June 24, 2020

Bruks Siwertell launches new brand identity to reflect united strength

Bruks Siwertell has launched a new brand identity designed to reflect the values, combined strengths and capabilities of its products, solutions and services. It includes a new Group logo, which will represent both the Bruks and Siwertell brands in all future communications. 

'We have grown our business significantly over the last few years and this is a natural stage in our transformation process; a new look to show the market that we are bigger than our individual brands,' says Peter Jonsson, CEO, Bruks Siwertell Group. 'We have a market-leading portfolio of products and services for the dry bulk handling and wood processing industries. These are distinct business areas in their own right, but they have a lot of natural crossovers that deliver effective synergies. We want to highlight these so that customers can draw upon their benefits. Our new appearance is part of a recognition process, it shows customers that Bruks and Siwertell products are part of the same family, and enables the instant association of our equipment with the ability to add value to operations, generate profitability and offer an impressive return on investment for their owners.'
 

'This joint branding initiative opens the door to a future of continuing our legacy of innovation, entrepreneurship, and quality design,' says Emily Braekhus Cueva, Marketing Director at Bruks Siwertell Group. 'Our drive for improvement and the development of new solutions and sustainable incentives is represented in our new identity.

'The Bruks and Siwertell brands are deeply settled and respected within their respective business segments,' she continues. 'We have kept their separate identities, but brought them closer together for common communication purposes, so that all customers within Bruks Siwertell recognise them both. Therefore, some elements have been retained and we have also introduced new ones.

'Worldwide, customers will still see the single product Bruks and Siwertell brands on our ship unloaders, ship loaders, conveyors, stacking reclaiming systems, wood chippers, screening and milling systems,' Ms Braekhus Cueva explains. 'They will also see a new logomark to show that, although they each represent different types of products, both brands are now part of a bigger family, able to offer a much wider span of equipment. Together, they complement each other and build a stronger portfolio.

'The logomark is designed to evoke a feeling of focus and speed, with the circles signifying movement and velocity,' she adds. 'The semicircle can be interpreted as a belt conveyor and the sharp-edged parts potentially as wood-chipping knives, while within the visual of the complete circle you can see one of our core components, the screw conveyor. The three-dimensional angle implies movement and rotation, and the shape of a globe represents our international reach.'

In addition to the logo, the new Bruks Siwertell brand identity comprises other core elements such as signature colours. In communication material, the dark grey will be dominant, and complemented with elements of the blue and red shades from both the original Bruks and Siwertell brands. Subtle background circles, as well as new typography are also significant changes to Bruks Siwertell's new appearance.

Visit the Bruks Siwertell website, HERE.
 

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By-products: Bran and husks: For maximum product utilisation and cost-efficient increase of the nutritive value in animal feed

by Amandus Kahl GmbH, Germany
 

During the processing of cereals such as wheat, spelt and oats, different product components are produced in the respective production steps. In the grain husking and meal screening process, the main product to be processed is separated from its husk - also called bran. This by-product can be ideally used for further processing into animal feed.

Bran is the husk of the grain which may have a higher or lower starch content. This grain component is used, especially in the compound feed industry, for the production of animal feed. In order to compact the voluminous by-product, pelleting with Kahl flat die pelleting presses is the best option.

Pelleting of bran, and also husks, offers great advantages, especially with regard to storage and transport. While bran and husk can be stored relatively easily in large volumes, pelleting these products results in a higher bulk density, which reduces storage and transport costs and, thus, significantly increases economic efficiency.

The advantages of compaction with the Kahl flat die pelleting presses can also be found in the Kahl technology known worldwide. The press configuration holds a specific advantage for all products with a high fibre content, including bran and husk. Thanks to the Kahl flat die pelleting press, no pre-grinding is required. Such a by-product can therefore be pelleted easily and without great effort. A simple integration in the existing or new mill makes it possible to pellet the product and sell it as a valuable feed component, thereby increasing the nutritional value.


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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.
 

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June 23, 2020

Modern wheats are high in dietary fibre, but there is still room for improvement!

by Peter R Shewry and Alison Lovegrove, Rothamsted Research, UK

The yields of wheat in the UK and across much of the world have increased massively over the past century, from a few tonnes per hectare at the start of the twentieth century to current UK average yields of between eight and nine tonnes per hectare. Many factors have contributed to these increases, with genetic improvement by plant breeding being particularly important in the second half of the 20th century.
 

For example, Ian Mackay and colleagues at NIAB estimated that almost 90 percent of the yield increases in the UK over the period 1981-2007, from about six-to-eight tonnes per hectare, were due to varietal improvement. However, it has been suggested that the emphasis of modern breeding on increasing yield and processing quality has resulted in detrimental effects on the contents of other grain components, including those that are important for human health. This is important because wheat is the staple food in many countries and an important source of a number of essential and beneficial components, including protein, dietary fibre, minerals and vitamins.

Cereals, and wheat in particular, are important sources of dietary fibre. For example, in the UK about 40 percent of the fibre in the diet comes from cereals, about 20 percent from all breads and about 10 percent from white bread. Dietary fibre is essential for human health, having a range of established benefits including reducing the rate of glucose release during the digestion of starchy foods (and hence reducing the risk of type 2 diabetes), lowering blood pressure and the level of cholesterol in the serum, and reducing the risk of certain types of cancer (notably colorectal cancer). Fibre is also deficient in almost all diets:  the average UK adult consumes about 18g per day, compared with the recommendation of 30g.


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Vibrafloor company profile



Vibrafloor is the world leader in providing modular vibrating bulk reclaim systems to reclaim cohesive and free flowing products, such as soya bean meal, potash, wood-pellets, sugar, biomass and grain.

Installations include steel and concrete silos, hoppers, warehouses, railcars and ships.

According to Vibrafloor, no other reclaim technology can provide the same balance of advantages which include:

• Total silo clearance
• No routine maintenance
• Modular redundancy
• Low energy consumption
• High reclaim rates
• No damaging vibration or stress transfer
• No product degradation

Vibrafloor are proud to include ISO 9001 in our long list of accreditations.

Vibrafloor services

Design
A complete design of the Vibrafloor modular reclaim system, including advice on the necessary incline of the storage vessel floor. Vibrafloor are not involved with the design of the associated civil engineering, storage vessels, bulk handling and conveying systems etc.

Manufacture
The Vibrafloor modular reclaim system is assembled under the strictest quality control measures.

Supply to site
Delivery by either road vehicle or shipping container, either to site or local port as agreed. Complete responsibility for the consignment is then transferred to the client.

Training
Our site engineers will train the clients selected installation team on site, to install the Vibrafloor, subject to agreement.

Inspection
Vibrafloor site engineers will inspect the installation during the installation process, to ensure it complies with our quality control measures, subject to agreement.

Commissioning
Vibrafloor site engineers will commission the installation to ensure it operates as intended.

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June 22, 2020

Using probiotics to lower feed costs while maintaining laying performance and egg quality

A study published in Poultry Science (Mikulski et al., 2020) shows the positive effect of the probiotic strain Pediococcus acidilactici CNCM I-4622 (MA 18/5M)[1] (BACTOCELL) on dietary energy utilisation in laying hens.

The study indicated that the probiotic was able to compensate for the effect of a 100 kcal ME/kg of feed energy dilution on the laying performance. Authors suggested that the probiotic supplement exerts a positive influence on the dietary energy utilisation, increasing the feed efficiency in laying hens.
 
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Energy being a major driver of feed costs in poultry production, these new findings bring egg producers and nutritionists a new tool to manage production costs. The publication concluded that Pediococcus acidilactici CNCM I-4622 supplementation on a reduced-energy diet can be a viable strategy for lowering the feed cost while maintaining laying performance and egg quality.

More about this innovative trial
The study was conducted at Olzstyn University, in Poland, in order to determine the effect of the probiotic supplementation of diets with different energy levels on laying hens productive performance. As a model, 100 kcal ME/kg of feed energy density reduction was tested. The experimental diets were formulated to contain respectively 2,550 and 2,650 kcal ME/kg of feed and equal amounts of amino acids and minerals. The trial involved 200, 31-week-old Hy Line Brown hens and lasted for 16 weeks.

Despite a 100 kcal ME/kg of feed difference, both groups displayed a similar laying rate, equivalent feed conversion rate and exported egg mass.

The concept of bioequivalence has been applied to evaluate the combined effect of the dietary energy dilution and the supplementation of P. acidilactici CNCM I-4622 on hens' productive performance. Bioequivalence is defined by EFSA (2018) as follows: 'if two products are said to be bioequivalent, it means that they would be expected to be, for all relevant effects, the same.' The bioequivalence concept applied to hens' performance criteria indicates that hens receiving P. acidilactici CNCM I-4622 with a reduced-energy diet show bioequivalent performance to hens from the standard energy diet without probiotic.

In addition, eggs from the probiotic and reduced energy diet group showed similar eggshell thickness than eggs from the control and standard energy diet.

This suggests that the probiotic supplementation is able to somehow compensate for the effect of the energy dilution (-100 kcal ME/kg of feed) on laying hens production performance.

Eventually, when comparing the effect of the probiotic with equivalent diet (same energy level), it appears that hens fed the probiotic diet repeatedly provide better productive performance than hens without the probiotic (p<0.05).

This coroborate previous findings when the probiotic is supplemented on top of the diet and has shown beneficial and consistent effects on both the laying rate and the feed efficiency.


Mikulski, D., Jankowski, J., Mikulska, M., Demey, V. 2020. Effects of dietary probiotic (Pediococcus acidilactici) supplementation on productive performance, egg quality, and body composition in laying hens fed diets varying in energy density. Poult. Sci.,99, 2275-2285

For more information visit the Lallemand website, HERE.
 

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