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Company Feature

Grain Industries Ltd

Grain Industries Ltd is one of the major players in Kenya’s grain milling industry. As the miller celebrates its fifth anniversary, Milling Middle East & Africa magazine made a visit to the plant, which is located in the coastal city of Mombasa, to talk about the company’s journey and its future plans with Munir Thabit, the CEO and Patrick Muriuki, the General Manager.

Event Review

Iaom Mea 2022

Regulars

Editorial

10 News Updates:

• Angola to invest US$5.7B to raise grain production to 6m tonnes

• GAIL receives US$1.23M to boost maize and soybean production in Nigeria

• Ghana opens maize processing facility, plans establishment of Grains Development Authority

• PepsiCo SSA launches US$16.92M production line to boost Weet-Bix capacity

• LT Foods becomes full owner of Dawaat Foods in new deal with Saudi Arabian agricultural fund Salic

• ECOWAS Rice Observatory to boost local production in West Africa receives UK backing

• Scoular highlights progress made thus far in second annual sustainability report

• National Foods invests US$7M in new breakfast cereal plant in push to expand product range

• Kellogg’s opens new innovation center in UK to ‘invent the foods of the future’

• Commodity trading heavyweights Cargill, Bunge join COP27 pledge to speed up climate change action

• Commodity trader AFEX inaugurates multigrain processing plant, storage unit in Nigeria

• Montego Pet Nutrition consolidates Gauteng operating units into newly built manufacturing hub

• Forafric expands to West Africa with acquisition of majority stake in Groupe Sahel

• Integrated poultry company Irvine’s establishes US$4.3m feed mill in Botswana

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Technology Focus

52

Automation In Milling

Milling made elegant with automation

Market Trends

58

Pet Food

Nutrition and wellness drive growth in the pet food industry

70 Supplier News & Innovations:

• DSM updates animal feed vitamin fortification guidelines

• Roquette launches new range of organic pea ingredients

Ingredients Opinion

Whole Grain Impact

Food Security

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Bread Improvers

The wind beneath the wings of commercial baking success