CLANAE 10.611—Wheat milling

Where 10.611 sits

1. C Manufacturing industry
2. 10 Food product manufacturing
3. 10.6 Production of milling products, starches and starch derivatives
4. 10.61 Milling product manufacturing
5. 10.611 Wheat milling

What 10.611 includes

• Wheat milling comprises two main stages: cleaning the grain to give it the optimal properties for subsequent milling, and the actual milling process. The milling process consists of a series of successive crushing and sifting steps. Crushing is carried out using pairs of flat or grooved rollers, positioned progressively closer together. The broken grain is then extracted and passed through a series of flat sifters that separate the different products: flour, semolina, semi-wheat, semi-porridge, bran, and fine bran. The first pair of rollers opens the bran and releases the germ from the endosperm. The second and third pairs pulverize the brittle endosperm and crush the more flexible germ. The sifters remove fragments of bran and crushed germ, and as the endosperm becomes increasingly fine, they eliminate the last traces of bran.

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