The GRAPAS Award for Innovation

Joint winner for the GRAPAS Awards for Milling Innovation 2015

This year’s GRAPAS Award for Milling Innovation is jointly shared by Alapala of Turkey and Bühler Group of Switzerland. Milling and Grain magazine, published by Perendale Publishers Limited, sponsors the GRAPAS Awards for Innovation in the cereal milling industries at the FIAAP-VICTAM-GRAPAS International

Exhibition and GRAPAS Conference 2015 which was held in Cologne, Germany from June 9-11, 2015.

The Award’s judging panel found nine submissions had gained the

prestigious status of ‘Commended’ from the 2015 entrantsIt says of the nine that they were “an interesting selection of

products” that were submitted for judging this year.“In judging we have given weighting to the criteria identified

in the entry categories for equipment used in relation to the milling of cereal grains. The criteria were in particular: novelty, significant practical value and benefits to the user in terms of efficiency, safety and cost effectiveness.”

The two rollermill entries stand out as being the most significant entries, but it was not possible to rate one over the other. Each offers different merits but both are worthy contenders as winners, the panel explained.

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The GRAPAS Award for Innovation 2015 was won by Alapala and Bühler jointly. Representatives from Alapala left (Cagdas Ingin and Stefano Soldi) and Bühler right (Nicholas Trounce and colleague) accept the awards on behalf of their companies from GRAPAS Conference Chairman Roger Gilbert, CEO and publisher of Milling and Grain

Rollermilling developmentsFor the first time in its history, this year’s GRAPAS produced

joint winners with the two winning cosmpanies – Alapala and Bühler - submitting new rollermills for evaluation.

“The rollermill is the fundamental grinding machine, not only for flour milling but for most of the cereal and animal feed milling industries.

“It is remarkable that two examples both exhibiting the current ‘state of the art’ are offered at the GRAPAS Exhibition,” says the judging panel.

Pellet and hammermills“It is fitting that new examples of both a hammermill and a

pellet press are also exhibited and there are entries representing important supporting technologies,” added the panel in its final suming up.

Overall “We’ve had an extremely good response to the GRAPAS

Award for Innovation this year. Winning the award gives a company a big boost for the product in the market place and will be instramental in getting it recognised,” says Roger Gilbert, Publisher of Milling and Grain and sponsor of the awards.

“There were many more new items on the show, but these were the ones we were most interested in seeking out. “

The next GRAPAS Awards will be at Victam Asia in Bangkok in 2016.

“We encourage all companies to enter the awards and have an independent evaluation of their significance made through our expert judging panel,” he adds.

“Our sincere congratulations go to the joint winners, the runner up, the highly commentded and the commended. Well done each one!”

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Alapala’s Similago II Rollermill - The new Similago II is a very fine piece of rollermilling equipment

engineered to a high level of aesthetics and ergonomic operation. It is offered in all of the sizes favoured by the industry.

The engineering of the machine is considered by the market to be excellent with very good durability, access,

maintainability, hygiene and ergonomics. The exceptional aesthetic design is ideally suited

to the requirements of the food industry.

1st PLACE

Similago II Rollermill

Runner-upF.H. Schule Muehlenbau GmbH was highly commended for

its Drum Groat Cutter TGS Processing of oats is gaining in importance as the merits of this cereal are becoming better

understood.The TGS design is an evolutionary development

which offers important advances in the efficiency of groat cutting. The improvements in operation

and maintenance are significant and the product of the groat cutter is better

for the end user/consumer.

Highly commendedDSL Systems Ltd was highly commended for

its OEE4 Feed/OEE4 Flour which has the ability to monitor all aspects of a plant performance

remotely via the Web shows innovation and is an important advance in

plant management with the potential for making

efficiency gains.

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1st PLACE

Antares Plus Rollermill

Bühler AG’s Antares Plus Rollermill - The Antares Plus rollermill has been developed from the line of

market leading rollermills from this manufacturer, which have become very well established.

The additional benefits accruing from the inclusion of the particle size measurement device, PSM On-line MYTA, has significant

practical value and will contribute to the efficiency of the plants in which they operate.

Commended

Tavolia Intelscan Sarl was commended for its Pellet

cooler optimisation, a product which achieves these objectives is clearly providing an economic and technical

benefit to the user.

EnviroLogix Inc was commended for its DNAble Salmonella Rapid

Screening Kit. Food safety is of great importance to milled products as

well as to food and feed in general. Salmonella is one of the more serious sources of food poisoning and thus a faster, though not yet rapid, means to detect such contamination is of

great importance.

Dutch Milling Technology International BV was

commended for its Pellet Mill 850 – 250. Pellet mills are fundamental machines for

many milling related processes and thus this development is an important advance in

several respects. The ability to pellet biomass is very topical.

CPM Europe BV was commended for its new

hammermill which is a good example of an evolutionary design which is functional and promises to provide efficiency benefits to the

user.

See more from GRAPAS and VICTAM International on page page 86

IVS Dosing Technology was commended for its The POWLI.

Enzymes and other micro-components are of increasing importance in the food and feed industries. This product

is intended to produce these components in liquid form with

greater convenience than before and meter (dose) them with

accuracy.

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GRAPAS Asia conference 2016 - TENTATIVE DATES ANNOUNCEDThe 4th GRAPAS Asia Conference will take place on Wednesday March 30, 2016 during the FIAAP-VICTAM-GRAPAS Exhibition in Bangkok Thailand.

The conference will be held in Rooms 224/225 on the first floor the of BITEC, directly above the exhibition halls and will focus on rice, flour and cereal milling.

MAG, the organiser of the conference, is calling for speakers and sponsors. Please contact Tuti Tan ([email protected]) if you would like to present at and/or sponsor this milling event.

An Overview of Innovation and Biotech Wheatby Rutger Koekoek, Marketing Specialist, US Wheat Association, The Netherlands

Technologies to manage the safety and quality of flourby Dr Simon Penson, Head of Primary Production and Processing, Campden-BRI, Chipping Campden, United Kingdom

Fortification works for flour and rice: New evidence of health impactby Sarah Zimmerman, Communications Coordinator, Food Fortification Initiative, USA

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SESSIONTWO

Novel colourimetric assays for the analysis of alpha-amylase activity in ground wheat samplesby Dr Claudio Cornaggia, Senior R&D Organic Chemist, Megazyme International, Ireland

Staying one step ahead in processing grains into sought-after food productsby Alexander Schnelle, Bühler, Switzerland

Optimising the health benefits of wheat products - by exploiting variation in grain composition and processing conditionsby Dr Peter Shewry, Distinguished Research Fellow, Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science, Rothamsted Research Centre, and Professor of Crops and Health, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, UK

From stones to rollers - The Roller Flour Milling Revolution in the UK and Europeby Rob Shorland-Ball BA FMA CertE, Roller Milling historian and author, Self-employed museums and heritage consultant, United Kingdom

Food Safety in the Milling Industry: Certification of Primary Production – The way ahead?by Dr Friedrich Luedeke, GlobalGAP, Germany

SESSION ONE

Improving the quality and attributes of rice and flour milling by-productsby Dr Mian N. Riaz, Director, Food Protein R& D Center, Texas A&M University, USA

Preventing bread waste - A national success story from Turkeyby Professor Dr M. Hikmet Boyacioglu, Chairman of Food Engineering Department, Department of Food Engineering, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey

COMING SOON IN MILLING AND GRAINThe Global Milling with Grapas Conference took place at Victam in Köln on June 11, 2015. Eleven experts in their respective fields presented on a wide range of subjects, such as food safety, wheat biotechnology, food fortification and grain processing technology. Over the next few weeks, Milling and Grain will be publishing a series of articles written by those who were speaking.

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