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FEATURE: STYBEL'S NEWEST MILL

which is the norm in new mills today."
Fully automated, Stybel's new Ad
Halom mill theoretically is a lightsout mill.
"During the night, government regulations require there must be at least
two people on site, even if it means
watching one another fall asleep," Boaz
Turgeman said.
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Boaz Turgeman said the Ad Halom
facility stands out versus other mills in
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products.
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kashruth," he said.
The on-line quality control system
also represents a step up in technology,
and the mill features numerous packaging lines.
Each of the two milling units features
6 double high roll stands and 14 singles.
The mill has the capacity to alternate between hard wheat and semi-hard wheat
milling. Soft wheat may be milled too.

An unconventional feature of the Ad
Halom mill is that one motor is driving
two roll pairs on the double high rollerstands. A common motor pulley allows
taking up two sets of v-belts, long ones
for the upper roll pair and shorter ones
for the lower roll pair.
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space beneath the rollstand and saves
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470 cubic meters in size, provide 7,200
tonnes of bulk storage capacity (200
tonnes each).
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the mill's two bulk truck outload lines.
After the plant operator enters the customer orders into the order processing
system, an auto-generated document
with a barcode is handed to the truck
drivers at the entrance gate of the mill,
which enables the truck drivers to begin
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software where data are translated into
Hebrew language to generate delivery
papers that comply with Israeli law.
Israel has emerged as a leading global
incubator of high-tech industry over the
last 25 years, and the mill features a
monitoring system developed by a company there.
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bin levels, give on-line inventory and
show a 3-dimensional image of what
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factor in elements of the bulk storage
design.
"The bins are square with rounded
corners," he said. "With rounded bins
you lose 25% of the space."
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"The building is constructed with an
air makeup unit system that introduces
fresh air and maintains positive pressure in the building relative to outside
of a few millibars (a measure of atmospheric pressure) to supply the process
air and keep dust under control," Boaz
Turgeman said. "If you open a door, you
A baking laboratory sits adjacent to the Ad
Halom mill and serves as a central laboratory for
the entire Stybel system.

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