C2I 2021 Manufacturing Technology Award Winner: Next-Gen Rice Milling
The winning entry to this year’s manufacturing category represents a pioneering advance in the way the world’s most critical food crop is processed. Jon Excell reports.
Feeding 3.6 billion people every day and generating around $550bn per year, rice is the world’s largest food crop. Indeed, by 2050 demand for this ubiquitous staple food is expected to rise by 70 per cent. But whilst the rice industry may appear to be adept at catering for such mind-bogglingly huge markets, its success comes at a cost.
Category: Manufacturing
Winner: Next-Gen Rice Milling
Partners: Koolmill & Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) - The National Centre for Excellence in Food Engineering (NCEFE) with Aston Business School, Siemens, JJA Pack, New Food Innovation and Punjab Agricultural University (PAU)
Category Sponsor: HVM Catapult
Not only is the industry the single largest agricultural polluter but existing rice milling processes - used to remove the outer husk and bran layers to turn paddy rice into brown and white rice – are antiquated and inefficient, leading to the loss of an estimated 60 million tonnes of rice each year.
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