New Technology for Quality Sorting of Grain
Monitoring quality control in the food production industry is one if not the most important job to ensure the highest quality products are manufactured. Unity is proud to represent the BoMill product line for the sorting of grain. BoMill has developed the world’s first technology for precision quality sorting of grain.
The technology is called TriQ and is likely to change the way the world looks upon grain from this point forward.
The TriQ system is fast, accurate and handles important quality parameters for a variety of applications within the food industry. BoMill's patented seed sorting technology, TriQ, makes it possible to analyze and identify each kernel of a batch and sort the grain into quality certified fractions at a speed fully compatible with the needs of industrial seed handling – i.e. with a sorting capacity of between 2 and 30 tons of grain per hour.
As stated by the inventor of the TriQ technology, Bo Löfqvist, Ph. D.
“Even on one single wheat plant, which produces about 100 kernels, there are significant qualitative differences between the individual kernels. It is hard to believe, but the differences between the kernels on one plant are often bigger than the quality variation within an entire wheat field!”
Bo Löfqvist, Ph. D.
Inventor of the TriQ technology
The TriQ Technology
Through laboratory test it is known that the grain quality in terms of e.g. gluten content and protein level varies substantially from kernel to kernel. However, up to now there has been no other way to determine the quality of a batch of grain than to analyze spot checks by randomly picking small portions of grain from every truck load as it arrives at the receiving site. This method only measures the mean value of the entire load. By using our TriQ technology, however, every single kernel of an entire lot is analyzed and Kernels of premium quality (usually as much as 50-75 per cent of a downgraded lot) are separated from the bulk.
In conclusion, the TriQ technology makes it possible to segregate high quality fractions out of batches that have an inferior average quality.
TriQ adds value to downgraded grain
Discount prices are paid for weather-damaged grain which can only be used for feed and even more discounts for fungi infected grains that will be used for energy production.
The premiums differ year from year depending on weather conditions and the general crop quality and it is not unusual that a premium quality can have a 20-50 per cent higher price than the general price. The TriQ technology can be used to analyze, sort and reclassify wheat and barley and, hence, increase the value of large quantities of down-graded grain. This makes the TriQ extremely profitable for businesses within i.e. grain handling. In fact, our present customers are calculating with a ROI of less than 12 months.
