Rice milling process

How delicious rice is produced

In order to deliver safe and secure products to customers, the rice milling plant has established a system that enables thorough prevention of foreign material contamination and ^traceback* under a strict multi-layered check system.

*Trace back: record of the manufacturing history of goods

rice polishing

• ■ Acceptance Inspection

  

  When brown rice arrives at the mill, it undergoes a quality check of more than 10 items at the receiving inspection room.

• ■Hopper

  

  Only brown rice that meets quality standards is fed into the plant's stakeout hopper and passes through the mesh.

• ■ Pneumatic conveying

  

  Rice is conveyed with the "Soft Pneumatic Conveying System " ^*. Since the rice is transported with air, it is resistant to cracking and prevents foreign matter from mixing with the rice.

• ■Roughing Machines

  

  Relatively large foreign objects such as wood chips and straw dregs, as well as immature and crushed rice, are removed.

• ■Unpolished rice tank

  

  Only good quality brown rice is sent to the brown rice tank.

• ■Rice milling machine

  

  The rice is polished to a uniform white rice by a rice milling machine. At the end of milling, every grain of residual rice is discharged cleanly.

• ■Sorting Machines

  

  Crushed rice and nuka balls are removed.

• ■Digital color sorters

  

  Glass, plastic, stones, and colored rice contaminated during milling are removed.

• ■Insect separator

  

  Foreign objects lighter than rice, such as hair and powder, are removed.

• ■Packer tank

  

  Rice is differentiated according to brand, variety, use, etc., and sent to the packer tanks.

• ■ Packaging

  

  Checks barcodes on bags of rice to eliminate errors during packaging changeover, such as mismatches between bags and contents.

• ■Metal Detectors

  

  All products are run through a metal detector for a final check for metal contamination.

• ■Shipping line

  

  Mechapare system is installed for high-speed loading. Automated shipping system.

• ■Traceback System

  

  The lot number printed on the rice bag allows instant confirmation of the production history up to the time of receipt of raw materials.

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Soft pneumatic pneumatics are unique to the Sachiura Plant.

centralized control room