This year’s World Flour Day is planned for March 20 and will be celebrated under the motto “Flour and People-Flour means the world to us.” The focus for this third World Flour Day is the significance of flour for each person.
World Flour Day was initiated by the FlourWorld Museum to honor flour as one of the most important staple foods. The FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg near Hamburg, Germany, holds the world’s largest collection of flour sacks, with more than 3,700 sacks from 140 countries. Flour.Power.Life is the guiding principle under which the sacks tell about the traditions, history and myths of flour.
As part of World Flour Day, the museum will unveil the Flour Sack of the Year, celebrating a flour sack design that best illustrates this year’s motto. Winners are displayed in the museum, an initiative of Mühlenchemie, a member of the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe.
In honor of World Flour Day, here are six previous Flour Sack of the Year honorees.
The top 10 largest United States wheat-durum-rye milling companies in total daily capacity (cwts) as listed in Sosland Publishing Co.’s 2022 Grain & Milling Annual.
The publication is a comprehensive directory of companies involved in the North American grain and flour milling industries and of the companies that supply products and services to those industries.
Total daily US capacity was 1,530,398 cwts for wheat flour, 132,223 cwts for durum and 9,870 cwts for rye, less 25,820 cwts swing capacity for a total of 1,646,681 cwts.
The Grain Majors for Sosland Publishing Co.'s 2022 Grain & Milling Annual comprise the top North American facility grain companies and cooperatives based on total corporate grain storage capacity.
To qualify for the Grain & Milling Annual list, companies must have two or more facilities and total storage capacity of at least 6 million bushels. in 2022, there were 103 such companies. The Top 10 companies each exceeded 150 million bushels of storage.
Total corporate storage capacity includes country elevators and may not necessarily equal the sum of individual facility capacities listed in the directory. Total corporate capacity also may include storage at processing plants, which may or may not be listed in the directory.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, US — The International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) has returned to an in-person event with a feed program that will focus on regulatory changes and provide an industry outlook for 2022. The Jan. 25-27 event is at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia, US.
The 2022 IPPE will include a full week of education programs, including new technology, events on the show floor and networking opportunities with key leaders from the animal food, meat and poultry industries. The event brings together the expertise from the American Feed Industry Association, the North American Meat Institute and the US Poultry & Egg Association.
Despite the challenges from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, suppliers in the grain handling and storage and milling industries continued to innovate and introduce new products and services. Here a few that are highlighted in the 2022 International Buyers Guide.
See what new products World Grain advertisers will be exhibiting at the event.
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LOWELL, MICHIGAN, US — King Milling Co., Michigan’s largest flour miller, on April 10 celebrated the completion of the latest expansion of its flour milling complex. The $47 million project, which began in 2022 and was completed this winter, involved erecting the mill as well as two slipform concrete wheat storage bins that are attached to it. A full report on the new mill will appear in the May issue of World Grain.
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, US — The International Association of Operative Millers’ (IAOM) 128th Annual Conference & Expo will be April 16-18 in Salt Lake City, Utah, US. Along with educational programming, committee meetings and networking opportunities, the event includes the expo. Following are products and services from World Grain advertisers who will be exhibiting at IAOM.