Peer Hansen, Director of Marketing and Sales at Eye-Grain, Denmark (left) receives the 2016 GRAPAS Innovation Award for the iGrain-Crop Protector technology based on ozonation technology from Roger Gilbert of Milling and Grain with Eloise Hillier-Richardson attending.
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The GRAPAS Award for innovation 2016
1. Organised by
Peer Hansen, Director of Marketing and Sales at Eye-Grain, Denmark
(left) receives the 2016 GRAPAS Innovation Award for the iGrain-
Crop Protector technology based on ozonation technology from
Roger Gilbert of Milling and Grain with Eloise Hillier-Richardson
attending.
Yiannis Christodoulou of Agentis Innovations, Thailand (see picture
overleaf), accepted the ‘runner-up’ award for his company’s M007
Real-Time In-Line Feed Reformulation equipment.
Milling and Grain magazine, the world’s oldest milling magazine still
in print, sponsors the GRAPAS Innovation Awards. The Award is made
to the most innovative and economically beneficial equipment,
process or service.
Entries cover three categories:
1. A milling technology development (for flour, rice or other cereal)
2. A production process or refinement that makes for more
efficient and/or safe production
3. A service (online or otherwise) that helps millers achieve their
goals more efficiently
The following were considered innovative and were awarded:
‘commended’; ‘highly commented; ‘runner-up and ‘winner’ by the
independent judging panel.
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3. Commended
Matador (Jiangsu) Machinery Engineering Co Ltd, China - Feed Machines; turnkey feed plants and biomass machines
Matador designs and builds key process machines, but also offers complete plant solutions for the global animal feed and biomass
pellets industries. Its business is based on a competitive approach to matching the requirements of successful livestock feed, aquatic
feed, pet food and biomass pellets companies. When designing new technologies or customer specific plant solutions, Matador
has to take account of the demand for reliable processing, cost efficiency, uniform quality and high-performance animal feed
and biomass pellets, considering the shifting availability of feed ingredients, the increasing number of environmental standards and
hygiene regulations and the requirement for traceability in the interests of food safety.
Commended
Norvidan A/S, Denmark - TADS (Temperature At the Die System)
The Norvidan TADS was introduced in 2015 is a system developed
to fight salmonella in the animal feed milling industry. Measuring
the temperature of pellets immediately when they are produced
at the die of the press can establish and record the true, highest
pellet temperature of the pellet and display and lock it into a
database for documentation, QA purposes.
The TADS is a on-line measuring mechanical device easily
mounted on the pellet press door. Via a PLC the signal is
provided to at PC for displaying and logging. It is the fully
automatic, logging of critical temperature data and hence it
reduces the task of staff in the mill and can potentially lead to
free staff for other tasks.
TADS also gives information on how well the conditioner(s)
are working since the temperature of the meal and the
temperature of the leaving the die can be compared and the
“Temperature across the Die” is known.
Commended
IMAS, Turkey - Multimilla Roller Mill
Just over a year ago in April 2015, Imas introduced its cast
iron Multimilla Roller Mill. The roller mill body is made of lamel
black-lead cast iron. This material is used to absorb knocks and
vibration in machine bodies. This has advantage over steel.
Inox contact surfaces, Inox main walls: In addition to contact
surfaces in other roller mills, Multimilla roller mill main side walls
are also completely Inox. This is very important for hygiene and
sanitation.
The dimensions are accurate in cast iron bodies as the parts are
machined in CNC machines rather than being welded. As a
result, the parallelity of roll housings is excellent.
Turbo-negative pressure to eliminate dusting at feed gate: 1)
Evacuates trapped dusty air from the inlet hopper to the outlet
hopper by using pneumatic system and 2) adjustable turbo
system creates negative pressure around the break rolls.
Dust around the rolls is sucked in preventing it from escaping.
Highly Commended
Bastak, Turkey - Sampler Cleaner - Brand 13500
Through its rotatable cylinder sieve inside the device, a sample
can sifted and classified. The sample is then collected in the
balanced drawers for impurity.
Through the LCD touchable screen, the process can be
controlled including sieve turning speed, feeding gate opening,
blowing power and process time and language selection,
reports and logs.
Light materials, broken materials, good materials and foreign
materials can be separated easily and classified for: wheat,
barley, maize, rye, oats, etc. Before buying raw materials,
this device informs you about the quality of the products by
analyzing quality control and impurity. The product has 10-inch
touch screen whereas other machines don’t – everything on
the machine can be controlled by the touch screen. All results
can be printed out and all results are saved in a bulletin log.
Highly Commended
Dinnissen, The Netherlands - Hamex® Hammermill with semi-
automatic sieve exchanger
The screens are positioned in a screen holder on a guiding
system. This holder can move outwards over a horizontal slide.
However, the mill housing is fully closed in its extended end
position. The pneumatic screen clamp can be released, after
which the screens are to be exchanged manually.
The screen holder locks the screens in a hinged clamp that
opens up wide during screen exchange, so they slide in
easily. The operator only needs to be physically present at
the machine when sliding the screens out and in. The guiding
system is motorised and being operated in the safety zone.
Due to the very precise fit between the screens and the clamp,
product leakage is minimised. The machine is characterized by
high capacity, efficiency, very fine and precise grinding and
uniformity of the processed end-product
RUNNER UP
Agentis Innovations, Thailand
- M007 Real-Time In-Line Feed Reformulation
Today, there is no other technology or method that can deliver a solution to the age
old problem of moisture variation in the raw material. As such, the industry continues
to suffer the consequence of formulating and dosing moisture sensitive material based
on a fixed moisture value. The M007 Real Time In Line Reformulation technology will not
only instantly and accurately measure the moisture of raw material during the weighing
process of batching, but will also instantly and accurately auto-correct the raw material
weights to reflect the true dry matter as specified by the formulation.
This sophisticated and intelligent system, identifies each formulation and its original dry matter
target for each specified raw material. The auto corrections
are real time, meaning that the system will perform this action
for each and every batch of feed produced. Importantly, any
auto weight corrections are completed without any delay
to the usual batching process and all changes made to the
raw material inclusion by the system are captured, stored and
reported for verification, traceability and stock reconciliation
purposes.
For the first time, feed companies are able to accurately
control the true dry matter entering the mixer, produce feed
that is to the correct nutrient density and make significant cost
savings by avoiding nutrient giveaway and stock losses.
Agentis Innovations’ M007 Real Time In Line Reformulation
technology has been developed in such a way that is
versatile and flexible, meaning that the same technology can
easily be modified to work and deliver the same results to
other milling industries such as flour milling.
Judging panel’s comment
“The applicant is offering a system to optimise the proportions
of materials in a feed, taking into account and compensating
for the variations of moisture content in the raw materials.
“Moisture variations in raw materials used in the feed milling
industry normally adversely affects the ability to optimise the
least-cost formulation of feeds.
“Agentis Innovations claims to have a unique ability to
compensate for these variations with its real-time and in-line
measurement capability. “The resulting consistent production
of feed at the correct dry matter and formulated cost would
provide significant economic benefits “It is anticipated that
the technology could be modified to work and deliver similar
benefits to other milling industries including flour milling.”
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