Pages

September 30, 2020

Lallemand Animal Nutrition opens Vietnam office

Lallemand Animal Nutrition has announced the opening of its office in HoChi Minh City, Vietnam. Lallemand Vietnam will distribute the Lallemand portfolio for ruminants, pork, poultry, and aquaculture throughout Vietnam.

This includes feed additives for all species, silage inoculants, bioremediation solutions for aquaculture as well as animal environment products. The sales operations are managed by Mrs Phuong Trinh, Sales Director for Lallemand Animal Nutrition Vietnam.
 
The Lallemand Vietnam team during the opening ceremony (Left to right)
Ngoc Bui Bao, Paul-Antoine Croize, Duy Nguyen Khuong,
Tuong Nguyen, Trang VU, and Phuong Trinh
Image credit: Lallemand


Paul-Antoine Croizé, Business Area Director Southeast Asia and Managing Director commented, 'Lallemand Animal Nutrition solutions have been present in the Vietnamese market for more than a decade, and the establishment of Lallemand Vietnam is a natural evolution for us. With 95 million inhabitants, Vietnam is a dynamic animal production market, ranking in the top 10 markets worldwide for pork and aquaculture production, and strong in exports, especially for aquaculture. This really holds great potential for our company. Today, we are a team of six in Vietnam, with extensive sales and technical expertise in the ruminant, shrimp, poultry and swine markets, and with anticipated growth over the coming months.'

Visit the Lallemand Animal Nutrition website, HERE.
 

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

Henry Simon’s HSRM roller mill receives German Design Award for design

The HSRM roller mill was awarded by the German Design commitee in the 'Excellent Product Design' category with its new look and improved functionality, the roller mill was designed in partnership with Italdesign company.

The HSRM roller mill is also equipped with Advanced Sensor Technology ™, that provides real-time process monitoring for a higher operational reliability, efficiency, and safety.
  

Henry Simon's award winning HSRM roller mill


The German Design Awards honour innovative products and projects, their manufacturers and designers who are pioneering in the German and international design landscape, by its top-class international jury. The German Design Award discovers and presents unique design trends: a competition that advances the design-oriented economy.

Visit the Henry Simon Milling website, HERE.

 

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

Rex makes front page news

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

When Rex started as the Technical Adviser to the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (SPAB) in 1929, he needed to gather information on the state of British windmills. Concern about their fate had been highlighted in the national press, particularly The Daily Mail, but most of the detailed accounts were published in local newspapers. Not surprisingly, he created a library of press cuttings.
 
These cuttings were carefully selected for their relevance to the state of British mills and were pasted into a series of large scrapbooks, which are now cared for by The Mills Archive. Until the start of Second World War, they show how many mills had been left to decay, while others were maintained by a dedicated volunteer or owner. They underline the impact of the series of surveys and appeals launched with Rex’s help during that decade.

On Rex’s visits to mills he is often caught on camera, not his own, but by the local newspaper reporter who was always looking for an unusual story to write up. They could feature Rex presenting a certificate to a miller who has looked after and maintained his mill with great care. One such was John Bryant, whose family had owned Pakenham Windmill in Suffolk since 1885.


Read more HERE.
 

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

Ottevanger Milling Engineers company profile



Ottevanger Milling Engineers is a leading European company in the design and manufacture of equipment and complete installations for the grain-processing and mixed-feed industries.

Food producers throughout the world use these installations to produce food for people and animals. In modern, well-equipped plants in Aalten and Moerkapelle (The Netherlands) Ottevanger's specialists use the latest technologies to design and manufacture a comprehensive range of products. 

Computer-controlled plants – anywhere in the world – are provided with on-line technical support from these plants. In its design of any installation Ottevanger takes into account the strictest environmental regulations and safety requirements. 

There are, for example, always adequate facilities for air purification as well as sound and heat insulation. A lot of attention is also devoted to hygiene through the use of stainless steel and special coatings. 

Thanks to its expert knowledge and expertise, amassed throughout its over one hundred years' experience, Ottevanger is the ideal partner for the implementation of your project.

Read more on the Milling and Grain website, HERE.
 

Visit the Ottevanger website, HERE.
 

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


September 29, 2020

LEAP launches guidelines on the environmental performance of feed additives in livestock supply chains

The International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) has announced the official release of the LEAP guidelines on the environmental performance of feed additives in livestock supply chains, which were launched at the LEAP outreach event 'Innovation to tackle climate change and pollution: Generating facts about feed additives and livestock production' on 21 September 2020.

IFIF is a founding partner of the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance Partnership (LEAP), which aims to improve how the environmental impacts of the livestock industry are measured and assessed. IFIF was closely involved in the development of the feed additives guidance document though its expert members participation in the LEAP TAG on Feed Additives and the guidelines  will further support efforts to reduce the impact of livestock products on the environment.
 


More than 500 participants from around the world joined the LEAP event, which was opened by the Agricultural Ministers from Uruguay and Ireland, together with the FAO Deputy Director General and the LEAP Chair 2020. Prof. Ermias Kebreab and Chaouki Benchaar, leaders of the LEAP Feed Additives Technical Advisory Group (TAG), presented the final guidelines.

Daniel Bercovici, IFIF Chairman, also presented at the event underlining, 'the strong cooperation between IFIF and FAO / LEAP is evident in this partnership, and the IFIF FEFANA Specialty Feed Ingredients Sustainability (SFIS) Project formed the basis of the LEAP Feed Additives TAG, while the Global Feed LCA Institute (GFLI), of which IFIF is a founding Member, is putting the LEAP feed guidelines into practice to support the improvement of the environmental performance of livestock production around the world.'

Dr Bercovici added, 'the integration of the science-based standard methodologies under the LEAP guidelines is key to engrave in stone these key scientific advances.'

Read the full remarks made by the IFIF Chairman at the LEAP event, HERE.

The LEAP Feed Additives Guidelines can be downloaded, HERE.
 

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

The Alsacian Mills Ltd, Strasburg

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

The Miller (June 7th, 1909) reported that the Alsacian Milling Company Ltd. was founded in the autumn of 1906 by G Ramspacher of Wilwisheim and H Huck of Sand. It was based in the German town of Strasburg, part of Alsace. All three towns and the region became part of France after the First World War; Strasburg became Strasbourg and Alsacian is now generally spelt Alsatian.

Both of the owners had had mills which were burnt down in the same year, so they chose a new site equidistant from their homes to erect the new mills at the Rhine port of Strasburg. The mill would have an hourly capacity of 25 sacks of flour and, after careful deliberation and a thorough study of the plans submitted to them, the contract was awarded Messrs Luther of Brunswick. The position and size of the building were chosen so that the site could be extended if needed, and the new mill started work in December 1907.
 


The silo building, situated on the right wing, a distance of some 20 feet from the mill proper, was capable of holding over 100,000 bushels of wheat, and contained 18 silos arranged in three rows of six. One of the corner silos near the quay had a stairway. The silo building was 62ft long, 44ft wide and 95ft high and could be more than doubled in size if required. The walls and hoppers were constructed of ‘Beton’ iron and were, therefore, fireproof.

The mill buildings, with their striking frontage seen from the Rhine Bridge, were 290ft long and 46ft wide. The intakes and cleaning plant were situated on the right-hand side, the flour mixing and packing rooms on the left-hand side of the building. The mill itself was 180ft long and consisted, like the flour mixing department, of five floors; the wheat-cleaning department had six floors. The width of the building was sufficient to allow for a duplicate set of machinery, both in the screen house and in the mill. Fireproof walls divided all the departments from each other.


Read more HERE.
 

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

Wynveen International company profile



Wynveen International B.V. is a leading Dutch company, specialising in the design, manufacture and installation of complete mills for the animal feed industry.

With a knowledgeable, experienced and enthusiastic team, the company focuses on the development and construction of high-quality innovative equipment and installations for animal feed, aqua feed and pet food manufacture.

In addition to turnkey projects, their core products are hammer mills, ribbon and paddle mixers, double-shaft paddle mixers, rotary sifters and coaters for liquids (vacuum and atmospheric).

Approximately 80 percent of their products are exported. In order to guarantee its high quality standards, Wynveen assembles and tests all its key equipment in-house.

Wynveen always aims to fully understand customer requirements, working in partnership with customers and using all their accumulated knowledge and experience to deliver the optimum, often highly innovative, technological solution.

That’s why their company motto is: ‘Versatility in feed processing’.

Visit the company website, HERE.
 

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


September 28, 2020

GEAPS Exchange postponed to August 2021

In light of continued concerns over COVID-19 and the upcoming flu season, GEAPS International Board of Directors has announced that it will be postponing GEAPS Exchange 2021 until August 6-9 2021. It will still take place at the Columbus Convention Centre. Registration will open in May, 2021.
 


The organisers expressed their thanks to the industry for their continued commitment to GEAPS and Exchange 2021.

Visit the GEAPS Exchange 2021 website, HERE.

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

Peter Steiner appointed Global Head of Business Unit for Mühlenchemie

Mühlenchemie is pushing ahead with the specific focus of its brands with Peter Steiner as the new Global Head of Business Unit. By doing so, the specialist in flour improvement will be taking a further organizational step into the future.

Mr Steiner contributes over thirty years of experience in the international functional ingredients industry. His task will be to structure and gear Mühlenchemie's services even more closely to its customers' needs in a volatile and globalized market. The focus of his work will be on extending consultancy and digitalizing the company's offers.
 
Peter Steiner
Image credit: Mühlenchemie


Mr Steiner contributes over thirty years of experience in the international functional ingredients industry. His task will be to structure and gear Mühlenchemie's services even more closely to its customers' needs in a volatile and globalised market.

As Dr Matthias Moser, the managing director responsible for the firms and brands of the Food Ingredients Division of the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe, explained, 'With Peter Steiner we have acquired a wealth of know-how for Mühlenchemie in respect of strategy, change management and team formation. By perfecting these competences we are raising our philosophy of 'Understanding Flour' onto a new level.'

Every year, Mühlenchemie standardises more than 100 million tonnes of wheat for the milling industry in over 130 countries. The requirement for this has always been to maintain close relations with over 2,000 customers and develop tailor-made solutions. Teams of experts in Mexico, Singapore, India, China, Russia, Turkey and Nigeria offer services to the local mills on the spot, thus helping them to achieve optimal flour quality.

'We intend to preserve and develop the values that have made our company the global market leader in flour treatment and apply them to meet the demands of our time', said Mr Steiner when describing his objectives. 'To do so, Mühlenchemie will take on additional personnel and also adjust itself more closely to the culture of the target markets with new employees in product management. 'We want to understand our customers better, encourage internal and external communication and offer more personal consultancy. That will also mean more investment in business development, trend scouting and market research. We must think in terms of whole strategies so that the mills can achieve growth in a dynamic market environment', Mr Steiner says.

Mr Steiner goes on to explain what this means in concrete terms, 'We will collect, analyse and share more data-driven information from the start, from the raw materials and procurement markets, in order to find more individual and quicker solutions for our customers. The focus of development will still be the group's SternTechnology Centre in Ahrensburg, near Hamburg. The trial bakery enables 100 research scientists and applications technologists to simulate processes and test the efficacy of enzymes and other active ingredients. From the cereal grain to the baked goods, the company can represent all stages of production with the use of sophisticated technology. Within a short time, the results can be applied to commercial processing and conveyed into the target regions.'

Visit the Mühlenchemie website, HERE.
 

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

12th session of the Online Milling School to focus on Feed Mill Design and Construction

 The Online Milling School (OMS) is holding its final session of its inaugural Course 1 on Wednesday September 30th, 2020 with a high profile expert presenting on Feed Mill Design and Construction.



This is the time to join us to complete your 12-Session course on a high or simply drop in to learn what this industry expert have to say about Feed Mill Design and Construction.

Session 12 will take place at 14:00 Bangkok Time on Wednesday September 30 and will re-broadcast on Friday October 2, 2020 at 14:00 Chicago Time for our North, Central and South American feed manufacturing staff.

Why should you join us?
This session will consider the steps involved in design and construction of a new feed mill and/or extension of existing plants. The best process and practices to follow during the design process are reviewed and explained.
 

Session 12 speaker Johannes Wick, CEO Grains and Food, Bühler
Image credit: Bühler


Session 12 speaker spotlight: Johannes Wick, CEO Grains and Food, Bühler
Johannes Wick joined Bühler in 2014 and took over the management of Grain Milling, the largest business area. He has led the Bühler Grains & Food business since April 1, 2016. Prior to joining Bühler, he worked for more than 20 years in different management positions in the energy and infrastructure sector at ABB, ABB Alstom Power, Iberdrola, and Alstom. Mr Wick earned a Master's degree in Engineering at the ETH in Zurich with an exchange at the Technical University in Madrid. He expanded his knowledge with an MBA from IESE in Barcelona with an exchange at Sloan Management School of Business at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston.

Milling and Grain published an interview with Mr Wick where he shared his thoughts on energy and milling in the January 2015 edition, this can be viewed, HERE.

A new 12-Session Course will start afresh from Wednesday October 7, 2020 at 14:00 Bangkok Time (and on Friday October 9, 2020 at 10:00 Chicago Time) and you can sign up for all 12 at US$330 for the full 12-session course - or again take one course at a time for US$30/course.

Attendees completing all 12 session in a course will obtain a 'Certificate of Attainment' to show that they have successfully participated in the full course.

Thank you for considering the above. We look forward to welcoming you onto the platform for the final session of Course 1 on either Wednesday September 30, 2020 or Friday October 2, 2020.

For more information and to register, visit the OMS website, HERE.

 

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

Cycling for a cure

DSL Systems, a company that specialises in installing control and automation systems, has been installing its unique solutions for feed and grain plants since 1979. During 2020, team leader Paul Colman started cycling and fancied undertaking a cycling-related challenge.
 
The obvious challenge was to cycle from 906 miles from Land’s End to John O’Groats and to do this in nine days, starting August 23rd. However, due to COVID-19 and the lockdown, the trip was cancelled. But as Paul’s scheduled time off work had not been cancelled, he decided to cycle the same distance (and more) over the same number of days but on different routes starting and finishing at home and/or York (the city he grew up in, where he could stay with family.)

The first five days were a jaunt of 100 miles each around Nottinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire starting and finishing in Bingham, which included an arduous day battling with Storm Francis. The final four days were 100 miles each in Yorkshire, starting and finishing in York.

As Paul explained, “On some of the days friends rode all or part of the distance with me, but I also did three days solo […] the solo days were really tough,” Paul added. “I also endured bad weather on most of the days, as it was wet, windy and cold.”

In the end, Paul completed 925 miles in nine days on August 31st.


Read more HERE.
 

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

Novus company profile



Novus' scientific roots and history originate in the 1950s when St Louis, Missouri-based Monsanto Company began conducting livestock and poultry feed metabolism studies. 

In 1959, one of its products received FDA approval as an animal feed additive, which helped launch the Monsanto division that would become Novus. 

In an effort to focus on its core businesses - seed, herbicide and biotechnology - Monsanto sold its Feed Ingredients division to Mitsui & Co Ltd and Nippon Soda Co, Ltd. in 1991, setting Novus on its path of Health through Nutrition based on science.

With two products for the poultry industry and the vision of helping to feed the world affordable, wholesome food, Novus International was born. 

At the time, this vision statement was considered a bold goal and some questioned how Novus could realistically make a contribution. Although Novus was a small, business-to-business company, we understood that our core knowledge of health and nutrition related to poultry could be beneficial to other species.

Since 1991, Novus has brought numerous products to the market, including more than 100 over the past decade, and developed product families including Methionine solutions, Trace Mineral solutions, Enzyme solutions, Eubiotics solutions and Feed Quality solutions. 

Novus’s comprehensive portfolio provides a holistic approach to solutions, service and sustainability for poultry, swine, aquaculture and cattle.


Visit the website HERE.
 

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



Registration opens for IAOM SEA




The 11th IAOM SEA is taking place 6-8th October, 2020. Regustration for the event is now open! The event will be hosted onlinewith a virtual expo that gives attendees and exhibitors the opportunity to network and enjoy the virtual lounge with vendors.

Read more HERE.
 

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

September 27, 2020

Hamlet Protein presents at USSEC virtual event

Hamlet Protein recently participated in the renowned online event series organised by US Soybean Export Council (USSEC). The webinar was aimed at increasing awareness on value added soy protein products among nutritionists. Hamlet Protein speakers addressed young animal nutrition, with a specific focus on poultry and ruminants.

Young animals such as piglets, calves and chicks need a feed that supports their underdeveloped digestive system in early life. Just as feed is the single most important factor in animal production, protein is the most important feed ingredient for securing growth. High quality proteins are the key to formulating an easily digestible feed with a minimum of anti-nutritional factors.
 


The two-day event took place on September 22-23 and drew an international group of industry professional and academia. It focused on sustainable soy value added ingredients and presented a broad range of speakers from across the industry.

Lars Sangill Andersen, Nutritionist at Hamlet Protein talked about 'Improving safety in ingredient choices.' Focusing specifically on piglet nutrition, he addressed how the selection of the right protein source directly influences animal performance and health.

Alfred Blanch, Category Manager Poultry at Hamlet Protein spoke on 'The Change to Antibiotic Free Broiler Diets and the Role of Soy Protein.' In his presentation he addressed emerging nutrition-related Issues in Antibiotic-free systems; soy based protein Ingredients low in anti-nutritional factors (ANF) in broiler nutrition and how these can improve feed conversion ratio and end weights.

Christine Brøkner, NPD Manager at Hamlet Protein presented on 'Value Added Soy Ingredients as High-Quality Protein for Newborn Calves.' Key elements of her presentation included the need to ensure smooth transition from calf to ruminant and stimulate growth; the role of functional fiber products in pre-weaned calf diets and how low anti-nutritional factors (ANF) and allergens are a precondition for effective newborn calves nutrition.

Visit the Hamlet Protein website, HERE.
 

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

FEFAC publishes Feed Sustainability Charter 2030 at XXIX Congress

During the XXIX Congress, FEFAC published its Feed Sustainability Charter 2030, highlighting five key ambitions how the European Feed Industry can contribute to the development of more sustainable livestock and aquaculture value chains.

The Charter contains concrete feed sector actions at EU and national level featuring animal nutrition solutions that can help increase the sustainability of livestock farming operations.
 


 FEFAC President Asbjørn Børsting and BFA Managing Director Katrien D'hooghe highlighted how the Charter's actions and commitments are matching the specific EU Green Deal Objectives affecting the livestock and aquaculture sectors.

The digitally livestreamed FEFAC XXIX Congress featured a panel discussion between Michael Scannell (European Commission), Pekka Pesonen (Copa-Cogeca), Philippe Weiler (Lidl Belgium), Preben Sunke (Danish Crown) and Jean-François Timmers (WWF) on the Green Deal and market expectations to the European livestock & feed industry.

A key priority raised by all panellists was the need for the European feed industry and its chain partners to achieve deforestation-free soy supply chains. They also welcomed the ambitions set in the FEFAC Feed Sustainability Charter and encouraged FEFAC and its members to take more targeted commitments.

FEFAC President Asbjørn Børsting commented, 'It's a proud today for the European Feed Industry to set its ambitions for more sustainable feed production for the 10 years to come (see also two pager explanation of the Charter) It was good to hear from important stakeholders what their concerns and priorities are and I can assure them that today is the beginning of a journey of measurable progress. We recognise that a deforestation-free soy supply chain is a key priority for our industry and we're working hard on the upgrading of the Soy Sourcing Guidelines to facilitate a mainstream market solution to achieve that goal'.

BFA President Dirk van Thielen commented, 'Even though we have had to change our original intentions for the joint FEFAC-BFA Congress, I am very pleased we managed to organise this digital event with very high quality speakers, including contributions from Stella Kyriakides (European Commissioner Public Health & Food Safety) and Willy Borsus (Vice Minister-President & Minister of Agriculture, Walloon Government). FEFAC and BFA are committed to step up the action on bringing down Greenhouse Gas emissions like methane, upscaling the use of co-products, tackling deforestation and reducing antimicrobial resistance'.

Read the FEFAC Feed Sustainability Charter, HERE.
Visit the FEFAC website, HERE.
 

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

Online milling school presence and future

by Yiannis Christodoulou, Founder and Managing Director of Athene Consulting Co., Ltd and Progressus

What an initiative! What a response!

We are extremely pleased that the collaboration between Progressus and Milling and Grain magazine has been proven to be a great success, one that has been very well received and fully embraced by the feed milling industry worldwide.
 
Through the years, Progressus has made it the company’s mission to deliver quality, unbiased and practical information to the livestock and aquaculture industry through its AgriSchools training workshops, which have been running for over seven years as physical events in Thailand.

Necessity many times is the mother of innovation and this is very much true for the situation we are all in right now. At Progressus, and in order to continue our effort of supporting our industry’s needs for people development and upskill, we have partnered with Milling and Grain magazine in order to take these important training modules online under the umbrella of the Online Milling School. This not only allow us to continue to support the needs of the industry and its professionals but, more importantly, has created the means for extending the reach of training programmes from being primarily accessible to the Asian feed milling community to becoming available to the wider world.

The proof is in the result. As we are nearing the end of the first delivery of the 12 modules of our Online Milling School, which ran from July 15th to September 30th, 2020, we would like to thank the companies and professionals that have been part of the programme. Based on the extremely encouraging and positive feedback that keeps coming in from milling professionals from around the world and, specifically, from many European and Asian countries such as the Philippines, Bangladesh and Indonesia, we see and hear that we have been delivering valuable, practical and not easily found information which greatly helps their daily operations and the milling industry overall.


Read more HERE.
 

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

CSI company profile



The 20,000 m2 factory and the office of the ÇSİ, is equipped with the highest quality engineering and producing technology.

Their goal is to sell our products using the ÇSİ brand in the domestic and abroad markets; presenting the highest quality and service, combined with our experiences they have gained over the years.

All of the equipment they use in the production of our silos have ISO 9001:2000 certificate and supplies all the requirements of the Quality Management System.

ÇSİ has become an expert in the production of the silos and equipment, in their highest technology equipped institutions.

Having adequate technology, manpower and substructure, ÇSİ has an impressive place in the market.

Their main attribute is the capability of doing the montage of the silos, which have different diameter and tonnages, their carrying equipment and the concrete bottoms at the shortest duration as possible.

This attribute is the root of their success.

ÇSİ has proved its difference with its experienced quality control unit and Ar-Ge unit.

ÇSİ uses modern machines and equipment in all the steps of the production and its engineering team which has the highest technology and quality, analyses the necessities of the customers continuously.

The experienced engineering team in the Ar-Ge department, uses the latest computer programmes and techniques while preparing the project designs, developments, patterns, drawings and the production systems.

ÇSİ is always continuing its search of quality

The basic components of their quality of production is the necessities of our customers combining with the highest technology.

The main aim of ÇSİ is to improve its success day by day and give the customers the continuous and the best quality of product and service.

Visit the website HERE.
 

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



September 25, 2020

the interview | Mr Ed de Souza, Extrusion Systems Process Director, Wenger Manufacturing


Ed de Souza graduated with a degree in Agribusiness at Fort Hays University in Kansas, USA in 1995. He also obtained a master’s degree in Business Administration, with a focus on business management at Fundação Getúlio Vargas.
Mr de Souza was hired by Wenger Manufacturing Inc in late 1995. Working at Wenger for the past 23 years, he has developed an extensive know-how in food extrusion processing. He has worked in food extrusion research at the Wenger Technical Centre in Sabetha, Kansas, and has knowledge also as a field service technician working with equipment start-ups, process troubleshooting and providing lectures and training.

 


 

How did you come to be involved in this industry?
After graduating with a degree in Agribusiness at Fort Hays University in Kansas, USA, I was interviewing with two multinationals in the commodities business, paperwork related to work visas halted these processes. By chance, I went to visit Sabetha, Kansas, the headquarters for Wenger Manufacturing, Inc., with a college friend, before I returned to Brazil, my home country. At a local high school football game, I met with the service manager for South America and the rest is history. I landed in this business by chance and I believe it was meant to be, as I fell in love with extrusion processing right away.
 

What has been your proudest achievement, whilst working at Wenger? Has the company expanded greatly since you have been part of the team?
In 2000, my US work visa expired, and I had to make the decision to move to a different country. Brazil was, at the time, a great market and at full expansion for pet food and aquatic feeds. Our customers needed local support and parts, so I was proud to help starting Wenger conduct business in Brazil. Firstly, our Brazilian office served as a service office and soon after we moved in manufacturing parts and then equipment, before evolving into a full blown modern manufacturing plant in 2013. It is an honour being a founder of Wenger within Brazil and representing Wenger Manufacturing, Inc. I consider this to be a great achievement in my career and, yes, the company has expanded greatly since I have been part of this proud team at this honourable company and I have so much to be thankful for.
 

What are the biggest challenges for your industry, and how do Wenger combat and resolve these issues?
The extrusion industry faces challenges that are often overlooked. Most extruded aquafeed manufacturers focus too much on cost accounting, and there is a fine life between being cost effective and losing throughput and product quality. If these areas were focused on, as they are key for product improvement and financial gain, then manufacturers could process better products in larger quantities, using a lot less resources:
Raw Materials: Investing a small percentage in formulation cost to provide extrusion friendly ingredients, such as better starch sources and functional proteins, can possibly double the throughput of an extrusion line, using essentially the same fixed assets and fixed cost.
Hardware: Reduced capital investment for inferior standard and or inappropriately engineered and configured grinding, extrusion and drying equipment can result in a continued higher processing cost and lower throughput for the life of the equipment, resulting in higher use of resources due to inefficiency.  The lack of proper asset maintenance, which is preventive as opposed to corrective, is a major road block for efficiency and output quality on an extrusion line. Proper preventive maintenance is the very essence of asset preservation: it prolongs the life of productive equipment at a minimum cost, as well as preserving the output quality and ensures reliability.
Asset maintenance, especially with extrusion cooking equipment, should not be considered as a lump sum that needs to be reduced in the budget of next year, rather it needs to be viewed as crucial key performance indicator and analysed as cost-per-tonne. In most cases, a planned preventive maintenance programme will represent less than two percent of the total production cost but, if neglected, it can result in throughput loss, product quality decline and loss of clientele.
The third topic that serves as a challenge for the industry is control of the processing system. When the two prior points are well managed, process personnel need to be able to precisely control the process for ensuring high quality output on an extrusion line. Processing software has the ability to offer user friendly process tools that ensures a smoother extrusion process and the highest quality product, as well as the ability to provide data for managers to assess and carry out corrective decisions.
Wenger has developed and continues to improve its processing equipment, namely extruders and dryers, to provide a user friendly and durable state-of-the-art solution, and modern processing tools overcome ingredient variations and other potential hurdles. Through years of know-how and process engineering, Wenger offers a comprehensive and precise process control automation by our one and only Automated Process Control system (APM™).  Wenger values what is best for our clients.
 

You recently took part in the Aqua Feed Extrusion Conference and gave a great presentation concerning operational excellence leadership. How do Wenger incorporate these leadership techniques to ensure your company remain at the peak of the processing industry?
Wenger focus on providing all-inclusive process support, in addition to advanced extrusion equipment and modern processing control tools. One of our most appraised support systems, WEnger CARE™, improves our customer´s operations, generating more quality products with the least resources spent.
 

Your role at Wenger is heavily involved with extrusion in food processing- for products such as snacks, pasta and cereal – how has extrusion technology for food processing evolved since you first joined this industry twenty years ago?
The food extrusion equipment sector has evolved mainly through extrusion technology that is now able to utilise increased amounts of thermal energy, generating new product possibilities in terms of extrudate development. An example of this is our AquaFlex™ system, a dream machine that presents high flexibility and lasting components, maintaining product quality for the longest uptime and offering product changeover with the minimum setup change. New processing tools and advanced automated controls also allow for higher plant efficiency and lesser processing problems by totally controlling the process.
 

What do you see as a possible challenge that the industry may face over the next five years, and how will your company play a part in prevention or solving it?
The COVID-19 pandemic presents interesting opportunities. I believe we will see an increased consumption of cultivated fish, due to its minimised impact on the environment and increased number of people adopting pets, as well as extruded plant protein derivatives as an alternative nutrition for humans. We are ready with superior technology for the three area we specialise in: State-of-the-art and advanced extrusion equipment for pet food, aquatic feeds and human food.
 

Has COVID-19 affected business in any way for Wenger? How has the company overcome these challenges?
We have seen challenges, primarily brought about through the limitations on travelling, but, on other hand, we have developed new and improved tools for remote access for client interaction, equipment commissioning and client support.
 

What makes your company stand out from its competitors? Do you have any projects or plans that we should look out for over the coming year from you and your company?
What we focus on is the customers’ best interests. Our vision is simply to be the best partner our clients can attain. This vision represents our commitment to state-of-the-art and advanced extrusion solutions and innovative processes utilised via expert support. We are also very focussed on research and development. We are, just now, renovating and substantially improving our 55-year old extrusion research centre in Sabetha, Kansas, refining it in terms of both size and technology, making sure our customer stands out from the competition, right from day one and use just the minimum of the earth´s  




September 24, 2020

Nikolaus Jungbluth to step down as head of Leiber GmbH Animal Nutrition’s Business Unit

From the 1st September 2020 the Leiber Business Unit for Animal Nutrition has made some personnel changes.

The previous head of business unit, Nikolaus Jungbluth, has decided after 11 years to leave the company on 31st October 2020 in order to tackle a new professional challenge. He has passed the management baton to Helge Jakubowski who had been working in the company since 1st November 2018 as Key Account Manager & Team Leader Sales Germany.
 
Helge Jakubowski appointed as new head of Leiber GmbH Animal Nutrition's Business Unit
Image credit: Leiber


"In the name of the shareholders and the entire Leiber Team, I thank Mr Jungbluth for the successful development of the Business Unit Animal Nutrition within Leiber', said CEO Bernd Schmidt-Ankum. 'We wish him all the best and hope he has success both professionally and personally. At the same time, we are pleased to have found Mr Jakubowski to fill this position and thereby allow the seamless continuation of the work carried out there."

Helge Jakubowski responded, "I am looking forward to this new professional challenge and will dedicate myself to the continued commitment of Leiber to animal nutrition."

For more than 65 years, Leiber GmbH has been one of the leading manufacturers of specialist yeast products "Made in Germany". At two sites in Germany, and at additional sites in Poland and Russia, Leiber, with its more than 230 committed employees, produces top quality brewer's yeast products and yeast extracts.

Visit the Leiber website, HERE.
 

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

SPACE 2020, an edition adapted to the context

For its 34th edition, from September 15-18, SPACE 2020 was held as an unprecedented and essentially digital version. The Show could not take place in its usual form due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

After the decision of its cancellation in its physical form announced in May, the organisers have implemented and strengthened many digital tools to maintain the link between members of its community, exhibitors and visitors.
 


SPACE traditionally brings together more than 1,400 exhibitors, a third of whom are international, and more than 100,000 visitors, including 15,000 from 120 different countries. These participants were able and still can stay in touch by organising B2B meetings thanks to the platform available on the "SPACE 2020 Rennes" mobile app and on www.space.fr.

The functionalities of this mobile app and of the website have been developed consequently to offer many services to their users: the presentation of nearly 1,000 exhibiting companies registered for this edition with more than 800 products featured, a program of 85 conferences, the description of the 26 products awarded by Innov'Space this year, the top 100 of the most memorable award-winning innovations over the past 25 years, replays of animations and programs, a showcase of the breeds announced in the spotlight this year: the Normande and the Blonde d'Aquitaine, SPACE TV video reports by Web-agri.

SPACE was also the first Agricultural Show to launch its Podcast platform. These programs are available on the website, on the mobile app and on the major podcast platforms to discover programs on employment in agriculture, the history of the changing farming practices in cattle, pigs and poultry livestock, but also in agro-machinery with a particular focus on the tractor.

The 'Genomic Elite' auction could also take place this year in a completely digital way. The Holstein, Normande, Jersey, Pie Rouge and Montbeliarde breeds presented exceptional cattle for sale. 19 heifers were sold for a total of € 86,200, with an average price of € 4,537.

This SPACE 2020 also organised two highlights on site. The Innov'Space awards ceremony took place on Tuesday, September 15. By maintaining this operation and the quality of the winning products (26 out of the 70 applications submitted) SPACE concretises its role as a unique showcase for innovations.

On Wednesday, September 16, a round table brought to light the components of the food supply chain, all its actors, and in particular the 'shadow hands' which guarantee its solidity and which make it possible to guarantee the supply of quality food for all our consumers. The French Minister of Agriculture and Food, Julien Denormandie honoured SPACE with his presence by participating in this round table. On this occasion, the Minister outlined his ambitions for French agriculture and for livestock in particular, in the frame of the recovery plan. This presence is a sign of strong encouragement for SPACE and for all agricultural fairs which play an essential role in agricultural economic activity.

This digital version and these highlights have been set up thanks to the adaptability of its organisation to deal with this crisis in a reactive and anticipated way. Digital allows us to maintain a link but it does not replace the wealth of exchanges that can take place in the showground. This digital package will be complementary for the years to come. Friendliness is part of SPACE's DNA and we all miss it this year. The organisers will therefore meet you from September 14-17, 2021 to share it again together at the Parc-Expo exhibition centre in Rennes, France.

Visit the SPACE website, HERE.
 

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

Yemmak company profile



Established in 1965, Yemmak is Turkey's leading feed machinery manufacturer, providing industrial process solutions for the animal waste processing, chemical and biomass industries.

Through its deep industry experience spanning over half a century, Yemmak exports to 35 countries on four continents, and provides services in project consulting and engineering, special-purpose projects, automation, modernization, steel construction and after-sales support with a 250-strong staff lead specialist engineers at its 50,000 m2 area plant in Bandırma, Turkey.

Yemmak is among the few producers in Turkey and Europe that can manage machinery, process and turnkey projects from a single centre.

Yemmak recognises the key role of advanced technology in improving Turkey's prospects and believes R&D investments are crucial in this regard.

As a global brand, Yemmak exports 70 percent of its products to 35 countries including Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Lebanon and the rest of the Middle East; Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and all other Turkish republics; and Russia, Ukraine, Armenia, Sweden and Panama. Providing low energy costs, the design, production, and assembly operations of the company are of high quality, selection, reliability, and efficiency.

Yemmak sees each project as a complete system, and identifies for its customers the most optimal solutions. Yemmak stands out with its distinctive projects. With the mission of transforming factories into manufacturers that turn out products with high marginal utility, Yemmak has thus far set up numerous of the highest capacity factories, producing feed for poultry, cattle and fish. It is currently establishing the largest turkey feed factory in Russia.

Yemmak's primary product groups consist of:

- Raw material intake and cleaning units
- Storage solutions for solid and liquid raw materials
- Grinders
- Mixer systems
- Blending units
- Pelletising technologies
- Weighing and bagging machinery
- Transport equipment
- Electrical power panels and control panels
- Automation systems


Yemmak reshapes production through environmentally friendly, sustainable and innovative technologies.

Visit the Yemmak website, HERE.
 

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


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