Flour specialist Mühlenchemie has opened an applications laboratory in St. Petersburg to offer Russian millers a wide range of support and baking and rheology technology, as well as a place to hold training sessions for mill employees.

The lab has a falling number measuring device, farinograph, extensograph and alveograph. Customers can either send their samples in, or use the laboratory equipment to test flour themselves.

In this way the specific conditions that influence a particular mill's products can be simulated in order to test the methods needed to achieve the right kind of flour. To give first-hand advice, four technologists for bakery and flour technology will work at the facility to offer assistance and advice to millers.