The idyllic countryside of Herzogenbuchsee in Switzerland is home to one of the five sites owned by animal feed manufacturer UFA. The feed mill rises a full 14 stories into the air. Feed mixtures for live-stock are produced here around the clock. The key difficulty is to produce a consistently uniform end product. The company set out to remedy the situation with a digital solution. “We work with natural raw materials, which makes it challenging to consistently achieve the same quality,” explains Reto Mösch, Head of Production & Technology at UFA. “Talking to Bühler, we discovered that they were already one step ahead and had a pilot project underway,” he says.
The two partners quickly decided to work together on a solution. The partnership was very successful and resulted in the new PelletingPro service.
“During our collaboration, we realized how much experience Bühler has in process engineering and automation,” Mösch explains. “There were some tricky times during the course of the project when things didn’t really progress, but one side always motivated the other to keep going.”