Processing

Crushing Plant 1 is a cutting-edge production facility with a fully automated production cycle.

It has two soybean crushing lines:

• A line to produce toasted soy meal
• A line to produce food-grade white flake

Crushing Plant 2 is a cutting-edge production facility with a fully automated production cycle.

Modern equipment and technologies ensure that products meet the strictest requirements of Russian and international standards.

Within the framework of the investment project, we have completed construction of the third crushing plant in Kaliningrad.

The facility (oil-extraction plant) is located next to the site of the existing Sodrugestvo terminal, along the Kaliningrad sea channel.

It is the first plant in Russia to produce this valuable protein product that is widely used not only in food industry but also in the animal, poultry and fish breeding industry.

The unique ethanol extraction technology makes it possible to process food-grade white flake produced at Crushing Plant 1 and obtain product with an increased amount of natural protein of up to 70%.

Soy molasses, which is in demand in the animal and poultry feed additives markets, also produced in the SPC production process.

The refining process goes through:

• Acid hydration (or neutralisation)
• Continuous bleaching
• Continuous deodorisation

The plant has the capability to manage two modern refining processes, which differ in the way that free fatty acids are removed:

• Chemical refining method (conventional caustic refining process – neutralisation)
• Physical refining method (alkali-free refining with combined processes for removal free fatty acids, odorising substances and oxidation products)

The combination of these technological processes allows for processing of vegetable oil of different quality, including non-refined oils from different seeds

The lecithin production facility is equipped with the most productive and modern line in Russia for vegetable oil hydration and drying of hydration sediment.

The technological process of hydration and drying is fully automated and runs as a continuous cycle producing 2,400 tonnes of high-quality lecithin per year.

According to the buyers’ wishes, dry lecithin can be packed with the help of a special dispensing machine in different kinds of packaging (barrels or IBC containers) ranging from 200 to 1,000 kg.

The universal nature of the hydration and drying line allows for production of not only soy, but also rape lecithin that is deemed a premium class product and is only available in small volumes in the Russian market.

The plant is based on modern high-tech equipment with fully automated production processes.

Food-grade white flake is supplied to the plant for processing from a special technological line located in Crushing Plant 1.

The technology used makes it possible to not only preserve the natural properties and solubility of soy protein to the maximum extent possible, but also regulate the protein solubility depending on its further use.

The white flake processing plant comprises:

• A receiving bunker for temporary storage of white flake
• A crushing section, including flaking machines for white flake milling, a sifting and aspiration system
• A packing section including an automated line for packing products into 20-50 kg bags and placing packed bags on pallets, as well as a line for packing products into 1,000 kg “big bags”