CTS Process — dry materials processing specialists

Cottingham Technical Services · dry grains, powders & spent grains

Grain in at the top. Grist out at the bottom.

CTS design, build, install and recondition the plant in between — malt mills, conveyors, silos, grist cases and spent grain handling, out of 201 Hallgate in East Yorkshire.

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  • ATEX / DSEARaudits, gap analysis, classification
  • Turnkeyconcept study to installation
  • Sparesmills, conveyors and elevators
A malt mill drawn in vertical section Grain sits in a hopper at the top and falls through a throat into the gap between two rollers. Crushed grist drops through a chute into a bin below. One dimension label marks the roller gap. ROLLER GAP SECTION A–A
The mill in section: hopper, two rolls, the gap, the chute, the bin. A generic drawing — not to scale, and not a survey of any particular plant.

01 — The flow

Six stages, one continuous line.

Grain arrives at one end and leaves as grist at the other. Every product and every service CTS sell sits somewhere on that line — which is why the catalogue reads as a plant rather than a list.

  1. 01

    Intake

    Bulk bags or grain, discharged at a rate the line can take.

  2. 02

    Store

    Held dry, and drawn down in the order the mill needs it.

  3. 03

    Mill

    Crushed between rolls — or ground in a hammer mill.

  4. 04

    Convey

    Moved between stages without breaking what it has just become.

  5. 05

    Automate

    Controlled, integrated, and written down.

  6. 06

    Comply

    Assessed for dust, classified, and documented.

02 — Products

A catalogue that reads as a plant.

Each item below is a stage of the same line. Capacities are not quoted here, because they depend on the plant they are going into — that is what the concept study is for.

Malted barley in a heap with a wooden scoop resting in it
Malted barley. Stock photograph from the CTS Process site.
CTS products, what each one does, and the material it handles
Product What it does Handles
CTS Malt Mill / Cereal Mill Crushes malt and cereal to grist between two rolls. Malt, cereals
Specialist Conveyors Screw, chain and belt conveyors, elevators and pneumaveyors. Grain, grist, spent grain
Big Bag Frames Hold a bulk bag steady while it discharges. Bagged malt, grain, powders
Grain Silos Bulk grain held ahead of the mill. Grain
Grist Cases Hold the crushed grist ready for the next stage. Grist
Malt Bins Day bins between storage and milling. Malt
Spent Grain / Draft Silos Collect the draff as it comes off the mash. Spent grain (draff)
Spent Grains Transfer Moves wet draff out to the silo or the trailer. Spent grain (draff)
Automation & Integration Controls and integration across the whole line. The line, end to end
Asnong Hammer Mills Hammer mills, supplied through CTS. Grain, cereals

Storage covers the silos, bins and cases between intake and the mill — see the storage page.

Dust zones 20, 21 and 22 marked on a mill section The inside of the hopper, mill body, chute and bin is marked zone 20. Zone 21 marks the hopper mouth and the bin outlet. Zone 22 is the area around the whole assembly. 20 21 22 DUST ZONES · GENERIC MILL SECTION
20Inside the equipment — the dust cloud is there continuously.
21Around openings — filling and emptying in normal operation.
22The surrounding area — short term, if a release occurs.

Standard dust definitions. The drawing is a generic mill, not a survey — a real classification comes from the site.

03 — Compliance

Dust is the hazard. The classification is what keeps it controlled.

Grain dust explodes. Anything that holds, moves or mills dry grain has to be assessed for it — and the people who draw the plant are the people who can write the assessment. CTS do both.

ATEX / DSEAR services

04 — Services

The same team, from the first sketch to the last spanner.

CTS have their own installation engineers, and they will install plant of their own manufacture as readily as somebody else's. The work starts before the drawing and does not stop at handover.

  1. 01 Technical services The day-to-day engineering behind a working plant.
  2. 02 Engineering consultancy An outside read on a process that is not working, or is about to change.
  3. 03 Concept studies What the plant has to do, and what it would take, before anything is bought.
  4. 04 Turnkey solutions One contract for the whole line, rather than five that have to meet.
  5. 05 Process documentation The drawings, schedules and records that outlive the installation.
  6. 06 Mill reconditioning Rolls, bearings and frames brought back to a working gap.
  7. 07 Installation Mechanical installation by their own engineers — theirs or anybody's plant.
  8. 08 Fabrication Bespoke steelwork for the parts no catalogue covers.
  9. 09 Spares Screw and chain conveyors, elevators, mills, dischargers, screens, classifiers.
A helical screw flight turning inside an open stainless steel trough conveyor
Screw conveyor: a helical flight inside a stainless trough — the transfer equipment that sits between the stages. Photograph from the CTS Process site.

05 — The works

201 Hallgate, Cottingham.

The office and works are in Cottingham, East Yorkshire — a few miles west of Hull. Mills, conveyors, bins and silos are built and reconditioned to suit the plant they are going into, and the same team that builds them does the installation.

Address
201 Hallgate, Cottingham,
East Yorkshire HU16 4BB

06 — Contact

Tell us what the plant has to do.

A mill, a silo, a conveyor, a recondition — or a line that needs auditing before anything else happens. Ring and describe it. The answer usually starts with a conversation rather than a catalogue.

+44 (0) 1482 847697 Contact page
Works & office
201 Hallgate
Cottingham
East Yorkshire
HU16 4BB