Miller Magazine Issue: 120 December 2019

71 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM MILLER / DECEMBER 2019 these investments. We talked with Mr. Çağlar about the problems of the sector and the future targets of Mulino. First of all, can you give us some brief information about your company and its activities? Our company was established in 2017 and serves in the areas of wheat/corn flour and semolina fac- tories, feed factories, storage sys- tems, and flour/bread additives. Our central office is in Ankara, and we continue our production activities in Çorum. In order to provide better service to the African continent, our company has established a compa- ny in Kenya that operates under the name of Mulino Kenya Limited. We have offices in Asia and the South America. Our Asian office is in Ja- karta, Indonesia while our South America office is in Santiago, Chile. We carry out our continuously de- veloping activities in order to provide better service to our customers worldwide. Could you give us some information about your pro- duction capacity and facilities? We have 45 personnel and carry out our production in 20.000 m2 open and 2.000 m2 closed area. We produce with our state-of-the-art machine tools, trained and expe- rienced personnel in order to ensure product satisfaction in our facility. In addition to this, we follow the necessary steps in terms of worker health and safety. Every year, we build turnkey facilities between 8 and 10 which vary ac- cording to their capacity. There are many milling machine manufacturers around the world. What does Mulino offer to flour in- dustrialists in this sector where there is fierce competi- tion? What features distinguish Mulino among others? Our company stands out with its quality in every field and manufactures very different, very specific, and very tech- nological machines, unlike others. We equip our machines with sensors and technological tools so that they can be user-friendly. We are able to provide technical service as soon as possible with our offices and engineers in every continent. Thanks to our spare parts in these offices, we ensure that our customers get maximum benefit with min- imum downtime. You build turnkey facilities. What are their capacities and what kind of facilities do you install? We set up wheat flour, corn flour, wheat semolina, corn semolina, feed mills, and storage systems. In our flour- semolina factories, the capacity ranges from 50 to 800 tons per day with one production line; in feed factories, it ranges from 120 to 1000 tons per day. In storage, we build storage facilities ranging from 100 to 200 thousand tons. Can you give us some brief information about the significant projects you have recently put into prac- tice? Recently, we put storage systems in Egypt and Swazi- land into use and realized a turnkey flour factory in Kenya with a capacity of 200 tons per day and in Tanzania with a capacity of 350 tons per day. In total, four factories are now in use. Are there any innovations you prepare to launch? What innovations does your R&D department offer to customers in the coming period? We have combined machines that our R&D depart- ment has been working on and getting ready to put on the market soon. We will introduce more efficient machines that use less engine power and energy. We continuously renovate ourselves with our R&D department in accord- ance with the changing needs of the world and innovative