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Some Benefits of Flour Mill Automation Systems

Flour Processing Plant Engineering, Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety Automation systems offer a wide range of advantages for flour mills when it comes to production and quality. Automation helps to remove the problem of variability in the final product, and can even identify and make adjustments as a preventative measure, where needed. It also offers […]

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Market Leading Innovation for Flour Mills

Flour Processing Plant Engineering, Non Food Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety Swiss company Buhler, are leading innovators creating food processing solutions worldwide, and regularly developing new technology. Their Mercury MES (Manufacturing Execution System) is a full factory automation system, integrating all functions into one simple process. It provides data from ERP, quality control, maintenance and […]

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Dust Explosions in Flour Mills

Flour Processing Plant Engineering, Non Food Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety The risk of dust explosions, although relatively rare in the UK, is taken very seriously within the flour milling sector. When dust explosions do occur they can cause devastation, including injury and loss of life. Wherever there are large amounts of combustible dust, air/oxygen […]

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The Importance of Design, Installation, Maintenance & Cleaning in Processing Plants

Flour Processing Plant Engineering, Non Food Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety, Pontefract There is more to food processing than you probably think, which is why design, installation and maintenance are critical. It’s only when the correct industry standards are met, that contamination risks are lowered. In any processing plant, particularly where any kind of food […]

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Bread – Everybody’s Favourite Nibble

Flour Processing Plant Engineering, Non Food Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety   We, as a nation just love bread, and mostly due to the pandemic and lockdowns, we also love baking it. Making a loaf seems fairly straight forward, but there’s a lot that can go wrong and it’s often hard to know why. Some […]

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Why has the Price of Wheat Risen?

Flour Processing Plant Engineering, Non Food Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety As the price of wheat, amongst other things, shot up after the war in Ukraine, many were hoping for a return to relative normality as 2022 progressed. The recent UK Flour Millers briefing has quashed these hopes however leaving an amount of uncertainty. There […]

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When Did Flour First Appear?

Food Processing Plant Engineering, Non-Food Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety Selby & Doncaster Most of us think nothing of buying a bag of flour for baking, and its journey over the centuries never occurs to us. Always available and affordable it sits in the cupboard and lasts for ages, ready when we need it. But […]

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Keeping Our Flour Production On Track

Flour Processing Plant Engineering, Non Food Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety If most people look around their kitchen cupboards, fridges etc they will probably find flour in some form or other. Whether it’s bread, pastry, cakes or biscuits it’s highly likely that flour is consumed by everybody in the household. This fine powdery food product […]

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Replacement of a 35 Year Old Roller Mill

Henry Simon Roller Mill Replacement Installation Project, Bradford At Brookshaw Stuart, we pride ourselves on our professional delivery whatever the project or challenges involved. One of our recent projects demonstrates this determination to achieve the best results possible. It primarily involved the replacement of a 35 year old Satake SRMA 1250 roller mill at Kemira […]

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A Sustainable Solution

Flour Processing Plant Engineering, Non Food Installation, Fabrications, Health & Safety   Flour is one of the most widely used ingredients throughout the world, bread for instance is eaten by 99.8% of the UK. This is why flour mills are so important nationally, and why the UK Flour Millers exists as an association that supports […]

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