By Dipo Olowookere
One of the leading conglomerates in Nigeria, BUA Group, has contracted the services of a Turkish company to build its newest flour milling plant in Nigeria.
A statement from the Nigerian firm said Milleral of Turkey is expected to deliver the project with a total milling capacity of 2,400tons per day (3 x 800tpd) next year.
Upon completion, this new plant will position BUA as one of the leading players in the flour milling business in West Africa.
BUA Foods is the agribusiness and foods processing division of BUA Group with diverse investments in the agricultural value chain in sugar, rice, edible oils, flour milling and pasta.
BUA currently operates an installed flour milling capacity of 1,600 tons per day and 5 lines of pasta of 720 tons per day and completed, it will take BUA’s total installed flour milling capacity to 4000tons per day.
“We are excited about this partnership with Milleral to develop our new state-of-the-art flour milling plant in Nigeria with a total milling capacity of 2,400tons per day bringing BUA’s total installed capacity to 4,000tons per day upon completion in 2021.
“This will further deepen our involvement in the foods processing sector as well as help enhance food security in Nigeria and the West African region,” Chairman of BUA Group, Mr Abdul Samad Rabiu, said at the signing ceremony on Friday.
On his part, the Chairman of Milleral, Mr Mustafa Ozdemir, stated that his company “intends to bring its experience installing machinery and turnkey plants across the world to bear in building an efficient, advanced and world-class facility for BUA.”
Milleral is a giant successful brand that has been manufacturing and installing machinery and turnkey plants for milling grains like wheat, corn, rye, oat to get flour and semolina for 27 years.
It offers products, plants and services that can appeal the necessities in all parts of the world; from the Middle East to South East Asia, from South America to Africa and always continues to work with team spirit by developing innovative technologies needed by the global economy and manufactures its products perfectly according to customer demands.
