01/12/2017: GRAPAS Innovation Awards

Mock up of GRAPAS award - Not exact representation

GRAPAS Asia will be held next year March 27-29, in Bangkok, Thailand. 

 Milling and Grain magazine, the oldest magazine still in print (first published in 1891) is once again holding the GRAPAS Innovation Awards at Victam Asia 2018. 

 The award will be made to reward the most innovative and economically beneficial equipment, process or service in the milling of grains and cereals for food production at GRAPAS Asia 2018. 

 All award recipients will be published in an edition of Milling and Grain magazine alongside a review of the event itself. This issue will not only reach MAG print readers, but will be promoted widely through the magazine's social media to ensure maximum awareness of the award winner within the milling industry globally. 

 Nominations are being called for from all sectors of food milling and from non-exhibiting and exhibiting companies alike.

 A panel of independent industry experts will judge the entries. Their selection will account for 60 percent of the final vote. Delegates attending the one-day GRAPAS Conference on March 27, 2017 and visitors attending the Victam Asia Exhibition from March 27-29, 2018 will be able to vote on the award and their combined vote will account for 40 percent of the final vote. The award will be announced during Victam Asia 2018.

 To submit your entry please complete the application form and submit it by email. As the shortlist of nominations will be displayed at Victam Asia 2018 for final voting, please be prepared to supply a small display (details of size and dimensions to be forwarded following application submission) to be set up in the awards area at Victam. 

 The winner will receive a certificate plus a GRAPAS trophy. Runners up will recieve a Certificate of Achievement. 

Accepting entries for: 

1. A milling technology development (for flour, rice or other cereals)
2. A production process or refinement that makes for more efficient and/or safe production of food
3. A service (online or otherwise) that helps millers achieve their goals more efficiently 
4. 
   

For more information and form - click here.

 

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19/09/2013: Algeria's first US grain imports; ag giants kept out of India; Adisseo wins IT Innovation Award

The U.S. Grains Council (USGC) recently announced positive international developments with regard to the importation of dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) in Algeria and plans by Taiwan to purchase U.S. grains products. 

This positive development comes a year after USGC and USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service announced that a three and a half year effort to convince Algeria to remove a value added tax and custom tax on all feed imports to Algeria. 

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Controls are discouraging the agricultural trading giants from investing in the country's storage sector despite a huge potential for elevator production in a country where US$3.5bn of grain is written off every year.

While India is the second-ranked rice and wheat producing country after China, agricultural trading houses have been reluctant to invest in the country thanks to the degree of government control over the sector.

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Adisseo has been named the winner of the 2013 Information Technology Innovation Award for its web-based platform, Precise Nutrition Evaluation (PNE). The award acknowledges technological advancements in the feed and food industry to meet the demand of a growing population.

PNE which was launched in September 2012, combines an internet-accessible database with near infrared spectroscopy technology, analysis of ingredients for the determination of apparent metabolizable energy (AME) and digestible amino acids (DAA), and ISO-certified wet chemistry methods that are both stringent and high quality. 

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English: India. Area controlled by India in dark green; Claimed but uncontrolled territories in light green. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

19/11/12: News stories from Russia, Alltech and NAMA

Hello, 
We're back from a very successful EuroTier and have so many exciting things to follow up on. But for now, here's our news picks:

• Russia may be the worlds' third largest grain exporter but the country looks set to import 2 million tons following this summer's drought. According to the Russian the country’s Grain Producers’ Union the country usually imports about 800,000 tons of feed grain, according to the union data. Read more...
  

• Alltech founder, Dr Pearse Lyons has won an award for strengthening economic ties between the US and Ireland. Lyons received the Ireland-U.S. Council’s Award for Outstanding Achievement at Council’s 50^th Annual Dinner, held Nov. 8 at the Metropolitan Club in New York City. “We in this Council are extraordinarily pleased to recognize the substantial contributions made by Pearse Lyons during his impressive career as an entrepreneur and businessman,” said Dennis Swanson, the president of the Ireland-US Council based in New York. “He has built an impressive enterprise that has its roots in Ireland but scored its early dramatic growth in the United States." Read more...

• The 
North 
American
 Millers’
 Association
 (NAMA)
 has revamped its website as part of an effort to strengthen communications with key audiences. 
“NAMA
 has
 a more
 than
 100
 year
 history
 of
 taking
 action 
as 
the
 voice 
of 
the
 grain
 milling 
industry,”
 says 
NAMA 
President
 Mary
Waters.
 “We’re
 excited
 to 
build
 on
 this
 valuable
 reputation
 as 
we
 strongly
 position
 NAMA
 for
 the 
ever‐more
 complex
 business
 climate
 we
 operate
 in
 today,
 as 
well 
as
 tomorrow.”
 Visit the site...

  

  Grain (Photo credit: peter pearson)