EuroTier and EnergyDecentral 2021 goes digital

In view of the continuing uncertain international situation in conjunction with the COVID-19 pandemic, EuroTier, the world's leading trade fair for animal production, and EnergyDecentral, the international trade fair for innovative energy supply, will be carried out February 9-12, 2021 in a digital version.

The trade fair will not take place physically in Hanover, Germany. This decision was reached by the DLG (Deutsche Landwirtschafts-Gesellschaft - German Agricultural Society) as the organiser of the two leading trade fairs, following extensive meetings with industry representatives, the advisory board and partners.
 

The "EuroTier / EnergyDecentral digital" events offer exhibitors a broad offering and maximum flexibility with digital business packages, while offering visitors an extensive technical program and attractive networking opportunities. For 2021, the DLG will also offer additional events and trade fairs on all aspects of the topics of animal husbandry and decentralised energy supply.

"The increasing number of corona cases worldwide and the related restrictive travel guidelines for both exhibitors and visitors require flexible business solutions and information services, like those offered by the 'EuroTier / EnergyDecentral digital' events," explained Dr Reinhard Grandke, CEO of the DLG. "Our digital trade fairs are both international business platforms and expert networks for the current issues of the animal production and energy sectors."

Inform & Connect – EuroTier and EnergyDecentral as a digital platform
Inform & Connect: With digital company profiles, live events including chat and meeting functions, "EuroTier / EnergyDecentral digital" offers a broad range of communication and interaction opportunities for exhibitors and visitors. The digital technical program with DLG Spotlights on the key trade fair topics of dairy, pig, poultry, energy, emission control and direct farm sales, as well as live discussions from the DLG Studio provide the perfect setting for planning investments.

"For the DLG, it's important to make the entry into the digital world of EuroTier and EnergyDecentral as easy as possible. Therefore, we've put together three different exhibition packages for our exhibitors that can be used individually and expanded flexibly. Participation in the technical program and additional advertising options complete the range of services, which is equally attractive for national and international exhibitors. We offer maximum reach and flexibility for addressing visitors as well as transparent and secure investment planning," said Dr Karl Schlösser, Project Manager of EuroTier, emphasising the advantages for the exhibiting companies.

The same applies for the visitors of the digital platform. After a one-time online registration, visitors can obtain information on the products and services of the exhibitors, contact them directly and actively participate in numerous events and discussions of the technical program. "We therefore offer visitors a simple way to specifically contact the appropriate contacts within the exhibiting company and to plan investments with them," said Dr Schlösser.

Additional DLG services in 2021
The DLG network will offer additional national and international trade fairs and industry events for the animal production and decentralised energy supply sectors in 2021 as outdoor and indoor events with a safe business concept. These include:
• agra 2021: The leading agricultural exhibition for Central Germany will take place, April 22-25, 2021 in Leipzig and offers an information and exhibition program for livestock holders.
• DLG-Feldtage 2021: The meeting point for crop professionals will take place from June 8-10, 2021 in Erwitte (East Westphalia) on around 45 hectares of exhibition grounds and offers numerous advantages of an outdoor event in a region of Germany that is heavily influenced by animal husbandry.
• Agritechnica 2021: The world's leading trade fair for agricultural machinery, November 14-20, 2021, offers livestock holders a large number of exhibition and information services.
• BIOGAS Convention & Trade Fair: Together with the professional association Fachverband Biogas, the DLG will organise the world's largest international biogas trade fair, December 7-9,  2021 in Nuremberg, Germany. The trade fair offers a complete market overview of this specialised industry. The conference of the German Biogas Association impresses with its professional and valuable international technical program.
• International trade fairs and conferences: Together with partners, the DLG will provide information on topics and requirements of animal husbandry in the respective agricultural regions during numerous trade fairs and events, and offers exhibitors and visitors tailored-made business platforms

The next EuroTier and EnergyDecentral trade fairs will take place November 15-18, 2022 as a hybrid trade fair in Hanover, Germany.

Current information on both trade fairs is available at: www.eurotier.com and www.energy-decentral.com.

 

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Luther’s new self-contained plansifter: The novel way of propelling stock

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

My last article on the new Alsatian mills summarised a 1909 report in The Miller. When writing that, I was intrigued by the emphasis on a new Luther Plansifter, so I went back five years to the April 2nd, 1904 issue of Milling, which reviewed the equipment in detail as “the novel way of propelling stock”. This earlier article featured fine engravings of the new plansifter and a view of them installed in Van Gruisen and Co’s Mill in Boom, Belgium.

At that time, the journal asserted that all millers would acknowledge that sifting on level surfaces of silk cloth or other separating material was correct in principle, but the method had not been largely adopted because the generality of sifters then in use were not free from mechanical faults. The main difficulty was not so much the application of a sifting motion, as combining it with enough agitation of the material being sifted to provide the separation without excessive vibration.
 

Inclined sifters had been used in mills for years, although only for separating rough material, such as wheat and offals. Until the plansifter was introduced many less successful attempts had been made for dressing softer material, such as meal. The overall aim was to get the true sifting motion of a hand sieve, where the sieve is not turned over, together with agitation enough to separate the material, without disturbing the strata of heavy and light stock and with a minimum of vibration.

In Britain, a new plansifter was promoted by Emil Fiechter of Liverpool. It had been invented by the Brunswick firm of Messrs G Luther, a firm of mill and silo builders established in 1846. The machine was an entirely different kind of the plansifter developed from a design first introduced into the UK by the same firm in the early 1890s. I have previously reviewed reports in 1892 and 1893 that first of this new form of plansifter to be used in the UK was installed at the mills of Joseph Appleby and Sons of Blackburn (see Milling & Grain March 2020, page 22). These first machines were put in by Mr Fiechter, displacing 3x3 sheet centrifugals and 3x2½ sheet reels.

Read more HERE.

 

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Van Aarsen company profile

Van Aarsen has become a household name worldwide for machinery and turnkey projects for animal feed technology, both for commercial feed producers and for vertically-integrated businesses. 

Quality is of the utmost importance in both sectors of the industry and innovations in feed production are therefore of great interest. 

Thanks to their extensive experience, engineers and technicians are always able to offer tailor-made solutions.

Visit the company website, HERE.

 

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Dinnissen Productivity Platform receives ISO 27001 certification renewal

This month, Dinnissen Process Technology received a renewed ISO 27001 certification from an independent certification institute. ISO 27001 is the world's most recognised information security standard.

In 2017, the machine builder obtained this integral certification for cyber security for the first time. In their own words, as the first and only machine builder in the Netherlands. ISO 27001 focuses on the availability, integrity, and confidentiality of data; an exceptional quality mark to have as a machine builder.
 

Image credit: Dinnissen

Wouter Kuijpers, Director Operations Dinnissen Process Technology together with their customers, continuously innovate to make production processes more efficient and more profitable. The role of Smart Industry, IoT and remote management is becoming increasingly important in this respect.

An example of such an innovation is the Dinnissen Productivity Platform which enables users to communicate with their machines and installations via the Cloud. This provides a simple and reliable way to gain insight into the output of their production processes at any time and location, including the service status and possible production interruptions.

To ensure secure connections between customers' and networks, the Dinnissen Productivity Platform has been developed with a focus on safety and reliability. With the ISO 27001 certification across the entire organisation, Dinnissen offer assurance of secure information services and a safeguard from data leaks and hackers.

ISO 9001, ISO 14001, and ISO 45001
Dinnissen comply with all legal requirements, covenants, and guidelines in the field of information security, quality, safety, health and environment. Dinnissen provide the integral certification of ISO 9001 (quality), ISO 14001 (environment), ISO 27001 (information security) and ISO 45001 (health and safety).

Visit the Dinnissen website, HERE.

 

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Tomra Insight, a cloud-based service for monitoring and optimising food sorting processes

Following its successful launch last year by TOMRA Sorting Recycling, TOMRA Insight is now also being made available to TOMRA Mining customers, TOMRA Food and Compac, part of the TOMRA Food family. For all these industries, the platform is enhanced by new features and functionalities. 

TOMRA Insight turns sorting and grading machines into connected devices that generate valuable process data. This data is stored securely in the cloud, converted into actionable information, and accessible from anywhere via a web portal for desktop and mobile devices.
 

Image credit: Tomra

TOMRA Insight's data-gathering helps processors in near real-time and retrospect. Because product quality is measured continuously, machine operators are empowered to make prompt and optimal adjustments to machine settings in response to product quality changes on the line. And because TOMRA Insight provides previously inaccessible deep-dive data, customers are now empowered to make operational and business decisions based on more complete information.

TOMRA's engineers help customers analyse critical data every month as part of the TOMRA Insight subscription service. Accurate and timely comparison is now possible between multiple sites, shifts, batches, and seasons.

Felix Flemming, Vice President and Head of Digital at TOMRA Sorting, commented, 'By capturing and using valuable data, TOMRA Insight is transforming sorting from an operational process into a strategic management tool. And this tool is constantly becoming more powerful as we continuously develop it in response to customers' needs and priorities. New functionalities and features are released every three weeks – a routine during which TOMRA works closely with customers in pursuit of shared objectives.' 

Food processors see multiple benefits
Thanks to the performance metrics gathered by TOMRA Insight, processors can benefit in many ways. Downtime is reduced by monitoring machine health and performance to support predictive and condition-based maintenance. Throughput is maximised by evaluating variations and optimising sorting equipment accordingly. Efficiency is improved by identifying gaps in production and analysing potential root causes. Sorting to target quality is enhanced by being able to make decisions based on accurate product composition data. And operations are simplified through easier spare parts ordering and flexible access to data and documentation.

Jeffry Steemans, Product Manager Digital at TOMRA Food, said, 'Food processors participating in pilot installations tell us that TOMRA Insight will pay back month after month. They see improvements in product quality, higher throughputs, lower waste, and greater yields. Customers also report that machine operators embrace the transparency of having information available to make better decisions.'

One food processor which conducted an early trial of TOMRA Insight and has now committed to the subscription service is The Jersey Royal Company. Located in the British Crown Dependency of Jersey, this company is the producer of the internationally recognised Jersey Royal new potato in the Channel Islands. This business grows, washes, grades, packs, and supplies approximately 20,000 tonnes of potatoes every year. Four of the company's sorting machines – one Halo and three TOMRA 5A's – have been connected to TOMRA Insight for more than six months now and have convincingly proven the data platform's effectiveness.

Andrzej Kopacz, Operations Manager at The Jersey Royal Company, commented, 'TOMRA builds 'the Rolls-Royce' of sorters, and TOMRA Insight is a strong addition to these machines. Using the information we're getting from Insight, we are now managing product-quality more precisely to meet customer expectations, improve product control and allocation, see where we need to help sorters meet targets, reduce waste, and make better use of the equipment with less downtime. We are now also able to give better feedback to our growers. For example, we can flag-up very quickly if there are too many unwanted green potatoes coming through for processing. To us, it's clear that TOMRA Insight is well worth having.'

Food processors interested in TOMRA Insight are invited to request a risk-free trial by contacting their local sales manager or the team directly, HERE.

 

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Taking the LEAP towards a sustainable future

by Michael Binder, Vice President Sustainable Development, Evonik

Sustainability is central to the animal feed industry, and here at Evonik we play our part by developing evidenced-based products and solutions; we call it Sciencing the Global Food Challenge.
 

However, we are well aware that feeding our growing population in a sustainable manner is something that no one company or organisation can manage alone. We are just one cog in the huge machine that needs to work in harmony to develop and maintain our food system in a more viable, long-term manner.

One step towards helping this happen is the publication of the FAO’s ‘Environmental performance of feed additives in livestock supply chains: Guidelines for assessment’. I am a member of the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) Partnership's Feed Additives Technical Advisory Group and contributed to the development of the guidelines, especially with regards to the production and use of amino acids.

The new publication explains, among many other things, how the digestibility of feed is an important contributor both to feed efficiency and to the environmental impact of feed production on livestock production. It says, “With the exception of ruminants, which are able to digest a large variety of feeds (in particular diets with a high percentage of fibres), monogastric animals (pigs and poultry) are not able to digest fibres efficiently. For this reason, a high energy diet for monogastric animals comprises mainly feed ingredients with high digestibility (e.g. cereals and legumes).

Read more HERE.

 

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PTN company profile

Pelleting Technology Netherlands (PTN), is a specialist in the development, production and servicing of pelletisers and related machinery for the production of animal feed

Their products can be used for a wide range of applications. Since 1974 PTN has been active on a global scale in the development, engineering, production, sale and servicing of pelletisers and related machinery for the compound feed, recycling and biomass industries.

Thanks to its ongoing research and development based on demand from the market PTN has various patents to its name. 

Following the first patent taken out on the super rotor sifter, over the last 40 years PTN has also developed and patented the automatic roller adjuster, the unique mould quick-change system, the mix compress, the BOA compactor, the hygiene concept (TCS & RTB) and in 2016 the High Effient Progress Monoroll. Innovations that now still contribute to the company’s continuity.

Quality and reliability have been guaranteed for many years by the ISO 9001 certificate and constantly monitored as part of ongoing improvement.

On 1 January 2013 the company joined the Triott Group, thus taking a major step towards a global presence as an innovative company. 

Visit the PTN website, HERE.

 

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