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Living in challenging times New lime kiln UK Flour & Grain Milling industry - What’s in store for 2010?

Web-based bin monitoring Remote wireless inventory management via the internet The effect of DON on the gastrointestinal tract GAME Engineering Ltd become a distributor for SCE Bins Faster calibration service for silos & vessels saves money New BCPC Board member Heat stable xylanase available to EU poultry producers An Industry Bouncing Back: Alltech Announces 2010 European Lecture Series

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Switzerland offers three training institutes to service the milling sector 2010 International Feed Expo - updates from AFIA Feed regulators meet with industry representatives in Atlanta Raw material outlook, by John Buckley

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e live in challenging times and with the natural disasters seen in Haiti and other countries over recent months it is not just economic challenges we all face.

In Haiti the mill was wiped away in a few minutes with some loss of life and a total loss of a grain processing facility. Engineers quickly brought their skills to the fore and it is hoped that the facility will soon be operational once again.

Living in challenging times Elsewhere in the world we face challenges almost every day, perhaps not of the same magnitude but nevertheless our resources are stretched and we need all the available advice and assistance we can muster.

Grain and Feed Milling Technology magazine serves to bring together the global resources available to us with technical articles, information on milling engineering

developments and a general weather eye on processing developments throughout the world.

With a regular report on commodities, wide ranging classified adverts and a range of topical issues being covered in each issue there is more than enough to keep the reader stimulated.

This year’s list of articles and other feature showcases include Regulating granularity, Mill design, Flour mill ancillary machinery, Spelt milling, Screen room trends, Transport and packing & warehousing.

Our readership is expanding and we receive many comments back from readers about how they enjoy reading the magazine and how they often use individual articles to highlight issues within the own company.

We hope this will continue and the magazine will remain a useful tool and one which millers will keep on their shelves and pass to newcomers into their companies as an aid to the early education in milling.

Further comments are always welcome and we can be contacted at ‘GFMT’ at 7 St George’s Terrace, St James’ Square, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3PT, United Kingdom (www.gfmt.co.uk) at any time. We hope you have an enjoyable and successful year.

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ondi Syktyvkar announced that it had star ted up its new ‘Number Four’ lime kiln, which is a part of Mondi’s Syktyvkar STEP mill development projec t . This completion and st ar t up took pl ace beginning of December 2009.

M o n d i Sy k t y v k a r s t a r t e d reconstruction of the white liquor plant in spring 2008, before the STEP project construction work was initiated. Erection of the lime kiln with a daily production capacity over 700 tonnes of lime (СаО) started in autumn 2008.

60 tonnes. It was then erected into a single structure, which was aligned, welded and installed on the foundation suppor ts.

Finally, it was lined up inside with refractor y bricks.

Buildings for the feed-end and the discharge-end, as well as a building for white liquor filtrate we r e cons t r uc ted a r ound the kiln. This was followed by the process- and electricalequipment and the installation of the cyclone. All the equipment was piped, wired and provided with communication systems.

In spite of the wor ld economic downturn in 2009 and the complexity of the projec t, construc tion work w a s co m p l e t e d o n t i m e .

Gerhard Kornfeld, managing director of Mondi Syktyvkar, congratulated the combined mill and projec t teams for the successful completion.

The scope of the executed work was extensive: a 105-meter long kiln was delivered to the Mondi site in 12 shell rings, each of them weighing approximately 4 | January - February 2010

He reported that the start-up was challenging but successful.

T he f ir s t quick lime w a s produced in the lime kiln and the equipment operates to expec tation. Quick lime is required for the production of strong white liquor used for pulp cooking at Mondi Syktyvkar.

“Lime mud dr yness on the disc lime mud (DLM) filter is

at the required level of 75-77 percent,” said Mr Kornfeld.

In the near future the kiln will run at a lower capacity and will operate at its design output after the start-up of the other elements of the STEP project during 2010. The new white liquor plant will start operating fully in spring, when the thick liquor filter is put into operation.

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Construction of a new wood yard capable of handling four million m3 of wood per year Re build of sof t wood a nd hardwood pulp production lines Re b uild of W hi te L i q u or plant, construction of a new lime kiln with the capacity of 700 tonnes of СаО per day

Currently the STEP project, valued at EUR 525 million, is 67 percent completed. Its completion is scheduled for the second half of this year and entails the reconstruction of all the main production process capacity, r e p la ce m e n t of o u td a t e d equipment, introduc tion of new high-technology facilities and improvement of the mill’s environmental per formance.

Construction of a new soda r e cove r y b oile r w i t h t he c a p a ci t y of 356 0 t o n n e s of dr y subs tances per day

The main goals of the STEP projec t are cost reduc tion through an increase in production process eff iciency. Increased energy output will partially be sold to the electrical grid. Total paper and board production will amount to nearly one million tonnes - a 20 percent increase.

Re b uild of PM -14 (of f ice paper production) and BM -21 (board produc tion)

In addition, improvements to the mill’s safety performance are also expected.

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Installation of a new tur bo - ge ne r ator w i t h t he capacit y of 10 0 megawat t C o m m is s io ning of a n ew evaporation plant with the capacity of 550 tonnes of water/ hour and two new cooling towers

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UK Flour & Grain Milling industry - What’s in store for 2010?

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ew would argue that 2 0 0 9 w a s a dif f icult year for the UK flour and grain milling industries, but early signs suggest that conditions in 2010 will be much brighter. According to new research, by leading industry analysts Plimsoll, the market is slowly emerging from the malaise of the past two years.

David Pattison, senior analysts and author of the 2010 Plimsoll Analysis explains, “The recession tore through the market in 2008 and most of 2009 like a tornado and accelerated the rate of change in the market.

“Aggressive ‘growth at all cost’ operators have been forced to abandon their reckless strategies and many have been caught out and are in real trouble. “ H oweve r, so m e a ma z ing companies have come through the recession largely unaffected and look set to make 2010 their year. As the market continues to recover during the year the changes will continue to come t hick a nd f a s t .”

When pressed on what likely changes he envisages in the market in 2010 Mr Pattison of fe r s , “m o r e j o b l os s e s and consolidations sadly.”

“Even as the market improves there are a lot of companies, large and small, that survived by the skin of their teeth and they have to rebuild their profit margins and efficiencies.

“Our latest analysis projects that a further 4000 jobs will have to be shed if companies are to get back to profit and remain

competitive in 2010. Whether through natural wastage or compulsory lay offs, job losses are necessary. With the average sales per employee figure down to UK£420,000, employees need to ‘buy in’ and contribute more to the recovery of their companies - if you still have a job expect to work much harder in 2010.

“UK£2 billion wor th of profit has been wiped from the market in the last year and employers have no choice but to cut their cloth accordingly and get more from their resources.”

Mergers and Acquisitions As for mergers and acquisitions Pattison says, “In all we named 13 companies in our latest analysis that are ripe for takeover or merger with a larger parent. It’s a buyers market in 2010 with many companies still recovering f r o m t h e r e ce s s i o n .

their new acquisition wi th exis ting oper ations .”

So, aside from a serious refocus of profitability and the inevitable job cutting and takeovers, does Pattison see any cheer in 2010?

“There are some real good news stories out there.

“We rated 77 companies as ‘strong’ in our latest repor t.

As expected this number is down compared to previous years, but these companies will lead the market out of the dow ntur n. T hey have managed to be commercially successful without jeopardising t h e i r f i n a n c i a l s t a b i l i t y.”

The new Plimsoll ‘Industry Analysis – Flour & Grain Milling’ report gives an instant performance rating on the top 183 companies in the market. Each company has been rated as strong, good, mediocre,

caution or danger according to their latest performance. A graphical and written analysis will tell you which companies are in trouble and who is getting it right.

Readers of Grain & Feed Milling Te ch nolog y mag a zine a r e entitled to a UK£50 discount of this new special edition of the Plimsoll Industry Analysis – Flour & Grain Milling report. Call: +44 1642 626400 for further details and quote reference PR/AA36.

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“Our repor t has picked some great examples of companies that are currently under valued because of the recession that would be ver y at tr ac tive to p r os p e c t i ve ow n e r s . “ For many s tr ug gling companies, a buy-out may be the quickest route to get the company back on an even keel – even if it means relinquishing t h e i r i n d e p e n d e n ce .

Inevitably, this will further increase job losses as new owner s would quickly look for efficiency gains and to synergise

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Web-based bin monitoring Remote wireless inventory management via the internet

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inMaster Level Controls of Lincoln, Nebraska, U SA , announces the introduc tion of B inLink ® – a web-based monitoring solution for bins, tanks and silos that enables remote wireless inventory management

of stored material from any computer connected to the Internet anywhere in the world.

The core components of the solution are BinMaster’s SmartBob2 and Smar tBob-TS1 sensors mounted on the bins, a wireless or wired data communications network, a gateway to provide connectivity to a per sonal computer or IP ne t wor k , a nd data collection sof t war e that can be viewed by any authorised i n d i v i d u a l v ia an Internet connection.

“BinLink provides real-time control as data streams instantaneously from BinMaster sensors to the

Internet providing accur ate, reliable bin information,” said Todd Pe te r s o n , B i n M a s te r ’s vice president of sales. “ B i n L i n k o f f e r s 24 / 7 moni tor ing and is live on the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week, streaming the most current inventor y data or historical data to author ised user s.”

Automated alerts immediately can also send email and cell phone alerts when bin conditions meet user-defined thresholds.

BinLink eliminates the need to manually check bin levels, which saves time, money and manpower and improves the ef f iciency of order ing and logistics for all types of operations from farms, to processing and manufacturing operations, to the largest storage facilities.

The system is highly scaleable

and is able to monitor one or a 100 bins and grow as oper ations expand.

Site mapping capabilities include a built-in visual mapping feature that shows tank types, locations and levels to streamline operations and optimise delivery, filling and emptying schedules. As Internet data security is critical, BinLink features end-to-end encryption and authentication to ensure data is safe and confidential from the bin to the corporate office.

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Jenny Christensen Director of Marketing Garner Industries, Inc PO Box 29709 Lincoln, NE 68529 USA Tel: +1 402 4349102 Fax: +1 800 2784241 Email: jchristensen@ garnerindustries.com

The effect of DON on the gastrointestinal tract

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rench INR A scientist shares how the mycotoxin DON cripples the immune system by targeting the animal’s first line of defense – the intestine Mycotoxin intestinal absorption - specifically at the effects of DON on the gastrointestinal tract - is the subject of one of the latest videos on BIOMIN’s Mycotoxin Channel on YouTube.

In this concise, one-minute-plus clip. Dr Isabelle Oswald of the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) ex plains w hat happens in

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the intestines of animals as a result of the mycotoxin DON.

tr ac t . This produces a deleterious effect on the animal.

Also known as deoxynivalenol or vomitoxin, DON is among the most commonly occurring of Fusar ium mycotoxins of ten a ssociated illness in f a r m a ni ma ls o r hu ma ns .

From a weakened gastrointestinal tract, Dr Oswald explains that bacteria are then able to translocate themselves to the res t of the animal.

The gastrointestinal tract is the first barrier that the mycotoxin D O N e n co u n t e r s i n t h e animal’s body. Once ingested, DON weakens the intestine significantly, altering its protective barrier function and allowing more contaminants to enter the lumen of the gastrointestinal

Dr Oswald is the head of immuno-mycotoxicology at INR A , specialising in research on the impac t of mycotoxins on the immune system, par ticularly in pigs.

Besides the effects of DON, Dr Oswald Oswald has also touched on the long-ter m

effects of mycotoxins on pigs and ways to analyse the mycotoxin effect in the gastrointestinal tract, on the Mycotoxin channel.

The Mycotoxin channel consists of we bina r s t hat addr ess specific questions on mycotoxin p r o b l e m s a n d myco t ox i n management issues around the world. Topical sections include analysis, mycotoxin risk management, mycotoxins in gener al and symptoms .

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GAME Engineering Ltd become a distributor for SCE Bins

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AME Engineering have recently been appointed distributors for the specialist bin supplier SCE, Silo Construction Engineering Limited of Belgium, to bring SCE’s range of single and twin skin bins to the market in the United Kingdom and throughout Ireland.

Koen Verbrugge, sales engineer at SCE commented ‘SCE was so delighted with the collaboration and experience of the staff of GAME Engineer ing that for ming the distributor ship w a s o n l y a l o g i c s t e p .’

During GAME Engineering’s recent working relationship on the construction of f inished produc t blending bins for Wagg Foods, they were most impressed by the people and service provided. So much so that GAME Engineering plan to bring this successful working partnership to the advantage of

new cus tomer s looking for turn key bin installation package.

Working closely with SCE and with other sub contractors, GAME Engineering can offer a design and build ser vice for t win and single skin bins including erection, installation of conveyor s, feeders and ot h e r p r o ce s s m a ch i n e r y.

Civil engineering, elec trical engineering and control can be provided within GAME Engineering’s turnkey packages.

GAME Engineer ing Projec t Engineering Manager, Stewar t Brown said, ‘Over the years I have had e x p e r ie nce of

We pride ourselves in implementing the latest technological improvements We strive for the highest quality & confidence in our products & services Our goal is complete customer satisfaction in the production of our flour milling machines

many bin suppliers, but these bins from SCE are the best I have seen. I feel that bringing SCE to the UK will be to the benef it of many future bin projec ts. We are cur rently d eve lo ping ma ny p r oje c t s involving new bins and I look for w a r d to wor k ing mor e closely with SCE in the future’.

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GAME Engineering Dave Burkitt Contracts Director Witham St Hughs Business Park Witham St Hughs, Lincoln, LN6 9TW, United Kindgom Tel: +44 1522 868021 Email: dburkitt@game-engineering.com Website: www.game-engineering.comº

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Faster calibration service for silos & vessels

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ve r y We i g h -Tro n i x has launched a faster and more convenient method of calibrating silos and vessels mounted on load cells.

Force calibration is faster than traditional methods as it causes minimal disruption and equipment downtime.

Tr aditional vessel and silo calibration involves one of two methods. Either more than 500Kg of weights are delivered

to and then carried across the customer’s site to the vessel; or the vessel is filled with a measured material using a flow meter to achieve a precise weight. Both of these options are disr uptive and involve downtime since there are health and safety implications and ideally the container needs emptying before calibration.

Emptying the container is both time consuming and may involve

safety procedures if it is full of volatile materials. The test cycle is also generally a long and labour intensive process since the engineer generally needs to hang the weights from the vessel structure or measure the added medium using a f low meter.

Force calibration uses hydraulic pressure instead of weights.

There is also generally no need to empty the vessel, in fact Avery Weigh-Tronix can apply a force to

vessel or silos. These are push up, push down or pull down.

Using the push up method, j a c k s a n d r efe r e n ce l o a d cells are placed beneath the exis ting vessel. The jack s then reduce the load on the vessel’s load cells applying weight that can be measured by the reference load cells.

The push down method uses an H type bracket, which fits over the existing load cell mounting bracket. The jack and reference load cells are again used for measurement and calibration.

Finally, the pull down calibration uses hydr aulic c ylinder s and reference load cells to accurately calibrate the silo or hopper. This negates the need to hang weights onto the vessel’s structure and is quicker and easier to set up. Only small threaded bosses, or pull down points, need to be added to t he suppor t s t r uc tur e .

the existing material to get an accurate calibration. The method involves applying force to the installed load cells and measuring that force with an independent s e t of h ig h a ccu r a c y r e fe r e n ce l o a d ce l l s .

T he me t hod is hig hly accurate, up to +/- 0.1 percent, and is traceable to UKAS/QSRMC. There are three methods depending on the application and the ground clear ance beneath the

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Says Maureen Bott, product manager for Aver y WeighTronix: “In today’s economic climate it is even more vital that load cells are calibrated since accurate weighing of the customer’s material is vital to keep control of costs. We have found inaccuracies of up to five percent on site, which can equate to large losses of valuable mater ial. Force calibr ation causes minimal disr uption, unlike more traditional methods. It is accurate, fast, causes minimum downtime a n d i t i s cos t ef fe c t i ve .”

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New BCPC Board member

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CPC has announced the appointment of Jim Orson to its Executive Board.

br ing a pr ac tical approach to bear on all our activities.”

Mr Orson is currently Research and Technical Director of The Arable Group (TAG), which is now par t of the country’s la r ges t ind e pe nd e n t cr op research and information centre following its recent merger with Cambridge’s National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB).

“We are ex tremely pleased to welcome Jim to the BCPC Executive Board,” says Dr Colin Ruscoe, Chairman of BCPC. “ H is p r a c t i c a l e x p e r i e n ce of arable farming, especially

in the weed control sector, ideally complement s the exper tise we alr eady have and I k now that Jim – with his experience in TAG – will

Having gained a BSc in Ag r icul tur e f r om Reading University, Mr Orson joined ADAS where he took on posts as District Adviser, Agronomist and then finally Head of Cereals Development. He then became Director of the Morley Research Centre – a far mer-owned research station in Nor folk providing information to support the businesses of some of the biggest far mer s in Europe.

He has been very active on industry committees including: the UK Government’s Advisory

Committee on Pesticides, the Steering Committee of Field Scale Evaluation of GMOs, Chair of the Weed Resistance Action Group and he is currently on the U K G over nment ’s A d v i s o r y C o m m i t t e e fo r Releases into the Environment.

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BCPC 7 Omni Business Centre Omega Park Alton Hampshire, GU34 2QD United Kingdom Tel: +44 1420 593200 Email: md@bcpc.org Webstie: www.bcpc.org

Heat stable xylanase available to EU poultry producers

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anisco Animal Nutrition has received authorisation from the EU Commission for the use of its more heatstable x ylanase in broiler, layer, turkey and duck feed.

Danisco Xylanase maintains ef f icacy af ter exposure to feed conditioning and pelleting temperatures of up to 90°C. For ease of addition into vitamin and mineral premixes, Danisco Xylanase is available in a highly concentrated form, containing 40,000 xylanase units/g. For

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accurate inclusion directly into feed, more dilute versions of Danisco Xylanase are available.

Niels Otto Damholt, Danisco’s European Regional Director says, “Proven enzyme heat stability remains a key requirement for our customers. Our heat stable xylanase can be used easily and confidently in the vast majority

of feed manufacturing processes, thereby eliminating the need to use liquid enzyme application systems for pelleted feed.”

out the world. The company’s mission is to deliver innovative, sustainable solutions that increase efficiency and safety of the food production chain in an environmentally sensitive way.

Danisco Animal Nutrition, a business unit of leading global food ing r e die nt spe cia lis t Danisco A/S (Denmark), pioneered the development and use of enzymes and betaine in animal nutrition. Its products are now widely used by poultry and pig producers through-

Danisco Animal Nutrition PO Box 777, Marlborough Wiltshire, SN8 1XN United Kingdom

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An Industry Bouncing Back: Alltech Announces 2010 European Lecture Series

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o h n F. Ke n n e d y o n ce observed, “When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters.

One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”

The year 2009 was marked by almost unprecedented crisis, which had a domino effect across the globe. However, in the midst of crisis, many organisations renounced the danger and chose ins tead to embr ace the oppor tunities presented.

This resilience and ability to ‘Bounce Back ’ is the theme of Alltech’s 2010 European Lecture Tour. Speakers on the 39 stop tour, taking place from February 1st -12th, will explore how agriculture and the animal production industry can bounce back from an arduous year of high raw material prices and low profits and bounce forward to a year of growth and profitability.

“The Bounce Back lecture series will focus on how to succeed in life and in business - it is a forum for solutions. We invite attendees to bounce back from the challenges of the past year and to bounce forward with optimism, with innovative technologies and with a fresh approach. We also want to discuss how we as an industry need to bounce back, satisfy consumer demands, and put ourselves on more solid footing for the future through branding,” said Alltech President, Dr Pearse Lyons.

The ‘Bounce Back’ programme will present nutritional and business strategies that companies can employ to ensure strong earnings and to increase profitability in 2010. Industry concerns such as an ever-increasing demand for traceability and the inability to secure consistent raw materials will be addressed. Building sustainable teams through the training and development of employees, strategy formulation as well as establishing progressive management sys tems will be explored.

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The ‘Bounce Back’ programme is based on a model that Alltech has successfully implemented across its global offices and facilities. In a year of crisis, this model has enabled Alltech to continue to increase sales and growth as well as building five manufacturing facilities around the world and opening a unique co-generation plant in Serbia and a new facility in Clovis, New Mexico.

Adhering to the ‘Bounce Back’ model, Alltech has made traceability a core component of its business strategy over the past five years through the company’s unique Alltech Quality System covering its entire supply chain, which has been recognised around the world.

The company’s commitment to ‘Primacy in science’ is stronger than ever, as highlighted by the 98 patents protecting its brands and technologies. At a time when Mycotoxins pose major concerns, the company offers an industry leading and scientifically proven patented solution and is a reference for the industry through the website www.KnowMycotoxins.com.

During the ‘Bounce Back’ lecture tours, participants will be provided with ten key points of ‘Bounce Back’ as well as ten factors that are essential in order to attract, train and retain talented team members.

For the first time ever, the tour will feature panel discussions which will invite guests to submit questions in advance. Questions can range from business strategies such as better staff training as well as fundamental nutritional strategies.

“This year’s tour is not just about nutrition but it is also about profit, sustainability and building a platform for the future. In 2009 Alltech was recognised as one of the seven greenest companies in the USA by Inc magazine. With the European Lecture Tour, we invite you to learn from our experiences and to share your ideas with us on how we can all work together to build a sustainable future as well as a better today”, continued Dr Pearse Lyons.

Dates and locations for the 2010 European Lecture Tour are: February 1 10am Dunboyne Castle Hotel, Dunboyne, Ireland 4pm Hilton Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland 9am Mercure Rennes Centre Gare, Rennes, France 4pm Hotel IBB Andersia, Poznan, Poland February 2 9am Moredun Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland 3pm Hilton Doubletree, Bristol, England 9am Hotel Propellen, Billund, Denmark 3pm Clarion Hotel Bergen Airport, Bergen, Norway February 3 9am Mercure Caen Centre, Port de Plaisance, Caen, France 3.30pm Kortrijk Xpo Meeting Center, Kortrijk, Belgium 9am Sokos Hotel Presidentti, Helsinki, Finland 3pm Atlantis Conference Centre, Tartu, Estonia February 4 9pm Hotel de Wageningsche Berg, Utrecht, Netherlands 3pm Best Western Premier Hotel Krautkramer, Munster, Germany 9am Maritim Park Hotel, Riga, Latvia 3pm Le Meridien Villon, Vilnius, Lithuania February 5 9am Courtyard by Marriott Warsaw Airport Hotel, Warsaw, Poland 4pm Radisson SAS Hotel, Kiev, Ukraine 9am Ufa, Russia 2pm Crowne Plaza Hotel, Minsk, Belarus February 8 9am Ramada Parc Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania 3pm Swissotel Grand Efes Izmir, Izmir, Turkey

9am Merian Palace Hotel, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria 3pm Mediterranean Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece February 9 9am Hotel Hyatt Regency, Belgrade, Serbia 3pm Radisson Blu Beke Hotel, Budapest, Hungary 9am Kaldera Boutique Hotel, Banja Luka, Bosnia 3pm Hotel Antunovic, Zagreb, Croatia February 10 9am Best Western Premier Hotel International, Brno, Czech Republic 3pm Hotel Real Fini Baia del Re, Modena, Italy 9am Hotel Mons, Ljubliana, Slovenia 4pm Hotel Zlaty Klucik, Nitra, Slovakia February 11 9am Bellevue Palace Hotel, Bern, Switzerland 4pm Hotel Melia Avenida America, Madrid, Spain 9am Sheraton Munchen Airport Hotel, Munich, Germany 3pm Alltech Italy, Bologna, Italy February 12 10am Hotel Vip Santa Iria, Lisbon, Portugal 9am Hotel Barcelo Sants, Barcelona, Spain 2:30pm Royal Mansour Meridien Hotel, Casablanca, Morocco More

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UWT GmbH opens sales office in the UK

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he German bulk goods level measurement specialist, UWT Level Control, is pleased to announce the opening of their first sales office in the United Kingdom.

Based in the historic Shropshire t ow n o f S hrew s b ur y M r Graeme Hughes has been supporting UWT clients since October 2009. His objective is to increase the profile of the UWT range of products such as the Rotonivo, Vibranivo, Nivobob and Nivowave in the UK. Gr aeme brings to UWT extensive knowledge of industries including quarrying, steel /

p aper m anu f ac turing and mining following a successful career in technical sales.

Graeme is quoted as saying: “I am very happy to join UWT, a company whose products and customer focus are second to none. After many years of working in a wide range of industrial markets I am looking forward to providing solutions for our UK customers regarding their level measurement requirements”. The Shrewsbury office joins the other successful subsidiaries of UWT Germany, Memphis (USA) and Shanghai (China), a group which is tasked with

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Long and fruitful relationship benefits UK feed producer

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or over eight years Wagg Foods has worked closely with leading materials handling and process engineering firm GAME Engineering to build and develop the extrusion facility at their Dalton Mill in the UK.

This relationship, built on common understanding and trust, has enabled Wagg to build a plant, which has allowed their business to grow and develop with the minimum of disruption during its planned expansion.

Back in 2001, Wagg Foods already had a successful and thriving business and wanted to develop their brand by installing its first extrusion line.

GAME Engineering was selected to design and build this line as part of a multistage project.

The original brief was to design the plant with room and capacity for a second line at a future date. Wagg Foods had negotiated a package of process equipment and start up support from Andritz Sprout of Denmark.

Using Wagg Foods free issue process equipment GAME Engineering Ltd supplied the design and project management along with the mechanical handling systems to complete the process.

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This included the truck intake with filtration and separation of oversize materials, the bulk storage of the raw materials with batch weighing; screening machines; support structures; finish product weighed into IBC tote bags complete with the electrical; mechanical and process control installation.

Projects Director, David Burkitt says, “The project included liaising with Wagg Foods building contractors and Andritz Sprout. With the project starting in August 2002 it was up and running for Christmas and in production for January 2003, all within the original time scale.”

By the middle of 2003 Wagg Foods required a dedicated finish product blending and packing line on the Dalton Mill site.

The existing building was extended to form a packing hall.

GAME designed and installed a blending line, which enabled Wagg Foods to continuously blend up to eight finished products and deliver these to the packing lines automatically at 12 tonnes per hour.

The line was loaded through IBC tote bags which where emptied into the fixed bins blended to feed three packing lines.

From 2003 to 2006 GAME made various

“GAME added new grinding and mixing equipment and a second extrusion line within Wagg’s existing build, most importantly this was carried out whilst the plant was still

running ensuring that disruption to the business was minimised” modifications to the plant adding conveying routes and moving packing machinery to meet the increasing and changing demands of the finished product blending and packing.

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Then in 2006, GAME made the next major design change adding a further 10 raw material bins with a second weigher and conveyor system to feed back to the original extruding line. Once that system was in operation, GAME added new grinding and mixing equipment and a second extrusion line within Wagg’s existing build, most importantly this was carried out whilst the plant was still running ensuring that disruption to the business was minimised. This project included a new electrical sub station, electrical installation and changing the control software.

Most recently, from March-December 2009, GAME Engineering were awarded and completed the contract to supply and install the finished product storage and blending facility for Wagg Foods at Dalton Mill. GAME fought off stiff competition from other companies to secure this contract.

GAME Engineering places a huge importance on comply“From 2003 to 2006 GAME ing with the health and safety regulations. made various modifications “GAME has a skilful team to the plant adding of project managers, engineers and fully trained site conveying routes and personnel, many with experience in feed milling, coal moving packing machinery mining and other heavy industries. GAME is relied upon for to meet the increasing our expertise and knowledge in the pet food and animal and changing demands feed sectors and has successfully completed many projects of the finished product nationwide,” adds Projects blending and packing” Engineering Director David Burkitt.

“Wagg Foods has enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with GAME Engineering and long may it continue. The engineers at GAME have the experience and professionalism we require to complete our The finished project now enables Wagg projects with minimum disFoods to significantly increase their product ruption to the rest of the plant,” says storage and allow automatic blending to George Page, Production Director at packing, which increases their packaging Wagg Foods. capacity.

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Extrusion

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Generating added value through

extrusion in the flour mill

by Christopher Rubin, Product Marketing Manager - Extrusion, Buhler, Switzerland

The extrusion of grain-based, starch containing raw materials is a process allowing all but boundless applications.

Christopher Rubin, extrusion specialist in the Buhler Pasta and Extruded Products Business Unit, explains the possible value generation and benefits associated with the application of extruders.

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xtrusion serves the food industry as an upgrading process on the one hand for carbohydrate-based and on the other hand for proteinbased raw materials.

With carbohydrate-based raw materials, starch occupies by far the most important place. Other polysaccharides such as cellulose and glycogen are especially used in the production of confectionary and in encapsulating processes.

Making additional products

Grain-based foods are staples throughout the world.

In the grain year of 2007-08, 2.1 billion tonnes of grain was harvested around the globe. The production plants of the food industry process millions of tonnes of grain every day. The most important intermediate product in this connection is flour.

In addition to baking flour, grain processing also produces dark flour and bran, especially when wheat is processed.

Extrusion technology is one of the numerous possibilities of further processing flour as well as the by-products obtained in grain grinding. It offers especially flour mills the possibility of increasing the value added that they generate. The most important products made by the extrusion process include breakfast cereals, breakfast flakes, baby foods, extruded breading

(crumbs), croutons and modified flours and starches. These are used, for example, as binders in soups and sauces or in the baking industry.

Modified and ‘clean label’ as well

Modified flours are also called swelling flours. They are applied as binders, fillers, or freshness extenders in bakery products.

Swelling flours are characterised by their modified water absorption capacity and their solubility characteristics. It is possible by suitable selection of the extrusion parameters to adjust the viscosity of flour-and-water suspensions to the needs of customers or the requirements of a particular application.

When the correct amount of thermal and mechanical energy is introduced into the extruder, end products will be obtained which are soluble in either cold or hot water and which possess a certain bandwidth of viscosities.

The extrusion process is especially suitable for modifying flours because it completely eliminates the need for using chemicals.

Therefore, modified flour can be excellently applied as an ingredient in products to which the ‘clean label policy’ applies (no use of ingredients with e-numbers).

When extruded swelling flours are used, it is enough to declare wheat flour on the ingredients list.

Alternative to traditional processes

Another field of application for extruders is the production of breading (bread crumbs). Extrusion technology allows breadings to be made on the basis of a wide variety of raw materials. Whereas the traditional production method requires the use of high-protein flours such as wheat or rye flours for developing the gluten framework, all starch-containing materials can basically be applied in the extrusion process. This also enables the processing of lower-grade wheat flours or flours made from corn (maize), rice, or potatoes. Raw material quality fluctuations are easier to smoothen out in the extrusion process. In extrusion, dough leavening is achieved on the one hand through the expansion of the dough at the die, but on the other hand can also be controlled through chemical or physical raising agents.

Reduction of the energy costs In addition, the extrusion process also allows different types of breading flours to be made (American bread crumbs, Japanese bread crumbs, cracker meals, etc.) without requiring any modification of the extrusion line.

Moreover, it is possible to accurately adjust the texture, colour, and particle size of the product. In terms of energy efficiency, extrusion is a process excellently suited for producing bread crumbs. Much lower water contents in

The Buhler POLYtwin™ extruder is configurable flexibly and is well suited for the processing of milling by-products in premium food ingredients.

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We could talk all day about our quality and productivity. the product recipe and short retention times ensure low energy costs, especially in the downstream drying stage.

Thus, with a capacity of two tonnes per hour, the energy costs per tonne of finished product are twice as high for the traditional process than for the extrusion process.

Furthermore, with a suitable setup, the extruder offers the flexibility of also allowing related products such as baking beans and croutons and even bread chips to be made on the same line.

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By-products as a raw material

Extrusion offers additional advantages. It can also process raw materials such as very dark flours (low-grade flours) and wheat bran. Both are typically made available at low cost to the feed manufacturing industry.

With the aid of the extruder, these by-products can be transformed into high-grade foods.

They are extruded into breakfast cereals or are applied in a modified form as ingredients for other foods. Bran flakes are highly popular today. And extruded wheat bran may fetch a price that is double that of native wheat bran.

The opportunities for wheat bran as a high-grade food are vast. The high dietary fibre content of wheat bran gives the product a ‘healthy image’.

You see, the real story is the customer solutions we deliver, and the lifelong business relationships we cultivate by continually surpassing expectations.

Wenger will offer you more knowledge and skill in all aspects of extrusion and drying than anyone, anywhere.

Utilisation of lower-price raw materials

The basis of all the products mentioned up to now, which can be made by the extrusion process, is grain flour.

This is one characteristic that extrusion shares with the conventional baking processes. The basic difference resides in the dough texture. The dough framework of conventional baked products is based on proteins (gluten or pentosans).

On the other hand, the texture of extruded products is based on starch. The raw material used for extrusion must have a starch content of at least five to 10 percent to ensure that the end product will have a stable texture.

But the protein content can be low, that is, below 10 percent.

Flours with such a low protein content are normally unsuitable for baking purposes. As the flour price is determined, among other things, by the protein content, low-protein flours are less expensive than high-protein ones. The extruder therefore also allows low-price flours to be processed.

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In the extrusion process, a material is forced through a defined aperture.

In order to ensure that this opening (die hole) is not choked, the material must be either completely or at least partially liquefied by subjecting it to the action of pressure and temperature.

But in practice, the extruder fulfils many more functions: conveying, melting, mixing (dispersion and homogenisation) and proportioning.

In addition, the material undergoes chemical and physical modifications during extrusion, for example starch gelatinisation More information: or protein texturising. At the end of the extrusion process, the Christopher Rubin product is cut to size and thus Product Marketing shaped by a cutting device.

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few years ago these three topics would not have been considered in the same article. However today, things are quite different and colour sorters are now considered an integral, if not always significant part of any modern day wheat cleaning flow and now there are few screen rooms that do not have at least one colour-sorting device in the flow, of one sort or another.

Not always part of the main stream, but certainly a significant weapon in the miller’s armoury these days!

And when we consider cleaning and preparing wheat for milling, perhaps the most important aspect of having wheat in a suitable state for arrival at first break is the way in which we carry out the conditioning process. There are more problems that arise on the mill due to poor and inaccurate tempering or conditioning than any other single process before first break.

Dry wheat, wet wheat, wheat with variable moisture spread unevenly through the kernel, all of these items can give the miller quite a headache and all are so easy to identify, resolve and correct.

“Dry wheat, wet wheat, wheat with variable moisture spread unevenly through the kernel, all of these items can give the miller quite a headache and all are so easy to identify, resolve and correct”

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Five principles of separation

We were all taught the five principles of separation when we studied for our milling exams and the same principles

still apply – obviously, since wheat has remained unchanged, physically, despite the best efforts of the plant breeders.

However, we no longer use separate items of equipment to remove each type of impurity in every screen room since, thankfully, and because of better harvesting techniques, I dare to proffer that wheat is much cleaner than it used to be when it arrives at the mill.

Now that wheat is traded at 15 percent moisture content as opposed to the 16 percent which was the case up until the late 1980s, it is inherently cleaner just because impurities naturally separate away much easier at lower moisture levels. With many farmers also using central, common grain storage facilities post harvest, where grain is cleaned to within the accepted two percent limit for impurities prior to storage, the role of the cleaning house, certainly in new mill installations, is very much reduced and screen room flows are consequently greatly reduced in terms of machinery content.

We now use drum separators on intake in much the same way as we did in the mid-20th century, principally, just as a policeman to control large impurities, wood, tramp metal and masonry, often dug up by loading shovels when scraping the last of a season’s grain out.

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The sturdy, robust and reliable drum separator Most drum separators are much more sturdy than those produced even a few years ago, we don’t see the heap of twisted metal screen in the corner of the silo any more, principally brought about by a large lump of tramp metal being allowed to pass through the intake pit grid, left ‘ajar’ by the driver keen to get on his way.

Drum separators, particularly the Buhler and Satake machines, are now extremely robust and reliable, the former having lived through and developed in some really harsh conditions in North Africa and the Middle East and the latter having being developed in the maize mills of East, Central and Southern Africa where they have had to be robust to survive.

Grain storage times

Having given grain a tertiary clean at the first point of intake we then store it in dirty wheat silos until it is needed. Grain storage times are much shorter these days since finance does not allow us the luxury of storing grain in quantity, and there is little point in just having grain sat there in storage when money can be better used elsewhere.

However, in some circumstances we cannot avoid having to store some grain.

Imported, specialty wheat, for example, that may well have been shipped as

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a part cargo, split down and shared by a group of individual millers from an ocean going Panamax or similar sized vessel on coastal vessels from Europe and on which the minimum freight quantity may be greater than we would normally deem acceptable in financial terms for everyday storage.

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around two mm diameter and invariably slotted to avoid blinding too often, although it is becoming more regular to see coarser bottom screens, up to five mm slots and then subsequent independent treatment of the grain stream to recover sound wheat rather than the continued removal of impurities.

The reasons behind this are that it allows the separator to operate for long periods of time without blinding up and it ensures that screenings are kept to a minimum.

Gone are the days when we sought to remove every last impurity, rather that we keep a part grain in the stream through first break and support the economic equation of maximising yield which is what we continually strive for in all mills.

It is quite a while since we spent hours as millers seeking that last 0.1 percent extraction from the mill itself having just thrown away 0.2 percent in the screen room in order to let us achieve this. Thankfully such false economies have now been realized and corrected.

Image courtesy of Satake

Back to colour sorting & mycotoxins

The Satake, AlphaScan II 160 High Flow grain color sorter aerated in order to keep it in its best condition.

Most grain, coming from central storage or from farm directly to the mill is only in our silos for a few days, or weeks at maximum, and sometimes only hours.

Wheat of different varieties and different analytical qualities are blended from the dirty wheat bins and this procedure is becoming more important as quality wheats demand premium prices in the market place. This need to blend more accurately is not just because of finances, but also from a regular quality control point of view.

Loss-in-weight becoming more widespread

The use of loss-in-weight feeder is becoming more widespread and the demise of the volumetric feeder is now almost complete. The Buhler flo-balancer is still very popular at home and abroad and can always be relied on to provide accurate blends. This workhorse for many years is being replaced with even more sophisticated and reliable machinery, as 20 | January - February 2010

we have come to expect from the everdependable Swiss.

Following on from the blending station, the first machine we see in all screen rooms is the milling separator, adequately protected by magnets at the inlets and usually equipped with an aspirating leg at the outlet.

Occasionally we see aspiration at the inlet, particularly in organic mills where long straw is a particular problem. Organic grain, when growing naturally, tends to have longer straw than wheat grown under more chemically controlled conditions, but, since organic grain is sold at a premium, the farmer or contractor has no desire to allow any to fall to the floor in the field as it is harvested, hence it tends to be treated with ‘kid gloves’ and as well as maximising the amount harvested, along with the grain itself comes a wider range of straw and impurities than we traditionally associate with conventional grain.

Coarse rubble screens

All separators are equipped with coarse rubble screens generally around 10mm in diameter and finer, sand and seed screens

Moving on, we see a plethora of bespoke machines, usually involving some means of stone removal, some gravity separations and occasionally some other specialty process depending on the local growing conditions in the area around the mill or perhaps because of some national or international change in wheat quality as we currently see with unacceptable mycotoxin levels being the reason for some millers increasing the scouring capabilities within the wheat cleaning plant or perhaps adopted peeling or debranning techniques as part of their processing philosophy.

I don’t propose to dwell on this subject here as it is addressed elsewhere quite adequately.

As far as colour sorting is concerned and in connection with mycotoxins, there are those who believe that mycotoxins can be treated to highlight the level of contamination by a variance in colour, usually red and then use this colour variation to separate out the offending grain kernels.

Some others believe that density or hagberg levels will vary according to the level of mycotoxin present.

Personally, whilst I applaud the research work being done, I have yet to be convinced that there is any form of practical application of this technology yet in operation in any mills, wherever they may be, and await developments before signing up to any ‘wonder cure’ for the unwelcome mycotoxin levels we currently see.

Perhaps more useful and practically applicable is a good housekeeping regime, regular

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“Good management of silos is also crucial to effective tempering and regular inspection and cleaning of silos is vital to a mill’s operation” cleaning of silos and a sensible decision as to when is the right time to harvest, dry and store grain. No doubt many will challenge my views in days, weeks and years to come.

Your comments are welcome, as always.

Colour sorters can be used to good value in several areas within the wheat cleaning plant, the most common areas thus far in the older mills, and by that I refer to mills built circa 1980 and earlier, and are used in order to tidy up the general layout of a plant and remove old banks of disc separators and trieur cylinders that are either badly worn out or no longer performing satisfactorily.

Some of the obvious advantages of

colour sorters is that they take up very little space, require little or no steelwork to support themselves and can be brought on line at the flick of a switch – almost ‘plug & play’ as modern jargon would refer to it.

Another significant role for the colour sorter in specialty situations, where perhaps breakfast cereals are the end result of their use is that it is quite easy to standardise the calibration of a machine.

There has often been dispute about the ‘true’ level of impurities in any delivery of grain used for further processing by breakfast cereal manufacturers and a simple reference sample run through

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colour sorters at both customers and suppliers plants can alleviate any disagreement between the two parties.

For this reason it is often quite common to see the retreat channel on a colour sorter, used as a ‘policeman’ for the whole plant to ensure cleanliness of the grain stream rather than just cleanliness of the grain passing through the colour sorter.

I have no doubt that the application of colour sorters will continue and the scope of use will continue to widen as ideas develop and theories are proven. More on this subject in future issues.

Basic principles of conditioning

And to conclude this article we are led to the contentious subject of conditioning grain.

How long should we condition or temper for? Should we temper in one pass or two, or, in some cases, three, where wheat is very dry? The debate has been going on for generations and I doubt whether I will answer all the queries at one shot, however, it is my belief that there are some basic principles to be adopted and if these are adhered to the results will be adequate for the costs incurred.

These basic principles are firstly to match the number of passes to the level of moisture being added, obviously having due regard to ambient temperature.

I hesitate to give a percentage rate, since

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nearly every miller will have a view that conflicts with mine and which I am sure is derived from many years’ practical experience, suffice to say that I believe in generous allocation of tempering capacity at first tempering and I also believe in using that space to its maximum potential at all times.

It is acceptable, to leave some space unused after a mill is built if that space is not required for the wheat moisture pertinent at the time, but you cannot add space effectively if requirements are underestimated at the design stage.

First-in first-out

An important criteria is the use of First In First Out (FIFO) techniques when designing bin outlets. All millers are familiar with the, multiple outlets, evenly spaced, etc.

This allows grain to do exactly what the principle describes, let the first grain that was damped to be the first grain to pass out to either first break or the next phase of conditioning. Without this type of bin outlet the operations of effective tempering will be severely compromised.

In fact, I belief this methodology should be applied to all grain bins and silos on a

flour mill site, or indeed any other type of mill including rye, maize etc.

easily at all time by silos operators or contract cleaners alike.

Silo management and effective tempering

Daily walk-around

Good management of silos is also crucial to effective tempering and regular inspection and cleaning of silos is vital to a mill’s operation. Each miller will have his own view as to whether he should use his own staff and equipment to inspect and clean silos.

Some millers choose to use an outside contractor for all confined space entry work, if for no other reason than to absolve themselves and their employees of the liability that such work involves.

Others choose to manage the risk and train staff accordingly and minimise the expense that contractors will charge. Either way there are some items in the early stages of mill design that can make life easier for whoever is carrying out the cleaning and inspection.

Good access and ventilation provided by sensibly sized access doorways or silo ingress facilities at the top will assist greatly. Good internal lighting is of great value, as is a fixed supply of clean air, which can be accessed

Regular schedules for filter cleaning will help keep dust levels to a minimum when working in a silo and it is not beyond comprehension to coincide filter maintenance with silo maintenance so that filters can be cleaned and serviced immediately prior to full inspection and cleaning of individual silos.

And throughout all the items I have referred to in this article there is a need for good management to control all operations.

That daily walk round, using a checklist (mentally stored or printed out and used as a record) is of vital importance.

The small things that the trained eye can see will make a world of difference whether they are left untreated to create havoc at a later date or whether they are dealt with immediately by the diligent manager who then goes on his way knowing that he is on top of his job and can turn his attention to the more significant aspects of management … or at least those items who appear higher on his or her superior’s agenda!

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n today’s fast-moving world the importance of a highly skilled and innovative workforce becomes more and more essential.

Now more than ever competition for experienced workers and managers is fierce, isn't it time companies invested money into developing their existing workforce?

By developing your own staff not only so you develop company knowledge as people will have been employed for longer periods of time, but it also allows companies to develop skills that are pertinent to them.

passes technical data along with correct processes and procedures.

It’s often easier to learn this rather than, for example, to take responsibility using initiative, being self motivated, communicating effectively or the ability to solve problems to name but a few.

Although there are many courses on these subjects, unless a person has a certain aptitude for them they can be very difficult to learn. For example, you can have a manager whose technical knowledge and experience is exemplary, but who struggles to communicate with his or her team and causes friction within the workplace.

Therefore, those who are committed to developing their own highly skilled and innovative workforce should invest time and money in a Learning & Development (L&D) Programme to ensure that resources are used efficiently and that there is a structured approach to defining the areas requiring development and the people best suited to each development stage.

“Learning must be treated by management as a deliberate business process, in the same way that marketing is”

Persistent doubts

Experience and knowledge

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UK businesses spend vast amounts of time, energy and money on L&D – an estimated UK£38.6 billion in the year 2008. This is clear evidence that senior management believe that learning is essential for future success.

However, research shows that senior management still harbour persistent doubts about the ability of L&D to deliver results. Several reasons that

L&D may not deliver results are; lack of structure and analysis to the company’s L&D programme, menu driven training, individuals trained on subjects they have no aptitude for, lack of L&D evaluation and a lack of commitment to learning by management.

A deliberate process

Learning must be treated by management as a deliberate business process, in the same way that marketing is.

People at work are learning all the time, for example, if a worker shows another worker how to do something then they have passed on knowledge to another person who in return has learnt something. By making learning a deliberate business process people are more aware of all aspects of learning and the role they can play within the learning process.

There is often little comparison between training and the requirements of the job, this normally stems from the fact that no analysis is undertaken so there is no real understanding of what is required to help the person perform better.

Some training will be provided in answer to specific training responses, for example, inductions, health and safety, IT, etc but without a structured L&D programme other training can often be adhoc. This can partly be due to the lack of resource - not all companies can afford to have their own training co-ordinator - and it’s often left to a busy manager or HR person to organise.

Therefore, although a training need may be identified and a course booked and attended, there is no knowing whether that was the right course for the right

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person and how effective that information will be in relation to their work.

Consultants vs company training

An L&D programme should provide the company with an analysis of the learning required, the individuals most suited to the learning, encompass a variety of learning methods and ensure accurate feedback is obtained and analysed to ensure the learning activity has been successful.

There are many consultants who offer L&D services that can provide such a programme yet it seems strange that a company may waste money on the training they provide yet are reluctant to invest the resource into a structured programme.

Service levels and costs can vary greatly between consultancy companies, but there are some who do not charge for the development and administering of the programme as they receive money

“An L&D programme should provide the company with an analysis of the learning required, the individuals most suited to the learning, encompass a variety of learning methods and ensure accurate feedback is obtained and analysed to ensure the learning activity has been successful” through the channels within the programme itself.

However, care must be taken that the consultancy firm is offering the best quality learning and not just what they can personally offer.

In answer to the question – is L&D a waste of money? The answer very much depends on the approach of companies to their L&D and whether they are committed to developing their own highly-skilled and experienced workforce.

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offers three training institutes to service the milling sector Switzerland is a centre for feed, flour, pasta and cereal process training. The country offers three highly-respected institutes to foreign students who wish to develop their skills associated with the highest quality processing and milling.

Those institutes include: The Swiss Institute of Feed Technology (SFT), Swiss School of Milling and the Buhler Training Centre.

Swiss Institute of Feed Technology (SFT) The Swiss Institute of Feed Technology (SFT) was founded in 1979 by the thenowner of Buhler AG, Dr René Bühler. Based in Uzwil, its objective was to impart primarily practice-orientated specialist knowledge on feed production to professionals from the feed manufacturing and related industries.

The SFT said that in order to adopt and cover market requirements, a re-orientation of the training concept under the motto ‘hands-on and focused’ was initiated last year and compliments its diploma course that provides the graduate with a final qualification of Feed Production Engineer.

The SFT noted that its educational facilities (training center and experimental lab) are continuously renewed and adapted according to gained knowledge and technical achievements.

This enables the students to understand working principles of modern equipment in order to operate state-of-the-art technologies and processes in a feed production plant.

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The course is made up of a preparatory correspondence course and an intensive course in Uzwil.

The SFT says that in order to reduce attendees’ absence from the job, individual subjects will be dealt with in the future in greater depth in the preparatory course so that the intensive course is reduced to a maximum of seven weeks.

The course will continue to be offered alternately in German and English, but in the future on a three-year cycle.

Officials from the SFT say they will make use of the year in which no diploma course is held to further extend their range of short courses. The numerous queries received for training courses lasting a few days to a maximum of two weeks and dealing with specific subjects is what the SFT said has encouraged it to take this approach.

Short courses will be offered primarily in German and English.

The SFT noted that upon request it will organise customer- or plant-specific courses at the SFT’s

site in Uzwil or at the customer’s location.

The SFT can offer simultaneous translation, if required, into the relevant national language.

Another service offered by the SFT is to act as a neutral consultant for plant optimisation and alterations, carrying out inspections and conducting, for example, homogeneity and cross-contamination tests.

Swiss School of Milling (SMS) In the near-by town of St Gallen, the Swiss School of Milling (SMS), founded over 50 years ago, attracts milling technologists and production manager students from around the world. The SMS courses are in two sections: the correspondence course and the main course.

It combines theoretical know-how with practical ‘hands-on’ training.

The correspondence course imparts the basic knowledge required for optimal preparation for the main course, while students are at home working in their regular jobs.

In the Milling Technology subject, the empha-

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sis is placed on the basics of flow-sheet technology and milling equipment of the different sections of a flour mill.

In the natural science subject group, basics of mathematics (including basic physical formulae and units) and chemistry are taught.

In addition, an introduction is given to microbiology and hygiene.

In Engineering, students acquire basic knowledge of electrical engineering, plant engineering and pneumatic and mechanical conveying. As a preparation for flour analyses in the main course, students learn the theoretical basics of the most important analyses according to the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC) standards.

Required materials are sent to the students by the school.

Students must solve control questions in the relevant areas and return their replies to the school by a certain deadline. Their replies to the control questions are rated and taken into account in the final grade. The time requirement for the correspondence course is about six to 10 hours per week, depending on a student’s previous level of knowledge.

Upon completion of the correspondence course, the students travel to St Gallen to attend the six-month main course at the SMS. During the main course, four ‘hands-on’ afternoons are held every week.

This means that courses will continue to focus heavily on practice, which is highly significant for course participants.

The SMS said that due to its close contact with the milling industry, it has the advantage of receiving continuous updates about new developments and market requirements which are integrated in its training sessions.

Students who receive the SMS diploma are professionally prepared to take over middle or upper management positions and are able to offer a real benefit to the company they are working with. In order to create better rounded production managers, the SMS syllabus covers the technology of baking, pasta, cereals and other grain-based food processes.

Buhler Training Center (BTC) Founded in 1981, the Buhler Training Center (BTC) has been training millers around the world for the past 28 years.

The equipment and presentation material has been constantly updated and besides the large training hall where the latest in equipment is set up for demonstration and training purpose, and features also a highly-sophisticated school mill with a capacity of one tonne per hour.

The courses, in average attended by around 450 trainees a year, have a strong focus on hands-on training as well as the practical application of the taught subjects.

The BTC is set up to provide training in various languages.

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Five standard languages are spoken by the instructors: German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. Courses in other languages like Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Japanese, etc are taught with the assistance of interpreters.

Special attention has been given in offering courses that cover all operational aspects of a flour mill.

The course is called Milling Technology I and II and targets mill operators, shift millers and head millers.

Milling Technology I mainly focusing on the explanation of the machine features and optimum machine adjustments for equipment in the cleaning, milling and quality control sections. An extended laboratory session ensures that the participants will understand the quality parameters of flour and how to influence them with the available equipment and processes.

Milling Technology II has a strong focus on theoretical and applied flow-sheet technology. In this context it concentrates on newly developed technologies and machines, such as mycotoxin reduction or colour sorting.

The course target is clearly based on technology issues like various machine combinations for different applications, tempering philosophies with their advantages and disadvantages as well as an in-depth mill diagram session.

Ideally, the two levels should be taken with a one-to-two year break in between.

This gives the participants the opportunity to transfer their acquired knowledge into results in their respective plants.

However, it is also possible to visit both courses one after each other.

In addition to this, special technology courses are offered in: • Durum milling • Oats milling • Maize milling • Brewing technology • Milling Expert Course – Targeted at • production managers, technical directors and head millers with formal milling education (such as milling school diploma, KSU, City & Guilds degrees, etc) and several years of experience in the milling industry.

This course distinguishes itself by being a discussion forum on eye level rather than the typical training course. In an exquisite group of experts, opinions and facts about milling technological and product related issues are exchanged.

Buhler provides a guideline by preparing presentations about today’s hot issues that concern the milling industry. This forms a base for discussion.

The Executive Training Course - Targeted at mill owners, directors, general managers and other leading functions in the milling industry.

The course touches mainly on the challenges of producing consistent flour with high quality parameters and the best possible yield.

The course does not require previous milling experience and will introduce the whole proc-

ess in chronological order and easy to capture portions. The natural variations of the raw material and the challenges experienced by the operating personnel in the various sections of the milling process will be discussed. So will quality measures of flour and quality assurance instruments.

Key indicators to evaluate the performance of a milling plant as well as various plant operating philosophies round up the course.

Electrical & Mechanical Maintenance Courses - Targeted at maintenance personnel and supervisors.

This course contains an overview over all essential maintenance jobs that have to be carried out. The main focus is on key issues like calibration, fault finding on electrics as well as roll and bearing change on the mechanical side.

Aim of the course is to build the confidence and knowledge that even challenging assignments can be carried out correctly by the maintenance crew. This ensures maximum lifetime of equipment and minimum unplanned stops.

There are special maintenance courses in: • Plant Automation • Bagging system operation • Fluting machine operation • Tailor-made Courses - On request the BTC can be booked for tailor-made courses.

This possibility has been used by large milling groups to provide training for their operation personnel in a closed setting. This gives the advantage to discuss the specific flow sheets of the concerning plants and special topics applicable to the operation in their markets. This kind of training has often been used to strengthen the team spirit and communication in various companies to improve the future exchange of ideas.

BTC offers on-site courses.

Some companies find it difficult to send one or more employees for training and still ensure the operation of their plant. In this situation on-site education is a suitable alternative. The advantage of this kind of training is that operating personnel is taught in their own plant, using their equipment, addressing their specific challenges.

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2010 International Feed Expo updates from AFIA The 2010 International Feed Expo in Atlanta (IFE), Georgia, USA was on course to attract as many visitors as last year – some 18,000. There is no question that Atlanta is the destination for the world’s poultry industry in the form of the International Poultry Expo (and co-hosted on the Georgia World Congress Centre site); there is a distinct increase in visitors to the IFE from Latin America, Europe and beyond.

According to the organisers, the American Feed Industry Association, booth and stand sales were up by some eight-to-10 percent with the floor area equally growing.

Atlanta in January is becoming a meeting point for feed industry representatives which is following the example of the poultry sector, despite tough time and consolidation within the two industries.

iFeeder Foundation launched to ensure feed sustainability

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he Institute for Feed Education and Research – being promoted in short as iFeeder – has launched a major fund raising effort with a goal of reaching US$2 million within two years.

The launch was announced at a luncheon meeting of major US feed industry executives during the International Poultry Expo and the International Feed Expo in Atlanta, Georgia in late January.

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about establishing itself as a non-profit, charitable institution in the months that followed, it was only in Atlanta this year that the iFeeder board introduced industry executives to the new foundation and its mission – “to sustain the future of food and feed production through education and research.”

The programme outlined how iFeeder will address the critical needs of leadership and funding to meet the challenges of the global feed industry. These include providing more animal protein for a growing world population and overcoming the challenges of feeding more than two billion people by 2050. iFeeder aims to do this with an aggressive education and research programme.

Prior to the launch more than US$100,000 had been pledged by the iFeeder Board of Trustees.

Additionally, the trustees agreed to fund its first project – the updating of the National Research Council’s Nutritional Requirements of Swine with a US$75,000 two-year grant which leveraged more than US$250,000 in grants from other sources. This research review publication will greatly assist the industry in producing portk in the future more efficiently.

The iFeeder board is busy preparing proposals and guidelines for research grants and examining the direction of education programmes.

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iFeeder chairman Al Gunderson of Vita Plus Corp says, “This is truly an historic moment for all of us to consider what this industry has given to each of us personally and professionally and how we can invest in its sustainable future.”

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International Safe Feed/Safe Food soon to be launched

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he international version of the Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program is nearing implementation, according to the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), the creator and sponsor of the Safe Feed/Safe Food program that has run successfully in the United States since 2004.

The existing Safe Feed/Safe Food program is a unique, third-party-verified program in which more than 350 livestock feed and ingredient facilities, operated by nearly 90 companies, are certified.

Representatives of the European Feed Additives and Pre-mixtures Association, FEFANA, met with AFIA members at AFIA’s office in Arlington, Va., late last year to discuss details of the international version of the program.

The establishment of the International Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program was designed to help facilitate US trade with European feed and ingredient customers by providing a tool to illustrate compliance with the European Union’s feed hygiene regulation, Regulation (EC) 183/2005, which requires certification from the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system.

In accordance with the regulation, FEFANA submitted a Guide to Good Practice, detailing options for industry compliance with the regulation.

Furthermore, FEFANA officials designed their own third-party verification system to illustrate compliance with the regulation.

This system is known as the European Feed Additives and Premixtures-Quality System (FAMI-QS), and it is similar to AFIA’s Safe Feed/Safe Food program.

“The FEFANA representatives commented that the Safe Feed/Safe Food program is a high-quality offering, and we feel the same about their efforts to develop the FAMI-QS. Our combined efforts make for a truly outstanding international program,” said Joel G. Newman, AFIA president and CEO. “While the Safe Feed/Safe Food program is available to facilities that are not members of AFIA, we believe we are delivering on two promises to our members with this program by providing expert leadership and being a voice for the industry.”

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AFIA and FEFANA signed an agreement in January last year, providing reciprocity for firms in the International Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program and the FAMI-QS program.

Under the agreement, AFIA’s program operates under FEFANA’s Guide to Good Practice, a recognised guide by the European Commission. The January meeting, between AFIA and FEFANA, included time with representatives of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine and the Agriculture Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service to share program details.

With the training of the auditors complete, the launch of the international program is expected in the near future. At that time, if an official responsible for a facility wishes to pursue International Safe Feed/Safe Food certification for a plant, he or she may seek inspection and certification through AFIA. Further, all firms that successfully achieve certification from the International Safe Feed/Safe Food program will be recognized as compliant with the domestic version of the program as well.

The Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program is a voluntary, independently certified program designed for the total feed industry.

The Safe Feed/Safe Food program establishes comprehensive standards of excellence that go beyond existing regulations to maximise food and feed safety. The final steps are being taken by AFIA and associated groups prior to the imminent launch of the full International programme..

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AFIA welcomes greater interaction using social media

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earning the latest news and information about the American Feed Industry Association is easier now, thanks to the association’s use of three social media outlets.

AFIA recently opened accounts with Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to offer staff members greater interaction with the association’s members, the media and other individuals using these tools.

Learn more about AFIA by using the following options: • On Facebook (find AFIA using the association’s complete name) • On Twitter (follow at FeedFolks) • On LinkedIn (connect using the association’s complete name) Links to each of these outlets may be found on AFIA’s home page as well.

Visit www.afia.org and click on the Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn logos. News and information about AFIA issues, events and more will be offered via Facebook and The IFE 2010 hosted a large number of Chinese ingredient and equipment suppliers

Twitter. Job openings at AFIA member-firms, which already are publicized on AFIA’s online Career Center, are also available for viewing on AFIA’s LinkedIn page, as well as upcoming events and news.

Use of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn does not mean AFIA will discontinue its practice of disseminating news and information via news releases and other traditional means. Rather, the use of these social media outlets will allow AFIA to share its messages with a broader audience.

“Receiving additional feedback, particularly from members, and engaging in dialogue with a range of interested individuals are additional benefits of using Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn,” says the AFIA from its stand at the Feed Expo in Atlanta, Georgia in January.

“Making communication about issues and concerns more convenient to members is always of importance to our team,” says Anne Keller, AFIA communications director.

Southern States Plant named 2009 Feed Mill of the Year

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Southern States feed mill in Cleveland, North Carolina, is the 2009 Feed Mill of the Year, according to the American Feed Industry Association and Feedstuffs, the sponsors of the annual contest. The runner-

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The winning feed mill was built in 1978 for FCX Inc. Southern States acquired the assets of FCX and the Cleveland mill in 1985.

Last year this full-line mill manufactured 90,500 tons of feed. The mill is certified by AFIA’s Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system.

A total of 36 team members, including 23 production, four maintenance, four administrative and five trucking employees work at the mill managed by Mark Whitaker.

Tonnage at the mill is split about equally between bag and bulk at 57 percent and 43 percent, respectively. The largest volumes produced are for beef, horse and poultry feed. The marketing area of the mill is basically comprised of the Piedmont area.

On the bulk side, Mr Whitaker said the mill serves about a 150-mile radius. The plant also makes minerals for other Southern States mills in the region and serves 96 private dealers and Southern States services owned by the company.

In total, the mill produces some 480 formulas, and annual sales at the plant are in excess of US$30 million.

The Cleveland mill has been instrumental in establishing employee training programs, to the extent even of putting together its own manuals.

“We felt like we didn’t train very well, and we wanted to go to a different level and make our training very specific, and we do it all visually,” said Mr Whitaker.

He said he believes the renewed dedication to training has led to improved productivity and retention at the plant. Recycling is another priority for the mill. All paper and cardboard is baled and sent to a local recycler.

Cargill mill in Virginia is 2009 runner-Up A feed production operation focused solely on providing cost-effective nutrients to contract turkey and poultry growers is the

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runner-up in the AFIA-Feedstuffs 2009 Feed Mill of the Year contest.

The Cargill turkey production unit produces some 7500 tons of finished feed per week, with the majority of that production going directly to Cargill turkey growers. The remainder of the volume goes to George’s for its local poultry-growing operations.

The Harrisonburg mill is a 24/7 operation with 25 hourly employees who have a combined average of 14 years of service, according to mill manager Grant Martin.

“Our mission is to manufacture and deliver finished high-quality feed in the most economical and efficient manner,” said Mr Martin, who explained that the operation is focused on meeting budgeted cost-per-ton manufacturing and delivery requirements rather than on profit.

According to Wayne Sly, area manager, the environmental program at the Harrisonburg facility has been recognised by the state of Virginia as part of its Environmental Excellence Program. The Harrisonburg plant operates under the ISO 14001 standard for its environmental management system.

Training at the plant includes annual reviews on dust/grain handling, welding and hot work, elevated work, confined spaces, lockout/tagout and hazard communication/chemical safety. Driver training also is emphasised.

Mr Martin said future goals for the plant include earning Safe Feed/Safe Food program certification.

Aims of the award The annual Feed Mill of the Year award recognizes overall excellence in feed manufacturing operations and the winners were promoted at the International Feed Expo in Atlanta, Georgia this January.

Increased safety, quality, regulatory compliance, operating efficiencies and overall industry awareness of food safety are among the criteria reviewed for each applicant. A mostimproved mill will be named at a later date.

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“The quality of this year’s candidates was quite impressive as was their dedication to quality control and safety standards,” said Keith Epperson, vice president of manufacturing and training for AFIA. He said the 2009 winning mill stood out because there is a “clear commitment from every employee to produce a safe, quality product for the customers of Southern States Cooperatives.”

Nearly 100 feed facilities competed for this year’s award.

“The number of facilities increased again this year,” said Mr Epperson.

“I believe this is due in part to the fact that each facility that applies receives important feedback in the way of bench-marking information. Comparing their own mill to others in the industry gives managers a way to focus on the areas where they may have scored low so they can make improvements.”

Selection of the top plant starts with an online application process and concludes with personal visits to the top sites by an inspection team from AFIA and Feedstuffs.

Final selection is based on a combined scoring of the application and personal visit.

The winner of the 2008 contest was a Cargill Animal Nutrition plant in Martinsburg, Pa. The runner-up mill in last year’s contest is operated by Ridley Inc, in Beloit, Kan.

AFIA’s 2010 Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers

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he American Feed Industry Association’s annual Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference will be March 10-12, 2010, at the Hilton Palacio Del Rio in San Antonio, Texas.

The conference program will be of interest to individuals with varying levels of experience in a range of feed industry sectors.

Expect updates on the current and future states of animal agriculture. Top experts from government, as well as the feed, dairy, pork, poultry and grain industries will speak on legislative and regulatory issues. Information about carbon footprints, animal-rights activism and the commodity markets also will be presented.

There will be plenty of interactive sessions between speakers and attendees to provide maximum time for participants to ask questions, get answers and engage in substantive dialogue.

In addition to the latest industry information, PISC is an excellent networking opportunity for colleagues and buyers and sellers to interact. The 2010 event is designed especially to allow more time for one-onone interaction than in previous years.

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or two days leading government regulators responsible for maintaining animal feed safety, met with feed industry representatives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA to discuss national feed legislation and its impact on the trade in feed and feed ingredients.

Seventy-five delegates from 21 countries registered for the two-day event that was held on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26, January in the Georgia World Congress Centre in downtown Atlanta, USA. This, the third annual meeting of the International Feed Regulators, was the most interactive session yet, sharing information and exchanging perspectives on principles of food and feed legislation, border inspection practices, managing undesirable substances and authorization systems for feedstuffs and ingredients.

“Presentations provided by both regulators and feed industry representatives provided background and examples of current practices, and challenged participants to consider ways to improve regulatory and risk management systems.” Says Dave

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Cieslak, Chairman of the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) which organised the meeting jointly with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

“There was good information provided in presentations by regulatory and industry delegates, but participants found the panels and open forum discussions particularly useful and informative.”

Dr Cieslak says this most recent meeting has built significantly on the previous two and has become recognized as a unique venue bringing together the key players in feed safety from around the world and included the participation of the Codex Alimentarius secretariat.

IFIF recognized this forum as a great opportunity to develop understanding and synergy between industry and regulators, as well as across geographies. Improved understanding can lead to enhancements in the ways that feed and food safety is accomplished by the feed industry.

“IFIF is committed to continuing, and expanding, this dialogue between regulators and our industry. We will be meeting again at the Global Feed & Food Congress in Cancun Mexico, to be held April 20-23,

“Seventy-five delegates from 21 countries registered for the two-day event that was held on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 of January 2010 in the Georgia World Congress Centre in downtown Atlanta” 2010 where some of these issues will be discussed in more detail. We welcome feed regulators who weren’t able to join us in Atlanta to contact IFIF for more information,” he adds.

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GLOBAL GRAIN & FEED MARKETS Every issue GFMT’s market analyst John Buckley reviews world trading conditions which are impacting the full range of commodities used in food and feed production. His observations will influence your decision-making.

European cereal markets have recently been closely tracking moves on the Chicago futures markets and in international export pricing. Chicago, as noted in our intro, had its brief run-up, then turned ‘south’ again.

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Adequate stocks & slow demand anchor prices

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xternal factors continued to dominate European grain and feed markets in the opening weeks of 2010 - US weather/ crop news, currency volatility, constant shifts in pundits’ short-medium term views on the global economic outlook and speculators’ often fickle responses to all these issues.

However, the good news for consumers in late-January was that overall feed raw material costs were moving down - in both the energy and protein sectors - amid larger than expected supplies of wheat, maize and soyabeans, prices of all three flirting with three-month lows as we went to press. Price restraint has also been demanded by continuing uncertainty over the growth of world demand for cereals in another recessionary year. Speculators might find it tougher to exert

a bullish influence over the commodity markets in 2010 amid ongoing credit squeezes and US proposals for new restrictions on the activities of banks and hedge funds in futures trading.

Perhaps the biggest upset, though was the US Agriculture Department’s surprise decision to raise its maize crop forecastto a new record 334m tonnes from 328m. This was not a massive rise in terms of nearly 800m tonnes of world maize consumption but it wrong footed the US trade who had expected a crop decline after one of the wettest Novembers on record kept 10% of it in the field far beyond normal harvest dates.

Not that there isn’t still a big, perhaps growing, question mark over the quality of crops harvested under damp conditions and stored with high moisture, not to mention the 5% still unharvested even in January - a large chunk of it lying for some time under snow. Yet even that grain (assuming

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it’s eventually harvested, in the spring) will probably not struggle to find homes.

The USA’s new 100m tonne corn ethanol industry is an obvious outlet, less fussy in its requirements than the corn food and feed sectors – though a price discount may be expected from these buyers, pointing to a two-tier maize market ahead.

However, overall, there is a slacker feel to maize markets in the US, Europe, Asia and other big compounding regions with alternative supplies still coming through from up and coming exporters like Brazil

and Eastern Europe and maybe a bigger than expected crop approaching from the former No 2 maize exporter Argentina too. European consumers have also been able to draw down their own adequate maize stocks left over from last year’s much bigger domestic crop.

Along with a general unwillingness on the part of importers to buy more than necessary, this has kept US maize exports far below the levels anticipated by the USDA. That means end-season stocks of maize in the US will probably be looser than expected and upward pressures on prices reduced – even before

the US sows what may well be an even bigger record maize crop for 2010.

The US soya crop has also hit a new record level despite an even later start, than maize as farmers brought it in first because of its tendency to spoil quicker under damp harvest weather. Two other, colliding, factors have been driving soya incessant heavy demand from top world importer China and the growing likelihood that those record South American soya crops we expected in our last issue will all get planted and harvested. Although China is

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the only outstanding growth market for soya products so far this season, its heavy demand is eating into US stocks at an uncomfortably rapid pace although it is possible some of thee mega purchases might not get shipped – swapped instead to Latin American soya when these crops are confirmed. Either way, the extraordinary bounce-back in back in Latin American crops should restrain prices ahead – for soya and the entire oilseed meal sector.

Wheat too has also had its share of weather problems in the USA with planting of the US soft red winter crop running late (planted on the same land as the delayed maize crop) and amid generally poor price incentives, leading a drop in total US winter wheat sowings of over 6m acres to their lowest level since 1913! However, while this is a supporting

Another significant development in the past month or so is that analysts are not talking down the next world wheat crop as much as they were in the autumn, removing one of the key reasons for speculators to invest in wheat and helping to keep a premium of about 10% on distant 2010 Chicago futures prices.

A similar premium was forecast by futures this time last year but that proved wrong – futures are actually cheaper now than then.

Clearly many of the bullish supply factors have been offset by bearish demand news in the past couple of months. Yet that did not stop commodity prices rallying at one stage fast and far enough for some pundits to predict another bull market was now on the way and that grains – as undervalued commodities – would have to join in the fray.

factor, markets seem to have taken it in their stride. Although SRW is the basis of the highly influential Chicago futures market (which Europe follows more and more these days), it is also the grain in most abundant supply from the largest cross-section of sources – US, Europe east and west, former Soviet Union etc. Even the projected decline in US wheat output in 2010 is more or less offset by huge carryover stocks stocks at the start of the new season. Large wheat stocks will also be held in Europe and massive stocks in the former Soviet countries. As in the maize market, this leaves one wondering how much lower prices would have been without these US weather problems.

Although dearer than in the autumn, even the quality wheats have come down a bit in price recently with confirmation of a bigger than expected Canadian crop, a very large Australian harvest for the second year running and plenty of good quality wheat coming out of the ‘Black Sea’ region, especially from Kazakhstan.

However, most of this short-lived rally was ignoring fundamentals and based almost solely on an ever weakening US dollar. Paradoxically, the latter was seen as signal that the US/global economy was perking up, allowing speculators to feel more comfortable letting go of the ‘safe’ or ‘‘quality’ currency to spend on more on riskier investments – like commodities.

The problem with this argument at the moment is that each week, sometimes each day, seems to bring a different or opposing view on whether the global recession really is ending in the US, China, Western Europe etc. But whatever the wishful thanking of banks and hedge funds trying to talk up the value of their portfolios to punters, the idea that commodity demand is set to roar away does look premature. The reality is that both wheat and feed grains have recently suffered from a paucity of real physical demand. So, not surprisingly, grain prices – like those of crude oil and gold have shed much of these speculative-based gains. In fact, all the recent talk on the EU market has been about the

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possibility for cheaper grain in the early weeks of 2010.

Growth in wheat use slowing down Last season world wheat consumption grew by over 22m tonnes or about 3.6%.

During 2009/10, the increase is expected to be nearer 7m tonnes or about 1.1%. Most of this slowdown is down to the US and the EU, where feeding to livestock boomed last season but has now flattened out, in the US case, even falling. World wheat feeding overall may also drop 1m or 2m tonnes this season, leaving growth dependent on the food and ethanol sectors (though the latter needs watching as a bullish factor).

An even starker shift is taking place on the world export markets – where international wheat prices are ‘made’ with considerable influence on US and EU grain values. Last season world import demand rocketed by 26m to 142.6m tonnes or 22%. This season, it’s expected to drop back by 13%, thanks to better crops and much lower import requirements in North Africa and the Middle East, especially Iran.

None of these changes really has much to do with global recession – more the weather in importing countries and, for some wheat consumers, changes in the supply and cost of maize as the chief competitor in animal feeds.

However, the economic squeeze has naturally made import buyers more price-conscious across the cereal sector, either because of tight credit or concerns about depressed meat and feed demand.

On the supply side, competition is as fierce as ever for wheat import custom. World wheat output in 2009/10, far from falling sharply as many predicted this time last year, declined by just 6m to 11m tonnes – barely over 1% from 2008/09’s record 686/683m tonnes (USDA/IGC). Thanks to that massive crop, stocks carried into this season were at a 7-year peak of 164m tonnes – over 40m more than last season’s. So wheat supplies are significantly larger this year during a year of flattening demand.

Wheat value is also set by the price of competing feedgrains and, to a lesser extent rice as a foodgrain in large parts of Asia. The rice price has been rising quite sharply on shortfalls in some countries and there will be some substitution by wheat in south Asia but not by enough to seriously distort total

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wheat demand or wheat value. Maize prices meanwhile seem to be on the way down again, also influencing wheat as a competitor in feeds.

Wheat prices are also influenced by perceptions of what supply will be available from the next crop. Back in the autumn, many analysts were taking of a big cut in sowings for 2010 – maybe 5% or more - and a steep decline in production. Yet the last report from the International Grains Council only expected a 1.1m hectare fall in area. This is only a preliminary figure but if it were correct and average yields stayed stable at this season’s level, it would still deliver an adequate crop. Even if wheat area and yields fell far more steeply and cut production by 5% to 10% - and consumption rose another 10m tonnes - ending stocks of wheat in 2010/11 would still be comfortable in the 130/150m tonne range. Currently, the world is expected to carry about 196/7m tonnes of wheat into the next crop year, starting around mid-2010 – 27m more than last year and almost 70m more than in 2007/8. Without a world wheat crop catastrophe this summer, stocks could

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conceivably be even larger by mid-2011.

European cereal markets have recently been closely tracking moves on the Chicago futures markets and in international export pricing.

Chicago, as noted in our intro, had its brief run-up, then turned ‘south’ again. Export prices also enjoyed a bout of strength as Russian and Ukrainian ‘Black Sea’ sellers sold less aggressively and manage to hoist prices on the premise of lower 2009 crops in the CIS region this year. However, the major players in the former Soviet Union are still carrying very large stocks from last year and seem to be returning as more aggressive sellers with lower prices as 2010 gets underway.

Looking at the other top players in the world wheat export market, Canadian 2009 production has recently been revised up by 2.5m to 26.5m tonnes – about 2m less than last year. Australia’s harvest has been trimmed slightly by hot dry weather in the final stages but will still be large for a second year running at around 22m tonnes. EU crop estimates have continued to creep higher over the late autumn and early winter months to around 139m tonnes - only 12m or so below last

year’s record but that gap is halved by the 18m tonnes of stocks carried in from last season (versus 12m the year before). As the EU only needs 127m tonnes of wheat for its own purposes, this leaves more than enough to meet some foreseen export demand and still maintain comfortable end-season stocks.

Not surprisingly these EU & world supply/ demand equations have made many EU buyers (and importers around the world) reluctant to take on forward coverage. Yet farmers have been equally reticent, watching prices dip again to levels that, for many, offer little if any profit. The result has been a stalemate, slow trade to open the year and an EU market moving increasingly on ‘outside’ factors like the value of the dollar, economic signals, crude oil and gold prices – or simply daily fluctuations in US grain futures.

Probably, this situation will change little until the spring when markets have a firmer grip on what has been planted for winter wheat and will be sown in the spring. Even then, another two or three months will be needed to gauge the impact of crop weather on yields. By this time, wheat value will also be influenced by the first firm information on what US maize and soya farmers will plant for 2010 crops.

US maize crop cliffhanger The previous year was bad enough but there’s probably never been a year quite like 2009 in terms of testing US maize farmers’ ability to raise a crop. First there was doubt whether it would all get sown amid record floods in many areas; then an often cool, sunless summer preventing a ‘catch-up’ to beat the risk of early frosts; then the rains came down and latterly snow too – resulting in one of the latest crops in perhaps 70 years of fairly reliable records. However, the almost miraculous escape of 95% of the crop to harvest and silo by end-year did mask the possibility of quality problems caused by the weather, especially amid talk that some might be left in the field until the spring. Maize, of course, is a hardy crop and can take a lot of punishment from the weather once ripe. However, a two tier market does now seem to be opening up as farmers dump as much of their damper, lower quality, light test weight corn as possible on the market rather than risk storage problems, keeping the best back for later. This has helped keep spot corn prices in check and, with them,

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global feedgrain markets, for the moment.

Not that the US has had any difficulty meeting demand – which has been rather slack recently amid plenty of alternative supplies of both maize and feedwheat from other sources. Argentina may have dropped out of the No 2 exporter slot after a couple of poor crops but Brazil has expanded its supply enough to fill most of that gap.

Eastern Europe/CIS maize (and feedwheat) suppliers have also been biting smaller chunks off US maize export trade, leaving it far behind official forecasts and keeping the bulls tethered in Chicago and overseas maize markets. Argentina’s next crop (harvested this spring) is also doing better than expected and will be trading more competitively into export channels soon.

There has been recent tendency for banks and investment funds to talk up the future value of maize. The rationale is that the current US/world crop may not continue to

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keep up with demand without taking stocks down to risky low levels by the close of this season – and/or that prices are currently too low to ‘buy’ a big enough corn planted area this spring. Yet the commercial view is the opposite with most analysts looking for plantings in the US to rise by 3m to 6m acres which, with a more normal growing season, might add another 10m to 15m tonnes to last year’s record crop figure.

It’s also worth noting that world maize consumption growth is mainly focused on the two largest consuming countries, the US and China. The US expects to need an extra 17m tonnes this season, the lion’s share going to expanding ethanol demand and the rest mainly to 3m to 4m tonnes of reviving feed consumption (which fell by nearly 17m tonnes last season because of the economic recession). China is said to need an extra 7m tonnes this season, mainly for its feed industry. The latter is currently believed to be

growing at 2.4% per annum after a 5% drop in first half 2009 but a steeper recovery is possible given China’s still strong economic growth (this may also influence China’s soya demand with impact on world prices).

Elsewhere, we also see maize demand growth forecast for India (+800,000), Nigeria (+600,000), Indonesia (+300,000) which, with smaller gains in other regions, puts world consumption about 28m tonnes higher for this season at 803m. With production at 790m, this requires a like drawdown in stocks, currently seen dropping to 136m by the start of next season for a stock/use ratio of about 16.9% or 9 weeks’ supply.

Stocks were lower still as recently as 2006/07 (109m tonnes or 15% stock/use).

However, while that did presage record corn prices in 2007/08, it was in the novel context of record US demand growth for ethanol and world crop shortfalls the following year for oilseeds and wheat. Perhaps above all, those maize prices reflected a new synergy between rocketing crude oil prices and speculative investment fever for anything that looked vaguely like a commodity. The current situation is different. Wheat and soya supply outlooks are currently loose, crude oil is less than half the price at which it peaked (though rising again recently) while ethanol demand growth has slowed markedly (although we must watch this factor for mid-2010, when laws governing its use come up for review).

Bullish maize speculators must also be feeling a bit cautious still after the beating they took last year from misplaced bets on a prolonged commodity boom - not to mention the drying up of their liquidity in the aftermath of the credit squeeze. Speculation will probably remain a factor in the wings, ready to exaggerate any price rises based on weather scares. However, if the US crop is another big one and world demand continue to fall within the boundaries of fresh supplies, speculators might be forced to seek richer rewards elsewhere. * World barley production has finished up at about 149m tonnes this year, just 5m down from 2008 and one of the bigger crops of recent years. Demand is seen 4m tonnes up but will lag production at 147m tonnes, leaving stocks more or less unchanged around 31m tonnes. Barley prices have mostly followed maize in recent weeks, rising in Oct/.Nov but easing recently. Very early pointers from the IGC suggest world barley sowings will decline in 2010 in the EU and North Africa.

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OILMEALS – plenty of soya ahead Protein/oilmeal prices were promising a firm finish to 2009 but it all went pear-shaped in the new Year as USDA confirmed a record 91.5m tonne US crop and a steep rise in world stocks. There have been some reports of US crushers struggling to find good quality soyabeans to produce the better grade, higher-protein meals while oil content from a lot of this year’s beans will probably be down (more of a problem for crusher profits than feed users). But on the whole, quality does not appear to be a major problem in overall meal pricing.

The big story for soya the past few months has been Chinese demand. With over two thirds of its marketing year still to run, the US has already committed 78% of its crop, of which a staggering 62% is going to China alone. Other destinations have shown more mixed performance with EU demand down (though perhaps reviving more recently) but some Asian countries taking more. The US

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is also roaring ahead of export forecasts for soya meal.

This demand swing to the US owes much to disappointing crops in last spring in Latin America where stocks ran low and exports became less competitive than usual, leaving buyers few other options. It has probably also reflected caution by importers (especially in China) who want to see South American crops up and running, especially after weather played them foul for the past two years.

The good news for consumers is that, so far, the Latin American crop outlook remains very good. Record acreages are being sown and apart from some planting delays cause by excessive rain in southern Brazil, the weather favours big yields. Last issue we pencilled in the possibility of an additional 30m tonnes of South American soyabeans. This looks increasingly likely to be the minimum gain with some local sources talking of as much as 34m to 37m tonnes although most of the crops need to get through the Jan/Mar key stages of pod-setting and filling before buyers can breathe easy.

USDA’s January take on 2009/10 world soya supply puts production at 253.4m, up about 44.5m from last year. World soya crush is currently expected to rise by only 11m tonnes with the rest added to stocks or disappearing into human food outlets.

Soya meal demand is meanwhile expected to rise by about 6m-7m tonnes, half of that increase in China and the rest spread over many moderate/smaller-sized user countries.

If the Latam crops come through as expected, this does not suggest anything other than a flat price trend to falling price trend for the proteins – which is precisely what futures markets point to – even a full year from now and this should help keep other oilmeal prices under control too.

Supply is also rising for rapeseed meal, up about 2.5m tonnes this season amid larger production in the EU and Canada. The EU alone should consume about 800,000 tonnes more. Thanks to a large Canadian crop, world stocks should remain fairly high through this season, providing a good cushion before the 2010 harvest.

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Events 2010 FEBRUARY 2nd - 4th February * Kiev AgriHort 2010, Kiev, Ukraine Contact: Kuno Jacobs, BTO Exhibitions BV, Europaweg 187, 7336 AL Apeldoorn, The Netherlands Tel: +31 5553 41140 Fax: +31 5553 40168 Email: info@bto-exhibitions.nl Web: www.bto-exhibitions.nl

2nd - 5th February Cereals-Mixed Feed-Veterinary, Moscow, Russia Contact: Tatiana Sokolova, P.O.Box 34, Moscow, 129223, Russia Tel: +7 4957 555035 Fax: +7 4957 556769 Email: ts@expokhleb.com Web: www.breadbusiness.ru

3rd - 4th February * 3rd Healthy & Nutritional Bars Conference, Cologne , Germany Contact: Marjolijn Cohen, Bridge2Food, Jan van Eijcklaan 2, 3723, BC Bilthoven, The Netherlands Tel: +31 3022 52060 Fax: +31 6416 83102 Email: mcohen@bridge2food.com Web: www.bridge2food.com

10th February * NEW Powder Containment, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Contact: Caroline Chapman Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids, Handling Technology, University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, United Kingdom Tel: +44 2083 318646 Fax: +44 2083 318647 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk Web: www.bulksolids.com

* See our magazine at this show • More information available 17th - 19th February * The 10th International Exhibition for Grain Industries Technology and Mills, Silos , Automatic Bakery Lines, Fodders, Pasta Equipment Rice Beaters & Packaging Machines, Cairo, Egypt Contact: Mr. Yasser Omar, 11, Al Gabal Al Akhdar Al Estesmary Bldg, beside Financial Minister, 6th Floor # 61, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt Tel: +2 02 2342 3619 Fax: +2 02 2342 0459 Email: meb@igmfairs.com yr_omar@igmfairs.com Web: www.igmfairs.com

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2nd - 3rd March * Storage and Discharge of Powders and Bulk Solids, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Contact: Caroline Chapman, Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham, Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, United Kingdom Tel: +44 2083 318646 Fax: +44 2083 318647 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk Web: www.bulksolids.com

2nd - 5th March * AFMA Forum 2010 (The 7th International Congress for the Animal Feed Industry), Sun City, South Africa Contact: Teresa Struwig, PO Box 8144, Centurion, 0046, South Africa Tel: +27 12 6639 097 Fax: +27 12 6639 612 Email: admin@afma.co.za Web: www.afma.co.za/index.htm

Three shows – FIAAP Asia, Victam Asia and GRAPAS Asia offer the ideal opportunity for the equipment and ingredient suppliers to meet their clients and prospective clients; just at the time when they will be looking around at what the market has to offer them. They will find it here in Bangkok!

Tel: +44 1242 267702 Fax: +44 1242 267701 Email: roger.gilbert@ifif.org Web: www.globalfeed-food.com/english/ index.html

20th - 22nd April VIV Europe 2010, Utrecht, The Netherlands Contact: Valerie Sedee, VNU Exhibitions Europe, PO Box 8800, 3503 RV Utrecht, The Netherlands

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What will they find?

In the Victam Asia trade show there will be the world’s foremost suppliers of equipment and technology used in the processing and production of animal feeds, dry petfood and aquafeeds.

FIAAP Asia is the recently introduced event for specialist ingredients, additives and formulation technology used within the feed production cycle.

Whilst GRAPAS Asia is a new exhibition and conference for rice & flour milling, industrial noodle processing, breakfast cereal and extruded snack production.

Also on show will be ancillary equipment used within these processes – bins, silos, weighing & batching, conveyor systems, elevators and buckets, magnetic, bags & bagging systems, quality control, transportation systems, computer technology, etc.

Tel: : +31 3029 52852 Fax: +31 30295 2809 Email: valerie.sedee@vnuexhibitions.com Web: http://sites.vnuexhibitions.com

20th - 21st April * Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Contact: Caroline Chapman, Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, United Kingdom

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3rd - 5th March * Victam Asia 2010, Bangkok, Thailand Contact: Andy West, PO Box 411, Redhill, RH1 6WE, United Kingdom Tel: +44 1737 763501 Fax: +44 1737 762996 Email: andrew.west733@ntlworld.com Web: www.victam.com

25th - 26th March * Spanish Food Market meeting, Barcelona, Spain Contact: Marjolijn Cohen Bridge2Food, Jan van Eijcklaan 2, 3723, BC Bilthoven, The Netherlands Tel: +31 3022 52060 Fax: +31 8483 27225 Email: mcohen@bridge2food.com Web: www.bridge2food.com

April 13th - 15th April * Australasian Milling Conference 2010, Melbourne, Australia Contact: Fiona Taylor Tel: +61 03 9819 1433 Email: fionatay@bigpond.net.au Web: www.flourmillers.com.au

19th - 23rd April * 114th Annual IAOM Conference & Expo, Las Vegas, USA Contact: Shannon Henson, 10100 West 87th Street, Suite 306, Overland Park, KS 66212, USA Tel: +1 9133 383377 Fax: +1 9133 383355 Email: dme@iaom.info Web: www.iaom.info

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20th - 23rd April Global Feed & Food, Cancun, Mexico Contact: Mr Roger Gilbert, 7 St George’s Terrace, St James’ Square, Cheltenham, GL50 3PT, United Kingdom

Tel: +44 2083 318646 Fax: +44 2083 318647 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk Web: www.bulksolids.com

June 8th - 8th June * IGC Grains Conference 2010, London, UK Contact: Ann Knowles, International Grains Council 1 Canada Square Canary Wharf London E14 5AE, United Kingdom

More reasons to visit the show.

With three exhibitions taking place simultaneously under one roof visitors will be able to take full advantage of their valuable time at the shows. Now executives from say a feed miller or an integrator will be able to see and discuss with qualified company staff a vast range of products. These will range from specialist ingredients and additives, then the appropriate technology for the processing of feeds for animals, and finally there is the ancillary technology used within a feed production plant – silos, conveyor systems, bagging machines, etc. All of this in one show over three days.

The same goes for visitors from a flour mill, again there are the specialist additives, the specialist processing technology and also the ancillary equipment.

All visitors will also be able to attend, free of charge, a series of commercial presentations that will be given during the event by a number of the exhibitors.

So much more to see and learn.

All the exhibitions will be supported by a series of technical conferences and workshops.

Tel: +44 2075 131122 Fax: +44 2075 130630 Email: conf2010@igc.org.uk Web: www.igc.org.uk/en/conference/confhome.aspx

11th - 12th June * UK Food Market meeting, Birmingham, United Kingdom Contact: Marjolijn Cohen, Bridge2Food, Jan van Eijcklaan 2, 3723 BC Bilthoven, The Netherlands Tel: +31 3022 52060 Fax: +31 8483 27225 Email: mcohen@bridge2food.com Web: www.bridge2food.com

July 8th - 10th July * Indo Livestock 2010, Jakarta, Indonesia Contact: Devi Ardiatne, PT Napindo Media Ashatama, Jl Kelapa Sawit XIV Blok M1 No 1, Kompleks Billy & Moon Pondok Kelapa, Jakarta, 13450, Indonesia Tel: +62 2186 44756 Fax: +62 2186 50963 Email: devi@napindo.com Web: www.napindo.com

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Events Global Feed & Food, Cancun, Mexico The objective of this III Congress is to define policies and mechanisms to assure that people of the world will have safe and sufficient food at all times. The paradise of Cancun will be the stage to present and discuss the subjects about production, sustainably, transport, process and distribution of raw materials and final products.

THE FOOD CHAIN: FROM FARM TO TABLE Food safety is a global issue that demands a global response.

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The key is to strengthen each and every link in the complex process of food reaching the consumer –from the way it is grown or raised, to how it is collected, processed, packaged, sold and consumed.

Through an exclusive deal with the event organiser, the publishers of Grain & Feed Milling Technology can help you to secure a booth at Global Feed & Food.

For more information on the exhibition & available options please contact Tuti Tan at Perendale Publishers Ltd. Tel: +44 1242 267700 Email: tutit@perendale.co.uk

September 29th September - 1st October * Animal Farming Ukraine 2010, Kiev, Ukraine Contact: Kuno Jacobs, CIS Exhibitions BV, Eemnesserweg 27a, 3743 AD Baarn, The Netherlands Tel: : +31 3554 26515 Fax: +31 3554 26517 Email: Kuno.Jacobs@cis-exhibitions.nl Web: www.animalfarmingexpo.com

of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, United Kingdom Tel: +44 2083 318646 Fax: +44 2083 318647 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk Web: www.bulksolids.com

21st - 22nd October * French Food Market, Paris, France Contact: Marjolijn Cohen, Bridge2Food, Jan van Eijcklaan 2, 3723 BC Bilthoven, The Netherlands

October 7th - 8th October * GLOBALGAP Summit 2010, London, United Kingdom Contact: Nina Kretschmer, c/o GLOBALGAP Foodplus GmbH, Spichernstr.55, D-50672 Cologne, Germany Tel: : +49 2215 7993 693 Fax: +49 2215 7993 89 Email: kretschmer@globalgap.org Web: www.summit2010.org

12th - 13th October * Overview of Particulate Handling Technology, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Contact: Caroline Chapman, Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University

Tel: : +31 3022 52060 Fax: +31 3022 52060 Email: mcohen@bridge2food.com Web: www.bridge2food.com

November 23rd - 24th November * Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids, University of Greenwich, United Kingdom Contact: Caroline Chapman, Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, United Kingdom Tel: +44 2083 318646 Fax: +44 2083 318647 Email: wolfson-enquiries@gre.ac.uk Web: www.bulksolids.com

You are invited to attend the

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Etihad Stadium Melbourne • VIC April 13–15, 2010 The Biennial Conference organised by -: The Flour Millers’ Council of Australia The Stock Feed Manufacturers’ Council of Australia, and The Australian Technical Millers’ Association

Email: conference@flourmillers.com.au Tel: 61 3 9819 1433 Fax: 61 3 9819 1477

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Bulk Storage

• Automation Products, Inc. • Brabender® GmbH & Co KG • CHOPIN Technologies • Diversified Laboratories, Inc. • Evergreen Analytical Services, Inc. • Farmertronic Industries A/S • Foss Analytical AS • FOSS UK • Lancaster Laboratories • NDC Infrared Engineering Ltd • Neogen Corporation • Pfeuffer GmbH

• Agora Services Ltd • Behlen Mfg Co • Borton L C • Brice Baker Group • Chief Industries UK Ltd • Chore-Time Brock International • Collinson Plc • European Process Plant Ltd • Euroquip Fabrication Ltd • Handling Techniques Ltd • Mailbox Mouldings International

Silo Construction & Engineering

SCE

West of Scotland Science Park Unit 3.06 Kelvin Campus Glasgow, G20 0SP, Scotland Tel: +44 141 945 2924 info@r-biopharmrhone.com www.r-biopharm.com

Maximum bulk storage

R-Biopharm Rhône Ltd, Unit 3.06 Kelvin Campus, West of Scotland Science Park, Maryhill Road, Glasgow, G20 0SP Scotland Tel: +44 (0) 141 9452924 Fax: +44 (0) 141 9452925 info@r-biopharmrhone.com, www.r-biopharmrhone.com

Competence in Food and Feed Analysis

• Seedburo Equipment Company • Systech Instruments Ltd

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Elevators & Conveyors • • • •

Aeromaster International Ltd Agrico Sales Agromatic AG Alapala MACHINE Industry and Trade Inc. • Beaufort Conveyors • Brice Baker Group • Chief Industries UK Ltd • EBM Mill and Elevator Supply • Entecon Ltd • Fischbein SA • Fischbein-Saxon Ltd • Goudsmit Magnetic Systems BV • Gough Engineering Ltd • Handling Techniques Ltd • Jansen & Heuning B.V. Bulk Handling Systems • Lachenmeier Maskinfabrik A/S • Paul Hedfeld GmbH • Patz Corporation

+32(0)51 723128

Animal Health & Nutrition • Schmidt-Seeger GmbH • Silos Cordoba S.L

• Alicorp SA

CENZONE TECH INC. 2110 Low Chaparral Drive San Marcos CA92069 USA Tel: 760 736 9901 Fax: 760 736 9958 Web: www.cenzone.com

Commercial Grain Silos Bulk Feed Silos

E-mail: cenzone.tech@worldnet.att.net

• Danisco Animal Nutrition • Frank Wright Trouw Nutrition International • Noack - Group of Companies • Papillon Agricultural Products, Inc

Caleruega 12, 1OC 28033 Madrid, Spain Contact Antonio Benitez Phone +34 91 767 00 74 Fax: +34 91 767 02 38 E-mail: inpsa@symaga.com inpsa@manchanet.es

WWW.EXTRUDER.NL / WWW.EXPANDER.NL

Almex b.v., Verlengde Ooyerhoekseweg 29 7207 BJ Zutphen, Netherlands, tel.: +31 (0)575 572666 e-mail: info@almex.nl, internet: www.almex.nl

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Amandus Kahl Anderson International Andritz Feed & Biofuel Baker Perkins

Buhler AG CH – 9240 Uzwil, Switzerland T: +41 71 955 11 11 F: +41 71 955 66 11 E: milling@buhlergroup.com

www.buhlergroup.com

CRAFTMANSHIP IN THE ANIMAL FEED AND FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY

• Teta Engineering Inc. • Westeel

ADVERTISE IN OUR LOW COST CLASSIFIED SECTION For more information contact the International Marketing Manager, Caroline Wearn Email: carolinew@gfmt.co.uk

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• Brabender Clextral Buhler Class•ad_GFMT10.indd 1 11/12/2009 • Condex • Coperion GmbH • Dinnissen BV • EEC-Eder • Extru-Tech Inc • Fudex • Insta-Pro International • Jiangsu Muyang Group Co Ltd. • JSConwell Ltd - Buhlermillbank • Muench Edelstahl

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Extruders

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RBH Mill & Elevator Supply Saati S.p.A. Schmidt-Seeger GmbH Silos Cordoba S.L. Tramco, Incorporated Tapco

WWW.OTTEVANGER.COM • • • • •

Pavan Group Wenger Manufacturing Inc Peter Catchpole Sarmaksan Setrem

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Mill design construction

Pulverisers

Bratney Companies Wallace & Associates Inc. Cimbria Bratney Company Columbian TecTank

• Altenburger Maschinen Jaeckering GmbH • Axtel Industries Ltd • Christy Turner Ltd • Netzsch-Condux Mahltechnik GmbH • Jacobson LLC • Prater-Sterling

Croston Engineering Ltd

Flour improver • Alicorp SA • Doves Farm Foods • Dr Eckel GmbH www.muehlenchemie.de

Tarvin Mill Barrow Lane, Tarvin Chester CH3 8JF Tel: 01829 741119 Fax: 01829 741169 E-mail: admin@croston-engineering.co.uk Website: http://www.croston-engineering.co.uk BULK STORAGE, HANDLING, AND PROCESS ENGINEERS FOR THE ANIMAL FEED, GRAIN, FLOUR, BAKERY, HUMAN AND PET FOODS INDUSTRIES

• Interstates • Lurgi PSI Inc • Muench-Edelstahl GmbH • Turner Process Equipment Ltd • Younglove Construction LLC

Supply Chain

PALM VIEW TRADE “Your Reliable Supply Chain Manager” Products we produce and Export: • • • • • • •

Banana Meal Banana Powder Crude Tuna Fish Oil Crude Sardine Fish Oil Tuna Fish Meal Sardine Fish Meal Dried and hammered Pineapple Pulp

Email: palmview@pldtdsl.net Website: www.palmviewtrade.com

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Reynolds Engineering & Equipment, Inc. P.O. Box 707 • Muscatine, Iowa 52761-0012 • USA Tel: (563) 263-5549 Fax: (563) 264-8420 website: www.ReynoldsEng.com e-mail: info@ReynoldsEng.com Manufacturer of Air Swept Pulverisers for the fine grinding of many different products

Recruitment Painting

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Flour improvers Enzymes Baking premixes Advice on applications

Kurt-Fischer-Strasse 55, D-22926 Ahrensburg Tel.: + 49 (0) 4102 / 202 001, Fax: -010 info@muehlenchemie.de A member of the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe

Ein Unternehmen der Stern-Wywiol Gruppe

• Prima Ltd • Smiths Flour Mills

Mill Design & Installation • • • • • •

Bratney Companies Croston Engineering Ltd Muench-Edelstahl GmbH Silchester Control Systems Ltd TekPro Ltd Turner Process Equipment Ltd

SATAKE CORPORATION UK DIVISION P.O. Box 53, Bredbury, Stockport SK6 2FG United Kingdom Tel: 44 (0) 161 406 3800 Fax: 44 (0) 161 406 3801 Web: www.satake.co.uk E-mail: sales@satake.co.uk

Cereal Milling Engineers to the World

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• Agora Services Ltd • Euroquip Fabrication Ltd • Silocare Ltd, Silocheck Ltd

AGRI-Associates Agribusiness Recruiters Filter Screen Supply Ltd Wirtech AG, Process Engineering

Stewart Inglis

INDUSTRIAL PAINTING LTD British Gas ERS Approved Painting Inspector Thirty years experience in painting and anti-corrosion coatings , quality control etc. From Europe to the Middle East and in the oil industries from the North Sea to West Africa. please call for more information: Tel: +44 1289 386525

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Milling Industry Recruitment Specialist www.jcb-consulting.com +44(0)161 427 2402

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Rolls Process control • Converteam UK Ltd • KSE Protech BV

Andritz Feed & Biofuel BV Andritz Feed & Biofuel Condex (UK) Ltd Jiangsu Muyang Group Co., Ltd. Kay Jay Chill Rolls Pvt Ltd La Meccanica srl di Reffo

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Asia2010 Asia/Pacific’s largest feed and grain processing event.

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Animal Feed, Petfood & Aquafeed Processing Technology

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Queen Sirikit National Convention Center . Bangkok . Thailand 3 – 5 March 2010

Co-located with FIAAP Asia 2010 – the event for animal feed ingredients, additives and formulation.

The Conferences: • The Thai Feed Conference 2010 • Aquafeed Horizons 2010 • Petfood Forum Asia 2010 • The GRAPAS Conference 2010 • The FIAAP Conference 2010 • Biomass Technology 2010 Supported by: Thai Ministry of Agriculture & Co-Operatives Thai Rice Milling Association Thai Department of Livestock Development Thai Department of Fisheries Thai Feed Mill Association Thai Petfood Industry Association Thai Chamber of Commerce Thai Convention & Exhibition Bureau

For information visit: www.victam.com or www.grapas.eu

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WEBLINKS

2010 related links

In every issue of GFMT, we will be providing a list of companies and web links related to key stories and topics within each specific issue.

If you would like information on how your company can get involved, please contact our Marketing Manager, Caroline Wearn.

Email: carolinew@gfmt.co.uk | Tel: +44 1242 267707

Alltech European Bioscience Centre = www.alltech.com Almex b.v. = www.almex.nl Avery Weigh-Tronix = www.averyweigh-tronix.com BCPC = www.bcpc.org Biomin GmbH = www.biomin.net Buhler AG = www.buhlergroup.com Buhler AG = www.buhlergroup.com Chief Industries UK Ltd = www.chief.co.uk Consergra s.l = www.consergra.com Danisco (UK) Limited = www.

danisco.com/animalnutrition EL.KA Reclame Adviesbureau = www.elkareclame.be Extru-Tech Inc = www.extru-techinc.com GAME Engineering Ltd = www.game-engineering.com Garner Industries = www.garnerindustries.com Imas = www.imas.com.tr Jiangsu Muyang Group Co Ltd = www.muyang.com Leonhard Breitenbach GmbH = www.breitenbach.de Mondi Syktyvkar = www.mondigroup.com

Muhlenchemie = www.stern-wywiol-gruppe.de NABIM = www.nabim.org.uk nv SCE = www.sce.be Ottevanger Milling Engineers B.V. = www.ottevanger.com Palm View Trade = www.palmviewtrade.com Plimsoll Publishing Ltd = www.plimsoll.co.uk Safety Revolution Ltd = www.safetyrevolutionltd.com Satake Corporation = www.satake-japan.co.jp Schmidt-Seeger AG = www.schmidt-seeger.com Silos Cordoba = www.siloscordoba.com Unormak Milling Machines = www.unormak.com.tr UWT (UK) Ltd = www.uwtuk.com Wenger Manufacturing Inc. = www.wenger.com Wynveen International B.V. = http://www.wynveen.com/

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