Miller Magazine Issue: 123 March 2020

64 INTERVIEW MILLER / MARCH 2020 to the storage of the raw material and one is dedicated for grinding of durum wheat for the production of durum wheat semolina. We produce durum wheat semolina, or- ganic durum wheat semolina, and whole durum wheat semolina. We employ 27 people. Where do you export your products? How many countries are you currently exporting? We mainly work in Italy. Durum wheat semolina is sold to the best Italian pasta factories. We export bran to North Africa and Turkey. What can you say about the innovations and solutions that you have brought to the milling industry? Moderne Semolerie Italiane has a laboratory for quality control. Thanks to the high technol- ogy and to the control of every single batch, the company is able to guarantee high food safety standards and the traceability of each product. The mill has been completely renovated. To- day it is a Bühler mill with a very high-quality level thanks to technology and process control. The production process has decortication, opti- cal sorters and real-time control of some quality parameters. Could you tell us changes in your business and industry in your long journey? What do you owe your success to? Changes concerned the technological re- newal that has elevated the quality of the products increasing the com- petitiveness. It was fundamental to offer customers a complete range of products. What are the major challenges for the Italian durum wheat milling industry today? Certainly maintaining a high quan- titative and qualitative standard in a sector that has become increasing- ly competitive and diversified over time. What are your future targets in your operating market? Could you tell about your future investment plans? Certainly one of the main objec- tives we have set ourselves is to in- crease our product offerings, expand our customers in order to strengthen our already consolidated market po- sition. These objectives can only be achieved with the cohesion between investments in new production ac- tivities and the constant training updates of our operating staff. Is there anything you want to add and share with our readers? I think it’s very important to maintain and observe a net- work of relationships at an international level to share and manage the problems of the sector together with Euro- pean and non-European partners in order to understand in advance the needs of customers and the international market. In 1967, thanks to the passion and tenacity of Umberto Sacco and his sons Mario and Vittorio Sacco, Moderne Semolerie Italiane was estabilished in Foggia, in the heart of “Italy’s granary”.