Grain contains impurities and foreign materials. Use mechanical and optical sorting machines to clean the grain and remove defective material, fungal contaminants and other impurities.

Degermination separates bran, germ and endosperm for flaking and milling. Our grain cleaners gently process the corn, neatly separating the germ, epidermis and endosperm with minimal fines.

In conditioning you add water evenly to the corn to prepare it for further processing.

Steaming partially gelatinizes the starch. This uses a natural process to change the corn’s properties so that it is able to cook quickly.

The steamed grits are then processed into flakes. The thickness of the flake determines the gelatinization of the corn. This determines how quickly the instant maize meal can be cooked.

The flakes are dried to the moisture content you need and cooled ready for grinding.

The flakes are ground to fine corn flour.