by Alapala
Pioneer Foods was established in 1997 and today the group is one of the largest South African producers and distributors of a broad range of branded food and beverage products. As a leading FMCG group, Pioneer holds well-loved and trusted brands like Weet-Bix, Liqui-Fruit, Ceres, Sasko, Safari, Spekko and White Star within Africa.
The group operates mainly across South Africa providing wholesale, retail and informal trade customers with products of a consistently high standard. The group also exports to more than 80 countries.
The Essential Foods division within the group consists of Grains and Bakeries operations. The Grains business consists of five wheat and three maize mills, as well as two rice and dried vegetable packing facilities and a pasta plant. Alapala was contracted for the supply and installation of selected milling equipment required for the expansion of wheat milling capacity in Durban.
Project installation stage
Manufacturing Executive, Jabus Wessels, said that partnering with Alapala was an “exciting first for Pioneer Foods. Our installation teams collaborated with Alapala’s technical teams and the equipment was seamlessly integrated into our mill automation and control systems.
“We are confident that the new state of the art equipment will improve our operational efficiency and boost the quality of flour supply to our customers. With direct access to Alapala’s technical and milling expertise in Corum we look forward to future collaboration and projects.”
Project details
Pioneer Foods’ wheat milling capacity in Durban was more than doubled through the installation of a second milling line to produce high-quality baking flour for its two KZN bakeries and to serve the regional market more effectively.
The new mill has been designed to produce a wide variety of low ash pastry and cake flour, multi-purpose flour and bakery flour for bread. Both local and imported wheat is used as raw material depending on seasonal availability, cost, and quality.
The plant design conforms to sanitation standards and food safety regulations, with food-grade materials that have been carefully selected for each position in the building.
Mill management is carried out with an advanced automation system, combined with Scada software that allows a centralised monitoring of the entire milling process and generating detailed reports on production data. Overall, the system provides excellent process control and traceability. Automation software is also combined with a yield control module, which collects and analyses weighing information by DURA extraction scales from eight different places in the process.
Flour quality is controlled through Near Infrared Technology (NIR) instant analysis, to track and diagnose any deviation in quality parameters (ash, moisture, etc) ensuring products of the highest quality are produced consistently.
Read more HERE.
Pioneer Foods was established in 1997 and today the group is one of the largest South African producers and distributors of a broad range of branded food and beverage products. As a leading FMCG group, Pioneer holds well-loved and trusted brands like Weet-Bix, Liqui-Fruit, Ceres, Sasko, Safari, Spekko and White Star within Africa.
The group operates mainly across South Africa providing wholesale, retail and informal trade customers with products of a consistently high standard. The group also exports to more than 80 countries.
The Essential Foods division within the group consists of Grains and Bakeries operations. The Grains business consists of five wheat and three maize mills, as well as two rice and dried vegetable packing facilities and a pasta plant. Alapala was contracted for the supply and installation of selected milling equipment required for the expansion of wheat milling capacity in Durban.
Project installation stage
Manufacturing Executive, Jabus Wessels, said that partnering with Alapala was an “exciting first for Pioneer Foods. Our installation teams collaborated with Alapala’s technical teams and the equipment was seamlessly integrated into our mill automation and control systems.
“We are confident that the new state of the art equipment will improve our operational efficiency and boost the quality of flour supply to our customers. With direct access to Alapala’s technical and milling expertise in Corum we look forward to future collaboration and projects.”
Project details
Pioneer Foods’ wheat milling capacity in Durban was more than doubled through the installation of a second milling line to produce high-quality baking flour for its two KZN bakeries and to serve the regional market more effectively.
The new mill has been designed to produce a wide variety of low ash pastry and cake flour, multi-purpose flour and bakery flour for bread. Both local and imported wheat is used as raw material depending on seasonal availability, cost, and quality.
The plant design conforms to sanitation standards and food safety regulations, with food-grade materials that have been carefully selected for each position in the building.
Mill management is carried out with an advanced automation system, combined with Scada software that allows a centralised monitoring of the entire milling process and generating detailed reports on production data. Overall, the system provides excellent process control and traceability. Automation software is also combined with a yield control module, which collects and analyses weighing information by DURA extraction scales from eight different places in the process.
Flour quality is controlled through Near Infrared Technology (NIR) instant analysis, to track and diagnose any deviation in quality parameters (ash, moisture, etc) ensuring products of the highest quality are produced consistently.
Read more HERE.
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