
Industry leaders will gather across the globe for education, networking opportunities.
Despite slumping grain prices, demand for equipment is strong, especially in Africa, Asia and the Black Sea region. The following slides are a few of the projects.
While the ranking order may not have changed much, the North American grain majors have in some respects seen significant change in storage capacity over the past two decades. In a look back over the past 20 years, World Grain examines today’s top 10 North American multiple facility grain companies and cooperatives based on total corporate grain storage capacity. All data courtesy of Sosland Publishing Co.’s Grain & Milling Annual publications.
Industry leaders will gather across the globe for education, networking opportunities.
Companies from around the world expand or enhance all types of mills to keep up with market demand and to continue growing. The following are recently expanded mills or plans to update existing mills.
Faced with economic challenges, millers worldwide want to lessen their operating costs.
Millers are making five-year business plans and are considering energy savings, mill flexibility, maintenance and building costs. Energy efficiency is one of the most important issues in the milling industry today, according to World Grain magazine’s annual survey of the international milling industry’s equipment and service suppliers.
In response, suppliers are controlling the efficiency of large motors, such as fans in pneumatic transport systems and using intelligent control systems for the appropriate use of compressed air in sleeve filters.
The following are recent milling projects from around the world.
Here are some of the most recently introduced products for the grain storage and handling and flour milling industries.
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.