OREANDA-NEWS. August 10, 2009. Construction of a flour milling plant in the southwest of Turkmenabat is in full swing. The plant is to be put into operation next year. Its capacity is 80,000 tons a year and 360 tons of grain a day. The capacity of the grain elevator is 100,000 tons of grain that is as higher as 5 times than that of the existing grain elevator in the velayat centre, reported the Official website turkmenistan.gov.tm.

The future plant will occupy the area of 5.2 hectares. It includes the main and auxiliary facilities – the silo tower, manufacturing unit, mill building, headhouse, two flour packing machine (the capacity is 7 sacks a minute), warehouse, water reservoirs, railway and truck scales, transformer substation and other facilities.

The manufacturing process is computer-aided. Grain will b delivered by trucks and railcars, weighted on the railway and truck scales with the capacity of 60 and 150 tons an hour. Grain will be transported along a branch railway that will be laid in the territory of the plant.

Today two mills in Turkmenabat produce second and third-rate flour. The percentage of the flour extraction rate varies from 72 to 75 percent. The new elevator will receive and winnow 3,000 tons of grain a day. The computer-aided equipment will ensure remote monitoring of the temperature and the combination separator will clean wheat from impurities including sand and stones. At the new industrial complex grain will be milled, softened and even warmed in the winter period. It will be recycled for industrial purposes that will allow preserving moisture. The computer-aided equipment will moisten grain and bring it up to the mark regardless of the initial humidity.

The high coefficient of cleaning used air will reduce pollution emissions. Pneumatic transport will reduce energy consumption. It is important that flour produced at the complex will be enriched with iron that will prevent iron-deficiency anemia.