New unique flour treatment toolbox for the global milling industry
We have developed a new standardised modular toolbox with eight innovative solutions for flour treatment and pasta production. Our 100 years of expertise in flour treatment have been incorporated into this latest generation of enzyme solutions.
To mark our 100th anniversary, we want to give something back to our customers and partners around the world. With our newly developed modular improver kit, we enable you to use exactly the solutions that suit your individual needs.
The components of our unique modular system are eight products that guarantee high quality flour. It offers solutions for pasta and baking applications that can be used worldwide.
Six baking solutions
The six baking solutions comprise five enzymes with specific activity, which can be combined as required, as well as a complete solution that combines various enzyme activities.
- Alphamalt A 100 – Multifunctional alpha-amylase; beneficial for starch degradation, increased fermentation, additional volume, browning, and Falling Number reduction
- Alphamalt HC 100 – Selected hemicellulase for all yeast-raised applications; provides optimal dough behaviour (high elasticity and extensibility) and thus improved processability as well as increased volume yield and excellent form stability in the final baked product
- Alphamalt EFX 100 – Selected “EFX” lipase preparation that works on the entire lipid spectrum of flour; improves dough machinability; enables oven rise and thus brings higher baking volume; ensures a uniform, tender crumb
- Alphamalt PLP 100 – Concentrated phospholipase for all yeast-raised applications, with excellent emulsifying properties; ensures dough stability, higher tolerance during proofing, and finer crumb structure; can be combined with other lipases, e. g. Alphamalt EFX 100
- Alphamalt Gloxy 100 – State-of-the art glucose oxidase for all yeast-raised applications; offers immediate stability in dough systems, high stability during fermentation, and excellent shape stability in finished baked goods; ensures pleasant dry dough surfaces
- Powerzym 100 – All-in-one solution, containing several enzymes and ascorbic acid; mainly ensures high volume, stability in dough and baked goods and improves cut-opening (“bloom”); works on all yeast-raised applications and flour types and can be combined with other enzymes
More information about our enzymes and baking solutions
Two pasta solutions
The collection offers an enzyme and a colour compound for pasta production.
- Pastazym Pro 100 – New enzyme preparation for more firmness; also reduces stickiness and increases cooking tolerance; suitable for long-cut and short-cut pasta; works under total and partial vacuum conditions; clean label; approved in industry
- MCcolour 100 – Natural colourant for a strong, brilliant yellow pasta colour; and therefore, also suitable for flour with a high ash content; no colour loss into the cooking water; approved in industry
Find out more about our pasta applications
All new products are characterised by a wide range of applications, improved functionalities and cost efficiency. They enable you to respond individually and precisely to the various challenges of global milling, such as fluctuating harvesting conditions and application-specific requirements. In line with MC’s anniversary, all new products bear the “100” label, which symbolises a century of innovation and market leadership in the industry.
For more information on the individual products and how they can be used to your advantage, we will be happy to advise you.
Serving the “white gold” for one hundred years. Understanding, treating and improving flour for 100 years. In 2023, we celebrate our 100th birthday with our global subsidiaries and the millers of the world. An outstanding anniversary!
With a modern and powerful corporate design and our re-aligned identity, we are giving expression to our self-image and moving into the future with motivation and passion. For better flour and sustainably better and safer nutrition and food chains.
Great research: Innovation Award “Composite Flour” announced.
On the occasion of our 100th anniversary, we have established an award for research into Composite Flour. With this innovation award we honor solutions around the production and processing of non-wheat flours and their blends with wheat flour – especially those that use local raw materials.
What it is about
The global wheat market is under increasing pressure. Fluctuating availability and sharply rising wheat prices are endangering global food supplies. In order for flour as a food staple to continue to be available in good quality at prices everyone can afford, going forward it will be more important than ever to be independent of wheat and global markets. One way to achieve this is to use alternatives to wheat flour.
For years, we have developed ways to partially or completely replace wheat flour with non-wheat flours. However, in other areas of wheat substitution there is a lack of background knowledge. In particular, questions remain open with regard to the cultivation and processing of various wheat alternatives, such as:
- What local crops have the ecological, economic and technical potential to partially or completely replace wheat in bread and pasta;
- How sustainable is their production, and how do they need to be processed in order to be useful for bakers and pasta-makers;
- How can they be standardized;
- How do they affect production processes and final product quality;
- What about nutritional effects;
- What new product developments are possible with composite flour?
Who can apply
Our Innovation Award “Composite Flour” honors innovative work on these challenges and on solutions for the milling, baking and pasta industries. The award is for completed scientific studies and practice-focused projects from 2019 to 2022.
All interested parties, institutes and research companies are invited to submit single-page summaries of their studies by 31 Jan. 2023 to innovationaward@muehlenchemie.com
The Prize
The total prize amount is €10,000. Awardees will receive €5,000, €3,000 and €2,000 for first, second and third place.
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An international expert jury will review all submissions, select the most promising ones, and then request detailed descriptions of the shortlisted studies.
The award ceremony will be held in July 2023.
