nal touches. In the mill yard was an appliance put up by Messrs Robinson before
the mill stopped work.
One hoist was especially useful, and also a power windlass
for pulling the machines along the oor. Already new
elevator bottoms were tted, as well as the work for velines of shafting under the rolls. On the fourth oor ve new centrifugals were already in position with another 26
more to go.
Robinsons had 70 men doing the work, and with around
35 of the mill staff the whole mill was reported as being
busy as bees. An illustration shows the goods train loaded
with Robinson machinery as it entered the shunting
yard from the siding of the Robinson Railway Works in
Rochdale. The plans that had been drawn up had three
colour sections; the ‘Blue’ portion of the ow was to x the centrifugals, some puriers and smooth rolls with all connections.
The ‘Red’ portion was to x the elevators and spouting to and from ‘Blue’ and ‘Brown’. ‘Brown’ was responsible
for xing the break rolls and scalpers and the remaining puriers and all connections. The puriers were to be xed and our worms in position as well as two lines of shafting.
By 5 December, which was the time when Robinsons
contract nished, all the machinery had been installed, The following Monday, the 7th of December, all shafting and
machines were running and the following day the rollers
were being feed grain.
Extracts of Milling’s tour after the redesign: “We can take a tour of the mill starting on the rst oor where the new mill had drives and ve lines of shafting, one for each line of rolls. The elevator bottoms were also
located here. On the second oor were the rolls, the break
rolls being 60 ins long and the reduction rolls 40 ins.
These were Robinson’s latest type with patent roller feed
and gear driven with a shaker-feed to the last two breaks.
It was noted that there was ample room between the
rolls and around the machines, an important fact for the
employee’s who were in charge of them. Each line of rolls
had an exhaust trunk. The puriers were located on the third oor in two lines; exhaust trunking over each line cleared the air and kept the room clean and healthy. There
was also an elaborate arrangement of our worms to assist in the making the numerous divisions of our. On the fourth oor were wood framed centrifugals, each machine placed singly so as to allow a passage between
each and all tted with Mr John Westgate’s patented ventilating fan for the prevention of condensation.
There was also an improved shutter arrangement for the
inspection of the machines which prevented our dropping on the oor. The fth oor had the centrifugals., two high and three tornados, making it ve in all and a rotary for dividing the bran. There were also two aspirators for aspirating the
wheat as it went on into the mill. All elevator bearings and worms were entirely self-lubricating. All electricity
lighting the premises is generated on the premises. These
new arrangement appeared to be very popular with the
employees.”
These articles only give a brief glimpse of the several
million records held by the Mills Archive Trust. If you
would like to know more please email me at mills
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T he US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it will allow folic acid to
be added to a maize product called corn masa
our. The decision is intended to prevent more serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube
defects (NTDs) among the nation’s Hispanic population.
Corn masa our is a specially treated maize our used for tortillas, tamales, and other foods commonly consumed by
Hispanics.
Most NTDs such as spina bida and anencephaly can be prevented if women have at least 400 micrograms of
folic acid daily prior to conception and the early days
of pregnancy. To improve folic acid intake, in 1996the FDA changed the US standard for enriched cereal
grains to include folic acid. The only maize products
included, however, were grits and maize meal. Because
corn masa our was not mentioned in the 1996 standard, manufacturers could not legally fortify these products for
the US market.
A review published in 2014 showed that fortifying other
grain products with folic acid led to a 36 percent decline in
NTDs in the US, but the NTD prevalence among Hispanics
was 21 percent higher than among non-Hispanics. In 2012,
six organisations - March of Dimes, American Academy
of Pediatrics, Spina Bida Association, National Council
of La Raza, Royal DSM, and Gruma Corporation - led a citizens petition for the FDA to allow fortication of corn masa our.
In February 2016, more than 40 members of the US
Congress urged the FDA to add folic acid to the enrichment
standard. Media stories, such as this news service and
radio feature, have called attention to the petition for the
past several months. Mexico and El Salvador include
fortication of corn masa our in their fortication mandates.
With the new FDA decision, corn masa our may be fortied with folic acid at a level not to exceed
0.7 milligrams per pound. It is effective immediately. Gruma Corporation, the world´s largest producer of
corn masa ours and tortillas, has committed to deliver fortied products in the US. The North American Millers Association also supports the change.
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maternal and child health, especially in our Hispanic communities,” said March of Dimes President Dr. Jennifer
L. Howse. Leaders of the organisations that led the citizens’ petition held a news conference today to hail
the FDA’s decision. They noted that fortifying corn masa
products will save many lives and improve quality of life
by preventing birth defects.
“We commend the public and private sectors for
working together to nd a solution to this public health issue,” said Scott J. Montgomery, Director of the Food
Fortication Initiative. He noted that the experience offers several lessons for grain fortication. First, a country’s
standard needs to include grains commonly consumed byall segments of the target population. In this case, it was
an oversight to exclude corn masa our from the 1996 legislation. Another lesson is that monitoring is essential as
it was NTD surveillance that alerted policy makers to the
higher NTD prevalence among Hispanics. A third lesson is
that the FDA scientic review conrmed that folic acid is safe for the general population.
In 2012 a retired physician wrote that an opinion piece
in support of the petition. He delivered two infants with
anencephaly during his career. “They constituted my most
devastating obstetric experiences,” he wrote.
Anencephaly is a type of NTD in which the brain and/
or skull is not formed properly. It is nearly always fatal. In spina bida, the neural tube fails to close correctly and causes spinal defects. Many affected children undergo
repeated surgeries and have lifelong health issues. Severely
affected children experience paralysis of the lower limbs
and varying degrees of loss of bowel and bladder control.
Even mildly-affected children have permanent loss of some
sensation or movement. An assessment of the cost savings
in the US from preventing spina bida showed an annual net savings of US$ 603 million.
Though folic acid for women of child-bearing age has
been recommended for more than 25 years, only about
one-third of American women take a daily multivitamin containing folic acid. The form of this B vitamin found
in leafy green vegetables, fruits, and legumes is hard
for the body to absorb, making it very difcult to get the equivalent of 400 grams of folic acid a day from
unfortied food alone.
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90 years of Mühlenchemie have shown one thing especially:
we are always a step ahead of current developments. A combi-
nation of creativity, passion and experience is the starting
point for a wealth of innovative products – milestones in the
history of flour treatment. This pioneering spirit is characteristic
of our company’s culture and history. A pioneering spirit
that we expect of coming generations too, and specifically
promote by passing on our knowledge and cooperating with
young research scientists. For better flour – and a better future.
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AIB helps corn millers meet recent FDA approval for folic acid fortication
T he Food and Drug Administration announced
the approval of folic acid fortication in corn masa our on April 14. The approval allows
manufacturers to voluntarily add up to 0.7 milligrams of
folic acid per pound of corn masa our, consistent with the levels of certain other enriched cereal grains.
Corn masa is used to make a variety of food product,
including tortillas, tortilla chips, tamales, taco shells, and
corn chips. Folic acid, a synthetic form of folate, is a B
vitamin that when taken by a pregnant woman may help
prevent birth defects.
Adding folic acid to corn masa will impact the nutritional
prole and the ingredient listing of the products to which the masa is being added. AIB International’s food labelling
services can help manufacturers update the necessary label
components, like the nutrition and ingredient statement,
to reect these changes and meet FDA and USDA food regulations. Additionally, AIB’s lab testing services can
test food products to validate fortication levels. “We know many companies use corn masa in their
products and AIB International is here to help them
successfully bring products to market that meet this
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F iveF is now offering the UK feed trade the opportunity
to take advantage of its proven ration alkalising
technology to be able to make new branded blended
and pelleted feed ranges for their ruminant livestock farmer
customers.
range of ration alkalisation options.
“In AlkabupHa® the feed trade is already able to offer an in-
feed TMR alkaliser for units interested in making their own
Alkalage or Alkagrain, but we wanted to help manufacturers
become even more responsive to customer needs as more
farmers appreciate the benets of this technology. “For example, the new Alkablend® blended feeds
incorporate the super concentrated Alkagrain 150 Protein
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progressing, it is good to recap
the progress and distribution of
the current directory. Writing
great way to stay in touch, to
hear about this progress, and
to also look ahead. In terms of
progression, I need to say how
pleasing it is that the Twitter followers of the directory’s
Twitter channel has hit and gone beyond 1000 followers.
For those who aren’t yet followers, it is a great way to stay
in touch in-between columns and keep in contact with the team.
This progress on Twitter coincided with a successful tour of
Turkey this week. Prof. Dr. Hikmet Boyacioglu and I were
the guests of a number of mills, bakeries and manufacturers
and I also visited two national organisations to foster closer
ties and to also achieve more localised content for the
Turkish editions. One of these companies was Turkiyeyem-
BIR, The National Feed Manufacturer’s Association of
Turkey. Located in a group with ofces in the centre of Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, Prof. Dr. Hikmet Boyacioglu
and I met with the Secretary General, Prof. Dr. Nizamettin
Senköylü - look out for the story in one of our upcomingeditions! Another story to look out for will be our visit to
TMO (Turkish Grain Board) in Ankara, where we met with
with Rek Kayhan Ünal, Member of the Board of Directors and Deputy General Manager, and Ayin enses, Press and Public Relations Department Manager of TMO. We found
that an overarching theme of our meetings was that similar
challenges to current issues faced by European feed milling
businesses are taking place in Turkey too.
From these visits, I hope to be providing our editorial teams
with a wealth of invaluable material for Milling and Grain
magazine in the near future, which I hope you will all enjoy.
The rst of these editorials is in fact published in this issue: a review of the conference and exhibition TUSAF (Turkish Flour Industrialists’ Federation) 2016 – with a view to show
the continuing levels of development in this industry.
Returning to the directory, so far in the past month of April,
ve new companies have joined as members; this is great so far but we are on the lookout for more! My colleagues
Peter and Ivan in Oceania and Latin America respectively
are stepping up to assist in this global reach. Other ways
to register your company is via the directory’s homepage
www.internationalmilling.com and also by directly
contacting us via email -details at the rst page of this magazine. Advertising options online and in print are also a
great way to establish your products and brand in the
industry. These are the best
way to renew and begin.
Tom Blacker, International Milling and Grain Directory
Progress, progress, progress!
Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and fertility, watches
over the fortunes and welfare of our FlourWorld Museum
as a filigree work of art created with 10,000 knots in nylon
thread. She also stands for Mühlenchemie in its role as a
manufacturer of flour improvers and vitamin and mineral
premixes, as a symbol of creative entrepreneurial energy
and openness to the world.
Grain was the beginning
With its collection of over 3,000 flour sacks from 130
countries around the globe, the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg, near Hamburg (Germany), is unique in the
world of grain. It is an initiative and cultural project of
Mühlenchemie and a token of thanks to all millers. The
museum shows the history of flour and its significance for
mankind: FLOUR IS LIFE. Every new sack with an interest-
ing motif is welcome in the Sackotheque and will find a
permanent home there.
“Demeter”, K. Willinek
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FLOUR IS ART
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Several years ago, one of the rst presentations I made had the title
“Back to the Future or Forward
to the Past?” To this day, I still
wonder which direction we are
heading.
The past is everywhere it seems.
On the consumers’ side, there is
a growing desire for food and
farming like they believe it was made in the past. Call it
authentic, natural, and old-fashioned or any other name
that appeals to consumers, many people certainly have
the past in mind when they make their food choices. This
nostalgia of things that never really were, as I call it, is
not a new phenomenon. It comes in cycles and it is more
a reection and a reaction of a general malaise about how the present world is perceived.
Of course, at the same time, consumers expect a level of
food safety that today’s technology offers. They would not
want to buy the same old food borne diseases. They want
the best of both worlds; it is a fair expectation.
We long for what we fear is about to be lost
Sometimes we want to part with the past and embrace
novelty and progress, sometimes we long for what we fear
is about to be lost. The further away from the equilibrium
the pendulum goes, the harder it swings back in the other
direction, and often it swings back too far. The polarisation
of the debate on food and farming is just another
expression of the magnitude of the pendulum swings.
The back and forth between future and past is not just
in consumers markets, though. There is hardly any
week without some research paper on farming by some
university “rediscovering” what our forefathers knew from experience about sustainability and preserving resources,
although back then the science was not advanced enough
to explain what they knew.
Even in summits and conferences where the world elite
likes to gather among peers, there seems to have been a
renewed awareness about the importance of proper water
management and of healthy soils lately. I would have
thought that it was a given for anyone remotely involved in
food and agriculture.
Sometimes, I have a feeling that we are disconnected with
Nature. Perhaps increased wealth and comfort has made us
think that we could extract ourselves from our biological nature. Then, it is quite fortunate that the threats and
challenges that we are facing act as a wake-up call.
Hopefully, we will be able to get up on the right foot
and do the right thing, too. Our biological nature is not
just about our physical interaction and dependence with
Nature. That would be too rational and too easy to deal
with, I suppose.
psychological. It adds quite another dimension of
subjectivity that is more challenging to manage. The
discrepancy between the emotional and the rational is
certainly one of the main causes of tension between
different groups and opinions. It expresses itself in many
ways. There has always been a tension between tradition
and modernity, as there is also between comfort zone and
change.
Some will be more conservatives and others will be more
adventurous and it is often difcult to nd a consensus between such different adaptive behaviours towards the
future. If that was not complicated enough, the way the
programming that we all follow in our different cultures
to perceive and deal with the outside world makes it even
more difcult to reconcile different points of views in a global perspective.
Nonetheless, the psychological element is there, like it
or not. We cannot ignore it and we cannot deny it. For the future, I believe it is probably a bigger challenge than
nding new technologies to solve problems. The trick will be to manage the psychological to lead towards effective
solutions and shape a world in which we have a future.
There are useful lessons to be learned from the past
There are many useful lessons to be learned from the past,
just as there are useful ones from the present. We must
learn from them and use them to prevent repeating the
same mistakes. It will be useful to mix past, present and a
future vision to mix past experience with new knowledge
and new tools and to rethink how we could rebuild our systems from scratch by eliminating unnecessary baggage
and increase their effectiveness.
Just like in the human brain, we have to nd ways to connect both hemispheres and build a bridge between the
poles. Our future and current leadership must manage
this uid and grey area so that we use all of the potential within our societies, our histories and ourselves to build
the foundation of a solid future. For everything that is
polarised, getting the best and eliminating the worst of
both worlds is the way to go, unless we want humanity to
end up bipolar.
has published two books on feeding the world’s growing
population. His blog is called “The Food Futurist”.
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• Reduce Downtime & Maintenance Costs
DOWNTIME IS
A RACE...
Over US$80,000 raised at 6th annual IMEF auctions
W hen the auctioneer’s gavel fell on the nal winning bid during the annual IAOM
Conference & Expo in Columbus, Ohio, the
International Milling Education Foundation had raised
US$81,500. The largest fundraising event of the year for the Foundation, the evening included a combination of
silent and live auctions. The total included winning bids
and pledged donations.
“I can’t say enough about the amazing support we
continue to receive for the IMEF auctions,” stated Brad
Allen, IMEF President at the conference.
“This year, we had a record number of items donated to
the auction by our allied partners and milling companies.
With all of the exciting projects we have in the pipeline,
the funds will be put to good use.”
“Since the rst donations were made in 2004, we’ve been able to raise over US$1.3 million,” Mr Allen continued.
“The funds raised have been used to support K-State
students and professionals in furthering their education,
as well as for developing content for a vocational training
program and a website to help promote the milling industry
as a great place to make a career.”
The donations ensure that IMEF will be able to continue
to inspire leadership and achievement within the milling
community as the Foundation supports learning and
knowledge resources.
endowment was the development of a Milling Technician
certicate program, which is currently under way at Cowley College in Arkansas City, Kansas. IAOM plans
to replicate the program in targeted areas within close
proximity to milling facilities across the US.
In addition, IMEF funds a scholarship program for
milling science students at Kansas State University, as
well as professionals in the industry to take the IAOM
Correspondence Course in Flour Milling and resident milling courses. Two US$2500 scholarships were
presented to K-State students for the 2016-17 academic
year; and one scholarship to a professional for enrolment in
the Correspondence Course.
individuals, partner organisations, equipment and service
suppliers and others. We’ve published the full list of
donations on the Global Miller blog (gfmt.blogspot.com)
http://bit.ly/1r3DkRp
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is a business for professionals. With advances
in breeding, feeding and animal husbandry, no
other livestock species has been optimised as much as the
modern breeds of broiler chicken. The key to successfully
maximising growth performance is a well-developed
intestine.
Butyric acid and its salts, the butyrates, are important
building blocks for the healthy development of the
intestine. They support the development of intestinal
villi and are therefore needed along the entire digestive
tract. Butyric acid and its salts are metabolised at the start
of the intestinal tract, where they become available to
epithelial cells as a source of energy. In contrast, gluconic
acid and its salts are not broken down until they reach
the nal section of the intestinal tract (Asano et al. 1997), where they undergo bacterial fermentation that primarily
generates butyrate (Kameue et al 2004; Tsukahara et al
2002).
large intestine (Roediger 1980),
indirectly stimulate epithelial growth in
the nal section of the intestinal tract as well. This favours the development of a
healthy intestinal structure (Biagi et al.
2006). The combination of butyrate and
gluconate therefore delivers an optimal
supply of energy for epithelial cells
along the entire intestinal tract, with the
known advantages.
can also stimulate the growth of useful
microorganisms, such as for example
bidobacteria (Asano et al 1994; Tomioka et al 2001). An
increased concentration of bidobacteria in the intestinehas a benecial effect on the host organism’s health and reduces the risk of diarrhoea (Picard et al 2005).
Proven in practice: PreAcid is reliable
A series of tests carried out at two large broiler farms
examined the effects of PreAcid on biological performance
parameters and on the protability of these businesses. To this end, the animals at Farm 1 (n=135,300) and Farm
2 (n=103,400) were divided into two feeding groups
at each farm. The feed for the positive-control group
contained butyric acid in capsule form, while that for the
experimental group contained PreAcid.
PreAcid results: higher protability Following the analysis of eight sequential cycles, the
outcomes in the PreAcid group were clear cut:
• reductions in mortality up to 39 percent
• increases in end weights up to 6 percent
• increases in daily weight gains up to 5.7 percent
The return from the broiler cycles increased, because
the production costs per kg poultry meat fell by up to 2.8
percent (see Table 1).
percentages achieved.
A positive side effect: As substantially lower odour levels arise during processing, handling PreAcid is clearly more
pleasant compared with the use of butyrates.
For questions on cost-effective broiler production and the
use of PreAcid, contact:
www.dr-eckel.de
Table 1: Effect of PreAcid on the performance parameters of broiler
chicken
Control
PreAcid
End Weight (g) 2091±93.1 2155±34.0 2272±124.7 2422±99.4
Daily weight gains (g/day)
Feed utilisation
Feed cost/kg
3 convincing reasons for PreAcid use in broiler production
24 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain
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B rad Allen, vice president and operations lead for
Ardent Mills in Denver, Colorado, became the
112th president of the International Association of
Operative Millers (IAOM) at the Association’s 120th annual
conference and expo on April 7, in Columbus, Ohio.
Stephen R Doyle, vice president at King Milling
Company in Lowell, Michigan, was elected 2016-2017
vice president, and Jeff Hole, director of milling at Grain
Craft in Mission Woods, Kansas, was elected 2016-2017
treasurer.
Brad Allen announced the theme for his presidency: “Zero
is the Goal.”
focuses on the development and training of a new
generation of millers to replace the anticipated 50 percent
of the workforce that will retire within the next decade. As vice president, Stephen R Doyle will be responsible
for overseeing preparations for the Association’s 2017
conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is in line to
serve as the Association’s president from 2017-2018. Mr
Doyle has been an active member of IAOM since 1987.
While serving as IAOM vice president, he will also
be president of the International Milling Education Foundation (IMEF), a philanthropic partner of IAOM that
funds a variety of educational programs related to the grain
milling industry.
preparations for the Association’s 2017 and 2018
conferences in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlanta,
Georgia, respectively. He is also in line to serve as the
Association’s president from 2018-2019. Mr Hole has been
an active member of IAOM since 1994.
While serving as IAOM treasurer, he will also be
vice president of the International Milling Education
Foundation (IMEF), a philanthropic partner of IAOM that funds a variety of educational programs related to the grain
milling industry. Mr Hole has served as the Central District
Chairperson and on the IAOM board of directors from
2006-2012, representing the Central District. He has been
on the Employee Relations Committee since 2011.
Left to right: Immediate Past President Roy Loepp, President Brad Allen, Vice President Stephen Doyle, Treasurer Jeff Hole, Executive Vice President Melinda Farris.
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facilities in Kalundborg,
Denmark. The facilities
produce sustainable protein
built in connection with Kalundborg’s former water
purifying plant. The new production facilities will be built in cooperation with
Cowi and CKJ Steel, among
others, and construction is
The Hamburg-based
Stern-Wywiol Gruppe
achieved a record sales
gure of 444 million Euros in 2015 – resulting in 12 percent growth for
the family business. The
in Germany and abroad rose to nearly 1000. It is
planned to continue this
market for food and feed ingredients with investments
of EU€25 million in the next two years. They
include internationally
HERZA Schokolade and
Berg+Schmidt. Each company has specic competence in a particular
eld, for instance bakery or dairy products, deli
foods, meat, sh, chocolate, avourings, lecithin, enzymes or vitamins.
Last month I wrote
my column as I
the Philippines. Since
subsistence farming to another of agriculture on
an industrial scale.
In Australia, you are also reminded that farming is totally weather dependent. For instance, the
rains have so far missed parts of the Northern
Territory and Queensland where livestock are
starving and reliant on food deliveries of hay
and straw from New South Wales just to keep
alive vital breeding stock; with all other animals
having either been slaughtered early or died from
starvation.
nurtured like family. For arable farmers and our
urban cousins, this is a fact not understood andcan be devastating. It matters not the breed of
the cattle, sheep, goat or pigs, their breeding is
always a lifetime’s commitment.
Recently, we saw the efforts of the New South
Wales farmers who were attempting to alleviate
the pressure on their colleagues by sending the
biggest ever peace time convoy of trucks laden
with forage to the area.
In southern Queensland, the harvest of sorgum
is now getting started I think earlier than usual
so we hope that the yields are not depressed. In
central New South Wales there is a different story
where rice yields are proportionate to the amount of rains that they have experienced. However,
where we see the price of water exceed the price
of land, without water crops or animals cannot
survive as we saw earlier in this article.
The commercial realities of farming Then we look at the commercial realities of
farming and the farmer’s own ability to adapt
and change to suit the commercial climate of the
day.
With farmers changing in Queensland and
New South Wales from the world’s most staple of diets, from rice to cotton. Where with new
varieties and cropping techniques and of course
prices in the millions per hectare being given
over to this new crop, and new cotton gins
developed to process the crop into cotton, seed
and oil. Interestingly, a lot of the Australian
cotton oil is sent to America for cooking; a
country with a long history of cotton growing.
There are now about 40 cotton gins operating in
Australia compared to the 1000 in the USA but
using all of the very latest technology to ensure
products of the highest quality. The newest gin I
was privileged to visit with an investment of over
AUS$ 40 mil owned by a farmer co operative
with this sort of investment high quality cotton is
another export product for the Australian farmers
backed with large investments in machinery and
irrigation.
I travelled on to Vietnam. What a contrast!
However, a country with paddy elds of less than half a hectare the country still ranks number
three in the world for rice exports.
In Vietnam, there is also not such a massive
reliance on machinery. They have the man power
in abundance with still more than 70 percent of
the population still relying on agriculture for their
incomes, which in some cases are still belowUS$ 1000 per year.
However, with technology and education,
this should improve and the government has
ambitious plans in place to increase outputs.
With that increase in incomes, twinned with
modern genetics for crops and livestock, huge
increases in productivity can be achieved.
Vitally, as we see vast increases in industrial and
housing developments, twinned with increasing
urbanisation; all of which is taking place on the
best of our agricultural land. This is putting even
more pressure on the remaining farmers to use
their adaptability and expertise to continue to produce food.
Looking towards Indonesia Ensuring that we keep hold of the skills that the
world cannot afford to lose, with my colleagues
at Perendale we will be at Indo Livestock,
which this year is held in Jakarta. Here we will
be running some practical training sessions to
demonstrate new technologies for high quality
feeds, in order to improve livestock production.
Before going to Indonesia, I have another
exhibition the China Animal Husbandry Expo held this year in Shenyang followed by World
Pork Expo in the USA where I hope to see some
of our readers.
The need for farmers to adapt to suit the commercial
climate of the day
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T he Food Safety Modernisation Act is changing theway we think about animal food safety in the feed
industry,” says Cassandra Jones, assistant professor
of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University.
She adds, “Many in the feed and pet food industries are
uncertain about the requirements of the rule and how it
applies to their situation.”
As a result, Jones and a team of K-State faculty and
alumni are joining with the National Grain and Feed
Association to offer the NGFA-KSU Food Safety
Modernisation Act Feed Industry Training planned for
June 28-30, 2016 at the IGP Conference Center. The
preventative controls for animal food training curriculum
was developed by K-State in collaboration with faculty from North Carolina State University. As the project
manager for the group who designed the curriculum, Jones
says she is excited to offer the training for industry and
regulators.
as give some ideas for implementation and training to
those concepts,” Jones says. She adds, “Many industry
and regulatory personnel are requesting training to be a
Preventive Controls Qualied Individual. This course will utilise the FDA-recognised curriculum to achieve this
certication.”Key topics covered in the course will include: the
applicability of the Preventative Controls for Animal Food
rule, the requirements for Current Good Manufacturing
Practices, and the items needed in a food safety plan, such
as hazard analysis and preventive controls.
“The concepts participants learn in this course will bepivotal in their success in developing and implementing
an animal food safety plan and food safety system,” Jones
says.
This course is unique compared to other courses where
the curriculum is only for certication as a Preventive Controls Qualied Individual, because it also includes HACCP training. Upon completion of the course,
participants will hold two certicates of training – one from the Food Safety Preventative Controls Alliance and
one from the International HACCP Alliance.
This is just one example of the trainings offered through
IGP Institute. In addition to grain processing and our
milling, IGP offers courses in the areas of grain marketing and risk management, and feed manufacturing and grain
quality management.
Animal Feed Safety Training Coming Soon
Kansas State University’s IGP Institure to lead Food Safety Modernisation Act feed training
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on quality. An essential evaluation criterion for pellet quality is
abrasion stability.
A multitude of inuencing factors must be paid attention to,
like eg physical and chemical properties of the feed formulation,
steam quality, conditioning, operating parameters of pellet mills,
cooling, as well as stability of thermo-sensitive additives.
Conditioning, pressing and cooling require more than half of the
energy necessary for the production of compound feed. The rising
energy costs require the utilisation of possible savings. So it is
worthwhile to leverage knowledge and competence for optimised
process control! To help you do precisely that, the IFF is offering a practical
course: “Pelleting of compound feed” on June 7-8, 2016, at their
centre in Braunschweig, Germany.
Technical knowledge on pelleting will be given both in lectures and
in practical exercises at the pilot plant of the institute. In practical
tests, different measuring and test methods will be introduced. The
participants will be enabled to improve the handling and control of
the pelleting process in daily practice with simple means.
The course mainly appeals to employees who are directly
involved in the pelleting process and can inuence signicantly
the essential quality properties of the produced pellets (abrasion
stability, moisture) by their technical know-how and experience.
The participation in this course is especially recommended for
the training and further education of persons who have entered the
compound-feed industry from other industries.
Course contents: Agglomeration / Measurement and pellet
quality / Steam generation / Operating parameters for pelleting / Cooling / Stability of additives / Energy management / Practical
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PRODUCT FOCUS MAY 2016 In every edition of Milling and Grain, we take a look at the products that will be saving you time and money in the milling process.
AS SEEN AT: VICTAM/FIAAP/ GRAPAS 2016
Flexicon TIP-TITE ® Mobile Drum Tipper Flexicon’s new TIP-TITE ® Mobile Drum Tipper allows dust-free transfer of bulk materials from drums into process equipment and storage vessels.
Ready to plug in and run, it is mounted on a mobile frame
with quick-action oor jacks for stable operation anywhere in the plant.
The drum tipper is available constructed of mild steel with durable industrial nishes, with material contact surfaces of stainless steel, or in all-stainless steel nished to food, dairy, pharmaceutical or industrial standards.
www.exicon.com
Watchdog™ Super Elite 4B Components Ltd, a worldwide manufacturer of material
handling and electronic components, has just released the all newfourth generation Watchdog™ control unit for monitoring bucket elevators and conveyors.
The Watchdog™ Super Elite can be connected directly to a PLC using Modbus TCP/IP protocol, or integrated into HazardMon.com ® , a secure cloud based solution that provides
live system status, graphs and historical data that is viewable on any web- enabled device.
All 4B Watchdog™ sensorsare CSA Class II, Division 1 approved.
www.go4b.com
Roto-Disc process transitions Roto-Disc, Inc now offers a full-range of process transitions that make the task of mating equipment and piping with non- matching dimensions easier and quicker.
Among the many options available are round-to-square pipe transitions, square and conical reducers, exible stub adaptors and sanitary pipe/tube extenders with clamp ferrules. Transitions are available with anges on one or both ends as are angeless/weld stub transitions and anges can be drilled to suit. Custom shapes such as offset/oblique, rectangular and
double-cone types can also be provided upon request.
www.rotodisc.com
Pinch closing station for Maia The pinch closing station for the bagging station Maia is suitable for dust-tight closures of pre-glued bags made of paper or woven polypropylene usable for automated processing. With the Bühler pinch closure the bags are glued instead of sewn. Part of the machinery is a swivelling cover which allows quick and easy access for cleaning and maintenance.
The Bühler pinch closing station offers maximum exibility. The open bags are safely guided through the process and therefore ensure top reliability and work safety. The machine can be adjusted quickly and without using any tools to different bag sizes, lling products and bag types made of paper or woven polypropylene.
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The cost of ensuring that bucket elevator transport systems are
explosion-safe can be up to three times as much as the cost of the
transport system itself. That is also why Poeth Solids Processing,
developers, builders, and installers high-quality machines and
production lines for a wide range of solids handling processes,
has developed the innovative and cost-effective Z-Conveyor for
the high-capacity transport of bulk solids to great heights.
Poeth. based in Tegelen in the Netherlands, believe that the
Z-Conveyor can be used for handling bulk solids in a wide
range of sectors including the feed, food, chemicals, petfood and
plastics.
vertically handling a variety of dry, free
owing bulk materials efciently and with
high capacities he plastic ights are carried
by a chain, all contained in a standard trough.
Bulk materials ow smoothly and gently. All materials are carried “en masse” without
tumbling, thereby keeping material agitation
and friction to a minimum. Because of
the employment of this technique, particle
degradation and separation are also
minimised.
expensive investments in ATEX safety
systems. The new system is also energy-
efcient and suitable for handling fragile
products. Finally, the construction costs are
also signicantly lower.
high cost of ATEX safety systems
Dry organic particulates are explosion-prone
by nature, especially when transported at
speeds in excess of 1 m/s. Bucket elevator
transport systems are very suitable for
transporting materials vertically, but such
systems are effective only at speeds in excess
of 2 m/s.
be equipped with increasingly rigorous and
expensive ATEX-compliant safety systems.
decoupling, explosion suppression, load
relief, misalignment protection, automation, and maintenance for
bucket transport systems are presently up to three times as high as
the cost of the transport system itself.
That is why Poeth Solids Processing has developed a new
system for the horizontal, vertical, and/or diagonal transport of
explosion-prone dry products, which eliminates the need for
investing in expensive explosion suppression, and safety systems
that comply with the ATEX standard.
Energy-efcient and gentle transport without major
construction costs The innovative design of the new Z-Conveyor developed by
Poeth allows for high loading levels and transport capacities
from 45 m³ up to 220 m³ per hour. Since the Z-Conveyer has
excellent performance characteristics at speeds well below 1 m/s,
there is also no risk of explosion. This eliminates the need for
making major investments in order to ensure compliance with
the increasingly strict ATEX safety standards, including the costs
resulting from the new CEN 305 legislation.
The new Z-Conveyor can also be installed without a roof
structure, basement, or building pit, resulting in additional
cost savings that make it a very attractive alternative to bucket
transport. The Z-Conveyor transports powders, particles, and
granulates gently and carefully, making it very suitable for fragile
ingredients such as malt, barley, maize, milk powders, coffee, tea,
cocoa, soya, pressed pellets, and extruded products.
Poeth brand new Z-Conveyor system is also incredibly energy-
efcient, offering savings of up to 90 percent of energy costs
compared to the alternatives such as pneumatic transport. The
system can be used for vertical transport up to heights of 10
metres and more.
production lines for a wide range of solids handling processes.
The Z-Conveyor can be used for handling bulk solids in a wide
range of sectors including the feed, food, chemicals, petfood, plastics, recycling, and brewery industries.
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Peer Hansen, Director of Marketing and Sales at Eye-Grain, Denmark (left) receives the 2016 GRAPAS Innovation Award for the iGrain- Crop Protector technology based on ozonation technology from Roger Gilbert of Milling and Grain with Eloise Hillier-Richardson attending. Yiannis Christodoulou of Agentis Innovations, Thailand (see picture overleaf), accepted the ‘runner-up’ award for his company’s M007 Real-Time In-Line Feed Reformulation equipment. Milling and Grain magazine, the world’s oldest milling magazine still in print, sponsors the GRAPAS Innovation Awards. The Award is made
to the most innovative and economically benecial equipment, process or service. Entries cover three categories:
1. A milling technology development (for our, rice or other cereal) 2. A production process or renement that makes for more
efcient and/or safe production 3. A service (online or otherwise) that helps millers achieve their
goals more efciently The following were considered innovative and were awarded: ‘commended’; ‘highly commented; ‘runner-up and ‘winner’ by the independent judging panel.
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Judging panel’s comment “The applicant proposes the use of oxonation by applying ozone (O3)for the control of insect infestation and unwanted biologic activity in stored cereal and other grains. Infestation is one of the major causes of the degradation or even total loss of grain in
storage.
“Ever since Methyl Bromide (CH3Br), an ozone depleting and hazardous gas, was disallowed as a fumigant under the Montreal Protocol the industry has struggled to nd viable alternatives, such as phosphine, which are similarly hazardous. “The Applicant has described in detail, not only the principles of the new process but also means for its application. The claims are backed up by a number of respected references and at least one learned paper. ( the Journal of Stored Products Research, 7th May 2013). “The fact that Ozone is highly oxidative and unstable, decomposing rapidly to oxygen without leaving residues is a highly attractive characteristic. “If the process proves to be practical in common use then it will constitute an innovative and valuable advance in protecting food grains.”
WINNER Eye-Grain APS, Denmark - iGrain and Crop-Protector based on ozonation technology “We believe ozonation technology will replace conventional use of fumigants in the coming years,” says Eye-Grain APS of Denmark
The advantage of this product:Ozonation technology offers so many advantages over other ways of dealing with infestation and unwanted biologic activity in stored crops. It is actually the only known technology that efciently terminates all types of pathogens in stored grain, including insects, fungus, bacteria, etc. The iGrain© and Crop-Protector © organisations under Eye-Grain APS has been one of the leading frontiers in acquiring know-how on practical application of the ozonation technology for the last 15 years.
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The iGrain in the food and feed industries “We have been involved in the development of ozonation technology for 15 years, and supplied some systems and lots of know-how to the grain industry on this technology. We have recently taken the decision to move forward and design a whole series of ozonation machines to cover many of the obvious applications in the grain industry.” – Eye-Grain Grain stores are a perfect habitat for insects that live on dry seeds: they are protected from weather extremes and they offer an unlimited food resource as well as an undisturbed long time span. Insect infestation in stored grain can result in economic losses up to nine percent in developed countries and 20 percent, locally much higher, in developing countries.
Furthermore, the presence of insects and their remains in grain may pose a health risk to humans and livestock.
At present the available control methods, are decreasing due in some cases to environmental and safety concerns among consumers and the society, thus stressing the demand for alternative control methods.
Gaseous ozone (O3) is highly oxidative, unstable and decomposes rapidly to oxygen without leaving residues. It is a powerful disinfectant used in water treatment and in the food industry and has recently received increasing interest for control of insect pests in stored grain. Several papers report on the potential of ozone to control stored product pests and it has also shown potential for control of insect strains that are resistant to the fumigant phosphine.
Lethal doses and exposure times for ozone vary – and have been reported to range between ve parts per million by volume (ppm)/ve days to 300ppm/18 hours for insects living among kernels. Ozone can also inactivate storage fungi in grain.
Recent studies show that all life stages of some of the economically most important pests of stored grain worldwide have stages that develop, concealed within kernels, such as eggs, larvae and pupae of primary pests, including insects that attack whole kernels: the weevils Sitophilus Granarius L., S. Oryzae L. and S. Zeamais Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Curculion- idae) and the Lesser Grain Borer, Rhyzopertha Dominica F. (Coleoptera: Bostrychidae) can be treated and terminated with the use of ozone including all life stages and their ‘internal stages.’
‘Internal stages’ are to some extent protected from exposure to ozone, however with the newly acquired knowledge it has been possible to design a Crop-Protector Ozonator machine so that the treatment dose and time are matched to terminate these life stages as well.
Safety issues Unfortunately, traditional fumigation has in many cases lead to tragic lethal incidents with Methyl Bromide (now a redun-
dant fumigant), Phosphine and other chemicals. Fortunately, ozone is not toxic to humans in the doses required for ozonation of stored commodities. The scientic literature describes only a few incidents with ozone in the wastewater industry. None of these were lethal and in wastewater applications the ozone concentration is 100–1000 times higher than in the Crop-Protector Ozonator machine. The toxicity to humans illustrated below, with indication of the ozone concentrated generated inside the closed loop system (blue circle), and the expected ambient concentration (brown circle).
Commended Matador (Jiangsu) Machinery Engineering Co Ltd, China - Feed Machines; turnkey feed plants and biomass machines
Matador designs and builds key process machines, but also offers complete plant solutions for the global animal feed and biomass pellets industries. Its business is based on a competitive approach to matching the requirements of successful livestock feed, aquatic feed, pet food and biomass pellets companies. When designing new technologies or customer specic plant solutions, Matador has to take account of the demand for reliable processing, cost efciency, uniform quality and high-performance animal feed and biomass pellets, considering the shifting availability of feed ingredients, the increasing number of environmental standards and hygiene regulations and the requirement for traceability in the interests of food safety.
Commended Norvidan A/S, Denmark - TADS (Temperature At the Die System) The Norvidan TADS was introduced in 2015 is a system developed to ght salmonella in the animal feed milling industry. Measuring the temperature of pellets immediately when they are produced at the die of the press can establish and record the true, highest
pellet temperature of the pellet and display and lock it into adatabase for documentation, QA purposes. The TADS is a on-line measuring mechanical device easily mounted on the pellet press door. Via a PLC the signal is provided to at PC for displaying and logging. It is the fully automatic, logging of critical temperature data and hence it reduces the task of staff in the mill and can potentially lead to free staff for other tasks. TADS also gives information on how well the conditioner(s) are working since the temperature of the meal and the temperature of the leaving the die can be compared and the “Temperature across the Die” is known.
Commended IMAS, Turkey - Multimilla Roller Mill Just over a year ago in April 2015, Imas introduced its cast iron Multimilla Roller Mill. The roller mill body is made of lamel black-lead cast iron. This material is used to absorb knocks and vibration in machine bodies. This has advantage over steel.
Inox contact surfaces, Inox main walls: In addition to contactsurfaces in other roller mills, Multimilla roller mill main side walls are also completely Inox. This is very important for hygiene and sanitation. The dimensions are accurate in cast iron bodies as the parts are machined in CNC machines rather than being welded. As a result, the parallelity of roll housings is excellent. Turbo-negative pressure to eliminate dusting at feed gate: 1) Evacuates trapped dusty air from the inlet hopper to the outlet hopper by using pneumatic system and 2) adjustable turbo system creates negative pressure around the break rolls. Dust around the rolls is sucked in preventing it from escaping.
Highly Commended Bastak, Turkey - Sampler Cleaner - Brand 13500 Through its rotatable cylinder sieve inside the device, a sample can sifted and classied. The sample is then collected in the balanced drawers for impurity. Through the LCD touchable screen, the process can be controlled including sieve turning speed, feeding gate opening, blowing power and process time and language selection, reports and logs. Light materials, broken materials, good materials and foreign
materials can be separated easily and classied for: wheat, barley, maize, rye, oats, etc. Before buying raw materials, this device informs you about the quality of the products by analyzing quality control and impurity. The product has 10-inch touch screen whereas other machines don’t – everything on the machine can be controlled by the touch screen. All results can be printed out and all results are saved in a bulletin log.
Highly Commended Dinnissen, The Netherlands - Hamex® Hammermill with semi- automatic sieve exchanger The screens are positioned in a screen holder on a guiding system. This holder can move outwards over a horizontal slide. However, the mill housing is fully closed in its extended end position. The pneumatic screen clamp can be released, after which the screens are to be exchanged manually. The screen holder locks the screens in a hinged clamp that opens up wide during screen exchange, so they slide in
easily. The operator only needs to be physically present at the machine when sliding the screens out and in. The guiding system is motorised and being operated in the safety zone. Due to the very precise t between the screens and the clamp, product leakage is minimised. The machine is characterized by high capacity, efciency, very ne and precise grinding and uniformity of the processed end-product
RUNNER UP Agentis Innovations, Thailand - M007 Real-Time In-Line Feed Reformulation Today, there is no other technology or method that can deliver a solution to the age old problem of moisture variation in the raw material. As such, the industry continues to suffer the consequence of formulating and dosing moisture sensitive material based on a xed moisture value. The M007 Real Time In Line Reformulation technology will not only instantly and accurately measure the moisture of raw material during the weighing process of batching, but will also instantly and accurately auto-correct the raw material weights to reect the true dry matter as specied by the formulation.
This sophisticated and intelligent system, identies each formulation and its original dry matter target for each specied raw material. The auto corrections are real time, meaning that the system will perform this action for each and every batch of feed produced. Importantly, any auto weight corrections are completed without any delay to the usual batching process and all changes made to the raw material inclusion by the system are captured, stored and reported for verication, traceability and stock reconciliation purposes. For the rst time, feed companies are able to accurately control the true dry matter entering the mixer, produce feed that is to the correct nutrient density and make signicant cost savings by avoiding nutrient giveaway and stock losses. Agentis Innovations’ M007 Real Time In Line Reformulation technology has been developed in such a way that is
versatile and exible, meaning that the same technology caneasily be modied to work and deliver the same results to other milling industries such as our milling.
Judging panel’s comment “The applicant is offering a system to optimise the proportions of materials in a feed, taking into account and compensating for the variations of moisture content in the raw materials. “Moisture variations in raw materials used in the feed milling industry normally adversely affects the ability to optimise the least-cost formulation of feeds. “Agentis Innovations claims to have a unique ability to compensate for these variations with its real-time and in-line measurement capability. “The resulting consistent production of feed at the correct dry matter and formulated cost would provide signicant economic benets “It is anticipated that
the technology could be modied to work and deliver similarbenets to other milling industries including our milling.”
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Kasa Controls & Automation by John Claman, Representative, Kasa Controls & Automation
“KTrack Bin Inventory Management and Traceability Software by Konnection provides bin graphics with commodities, volume, and grade factors per bin. It improves inventory management and provides ‘one step back/one step forward’ traceability as
required by the 2002 Bioterrorism Act and by processors due to FSMA. “KTrack works with existing scale-interface software to assign inbound and outbound tickets to the corresponding destination or source bins. It provides bin determination to prevent co-mingling of commodities and helps segregate wet, dry, high protein, GMO, etc. “For producers, KTrack sends texts and emails of ticket data upon weigh out, improving harvest decisions, quality, and customer service and for
plant operators, KTrack sends texts and emails as bins near full to preventslugging. “Our software also sends messages if trucks are onsite longer than usual. KTrack can be accessed remotely, display multiple locations, and can improve service to customers as well as public and employee safety.” Email: [email protected] www.konnection.com
R. Stahl Inc by Ross Blanford, Southeastern Regional Sales Director, R. Stahl Inc
“The R. Stahl Epik breaker panel is one of a series of solutions designed for the NEC market to eliminate the need for cast aluminum enclosures in areas where hazardous dusts, gases and bers are present.
“Constructed of 316S stainless steel, it is designed using UL489 certied
explosion protected breaker technology, moving the explosion protection from the enclosure to the breaker itself providing a safer and more cost effective way to install power distribution, heat trace and lighting panels in hazardous locations. “This is a Class II, Division 1 & 2 Group G certied product with main lug only
distribution, up to 42 circuits, GFI/GFCI available in 5mA and 30mA and a unique photo cell designed with both battery back-up and standard xtures
“R. Stahl offers a complete selection of explosion protected electrical and automation equipment along with custom system solutions to help prevent explosions in your facility.” Email: [email protected] www.rstahl.com
‘The early bird catches the worm,’ an English proverb which dates back to 1670s, was evident in Austin, Texas, USA in February when Kirby Bradley of chaired an early morning gathering of The Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) members under the banner of an Idea Exchange. Each year a number of companies are selected to give brief presentations on how their product or idea benets the industry. This year 11 companies participated and presented their latest developments in just a few minutes – the microphone going dead when time was up.
The Idea Exchange is open to all registered attendees and the conference hall at 09:00 on Sunday February 28, 2016 was crowed with standing room only. Milling and Grain presents six of the best ‘ideas’ presented this year in our post-event report below:
THE IDEA EXCHANGE SIX OF THE BEST
The Arnold Company by Albert Middeke, President and owner of the Arnold Company “The ‘Rhino’ Railcar Vibrator Lifter removes the danger of lifting, attaching and removing heavy railcar vibrators.
“Although very benecial, railcar vibrators typically weigh between 65-
85lbs (30-40kg), making the task of lifting and maneuvering them quite unsafe for one person. “The Rhino is powered by a pneumatic motor which operates a smooth and powerful hydraulic system designed to safely and easily adjust the vibrator height and angle with simple joystick controls. This enables a single user to easily lift and align the railcar vibrator to attach and remove it from
the railcar pocket.“The vibrator and the lifter operate off of the same pneumatic line, allowing the user to simply switch air power from the Rhino’s hydraulics to the pneumatic vibrator with the touch of a lever. Custom brackets allow the lifter to be used with either roller vibrators or piston vibrators. Email: [email protected] Website: www.arnoldcompany.com
Electro-Sensors Inc by Rick Eller, Sales and Business Development Manager, Electro-Sensors Inc “As crop production and facility automation increase, requirements for hazard monitoring systems to quickly and accurately detect and report equipment failures also increase. This is especially critical where undetected warnings or slow responsiveness may lead to catastrophic
losses of human life or plant equipment. “Traditionally, bearing temperature warning and shutdown values were xed and did not compensate for uctuating environments or seasonal
temperatures. The HazardPRO TM wireless system solves this by adding ambient sensors in combination with equipment temperature sensors to minimize false alarms while immediately notifying of legitimate warnings to ensure equipment is safely managed. “Grain elevators incorporating HazardPRO utilize ambient sensors on each side of the tail and head sections to continuously monitor temperature changes and adjust warning and shutdown set points real-time and in direct proportion with the current conditions. The resulting benet
of ambient compensation is increased plant safety with fewer invalid nuisance alarms.” Email: [email protected] www.electro-sensors.com
4B Components Ltd by Brian Knapp,Vice President – Electronics Division of 4B Components Ltd “The Milli-Speed is a two-wire loop powered 4-20 mA analog output sensor. It is designed to detect belt slip, belt under speed, stop motion, low speed or zero speed on bucket elevators, conveyors,
airlocks, fans and other rotating machines. “The Milli-Speed is set to the machine’s normal running speed by simple magnetic calibration. During calibration, the 4-20mA linear output signal is automatically scaled for zero speed (4mA) to full speed (17mA) with over speed detection (20mA). Unlike other 4-20mA sensors, the output signal of the Milli-Speed is consistent over different shaft speeds, which eliminates PLC or DCS programming errors. “The Milli-Speed is Class II Division 1 Groups E, F & G approved for hazardous dust environments. Additiona

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