Miller Magazine Issue: 135 March 2021

32 NEWS MILLER / march 2021 To ensure the finest pulses quality that meet the high food standard of the largest Span- ish supermarket chain, Cimbria installed nine complete cleaning lines. Cimbria installs nine complete cleaning lines in Spain Seprolesa is the exclusive supplier of Mercadona and represents a great example of turnkey processing installation in Spain. To ensure their finest pulses qu- ality, that meet the high food standard of the largest Spanish supermarket chain, Cimbria installed nine complete cleaning lines with state-of-the-art full-co- lor sorters. “We provided Delta cleaners, gravity tables, pen- dulum bucket elevators and sorting machines to pro- cess many varieties of lentils, chickpeas and bean. The color sorters are equipped with RGB Full-Color came- ras, combined with near infrared vision systems to op- timize the sorting performance with the best defects separation,” Cimbria said in its press release. Satake Europe announces new Managing Director Satake, one of the leading companies in optical sorting, processing technology and engineering design services, announced the appointment of Mr. Kaoru Kawate as the new Managing Director of Satake Europe. Since joining Satake Corporation in 1996 Mr. Kawate has gained over twenty years of experience in national and in- ternational business including 2 years at Satake Thailand managing the South East Asia region. In 2019, he joined Satake Europe as Deputy Managing Director be- fore being appointed as Managing Direc- tor in February 2021. “My aim is to diversify our business into Africa, Middle-East where it has great po- tential to expand our business and to fulfill market demand,” Mr. Kawate commented. As Managing Director of Satake Europe he will be responsible for the entire European operation which includes the Middle East, Africa and Russia. Kaoru Kawate