Improvement of the industrial process
Malteurop has an international Technical Department whose goal is to optimize the industrial process at two levels – that of the malting process itself and that of the design and renovation of malting plants.
Malting
Optimization of industrial processes is a matter:
- of increasing raw-materials yield (barley/malt ratio),
- of reducing production costs (reducing the duration of the production cycle, increasing the size of the batches of barley put into production, reducing energy consumption),
- of improving the brewing performance of the malt (filterability, fermentability, taste and stability, homogeneity).
Based on feedback from the day-to-day operation of our malting plants and on mastery of plant construction, Malteurop develops innovations in the areas of:
- hygiene,
- thermics,
- production-process control.
Malting plants
As its international growth has progressed, Malteurop has installed and operated malting plants in varied environments. Based on this experience, the Group has developed know-how and expertise in designing or renovating malting plants through its technical mastery of the key areas of the industry:
- thermodynamics,
- fluid mechanics,
- energetics,
- automatic systems,
- transfer kinetics.
In addition to engineering, Malteurop offers specific expertise in adapting malting plants to local market constraints:
- climatic conditions,
- availability of energy resources,
- available construction technologies,
- personnel skill levels,
- management of raw-materials availability.
