- Bühler UK, part of the Bühler Group, the pioneer of innovation across the food processing and advanced materials sectors, has entered into a strategic partnership with McArthur BDC. The partnership, covering the UK and Ireland, will play a key role in ensuring that farming businesses of all sizes have access to cost-effective, market leading colour sorting solutions, making them no longer the domain of the largest farming and commercial enterprises.
“Bühler is well established as delivering market-leading sorting technology across the food and flour processing market and this partnership will drive our reach into the agricultural post-harvest sector,” said Neil Walker, Area Sales Manager UK & Ireland, Bühler UK.
“With the exponential rise of Ergot last harvest, our partnership with McArthur BDC is timely,” continued Walker. “Farmers now have the opportunity to look at affordable colour sorting solutions, available from Bühler’s SPARK Pro and take advantage of McArthur BDC’s expertise, to create the system around it.”
Superbly engineered to deliver the highest build quality and robustness, SPARK Pro is a simple to operate colour sorter controlled by a touch screen control panel enabling real-time monitoring. Farmers are able to easily and accurately programme the sorter to deliver outstanding sorting quality, yield and performance.
Each of the SPARK’s chutes has two dedicated cameras, unlike other sorters on the market which have two cameras for multiple chutes. This allows the SPARK ejectors to remove the maximum amount of unwanted material. Self-cleaning mechanisms reduce maintenance time and improve operational efficiency.
“The SPARK range of colour sorters are an important addition to our comprehensive range of post-harvest equipment enabling farmers to add value to their crops on farm, crucially at a price point that speeds up the return on investment,” said Scott McArthur, technical director of McArthur BDC. “As with all of our solutions, we will provide in-house expertise around the installation and maintenance of the SPARK machines, supported if required, by Bühler’s team of UK based engineers.”
“When designing a colour sorter into a grain plant, of whatever size, it is key to work with an integrator who understands what you want to achieve and what is possible within the constraints of the project. For example, the throughput capacity necessary, the specific sorting requirements for each commodity, how the sorter will seamlessly link with other processing equipment and the provision of easy access for calibration, to name just a few,” McArthur added.
“McArthur BDC’s expertise in successfully delivering post-harvest solutions was a driving factor in Bühler’s decision to take our partnership forward,” said Walker. “Together we can help UK and Irish farmers take full advantage of the opportunity they now have to deploy SPARK colour sorters to enhance the quality, efficiency and profitability of their grain processing and storage operations.”
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