In the beating heart of Lucanian agriculture, where tradition meets innovation, Cimbria has built a grain and legume processing plant that stands out as a true technological gem. Despite its compact size, its efficiency and precision reflect the excellence of the products it processes.
Montanaro 1938 boasts a history rooted in olive oil production and the storage of legumes and grains —activities that laid the foundation for its evolution and have now culminated in the new Cimbria plant for cleaning and sorting legumes and cereals.
The Cimbria plant represents a strategic investment that allows the company to manage the entire processing cycle, from receiving the product directly from the unloading pit to delivery to third parties. This full control over the supply chain ensures the highest quality and traceability of the final products.
The technological core of the plant consists of a configuration of pre-cleaning, storage, cleaning, and sorting solutions, tailored to handle the variability and non-uniformity of crops coming from the field. The plant includes:
- Delta 143 Pre-Cleaner: This processing stage is particularly effective at removing coarse impurities such as soil, sand, dust, and straw, preparing the product for subsequent processing steps.
- Delta 104 Cleaner: Cimbria’s top-of-the-line cleaner for seeds, barley, legumes, and cereals, featuring a vibrating feeder, pre-aspiration and post-aspiration systems, a flexible sieve flow, and the air-lifting system.
- TS 180 Destoner: Essential for removing stones and other heavy objects commonly found in agricultural products, ensuring the removal of elements that could compromise later stages and the purity of the final product.
- HSR6020 Indented Cylinder: This stage is crucial for separating items of different shapes, ensuring the uniformity of the final product.
- GA110 Gravity Table: This technology, based on the fluidized bed principle, uses air on an inclined plane to separate products of similar size but different specific weights.
- SEA.IQ+ Multi-Frequency Optical Sorter: The jewel of the plant, this optical sorter uses state-of-the-art vision technology equipped with high-definition RGBN cameras combined with InGaAs cameras to identify and remove non-conforming products, surface defects, foreign bodies, and off-type seeds, ensuring exceptional purity levels.
- Pearler: Specifically designed for dehulling lentils, peas, and barley, it removes the outer layer of the grain, making it more tender, digestible, and reducing cooking time.
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All machine surfaces, including parts and coatings, comply with food-grade standards for direct contact with the product, ensuring maximum food safety. This small yet significant plant further elevates the quality of legumes and cereals produced by Montanaro 1938, placing them at the top of the market and confirming Cimbria as a premier partner in the processing industry.
