Pilot-Scale Milling Room

The Pilot-Scale Milling room is capable of milling spring wheat, winter wheat, or durum wheat into refined flour, whole wheat flour, or semolina, respectively. These products can be used for testing flour quality, baking/processing evaluation, and pasta quality evaluation.

Pilot-Scale Milling Equipment

  • Pilot-Scale Swing Mill: Processes test-scale quantities of flour, durum semolina and whole wheat flour at a process rate of 180 lbs./hr. wheat to first break. 

  • Buhler MLU-202 Laboratory Flour Mill: Uses a six-roll system to make refined flour products and is used to mill smaller, laboratory-scale samples. A wide variety of grains can be milled including hard spring wheat, hard winter wheat, barley, rye and ancient grain varieties.

Cleaning system Equipment

  • Buhler Classifier with aspiration

  • Buhler Color Sorter

The Pilot-Scale Milling Room is sponsored by our partners at Minnesota Wheat Research and Promotion Council.

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