How To Start a Small Scale Flour Milling Business?

Almost all the junk foods we eat these days are made from flour; Cake, Burger, Pizza, Doughnut, name them, are all made from flour. There are different types of flours and each of type of flour is dependent on the raw material used to produce the flour.

For instance, wheat flour is made from wheat, corn flour is made from corn/maize; then there are others like rice flour, cocoyam flour and yam flour and my guess is that you know the raw materials each of these types of flour are made from.

Starting a flour company is a very profitable business that can break even after a few years due to the high demand for flour by companies that use flour as raw material to produce other finished products.

Are you planning to start a small scale flour milling business? Well, starting and running a milling business is not an easy task. Despite the high returns that this business can yield at the end of the day, there is a lot that you need to do in order to rise to the top. There are a number of things you need to know before opening the doors of your small scale flour milling business in any part of the city. Here are simple steps that will get started without going through much hassle over the same.

The Plan of Starting a Flour Milling Business

1.Training on How to Handle the Machineries for Production

Unless you have worked in a flour mill before now, you need to get the basic training on how to handle the machineries used in the grinding and further production of the raw materials into finished flour. You also need to know other ingredients that are added to get the final result.

2.Register Your Business as a Company:

You may not start out as a massive flour mill, but you have a dream of expanding the company to a flour mill one day, so you need to register your business as a company; preferably a limited liability company. This also gives you the privilege to patent any new flour product you invent to your company’s name.

3.Lease a Space for Your Factory

When you are done with the formal registration, you have to look for a space to buy or rent as your factory complex. A basic flour mill doesn’t require much space to get started.

You need mainly a place to keep the raw materials, a space for your machineries, a space to keep the processed flour for packaging, and the space for the final packaging of the flour. The location of the factory should be easily accessible for easy transport of raw material into the site and easy shipping out of packaged flour to customers.

4.Purchase Equipments and Materials

Once you get the space for the factory, it’s time to buy the equipments and machineries you will need for production. Part of the need for going for training is to know which equipments are vital for the product of flour and how to use each of them. You can also lease machineries if the company is running on a very tight budget, but endeavor to purchase your own set ones you make enough money.

5.Source for Raw Materials

It is time to scout for raw materials you need for production. As I mentioned above, the raw material you will need depends on the type of flour you are producing. A good place to source for raw materials is from farmers that cultivate the raw materials in commercial quantities.

If you have the extra expanse of land, you may decide to cultivate your own raw material which may be cheaper but more stressful with the whole cultivation, nurturing, waiting to mature and finally harvesting processes. So it is much better to purchase from farmers.

6.Find Customers for Your Products

At this stage, I assume that the first set of flour production has been done and packaged; so you have to look for buyers for the finished product.

A good way to do this is to get a list of bakeries, food processing companies and pharmaceutical companies near your location; write a proposal to them that you have a flour company that can supply them with any quantity of flour they require.

Also include a small sample of the flour you made to them for them to see the product you have and finally, let them know that you can produce other types of flour on order (if you have the equipment to produce various types of flour).

This is all you need to know about starting a flour production mill. Please note that you need to get certification from the organization responsible for checking the quality of food products in your location, as it will help to increase the authenticity of your product to your customers.

Also, remember that the packaging process includes using a bag or sack that is branded with your company’s name and logo to package your flour; as this helps to advertise your products to anybody that comes in contact it.

Here are some basic requirements of plant & machinery

• Bucket elevator
• Drum sieve pre-cleaning machine
• High-frequency vibration cleaning sieve
• Wheat cleaning & drying machine
• Destoner
• Wheat scourer
• Permanent Magnetic Drum
• Atomizing Dampener
• Pneumatic flour mill machine
• Flour cleaning machine
• Plansifter
• Square plansifter
• Bran scourer
• Bran Brush Machine
• Centrifugal fan
• Pulse dust collector

Generally, a flour mill project comes with a lot of customization. According to your investment capacity and desired output quantity, you must install the machinery. Additionally, you will need to have testing equipment and packaging machinery.

 Flour Production Process & Raw Materials

The production process of each item is little bit different. You can source the manufacturing technology from the Govt. department in exchange of certain fees. However, here we put basic steps of flour production.

First of all, clean the wheat grains thoroughly to remove dust, stone and other foreign matters. Then temper the grains before grinding by treating with water so that the bran is separated from the endosperm.

Crush the wheat between corrugated rollers (Break rolls). It is a long process and may contain several breaks. The stock contains pieces of endosperm and bran and the stock from the last break is principally bran.

The middlings contain endosperm, bran and germ which are then successively classified and some of the bran removed are sent to reduction rollers. These are smooth rollers, but like the break rolls they are graduated so that successive reduction becomes finer and finer.

After each reduction, sifters separate the flour, middling and stock. And you have to continue the process until you can remove the most of the endosperm as flour. Additionally, you have to separate the most of the bran in the sifters.

The major required raw material is wheat blended in different proportion. Additionally, you have to procure the packaging materials for flour mill business.

Zhengzhou Double-lion Grain & Oil Milling Machinery Co.,ltd. is dedicated in flour mills and flour milling lines design & manufacturing. Cooperating with Henan University of Technology (Former Zhengzhou Grain College) which have abundant talented person and science advantage, it has carried out the new technological research and application of oil machinery, flour milling machinery, coarse cereals machinery and feed machinery, etc., and transformed the latest scientific achievements into productive forces to obtain good social and economic benefit. Many foreign friends have established long-term cooperative relationship with us. Our company has wide milling machines range and competitive price, looking for sales agents overseas!

Need guidance to build a maize flour plant? Please contact us, our engineer will give you professional guidance and suggestion.

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Why Indonesia’s Appetite for Wheat Is Growing

Wheat consumption in Indonesia is growing rapidly, supported by an expanding middle class that has taken a liking to western cuisine. Indonesians still eat more rice than most other people in the world, but a fundamental change in the local diet is undeniable, as more and more consumers switch to toast for breakfast, pizza for lunch or doughnuts for dessert. Increasing demand for wheat-based foodstuffs in Indonesia presents exciting opportunities for investment in the wheat milling and food processing industries.

Instant noodles and talking bread

The single main driver of rising wheat consumption in Indonesia is the growing popularity of instant noodles – particularly among young city-dwellers who appreciate the convenience of ready meals. More than half of Indonesia’s wheat flour is turned into noodles. Indonesia is the second-biggest market for instant noodles and home to the world’s largest instant noodle producer, Indofood Sukses Makmur. Trade policies aimed at protecting local farmers against rice imports have boosted domestic rice prices, ironically adding to the popularity of wheat-based instant noodles as a cheap alternative to traditional rice dishes.

Meanwhile, retail chains such as Singapore-based BreadTalk and Indonesia’s J.CO Donuts & Coffee are doing their part to expand the local bakery market, which consumes large amounts of wheat flour as well.

A market dependent on imports

The bulk of Indonesia’s wheat supply comes from Australia, followed by Canada and the United States. The vast majority of shipments are in the form of grain delivered to mills in Indonesia. Wheat grain imports were valued at $2.3 billion in 2012, according to figures from the Central Statistics Agency (BPS). By contrast, Indonesia only bought $188 million worth of wheat flour from abroad in 2012. This still makes Indonesia one of the largest wheat flour importers of the world.

The government aims to limit imports of wheat flour to the necessary minimum. In December 2012 it imposed a 20% temporary emergency tariff to protect Indonesian millers and in the summer of 2013 officials were mulling more permanent measures. Its trade policies put the government at loggerheads with Turkey and Sri Lanka, the predominant exporters of wheat flour to Indonesia in 2012. Turkey has threatened to take WTO action against Indonesia’s flour import policies.

Growth potential far from exhausted

Wheat played an insignificant role in Indonesia until the late 1960s, but since then has been on a rapid ascent. Wheat imports grew from 170 thousand (MT) in 1967 to 6.5 million MT in marketing year 2011/2012, according to data from the United States Department of Agriculture. Per-capita consumption of wheat flour roughly doubled over the past two decades, but at just a little more than 20 kg per year it is only a fraction of consumption in many more developed economies, which highlights the market’s growth potential.

There have been isolated attempts at cultivating wheat in Indonesia despite the tropical climate, but none of those efforts have progressed beyond the experimental stage. The industry will remain fully dependent on imports in the foreseeable future.

Good news for wheat millers

Indonesia’s protectionist stance on wheat flour imports is actually good news for the domestic milling industry, which will require substantial investment to meet future demand for flour. Tapping into this potential, FKS Indonesia, Malaysia’s Malayan Flour Mills and Toyota Tsusho from Japan formed a joint venture, PT Bungasari Flour Mills Indonesia, with a first plant expected to commence operations in West Java in 2014. At the beginning of 2013, Mitsubishi Corporation of Japan purchased of a 10% stake in Sriboga Raturaya, another leading player in the wheat flour sector in Indonesia, in order to tap into the growing market potential. Singapore-listed Wilmar International, for its part, announced the construction of two wheat mills in East Java.

New market entrants in the milling business need to take into account the fact that they are up against competition from well-integrated local players, including the giant Bogasari Flour Mills, a subsidiary of Indofood. On the bright side, the expanding market and the need for more modern and efficient mills should leave room for future growth. The spike in food prices in 2013 should also, in principle, compel the government to ensure a level playing field in the milling industry, which is currently characterized by a small number of companies.

Opportunities in food processing

Further downstream, appealing business opportunities await investors in food processing and retail. While they will hardly displace rice as the country’s staple diet, bread, cereals, biscuits and cakes are carving out growing markets for themselves in Indonesia. The fact that per-capita consumption of these products is still very low means that their growth potential is all the higher. Government officials have been urging Indonesians to diversify their carbohydrate intake away from an over-reliance on rice, but the more powerful force behind changing culinary habits is likely a general westernization of Indonesian food. Foods that do not need cooking, such as breakfast cereals and bread, trump rice when it comes to accommodating the urban lifestyles of office workers.

Sales of bread and pastries rose by 12% to 30 trillion RP in 2012, according to the Indonesian Bakery Association (APEBI). While Jakarta and Surabaya are already well served with bakeries and patisseries, up-and-coming cities such as Medan and Makassar still harbour substantial growth potential. A number of highly successful franchises with strong brand identities point the way to success in Indonesia’s emerging bakery market. Breakfast cereals appeal to Indonesians for their presumed health benefits over rice. Many cereals are still imported to Indonesia and sold at prices significantly higher than in their originating countries. The premium that a small but growing consumer segment is happy to spend on cereals suggests that in-country producers can achieve significant margins and market share.

Due to the fact that sales of wheat-based foods rely to a large extent on middle class consumers, they should prove quite resilient to economic downturns or rising inflation. The growth of the wheat product market in Indonesia, therefore, is a force to be reckoned with for years to come.

Zhengzhou Double-lion Grain & Oil Milling Machinery Co.,ltd. is dedicated in flour mills and flour milling lines design & manufacturing. Cooperating with Henan University of Technology (Former Zhengzhou Grain College) which have abundant talented person and science advantage, it has carried out the new technological research and application of oil machinery, flour milling machinery, coarse cereals machinery and feed machinery, etc., and transformed the latest scientific achievements into productive forces to obtain good social and economic benefit. Many foreign friends have established long-term cooperative relationship with us. Our company has wide milling machines range and competitive price, looking for sales agents overseas!
 

Need guidance to build a maize flour plant? Please contact us, our engineer will give you professional guidance and suggestion.
Type: wheat flour mill machine, flour mill plants, small scale flour processing plant, corn flour mill machine, grain mill, maize machine. Get in touch with us. 

How to Get in Touch with Zhengzhou Double lion Flour Mill Manufacturer
Email: info@zzdoublelion.com
Whatsapp: +8613849022317 (Sophia)   
Wechat: +8613849022317 (Sophia)  
Add:Lotus street NO.100,Hi-tech development zone, Zhengzhou, Henan, China.