Pre-Cleaning Basically the grain is separated from residues and impurities at reception. This is a rough and fast cleaning process in order to decrease the rate of impurities.
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Henry Simon has been building turnkey flour mills and grain processing plants for wheat, maize and other types of grains since 1878.
As well as being a milling equipment supplier, Henry Simon designs mill facilities and provides integrated solutions starting from the intake, handling and storage systems to the packaging and loading stations, including also the design and the supply of steel structure for mill facilities.
Whether processing wheat, maize, durum, rye or barley; Henry Simon provides intelligent machinery with technological advancements and also specific process solutions at every step.
Technology and Innovation The trends recently moves towards digitalization in milling processes. As one of the leaders in milling industry, Henry Simon introduces the ‘Intelligent Milling’ concept as an innovative approach bringing a higher reliability, consistent performance and efficient process control for mill management. The concept focuses on optimizing process parameters, while also reducing the operational losses and using the sources efficiently. These systems can be considered as advanced process control and management tools, and being used with supporting machinery, equipment and software.
One of these solutions is Advanced Sensor Technology™ in main milling machines (i.e. HSRM Roller Mill, HSPQ Plan sifter and HSPU Purifier), that works with tracking the critical parameters in operational conditions of the machines. These the state of art sensors system allows better data monitoring, operational standardization, maintenance scheduling as well as error prevention and operational safety.
Engineering and Process Design The milling is not a conventional process, but it is rather complex that requires a special process designs. with bulueprints. The milling process design service is also provided by Henry Simon engineering department in order to achieve a high flour yield with a very good processing capability.
Industrial Expertise Every aspect of the mill should be considered. Supply chain management, operational flexibility, energy efficiency, food safety and even waste management effects the overall operational efficiency and productivityof the mill. With this approach in mind, Henry Simon provides a turnkey project service for flour/maize/semolina mills and builds sustainable mills which is also in-line with with global hygiene standards across the globe.
Sections of a Mill
A conventional mill basically consist of Pre-cleaning, Grain Storage, Cleaning, Milling, Scaling & Packaging sections; which can be designed specifically and customized for the required capacity, type of grain and specific customer requests.
Grain Storage The grain is stored in steel silos under hygienic conditions to prevent any damage by heat, insects etc.
Cleaning This is the step to ensure that the grain is free from residues and impurities (i.e. stone, husk, straw, soil, dust, seeds etc.) for efficient processing. The processes used in cleaning mainly consists of mechanical separation by specific weight, particle size, shape and now even by color, texture with high technology optical sorters.
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Milling It is a gradual process where the grain is grinded uniformly into flour/semolina, which can be analyzed at micron levels. The process is very crucial and complec considering that the grain can go through the milling machines up to 16 times!
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Scaling & Packaging The flour/semolina can be packed in paper or polypropylene bags in different sizes from 1 kg to 50 kg., or leaves the mill on trucks and trailers with a bulk loading operation depending on the customer request.
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