Cracking mill for oilseeds and feed processing
Maximize your production efficiency with advanced cracking and milling solutions designed to streamline oilseed processing, animal feed preparation, and food ingredient refinement, ensuring optimal throughput and product consistency in your operations.

Cracks and Prepares Oilseeds and Feed Materials
The Cracking Mill OLCC from Bühler Group is engineered to enhance the processing of oilseeds and feed materials through efficient cracking and preparation. Its standout feature is the revolutionary roller change technology, reducing downtime by allowing quick roller replacements in under two hours. This mill excels in continuous operation, supported by a customizable configuration of counter-rotating rollers, differential speeds, and roller corrugations, resulting in optimal material processing. Suitable for diverse applications such as soybean meal production and fish feed pellet preparation, it integrates seamlessly into automated production lines with its smart HMI for full local and remote control. The mill’s robust design ensures high throughput while offering easy maintenance via removable doors and electronic roller gap adjustment, making it a reliable choice for pre-processing in sectors like oilseed processing and food ingredient manufacturing.
Benefits
- Minimizes downtime with rapid roller replacement technology.
- Enhances processing efficiency through customized roller configurations.
- Offers seamless integration into automated systems, reducing labor intervention.
- Reduces maintenance efforts with easy-access design and electronic adjustments.
- Supports diverse applications, ensuring versatility in oilseed and feed processing.
- Applications
- Animal feed,Oilseeds,Pulses,Pet food,Beans,Nuts,Spices,Aqua feed
- End products
- Dog kibble,Lentil flour,Almond meal,Soybean meal,Sunflower seed oil,Fish feed pellets,Canola oil,Curry powder
- Steps before
- Pre-cleaning,Cleaning,Preparation
- Steps after
- Flaking
- Input ingredients
- oilseeds,beans
- Output ingredients
- processed oilseeds,cracked beans
- Market info
- Buhler is renowned for manufacturing advanced process solutions for food, feed, and advanced materials. They are highly regarded for their innovation in milling technology and equipment quality.
- Performance
- High performance
- Roller change time
- Less than 2 hours per pair
- Roller configuration
- Customizable differential speeds,corrugations,and material hardness
- Control
- Full local and remote control via smart HMI
- Integration
- Extensive automation,monitoring,and integration possibilities
- Design
- Sturdy design with revolutionary roller change technology
- Maintenance
- Removable maintenance doors and integrated sampling gates
- Roller gap adjustment
- Electronic roller gap adjustment
- Bypass
- Integrated product bypass
- Magnets
- Strong permanent magnets
- Roller shell detachment
- Detachment from the shaft for easier extraction
- Transmission protection
- Complete transmission assembly remains protected
- Automation Level
- High - Smart HMI enabled
- Working mechanism
- Counter-rotating rollers
- Integrated steps
- Cracking and flaking
- Automation level
- Full local and remote control
- Changeover time
- Less than two hours per roller pair
- Cleaning method
- Easy maintenance access
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Energy efficiency
- High efficiency with customizable operation
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Roller size
- Large counter-rotating rollers
- Roller material hardness
- Customizable
- Roller configuration
- Customizable differential speeds
- Maintenance doors
- Removable
- Control panel type
- Smart HMI
- Integration possibilities
- Local and remote control
- Roller configuration
- Customizable differential speeds
- Roller corrugations
- Customizable
- Material hardness grades
- Customizable
- Maintenance ease
- Removable doors,integrated sampling gates
- Roller exchange technology
- Smart roller exchange
- Roller gap adjustment
- Electronic
- Product bypass
- Integrated