DIVERSE CLIENTS, COMPREHENSIVE SUPPORT

We work with small and mid-sized agribusiness and food processing businesses, including:

  • Grain and specialty crop processors
  • Ingredient and value-added manufacturers
  • Cooperatives and agri-industrial groups
  • Owners, operators, and investors facing capital decisions

Clients typically call us when they are:

  • Planning a new facility or major expansion
  • Facing safety, regulatory, or combustible dust risk issues
  • Evaluating an acquisition or asset investment
  • Struggling with capacity, reliability, or process constraints

PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT

Trevor Pizzey, P.Eng.

Principal Consultant, Agri-Industrial Processing Subject Matter Expert
  • 35 years in grain and food processing
  • Former VP & GM roles at Viterra and Can-Oat Milling
  • Founder, anCeres Processing Solutions
  • Professional Engineer registered in AB, SK and MB
Education & Credentials
  • B.Sc. Engineering (Industrial), University of Manitoba (Gold Medal)
  • Executive studies: Accounting & Finance (McGill), Agribusiness (Harvard), Environmental Law & Real Estate Development (Calgary)
  • APEGA #159935, APEGS #30441, EGMB #7934

PROVEN ACROSS SITES, CROPS AND PROCESSES

Trusted advisor to over 250 agri-industrial sites in North America

Commodity Experience
  • Barley
  • Canola
  • Chickpeas
  • Corn
  • Dry field beans
  • Faba
  • Flaxseed
  • Forages
  • Hemp seed
  • Lentils
  • Mustard
  • Oats
  • Peas
  • Quinoa
  • Spelt
  • Soybeans
  • Wheat
Process Experience
  • Cleaning
  • Coating
  • Dehulling
  • Drying
  • Dehulling
  • Extrusion
  • Flaking
  • Fractionation
  • Kilning
  • Malting
  • Particle Reduction
  • Packaging
  • Pasteurization
  • Pelleting
  • Polishing
  • Splitting

HONOURING THE PAST, BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

The Roman empire honored Ceres, goddess of grain and agriculture, for the gifts of wheat, milling, and baking. Today, agriculture and grain processing are still the foundation of our food supply. Here in Western Canada, often referred to as the “breadbasket of the world”, agribusiness entrepreneurs build and operate some of the safest and most efficient grain processing assets on the planet. Success requires constant improvement, a continual questioning of how to do things better and how to add more value. And for all of this, you can turn to anCeres (just say “answers”).

anCeres, for all life's grain questions.

GRAIN - MY FAMILY HERITAGE

The Pizzey family has a much longer association with grain processing than just back to my grandpa Joe Pizzey & Son's 1960s seed cleaning plant in Manitoba that I'm sitting in front of below. In England, from where some of our ancestors emigrated to Canada four generations ago, Ishmael Pizzey, miller, registered a will in 1739 that bequeathed his Garboldisham, Norfolk windmill to his wife Penelope. This document is the first record of a windmill in that part of the country, and the mill may have looked something like the trestle post mill that's been restored at Bourn, Cambridge, about 100 km west of Garboldisham. The original Bourn mill is from roughly the same era as the Pizzey Garboldisham mill. Architect Sir Norman Foster prepared drawings of the Bourn mill in 1958, one of which is shown here.

After studying the Bourn post mill drawings, I decided I shouldn't complain about how tight the space is in some of our current projects. The footprint of the Bourn mill was only about 10' x 15'!

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