Miller Magazine Issue 107 / November 2018

80 MILLER / NOVEMBER 2018 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM Cereal Companies in Moscow at the end of the Sep- tember and made a presentation there. That shows your interest in the Russian market. How do you eva- luate the Russian market? Russia is a big market. It has a large population to feed. For example, in Moscow, there are 17 million resi- dents plus 3 million commuters. Considering that as an average each person eats 40 grams of bread per day, the quantity of the flour needed here in Moscow is very high. Furthermore, many old mills need modernization. Our aim is to support the market with state-of-the-art technology even though the competition is very strong. Could you please tell us the new projects that you have completed recently? The last contract closed under my competence is for a flour production facility based in Faenza, Italy. This is a greenfield project for a mill with a grinding capacity of 300 tons/day. A very significant project that will be completed at the end of this year. We are also developing and delivering other new mills in Haiti, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Poland, Israel, Cameroun. I would like to highlight that we have signed a cont- ract with an important Malaysian industrial group for the supply of 16 complete milling plants with capacity ranging from 600 to 750 Tons / day, to be installed in China. Five of these plants have already been shipped. You have a huge experience in the milling sector. What kind of changes have you experienced in the milling sector in recent years? In the milling industry automation is a very important topic: millers don’t have time to manually control and adjust the machines and require a highly automatized plant that can work without interruptions 24/7; a re- duction of the efforts related to maintenance is another crucial topic. This means that it is necessary to design and supply efficient machinery set with optimal grinding diagrams. Energy consumption is another primary topic: expen- ses for electricity is among the most significant costs to run a mill, together with work force and raw materials. Hence, when designing a new machine, the focus must be on the optimization of power utilization. Golfetto Sangati provides highly sophisticated processes and au- tomation solutions with great results in terms of cost control, efficiency and product quality. Last but not the least, hygiene and safety: by a comp- lete compliance to the most stringent regulations, Gol- fetto Sangati manufactures machinery that can assure highest levels of hygiene and safety. As you mentioned earlier Golfetto Sangati is now a member of German GEA. How did this acquisition affect the brand? You are right, Golfetto Sangati, as the entire Pavan Group, is part of GEA since the last quarter of 2017. The acquisition is giving a concrete boost to the company: innovation in designing new machines is going to enlar- ge the range of our offer, manufacturing units are being reorganized in order to assure higher efficiency, the sa- les and aftersales network is being strengthened throu- gh the close cooperation with GEA’s existing structure. Is there anything you would like to add? The most important thing for us is customer satisfa- ction. We work with Italian heart, technology and sty- le. Our passion, competency and professionalism make the difference in our projects and proposals. Strengthe- ned by our membership of the GEA group, we can now count on a technical, commercial and financial structure that enables us to achieve our ambitious customer-satis- faction objectives.