The award was presented based on the company’s work and collaboration with Ardent Mills on its flour mill and grain storage facility for Ardent Mills in Gibsonton, Fla.

Bühler and Whitworth Bros—the UK’s largest miller—have opened a high-tech flour plant called Mill E3 at Whitley Bridge in Yorkshire, England. The data generated and analyzed at the Whitley Bridge plant will drive the evolution of milling technology from the current data assisted mill into a plant capable of using its own process parameters in a closed loop to optimize production. This development of the self-adjusting mill will be the precursor to the SmartMill.

The new technology monitors temperature and vibrations inside the grinding rolls, the most important part of machinery in the milling process.