HOUSTON, TEXAS, U.S. — Cerea Tech is introducing itself to the U.S. market with spouting and accessories for the food industry.

Since 1991 it has manufactured and supplied a range of equipment for wheat flour mills, flour mixing plants, maize mills and oat mills, primarily to Turkish and European companies. The company’s U.S. headquarters are in Houston, Texas.

Its products include  stainless steel/mild steel straight spouting; hoppers; segments and elbows; asymmetric and symmetric branches; reducers; adaptors; flanged reducers; false air inlets; flour spouts; inspection pipes; sight glass cages; manual or pneumatic operated throttle valves; clamps; aspiration ducting; metallic flour and bran silos; bucket elevator;, screw conveyors; conveying and loading bands; dust collectors; filter exhaust chimneys for mills; hoppers and bunkers and nozzles; and pneumatic vertical and horizontal injectors for mills.

The company also has experience in mixer lines for flour milling and powder material mixing systems (batch mixers or continuous-in-flow mixers). Cerea Tech also offers various milling machines and equipment for the grain milling industry.

Besides being the newest flour mill in the United States, the Ardent Mills flour mill built along the Gulf coast in metropolitan Tampa, Florida, US, has several details that set it apart. Advanced analytics, state-of-the-art equipment, unusually large grain storage capacity and unique supply chain capabilities are among the mill’s distinguishing features.

At 17,500 cwts of daily flour milling capacity, the Port Redwing mill is not Ardent Mills’ largest and is not among the 25 largest flour mills in the United States. With the capacity to receive large quantities of wheat, though, Ardent Mills constructed a large grain elevator at the Port Redwing mill, with 4.1 million bushels of storage capacity.

The elevator may be the largest ever built concurrent with the construction of a US flour mill and, according to the 2022 Grain & Milling Annual published by Sosland Publishing Co., it is the sixth largest elevator of any US flour mill currently operating. The concrete elevator includes 12, 50-foot-concrete bins with 300,000 bushels of grain storage apiece as well as a number of smaller grain bins.

After two years of disruption due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) returned to an in-person spring Annual Conference & Expo in Richmond, Virginia, US. More than 700 people are in attendance for the event, which is May 2-6.