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Darren Parris, Martha Cornwell and Mark Cornwell from Milling and Grain at Buhler Reception
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Kansas State University attend the Buhler Reception en mass
As the sun sets over the city that never sleeps, we reflect on yet another successful IAOM exhibition in New Orleans.
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by Darren Parris, Group President, Milling and Grain Magazine his year was the 121st Annual IAOM Conference and expo and what a show it was. There were more than 900 delegates in attendance from 23 plus countries, showing this North American chapter of the IAOM has an ever-increasing global reach. As the leading organisation for professionals in the grain milling industry, this annual get together furnishes those attending with the opportunity to stay up to date with new innovation and good practices available, thus partaking in the comprehensive educational program. This year I counted 145 exhibitors, showcasing their newest equipment and services in 213 booths. Many of the booths scheduled in informative and educational Product Showcases which included Chopin Technologies new LabMill, which gives a completely new approach to laboratory experimental milling. With this unique product a miller can test wheat and produce results that are representative of results from industrial milling in terms of flour quality, extraction, ash and starch damage. When compared to a reference mill, more than 87 percent of extraction rates on various varieties of wheat were correctly predicted, within one percent, while maintaining representative ash values. Other product showcases included a 108 | May 2017 - Milling and Grain
Christian Jordan and Lambton Team with Johannes Karcher and Frigortec team
Mike from Lambton, Nick from Buhler and Joesef from Seafar at Buhler reception
Fengcheng Wang Ph.D. from Henan University of Technology with a local Delegation at Buhler Reception Pete, Andy and Bulent from Henry Simon and Ozan from Gazel Makina
Peter Marriott from Henry Simon and friends at BĂźhler Reception