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FEATURE: MILLERS SEEKING SOLUTIONS
ing section includes five Diorit roller mills with eight
rolls and 20 Diorit roller mills with four rolls, five plansifters,
four purifiers, 10 bran finishers and 28 impact
machines.
The batch milling line includes 10 55-tonne flour
bins, scale and paddle mixer with a capacity of up
to 19 batches per hour at 2,000 kg with three main
ingredients.
Flour is transferred to the packer, located in a separate
building. Flour can be packaged in 1-kg, 2.5-kg,
10-kg, 25-kg and 50-kg bags via carousel, single spout
packer and small packing lines. Bulk loading is available
via pneumatic discharger from two 46-cubic-meter
bins.
Bran handling is carried out in a separate building
Goodman
Fielder, through
its Advance
Mills business,
recently added
a flour mill in
Papua New
Guinea with
engineering,
installation and
commissioning
provided by
Bühler.
Papua New Guinea to service the country's Highlands
region. In addition to a flour mill, the location in Lae
includes a stockfeed mill, snacks plant, rice packing
plant and a distribution center.
Based in Sydney, Australia, Goodman Fielder employs
over 5,000 people in Australasia and the Pacific
Islands. It manufactures its product at more than 40 facilities
in Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea,
Fiji and New Caledonia. Singapore-based Wilmar
International bought Goodman Fielder in 2019.
Within Papua New Guinea, Goodman Fielder employs
more than 800 people at 12 centers around the
country.
Its newest flour mill was completed in 2023 with
Uzwil, Switzerland-based Bühler providing the engineering,
installation supervision and commissioning
for the 620-tpd facility. Wheat for the facility is sourced
from the east coast of Australia.
Bühler also built the feed mill on site at the same
time it was constructing the flour mill. Special consideration
had to be made since Lae is in a high seismic
risk zone. The mill could be expanded with 10 additional
4,500-tonne grain storage silos and an additional
620-tpd milling line.
Current grain storage includes eight 4,500-tonne silos
with an intake pit capacity of 400-tph. Precleaning
capacity is 160-tph with universal cleaning machine
TAS Universal filling five 280-tonne raw wheat bins.
The first cleaning section, with a capacity of 28-tph,
includes magnetic separator DFRT, Vega grain cleaner
and grader, combi stoner with air separator, scourer
with aspirator, optical sorter with five channels, moisture
measuring device, dampener, two 60-tonne pretempering
bins and six 160-tonne tempering bins.
In the second cleaning section, equipment includes a
scourer, impact machine, air recycling aspirator, scale,
magnetic separator and multi online analyzer. The mill50
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and includes two scales and three 100-cubic-meter
bins. Product can go to the pellet press and then four
210-cubic-meter silos or to the feed mill.
Ag Com upgrades Pennsylvania mill
To meet local demand for flour and stay at the forefront
of the latest milling technology, Ag Com Inc., New
Oxford, Pennsylvania, US, recently upgraded its roller
mills. As a small family-owned business, efficiency is
key to competing with larger companies.
Ag Com can trace its roots to 1904 and is now a diversified
agricultural company offering flour, feed and
fertilizer. The mill has a capacity of 5,000 cwts with a
77% to 78% extraction rate and 1.1 million bushels of
grain storage.
For this latest upgrade, Ag Com again turned to
Omas, which first supplied the facility with a Flexy
Ag Com upgraded its facility in New Oxford, Pennsylvania,
US, with Leonardo roller mills supplied by Omas.
Photos courtesy of Bühler and Omas
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