The Global Miller: October 2017

October 31, 2017

01/11/2017: 3-day trade exhibition ILDEX Indonesia 2017 delivers international success

ILDEX Indonesia 2017, the third edition of International Livestock and Dairy Meat Processing, and Aquaculture Exposition, drew to a close last week having showcased 230 leading exhibitors from 34 countries and attracted 9,109 trade participants from 47 countries

The specialist trade fair was represented by a variety of high technology, latest equipment and full business solution for Livestock and Aquaculture industries.

As there were interesting technology all areas on display, visitors were able to get hands-on experience of the latest in livestock equipment for farming and get new idea to develop their business.

The value of the Livestock equipment industry will increase up to 10 percent of market value, and total value is estimated to be around 13.8 million USD after the exhibition.

Jointly organised by VNU Exhibition Asia Pacific Co., Ltd. and Federasi Masyarakat Perunggasan Indonesia (FMPI), our influencer partner in Indonesia, the general sentiments on the success of the exhibition were reflected in the strong levels of exhibitor and buyer satisfaction from the show floor.

www.ildex-indonesia.com

This edition the top 10 of the visitors come from Indonesia (87 percent) and international visitors from China, South Korea, Malaysia, Thailand, Germany, the Netherlands, Taiwan, Denmark and more.

The top buyers come from Myanmar, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Turkey.

Now the retention rate of the re-booking from exhibition grow up to 30 percent.

“ILDEX Indonesia 2017 is where you can find the best solutions for your business, meet the professionals and network with the experts/people from the industry. I think this year, the exhibition improve the number of exhibitor, which is good, every exhibitor will bring their own customers and they will also visit our booth. And we will exhibit here again next edition”, says Mr Edy Purwoko, President Director, PT. Ceva Animal Health Indonesia (Top Company in Animal Health Industry)

"The great thing about the Hosted Buyer Program is that we can get information on people who are at the exhibition early on and to reach for the meeting, so we’re not wasting time when we come to Indonesia. The benefit from the program is encouraging us to come during our busy schedule. We make our effort to come over here and meet all the players from the same industry in Indonesia in one place."

Mr Taufiqurrahman Shamsuddin from Amanratabismi Company (Qualified buyer)
said, "This is my first time in ILDEX Indonesia and I’ve got a good impression of all the dealers and installers doing the business here in the poultry business. I think its good opportunity for us to do some business here and to join the exhibition."

Mr Hans Koornneef, Commercial Manager, Holland Heater (International visitor) In the last day of the exhibition, ILDEX Indonesia gave the awards “Outstanding Booth” to the exhibitors in 4 categories.

“The Best Performance” were awarded to the winners JAPFA, BIOCHEM and CEVA, while “The Favorite Stand” presented to ROMINDO, DSM and BIG DUTCHMAN.

The winners for the third category “The Inspiring Stand” are BREDSON, GEMILANG and CJ. FAO received the “The Most Unique Stand” award which is the last category.

ILDEX Indonesia 2019 will proceed to its 4th edition on October 2019, Jakarta, Indonesia. The tradeshow, again, aims to become one of the leading exhibitions and conferences in Indonesia for International Livestock and Dairy Meat Processing, and Aquaculture Exposition.

The tradeshow will be focusing on Feed and Animal Health; Feed Milling and Farm Equipment; and Genetic, Breeding and Processing. It shows that the demanding of the exhibition space are grow up significantly.

More than 30 percent of exhibition space is already reserved.

To secure an exhibition space, visit the ILDEX Indonesia website, HERE.

For more information call +662 670 0900 or email ildex@vnuexhibitionsap.com

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01/11/2017: Grain preservation with organic acids

by Wiebke Pirsich

According to calculations of the FAO the global demand for food will increase sharply in the next decades

This is mainly due to a significant global population growth. But also changing nutrition habits in emerging and developing markets play a major role. Therefore, the demand for grain and other traditional basic foods will shift towards animal protein based foods as meat, fish, egg and dairy products.

However, since livestock production consumes large quantities of grains as feedstuffs, the overall demand for grain will increase enormously.

According to the FAO, grain production would have to be extended from currently 2.1 billion tonnes by approximately one billion, in order to meet the global demand in 2050.

Crucial for an expansion of grain production is the availability of cropland and water, energy supply, climate change, new agricultural and technological developments and access to finance resources.

However, depending on the cultivation region many of these factors are restricted, which significantly limits the possibilities of production increase. A further serious problem is the excessive wastage of food and feed.

Even if there is no reliable information on the global wastage of food and, in particular, the wastage of feed, it is an undisputed fact that the dimension of grain spoilage during storage is exceeding an acceptable level by far.

Therefore, the reduction of feed waste can provide a crucial contribution to ensure the nutrition of the fast growing population over the next decades. In this context, the improvement of grain storage management occurs to be a suitable starting point to protect post-harvested grain from spoilage in order to avoid unnecessary losses. Various processes are available for the preservation of grains.

However, for feed grains the option of preservation with organic acids is particularly interesting. Therefore, the following article provides an overview of the principles of grain preservation with organic acids and presents the new innovative grain preservation acid MAXACID/CP+ by PROVITA supplements.

Grain preservation with organic acids
Freshly harvested grains are mostly not storable, since they often have high moisture contents and a high microbial infestation. The number of germs and the composition of the germinal flora depend on the weather conditions during the harvest.

In the presence of oxygen in combination with a sufficiently high water (> 12.0%) and nutrient content, unwanted microorganisms can proliferate easily. Yeasts, molds and unwanted bacteria are responsible for feed spoilage along with nutrient decomposition as well as for the formation of mycotoxins.

In practice, low but constantly absorbed amounts of mycotoxins often manifest through acute or chronic poisoning symptoms and concomitant performance depressions.

For these reasons, grain contaminated with higher mycotoxins should never be fed to farm animals. Once these poisons have been formed, they can hardly be rendered harmless since they are relatively insensitive to acid and heat treatment.

The consequences of the feeding of mycotoxin-contaminated grain range from lower animal benefits up to serious diseases of the animals. Thus, the microbiological spoilage of grain carries an enormous risk for farmers and often leads to major economic losses. Therefore, it is important to bring lately harvested grain into a storable condition as soon as possible.

Read the full article, HERE.

Técnicas Mecánicas Ilerdenses, S.L. (TMI) company profile

TMI (Técnicas Mecánicas Ilerdenses, S.L.) is a cutting-edge company in the design, manufacture and supply of bagging, palletising and stretch wrapping lines.

Founded in the year 2000, it has a professional team with over 25 years of experience in the sector.

The fact that they are manufacturers gives them a deeper understanding of the product and allows them to deliver turn-key projects with the utmost guarantee of success, applying the most up-to-date manufacturing technologies and the latest advances in industrial automation.

Over the past few years the company has developed a wide range of products under its own manufacturing processes:

- Automatic and semi-automatic open mouth bags and valve Baggers
- Automatic FFS bagging systems from a thermo-sealable roll
- Big Bags filling systems
- Dynamic on-belt check-weighing units
- High level layer palletisers (high in-feed) by means of bags side pushing
- Palletisers with motorised grip and moveable platform
- Cartesian gantry palletisers
- Palletising cells by means of industrial robot
- Turntable stretch wrappers with top cover sheet dispenser
- Special solutions for industrial packaging

Visit the TMI website, HERE.

31/10/2017: IAOM MEA Regional Leader Award

In recognition of H.S.A. Group's humanitarian work in Yemen, Mr Walid Ali Mohamed Saeed has been awarded the IAOM MEA Regional Leader Award

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Mr Saeed, Managing Director of MIDSTAR Commodity Management Ltd., Dubai, was presented the award on October 23, 2017 at the 28th Annual IAOM MEA Region Conference and Expo Sheikh Rashid Hall, Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE.

Speaking of the lead up to his award, Mr Saeed commented, “One of our mills was affected in the war, it was out of operation for almost a year, but we can say now that the mill is running at almost full capacity but it took us some time to fix what is damaged. At the same time however, the World Food Program took part of our milling capacities for the need and for the distribution of the people, so that really helped in the terms of capacity that we were able to cover.”

He continued, “This award was at least not for me personally, but for Yemen and for our Group and all the people who stood by us all the time and made the business run. We are very, very honoured to receive this, it is such a prestigious award and the first time it was announced!”

Finally he said, “We were shy to receive this but at the insistence of the industry to recognise what had been done and for the other industries and three surrounding businesses, to do so meant we happily accept such an award and to be a good example also.”

Note: You can find an interview with the winner in the feature interview section of this issue of Milling and Grain.

Read the Milling and Grain online editions, HERE.

Visit the IAOM website, HERE.

October 30, 2017

31/10/2017: Symaga unveils new projects department for large facilities

Being involved in some of the biggest storage projects around the world requires state-of-the-art, fully-automated production capacities and total coordination between engineering teams

That is the rationale behind the push of Symaga, leader of the largest project in Egypt, for the consolidation of a new Project Department.

To take part and success in such large installations, the technical, commercial and logistic teams must guarantee a perfect planning of work from layout, to delivery of the material, and assembly.

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The change in Symaga’s organisation has allowed Project Managers to coordinate large capacity facilities from beginning to end.

Under its leadership, Symaga’s Projects Department has developed the company’s latest plants in Myanmar and Korea, and now is working head on to coordinate the second largest storage project in History: six paddy rice facilities in Nigeria with over 390,000 tons capacity divided into four twin facilities of large capacity and two of less capacity.

The project aims to bring Nigeria, one of the largest importers of rice, closer to self-sufficiency.

This groundbreaking initiative would not have been possible without the close cooperation between Symaga and Bühler AG.

Next on the table of the new Project Department will be Symaga’s new ventures in Saudi Arabia, with the signature of three new large facilities in manufacturing process, and banking on the longstanding commercial cooperation with Almarai, a major Saudi integrator.

The "King Abdullah Seaport" port terminal will have six silos of the largest capacity, 152,280 m3 to maize storage.

The second project in Saudi Arabia is a new feed mill in Yanbu port terminal, six large capacity silos and four delivery silos, totaling nearly 115,000 m3 capacity.

The third facility storage starch and glucose, made up of 6 silos of more than 27,000m3.

Symaga Silos thanks their customers and team for having propelled the Spanish company to a global reference in metallic silo manufacturing.

With the exhaustive monitoring for big capacity silos installations that comes in hand with the new Projects Department, the company affirms its path towards becoming a world leader in the sector.

Visit the Symaga website, HERE.

31/10/2017: Mennel Milling Company sponsors scholarship

Kansas State University milling science student named scholarship recipient

Kansas State University (KSU) Milling Science and Management student, Nolan Brennan, Bowling Green, Ohio, was awarded the Mennel Milling Company Scholarship.

Nolan Brennan at Mennel Milling Company during the 2017 summer
Image credit: IGP KSU

The scholarship’s purpose is to provide financial assistance to full-time students enrolled in the Milling Science and Management curriculum at KSU. The scholarship allows non-Kansas students to attend the university at in-state tuition costs.

“I was fortunate to have Mennel offer me the opportunity to work with them in the mill several times a week through my senior year of high school,” says Mr Brennan. “I have truly been blessed receiving this scholarship. This generous donation has driven me to pursue this career with a tremendous amount of weight off my shoulders, which helps me to focus more on school.”

Mr Brennan says that through the generosity of Mennel Milling Company and the friendly staff that stands behind it, he has chosen his first summer internship working with Mennel for the summer of 2018.

The scholarship was established in 2010. Funds provided are to cover $10,000 of out of state tuition, and an extra $1,000 for travel costs.

The scholarship is awarded to one student from: Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana or Virginia. Each student who receives the award is eligible for its renewal the following year.

“Scholarships, particularly of the scale pledged by Mennel Milling, are an important component of our recruitment and retention efforts,” says Jon Faubion, KSU professor of bakery science and chair of the grain science scholarship committee.

“Mennel, and in particular Ford Mennel, have the gratitude of our faculty and our students for their forward thinking generosity.”

Visit the IGP KSU website, HERE.

31/10/2017: Nutriad USA appoints expands sales team

A global leader in feed additives solutions for livestock and aquaculture, Nutriad has once more strengthened its commercial team in the USA by adding commercial talent to its organisation

Chuck Middleton
Image credit: Nutriad

The company is increasing its focus on dairy producers and seeks to grow its market share across feed producers and integrators for livestock species.

Chuck Middleton has joined Nutriad as Dairy Nutrition Consultant. Chuck resides in Idaho and has extensive experience with various ag supplier organisations.

He has served on various advisory board, and has worked to support dairy through various channels. Chuck attended University of Idaho and received a BS in both Agricultural Education and Animal Science.

Kevin Stephens
Image credit: Nutriad

Kevin Stephens has joined Nutriad, Inc. as Regional Sales Manager in Southeast USA. Kevin and his family reside in North Carolina. Kevin brings with him an impressive track record of success in the poultry, food and agricultural industry.

He received his Bachelor of Science degree at Marshall University.

According to Grady Fain, Sr Vice President Sales and Business Development, “We are dedicated to building our sales team with top industry talent for providing best in class service to our valued customers. Both Chuck and Kevin are representative of our commitment and we are excited to have them as Nutriad team members.”

Visit the Nutriad website, HERE.

31/10/2017: Bran – A long history, and a prosperous future

Bran has had a long rich history within human consumption and agriculture

Despite the key importance of the grain, the name is derived from the Celtic and Gaelic where the literal translation is along the lines of stench, filth or rotten. This may be in large part to the amount of phosphorous it contains, particularly Wheat Bran.

However, Bran is vital to human health, as are many of the other cereal family members. Bran, or miller's bran is the hard outer layer of cereal grain. It consists of the combined Aleurone and Pericarp, which are the cell walls.

It is not the same as Chaff, which is the coarse material that surrounds the grain. Along with germ, it is an integral part of whole grains, and is often produced as a byproduct of the milling process when dealing with refined grains.

Due to the byproduct status, it is commonly used as livestock feed since it’s so cheap and quite nutritious. Bran is removed from grains, and this process reduces the nutritional content. This is particularly problematic as in its raw form, Bran is a rich source of fiber and contains essential fatty acids.

Bran also has high quantities of starch, protein, vitamins, and assorted minerals. Therefore retaining or enhancing as much of this nutritional composition is paramount. The raw nutritional analysis of Oat bran for example shows how good it is as a source of both animal and human food, registering just 246 calories per 100 grammes. It has seven grammes of total fat, 66 grammes of carbohydrate and 17 grammes of protein.

The vitamin analysis gives daily values of 58 percent for Magnesium, 30 percent for Iron and 10 percent for Vitamin B-6. *(These figures are based on a typical adult 2000/day calories diet). Bran can be found in nearly all cereal grain, including rice, corn (maize), wheat, oats, barley and rye.

As such, it is often used to enrich breads such as muffins and breakfast cereals all with the aim of increased dietary nutrition, particularly in children, the elderly, or pregnant women. The Phytic acid within Bran may also be an agent for fermentation, particularly in Japan and other Asian cultures where Tsukemono is used for the Kaiseki portion of a Japanese Tea Ceremony.

Rice bran and rice bran oil are also widely used as a natural beauty treatment. The high levels of Oleic acid are absorbed by human skin with a near 100 percent application rate, and the oil from bran contains over 100 known vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.

It has industrial applications in the paint industry and has found favour as a common substrate and food source used for feeder insects, such as mealworms and wax-worms. Wheat bran also gives whole-wheat flour its characteristic darker shade and fuller body. This is a key ingredient in baked goods.

Read the full article, HERE.

Wenger Manufacturing company profile

With a little ingenuity and a lot of hard work, brothers Joe and Louis Wenger founded Wenger Mixing Company in a small Kansas (USA) town in 1935.

They went on to design a machine that blended molasses with dry feedstuffs and produced pellets in 1948. Theirs was the first extrusion cooking system and the basic technology for all commercial extruders used today. 

The Wenger brothers' novel idea created a worldwide industry. And, seventy-five years later, Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. is still a family-owned business committed to groundbreaking innovation in the extrusion market.

 Today, Wenger offers a range of premium single-screw extruders, twin-screw extruders, dryers/coolers, flavor coating and enrobing systems, and control systems.

A new generation of proud employees works toward customer satisfaction daily in their multiple plants, in their world-class research and development centre, and in sales and service offices around the globe.  Wenger equipment is unmatched in quality.

Perhaps even more importantly, they've built a reputation for having lasting partnerships with customers. Lasting because of their dedication, ingenuity, and responsiveness – and promise to carry out that commitment for generations to come.

Visit the website HERE.

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This blog is maintained by The Global Miller staff and is supported by the magazine GFMT
which is published by Perendale Publishers Limited.

For additional daily news from milling around the world: global-milling.com

October 29, 2017

30/10/2017: Animal health sector supports commitment to responsible antibiotic use

NOAH believes the progress reported in the Veterinary Antimicrobial Resistance and Sales Surveillance (VARSS) report for 2016, which shows significant reductions in antimicrobial use, demonstrates that UK vets and farmers are making every effort to prescribe and use antibiotics responsibly

NOAH Chief Executive, Dawn Howard said, “It is encouraging that the work of the Responsible Use of Medicines in Agriculture Alliance (RUMA) is having a meaningful impact, which will help veterinary antibiotics to remain effective and available for use in the future.”

Chicken
Image credit: Ian Lee on Flickr
(CC BY 2.0)

Building on the results of the VARSS Report, RUMA has today announced new species-specific farm antibiotic targets, as a result of the work of the RUMA Targets Task Force (TTF).

These will further reduce, refine or replace antibiotic use across eight different livestock sectors.

On the TTF, Dawn Howard commented, “We are confident that the work of the Targets Task Force will continue to promote and support responsible use in the coming years, whilst at the same time ensuring animal health and welfare is maintained.”

She went on to say, “We must continue to ensure animal health and welfare are not compromised by working to promote measures to prevent disease, including encouraging uptake of vaccinations and other alternatives where they are available. To complement responsible use efforts our sector is committed to investing in the development of alternative products to prevent disease.”

“NOAH is also a signatory to the HealthforAnimals Global Animal Health Sector Commitment and Actions on Antibiotic Use, which shows how the whole animal medicines sector is working collectively on a global level, echoing and complementing these UK activities.”

“Taken together, these measures will preserve the health and welfare of our farmed animals, whilst using antibiotics responsibly, to the benefit of us all,” she said.

The VARSS 2016 report is available, HERE.

Visit the NOAH website, HERE.

30/10/2017: ‘Wheat, flour and …’ – and ‘crazy people’, Walking the Italian way in Cortonia and Siena

by Roger Gilbert, Milling and Grain

200-plus millers and their partners ascended on Cortona in Tuscany, Italy between September 15-17, 2017 to attend Ocrim’s 7th annual ‘Wheat, flour and …’ one-day conference which this year partnered with Paglierani and Bonifiche Ferraresi

To ‘Walk the Italian Way’ - the company’s widely-promoted motto - attending delegates had to shake off convention and accept that this was a time to relax and enjoy the art, architecture and environment that is truly Italian away from the normal tourist attractions, although the final day, Sunday, ended with a walking tour of Siena and lunch in one of its back streets.

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The programme welcomed 200 delegates to the Centro Convegni Sant’ Agostino in Cortona on a bright but cool Saturday morning in mid-September, 2017 with coffee.

An introduction by Ocrim’s CEO Alberto Antolini talked about Italians being ‘crazy people’ in the best of the three Italian meanings of the phrase; the phrase that captures Ocrim’s uniqueness in terms of dedication, enthusiasm and an odd-ball way of looking at the world.

In a quiet moments Mr Antolini even suggested the word missing from the event’s name of ‘Wheat, flour and …’ after all these years might well be, ‘crazy people’.

A video shown during the conference of the people who work within Ocrim and which focuses on individual faces, shows expressions ranging from puzzlement and quizzicalness to humour and delight through to a proudness and dedication that shines through.

These people are passionate about what they do. And the choice of venue for this one-day global milling conference and get-together was in an old monastery, within the walls of a hilltop village that has changed little over the past couple of centuries.

Overshadowed by marble, masonry and mosaics and tapestries of saints and priests, a range of speakers talked about the latest technological developments in the production of today’s staple foodstuff, flour.

At the heart of the day’s presentations was that delivered by Dr Lutz Popper of Mühlenchemie on ‘Flour Improvers - basic information on enzymes and maturing agents’.

It was a way of showing how machinery has to play an essential role in processing and preparing grain for its transition into flour and then baked products such as bread and other cereals-based foodstuffs. That was followed by Fabio Vuoto’s look at Ocrim’s metering systems.

Read the full article, HERE.

Behlen Grain Systems company profile

Behlen Mfg. Co. is a leading international manufacturer of grain storage systems. These structures are used worldwide in a multitude of locations storing a wide variety of grain.

Behlen bins range in size from a few thousand bushels to over 1,500,00 bushels.

The Behlen grain storage buildings can be custom designed for many applications.

The entire line of Behlen equipment can be manufactured to handle high winds, seismic conditions, as well as high filling and unloading rates.

Visit the website HERE.

October 26, 2017

27/10/2017: Fi Europe & Ni 2017 announces record number of exhibitors

Returning to Frankfurt: The world’s leading food and beverage ingredients show will be bigger than ever when it opens its doors on 28 November

With its new “Expo FoodTec Content Hub”, amongst other highlights, the event will attract more visitors than ever before.

Fi Europe & Ni 2017 is the must attend event on the calendar of virtually everybody who works in the food, beverage and ingredients industry. This year, it will be the biggest show to date: With a record number of exhibitors, a 4-day conference programme focused on thought leadership and new sections and initiatives, organiser UBM EMEA expects the event to attract more visitors than ever before, as well as ensuring they are senior professionals with considerable purchasing power.

Messe Frankfurt, 28-30 November 2017: Four halls spanning 65,000 square meters of exhibition space will give more than 1,500 suppliers a stage from which to showcase every conceivable food and beverage ingredient sourced from all over the world, including a vast range of functional and organic raw ingredients.

Traditionally, suppliers use the global industry’s leading event to introduce their innovations to the market. Exhibitors and visitors will also benefit from the new Expo FoodTec Content Hub in the Expo FoodTec pavilion, uniquely focused on ingredient processing and packaging solutions for the Food & Beverage industry.

The Expo FoodTec Content Hub is the hotspot where speaker sessions, presentations, and videos from leading experts and associations will offer priceless insights on new developments in F&B processing and ingredients packaging.

Innovation on display
Across the event, visitors will be able to explore state-of-the-art innovations and gather insights into current food and beverage trends and developments. The Industry Insights Theatre will focus on current major consumer trends influencing the global food and beverage market.

Supplier Solutions Sessions will see top-level suppliers showcase their latest ingredients innovations, while the Start-up Innovation Challenge will create a platform for cutting-edge innovations from the industry’s most exciting start-up companies.

The New Product Zone, organised in cooperation with Innova Market Insights will return once again to Fi Europe and finally the Fi Innovation Awards are introducing a number of new categories to celebrate innovation in the industry.

“Visitors to this event expect excellence and innovation,” says Brand Director Richard Joyce. “And to make sure they do not miss the most exciting news this year, we have organised special Innovation Tours with industry experts from Nutrimarketing, as well as self-guided tours.”

Four days of thought leadership
Fi Europe conferences offer an excellent opportunity to find out what leading food & beverage industry experts are thinking, working on and interested in. For 2017, UBM EMEA has announced a programme covering four full days of knowledge sharing and networking opportunities.

One day before the show, on Monday 27 November, the Fi Future of Nutrition Summit will bring together independent food pioneers to explore cutting-edge innovations in nutrition.

From Tuesday 28 November – Thursday 30 November, the Fi Conference will offer in-depth insight into the issues shaping the food and beverage landscape through a mix of keynote presentations, panel discussions and master classes.

Topics covered will include: Clean label & Natural ingredients; Food safety & Regulatory compliance; Everything Protein; Health & Wellness; Life Stages; Category Innovation (Dairy, Bakery and Beverages); Reduction & Reformulation; and Sustainability.

Women’s Networking Breakfast
On Wednesday 29 November the Women’s Networking Breakfast will bring together inspirational women from all areas of the food industry and beyond to share their insight, knowledge and experience on topics covering innovation, entrepreneurship, and women’s excellence in the food & beverage industry.

Messe Frankfurt – a perfect venue for an outstanding event
Having last been held in Paris in 2015, the biennial event returns to Messe Frankfurt, Germany, for 2017. With its international airport and central location, Frankfurt is a central hub for visitors from all over the world.

“Germany is the largest food and beverage retail market in Europe,” continues Richard Joyce, “and Frankfurt is the perfect venue for this truly impressive event: We are expecting around 25,000 visitors from more than 125 countries worldwide.”

Flagship exhibitors will include global powerhouses such as ADM, BENEO, Brenntag, Cargill, DSM, FrieslandCampina, Gelita, Kerry, Naturex, Roquette and Symrise, as well as leading European food and beverage manufacturers such as Barry Callebaut and Lactalis. Visitors can also look forward to exploring niche suppliers with an immense number of exciting ingredients.

Fi Europe & Ni is FREE to attend when pre-registering online before the show. Early bird prices for the conference start at €450 for a One Day Pass and €900 for a Full Access Pass for the full 4-day programme.

Visit the event website, HERE.

27/10/2017: Nutriad hosts technical seminar Poland

Multinational feed additives producer Nutriad hosted a major conference for industry professional and business partners in Poland this month

An interactive programme included a wide range of technical and market topics addressed with presentations by guest speakers and Nutriad product and business managers.

The event was kicked off by Nutriad CEO Erik Visser, who outlined Nutriad’s on-going development and commitment to the global feed additive market in general and to Polish customers in particular.

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With an annual production of close to 10 Mmt of feed, a dominant poultry sector and strong year on year growth, the Polish market holds interesting potential for the product offering of Nutriad. After the hiring of new staff members, the opening of a new office in Warsaw the most recent seminar further confirmed Nutriad’s ambitions in Poland.

Professor Lipiński from the University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn presented latest insights related to the Impact of Nutrition on the Health and Productivity of Poultry, while Dr Bogdan Cegiełka from Vet-Com spoke about the Limitation of use Antibiotics in Pig Production.

Technical and Business Development Managers from Nutriad’s Mycotoxin Management, Ruminant, Palatability and Digestive Performance product teams covered subject areas ranging from managing Mycotoxin Risks; Nutritional Strategies to Improve Health and Fertility in Dairy Cows; Optimising Feed Intake in Critical Life Stages to Intestinal Health as a Driver of Animal Performance.

Przemysław Przeor, Business Manager Nutriad Polska, commenting on the event, saying, “We are very pleased and proud to host this event and welcome such a big number of guests. Our conference provided an excellent opportunity to share Nutriad’s on-going future development and vision within the context of today’s animal nutrition and health environment with our clients and partners.”

Simon Martyn, Regional Director Nutriad EMEA closed the formal session summarising that, “The Polish market is important for Nutriad and will always have a major focus for us as we seek to offer our clients the highest quality products and services that assist them in meeting todays changing market dynamics, new challenges and opportunities.”

An evening gala dinner with some excellent live entertainment provided a relaxing environment after a very full day for continued networking and socialising with friends and contacts old and new.

Visit the Nutriad website, HERE.

27/10/2017: Geelen Counterflow introduces the Continuous Dryer MkIII

Energy-saving drying concept that delivers improved drying performance

In extruded product manufacture, the dryer is both the main consumer of energy and a crucial quality factor. Geelen Counterflow has completely redesigned its Continuous Dryer to satisfy the requirements of companies that want to produce high-quality extruded products efficiently and at the lowest operational cost.

Continuous Dryer MkIII
Image credit: Geelen Counterflow

Counterflow technology delivers energy savings of at least 20 percent
The Continuous Dryer MkIII from Geelen Counterflow dries extruded products in the feed and food industry by passing hot air through one or two layers of product. In Geelen’s system, wet product from the extruder is continuously added to the top of the product beds. At the same time, dried product at the bottom of the product bed is discharged in small quantities to the next drying stage or to the hopper.

Geelen has developed a sophisticated automatic control system for drying the individual recipes according to product-specific process parameters such as air volume, air temperature and residence time. The Continuous Dryer MkIII from Geelen dries extruded products with great uniformity.

The drying is very homogeneous, resulting in a guaranteed moisture uniformity of +/- 0.5%. Non-saturated air is recycled. Only a small volume - the fully saturated air - is exhausted. The refined counterflow heat exchange design makes the Continuous Dryer MkIII from Geelen at least 20% more energy-efficient than the best alternative in the industry.

More homogeneous product quality during start-up and shut-down
Optimum distribution of the product in the dryer is one of the most important factors for achieving a homogeneous drying result. Consequently, the product distribution system has been completely redesigned in Geelen’s new Continuous Dryer MkIII.

The upgraded control system now automatically keeps the product bed at the right height for each product. The new product distributor, which flexibly follows the movement of each product layer, plays an important role here. The ability to control the residence time during production process start-up and shut-down is a further innovation.

This eliminates product clumping and inconsistent product quality at the beginning and end of the production process. Finally, the improved airflow results in more homogeneous air distribution. This improves the drying result, making it possible to achieve a product uniformity +/- 0.5%.

The new Continuous Dryer MkIII from Geelen is equipped with a number of features which improve hygiene, convenience and speed when cleaning. For example, the discharge system is more accessible. The interior now features easily cleanable walls and smooth curves in areas where dirt and product residue can accumulate.

Long-term product quality, efficiency and safety
The new Continuous Dryer MkIII is suitable for energy-efficient drying of extruded products across a capacity range from 1 to 10 tonnes per hour. Geelen Counterflow has its own R&D Department where all its products are designed and developed.

Geelen's dryers are designed in a way that minimises the number of moving parts. The stainless steel bodies are double-walled, with fireproof insulation material in between the walls. Geelen's dryers are sold with a 10-year service contract as standard to keep product quality, efficiency and safety at a high level.

More information about the redesigned Continuous Dryer MkIII is available, HERE.

27/10/2017: The nutritional importance of coarse cereal grains

by Cliff Spencer, Chairman, Milling4Life

I have recently promoted some lesser-known cereal crops for use by millers and their major milling feedstock supply potential in developing countries

I described the agricultural, environmental and climatic reasons for millers pursuing the development of these feedstocks.

Now to consider their positive and all-important nutritional aspects. Cereal grains consist of three major parts, and different nutrients reside in these parts. There is the bran – the outer layer of the grain containing fibre, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamins and dietary minerals, the endosperm – the main part of the grain consisting mainly of starch, and the germ – the smallest part of the grain, containing vitamin Ee, folate, thiamine, phosphorus and magnesium.

Cereal is typically a low-fat, nutrient-dense food with many essential vitamins and minerals and delivers important nutrients and essential vitamins such as iron, B vitamins and zinc.

Currently, important cereals such as rice, wheat and maize are particularly important to humans because of their role as staple food crops in many areas of the world.

Rice is the most valuable agricultural crop in the world but it is second to maize (corn) in the quantity of cereal products produced.

However coarse grains are food cereal grains other than wheat and rice and they also are used for animal feed and brewing. As previously described these coarse grains are warm-season cereals valued for their food, feed and fodder uses in various parts of the world.

They are largely grown in the semi-arid tropical regions of Asia and Africa; under rain-fed farming systems with little external inputs and with current grain yield levels being low. Coarse cereals include maize, sorghum, oats, barley, pearl millet and other minor millets such as Finger, Kodo, Proso, Foxtail, Little and Barnyard millet.

These grains are rich in dietary energy, vitamins, several minerals (especially micronutrients such as iron and zinc), insoluble dietary and phytochemicals with antioxidant properties.

Indeed, these coarse cereals dubbed as ‘poor man’s crops’, have remained neglected with respect to their appropriate position in the commercialised food system, and the required investment in research and development.

Now with the increasing concerns about adverse changes in environmental quality and its consequent negative effects on food and nutritional security they are demanding industry attention.

Link this with the need for increasing food production per unit resource investment for an ever increasing population, and these coarse grains have good prospects of penetrating the food baskets of a wider range of consumers, both rural and urban, poor and rich and in developed and developing economies.

Research and development on potential uses of these coarse cereal grains is bringing out the potential of these grains for being used as formulated foods and these coarse cereals have of late even been designated as nutricereals.

They are rich in compounds that help against several chronic diseases like ischemic strokes, cardiovascular diseases, cancers, obesity and type II diabetes.

Read the full article, HERE.

Max Porter (Mysilo) company profile

Installing a grain storage facility is a very complicated operation. Many parameters need to be considered, such as climate conditions, features of the stored grain and specific loading and unloading requirements.

This is where the Mysilo team comes in, both as a consulting service and also for installing your turn-key facility.

Supplied by the world’s finest steel mills, the high-strength galvanised steel used in Mysilo’s construction work is shaped in their own entirely computerised workshops.

Visit the Mysilo website HERE

26/10/2017: A giant turnkey manufacturer within the flour processing industry calls for more millers

Alapala of Turkey was one of three company-related exhibition stands with milling equipment at the recent IAOM MEA 2017 event in Dubai.

Milling and Grain interviewed Mehmet Erbay from the company who outlines the importance of the event and the collaboration it has with Satake-Henry Simon and the relaunch of this important traditional brand.

Alapala also had it's spare parts company exhibiting from a separate stand on the show.

Alapala is a major manufacturer of flour milling equipment and a turnkey plant provider from Turkey into the Middle East and beyond. It has built turnkey plants in over 95 countries and on all four continents. It is a significant manufacturer in our industry. Alapala is a previous winner of the GRAPAS Award for milling technology.

Mr Erbay would like to see more millers visiting what is one of the best mililng events on the planet.

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Read more HERE.

26/10/2017: Good news for grain storage in Africa

Doing business the same way it's done at home - through trust and doing what you say.

John Haugh, VP International Sales at Global Industries Inc was on the company's stand at this year's IAOM MEA conference and exhibition at the World Trade Centre in Dubai (from October 22-25, 2017) and explained to Milling and Grain his company's latest storage manufacturing development for Africa.

Global does business in 50 countries around the world and has operations in the United States, Russia, Thailand, Argentina and South Africa. It’s world headquarters is in Grand Island.

Even though we do business in a lot of different countries, people like to do business the same way we do it in Grand Island says Mr Haugh. "We do business on trust - with people we have a relationships with and with people that you know when they tell you something’s going to get done, it gets done," he says.

Global is the parent company of several divisions that manufacture grain storage and handling products. Those divisions include Hutchinson/Mayrath, MFS/York/Stormor, Brownie Products, NECO, Sentinel Buildings and Global Treatment systems.

Read more HERE.

26/10/2017: FEDIOL-FEFAC responsible soy workshop stresses need for follow-up action to supply chain initiatives

On 25 October 2017, FEDIOL and FEFAC organised the 5th Workshop on Responsible Soy & Deforestation in Brussels, which attracted experts from soy value chain partners, public authorities and other stakeholders

The workshop showcased initiatives by (soy) farmer organisations in Brazil and Argentina to promote legal compliance and good agricultural practices while EU representatives from the soy supply chain showed the efforts made to foster the mainstream market transition of responsible soy production and trade.

Soy field
Image credit: Christophe Becker on Flickr
(CC BY-ND 2.0)

Representatives from the Brazilian government and the soy production chain presented the evolution of environmental legislation and its stringent enforcement over the past 10 years, with the ongoing mandatory implementation of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) and its sophisticated analytical tools as the key instruments to tackle illegal deforestation.

The workshop pointed to the need for follow-up action by downstream chain partners to materialise the commitments to deforestation free supply chains into concrete market demand for responsible soy.

In addition, increased engagement from EU and national governments was solicited to consider targeted environmental payments to provide for the necessary incentives to soy farmers to protect native vegetation beyond legal requirements.

This is particularly the case for all agricultural activities in the Cerrado Biome, where the challenges as regards the native vegetation are very different compared to the Amazon Biome.

The Earth Innovation Institute representative congratulated the members of the MoU partnership on establishing the first large-scale collaborative approach towards sustainable jurisdictional sourcing, which may provide a vehicle for rewarding environmental performances by farmers thanks to initiatives such as the FEFAC Soy Sourcing Guidelines and the Soja Plus programme.

IDH shared its perspective on a step-wise approach to sustainable sourcing, which starts with moving farmers into legal compliance.

Visit the FEDIOL website, HERE.

Visit the FEFAC website, HERE.

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