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Flour Milling booms in China The World’s largest flour milling company just got larger
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by Wudeli Flour Mill Group Co Ltd, Daming, China
hina has a new flour mill! It’s an 1800-tonnes-per-day mill with four production lines. Called the ‘Number 8 Workshop’, it is located in Daming near the ‘Daming Number 7 Workshop’ and came online on June 20, 2020, just as Milling and Grain’s July edition was preparing to be publish. The two mills are located in Daming County, near the southeastern city of Handan in Hebei Province, and situated in one of
the world’s biggest wheat-producing regions. With the addition of the ‘Number 8 Workshop’ this mill brings the Wudeli Flour Mill Group’s total daily output to 47,000 tonnes! That’s requires a staggering 17 million tonnes of wheat per year based on a seven-day continuous production schedule. The mill has been designed and built by Buhler incorporating the company latest MES software, rollermills, plansifters, purifiers and much more. “It is the most intelligent and automated wheat milling factory equipped with high-rack warehousing, all-automated packaging machines and pelletisers,” ssays the Wudeli Flour Mill Group in
Daming No 8 Workshop under construction in November 2018 when Milling and Grain visited showing the entrance to Daming No 7 Workshop alongside the completed complex and the new entrance to No 8
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