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Soft Wheat processing: turnkey milling solutions for premium quality

The soft wheat processing journey demands a meticulous production chain and specific machinery to guarantee high yield, superior flour quality, and operational continuity. Our multi-year experience, combined with Omas’s turnkey milling solutions, enables efficient management of every phase, from cleaning right through to final packaging.

Soft wheat cleaning: preparing and selecting the grain

The initial stage in soft wheat processing is cleaning. Removing impurities, stones, straw, foreign seeds, and waste materials is fundamental to ensure efficient grinding and high-quality flour.

Omas Industries provides comprehensive soft wheat machinery for cleaning lines, composed of debranners, sieves, aspirators, and vibratory screens. The debranner machine, for instance, is specifically designed for soft wheat to effectively remove both light and heavy impurities. These technologies, integrated with aspiration and ventilation systems, ensure a hygienic, continuous, and gentle process, preserving the integrity of the grain kernel.

Compared to durum wheat, soft wheat kernels are more fragile and contain a higher quantity of lighter impurities, such as bran fragments and straw. For this reason, the cleaning process must be more delicate, utilizing finer sieves and vibratory screens that are precisely regulated to minimize kernel fracturing. The result is perfectly clean grain, ready for efficient and uniform milling.

Soft wheat milling: achieving high-quality flour

After cleaning, the soft wheat is directed to milling, the critical phase where the grain kernel transforms into flour. For Omas Industries, this is one of the most important steps and represents the technological heart of the entire flour milling plant.

The patented Leonardo Edge system is a next-generation roller mill engineered by Omas to optimize yield, energy efficiency, and process control. Our proprietary technologies: ODS (Omas Drive System), OPS (Omas Pressure System), and OKS (Omas KERS System), allow for micrometric control of roller distance, pressure regulation, and energy recovery, guaranteeing maximum precision at every stage of the process.

To support the primary milling process, Omas integrates complementary milling equipment, such as the powder lump breaker and the bran finishers.

The powder lump breaker is an essential component for keeping the flour flowing freely, preventing material build-up in ducts, and ensuring a uniform product flow throughout the process. The bran finisher (or bran brush), on the other hand, is designed for the final separation and cleaning of the bran, allowing for the recovery of the remaining flour fraction and optimizing overall yield.

Thanks to controlled rotating action, the brush keeps the bran dry, clean, and residue-free, enhancing flour purity and reducing waste.

Soft wheat handling and storage: efficiency and optimal preservation

Once cleaned or milled, the soft wheat must be unloaded, conveyed, and stored with the utmost care to preserve its quality. Omas Industries designs pneumatic and screw conveyors systems for cereals, modular silos, and fully automated storage facilities that ensure a constant, gentle, and contamination-free flow.

Soft wheat flour packaging: precision and hygiene

The final phase of the supply chain is packaging the finished product. After milling, the flour is accurately measured, weighed, and packaged in bags, big bags, or industrial containers, ready for distribution.

Omas Industries offers automated flour packaging systems that include precision dosing machines, hopper scales, and integrated packaging lines featuring palletizing, labeling, and quality control.

Since soft wheat flour is destined for sensitive food productions like bread, pastries, and leavened products, this stage demands elevated hygienic standards. Omas solutions guarantee clean, accurate, and secure packaging, preserving the flour’s quality and minimizing dust dispersion.

With over 25 years of experience and flour mill machinery installed in more than 100 countries, Omas Industries is an international benchmark for designing dedicated soft wheat processing plant solutions, as well as those for buckwheat and durum wheat. Our patented technologies, energy efficiency, and process customization make Omas synonymous with innovation in the milling sector.