About Us

Our Story

Founded by Dr.P.Maruthai Pillai and Sri.P.Govindaswamy, Century Flour Mills was established in the year 1953 with an initial capacity of 30 MT per day. The equipments were supplied and installed by M/S Robinsons of England and was the first pneumatic mill established East of Suez, incorporating the direct pneumatic lift. The capacity was expanded during 1957 to 90 MT/day by installing a new plant of 60 MT/day supplied by M/S Robinsons known as B Mill. In 1960 a new plant known as C Mill was commissioned with a capacity of 100 MT/day. The equipments for this plant were supplied and installed by Muhlenberg of Germany taking the total capacity to 190 MT/day. The cleaning and milling process are upgraded regularly keeping with latest trends. In August 2019, the C Mill was replaced with a Buhler plant having a capacity of 220 MT/day. Today the company’s installed capacity is 1,20,600 MT per annum.

Our Brand

Century Flour Mills products are marketed under the “Rising Sun brand” and are amongst the best in the country. Products manufactured are Refined Wheat Flour (Maida), Suji (Rava), Resultant Wheat Flour (Resultant Atta), Wheat Four (Atta) and Bran (Not for Human Consumption).

Products

REFINED WHEAT FLOUR (MAIDA)

A fine refined product obtained from wheat through a roller mill process, maida is used as the prime raw material in bakeries for making bread, biscuits, cakes, pizza bases, noodles, pasta, macaroni etc. In the Indian context, it is extensively used in making pooris, dosas, halwas, parathas, naans, samosas etc. There are 3 other subtypes for the same – Parota Special, Best for Bakery and For Biscuit Use.

RAVA-SUJI

Rava-suji is one of the main products obtained during the early stage of milling. It is mainly used for making sweets, uppuma, idli, dosa etc.

WHEAT FLOUR (ATTA) (Chakki Milled)

Wheat Flour (Atta) is a coarse flour product from the milling process. It consists fine particles of both good bran and flour. It is used for making Chappatis, Pooris, etc.

Resultant Wheat Flour (Resultant Atta):

A wheat product intended for human consumption, produced by milling cleaned wheat through a roller milling process followed by bolting to obtain the desired fineness.

BRAN

Bran is a byproduct of the milling process. It is the outer layer of the wheat grain and is mainly used as cattle feed, not for human consumption.

Quality Check

Expert technicians at Century Flour Mills analyse the wheat samples across various parameters in the company’s laboratories. Our company recently underwent its regular improvement process regarding the overall quality across every product with the newest equipment from Buhler Rollers Mills. Our company has recently upgraded to a state-of-the-art facility that is on par with best flour mill in the world.

Packaging

Good quality wheat is procured for the manufacture of Maida, Suji, Atta and Bran through railway wagons from the States of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and many more. An integral highlight of the process, the company has a fully automatic packing machine for packing of ½ kg, 1 kg packets and 10 kg, 50 kg bag

Wind Power

The company has a Wind Power Division with an installed capacity of 4.80 MW at Muppandal, Palladam and Udumalpet. The power generated from these units are consumed by the company for production purposes.

Solar Energy

The Company has commissioned a 1 MW solar power installation, the power generated from which is entirely utilized for captive consumption in its production activities.

PROCESS

01

Intake

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Cleaning

03

Blending

04

Milling

05

Sieving

06

Quality Checking

07

Packing

08

Storage

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Dispatch.

Quality

At Century Flour Mills, we are solely dedicated to the satisfaction of our customers. We follow a below Quality Policy & Food Safety Policy. We are committed to processing and supplying superior quality wheat products under safe, hygienic conditions with adequate controls at all stages. With this automation process, we aim at reducing human error and producing more products at their finest quality.

Quality Policy

We at CENTURY are dedicated to our growth with the satisfaction of our customers through

Continual improvement in processing methods to comply with requirements.
Customer focus to ensure quality and timely delivery.
Building risk based thinking and process approach by training and motivation.

Food safety Policy

Century is committed to supply superior quality wheat products under safe hyginic conditions with adequate controls. This is achieved through

Adopting required GMP/PRP controls from wheat inward to dispatch of finished products.
Continuously improving operation controls to meet defined objectives and legal requirements.
Effective communication and building competencies to ensure food safety, defence and security controls.

Award

Achievements

At Century Flour Mills, the processes we follow is done keeping the end objective in mind, which is delivering the superior quality flour (Refined Wheat Flour (Maida), Suji (Rava), Resultant Wheat Flour (Resultant Atta) and Wheat Flour (Atta) in its best form to our customers.

research & development award

In 2000-2001, the company was awarded the ‘Durga Dutt Sahuwala’ Award for their Research and Development by the Roller Flour Millers Federation of India.

best pollution control award

This system was highly appreciated by the Roller Flour Miller Federation of India – Century Flour Mills was conferred the “Best Pollution Control Award” for the year 1992.

national productivity award

In 2000-2001, the ‘Best Productivity Performance’ Award in Cereal (Flour Milling) Processing Industry was awarded to the company by the National Productivity Council. The award was presented by Shri Rajnath Singh, Minister for Agriculture & Food Processing Industries Government of India and Shri Arun Jaitley, Minister of Commerce & Industry and Law & Justice, Government of India on 16th February 2004 at New Delhi.

certificate of merit award

In 2002-2003, in the category of Cereal (Flour Milling) Processing Industries, the company was awarded by the National Productivity Council. The Certificate was presented by Shri Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries on 26th August 2005 at New Delhi.

the first award

In 2003-2004, in the category of Cereal (Flour Milling) Processing Industries, the company was again awarded by the National Productivity Council. The award was presented by Shri Subodh Kant Sahai, Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries on 26th August 2005 at New Delhi.