Miller Magazine Issue: 119 November 2019

83 ARTICLE MILLER / NOVEMBER 2019 the EU was approx. 11 million tons wherefrom approx. 60% - food and approx. 40% - non-food application (VGMS data). Native and modified starches as well as glucose derivates and gluten as a by-product are used in a great variety of food products. The production of wheat starches is mainly done by wet separation process out of wheat flour, where wheat flour has a different specification in comparison to all bakery flours. Of course, the focus while producing starch flours lies mostly on achievement of the highest possible yield of starch inside the flour. Another aspect is to create a uniform granulation according to different requests of the wet technology by different suppliers. Furthermore, the content of remaining flour/starch in bran should be as minimal as possible. PETKUS/MMW group of companies has a long ex- perience in grain handling and processing and created new competences in the dry milling process with new references, especially in Russia/CIS. Russia is an upcoming market as far as starches and creative products out of wheat are concerned. Due to the fact that Russia is now one of the leading world pro- ducers and exporters of wheat, there are new govern- mental programs designed to use national grain poten- tial inside Russia with new creative industrial projects. Market volume of products of deep processing of grain and potato, mainly starch, increased last years to approx. 2,3 Mio tons/year, wherefrom wheat is major source and accounts for 84% (NEO 2019). BIOTECHNOLOGICAL COMPLEX IN ROSWA, KALUGA REGION The project with an area of 18 ha inside the industrial park of Kaluga includes a deep processing plant for wheat to produce liquid sugars for beverage industry. It includes an elevator for 170.000 tons, a flour mill with a capacity of 800 tons/day, a biotechnological complex, several warehouses and a logistics center. The whole complex was finalized in 2019 in a strong partnership with European providers of technology with a Russian investor under the supervision of a Moscow Engineer- ing company NPK Ecology (Roswa data). • Annual processing capacity 250.000 t wheat • 18.000 tons gluten production • 20.000 tons starch production • 90.000 tons High Fructose Syrup (HFS) • 40.000 tons sorbitol production • 90.000 tons feed additives MMW DRY MILL 800 TONS/DAY PETKUS/MMW delivered the whole complex of a dry mill designed to process wheat of Russian classes 3 and 4 and to produce starch flour in accordance with below specifications: The dry mill complex is divided in 2 lines for fine clean- ing and milling, each with a capacity of 400 tons/day in a 24/7 operation. It includes grain, flour and bran stor- age and transportation to the wet process. All installed machines and equipment are produced by PETKUS and MMW in Germany or by partners in Germany/EU. MMW executed all engineering, supply of all machines and equipment, supply of all PETKUS internal smooth wall si- los, supervision of installation and commissioning of the silos and the mill as well as training of local engineers. For all in-house storage of wheat, dampened wheat, flour and bran PETKUS smooth wall silos with surface coating for grain/flour standards are used. The fine cleaning sections contain all needed ma- chines, including separators, de-stoners, indented cyl- Moisture 13 ± 1 % of total Starch content: min. 74.4 % db Protein (N x 5.7) min. 10 % db Fat max. 1.5 % db Fine fibre max. 2.5 % db Ash max. 0.8 % db Hagberg / falling number min. 120 sec Remains on 250 mm sieve max 2% Damaged starch: max 4% Flour fraction ) 80-82% View of the whole Roswa complex (foto NPK)