
Grain and milling technology offered by European-based suppliers to the international market. View company profiles from A to I that discuss service range, product technologies and research and project developments for each European-based advertiser from the May issue of World Grain.
Founded in the UK in 1971, 4B has been an industry leader in developing high-quality, innovative and dependable material handling components for the agricultural and industrial sectors. From elevator buckets to forged conveyor chain and level monitors to hazard monitors, 4B is a company that can be relied on for needed equipment.
4B is a professional partner for the design of new bucket elevators and conveyors and upgrades of existing machines, a design service that is offered free of charge and supported by the company’s full guarantee. 4B feels that its additional services are just as important as the products themselves.
A subsidiary of The Braime Group, one of the largest suppliers of material handling components in the world, 4B looks back on more than 130 years of experience. With subsidiaries in Europe, Africa, America, Australia and Asia and a worldwide network of distributors, 4B can provide practical solutions for all applications at any location.
Alapala is a leading global machinery producer and solutions provider in grain milling technologies since 1954. Today, Alapala is a leading exporter in Turkey of food processing machinery and grain milling categories. The company is also among the top 1,000 exporters of Turkey. Alapala has 650+ turnkey project references in four continents and over 120 countries. It has a local presence in more than 48 countries. Alapala builds turnkey flour, semolina, maize, and feed mills, and recently pasta production plants integrating:
Alapala provides turnkey services, including manufacturing, project design, process engineering, project management, installation, commissioning and training services.
Altinbilek, founded in 1974, is a leading manufacturer of cereal transport systems. Its success in the last 46 years has been based on the vision of a highly trained and effective team and achieving customer satisfaction and loyalty.
In this competitive world, one of the key factors for success is R&D capability and investment to expand business to be forward-thinking and innovative in order to stay ahead and meet market demand. Design and engineering services offer ideal mechanical works solutions as tailor-made projects. The company’s quality management system plays a central role in defining its primary goal to keep customers satisfied. Continuous expansions of its facility and large investments have been applied to use modern technologies in manufacturing.
Altinbilek operates across four platforms: integrated grain storage systems; grain terminal ports; flat storage facilities; and animal feed mills.
With more than 100 years of experience, Balaguer Rolls is a world leader in manufacturing centrifugally chilled cast iron rolls for flour milling industries, compound feed, soybeans, coffee, chocolates, paintings, salt biscuits and chemicals. Balaguer rolls and machines are 99% exported directly to 130 countries on five continents.
The use of cutting-edge technology and the commitment to quality are part of the company’s DNA, which results in obtaining rolls with the highest quality standard.
Quality control is the cornerstone on which the company’s excellence is built. Quality controls are carried out at every single stage of the production process, ensuring that the rolls always meet the quality requirements of Balaguer Rolls as well as of the client. To do so, Balaguer uses the most accurate equipment available on the market. Balaguer’s R&D department is continuously engaged in innovations because the best way to keep the company on track is by achieving excellence every day.BBCA Storex, established in Tekirdag Corlu European Free Zone in 2011, has a total plot of 43,000 square meters and a 20,000-square-meter closed manufacturing area. BBCA Storex manufactures steel storage silos for grain. BBCA Storex maintains and controls the quality of the product during storage and grain handling, as well as providing convenience, reliability, efficiency, and profitability in the management of customers’ plants.
Many port and grain terminal projects that require intense capacity for handling equipment and grain storage have been implemented by the company. Its fields of activity include grain terminals, silo temperature and ventilation systems, feed manufacturing plants, seed and legumes processing plants. BBCA said its quality raw material, (S350GD+ZM310), high technology manufacturing capabilities and punctuality have made it reach a great height in this market today.
Bühler is driven by its purpose of creating innovations for a better world, balancing the needs of economy, humanity, and nature. As a relevant solution partner for the food and mobility industries, Bühler has developed a pathway to achieve a 60% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in its operations by 2030, meaning Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scopes 1 & 2, against a 2019 baseline.
It has committed to having solutions ready to multiply by 2025 that reduce energy, waste, and water by 50% in the value chains of its customers. Billions of people come into contact with Bühler technologies as they cover their basic needs for food and mobility every day. Two billion people each day enjoy foods produced on Bühler equipment; and 1 billion people travel in vehicles manufactured using parts produced with Bühler technology. Countless people wear eyeglasses, use smart phones, and read newspapers and magazines – all of which depend on Bühler process technologies and solutions. Having this global relevance, Bühler is in a unique position to turn today’s global challenges into sustainable business.
As a Swiss family-owned company, Bühler is active in 140 countries around the world and operates a global network of 105 service stations, 30 manufacturing sites, and Application and Training Centers in 23 countries.
CESCO EPC GmbH, formerly known as PETKUS Engineering GmbH, is an internationally operating German company based in Konstanz, which designs and supplies industrial plants for grain logistics and deep processing with handling, storing, and milling systems. The company offers clients personalized professional solutions with technology and quality guaranteed and backed by decades of experience executing projects all over the world. The products and services offered by CESCO are mainly divided into four business areas: inland grain terminals, port grain terminals, dry milling plants and turnkey plants.
The company’s lean structure, flexible and dynamic processes as well as efficient tools enable it to meet the expectations of customers and employees. CESCO has extensive international experience in large project management with a complete portfolio for grain handling, storing, and processing, including technological know-how in dry milling.
CESCO is currently developing global projects and facilities in more than 15 countries.
Cimbria is one of the world’s leading companies within industrial processing, handling and storage of grain and seed, as well as animal feed, foodstuffs and other bulk products. Cimbria designs, develops, manufactures, installs and services custom-built solutions. Whether the need is a single machine, a complete processing line or a large turnkey project including highly advanced automation and management information systems. Cimbria helps bring their customers’ visions to life.
Cimbria has the right technology to enhance quality and the right team to bring it all together. Learn more about Cimbria’s solutions within the fields of conveying, drying, processing, optical sorting and storage at cimbria.com.
With dedicated experts at the customer’s side from start to finish and beyond, Cimbria helps customers realize their business potential.
The industry expertise and business knowledge Cimbria brings to the table helps customers feel certain about the success of their projects.
Consergra, located near Barcelona, Spain, specializes in the natural preservation of grain, seeds, oilseeds and many other products for human and animal consumption. Consergra has 50 years of experience in grain conservation through cooling and manufactures the Conserfrio grain coolers.
With the Conserfrio system, not only is the quality of the product kept at its best but also the product’s weight, as the losses due to metabolic respiration are minimized. The use of the Conserfrio chillers avoids costly fumigations and chemical treatments against insects and product spoilage, achieving a natural and safe storage regardless of the ambient weather conditions. The system is clean, requiring only electric energy for its operation. Generally, no additional installation or works are necessary for its application. The use of the Conserfrio grain coolers is cost-effective, getting a very short payback. The system is used worldwide, being applied in silos and warehouses storing various grains and oilseeds.
DSM has supplied science-based products, services and groundbreaking innovation fundamental to the health, well-being and sustainability of farm animals. With growing demand for sustainable animal protein that is safe, nutritious and affordable, DSM helps the industry transition to a more sustainable future to meet this complex challenge.
Through its three business lines, DSM offers customers an end-to-end portfolio of products, solutions and services for sustainable and profitable animal farming. Its Performance Solutions + BIOMIN portfolio offers functional nutrition needed for the industry to meet the challenges of sustainability, animal welfare and feed quality.
The feed enzyme portfolio enhances the well-being and performance of livestock by unlocking nutrient potential in feed and lower feed costs. One of these products is HiPhorius, a phytase that delivers consistent improvements in animal performance through efficient phosphorous utilization.
Denis is a family business established in 1855, located near Paris and manufactures 5,000 to 6,000 items per year with a range of leading-edge machines in a 24,000-square-meter facility situated on an industrial site of eight hectares.
Denis is present worldwide through subsidiaries, partners and sales representatives and has built up an international reputation in their specialist fields, based on a thorough understanding of the processes their customers use in their various trades. Customers thus benefit from the experience and know-how of a leading manufacturer, with specially adapted equipment, well-finished.
Denis’ staff is at your service and offers various solutions with the production of a wide range of equipment for the mechanical handling and cleaning: bucket elevators, chain or belt conveyors, various types of screws, cleaners, discharge or extraction devices, etc.
Denis manufactures handling and cleaning equipment with capacities up to 400 tph that can be installed in different fields: grain and feed, farms, seed, milling, animal feed.For almost 20 years, the machines and technologies under the ELICA brand have been designed and produced on Bulgarian soil in the city of Silistra. The combination of an ambitious young team and the pursuit for innovation continues to create newer and better solutions on the market.
ELICA PROcessing’s core expertise is delivering turnkey solutions related to grain, seed and food processing. The company’s portfolio includes transport equipment for handling and storing of bulk materials, processing equipment for cleaning, calibrating and treating seeds, processing grain and niche crops, sunflower seed dehulling systems for oil crushing factories and for kernels for human consumption.
The challenge for the company is to create products that at the same time meet customer needs, regulatory requirements, and good manufacturing practices. More than 15 design engineers take care of turning the individual requirements of each client into real projects. The company provides fully automated user-friendly equipment, customized to fit customers’ specific needs.
Erkaya is one of the leading and prominent manufacturers of Turkey in the field of wheat and flour analyzing instruments and ingredients for flour mills and bakeries. Erkaya exports 80% of its production to many countries worldwide by the contribution of its professional work force and competitive quality and price. Erkaya has many valuable references on every continent.
It manufactures and markets laboratory equipment for the grain, flour and feed industries, including: harinograph and elastography dough analyzers, starch damage analyzers, touch screen falling numbers, and touch screen gluten washing systems. It also offers flour improvers, enzyme systems, premixes, flour bleaching, bread crust aroma, and biscuit and pasta improvers along with vitamin and mineral premixes for flour fortification.
FrigorTec GmbH has produced and distributed cooling units and heat pumps for industrial and food applications for more than 60 years.
A prominent part of the company’s product range is the GRANIFRIGOR cooling unit, which is designed specifically for grain preservation. It is used in numerous applications worldwide. For European countries FrigorTec offers the GRANIFRIGOR Europe series, for countries in the tropic zone, it provides the GRANIFRIGOR Tropic series and for the world’s very dry and hot regions, the company has developed the GRANIFRIGOR Desert series.
Several thousands of GRANIFRIGOR units, successfully in operation, are cooling wheat, barley, maize, rapeseed, rye, mixed feed, oats, rice, soybean, peas, potatoes, grass seeds, paddy, millet, cacao beans, coffee beans, etc.
Grain cooling with the GRANIFRIGOR system offers the most natural way of grain preservation with protection against insects and microbes without chemical treatment and independent of ambient weather conditions. There is a short amortization period and low energy costs.
imas Machinery was established in 1989 and has the vision to be one of the leading global brands in milling technologies.
The synthesis of know-how and experience for over 30 years with the new approach, larger team, upcoming investments, creates its “new synergy.” imas builds turnkey flour, maize, and feed mills worldwide with more than 500 project references in five continents and over 100 countries.
imas is today ranked among Turkey’s top 1,000 exporters and is the only company in the milling machinery sector that had a public offering starting in April 2022. The company is currently building one of the largest milling complexes in Nigeria for BUA Group, including a new 2,400-tpd flour mill to be completed in 2023.
imas R&D and engineering team has developed polymeric composites as an alternative to steel or cast iron for roller mill chassis construction. The major advantage of using the patented composites is the great vibration resistance.Grain and milling technology offered by European-based suppliers to the international market. View company profiles from A to I that discuss service range, product technologies and research and project developments for each European-based advertiser from the May issue of World Grain.
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