Food & Beverages

Carr's Flour Mill Ltd

Delivering hot and ready automation reliability in flour production

Maldon,

“It’s the simplicity of the device combined with the many advanced features SITRANS LR560 offers.”

Harvey Sykes, Electrical Engineer, Carr’s Flour Mills Ltd

Improved inventory management ensures products are tracked throughout the entire process.
Minimized plant downtime maintains high production rates.
Reduced maintenance and fault-finding time helps reduce production interruptions.
Increased personnel safety as manual level measurements are no longer required at the silos.

Carr’s Flour Mills Ltd. in Maldon, UK, supplies UK supermarkets and bakeries with specialty blends such as, chapatti flour, malted wheat flour, cake mixes, and pizza flours.
With over 120 years on this site, they ship 150 tons of flour each day – more than 54,000 tons every year. In other words, enough flour to make more than 195 million pizzas each year!
Up to 15 28-ton trucks deliver grain to Carr’s from farms around the UK, France, and Canada.
Carr’s depends on precise inventory and process control throughout their milling and packaging operations to ensure a 24 hour operation.