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Ocrim Milling Hub. “Not just a mill”

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    Publisher Milling & Grain
    Year of publication 2022 December
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    Medium Digital
    Edition1
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    Cereal processes > Flour milling > Commercial millers

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    Scope & contentConstructing and operating a flour mill is an unusual, although not unique development for a flour milling equipment company to make.

    Named the Milling Hub, Ocrim SpA of Cremona, Italy commissioned its new joint-venture mill with the publicly listed Italian company BF SpA in the second year of the pandemic in July 2021.

    And its a revolutionary concept for a milling company to adopt says Alberto Antolini the CEO of Ocrim, at the time of the opening of the mill.

    “The industrial part of the mill is currently and solely aimed at sub-supplying. This revolutionary project was created to bring together the agricultural side of the industry - represented by the BF driver - and the industrial side, represented by Ocrim. The current module is the first of 10 for the Milling Hub project with a view to shortening the procedures of the supply chain.”

    The new complex represents a unique and exclusive opportunity which, as Sergio Antolini, the chairman of Ocrim points out, “allows the customer to use his own grain in a mill of his own design. It will not involve any investment, staff, maintenance or operating costs and will ensure total safety and traceability of the final product.“…Read more.

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