Miller Magazine Issue: 112 April 2019

96 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM APRIL 2019 number and diversity of visitors. This trade fair was much better than we had expected. The Mill Truck was on the spot. The organizer of the exhibition gave us “Project innovation award of IDMA 2019”. How was the interest to the Mill Truck? It was the star of the trade fair. It created great excite- ment. In addition to that, various usage purposes came up that we had not thought about. For example? For example, we started this project for emergency responses for regions of crisis, war or famine. But our visitors showed us other possibilities like hard to reach areas where local wheat farmers can bring their produ- cts to mills only with great efforts and costs. This makes impossible for them to compete. This project may help those farmers to return to agricultural activities and may solve the problem to transport the wheat to mills and then the flour back to those hard to reach areas. Now we have various ideas and new marketing areas to search for thanks to IDMA fair. What were other comments from your customers about the Mill Truck? Of course, there were many demands to modify it with specific production needs. We can meet those demands provided that structure of the truck do not change. Now we have some revisions. We started this project to help people in emergency situations and we had decided to do this with high quality flour. Our Mill Truck has a capa- city of grinding 1 ton of wheat in an hour. That means, we can produce flour from 24 tons of wheat in a day. Our yield rate is 75% and ash rate is 0,58%. We can also make modifications to produce whole wheat flour and rye flour. Producing corn flour may also possible with tiny modifications. We had only one concept about The Mill Truck but it seems we will have 3 or 4 different versions. How many people can be served with the Mill Truck in disaster areas? It depends of the consumption. In Turkey, average flour consumption is 300 grams/day. If we make prediction on this figure, a Mill Truck producing 20 tons of flour a day can meet bread demand of a town with 65 thousand pe- ople. Our product relies on generator power instead of electrical network. This feature makes it a great choice for emergency. You know, there are mobile bread fac- tories on trucks. If those two trucks are sent to disaster areas, there will be no problem about bread. We do not manufacture for bread making machines but there are companies in Turkey manufacturing those machines. Is The Mill Truck the first product of its kind? Similar projects were tested before like simple models put on tractors. But what we have done is to compact technologies in a regular industrial facility on a truck. In other words, we mobilized a real industrial mill. We offer a product that cleans, tempers, conditions and grinds the wheat. So it is safe to say that this is really an innovation. Which markets showed interest in this project? We received requests from Americas after our social media campaign and IDMA fair meetings. Africa also pa- yed great interest. I expect that Africa and Americas will