Event: Bridge2Food 6th Protein Summit

The 6th Protein Summit has got underway in Rotterdam, the Netherlands with an opening plenary by Prof Dr Rob Hamer, VP Discovery, Unilever. Organised by Bridge2Food, the two-day summit will focus on how to provide protein for a growing world population. After the opening sessions, the summit will split into three tracks which will each address a different aspect of protein production. The themes are: Future supply & demand: the global agenda
Health: exploring new health domains for proteins
Technology: new technology & process contributions Grain and Feed Milling Technology’s publisher, Roger Gilbert, will be chairing the technology track on both days. Topics include keeping and adding value; managing future supply and use; protein supply challenges in growing the animal feed business in Europe. The Protein Summit 2013 is the merger of three Bridge2Food platforms, which have been successfully organised since 2008: The Protein Summit, Protein Technology innovations, and Food Protein innovations. The Protein Summit is the annual platform for the global protein industry. More information... The Protein Summit 2013 is the merger of three Bridge2Food platforms, which have been successfully organised since 2008: The Protein Summit, Protein Technology innovations, and Food Protein innovations. The Protein Summit is the annual platform for the global protein industry. - See more at: http://gfmt.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/event-bridge2food-6th-protein-summit.html#sthash.YDf4VDAt.dpuf

The 6th Protein Summit has got underway in Rotterdam, the Netherlands with an opening plenary by Prof Dr Rob Hamer, VP Discovery, Unilever. Organised by Bridge2Food, the two-day summit will focus on how to provide protein for a growing world population.

After the opening sessions, the summit will split into three tracks which will each address a different aspect of protein production. The themes are: Future supply & demand: the global agenda
Health: exploring new health domains for proteins
Technology: new technology & process contributions

Grain and Feed Milling Technology’s publisher, Roger Gilbert, will be chairing the technology track on both days. Topics include keeping and adding value; managing future supply and use; protein supply challenges in growing the animal feed business in Europe.

The Protein Summit 2013 is the merger of three Bridge2Food platforms, which have been successfully organised since 2008: The Protein Summit, Protein Technology innovations, and Food Protein innovations. The Protein Summit is the annual platform for the global protein industry.

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6th Protein Summit starts today!

GFMT July/August 2013 online now

The July/August 2013 issue of Grain and Feed Milling Technology is online now.

There is a fantastic range of features in this issue including the risks of aflatoxins in European wheat production, changes to sweep auger enforcement and a feed focus on cattle.

We also report on recent trips to Cereals 2013, Livestock Event and the Nottingham Feed Conference.

Read the full magazine below.

New! GFMT article: Steaming ahead

The first article from the new issue of GFMT is online now. Check it our in full here.

Thomas Stuecken, chairman, Offsprey Deepclean, United Kingdom talks us through the importance of cleaning in the mill.

Hygiene and food safety of raw materials and end products are vital in the grain and feed milling industry. Millers take great care to ensure processes meet all legislative and food safety requirements. At the same time, consumers expect food to be safe and are increasingly taking an interest in how their food is produced.

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Steaming ahead

New! GFMT article: Global commodities

Grain and Feed Milling Technology's commodities expert, John Buckley rounds up the global grain and feed markets.
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Global feed and grain markets

New! GFMT article: Feed enzymes in animal nutrition

Elizabeth Norton, nutritionist, Anpario plc, United Kingdom, talks us through feed enzymes in animal nutrition.

Enzyme technology is an integral tool for the brewing, baking and textile industries. In agriculture there is great potential for enzymes too but this is yet to be fully exploited. However, animal nutrition is one area in which the use of feed enzymes is becoming increasingly important. 

There are three driving factors in animal production that are leading to the development and adoption of feed enzyme technology. First, the world’s growing population has meant global demand for food and in particular meat and meat products have increased substantially.  In addition, producers are also continually looking for novel methods of increasing their efficiency and productivity and the cost and availability of raw materials for animal feed is the second factor continuing price rises are a major constraint to meeting demand. The third factor is concern over the environmental fragility of the planet and the pressure on agricultural industries to reduce their reliance on vital resources. 

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Feed enzymes in animal nutrition

New! GFMT article: Efficient barge unloading technology

Sandro Suppa and Vincent van der Wijk of Bühler, Switzerland describe the how transporting grain by barge is an ecological and cost-efficient alternative to railway and truck haulage.

 Since time immemorial, ships have been used to deliver bulk goods over long distances, using the river current as a natural force to carry them downstream or yoking draft animals for upstream transport. Although trucks and trains have taken up a large part of this task in the modern age, barges are still a viable alternative for many goods. A barge carrying one ton of cargo can travel five times as far on five liters of diesel as a truck with the same freight – 500 km compared to the truck’s 100 km of range overland. A ship carrying 3,000 tons of goods is equivalent to 50 railway cars or 100 trucks.

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Efficient barge unloading technology

New issue of GFMT online now

The first issue of Grain and Feed Milling Technology is at the printer and online now. We've kicked off the year with a bumper 68-page issue including articles on controlling explosions in hammer mills, barge unloading technology and feed enzymes in animal nutrition.

New! GFMT article: Roll refurbishment

The team at Satake Europe wrote this article on roll refurbishment. I was lucky enough to visit the Satake refurbishment workshop and learnt a great deal about how regrinding and refluting works. Check out the article below.

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New! GFMT article: The changing face of pallets

The humble pallet doesn't get much attention. However, there are hundreds of thousands of pallets in circulation worldwide. This article form GFMT November/December 2012 looks at the origins of pallets and recent developments.

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You can also browse past issues of GFMT online for free.

New! GFMT article: The art of the modern miller

At the end of last year three of the GFMT staff had the pleasure of visiting the headquarters of Jaeckering in Hamm, Germany. Based at an old air base, it's no ordinary mill.

Read the full article or check out the full archive here.

New! GFMT Article: Probiotics

The latest issue of Grain and Feed Milling Technology magazine looks at probiotics to aid digestion. Click on the image to read the article.

 
You can also read the whole magazine online for free.

New issue of GFMT online now

The September/October issue of GFMT is at the printer. As usual, there's an exciting mix of features spanning the food and feed milling industries. Two perennial problems, packaging and pest control, are given a through interrogation in two cracking features. Packaging manufacturer bpi.visqueen tells us about bagging options for eco-conscious and price savvy millers.  While Hikmet Boyacioglu tells us about pesky pest problems.

Plus there are all the regular news, events and features.

If you can't wait to get your hands on a print copy, you can read the whole magazine online here for free on click on the image below.

 

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