by
Roger Gilbert, Publisher, Milling and Grain
To be invited to spend a weekend in September in Northern Italy is a pleasure that will remain with me throughout many a cold winter month.
And it’s apt to recall this highlight of 2019 as we start the New Year knowing that we have to overcome some critical challenges - political, environmental, and industrial - if our industry is to continue producing the food that’s needed for our human population which now stands on the threshold of 2020 at 7.8 billion (with 81 million more mouths to feed since this time last year).
Attending the Ocrim ‘2019 Wheat, Flour and …’ Open Days we were welcomed by Alberto and Sergio Antolini, respectively CEO and President of Ocrim and “in our house” to celebrate the company’s 74 years of evolution of the Ocrim brand, within its central offices and factory facilities in the heart of Cremona.
Sergio Antolini said, “It is pleonastic to tell you that it is an immense honour to be the deuteragonist today and to transform our factory into a theatre and stage where you, dear guests are the first actors.
“Here is a place where technology is created, where tradition is lived and where the influence of many and their hands are noticed and given breath. This is a wonderful place where efficiency is the cause and the final outcome the attraction,” he told attendees.
He told an attentive audience that his life has been a journey that held many interesting milestones that were important for the company to remember.
“Here is the beginning of our ambitious and far-sighted Milling Hub project which will be a great centre for cereals grinding.”
He also referenced the new production site at via Riglio, just on the outskirts of Cremona where one manufacturing facility is now fully functional and a second, neighbouring site is being prepared for construction.
“Our production activities have been expanding with new departments dedicated to the manufacture of machinery for storage of finished products. Another goal is the use of robotics and automation in the design, engineering and build of entire mills at our home.”
Read more HERE.
To be invited to spend a weekend in September in Northern Italy is a pleasure that will remain with me throughout many a cold winter month.
And it’s apt to recall this highlight of 2019 as we start the New Year knowing that we have to overcome some critical challenges - political, environmental, and industrial - if our industry is to continue producing the food that’s needed for our human population which now stands on the threshold of 2020 at 7.8 billion (with 81 million more mouths to feed since this time last year).
Attending the Ocrim ‘2019 Wheat, Flour and …’ Open Days we were welcomed by Alberto and Sergio Antolini, respectively CEO and President of Ocrim and “in our house” to celebrate the company’s 74 years of evolution of the Ocrim brand, within its central offices and factory facilities in the heart of Cremona.
Sergio Antolini said, “It is pleonastic to tell you that it is an immense honour to be the deuteragonist today and to transform our factory into a theatre and stage where you, dear guests are the first actors.
“Here is a place where technology is created, where tradition is lived and where the influence of many and their hands are noticed and given breath. This is a wonderful place where efficiency is the cause and the final outcome the attraction,” he told attendees.
He told an attentive audience that his life has been a journey that held many interesting milestones that were important for the company to remember.
“Here is the beginning of our ambitious and far-sighted Milling Hub project which will be a great centre for cereals grinding.”
He also referenced the new production site at via Riglio, just on the outskirts of Cremona where one manufacturing facility is now fully functional and a second, neighbouring site is being prepared for construction.
“Our production activities have been expanding with new departments dedicated to the manufacture of machinery for storage of finished products. Another goal is the use of robotics and automation in the design, engineering and build of entire mills at our home.”
Read more HERE.
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