World Grain - September 2018 - 58

FEATURE

MILLERS
WANT SAFE, EFFICIENT PRODUCTION
Automation is a key way to improve yield and is
becoming a necessary part of new and upgraded mills
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equipment in the mill that touches product is stainless
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the tempering section, which Selis designed in three
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illers increasingly need three things: safe
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It's these needs that are driving innovations in milling
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survey of the international milling industry's equipment
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"Automation and self-regulation processes are ways
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Europe, Asia, the United States, South America and
Africa are regions seeing increased demand for milling
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