İmas completes a 160-ton/day wheat mill project in Cameroon

CAMEROON  – İmas, a Turkish machinery manufacturer, has completed a new 160 tonnes per day (tpd) flour mill for the World Food Industry, one of the leading food and retail groups headquartered in Yaounde, Cameroon.

The newest mill is located in Douala city, the finance and trade capital of Cameroon.

The flour mill is the second project that İmas has executed for the World Food Industry. The company had earlier contacted Imas, delivering the first flour mill in 2021.

According to Imas, the World Food Industry preferred to agree with the milling machinery giant again for the supply and delivery of their new 160 TPD capacity flour mill investment on a turnkey basis.

Having 160 TPD wheat processing capacity, the mill is posed to produce two types of flour that will be distributed to World Food Industry’s local supermarkets and bakery chains, in over 40 locations within the country, the company noted.

According to İmas, the greenfield project was completed on a turnkey basis including the project design, process engineering, manufacturing, project management, installation, commissioning, and training services.

imas disclosed that the machinery and equipment installation was completed in six months, a very short period thanks to the production power and capacity of the company.

Additionally, the mechanical and electrical installation was also completed in about six months by the project planning, installation and supervision teams of Imas.

Automation Technology

Imas prides itself in delivering the flour mill with an advanced automation system managed centrally via the SCADA automation system, from wheat intake to flour packaging.

The system has real-time reporting features about the production amount, yield, consumption, etc. of the plant.

In addition, the latest automation technology in the plant allows the Imas after-sales team to connect to the plant remotely at any time, for remote support services including technical assistance, troubleshooting, and check-up.

Not only the milling machinery and systems, the steel construction of the mill building was provided by Steral – a brand of Imas.

Steral is today a very strong partner in industrial steel buildings, as well as having the capacity to build huge projects ie. exhibition centres, hotel buildings, and shopping malls. With Steral, Imas is also the only in-house manufacturer of steel buildings in the grain and feed milling industries.

Founded in Türkiye, Imas produces the whole range of grain and feed milling machinery and builds turnkey flour, maize, and feed mills worldwide with more than 500 project references in 5 continents and over 100 countries.

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