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FEATURE: GRAIN STORAGE AND HANDLING PROJECTS

The Altuntas Group supplied storage bins
for Rana Farm Lidas' new feed mill in Turkey.
Photo courtesy of Altuntas.

NEW FEED MILL IN TURKEY
Rana Farm Lidas completed a new
feed mill in Karaman, Turkey, with
equipment supplied by the Altuntas
Group, Aksaray, Turkey. The facility has the capacity to store 34,470
tonnes of corn and also will handle
wheat and barley. It was designed
according to standard warehouse
licensing requirements.
Altuntas provided 10 silo bins,
model DT1819; four bins, model
KT0808; one bin, model KT0507;
and a vertical dryer, model
FKMD50 with a capacity of 50 tph.
Total handling capacity is 150 tph.

to processing and drying for the
two facilities. For conveying, Bühler supplied equipment to and from
the 22 steel silos that have a total
storage capacity of 130,000 tonnes.
Intake lines included one ship line
with a capacity of 600 tph for wheat
and 250 tph for paddy; one truck line
with a capacity of 150 tph for wheat
and pulses; and four truck lines, each
with a capacity of 62.5 tph for paddy.
Processing systems included one
8 tph for paddy rice; two 32 tph for
parboiled rice; and one 200 tph for
pulses (red lentils). The drying system included STKX6D-15/02 dryganga River. City Group worked ers, four with a capacity of 45 tph
with its longtime partner, Bühler, for paddy rice and three with a cabased in Uzwil, Switzerland, for pacity of 28.5 tph for parboiled rice.
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28.5 to 250 tph and wheat from 150
The plant processes paddy into to 600 tph. The facility includes
white rice while a separate facility three wheat bagging lines that have
processes red lentils and also has a capacity to bag 600 50-kg bags
a bagging facility for wheat. Con- per hour for up to 108 tph.
nected to the rice processing facility
Ship loading capacity is 400 tph
is a paddy parboiling system and a for wheat. Dedusting includes 13
biomass steam boiler, which uses V\VWHPVZLWKDLUÀRZRIFXELF
rice husk as fuel. The rice husk is meters per minute up to 468 cubic
collected from three installed rice meters per minute.
processing lines and the generated
steam is used for the parboiling pro- City Group commissioned its rice paddy and
cess and the parboiled paddy dryers. red lentil processing facilities in Dhaka, BanBühler provided a range of sys- gladesh, with equipment supplied by Bühler.
tems from handling and conveying Photo courtesy of Bühler.

CITY GROUP BUILDS RICE, LENTIL
PROCESSING FACILITIES
After three years of planning and
construction, City Group commissioned its rice paddy processing
and red lentil processing facilities
in Dhaka, Bangladesh, in August
2017. City Auto Rice and Dal Mills
Ltd. is one of more than 20 companies in City Group, which has become one of the top 10 businesses
in Bangladesh.
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undeveloped plot along the Buri44

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