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Founded in the UK in 1971, 4B has been an industry leader in developing high quality, innovative and dependable material handling components for the agricultural and industrial sectors. 

With the world’s largest range of bucket elevator components, 4B has been leading the field in elevator bucket and bolt design and manufacturing the highest quality forged conveyor chains and elevator belting.  Bucket Elevator Parts

Slideshow: European Suppliers showcase | World Grain

4B’s electronics division specializes in level controls, intelligent sensors and safety control systems for bucket elevators and conveyors. Offering a wide range of products, including bearing temperature monitors, shaft speed sensors, encoders, belt alignment switches, vibration sensors, level controls, and hazard monitors, 4B can deliver anything from a replacement sensor to a fully integrated hazard monitoring system that can be operated either as a stand-alone system or connected to a PLC or the cloud.

With more than 30 years of experience in grain storage and handling, AGI EMEA is one of Europe’s largest and most respected manufacturers of all types of corrugated steel silos for commercial and agricultural applications. Its complete catalog includes catwalks, ladders, platforms, as well bucket elevators, chain conveyors, temperature sensing, sweeps, weighing, bagging and dryers. From the first design, to manufacturing and installation, customers trust AGI EMEA to partner with on their projects around the world.

With three modern and highly efficient state-of-the-art facilities in Italy, AGI EMEA is home to some of the most recognized brands, AGI FRAME, AGI PTM and AGI Hi Roller. 

Alapala is a leading global machinery producer and solution provider in grain milling technologies since 1954. Today, Alapala is a leading exporter in Turkey of food processing machinery and grain milling categories. The company is also among the top 1,000 exporters of Turkey. Alapala has 650+ turnkey project references in four continents and over 120 countries and has a local presence in 48 countries. Alapala builds turnkey flour, semolina, maize and feed mills, and recently pasta production plants integrating:

ALTINBILEK, founded in 1974, is a leading manufacturer of cereal transport systems. Its success in the last 46 years has been based on the vision of a highly trained and effective team and achieving customer satisfaction and loyalty. 

In this competitive world, one of the key factors for success is R&D capability and investment to expand business to be forward-thinking and innovative in order to stay ahead and meet market demand. Design and engineering services offer ideal mechanical works solutions as tailor-made projects. The company’s quality management system plays a central role in defining its primary goal to keep customers satisfied. Continuous expansions of its facility and large investments have been applied to use modern technologies in manufacturing. 

ALTINBILEK operates across four platforms: integrated grain storage systems; grain terminal ports; flat storage facilities; and animal feed mills.

With more than 100 years’ experience, Balaguer Rolls is a world leader in manufacturing centrifugally chilled cast iron rolls for flour milling, compound feed, soybeans, coffee, chocolates, paintings, salt biscuits and chemical industries. 

Balaguer rolls and machines are 99% exported to 130 countries on five continents. 

The use of cutting-edge technology and the commitment to quality are part of the company’s DNA, which results in obtaining rolls with the highest quality standard.

Quality control is the cornerstone on which the company is built. Quality controls are carried out at every single stage of the production process, ensuring that the rolls always meet the quality requirements of Balaguer Rolls as well as of the client. 

Altınbilek has been serving in Turkey and all over the world since 1974, providing grain handling, grain storage, feed manufacturing plants, seed processing plants and industrial automation established BBCA Storage Systems Inc.

Depending on the sector and related sectors, the group companies already achieved hundreds of references about silo projects. Many port projects, especially the intense movement of logistics, has been implemented so far.

Products according to the type of high-capacity transport and transfer systems were projected in different versions.

BBCA Storex offers maintaining and controlling the quality of the product during the storage and conveying, as well as providing convenience, reliability, efficiency and profitability in the management of plants.

Bühler is driven by its purpose of creating innovations for a better world, balancing the needs of economy, humanity and nature. As a relevant solution partner for the food and mobility industries, Bühler has developed a pathway to achieve a 60% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in its operations by 2030, meaning Greenhouse Gas Protocol Scopes 1 & 2, against a 2019 baseline. 

It has committed to having solutions ready to multiply by 2025 that reduce energy, waste and water by 50% in the value chains of its customers. Billions of people come into contact with Bühler technologies as they cover their basic needs for food and mobility every day. Two billion people each day enjoy foods produced on Bühler equipment; and one billion people travel in vehicles manufactured using parts produced with Bühler technology. Countless people wear eyeglasses, use smart phones, and read newspapers and magazines — all of which depend on Bühler process technologies and solutions. Having this global relevance, Bühler is in a unique position to turn today’s global challenges into sustainable business. 

CESCO EPC GmbH is an international company based in Konstanz, Germany, specializing in the design and supply of industrial plants for grain logistics and deep processing, including handling, storing, and milling systems.

It offers clients personalized professional solutions with guaranteed technology and quality, backed by decades of experience in executing projects worldwide. CESCO’s products and services primarily are divided into four business areas: inland grain terminals, port grain terminals, steel buildings for dry milling plants and turnkey plants.

Cimbria is one of the world’s leading companies within industrial processing, handling and storage of grain and seed, as well as animal feed, foodstuffs and other bulk products. Cimbria designs, develops, manufactures, installs and services custom-built solutions. Whether the need is a single machine, a complete processing line or a large turnkey project including highly advanced automation and management information systems, Cimbria helps bring its customer’s visions to life.

Cimbria has the right technology to enhance quality and the right team to bring it all together. 

CONSERGRA is a company specialized in the natural preservation storage of grain, seeds, oilseeds and many other products for human and animal consumption.

CONSERGRA has over 50 years of experience in grain conservation through cooling technologies. The company designs and manufactures the CONSERFRIO grain coolers in Barcelona, Spain. The units are continuously developed as well as new solutions and applications are engineered. The cooling units are exported and installed worldwide. 

With the CONSERFRIO system, not only the quality of the product is kept at its best, but also the product’s weight, since the losses due to metabolic respiration are minimized. The use of the CONSERFRIO grain chillers avoid costly fumigations and chemical treatments against insects, molds and product’s spoilage, achieving a natural, safe and cost-effective storage regardless of the ambient weather conditions, even under the harshest conditions of the desert or tropics.

DENIS is a family business established in 1855, located near Paris and manufactures 5,000 to 6,000 items per year with a range of leading-edge machines in a 24,000-square-meter facility situated on an industrial site of eight hectares. 

DENIS is present worldwide through subsidiaries, partners and sales representatives. The company has built up an international reputation in its specialist fields, based on a thorough understanding of the processes its customers use in their various trades 

Customers therefore benefit from the experience and know-how of a leading manufacturer, with specially adapted equipment.

DENIS offers various solutions with the production of a wide range of equipment for the mechanical handling and cleaning: bucket elevators, chain or belt conveyors, various types of screws, cleaners, discharge or extraction devices, etc. 

FrigorTec GmbH produces and distributes cooling units and heat pumps for industrial and food applications for more than 60 years. 

A prominent part of the company’s product range is the GRANIFRIGOR cooling unit, which is designed specifically for grain preservation. It is used in numerous applications worldwide. FrigorTec has developed various types of GRANIFRIGOR grain coolers. This means that the perfect solution can be offered based on the individual requirements and operating conditions of the customer on site.

Several thousands of GRANIFRIGOR units, successfully in operation, are cooling wheat, barley, maize, rapeseed, rye, oats, rice, soybeans, peas, millet, etc.  

Grain cooling with the GRANIFRIGOR system offers the most natural way of grain preservation and provides protection against insects and microbes, without chemical treatment and independent of ambient weather conditions. With the GRANIFRIGOR cooling system, you can keep the fresh harvest scent (plus no discoloring of rice) of the stored product, and you will also have a short amortization period with low energy costs.

Imas Machinery was established in 1989 and has the vision to be one of the leading global brands in milling technologies. The synthesis of know-how and experience for over 30 years with the new approach, larger team, upcoming investments, creates its “new synergy.” Imas builds turnkey flour, maize and feed mills worldwide with more than 500 project references in five continents and over 100 countries. 

Imas is today ranked among the top 1,000 exporters of Turkey and is the only company in the milling machinery sector that had a public offering starting in April 2022. The company is currently building one of the largest milling complexes in Nigeria for BUA Group, including a new 2,400 tpd flour mill to be completed in 2023.

Mühlenchemie is a world market leader in the field of flour treatment. Its key competence lies in solutions for flour standardization, flour improvement and flour fortification — from classic flour treatment to concentrates for ready-mixed flours. 

Mühlenchemie exports its products to more than 130 countries and maintains close relations with more than 2,000 mills around the globe. At the foreign affiliates in Mexico, Singapore, India, China, Turkey and Russia, a team of experts supports mills on the spot and offers individual solutions to ensure optimum flour quality. 

The company has its own production facilities, affiliates and technical centers in 13 countries around the world. Mühlenchemie standardizes over 100 million tonnes of wheat a year. 

For this, the company has developed enzyme systems, flour maturing and oxidizing agents, bromate replacers, emulsifiers, vitamin and mineral premixes and functional systems for ready-mixed and composite flours. 

At the Stern-Technology Center in Ahrensburg, near Hamburg, Germany, a team of 100 research scientists and applications technologists works on innovations for the future.

Mysilo is one of the leading grain storage systems manufacturers with an annual capacity of 4 million cubic meters. The company has installed more than 1,000 projects for approximately 600 customers in 52 countries. 

Mysilo specializes in design, manufacture and installation of grain storage silos and handling equipment. Main products include grain storage silos, handling equipment, bucket elevators, chain conveyors, belt conveyors, aeration systems, fans, temperature monitoring systems, electrical panels, catwalks and steel towers.

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Part One from A to M of the latest grain and milling technology offered by European-based suppliers to the international market from the May issue of World Grain. Find company profiles that discuss service range, product technologies and research and project developments for each European-based advertiser.

KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — These nine flour mill projects recently have been completed or are under construction in North America. See who has been building and where:

Granuliform KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — Part Two from N to Z of the latest grain and milling technology offered by European-based suppliers to the international market from the May issue of  World Grain. Find company profiles that discuss service range, product technologies and research and project developments for each European-based advertiser.