Miller Magazine Issue: 136 April 2021

42 MILLER / aprıl 2021 NEWS Genç Değirmen, one of the leading companies of the milling industry, produces solutions for the needs of its investors during the sales and after-sales support phase and ensures that it reaches products with quality service. Genç Değirmen who works with Gmach brand, gave it's signature of Serbian most modern and highest capacity flour mills. Genç Değirmen now continues its successful journey in Balcan Region by signing a new high-capacity turnkey mill project in Serbia. Genç Değirmen – Gmach succesfully de- livered the 300 ton/day Wheat Processing Capacity Flour Mill to Zitopromet Mlinpek D.O.O company on Mitrovica. Genç Değirmen successfully delivered a turnkey mill with a daily wheat processing capacity of 200 tons in 2018 to Zitopromet Mlinpek D.O.O., who is working on flour trade and agricultural activities in Serbia for many years. And then succesfully commissioned its 300 Tons/Day Wheat Processing Capacity Flour Factory in 2020. GMach delivers 300 TPD capacity flour mill in Serbia France’s grain sector needs to offer higher-quality wheat tomeet Chinese industry needs and strengthen phytosanitary checks if it wants to further expand sales to China, a senior manager at COF- CO International said. The volume of French wheat exports to Chi- na has surged in the past year, as France is among the few ap- proved suppliers able to capture robust Chinese demand. Sun Wei, deputy general manager wheat at China’s state-con- trolled grain trader COFCO International, said French wheat ex- ports reached a record high of 2.5 million tonnes in 2020. “To fur- ther develop the Chinese market, we are encouraging the French sector to produce high and medium quality wheat for export and thus meet the Chinese need,” he said during a seminar organised by export promotion group France Export Cereales (FEC). “We want our French partners to know more deeply the needs and expectations of Chinese customers,” he said in a video message, suggesting more technical exchanges between the two countries. France has already shipped nearly 1.6 million tonnes of wheat to China since July. Some traders have seen potential for 2 mil- lion tonnes over the full 2020/21 season, although shipments have waned since January, with traders citing competition from Austra- lia’s new crop. However, French wheat is mostly of a lower-protein type similar to China’s domestic crop, and not the kind of higher-protein wheat China typically seeks for import. SunWei also pointed to some phy- tosanitary issues in recent years with French wheat delivered to China. “We ask that the French sector continuously strengthen the controls of criteria linked to quarantine, in order to easily develop wheat trade between our two countries,” he said. Li Zhao Yu, FEC’s representative in Beijing, echoed the need for French wheat to raise its quality specifications, telling the conference it would face increasing competition from other origins, including Kazakhstan which has a border with China. REUTERS France should boost wheat quality to lift China exports