Miller Magazine Issue: 119 November 2019

52 COVER STORY MILLER / NOVEMBER 2019 We at Bühler have known how to build a mill for 150 years. But difficulties can arise anywhere between the permitting phase, in particular, and the construction of the building’s shell and in- frastructure by local contractors through to the plant installation and commissioning. For Bühler, with all its professionalism, building a mill ‘any- where in the world’ is always an adventure be- cause of the local circumstances. BÜHLER MILL E3 We notice: Construction of a new flour mill is oriented to ecological and economical features. Customer requirements for mills must be taken into consideration just as much as the many legal regulations which demand compliance. In addi- tion, increasing competition exerts pressure to improve product quality while lowering produc- tion costs. The next generation of mills needs to enable production of market-conform flours at the lowest cost possible. At Bühler, the next generation of mills is called “Mill E3”. This is a building shell made of conventional parts which is only three stories high and has correspondingly less building vol- ume. This lowers costs for infrastructure. The actual mill itself is assembled in the finished building shell using pre-installed and tested modules which significantly reduces time and material for installation. These modules are built very compactly and comprise mostly new, energy-saving plant components. Overall, a new Mill E3 can be built in a very short time, it requires less space and has a more econom- ical total cost. And, thanks to energy-saving technology, it consumes significantly less en- ergy per ton of processed wheat. Just the en- ergy for the grinding alone is reduced by ten percent. The energy savings for the entire mill is seven to ten percent - and, it must be not- ed, keeping the same parameters for yield and product quality. Mercury MES enables a seamless exchange of information throughout the systems involved in the production process. Data availability and real-time feedback allow smart decision making, increasing your milling performance and productivity.