Bogasari Flour Mills: Technological advances help millers meet consumer needs

by Roger Gilbert, Publisher Milling and Grain

As new generations come to the fore, changes occur and no more so than in the milling industry. Milling and Grain visited Bogasari Flour Mills in Jakarta, Indonesia earlier this year to report on the refurbishment of three of its 15 production lines by Ocrim. The current upgrade is not just about new equipment and the latest technology, it’s also about the changing aspirations and purchasing trends of local consumers.
 

Perendale Publisher’s CEO, Roger Gilbert, talked to Franky Welirang, CEO of Bogasari, which is part of PT Indofoods, about his views on the future of flour milling as it tries to meet the food demand from a country with 270 million inhabitants spread out over 5600km from west to east and encompassing 17,000 islands.

Flour milling lines ‘H, I and J’ at this world-renowned site, which happens to be the largest producer of flour at a single facility and processing over 11,600 tonnes of wheat-per-day, are being upgraded with the latest Ocrim equipment. Over a four-year period, three processing lines have been replaced without losing any production. The whole project will be completed and up-and-running in early November 2019.

Indonesia is a very long and spread-out country. Its population of 270 million people inhabit some two million square km spread over 17,000 islands. Bogasari is the country’s major flour producer and is continually striving to meet the ever growing demand for flour and milled products.

With lines ranging from ‘A-to-O’ that’s how the world’s largest single-site flour mill allocates its production lines - it has a total of 15 lines processing just over 11,500 tonnes of wheat-per-day in three shifts. All are Ocrim-equipped lines.  Existing lines ‘H, I and J’ have been progressively replaced with up-to-the-minute advanced machines, replacing the earliest Ocrim milling lines.

Although Milling and Grain visited to look at the new lines and the planned silo development, I took the opportunity to ask Mr Welirang about milling in one of the world’s most populated countries.

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