Miller Magazine Issue: 136 April 2021

80 MILLER / aprıl 2021 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM We have an esteemed guest for Miller Magazine’s Technology Platform section: Dr. Martino Celeghini, Se- nior Project Manager at Petkus Engineering. With his long-time expertise in large international project man- agement, Dr. Celeghini took over the project manage- ment of PETKUS Engineering from his father in 2020. Petkus Engineering is an internationally operating German company of the PETKUS Group, one of the larg- est seed and grain technology companies in the world. Based in Wutha-Farnroda, Petkus Engineering designs and supplies large plants for grain logistics and steel structures for processing plants with storing and dosing silos as well as grain and food processing plants around the world. It has an entire product portfolio for a modern reception and processing plant. Dr. Celeghini gave an exclusive interview to Miller Magazine on the principles that make the company suc- cessful and the future of the grain processing industry. “For PETKUS, supporting customers with the definition of project objectives and determining the economic feasi- bility of a project is just as much part of a project as man- aging the permitting procedure, designing and building,” he says. He is proud of providing customers with the technology and quality of German design and European supply chain with flexible and dynamic processes. Here is the answers of Dr. Martino Celeghini, Senior Project Manager at Petkus Engineering, to our questions. Mr. Celeghini, PETKUS has 169 years of history. It has been a long journey. Could you please provide us with some brief background on that great history and philosophy behind it? PETKUS founder Christian Friedrich Röber started with manufacturing agricultural machinery, including the so-called "corn-screen" in 1852. The company focused then on seed cleaning technologies and expanded the market in particularly in Russia reaching 1907 an annual revenue of more than 5.000 machines, exported to over 30 different countries. PETKUS managed then to survive difficult times and political chaos – from the expropria- tion following the Second World War to the privatization “PETKUS Engineering is focused on offering a customer-tailored solution for grain terminals plants and deep processing plants. We offer the technology and quality of German design and European supply chain with flexible and dynamic processes. We want to offer a more personal and collaborative approach to our customer compared to other big competitors and help him in finding out the best solutions for his needs.” Petkus Engineering: German quality in grain processing plants Dr. Martino Celeghini Senior Project Manager PETKUS Engineering Interview: Namık Kemal Parlak