Miller Magazine Issue: 138 June 2021

73 TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM MILLER / june 2021 design, or operator training. Our service packages are individual designed according to the customer’s needs. Energy: As energy prices are increasing around the globe, while the margins on flour remaining the same, energy-saving projects are getting more and more im- portant. With our unique energy consultation services, we analyze the overall production plants with the target to reduce KW/h per ton of wheat to a minimum as possi- ble. Our main focus is usually on the pneumatic systems as they have the biggest saving potential Quality and Hygiene: Under the name ADVACTORY, we developed a factory management solution to digi- talize all processes in food and feed processing com- panies. 100% transparency, in real-time and paperless. Part of Advactory is as well our intelligent cleaning robot Kari which was specifically developed for the flour milling industry. Since the beginning of this year, we offer now heat treatment services for flour and feed mills in Europe with our partner company Termico GmbH in Germany. There are many consulting companies in the food processing industry. What are the qualities and char- acteristics that make you different from your rivals? Our philosophy is to be in the flour mill hands-on with the millers, only like this we can understand the needs of our customers. Therefore, we do not visit customers with suits and ties. We don’t show customers problems, we deliver solu- tions. For every solution we purpose, we can submit im- mediately a rough budget estimation and show a possi- ble return of investment. Could you share with us new projects that you re- cently completed? At the beginning of this year, we completed the en- ergy-saving projects at 2 of our customers in Germany. Mönsheimer Mühle: We consulted the customer with the replacement of old rollers mills and modifications in the flowsheet. In the end, we were able to increase the daily capacity from 100t/24h to 115t/24h with the same product quality. On the same time, we were able to reduce the en- ergy consumption of the mill pneumatic system by more than 20%. Our consultancy fees were paid immediately, through the significant energy reduction per ton of wheat. Innovation in combination with milling tradition, the intelligent cleaning robot Kari-V1 developed for flour mills.