New Uzwil coaching hub equips millers for a altering business
20 June 2025
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Bühler has opened a brand new, state-of-the-art Milling Academy – a 1,800-square-meter coaching heart for meals and feed millers – on the coronary heart of its headquarters in Switzerland, based on a company-issued press launch.
Designed to fulfill the evolving wants of the business, the power combines a long time of experience with the most recent expertise and fashionable educating strategies. Direct entry to analysis and coaching facilities permits course individuals to achieve distinctive hands-on perception into key business areas.
The milling business performs an important function in world meals safety, however it is usually navigating an period of great change and problem. Along with ever-higher meals security requirements and the necessity for effectivity and sustainability, millers are dealing with growing pressures from local weather change, a shrinking expert workforce, and provide chain volatility. Towards this backdrop, expertise and digital options are rising as highly effective instruments to spice up yield, profitability, and resilience. Nonetheless, realising the total potential of those developments relies on a well-trained workforce. This makes superior, hands-on coaching applications for millers extra essential than ever earlier than.
“With the opening of our new, state-of-the-art Milling Academy, we’re empowering the following era of milling professionals by providing superior coaching, hands-on expertise, and entry to the most recent applied sciences,” says Stefan Birrer, Head of Enterprise Space Milling Options at Bühler Group. “This ensures prospects can meet evolving business calls for and drive steady enchancment all through the meals and feed sectors.”
The Milling Academy is the place the place business professionals can deepen their data, broaden their community, and drive innovation for a extra environment friendly and sustainable meals worth chain. The ability offers individuals with direct entry to Bühler’s Grain Innovation Heart, a number of analysis and coaching facilities, and the CUBIC innovation campus. Members achieve sensible expertise throughout each facet of the milling course of, from uncooked materials consumption to remaining packaging.
Assembly rising coaching calls for
Goal-built with a powerful give attention to academic methodology, the Milling Academy is developed to optimise studying outcomes. “The development of the Milling Academy gave us the chance to design and implement the whole lot precisely the best way it makes essentially the most sense for our buyer coaching applications. We additionally took the chance to create many extra methods for interactive studying immediately on the machines,” says Dario Grossmann, Head of the Milling Academy. “Members inform us that with the Milling Academy, we’ve reached a completely new stage of high quality. We’re seeing growing curiosity in coaching from our prospects and are greater than prepared to fulfill this rising demand by persevering with to offer the perfect coaching for millers sooner or later.”
That includes three fashionable lecture rooms, numerous break-out areas for self-learning and group work, and an enviornment positioned immediately within the machine park, the power presents a variety of educating environments. A welcoming espresso space fosters networking between individuals from totally different programs and encourages data change. Sensible, hands-on coaching takes place on each the most recent milling machines and older fashions, guaranteeing individuals obtain instruction tailor-made to the tools they use in their very own vegetation.
The Milling Academy additionally integrates superior digital studying instruments and options two laboratories: one for analytical coaching and one other for electronics coaching and experimentation. It features a totally automated faculty mill, which processes 24 tonnes per day, permitting for industrial-scale coaching. It additionally homes the Faculty of Feed Know-how (SFT), considerably increasing assets for each meals and feed milling professionals.
The Milling Academy, alongside the SFT, presents over 100 programs a 12 months to over 750 trainees in seven languages. The programs are structured in a modular method and are tailor-made to the wants of machine operators, head millers, plant managers but in addition embody trainings for executives, laboratory workforce, and electrical and mechanical upkeep engineers. On high of that, custom-made trainings in Uzwil or immediately at buyer websites world wide are performed by Bühler’s Milling Academy personnel.
Endorsed by prospects
Early individuals have responded positively to the Academy’s design and method: “The infrastructure and idea are excellent. The welcoming environment lets you totally immerse your self on this planet of milling through the coaching. The instructors are extremely expert, and coaching supplies are additionally extraordinarily effectively ready. Being positioned close to all the analysis and coaching facilities additionally helps deepen your understanding of the corporate’s numerous enterprise and the numerous interconnected processes,” says Oliver Efrain Romero Lucero, Steady Enchancment Supervisor at CMI Alimentos in Guatemala.
Jan Tuborg Pedersen, Staff Chief at Valsemøllen in Denmark, was additionally impressed by his expertise: “I actually like that it’s vibrant and fashionable, with giant lecture rooms and large screens. For me, one of the vital essential improvements is that there’s now a showroom with all of the machines we’re studying about, and also you run into different college students within the hallways. The direct connection between the Milling Academy and the Grain Innovation Heart is extremely helpful, it provides you the liberty to maneuver round, meet individuals, and ask questions wherever you go.”
Bühler’s world studying ecosystem
The Milling Academy additionally runs specialised applications in partnership with Kansas State College within the US, and at Bühler’s coaching mill in Wuxi and feed mill in Changzhou, China. Bühler’s African Milling Faculty, positioned in Nairobi, Kenya has additionally served millers from throughout Africa and the Center East since 2015.
Members in Uzwil have direct entry to the Grain Innovation Heart (GIC), the place they’ll take a look at the machines with materials and achieve insights into the event and testing of superior grain processing applied sciences. The GIC is intently related to Bühler’s community of analysis and coaching facilities together with the Grain Processing Innovation Heart in Kano (GPIC), Nigeria, which is devoted to exploring the commercial potential of native and historic grains and presents coaching applications. Bühler’s training and innovation efforts are supported by different analysis and coaching facilities that serve a number of industrial purposes for meals and feed, in addition to specialist services such because the Cocoa Competence Heart in Côte d’Ivoire and the Worldwide Rice Milling Academy in India.
This world community is additional strengthened by partnerships with main educational institutes and analysis organizations, for instance the ETH Zürich in Switzerland, DIL in Germany, and the North Carolina Meals Innovation Lab (NCFIL) within the US, to call a couple of. By connecting scientific analysis with industrial follow, these partnerships assist market-driven innovation in areas reminiscent of sustainable proteins, digitalization, and next-generation meals manufacturing. In Singapore, Bühler and Givaudan co-run the Protein Innovation Centre, the place new plant-based merchandise are developed and scaled.
“We constantly spend money on strengthening our world training community to equip the following era of millers with the talents they should succeed. And with our in depth studying ecosystem, Bühler is shaping the way forward for meals – constructing expertise, advancing innovation, and serving to prospects to remain aggressive whereas driving a extra sustainable and resilient meals system,” says Stefan Birrer.
