Background

The need for a rapid and reliable tool for assessing the malting quality of barley.

The EU malting barley industry supplies almost 50% of global malting barley requirements.
The sustainability of thousands of EU SME farmers depend on the competitiveness of this industry, as is the quality of our brewing and distilling industries.
To date its grading is largely dependent on a combination of visual appraisals of the barley and other assessments, including wet chemistry techniques, to segregate malting barley into grades of different end use value.
Current assessment practices are plagued with limitations: time and labour intensive, prone to operator interpretation, etc.

The OPTIMALT technology will, in comparison, prove reliable, automatic and fast, allowing users to save time and money, as well as heighten the overall quality of their products. Turkey.