Business Unit Grain Milling

Extracting the best out of valuable raw materials.

The Grain Milling business unit offers customers around the world cutting-edge process technology and innovative engineering services for processing soft wheat, durum, corn/maize, rye, oats, barley, millet/sorghum, buckwheat, soybeans, peas, and beans. This includes comprehensive total solutions as well as stand-alone machines for each process operation. All Buhler processing systems ensure gentle handling of the valuable raw materials and achieve top product quality and yields. They minimize production and manpower costs. This has been so for over 140 years. Buhler also offers solutions for upgrading byproducts such as bran and germs for healthy nutrition.

The Buhler Grain Milling business unit is active on all the continents of our globe – near its customers with its 40 affiliated companies and its presence in 140 countries. Buhler employees have face-to-face contact with customers in all corners of the world and understand their culture and language. They are excellently trained, highly motivated, and eager to offer customers top performance.

The Grain Milling business unit offers its customers training in its own Training Center in Uzwil. It also supports the Swiss Milling School in St.Gallen, which is an internationally acknowledged institute for training grain milling technologists.

Grain milling.

Buhler provides state-of-the-art process technology for transforming natural raw materials such as soft wheat, durum, rye, and corn/maize into high-grade flour and semolina products.

Specialty milling.

Buhler can look back on a long tradition of designing and constructing systems for processing oats, soybeans, buckwheat, and pulses into flakes and flour.

Value-adding processes.

Buhler offers solutions for the heat treatment and product stabilization of flours, germs, and bran for the food industry. This also includes the blending and mixing of flours for bakeries and the production of instant baking mixes for consumers.

Brewing.

Buhler solutions in the fields of malt handling, cleaning, and crushing prepare malt and raw grain for further processing in the brewhouse.

Materials handling.

Fully automatic conveying, weighing, bagging, storage, and online quality checking of a wide variety of dry solids for flour mills, bakeries, sugar processors, and other food industries

Bioethanol.

Grain is increasingly being utilized as a fuel supplier. Bioethanol can be extracted from corn/maize, wheat, barley, rye, and rice, which as a renewable energy carrier replace or supplement fossil fuels. Buhler plants prepare the grain for fermentation and process the byproducts obtained during distillation.

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As a partner, Buhler assists its customers throughout the life cycle of their plants. The Group offers training and continuing education, laboratory analyses, and process development in its own technology center, in addition to technology consulting at customers’ local sites and customized services.