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Malting barley storage facility
To optimize its manufacturing process, a Breton whisky distillery called on FAO's expertise to implement a solution for the storage and preservation of malting barley.
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Customer and project
Our client is a whisky manufacturer based in Brittany since 2014. Created with the aim of developing the first blends of Breton whiskies, Naguelann has become a craft whisky distillery in the space of 5 years. The company distills, selects and blends all the cuvées. Barrel capacity varies according to the cuvée: 40L, 50L or 200L.
To improve andautomate its production process, the Breton distillery called on FAO to store and preserve its malting barley.
Objectives :
- Store post-harvest barley in good conditions
- Ventilate barley to keep humidity below 13%.
- Reloading barley and shipping it to malting plants
- Re-stock malted barley to feed the crushing unit
- Isolate barley crushing by moving it to avoid dusting the distillery area
Installation features
- 4 silos Ø3.5M on 66° cone – capacity 45 tons each
- 1 45° angled reception pit conveyor – TC350RI range – 100t/h ps 0.75
- 1 elevator 100t/h EG20-500 with one foot without grain retention
- 4 dosing screws that join an existing weighing bucket in the customer’s process
- Hardox 450 lining on wear points
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