
GrainsConnect Canada celebrated its two new grain terminals in Saskatchewan on July 9. Executives from the companies involved in the partnership, including GrainCorp, Zen-Noh Grain and Zen-Noh, attended the ceremonies. GrainsConnect vows to have the most efficient grain handling system on the Canadian prairies.
Suppliers throughout the world are providing cutting edge milling and grain handling/storage equipment and services to the global marketplace. These company profiles discuss the service range, product technologies and research and project developments for some of World Grain’s advertisers based in Europe and Asia.
The IAOM conference was held in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. for the first time since 1982. It attracted 830 attendees from 23 countries as well as 126 exhibitors and it focused on food safety.
Bühler officially opened its Asia-Pacific Manufacturing and R&D Center on April 26, a ceremony that included customers and stakeholders representing 32 nations from six continents. The ceremony was part of a three-day program that started with a Networking Day and ended with visits to three livestock, aquaculture and premix plants in the region.
For the third consecutive year, the GEAPS Exchange expo set a record with 440 exhibitors, far ahead of last year’s mark of 380 set in Kansas City. The exhibitors displayed the latest technology in the grain storage and handling industry for the 2,918 attendees in Denver, Colorado, U.S., March 25-27.
After two years of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) returned to an in-person spring Annual Conference & Expo in Richmond, Virginia, US. More than 700 people are in attendance for the event, which is May 2-6.
Besides being the newest flour mill in the United States, the Ardent Mills flour mill built along the Gulf coast in metropolitan Tampa, Florida, US, has several details that set it apart. Advanced analytics, state-of-the-art equipment, unusually large grain storage capacity and unique supply chain capabilities are among the mill’s distinguishing features.
At 17,500 cwts of daily flour milling capacity, the Port Redwing mill is not Ardent Mills’ largest and is not among the 25 largest flour mills in the United States. With the capacity to receive large quantities of wheat, though, Ardent Mills constructed a large grain elevator at the Port Redwing mill, with 4.1 million bushels of storage capacity.
The elevator may be the largest ever built concurrent with the construction of a US flour mill and, according to the 2022 Grain & Milling Annual published by Sosland Publishing Co., it is the sixth largest elevator of any US flour mill currently operating. The concrete elevator includes 12, 50-foot-concrete bins with 300,000 bushels of grain storage apiece as well as a number of smaller grain bins.