SCHULE Mühlenbau is Building Europe's Largest Oat Mill

The NAVARA project is based on a merger between Camgrain, Frontier and Anglia Maltings. These three companies combine decades of experience in the fields of agriculture, grain handling and malt and plant cultivation.
Another key to success is the location of the oat mill: NAVARA is located in the middle of the so-called
"Golden Triangle" between Birmingham, Cambridge and Oxford.
Within a few hours' drive, the UK's largest logistics centres
of the best-known retailers, which supply 90 per cent of the population with food,
can be reached. Philip Darke, Operations Director of Camgrain, said: "Navara Oat
Milling are very pleased to be working with the expertise of Schule
in this ground-breaking project."
Mark Aitchison, Managing Director of Frontier and Chairman of the new joint venture,
explained: "There’s increasing demand for oat ingredients in healthy food products and non-dairy drinks.
The investment by the three strategic partners will help meet that demand.
Our collective vision is to build and grow a dedicated oat supply chain,
bringing farmer and food manufacturer closer together, and delivering improvements that benefit each sector, and the environment.
We will work together on realising the huge potential of oats,
embracing all that they can deliver in provenance, traceability and sustainability.

Navara will create supply chain efficiency and the food and drink industries
will benefit from the investments we’ll make not just in processing but also in growing oats.
Collaboration with farmers supplying the new mill
will see value added in areas such as agronomy advice,
seed variety choice and development, quality and sustainability.
George Thompson, Group CFO of Anglia Maltings Holdings, said: "This ground-breaking
partnership can bring focus on what is perhaps the most underrated cereal crop
in the Northern Hemisphere, and we're delighted to be part of it. By combining
our experience, expertise and ambition with that of Camgrain and Frontier,
we can explore the true potential of oats. That’s in terms
of reaching new markets as well as in terms of research, innovation and new products
for existing oat-ingredient markets. The joint venture comes at a time when
the importance of nutritious, plant-based ingredients has become more widely recognised.
Provenance and sustainability are part of that agenda. Domestically grown and milled
oats are part of the answer. With its brand new, purpose built mill,
Navara Oat Milling will be well positioned to support food and drink manufacturers
in providing
consumers with healthy, responsible
and tasty choices."
This turnkey project includes the supply of separate processing lines for cleaning,
sorting, hulling, kilning, groat cutting, flaking and oatmeal production
as well as the mechanical and electrical installation of the plant. In addition, a pelleting line
supplied by the sister company AMANDUS KAHL will be used for compacting by-products, which
will then be further processed.