Baiyan in Guangdong province in China is a lighthouse example of Bühler’s SmartMill concept. It successfully went into operation in May 2025. By integrating technology empowerment with data-driven operations, the facility has achieved improvements in both production efficiency and product quality, establishing itself as a benchmark for intelligent transformation and digitalization in the specialty flour industry.   

At Qingdao Port in China, two PortaSmart Ship Unloaders are redefining how bulk grain moves through one of the world’s busiest maritime hubs. Combining LiDAR scanning, real-time sensing, and autonomous control, Qingdao Port has achieved record-breaking unloading performance – pointing the way toward the next generation of smart ports. 

When supply chains are disrupted, it reveals the vulnerability in our global food system. Whatever the cause – and we have seen several in recent years, from geopolitics to climate – we know that to nourish a growing global population sustainably, we need to increase the system’s resilience. One way of doing this is to better utilize the science of engineering biology. It provides solutions that can reduce cost, improve quality, increase yield, and reduce downstream processing in a targeted way to produce food that is safe and more nutritious.

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