ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS FLOUR
MILLING
Flour sack of the year
Investing in Nigerian flour milling: “The time is now”
Volkmar Wywiol presented in Hamburg the 2016 Flour Sack award to the Egyptian company Arabian Milling & Food Industry.
PAGE 48 GRAIN Inside the Crop Trust
The Global Crop Diversity Trust is responsible for the unprecedented mission of ensuring the long-term conservation and use of crop diversity for food security worldwide.
The team at Milling and Grain attended the IGC Grains Conference held in the QEII Centre, London on June 6, 2017. Here we report the presentation given by Rotimi Fadipe, Supply Chain Director, Honeywell Flour Mills Plc, on ‘The future of flour milling in Nigeria’.
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COOLING SYSTEMS The preservation of grains through cooling systems
Products such as grains, seeds, oilseeds, nuts, and others that are similar are still alive when stored after being harvested.
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PROJECT Flourmill project with storage silos completed in Mali
Gmach, a company in the milling technology industry, has successfully completed the process of commissioning a turnkey flourmill project with 200-tonnes/day wheat processing capacity in Mali.
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FOOD
STORAGE
FEED
PROCESS
OMEGA-3 New algal oil derived from natural marine algae
CORN FLOUR
Evonik and DSM recently announced to establish a joint venture for omega-3 fatty acid products from natural marine algae for animal nutrition.
Using steam instead of cooking in water
Ninety percent less water, no investment in wastewater treatment, higher yield, lower maintenance and a high degree of automation
PAGE 74 RICE Rice processing technology
In recent years, it has been gradually proven that functional ingredients derived from rice exhibit various kinds of functionality.
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NIR
PHYTOGENIC
Measuring protein quality using infrared
How to deliver plant-based compounds for maximum benefit to animals
At grain intake, most flourmills typically use near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and other laboratory techniques to inspect grain and measure parameters such as protein level, moisture, specific weight, and Hagberg Falling number
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As phytogenic feed additives (PFAs) become increasingly accepted by the feed and livestock industries, there is greater scrutiny as to whether products can fulfill the expected benefits.
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PAGE 64 AQUAFEED A protein for our future
Our sister publication, International Aquafeed magazine was invited to tour the production facility for a unique aquaculture protein product, at the remarkable Cargill production plant in Blair, Nebraska, USA.
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