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The Moulin Mobile truck in profile, its body drawn see-through with the sorting and milling line inside

Project

Le Moulin Mobile AgroParisTech

Le Moulin Mobile is a sorting and milling truck that travels from farm to farm to process the grain where it is grown.

In collaboration with a team of designers and engineers from AgroParisTech and Ensaama Olivier de Serres.

The blue sorter and its feed auger set up in a farmyard, a tractor behind
Two flour sacks filled to 31% and to 57%: the farmer's share, before and with the Moulin Mobile

Towards fairer trade

Unlike a conventional distribution chain, the Moulin Mobile shares the proceeds of milling more fairly. The farmer's income doubles, from €0.44 to €0.79 per kilo of flour.

Big bags of grain lined up under a barn roof
  1. Technical drawing of the sorter 1 – Sorter
  2. Technical drawing of the brush 2 – Brush
  3. Technical drawing of the mill 3 – Mill
  4. Technical drawing of the sifter 4 – Sifter
  5. Technical drawing of the bagger 5 – Bagger
Grains of wheat fallen on the wet earth of a yard
Map of the round: farms and shops joined by the loop the truck traces

A regular round

The Moulin Mobile's round takes ten days. It calls at each farm to process the grain, then goes straight on to the shops for direct sale.

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