Miller Magazine Issue: 119 November 2019

65 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM MILLER / NOVEMBER 2019 CEO of TECO Dryer, which operates in grain drying and storage systems. Underlining the importance of drying for offering healthy products to the consumer, “Our main focal point is providing healthy products to consumers. The first condition for this is reducing the amount of excess water in the harvested products and preventing the formation of harmful bacteria and fungi. Therefore, it is more reasonable to store the products after the drying process.” he warns. To begin with, could you tell us about TECO Dryer and its activities? TECO Dryer which was established in 2007 in Adana, has been working on grain dryer machines sector. Our company has developed dryers with low energy re- quirement without ignoring environmental conscience. By using enhanced design and production technolo- gies in the grain drying industry, our company has em- braced the notion of improving customer satisfaction constantly as it’s quality policy by adopting producing high quality service and investing in qualified personnel as main principle. The products we are able to dry are wheat, paddy, corn, barley, canola, soy bean, sunflower seeds, white beans, chickpeas, lentils, nuts, pistachios, walnuts, coffee and cocoa beans. Our sector is known as Grain Drying and Storage. We have been in the sector since 2008 and known with “TECO” brand throughout the world. We have gained 387 turn-key facilities to the sector so far. Could you please tell us the latest technologies you created? Our latest machine, a successful product of our work; ‘Pistachio and Nuts Draining Machine’ has been developed as the result of 20 years of expe- rience and approximately 24 months-long R&D ef- forts. This machine drains high-profile products such as pistachio and nuts in a qualified and healthy way without affecting the tastes and without adding any kind of aroma to the products. It is a machine which drys directly consumed high quality food commodities by lower costs with confi- dence. Especially in terms of pistachio and nut, this machine has the first industrial drying technology with its different working principle than other ma- chines so far. It is the only machine which has the technology of drying partial products according to incoming product amount. In short, this machine that we produced is the first true industrial pistachio and nut drying machine in the world. Is there any similar machines like yours? Our machine has a special place around the world, there are not any resemblance in the world. It has a hy- brid design and it can dry products from the manufac- turer in pieces (500-1500kg). It is unique throughout the world, especially in terms of design and functionality. How do you do the pistachio drying procedure in only 1 hour which normally takes 3 days? For the time being, product gathered from the field is being sprawled out and dryed in a way that threat- ens public health. Under right climate conditions, drying procedure can be completed within 3 days. Throughout this time, workers turn around the product in certain periods under the sun.In the current method, 96 work- ers required to work in a 44185 m2 space, whereas our machine requires 150 m2 space, 2 operators and only 6 workers.