Bühler AG

From collection point to malthouse Bühler has decisively enhanced its capabilities in the fields of grain handling, cleaning, drying, and storage through the acquisition of the German plant supplier Schmidt-Seeger and integrated them in its new Grain Logistics business unit. Bühler is now in a position to provide products and complete solutions ranging from grain collection points to food production plants. “We have concerned ourselves in depth with the expected development of the global grain markets up to the year 2050,” explains Marcel Scherrer, head of the new Grain Logistics business unit. “A look at the population growth forecast shows that in 40 years, some 9 billion people will have to be fed. The additional requirements must be covered by higher yields through improved growing methods, prevention of post-harvest losses – which today amount to as much as 20 percent – and the development of new growing regions. Grains are delivered to the collection points just…