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April

2010

• Regulating

granularity

In this issue: • Roller Mill Grinders

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Advantages, limitations and how roller mill grinders are changing for the better

Designing bagging lines to meet requirements

- Specifying and designing bagging lines for the food processing industry

• German technology convinces in conveyance of the Australasian grain hemisphere

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Fritsch Planetary Mills premium line – a completely new dimension in size reduction!

Mitchells Equipment and Maxi-Lift agree to strategic partnership Extracting the best out of valuable raw materials BeneoCarb S - a functional carbohydrate source for animal feed Perten Instruments appoints new managing director in Australia Chronos BTH introduces new hygienic bagging system Strong in standard and customised solutions Leading technology – local solutions Site expansion to support CB Packaging development Expand your horizons with New Crop Opportunities

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Guest - EDITOR’S OBSERVATIONS

Guest editor - Dave Cieslak, IFIF

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he world is becoming an increasingly connect- often taken for granted that the public understands and ed and demanding place for those involved in appreciates the role we play in providing affordable, wholefood production. For the feed industry, the some, nutritious and highly desirable food products. This has connections extend in both directions – upstream created an opportunity for people who oppose our industo the geneticists and molecular biologists who are try to influence consumers on the strength of their emoimproving livestock and crops, and downstream tions, and through retailers to the consumers who are often with becoming more aware and interested in their food few, or mischoices. The connections have always been in place, leading facts. but the technology of communication and advanced We need

Feed industry connections information management has increased the strength and expectations from these connections. And, with the increasing strength of the connections, the expectations for our performance are increasing as well. Consumers expect food products that are available, affordable and unquestionably safe. Those attributes are the “table stakes” to participate in modern food production. To be truly successful, you will need to exceed those expectations and differentiate your products and services in a way that meets regulatory requirements and aligns to evolving customer needs.

Most consumers aren’t familiar with our industry. Their experience of food production is through their retail shopping and dining experiences. However, the impact they have on our industry comes not only through their choices in food consumption, but also through their influence on legislatures and regulators. The feed industry can feel this through the work of interest groups, advocating for increased control and regulation on a wide variety of issues. Topics like biotechnology, animal welfare, antibiotic use, environmental impact and animal-human disease linkages have become rally points for such groups. At times, it seems that we are constantly on the defensive, answering critics who are working aggressively to inform the public about our industry, from their perspective. There are numerous examples from around the world where regulatory requirements, expectations for environmental performance and animal welfare considerations have changed dramatically due to such efforts, often with insufficient input and influence from the people who understand these issues best.

The feed industry plays an important role in human society, although this isn’t well understood by many. We’ve

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to become more proactive in our engagement with the public and our consumers, helping them to understand our industry, and building trust and confidence in our performance.

Reaching out to conDave Cieslak, Chairman International Feed Industry Federation sumers, and the communities in which we operate is an important step. But, we can’t do this alone. It’s important that we work together with the other participants in the food production supply chain, to inform and educate consumers as well as those who regulate our industry. We need to provide leadership to ensure that consumers and governments make the right decisions for a food system that is increasingly efficient and effective in producing safe and affordable food for everyone.

It is with this in mind that the International Feed Industry Federation has organized the 3rd Global Feed & Food Congress in Cancun, Mexico. The meeting will be held April 20-23, bringing together representatives from all aspects of feed and food production to discuss the issues we face as an industry. Program and registration details can be found on the website: http://www.globalfeed-food. com/english/index.html . In this increasingly connected and accountable world, our response must be to encourage the connections, and hold ourselves to a high level of accountability in our performance. I welcome you to join us at this premier event for the support and advancement of the feed and food industries.

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Fritsch Planetary Mills premium line – a completely new dimension in size reduction!

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xtremely efficient and fast grinding with maximum safety, high convenience and simple operation. That’s the claim Fritsch makes for its new premium line, a completely new dimension in high-tech milling.

For the first time ever and never known before, claims the company, rotational speeds and ultrafine grinding down into the nano range can be achieved.

Due to the time-saving premium-grinding bowl-locking system, the automatic checking of the locks in the mill, the blocking in event of impermissible operating states and the new automatic shut-off function in event of an imbalance, man and the machine are kept safer than ever.

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Grinding has never been as fast nor as safe The advantages of the Fritsch premium line: With the Fritsch premium line you can achieve for the first time revolutionary rotation speeds of up to 1100rpm and a sensational acceleration of 95 times the force of gravity.

The resulting energy application is roughly 150 percent greater than classic planetary mills.

The practical advantage : Tasks are more economical and considerably finer grinding results in shorter times are delivered.

Simpler For the first time, the bowl and lid form a solid unit – the grinding bowls are closed gastight with one motion and with a second motion, they are safely locked in the mill.

The grinding bowls position themselves and snap securely into place – no additional tensioning, and no incorrect operation.

The grinding chamber of the premium line opens and closes

automatically and independently rotates the bowl mounts in a convenient position for handling.

A well- org anised touch screen provides simple and precise navigation through the menu structure; it is easy to program in precise start times.

The practical advantage : Absolutely user-friendly handling and time-saving – a decisive simplification of your daily work.

Safety redefined The mill automatically detects the inserted grinding bowls via a special RFID chip, then optimises the rotation speed and prevents impermissible grinding settings.

The automatic parameter check - before every grinding guarantees exact reproducibility.

The practical advantage : Guar anteed const ant and optimal results – incorrect operation is impossible.

Equipment

The Fritsch Easy GTM ensures a simple and easy monitoring of thermal effects, physical and chemical reactions or increase or decrease in pressure due to continuous measurement of gas pressure and temperature directly in the grinding bowl. And the mill is automatically controlled in a manner that the set parameters are not exceeded.

When grinding in suspension use the Fritsch Special Emptying Device, it’s quick and easy in the separation of the grinding balls and suspension.

The practical advantage: An extensive range of accessories guarantees optimal grinding for each application!

More Information: Andrea Köhler Fritsch GmbH Milling and Sizing Industriestrasse 8, 55743 Idar-Oberstein, Germany Tel: +49 67 8470146 Fax: +49 67 847011 Email: koehler@fritsch.de Website: www.fritsch.de

To achieve best grinding results, all grinding bowls and balls are available in different sizes and m aterials. For grinding in inert gas and for mechanical alloying use the Fritsch premium line gassing lids – quickly and safely.

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Mitchells Equipment and Maxi-Lift agree to strategic partnership

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itchells Equipment ( Hebei) Co Ltd, based in China, and Maxi-Lift Inc from the United States, are pleased to announce the formation of a strategic partnership to supply bucket elevators and components throughout China and the PanAsian market.

“Mitchells Equipment has a tremendous track record of supplying quality equipment, and their market reach made them the ideal partner for Maxi-Lift to grow our business in the region,” said Bo Fisher, Maxi-Lift's sales manager.

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Mitchells Equipment was e s t a b l i s h e d i n 19 9 4 a n d has quick ly grown into a major provider of bucket elevators and other conveying equipment.

The company moved into a new, state of the art facility in 2007 to accommodate the growing demands from their customers. The company’s market reach is now global in scale and their equipment is prized by major grain, feed and processing companies.

Maxi-Lift began producing e l ev a t o r b u c ke t s i n t h e early 1970s, and has since redefined the market with the

introduction of several new styles designed for the higher volumes demanded by their customers.

The company ’s f lag ship product, the Tiger-Tuff is now used on six continents and is the standard for port, river and rail terminals.

Michael Mittasch, executive director and an owner of Mitchells reinforced the benefit of the partnership by saying, “Maxi-Lift’s numerous bucket styles and their tremendous quality gives our customers durability and performance not found in other brands.

“We can really customise

elevator solutions in ways not previously available to us.”

Mitchells will begin stocking Maxi-Lift elevator buckets in their facility right outside of Beijing during the third quarter of 2010.

Stock on hand will be available for quick delivery for new projects or replacement work.

More Information Bo Fisher & Maxi-Lift, Inc 16400 Midway Road Dallas, Texas 75001 USA Tel: +1 800 5270657 Fax: +1 972 7358866 Websites: www.maxilift.com

www.mitchells.net.cn

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Extracting the best out of valuable raw materials

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t the Victam /Grapas A s i a 2 010 , B u h l e r presented solutions for grain handling, milling and related processes.

For 150 years the Swiss company has offered technology and know-how to enable the grain processing industry to optimise product quality as well as improve plant efficiency and lower operation costs at the same time.

Buhler delivers both straight for ward and cut ting-edge concepts for the processing of soft wheat, durum wheat, corn (maize), rye, oats, barley, millet & sorghum, buckwheat, soybeans, peas, and beans to meet all market requirements.

Proven equipment with best economy and state-of-the-art

machinery, a deep knowledge of the related processes and innovative plant engineering maximise both quality and product yields.

Tailor-made automation systems from milling experts designed for the grain processing industr y allow customers to minimise production and manpower costs.

Buhler offers a modular automation concept: a straight forward plant automation system and an add-on plant management solution. The company is also a leading supplier of material handling systems for industrial bakeries, blending and mixing equipment as well as processes for creating product innovations for new markets.

To create added value for milling companies, Buhler provides unique technology for upgrading byproducts such as bran and germ for healthy nutrition. Solutions for the heat treatment and product stabilization of flour, germ, and bran for the food industry are also part of the portfolio.

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Top performance products & solutions Buhler displayed at the Victam Grapas 2010 a wide range of products and solutions for the grain industry with easy to operate and sturdy machines to achieve best use of raw material and consistent finished product quality.

Superior optical sorting: Sortex Color Sorting Buhler Sortex is a leading specialist in optical sorting of grain and thus cleaning of raw material for the grain processing industry.

The system stands out due to their high-tech removal of foreign matter in order to improve product safety and to achieve a consistent high finished product quality.

Further, with its unmatched color sorting Buhler Sortex achieves very high cleaning accuracy resulting in a higher yield and best use of raw material.

Precise moisture management: Automatic Moisture Control Accurate moisture control has a direct impact on the economical result of a mill as it determines the right moisture level in the flour.

A d d i t i o n a l l y, p r e c i s e conditioning is the basis to achieve best grinding results. Buhler offers top precise and automatic moisture control systems easy to us and to integrate in plant management systems.

Ultimate grinding quality: Roller Mill MDDP/Q Roller mills are the key component in grain processing.

The quality of the roller mill determines the efficiency of the entire milling plant, the flour extraction rate, and the product quality. Buhler roller mills are characterised by their ease of maintenance userfriendliness, high sanitation,

top operating reliability and ruggedness.

Efficient sifting and grading: Sifter MPAO/MPAP A high sifting quality and performance is crucial for subsequent processing. For high sanitation and throughput Buhler provides the Nova sieve cleaning solution. Sifter work more efficiently.

Total care with worldwide services & training Buhler runs training centers and school mills around the world. As a global company Buhler provides worldwide service and technology support.

Experienced plant engineering for 150 years - Buhler has a vast experience in milling plants design as a result of numerous Buhler mills running in the field. Buhler designs mills from a compact standard plant solution to fully customized facilities.

Tailored solutions from the milling process technology leader - Buhler is the innovation leader in the grain processing industry. Buhler continuously invests in R&D to seek for best technology and plant innovation. Hence, Buhler runs the world biggest Grain Technology Center in Switzerland. Buhler is providing solutions ranging from straight forward processes to highly specialized and tailored mills.

I d e a l p l a nt au t o m at io n solutions for milling Automation solutions are developed in-house. Buhler process and milling industry know-how guarantee a perfectly tailored solution with maximum benefit for millers.

Automation solutions range from straight forward systems to comprehensive plant and data management. Yet the automation philosophy ‘Easy to operate’ has always guided.

Buhler expertise for perfect handling & storing Gentle handling, conveying, and storage require a high level of system know-how and knowledge of the materials involved.

Buhler is a specialist in the design and construction of facilities for unloading and loading, handling, and storing grain, derivatives, and oilseeds. Working closely with the end user, Buhler develops, engineers, and builds customised plants from standardised to individual components.

Enhancing of the Asian platform Buhler, the global specialist and technology partner for processing grain into food and feed, is continuously developing the Asian market. The company operates its own brand new manufacturing sites in China and India in addition to established branches in several Asian countries. All Buhler facilities follow the Total Quality Management System.

Reliable and competent partner When it comes to transforming grain into high-quality food and feed products, Buhler provides the right technology and necessary know-how for economical and ecological solutions. Customers across the world trust Buhler’s competence and experience.

The company has defined high quality standards and values being present with production facilities, laboratories and service centers close to the customer. Buhler is active in over 140 countries worldwide, and engages more than 7700 employees.

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Isabel Maganto-Torres Marketing Services - Division Grain Processing Buhler AG, CH-9240 Uzwil Switzerland Tel: +41 71 9552228 Fax +41 71 9556611 Email isabel.maganto@buhlergroup.com Website: www.buhlergroup.com

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BeneoCarb S

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he innovative product marketed by BeneoAnimal Nutrition – BeneoCarb S – is a high-value source of energy for animal feed.

It is a natural high-energy sugar syrup prepared through the enzymatic conversion of beet sugar. It is characterised by its high palatability, very low mineral content and excellent energy profile.

Consequently, BeneoCarb S is the ideal source of energy for high-demand animals.

T h a n k s t o i t s s p e c i f ic properties, BeneoCarb S is suitable for several species of animals that range from lactating sows and horses to dairy cows, veal calves, piglets and pets.

Because of its low ash content, BeneoCarb S is an ideal energy source for animals with sensitive digestive systems, such as young animals, horses and pets.

- a functional carbohydrate source for animal feed

The high-energy content and excellent palatability also make it a useful ingredient for animals that are limited in their energy intake, such as lactating sows and high productive dairy cows.

BeneoCarb S contains specific carbohydrates, such as trehalulose and Palatinose™.

Compared to sucrose, these are low glycemic sugars. These sugars ensure that there is a prolonged energy release, which re sult s in a more balanced energy supply. This can be beneficial to various animals where the blood glucose response should be optimised.

Beneo -Animal Nutrition invests in zootechnical trials aimed at demonstrating the benefits of the product. A trial run with broilers at ILVO (Institute for Agriculture and Fisheries Research) revealed a positive impac t on the

zootechnical per formance, without impairing litter quality. The feed intake and feed efficiency during the first two weeks were improved and there were no digestive problems.

The experiences with pig feed were equally good.

German research revealed that the sugars are fully digested in the small intestine, without any fermentation in the large intestine. This implies that all sugars in the product can serve as a source of direct glucogenic e n e r g y. A s t o p d re s s i n g ingredient, BeneoCarb S can be used as a flushing aid for sows.

Also, BeneoCarb S is a valuable ingredient for ruminants.

In-vitro fermentation trials have revealed a slower and more balanced fermentation pattern compared to sucrose.

This has been confirmed by practical experience, indicating an increased dry matter intake, with reduced incidence of acidosis.

The product is characterised by its stable composition and has a shelf life of three months.

BeneoCarb S is aimed at compound feed manufacturers and home - mixers. The recommended dose in the total amount of feed is between 2.5 and five percent.

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Tim Van der Schraelen Marketing & Communication Manager Beneo-Animal Nutrition Aandorenstraat 1 3300 Tienen Belgium Tel: +32 16 801301 Fax: +32 16 801308 Email: tim.van.der.schraelen@bedneo-orafti.com Website: www.beneo-An.com

Perten Instruments appoints new managing director in Australia

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e f f Ro g e r s h a s b e e n appointed managing director to lead Perten Instruments of Australia Pty Ltd.

He brings over 25-years experience in the scientific instrument equipment marketplace and is well qualified to lead the company in delivering our world class technology and support.

“This is a very exciting time for our company. We are all looking forward to a great 2010 with our customers and suppliers,” says Mr Rogers.

Rodney

Booth retired as managing director and now takes up a business development role within the larger Perten Instruments Group. Mr Booth founded Newport Scientific and launched the Rapid Visco Analyser (RVA) in 1985.

“I am looking forward to my new focus on strategic projects and research and development of new and applied technologies,” says Mr Booth.

Mr Booth also serves on the board of AACC International since September 2009.

As part of the integration

of Newpor t Scientific i n t o Pe r t e n Instruments, the legal entity Newport Scientific P t y Ltd has Jeff Rogers Rodney Booth changed name and is now Perten Instruments and dough L AB remains of Australia Pty Ltd. unchanged.

The company will continue to provide sales, appli- More information: cations and service support Jeff Rogers for the full range of Swedish Managing Director and Australian made Perten Perten Instruments of products. Their focus on local Australia Pty Ltd Unit 1, 2 Apollo Street manufacturing and develop - Warriewood , NSW 2102 ment of ana- Australia lytical equipment such a s t he RVA

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Tel: +61 2 99796992 Fax: +61 2 99796993 Email: jrogers@perten.com Website: www.perten.com

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Chronos BTH introduces new hygienic bagging system

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t Pow t e c h 2 010 , Chronos BTH is presenting its recently developed hygienic open-mouth bagging system.

With this new machine design, Chronos BTH has responded to the growing demand from the Food Industry for hygienic machines and systems. The new system concept was developed in accordance to the EHEDG (European Hygienic Engineering & Design Group) guidelines.

Chronos BTH is an EHEDG member and has established an in-house hygiene task force to devise and implement machine design guidelines specific for the Food Industry.

The EHEDG is a professional association with the objective of promoting hygienic conditions during the processing and packaging of foodstuffs and re co m m e nd ing g uid e line s for hygienic machine design according to national and international legislation. The equipment now is being refined for the enhanced specifications required by the Baby Food packaging sector.

The new dust-proof, patented bottom-up filling technology guarantees high accuracies during the filling process. The machine

features closed bag-top transport; quick and simple cleaning; fast change-over times; and minimised dust emission.

Furthermore, the bagging system is available in full stainless-steel versions and is an ATEX compliant design.

Optional nitrogen purging is also available.

During bag transportation the bag-top remains closed and the control area is separated from the functional bagging zone: • There are no fasteners, for example bolts or screws in the product flow zones • All material contact parts are sanitary welded • The machine exterior has a polished finish • I n d i v i d u a l m a c h i n e

processing modules are combined to form a compact integrated unit • Zone layouts within the machine route cables to integral control centres at the rear of each module Chronos BTH is a single source supplier delivering integrated weighing, bagging, palletising and load securing systems. Chronos BTH is exhibiting at Powtech 2010, Nuremberg, Germany (April 27-29, 2010) in Hall 9, booth number 326.

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Strong in standard and customised solutions

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t the Powtech, Jacob Pipework Systems will demonstrate the variety and possibilities provided by our easy-to-install modular pipework system. We will provide a clear and colourful presentation of our serial components and connection

options for diameters of 60 to 800 mm as well as application-

specific customised solutions from our bespoke fabrication.

The innovations and extensions to the product r ange which we will be presenting particularly concern the product groups of two-way distributors, shutof f v alve s , pipe regulators and gates and also an innovation regarding system components that are certified shock explosion proof to 10 bar overpressure.

The modular Jacob pipework system is used in practically all sectors of industry

throughout the world both for galvanised or stainless steel bulk materials pipes and also for alternative surface options to dust extraction and exhaust choose from. The catalogue can air pipes. There are many be obtained through our service examples in the food industr y and the luxury food industr y “Added value through precision manufacturing (coffee, cocoa, - The Jacob Pipework product catalogue shows chocolate, sugar, the full range of Jacob Pipework Systems serial grain processing, production.

At the Powtech, Jacob Pipework Systems will tobacco), demonstrate the quality of our serial precision the chemical, manufacturing and also its variability for pharmaceutical customised solutions” and plastics industry as well as in environmental technology, t h e r e c y c l i n g i n d u s t r y, hotline: +49 57195580 or our a u t o m o t i v e e n g i n e e r i n g , website: www.jacob-rohre.de. feed mills, the chip industry, mechanical engineering, paper More information: manufacturing and the building materials industry.

Customers can refer to the Jacobs Pipework Systems product catalogue for the complete modular range in wall thicknesses of 1 - 3 mm and with conductive powder coating,

Leading technology – local solutions

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uhler, the global specialist and technology partner for processing grain into food and feed, continuously develops the Asian market. The production facilities in China and India play a key part in the company’s global strategy.

At Vict am / Gr apas A sia Tr ade show 2 010 , B uhle r presented a wide range of products and solutions with easy to operate and sturdy machines to achieve best use of raw material and consistent finished product quality. For 150 years Buhler has stood for: ‘Leading technology - local solutions’.

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Reliable and competent partner When it comes to transforming grain into high-quality food and feed products, the company provides the right technology and necessary know-how for economical and ecological solutions. Buhler supports its customers by offering consulting, engineering know-how and experience in worldwide project management.

Solutions for a wide range of industries As a solid Swiss family business with a modern management structure, Buhler is distinguished by a broad spectrum of core

competencies. Buhler also offers outstanding processing solutions for foodstuffs such as chocolate, coffee or pasta as well as for coatings and die casting.

Local presence in Asia Buhler has continued to extend its presence in Asia and operates its own production plants in China and India in addition to established branches in several Asian countries. A great number of Buhler customer service staff is serving this fast growing market.

They not only know the local conditions, but are also thoroughly familiar with the customers’ expectations and needs.

Fr Jacob Söhne GmbH & Co - Jacob Pipework Systems Niedernfeldweg 14 32457 Porta Westfalica Germany Tel: +49 5719558 - 0 Fax: +49 5719558 - 160 Email: post@jacob-rohre.de Website: www.jacob-rohre.de

High standards worldwide Customers across the world trust Buhler’s competence and experience. The company has defined high quality standards and values being present with production facilities, laboratories and service centers close to the customer.

The company is active in over 140 countries worldwide, and engages more than 7700 employees.

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Isabel Maganto-Torres Marketing Services Division Grain Processing Buhler AG CH-9240 Uzwil Switzerland Tel: +41 71 9552228 Fax +41 71 9556611 Email isabel.maganto@ buhlergroup.com Website: www.buhlergroup.com

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Site expansion to support CB Packaging development

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eading multi-wall paper sack manufacturer CB Packaging has expanded its operations site in Northern Ireland to support continued p ro d u c t i o n e f f i c i e n c y f o r customers and strategic expansion into the UK market.

CB Packaging manufactures paper sacks for a wide range of markets including feed, seed and grain, with sizes ranging from 5 to 50 kilo and from 1ply to 5 ply.

Its open mouth block bottom sacks with sealable closures and internal barrier films, as well as its open mouth double fold bottom sacks, are ideally suited for the feed and grain industries.

A l l o f C B P a c k a g i n g ’s products are manufactured using the latest paper technology conver ting equipment and eight colour printing presses to provide customers with cost effective, high-per formance sack s to m at c h f illing a nd prod uc t presentation requirements.

Sacks are produced to the highest standards of quality a n d hyg i e n e , t h ro u g h C B P ac k a g i n g ’s B RC a nd I S O accredit ation syste ms and de livered using t he l ate s t automatic palletisation processes.

CB Packaging has completed a 12,500 square foot extension of it s oper ations site and

“ We h av e 5 0 y e a r s o f expertise and experience, as well as the latest technologies in areas like traceability to call upon and to ensure we provide t h e ve r y b e s t se r v i ce t o existing and new customers.”

CB Packaging is part of the Flexible Packaging Division of the Clondalkin Group, an i n t e r n at i o n a l p ro d u ce r o f high value added packaging products and ser vices with over 40 production locations i n 10 d i f f e r e n t c o u n t r i e s throughout Europe and Nor th America and annual sales in excess of €8 0 0 million.

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has upgraded its bag making t e c h n o l o g i e s i n B a n g o r, County Down, to offer the entire range of products to its large customer base from one site.

CB Packaging managing director Paul McEnaney said the Bangor expansion creates an even stronger business focused on supporting growth in the UK as well as in Ireland.

He said : “CB Packaging is renowned for its ver y high level of service, competitive pricing and short turnaround times. These attributes give us a very strong foundation to work from and develop our business beyond Ireland.

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Expand your horizons

with New Crop Opportunities

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e w C r o p Opportunities, the electronic farm management aid, developed by the British Crop Production Council (BCPC) has expanded and now describes over 70 crops from amaranth to lupin and madder to yew as well as new uses for traditional crops like wheat, barley, oats, sugar beet and oilseed rape.

But what does it do and what benefits can it bring to crop consultants and farmers?

“Although there is a wealth of advice available to growers and advisers about growing alternative crops, sorting the facts from the fiction is complex and time consuming and that is why New Crop Opportunities is such a valuable resource,” says Chris Todd, managing director of BCPC. “Gaining a balanced, unbiased perspective to help make the right decision to invest in any new crop has never been easy.

“But today, as most farmers have less thinking time because of fewer staff and the need to cope with burgeoning paper wor k , t here’s no m argin for error which makes any evaluation process more critical than ever,” says Mr Todd.

The comprehensive information provided for each crop details what the crop is grown for, its benefits and the markets.

For example, blueberries are grown for the food sector and health-food market and find outlets as fresh, canned, frozen, dried and liquid products. They have antioxidant properties, which are thought to slow the ageing process and reduce the risk of cancer. It then goes on to detail the main suppliers and buyers of the crop.

More importantly, it provides information on the crop’s agronomy, outlining where in the British Isles the crop will grow best. It highlights preferred soil pH, and soil texture, whether the crop is frost tolerant, what rainfall is required and the type of crop habit and growth – in fact all the essential information needed to grow a crop to its maximum yield potential.

Knowing where the crop grows best is only part of the equation.

Finding out how the seed bed needs to be prepared, how the crop needs to be sown or planted, what pests and diseases might be encountered during the growing season are all important considerations.

New Crop Opportunities details any constraints in the crops’ production as well as any specialised equipment that might be needed for storage and harvesting. It also advises on the ever important – expected yield.

Users can search to find the best alternative crops which could be grown in their particular geographic area. So if the crop is to be grown in the Midlands, and needs to be sown in March and harvested in August, if the soil is clay with a neutral pH, there is a frost risk and medium rainfall is expected, the search delivers seven alternative crop solutions : barley, canary seed, foxglove, nettle, oats, peas and wheat.

The advantage of being able to specify sowing and harvest dates ensures that the new crop’s sowing and harvest do not clash with periods of high workload of existing crops and enterprises on the farm.

Many of the crops featured also include a dynamic financial model providing an indication of the likely returns. Relevant news items on the fast moving world of new crop products are regularly

updated on the site by an experienced agronomist and are also linked into the relevant crop section so users can see at a glance what issues are affecting that particular crop sector.

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Feed manual to be launched at Cancun congress

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or the first time ever, the feed industry has developed an international Feed Manual that focuses on the issues of feed and food safety.

Joining together to make this happen are the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

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This Manual - produced with the help of the IFIF and issued as part of FAO’s publications on Animal Production & Health will have its official launch at the III Global Feed & Food Congress that takes place in Cancun, Mexico, on April 20-23, 2010.

Called ‘Good Practices for the Feed Industry - Implementing the Codex Alimentarius Code

of Practice on Good Animal Feeding’, it arises from work by a joint FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius Commission.

The Global Feed & Food Congress in April will hear that the Manual explains in detail the new requirements associated with the recent adoption of the Codex Alimentarius Code of Practice

on Good Animal Feeding. Its focus on the issues of feed and food safety includes both the Code itself and additional supporting information related to the manufacture of safe feed.

Also covered are safe feeding practices for on-farm feed mixers.

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by Jonathan Bradshaw It has often been said that flour milling has more in common with the paint industry than it does with the food industry. Whilst paint manufacturers and millers alike resent this comparison as a slur on their skills, the proponents of this statement simply refer to the fact that flour milling is mainly a size reduction exercise where we seek to judiciously reduce a grain of wheat to its finer components and separate out the bran. Rather like reducing pigments down to fine powder and removing impurities and extraneous matter too large to be of any value in the paint industry.

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his being said, let us look at the ramifications of the task that faces the miller in reducing and, perhaps more importantly, controlling granularity of products throughout the mill, rather than just controlling the granularity of the end product.

First, let us consider the role which moisture plays in the process.

Essentially there to hold bran particles together when wheat passes through fluted break rolls, the moisture enables the miller to set his rollermills to scrape endosperm away from the bran layers and allow him to then present a coarse granule to the head reduction passages via the purifiers and the middlings system, always assuming the miller decides to incorporate purifiers in the flow.

Roll fluting The choice of fluting is all important to the control of granularity and the flute pattern and profile, spiral and disposition all play an important part in preparing the semolinas for further grinding and grading when they leave the break system.

In semolina mills, we know now that the number of facets we can cut on a granule of semolina greatly influences the light reflectance and hence the colour of the resultant pasta.

Rather like the number of facets that can be ground on a diamond influences the sparkle by reflecting the light which is shone upon it.

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Much work has been done on roll fluting and the effects that different flute forms have upon granularity and release of semolina from the whole grain.

In the 1970s Henry Simon’s technical millers put together a set of roll flutes which are now almost universal in their use, albeit the spiral, speed and disposition of these may vary from engineer to engineer with each having their own favoured forms dependent on the diagramme being adopted and the cereal being ground, hard, soft, durum, rye, maize, etc.

The various profiles define the lead in angle and the fall away angle with a fixed amount to land allow the engineer to fully describe the parameters of the cutting surfaces without having to list them each time when re-fluting a roll chill.

The number of roll passages in the break and reduction system varies from mill to mill and the number of rollermills per passage also varies from mill to mill.

The use of flake disrupters has reduced the number of reduction rolls used since prior to their use flakes generated through heavy grinding were simply scalped off and lost to the coarse reduction system.

Since their introduction in the late 1960s and early 1970s, initially using entoleters, roll numbers have decreased dramatically.

Heavier grinding has become common place and because the concentration of grinding is confined to just the area immediately around the roll chills the whole frame of the machine,

irrespective of manufacturer, is lighter and with much more simplified feed gate arrangements.

Hence the cost of manufacture has come down proportionately and we see rollermills being offered to the millers at very economical prices.

Assessing the grind I recall when first starting out doing my mill practice I had the job of assessing the grind at each rollermill and adjusting it in line with the instruction of the mill manager, who, using his experience knew what was best for his mill and how the rolls should be set to obtain the most effective extraction at the best flour colour.

He spent time with me going round the rolls and showing me the correct way to set rolls for an effective grind.

Sadly, today there are few vacancies for milling apprentices and the age of millers is rapidly advancing. We are not very likely to have mill managers with sufficient time available to spend with new starters in the industry, despite this probably being a very effective strategy for maintaining mill balance and affecting quality control in months and years to come.

We now look to the milling schools to provide our future millers and I am in some doubt whether the mill manager of today actually spends enough time in his mill to allow him the depth of knowledge of his facility that he should have. Invariably tied up with bureaucracy and paperwork he or she rarely get the opportunity

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Cross-Yoke-Plansifter Flexible, high-performance, compact, self-balanced

to spend any concentrated length of time in the mill setting rolls and examining mill samples.

Milling skills are hard to come by these days but those who have the opportunity to learn from the older generation will have a skill that will last.

Fewer machines – same output As the rollermill has advanced in use and technology it has led to fewer machines being used for the same or greater output. So too have the sifter and the purifier moved along and been matched to enhanced throughput.

Had this not been the case we would have seen disproportionate machine balance and some rather top-heavy buildings. The drawer type plansifter took the place of the centrifugal reel and it has subsequently been replaced by the square sieve plansifter which has grown from four sections initially of 16 sieves to anywhere up to 12 sections of 30 sieves and capable of matching the throughput and efficiency of any of the rolls available today.

The rollermill has seen the superimposed machine come into use on certain passages and, in combination with the modular sifter

which can be used in even the tightest of areas and the newer range of three deck purifier with infinitely variable angled deck the mill of today can be fitted into a relatively small space than in our forefather’s days.

Control granularity To be in a position, however, to control granularity in the mill properly, we cannot simply look at the infeed and outfeed from any one individual machine.

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stock for the sifters to separate effectively into component parts, always ensuring total combined release is adequate to enable targeted extraction rates to be met. Middlings sifters should be clad to extract flour as early as possible in the flow when milling soft wheats but should enable head reduction grinding to be optimized in hard wheat mills in order to obtain optimum starch damage and water absorption.

Purifiers are there to improve the feed to the reduction rolls and can, and should, have the greatest influence on granularity in a mill, especially semolina mills where it is the purifier that is the final arbiter of finished products, coarse, medium and fine.

Head reduction rolls are where the bulk of the grinding is done and where water absorption and starch damage are influenced to the greatest degree, but it is of no value if a wide range of particle sizes are presented to an individual passage, in fact, it can ruin a mill’s output if too wide a range is offered as only the coarse fraction will be reduced down further and the finer particles of semolina may pass between the roll chills untouched.

The miller needs to present as fine and narrow a particle range to all rollermills but especially to the head reduction passages.

Feed gates Similarly, the presentation of an even feed across the width of the roll is vital.

At one time when feed gates were made up of several parts that supposedly spread the feed across the nip it was often common to see feeds running through just the centre of the rolls with large gaps across the width of the roll. This was obviously inefficient but reflected the cautious attitude that mill operatives had to their rollermills and they would open feed gates more than necessary in order to avoid choke conditions being created by inherent variances in feed rate to different rollermills.

With the advancements made in feed gate design and the use of variable speed feed rolls and level sensors that automatically instigate increases and decreases in feed roll speed this situation is now almost totally avoided and we see excellently spread feeds across the feed rolls.

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range of flour are produced there are still several mills who utilise one or two sizings passages in their flow.

Originally brought into use in Australia as the ‘sizings and protein shift’ diagram, the use of sizing rolls was meant to influence the distribution of protein within the mill. This sizings system became more widely used to control and influence the particle size distribution patterns to the head reduction rolls in European mills when the use of purifiers lost favour in diagrams, partly as a response to the perceived benefit of shorter flow diagrams and the ability of rollermills to handle much heavier loadings whilst purifier throughputs remained relatively low.

Now the balance of capacity has been restored in mill design we no longer see roller floors larger than sifter floors, nor the top and bottom floors jammed with peripheral equipment, and the aesthetic appearance of mills is much improved.

The major engineers, especially Buhler have now been able to turn their attention to the mill flow and diagrammes once again are being considered carefully.

The fact that Buhler regularly build complete new mills, much more frequently than most of the other engineers puts them in the fortunate position of being able to evaluate changes in flow sheet design in many areas of the world and then build their knowledge based on the results of mill surveys.

Power consumptions can be evaluated and changes made to flows in subsequent mill projects for example and the very fact that so many mills are built that handle such a wide variety of wheat enables a depth of information to be gathered and utilized and improved upon from project to project. This is just one example of the benefits of having a full and busy order book with suitably trained millers in the field.

Optimising machine design Another advantage of frequent orders is that individual machine design can be optimised and the Antares rollermill is a classic example with many new innovative features, the feed gate arrangement being an obvious one being a simplified refinement from previous versions of standard issue rollermills.

The revised and upgraded range of purifiers and sifters are also products of extensive field trials and all are offered with a view to being able to control granularity effectively throughout the mill which subsequently enables machines to be set most effectively in order to match customer’s finished product specifications.

Attention has been paid by all engineers to such items as roll cleaning mechanisms, purifier brushes, feed gates, ball cleaners and sifter cleaning devices.

Without these operating correctly and efficiently much is lost in terms of machine setting control and the regularity of settings is lost.

In rollermills where auto key pad adjustment is provided and where the ability to recall previous settings is available, history has shown that such setting storage has not been as reliable as it could be, principally because of poor cleaner operation and variable springs and air pressure support, often brought about by climatic changes, humidity variance from night to day, etc.

Fortunately, these items have been overcome by attention to detail and the use of centralized control of the mill can now also be used as an aid to controlling and regulating granularity.

The changes in mill control and the automatic engagement and disengagement of rollermills as feed rates vary has been quite rapid and developments seem to have been perfected quickly. What we can expect in years to come remains to be seen but I hope it reflects practical experience rather than simply engineers trying out new processes that have no relevance to milling.

The daily walk-around Controlling granularity within the mill and maintaining mill balance is crucial to minimizing power consumption in the mill and optimising finished products physically as well as maintaining starch damage, water absorption, etc.

That walk round every day is still one of the most valuable tools a miller has at his disposal and is an excellent tool to have.

After all, we wouldn’t buy a new car and not observe how it operates so we shouldn’t buy a new mill and not pay careful attention to how it operates.

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or those of you unfamiliar with roller mills, the basic principal of operation is simple: Two parallel rolls rotate towards one another at high speeds, say 400 – 3000rpm. Material is gravity fed between the parallel rolls and as it enters the ‘nip’ of the rollers, it experiences both crushing and shearing forces that grind the particle into smaller pieces. Roll surfaces can be either corrugated or smooth on the surface, depending on the need, and typically a speed differential between the rolls, ranging from 1:1 to 3:1, is necessary (see figure 1).

Most roller mills are compromised of multiple grinding sections vertically stacked on top of one another and material falls by gravity from one pair of rollers to the next.

The number of sections is determined by the material properties and the amount of reduction required to achieve the desired grind size.

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rial in size to a narrow particle size distribution and with few unwanted fines (see Figure 2).

Roller mill advantages Now that we understand the basic principles of operation, there are four main advantages that direct people to use a roller mill rather than a hammermill, ball mill, cone mills or some other attrition grinding method.

Narrow particle size distributions.

Fracturing of the material is accomplished only by the induced stress/shear action of the roll surface on the product. There is no attrition, high speed impact, or internal screening.

For many materials, this results in significant narrowing of the particle size distribution.

Minimal dust (fines) creation: Without high speed impact, dust generation is reduced.

Low temperature rise: With no high speed impact and since there is no recirculation of product inside the grinder, heat generation is minimal. Also, grinding rolls can be cooled internally for especially heat sensitive products.

Low energy consumption: There is no high speed particle impact and zero friction between particles; thus, a roller mill grinder typically uses 30-50 percent

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less energy than an attrition mill of the same capacity. If you are wondering what savings that means in dollars, an additional 10hp costs our factory US$6500/year (based on 24/7/365 at US$0.10/kWhr).

Product Limitations Due the low-impact grinding nature of roller mills, it is typically best suited for materials that break apart under pressure, otherwise know at ‘friable’ materials. This can range from polyester plastics used in solid surface countertops to coffee. Roller mills are also superior grinding systems for various abrasive materials such as limestone and elemental silicon.

In any case, we have listed the two most common product requirements for successful roller mill operation.

Only suitable for friable materials: The product to be ground must fracture under stress rather than flatten or deform. This does not mean that the product must be brittle; a roller-style grinder can be used for products as hard as elemental silicon or limestone.

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Side bar: Obtaining a narrow particle size distribution should add value to your process.

However, materials like wood, rubber, and soft plastics are not good candidates for roller grinding.

Limited feedstock size: The maximum size of the feedstock (unground material fed to the roller grinder) varies based on the material properties; roll speeds and corrugations, and other factors.

Generally, the feedstock must be 25.4mm (1 inch) or smaller.

Changing for the better Roller mill technology continues to evolve.

One of the greatest advances in technology involves roll materials.

Today, various material advances allow roller mills to be utilized in increasingly abrasive applications.

No longer are we limited to steel

“Roller-Style Grinders are typically more expensive than hammer mills but give better particle size distributions. If the only sizing concern is to reduce the material below a certain size with no limits to the permissible amount of dust or size consistency, then a roller mill grinder may not be appropriate for your needs”

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or even hardened steel rollers. Modern roller mills use exotic roll materials, various coatings and in extreme cases ceramics that offer hardness values above the Rockwell C hardness

scale. These coatings and ceramics can virtually eliminate wear numerous applications.

Modern manufacturing methods and CNC machines provide precision equipment tolerances that were simply not possible years ago.

Today, roll gaps can be held to 10 microns (+/-0.0005 Figure 2 inch) while rotating at 3000rpm.

This allows roller mills to grind materials down to 50 microns, continuously and accurately, day after day and year after year.

Watercooling also plays a part in expanding applications.

In the past, cryogenic grinding methods were required on a number if applications to eliminate heat elevation during

grinding, especially with polyester, acrylics and other hard plastics. This is no longer necessary with the advent of water-cooling on roller mill grinders.

Additionally, various foods such as coffee and pepper boil off volatile oils and aromas above 35 degrees C (95 degrees F). Watercooling eliminates product temperature rise as materials pass through the grinder, thus eliminating the need for expensive liquid nitrogen and simultaneously improving product quality.

Today’s precision rollers Roller mill technology has evolved and become much more refined over the past 50 years.

Some may still think of roller mills in its crudest form, with ‘crushers’ haphazardly pulverizing friable materials down to a reduced size. But today’s precision roller mills are designed to produce ‘controlled explosions’ that achieve a completely controlled and highly-engineered particle size.

Friable materials can now be reduced in size with less dust, greater uniformity and higher efficiencies.

Not only is this change for the better, but this is change for the better than can be proven and quantified.

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ecurring food scandals put consumer confidence to the test again and again. To counteract this loss of confidence, in this respect, the European Union felt the need to establish a set of

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rules in which not only the general principles and requirements of the food law but also adequate methods for food safety are stipulated.

Since the quality of the end product is hardly separable from the quality of the raw materials used, an ‘integrated concept’ for food safety has been pursued.

To ensure comprehensive consumer protection it is necessary, that in addition to preventive measures for food safety and a guarantee of

maximum traceability of products, to make sure that a product recall can be initiated quickly and efficiently if there is reasonable evidence to suspect unsafe food.

Legal framework Requirements of the European Union with respect to an ‘integrated concept’ for food safety include the complete food chain, from the grower up to the end user, including the food production.

The legislator pursues three economic aims for the commercial handling of food: To guarantee a high protection level for people’s health, with a simultaneous protection of the consumers’ interests while ensuring the smooth functioning of the European single market and a harmonisation of the international trade at the same time.

With the enactment of the regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of the European Parliament and the Council on January 28, 2002, the European legislature has provided a binding set of rules, laying down the general principles and requirements regarding food safety and thus forming a common basis for the measures taken by the single member

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states and EU as whole in order to ensure safe food.

According to this regulation, all enterprises involved in the product development process (primary production, food processing, storage and distribution) are responsible for food safety, as well as the food trading institutions.

The food law shall aim, among other things, “... at the following: “To establish a comprehensive system of traceability within food and animal feed businesses, so that targeted and accurate withdrawals can be undertaken or information given to consumers or control officials, thereby avoiding the potential for wider disruption in the event of food safety problems.”

Article 18 of the regulation stipulates that the traceability of food at all stages of production, processing and distribution must be ensured, and that systems and methods are to be implemented in order to make available the information required to the competent authorities on demand.

Food and feed businesses must always be able to identify products that they have

received or supplied to other businesses or consumers. An adequate recording system must be established by each respective firm for this purpose.

In most cases, however, a correct control

example, the guideline for the traceability in the feed sector). The legal basis of this guideline was taken from the European Animal Feed Hygiene Act No. 138/2005, which adopts and concretises the traceability from

“The European Union felt the need to establish a set of rules in which not only the general principles and requirements of the food law but also adequate methods for food safety are stipulated” of the goods received and goods shipped should be sufficient.

So far, the Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety has only supplied a few selected branches with precise and detailed codes of conduct in this respect (for

the general regulation (enacted in 2002).

Future demands of the market will put on both food producers and the food industry and will be dealt with in accordance with these valid legal provisions.

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be characterised as ‘residue-free’ due to their conveying principle.

It must be considered, however, that this residue-free and clean conveying method is very expensive: The possible mass flow of pneumatic conveying systems is generally lower than that of mechanical systems.

Moreover, the specific energy consumption is about 2.5 to three times higher than in mechanical conveying systems. The very loud air blowers must possibly be installed in sound insulated rooms to meet the requirements of the emission protection guidelines.

- Belt conveyor The discharge behaviour of most belt conveyors is good.

During the transport of adhesive bulk goods, such as oleaginous crop plants, residues are often sticking to the carrying side of the conveyor belt. In most cases, however, such residues can be easily removed by scrapers.

Due to the open construction, increased dust emission into the environment of belt conveyors must be expected which in fact involves more cleaning but will not impair the residue-free transport. The technological reasons are therefore sufficient to call the belt conveyor residue-free.

- Screw conveyors The discharge behaviour of horizontal and slightly inclined screw conveyors is only mediocre.

related traceability involving different products conveyed one after the other, one might think about using suitable conveying and handling systems.

To avoid athe mixing of product residues in the conveying systems, it must be ensured that such systems are largely residue-free, that is, it is essential to ensure that none or only insignificant product residues remain in the conveying systems.

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the residue-free transport of grain than others.

“The transport and storage of grain must be safe and traceable at all times”

- Pneumatic transport In principle, the pneumatic conveyor is composed of the following components: The airflow generator (blower or suction unit) which produces the airflow; the piping system and the intake and discharge equipment for bulk goods.

The components coming into contact with bulk goods can usually be designed in such a way that no residues remain in the conveyor. If the piping system is leak-proof, bulk goods cannot escape into the surrounding environment.

Most pneumatic conveyors can already

Residues of bulk material remain in the conveyor most of the times. Especially in the gap between screw flight and trough where a layer of product is almost always left behind which the screw flights are unable to discharge. This gap is not adjustable either, that is, it cannot be minimised further because one would risk that the screw flight

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pushes against the trough which would lead to increased grain breakage due to jammed bulk material particles.

In most cases, this residue layer can only be removed by manual cleaning.

The potential for optimising the screw conveyor with regard to residue-free transport must be considered rather slim.

The advantage of the enclosed design, however, is that it is environmentally friendly, as no bulk material can escape and thus pollute the surrounding environment.

- Trough chain conveyors Most bulk goods can be well discharged by trough chain conveyors.

Product residues pile up mostly in gaps and dead spots. The enclosed design enables a clean transport, without letting bulk material or dust escape into the environment.

We believe that there is a big potential for optimising the trough chain conveyor in respect of residue-free transports, as gaps and dead spots can be influenced by design features.

- Bucket conveyors In bucket conveyors or elevators, most residues accumulate of course in the elevator foot.

There are usually larger dead spots where bulk material residues accumulate, because they cannot be collected by the buckets.

Further residues like to settle on all horizontal surfaces inside the bucket chain conveyor.

The aforementioned problems can be influenced by a clever arrangement of the machine parts, enabling an optimisation of the given potential.

Definition of residue-free conveying systems By using the example of the screw conveyor, we want to demonstrate that many conveying systems will never be able to guarantee an absolutely residue-free transport for technical reasons. However, a final remnant must usually be accepted.

By means of residue-free conveying systems, Schmidt-Seeger GmbH tries to keep these final remnants as marginal as possible.

In order to illustrate the various technological differences of the individual conveying systems, the definition cannot be based on the absolute value of a remnant but must include a relative value in relation to the conveying system.

Regrettably, technical literature does not

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offer any statements concerning limit values so far. A generally accepted definition is not available. The definition of Schmidt-Seeger GmbH is therefore as follows: “The residues in conveyors of residue-free design are less than 20 percent compared with conventional designs.�

With this definition of residuefree conveying systems it is possible to compare the various conveying systems (taking into account their characteristic technical features) with regard to the respective product residues.

Optimisation of conveyors Using the example of the trough chain conveyor and the bucket chain conveyor we want to demonstrate which measures can be taken to accomplish a residue-free transport in these conveyors.

- Trough chain conveyors The discharge behaviour of the bucket chain conveyor is generally good.

The form of the screw flights at the conveying chain ensures that almost all bulk material is discharged by the conveyor.

However, in dead spots and gaps, which cannot be reached by the conveying chain, grain is left behind all the same, especially in the gap between inner trough wall and screw flight, or in the dead spot in the tensioning station behind the deflexion pulley.

Our aim is to at least reduce these residues by optimisation, or preferably to eliminate this problem completely.

The aim of a trough chain conveyor with residue-free transport was defined such as that, after the empty running time of the bucket chain conveyor, less than a dozen of grains should be left in the trough chain conveyor.

Various actions are taken to achieve this ambitious aim.

The tensioning station, for instance, will be equipped with a guide plate by means of which grain, which has fallen behind the clamping wheel, will slide back to the front within the reach of the chain.

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tion of the tensioning device, this guide plate will be at a constant distance to the clamping wheel. A tensioning station with the mentioned guide plate is shown here.

To prevent an accumulation of grain inside the conveyor, one tries to avoid horizontal areas without intervention of the chain.

For that purpose, the outlet is positioned as far in front as possible, and the dead spot before the drive wheel is equipped with a further guide plate by means of which grain, which is transported beyond the outlet, can slide into the outlet after all.

Apart from the aforementioned design modifications, the following further measures will be taken: Use of discharge devices (plastic slide rails, brush scrapers, etc.)

Prevention of foreign substances from getting inside the conveyor, which might deform the wings of the conveying chain Reduction of clearances on joints Apart from all adjustments/optimisations, it must of course always be ensured that the trough chain conveyors are still easy to clean and maintain.

- Bucket conveyor Most residues accumulate in the elevator foot and other horizontal areas inside the conveyor housing.

These are exactly the spots to be tackled by optimisation. Regrettably, it is impossible to avoid accumulation of residues in the elevator foot completely (without the use of additional equipment).

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path of the buckets must always be maintained.

The aim of a bucket chain conveyor with residue-free transport was defined as such that, after optimisation, it must be ensured that residues may only be left in the elevator foot, and that the volume of these residues should be less than 20 percent, compared with conventional designs.

To meet this demand, all horizontal areas inside the bucket chain conveyor will be eliminated (as in the trough chain conveyors).

All grain which is not transported will therefore fall back into the foot.

To reduce the volume of residues in the foot, the path of the buckets through the housing will be imitated in the foot area. By carrying along the lower housing part during belt tensioning, the clearance between outer path of the buckets and inner wall of the housing remains constant.

This clearance can be adjusted to only a few centimetres.

As shown here, all residues pile up in the middle of the elevator foot due to the inclined floor. If the residue level in the foot reaches the path of the buckets, the overlaying layer of the residues is fed out. The cross section surface of the remaining residues is just below 18 percent of the cross section surface of the residues without the copied housing bottom.

In theory, the final remains in the elevator foot could be discharged via a flap in the middle of the foot, to make the bucket chain conveyor completely residue-free.

However, this would either require operator intervention by hand or some kind of device for discharge or some other kind of utilisation of the product.

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From a practical point of view, however, such a solution is usually much too expensive and not worth the effort.

Conclusion The transport and storage of grain must be safe and traceable at all times.

This is one of a number of new regulations and guidelines and all enterprises involved in any stage of product development process and the food trade are responsible for food safety.

The use of residue-free conveying systems helps to guarantee a batch-related traceability with highest possible accuracy.

However, due to technological differences, it is impossible to achieve absolutely residue-free transports in each conveyor type. By means of design modifications and new production technologies, it is indeed possible to optimise conveying systems with regards to residue-free transport. As a result of this we are able to maintain the quality of the product by avoiding a mix of consecutively conveyed products, and we are also in a position to comply with the legal requirements on our customers.

References Regulation (EC) No. 178/2002 of 28 January 2002, laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety. www.bestmalz.de: Explanations to EC regulation 178/2002, 2003 Günthner W. A.: Lecture notes on “bulk handling and conveying systems“, chair of fml, Technical University Munich, 2007.

Blomeyer N.: Residue-free conveying and handling systems for grain, technical lecture at the POWTECH 2008, Nuremberg, 2008.

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Designing bagging lines to meet requirements Specifying and designing bagging lines for the food processing industry

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bagging line in a production plant is closely tied to the associated production and distribution processes, including the upstream and downstream logistics. This may have an impact on the availability of the entire production plant and must therefore be taken into account in evaluating and designing the line.

To achieve the best possible performance, it is essential that the production management and distribution department cooperate closely in defining the basic concept of such a line.

The �bag� as a container for packing foods offers various benefits.

It allows an attractive presentation of the product, is a significant advertising medium and reflects the quality of the product it contains.

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In the grain-based food sector, bags are made almost exclusively of paper, woven plastic or textiles. A large number of suitable bag and bag closure types are available, such as stitching with the optional addition of tape-bound closures or a folding device; gluing; or sealing. Each method has its specific advantages and disadvantages.

But whatever bag and closure type is chosen, this decision will always have an impact on the entire bagging line and its design. In addition, the bag materials used in fully automatic bagging lines must meet higher quality requirements.

Operating reliability and automation In the design and specification of a bagging line, it is essential to satisfy the specific plant requirements. But a number of fundamental requirements must always be met by bagging lines in food applications.

One key requirement is high operating reliability and maximum flexibility.

Due to the complexity of a bagging line, the individual components must be of high quality and carefully matched in order to ensure high operating reliability and maximum availability.

Today, automatic bag attachers and bag transfer and spreading units are normally part of the standard equipment of bagging lines. If the proper bag materials are used, an automatic bag attacher will be capable of processing woven plastic bags as well as the paper bags commonly applied.

A bag transfer and spreading unit transfers the bag from the bagging spout and feeds it automatically to the bag closing system. Both automatic units increase the throughput capacity and reduce the manpower requirement. Both units can be integrated either with a single-bag packer or in a

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Profitability

The main company-specific parameters determining the selection of a bagging line are:

The profitability of a bagging line depends essentially on the following factors:

• Output per week (exclusive of products shipped in bulk, Big Bags, and small packages).

• Number of products and their respective quantities, plus precise product specifications including bulk densities.

• Actual working hours per shift and day.

• Number of workdays per week.

• Number of bag weight and product changes per shift.

• Shares of the different bag weights of the entire product volume to be packed.

• Minimum storage time in storage and bagging bins (for “deaerating” or reducing the volume before packing).

bagging carrousel equipped with three, four or six spouts.

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• Investment matched to the actual requirements.

• Employment of operating personnel carefully planned.

• Level of automation matched to specific needs.

• Highly accurate bag weights.

• Low energy consumption.

• Low cost of expendable materials.

• High uptime and flexibility.

• Short times for product and bag weight changes, or none at all.

• Best possible design of the entire logistics chain from bag warehouse to loadout point.

• Minimised maintenance and servicing.

age systems and of bagging bins and their dischargers.

The feed and weighing system selected must be matched to the product in question.

Despite optimal electronic weight monitoring and automatic weight correction, it is of advantage to install a check scale with an automatic scrap bag ejector between the bagging line and the palletiser or loadout point to ensure complete monitoring of the packed bags.

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In the food sector, hygiene-related legal requirements are becoming increasingly stringent.

They must be satisfied by applying the proper system design and preventing product contamination. In this area, a substractive bagging scale with direct bag filling will significantly reduce the risk of contamination compared to conventional batch bagging scales. Another advantage of substractive weighing is that every actual filling weight is registered and corrections can be made as required even with fast bagging cycles.

Bag compacting & centralised control New, mechanical compacting systems allow more efficient reduction of the volume of bagged product and give bags a more stable form.

At the same time, this reduces the handling volume.

As in other areas, automation and centralised control are becoming increasingly important for minimising the manpower requirement of bagging lines. A state-ofthe-art control system will enable an entire bagging line including the automatic palletiser to be controlled and monitored from a single touch-screen terminal.

Such control systems are capable, say, of selecting a different bag weight together with the appropriate bag sise or of changing the bag layer pattern created by a palletiser.

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This is done fully automatically and without manual intervention.

Moreover, these systems allow fast error diagnostics of the entire bagging line, which slashes line downtimes and makes it easier to familiarise new employees with bagging operations.

Balanced warehouse logistics The performance and cost-effectiveness of a bagging line also depends on the warehousing system applied, which must be matched to the specific needs.

More and more, the method of direct loadout straight from the bagging line is being abandoned.

On the one hand, this is due to the high bagging capacity required. On the other hand, the direct linking of bagging and loadout and the increasing number of loadout variants with the related downtimes make this former approach uneconomical.

An analysis of the plant-specific requirements is a prerequisite for selecting the adequate warehousing concept, which must also take account of the plant’s uptime and therefore its profitability.

A number of warehouse variants are possible, which all have their specific advantages and disadvantages.

Today, very many plants apply the block storage method due to its low capital cost.

But it also has drawbacks: The first-infirst-out (FIFO) approach is not possible; a large surface area is needed, with poor space utilisation; automatic inventory control is not possible; the storage and retrieval capacity is low; and the number of possible variants or items is low.

In addition, the manpower costs of a block storage system are very high, since several forklift drivers are needed simultaneously.

The drawbacks of rack storage systems are similar to those of block storage installations, though they do allow FIFO operation to some extent. They also permit order-picking thanks to the access they allow to individual items in combination with flow-rack or high-bay storage systems.

For many packing installations, a flowrack store will be found to be an adequate solution.

Flow-rack storage systems offer the following advantages: FIFO is possible; the space utilisation rate is high; the capacity and uptime are high; the manpower requirement is low; the capital cost is relatively low, with an excellent price-toperformance ratio; and supply readiness is optimal. Fully automated high-bay warehouses are the Rolls Royces in the field of warehousing.

But despite their outstanding advantages, they are too expensive and complex for many plants. A high-bay storage system is especially suitable if a very large number of items must be stored and if

access to each individual item must be possible at any time.

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German technology convinces in the Australasian hemisphere Behn + Bates supplies baking ingredients and starch producers in Australia and Thailand

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ast autumn the German packing machine specialist Behn + Bates succeeded in winning two interesting projects in Australia and Thailand.

Both projects deal with the packing of powdery products into open-mouth bags.

The Australian customer requests to fill baking ingredients into 10kg to 25kg bags at an hourly rate of 180 to 240 bags. The Thai company produces tapioca starch that has to be filled into 50kg bags at an hourly rate of 220 bags.

“First project studies revealed quickly that only open-mouth bags are really hermetically tight thus offering optimum product protection” For both projects the Westphalian machine building company based in Münster will deliver its Topline packing system in spring 2010.

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tion fast and corresponds to modern food standards – these all were demands specified by the customers for the realisation of their projects.

Optimum product protection First project studies revealed quickly that only open-mouth bags are really hermetically tight thus offering optimum product protection.

In comparison even a multi-layer paper valve bag with internal PE layer is never 100 percent tight as it must be aerated and deaerated in the process of filling for optimum packing results. With regards to cost the open-mouth bag also prevails. It is more cost effective than the valve bag.

Thus, the rough direction was clear for both projects.

Considering the requested hourly outputs of up to 240 bags with bag weights of 25kg or 50kg, Behn + Bates offered its Topline system with gross weigher.

The Topline is a modern machine design launched by Behn + Bates in 2005 and marketed successfully since then.

The aim of the machine development has

been that customers producing food and pet food can be offered an efficient technology for the clean powder filling into open-mouth bags according to modern GMP and HACCP hygiene standards.

Powders, however, confront packing machine manufacturers with special challenges: They are partially extremely dusty not mentioning the resulting dust explosion risk. Only a filling technology that is designed to meet these challenges can guarantee optimum filling results.

The relation between low-air filling, dust-tight filling spout and efficient product de-aeration or densification is of utmost importance.

The Topline system The Topline system has been continuously refined over the years. Thanks to sophisticated innovations the machine design was optimised in such a way that: · The time needed for the individual work steps, for example the empty bag application was reduced · The number of pneumatic and mechanical components was minimised · The energy supply cables were completely laid on the machine roof Bag processing in the machine starts with the empty bag feed designed according to the needs of the customer and the specialties of the handled bag. The design of the empty bag separating station also considers the bag type as well as the requested output.

The bag applicator arm driven by a servomotor securely positions the singled bag underneath the filling spout. The dust tight hexagonal filling spout fills both the

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Australian baking ingredients and the Thai starch product. It encloses the bag entirely during the whole filling process.

At the same time venting channels integrated in the filling spout assure the clean product filling without dust occurrence. The product is compacted during the filling process by a bag bottom vibrator supplied in dust-tight design especially for the food industry.

The filled bag is taken off the filling spout by a pair of grippers, optimally spread and transferred to the discharge unit at the same height. Then, the filled bag is closed according to the closing method requested by the customer.

In spite of many parallels both projects are different in essential design features as different products with different specialities and different bags with different closures are handled: - Baking ingredients project in Australia A coarse and fine-flow auger is provided for the dosing of the various baking ingredients containing different binding por-

tions of fat, cocoa powder and unskimmed milk. The servomotors of the augers are adjusted to the different flow characteristics.

These parameters are stored and recalled upon use according to recipe.

The customer processes multi-layer paper bags made of paper with PE inliner.

The bag is separated by a vacuum system and transferred to the bagaligning unit in a linear motion. There, it is centred, opened and optimally shaped for the following application.

The internal PE bag is sealed hermetically tight after the filling described beforehand and the de-aeration. Then, the upper bag edge is folded and closed tight by hot-melt reactivation. This technology is trend-setting in the food industry as humidity, foreign bodies and

vermin or similar cannot penetrate the packed product. Due to this optimum product protection even storage times can be extended.

“Powders confront packing machine manufacturers with special challenges - they are partially extremely dusty not mentioning the resulting dust explosion risk!”

Quality grain storage

- Tapioca starch project in Thailand The tapioca starch is dosed – without adding any additional air – by the proven impeller system combined with the scissors type seal for coarse and fine flow feed. Bags made of woven propylene or polyethylene, as used in this project, are

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separated from the bag bundle at their bottom.

A rotating transport grid system driven by a tooth belt takes over the empty bag

“Behn + Bates is well prepared for future market challenges” being centred on its way to the bag opening station.

Thus, it is for sure that bags do not load eletrostatically nor get stuck.

Behn + Bates will deliver to the Thai customer a sewing machine for sewing the filled woven PP bags. Especially for hygienic reasons the sewing machine is integrated in the 34 | March - April 2010

machine frame.

Thus, the bags are not sewn outside the machine as it is usually done in many companies.

In both projects optimally shaped bags that can be easily palletised and perfect pallet patterns are the result what is of utmost importance to the product marketing.

The severe hygienic standards applied in the food industry are the basic rule for the construction of all Topline systems: They are suspended from the top.

The machine bottom is easily accessible for cleaning purposes.

In addition, the cleaning process is made easier by the completely closed design of the machine bottom and the cabling laid outside the dust area. The access doors equipped with safety glass are flush with the machine frame. Possible dust deposit areas are reduced to a minimum. The entire packing area remains clean.

Cleaning and maintenance works are minimised.

In order to avoid even the smallest risk of residual product deposits the Australian customer will clean the product ways with water in regular intervals.

Excursus: - High-capacity filling of powders with the ORBIS system In the international food industry an increasing number of companies are inquiring the hygienic filling especially of powdery

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products into open-mouth bags at hourly rates of more than 250 bags.

The Orbis packing system made by Behn + Bates is the further development of the Topline and fills powdery products into open-mouth gusseted bags or flat bags made of paper, PE or material combinations at hourly outputs of up to 600 bags.

It can be equipped with three, four or five filling spouts.

Thus, it is possible to carry out the individual filling steps of empty bag application, coarse and fine flow dosing as well as product compaction and/or bag discharge simultaneously. Shorter cycle times and higher machine capacities are the result. Behn + Bates is well prepared for future market challenges.

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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.

Despite the stalemate between buyers and sellers since late last year, EU prices have been edging down and there is talk of more price declines on the way in coming months as new crop prospects start to firm up.

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Supply outlook remains encouraging

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gainst the early indications, the past season has been one of relative plenty and generally declining costs of grain and feed raw materials but the focus is now turning more toward new crop supply prospects. So far these look fairly promising for consumers.

Although low prices have cut many of the key exporters’ winter wheat sowings, the overall area sown for this grain is not down much from last year’s.

That produced a record crop and will leave huge stocks for the start of the next marketing year in July. Plenty of snow has protected crops from a cold winter in the Northern Hemisphere and when all the moisture melts this should offer a flying start when these emerge from dormancy over the next few weeks. In fact, no serious weather problems have been seen to date in most major supplying regions including Europe, the US, and former Soviet Union.

Some dryness needs watching in China and Canada but this is not uncommon in the winter and won’t necessarily threaten yields if it rains normally from

the next month or two onward. The important Mid-east/North African importing region has also had timely, abundant rains while a probable record crop is on the way in India, now expected to re-join the list of net exporters after a two-year absence.

On balance then, wheat yield prospects look good and the crop should be large again. In fact, with the big carryover stocks, total supply should be even bigger than last season’s, offering the prospect of yet more surplus stock buildup by the end of the next season in June 2011.

Importers seem to have grasped their psychological advantage and have waited for the market to hit bottom before taking quite a lot of forward cover recently, then retreating as their activity showed signs of pushing prices back up. European markets have been particularly quiet, however, with consumers content to sit back and wait for sellers to come to them. EU wheat exports have also slowed amid aggressive competition for markets from the former Soviet ‘Black Sea’ exporters as well as from Canada and Australia who all had plenty of grain to sell this season. EU producers have tended to dig their heels in as the market has sagged to its lowest level for five months. This is, of course, welcome to compounders and livestock producers if not for farmers who claim these prices are now below the cost of production. Yet Europe keeps planting large wheat crops with fingers

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crossed for better times ahead (this year’s sown area is estimated by the International Grains Council to be up by 1.1%). Consumption on the other hand, is not growing much and there is nothing on the horizon yet to suggest a big rebound in world wheat import trade – which fell quite sharply last season due to better crops in the Mid-East/North Africa. All this suggests wheat prices will stay flat through 2010, even if the futures markets are promising premiums into the new crop, late-year positions.

The coarse grain price outlook is also favourable for consumers. Markets continue to brace for a possible late downward revision

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to the all-important US maize crop, about 5% of which was still lying under snow as we went to press but this is not expected to add up to more than 2m or 3m tonnes, in the context of a record 334m tonne crop. The more important issue may be the extent to which the lower quality we mentioned in our last issue reduces feed value to compounders in the US and its big markets in Asia. Low test weights, vomitoxin and other issues may well lower the ‘usable’ crop and/or require more volume of grain to be fed to livestock to get the normal results in animal weight gain (the same applies to corn ethanol, starch, sweetener and other industrial uses too).

However, not all the US crop was so affected by the weather or by storage of damp grain so this is not, at this stage, expected to amount to a big hole in the US ending stock figure, let alone a reason to push up forward prices. What it may do, however, is to drive more importers into the arms of other exporting countries if these are able to supply better quality than the USA, including Brazil and Argentina. Fortunately, the South Americans (see below) are getting bigger than expected crops this year and are already keen sellers at competitive prices of maize as they enter their main harvest period.

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to work out how much maize the US will sow this year. Some preliminary data from the US Department of Agriculture in the past month suggests acreage will be higher than last year’s but that yields are unlikely to repeat the peak levels seen then. Two months away from the main sowing period, some analysts are also getting concerned about record snowfall taking a long time to melt and threatening to keep fields too soggy to work and plant in some of

the corn-producing heartlands. The US National Weather Service is also talking of a possibly damper than usual spring – for the third year running. Yet again the risk arises that the world’s largest maize supplier may have trouble getting its crops in on time and in meeting the forecast acreage. Doubtless this will, at some stage, get the speculators excited (if it actually transpires).

However, after two years that started under often dire ‘washout’ conditions for planting – which didn’t prevent bumper yields and record crops - the commercial trade will probably not over-react to this.

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Interestingly, the US – the world’s largest grain supplier - by far, is not making full use of the extra land it could sow this year. USDA sees planted area of 247.3m acres for the eight major field crops versus last year’s 248.9m and 2008’s 253.1m. This is despite a further 2.5m acres being released from conservation programmes.

With about 6m less winter wheat acres, there is a lot of spare land that could be planted to maize, soya, spring wheat or the other coarse grains.

Lower than expected prices and higher costs – it seems – are having an effect in restraining US sowing intentions. However, the real picture will not emerge until planting time, when market prices offered by competing crops and, of course, the weather, will have the final say. Either way, US yields have tended to increase over the long term and that underlying trend – along with the efficiency of the new GM varieties of maize and soyabeans and the old adage ‘rain makes grain’ may help to deliver adequate US crops again in 2010.

Whereas maize supplies are adequate and wheat burdensome, soyabeans may be verging on a glut situation ahead. Soya has been a tale of two markets. Last year’s record US crop is disappearing fast – largely thanks to record demand from China. However, the full weight of massive South American harvests is about to hit the world market soon and there is little doubt that a lot of this will have to go to stocks rather than consumption. This in turn will drive up world total oilseed stocks.

US soya prices have held up quite well over the winter amid the seasonal increase in demand for animal feed and the large Chinese purchases. However, as export demand switches to South America now, we can probably expect more downward price pressure on Chicago futures and on cash markets for US and South American meal.

Where the more valuable, higher protein soya market goes, the other oilmeals like rape and sunflower will have to follow.

As at the start of 2010, there seems very little for the speculators to get their teeth into – certainly in the short/medium term. This will

not stop the banks and institutional investors talking up grains and other commodities as long term investments. There is also the chance that tension over Iran could boost crude oil prices (already up this month). That could reignite the corn ethanol sector where many pundits are already claiming that new US renewable fuel guidelines promise more growth in demand than expected earlier. Time will tell. But in the meantime, speculators, having been bitten by last year’s commodity price crash, might not be quite so ready to rush into another boom that could again turn out to be a bubble. Certainly economic indicators are hardly bullish. Despite stronger GDP growth in the US, China and India, the broad financial markets remain paranoid about a ‘double dip’ recession amid the problems of Euro-zone sovereign debt – indeed US debt too. A slow economy may not be good news for meat producers that depend on healthy consumer spending power but it may at least hamper speculators’ attempts to double grain and feed prices - as they helped to do in 2007/08.

Commodity highlights Wheat supplies loosen further, prices choppy WORLD wheat prices have swung both ways in the past month or two, buffeted by shifts in currency markets, mixed economic indicators and uncertain signals from linked markets like maize and soyabeans. However, the underlying trend remains bearish, reinforced by still growing estimates of world wheat supplies and the heavy competition these are creating on an export market diminished this season by bigger crops in key importing countries around the southern Mediterranean and the Near East.

The exception is the quality hard wheat end of the market which has been firmer recently with protein premiums expanding, especially for US Dark Northern spring hard breadwheat. Shipment from the US Gulf for 14% protein DNS wheat was recently quoted at $302/tonne fob terms versus $274 in early January, marking a 15-week high. US hard red winter bread wheat has also firmed up, quoting $206/tonne versus a low of $195 in early February. However, soft wheats remain under pressure from large export supplies from all the major suppliers and are likely to remain an anchor on wheat prices overall for the months ahead.

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attention turn to prospects for 2010/11 season’s supplies. So far the pointers are encouraging with the IGC predicting sown area just 0.8% below last season’s at 221.8mn hectares – enough to produce a crop close to 660m tonnes with normal weather. Last year’s output was estimated by the IGC at 675m and by USDA at 677m and that was plenty big enough, driving stocks up to almost 200m tonnes – their highest level in several years.

Ideas that EU farmers might respond to disappointing wheat prices with lower plantings have been laid to rest by recent estimates showing the reverse trend. The IGC is forecasting total European wheat area at 26m hectares against last year’s 25.7m (if down

Table 1: Wheat production outlook on 2008’s 26.7m).

Good yields last 2009/10 2010/11 year still produced Exporters a decent crop of EU 138.7 143.4/144 138.7m tonnes Russia 61.7 57/58 (151.2m) which, USA 60.3 54/55 amid flat domestic demand and falling Canada 26.5 24/25 exports will leave Australia 21.7 22/23 the EU with a large Ukraine 20.9 19 stock of at least 17m Kazakhstan 16 14 tonnes to carry into Argentina

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plantings after delays to corn harvest made it too late to sow some wheat crop on the same land. Spring wheat prices are trading at good premiums for the higher qualities but whether this is enough incentive to raise area remains to be seen. Weather at planting time will be important as any rain delays may encourage a switch of land to later planted oilseeds.

Australia’s forecast crop increase for next year also relies on weather continuing to improve after a few years of drought were broken in 2009. So far this is appears to be happening. Most countries are getting normal to good weather apart from Canada and China whichare both suffering a degree of drought that needs to be watched. India – the first major country to harvest wheat in the calendar year – meanwhile appears to be outperforming early forecasts and plans to enter the world market as a significant exporter of at least 2.5m tonnes.

Russian export expansion should keep prices in check While crops in the former Soviet countries were reduced last year by lower yields in Russia and smaller planted area in the Ukraine (partly offset by more sown in Kazakhstan), this region still produced a huge crop for the second year running, at 113.7m tonnes, only 2m less than the record 2008 out-turn. End-season stocks are likely to continue building up within this region at 23m tonnes by July compared with 18.5m last season and just 12.3m the year before.

Although consumption in the FSU countries is edging up all the time, this still leaves a big surplus for exports which these countries likely to exploit to the full.

Wheat trade from the region is led by Russia, forecast to export 18m tonnes this season – just shy of its 2008/09 record 18.4m and more than double what it used to ship in earlier years.

Russia would probably be exporting even more this season, were it not for internal transport and port logistical restrictions. However, it means to tackle these in a big way over the next few years, pumping millions of roubles into export infrastructure to raise its globile profile.

Russia, like Ukraine and Kazakhstan, has already shown itself a force to be reckoned within the traditionally contested markets of the Near East and North Africa where it enjoys freight cost advantages over most of its rivals from its ability to ship through the Black Sea and out past Turkey into the Mediterranean.

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That will all change over coming years as it develops port infrastructure directed at the big Asian markets including some of the those viewed by the US, Australia and Canada as some of their safest customers like Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia. This is not a factor to be under-stated. We have already seen in recent seasons how these ‘Black Sea’ exporters can consistently set a grueling pace for their expor ting rivals with the lowest prices for wheat and feed barley. Although the FSU region can suffer upsets from its more extreme climate – especially winter frosts and summer droughts - Russia and the others certainly have the land expand as well as a productivity lag against western Europe that can be made up with more inputs, better storage and less wastage. Russia also believes it can become a major exporter, not just of feed grade and soft milling wheats but of harder quality varieties. Clearly this will be a factor to watch in the future as it may help keep long term wheat prices down for heavily exportdependent markets, including the EU.

Maize shrugs off speculative pressures Many of the banks and investment houses have continued to make a case for longer term strength in the maize/corn market as consumption outpaces production and stocks and stock/ use ratios get ever tighter. The past season has supported this as world total demand for the grain has run about 35m tonnes up on the year, exceeding the 2009/10 crop by about 12m tonnes (after this grew by only 6m tonnes).

World stocks at the close of the season will fall by like amount but will still be higher than in the six seasons prior to 2008/09.

Maize prices have recently been better supported than wheat, partly because of uncertainties about the 5% of the 2009 US crop

that was still lying under snow as we went to press (though what has been harvested recently has seen some surprisingly high yields) and partly because of ongoing problems with quality from a damp 2009 harvest. As mentioned in our last issue, this will not prevent the grain being used

in the expanding ethanol industry. However, in recent weeks, many US trade reports suggest that more of the lower quality grain has to be used to get the same results from the processor, whether in the industrial or the livestock sector.

If this is as widespread as some maintain, this could reduce the effective size of the usable crop, leading to lower than expected US stocks at the end of the season on August 31.

Ethanol demand for maize had a boost from new US government guidelines on renewable energy which appear to strengthen the green fuel’s longer term demand outlook, although the effect may be softened over time by the greater inclusion in ethanol feedstocks of other raw materials including plant waste. US ethanol production is also running at higher than expected levels and ahead of government targets, which may also reduce US end-season

stocks by more than expected.

Looking to 2010/11, US ethanol use will clearly continue to rise while feed demand for corn might expect some increments as the worst of the economic recession passes in the USA and among some of its global maize customers. So will US supply keep up?

At this stage, the next US crop is wide open

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COMMODITIES to ‘guesstimates’ but some early pointers from the USDA and from the trade suggest another 2m to 4m acres could be added to the production base, provided the weather is normal at planting time. Given a favourable growing season too, output could expand to a new record level and just about keep up with the projected higher demand. At this stage, however, there is some concern about the crop going late again with record snowfall yet to melt in large swathes of the Midwest and a long-range forecast for a wet spring. On the one hand the US might seem very unlucky if it had a planting washout/ holdup for an unprecedented third year in a row. Yet these events did not prevent large, if late crops at the end of the season – even a record crop for 2009, so maybe this factor is being over-rated by bullish interests.

On the world market maize prices have been kept in check by quite heavy export competition for the US at keen prices from Latin America and occasionally, eastern Europe and some Asian sources. Crops in Brazil and Argentina both seem to be turning out several million tonnes bigger than expected so we can probably expect the world total production figure for 2009/10 to rise soon, perhaps resulting in some loosening in those ending stock figures. The pressure has been telling on the US where export sales and shipments are actually running far behind officially forecast levels, also pointing to looser ending stocks.

The IGC’s preliminary estimate for world maize plantings in 2010/11 is +1.4% at 154.5m ha (152.3m.) with increases outside the US as well, in the FSU and S America. However, EU area could drop slightly to about 8.4m.

ha. (8.5m.) due to low prices, cuts in France and Italy. This suggests EU supply will remain in relatively tighter balance as the last crop dipped by 7m tonnes to 55.8m whereas consumption fell only 4m to 60m (due to lower feed use). Seasonal ending stocks, as

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a result, are expected to more than halve from last year’s 6m to their lowest level for several years.

Overall, growing demand and perhaps limited scope for world crop expansion might see maize prices better supported as 2010 wears on but the key factor will be US weather over the next six months.

The IGC meanwhile expects world barley area to decline by 1.2% to 55.4m ha, with falls in the EU and FSU. The EU itself may see a substantial drop of 7%, to 12.9m ha, as farmers switch to wheat and rapeseed, especially from winter plantings in France and Germany. The cold winter in Europe is also likely to delay spring barley sowing, leading to some switching to alternative crops or even to set-aside.

Russia’s winter barley area also declined in favour of wheat but more winter barley was sown in Ukraine where the total including spring barley is forecast around 5.2m ha (5.1m.).

In Canada, a small decline in spring barley plantings is likely to be more than offset by less crop abandonment than last year with harvested area seen at 3m ha (2.9m).

Soya boosts oilmeal supply Soya meal is by far the world’s leading oilseed protein fed to livestock, accounting for over two thirds of consumption in this sector and nearly five times as much as its closest rival, rapeseed meal. Even in Europe, where the choice of alternative oilseed meals is greater from domestic or imported rapeseed and sunflower meals, soya, with its higher protein and other attributes, grabs a hefty 60% market share of all oilmeals consumed. Where soya prices go, the broader oilmeal market, then, has to follow. It’s therefore good news for consumers in Europe and overseas that in recent weeks the price of soya has been coming down amid a massive influx of new crop supplies. The US 2009 crop turned out bigger than expected at 91.5mm tonnes, a new record high and up by almost 11m from last year. The Latin American harvests have meanwhile exceeded even the most optimistic forecasts, currently promising a combined gain of at least 34m tonnes, possibly as much

as 40m. In world terms, the bigger 2009/10 soyabean crop is equal to at least 35m tonnes of extra oilseed meal, maybe as much as 40m, although not all will be crushed this season, some sold for human food use, quite a bit stored up for the subsequent season. USDA is currently forecasting a mere 10m tonne rise in the crush to cover the anticipated increase in global demand but clearly a lot more beans can and will be processed for the feed sector if the demand is there. On the US markets, soya meal prices have already dropped by 20% since 2010 started and, despite the firm dollar/weak euro situation, this trend has been reflected across the EU market too.

Now that the Brazilian and Argentine crops are being harvested, the pressure is starting to increase for lower prices still.

Soya is not the only oilmeal in abundant supply this season. World and European rapeseed production is also running at record levels and carryover stocks of this oilseed will also be high at the close of this season. These increases have far outweighed the gradual erosion of alternative oilseed supplies, like cottonseeds and groundnuts in the world mix, pointing to a comfortable stock cushion all round as we move into latter 2010. The big question in coming months, however, is whether the supplying countries can keep this up. At this stage, USDA is suggesting a possible slowdown in US soya crop expansion but many analysts think that current price ratios versus maize will see an even bigger crop sown for 2010. What the South Americans might sow next autumn is down to where prices go in the meantime but if the historical trend continues, one might expect soya’s higher income for farmers to keep the acreage rising there too. Europe and Canada are meanwhile forecast to sow large rapeseed crops again.

Demand for oilmeals, on the other hand, is only seen rising this season by about 8m or 9m tonnes. As usual, the largest increase is in China (+3.3m) followed by Europe (+1.2m).

Apart from India (+0.6m), the rest of the forecast increase is spread over a whole host of large and smaller consuming countries on the assumption that world feed demand will respond to some gradual GDP growth and pickups in per capita meat consumption as global recession eases. Clearly there is more than enough oilmeal to go round and, short of some major weather problem in the US or Europe this summer, no reasons on the radar for prices to rise.

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he feed industry has to meet manifold requirements in its function as reliable partner in the chain for the production of foods of animal origin. In view of the dynamic developments of the market, there are considerable efforts necessary for safeguarding the competitiveness which can be shaped more successful, the better the operator and manager of a feed plant can fall back on know-how.

The following topics will be covered: • Basic processes and trends in compound-feed production • Efficient management of raw materials • Legal requirements • Admissible and practical tolerances, undesired materials • Milling and evaluation of the milling success (with practical training) • Determination and characterization of essential material properties • Sample taking and partitioning • Dosing • Mixing and evaluation of the mixture quality (with practical training) • Reduction of carryover and cross-contamination • Steam generation, steam properties and conditioning • Pelleting and pellet quality (with practical training) • Cooling and drying • Expanding (with practical training) • Extrusion • HACCP in feed mills • Vacuum coating • Hygienising of compound feed • Post pelleting application (PPA) and bulk blending • Production of premixes • Constructive explosion protection • Energy saving (subject to change)

For this reason, the Research Institute of Feed Technology of IFF will carry out an international course on “Fundamentals and new developments in feedcompounding technology” in English language from 7 to 11 June 2010 at BraunschweigThune, Germany.

On the basis of fundamentals and practical experiences, the aim of this course is the updating, extension and refreshment of required knowledge for an economic and s afe compound - feed production. The concentration is directed to substantial contents.

Practical courses at the pilot plant station of the research institute will be reinforced included.

This course is intended both for junior staff and for practitioners as well as technical management staff from all sectors of the feed industry.

It is recommended to employees of the supplying industry as it imparts in a concentrated form the knowhow on the feed production as well as for safeguarding product safety and quality which is indispensable for a successful cooperation.

Experiences and knowledge will be imparted in updated lectures, seminars and discussions. Enhanced practical courses on selected subjects shall illustrate the contents brought forward.

Each participant will receive a workbook containing all lectures and documents. The participation in the course is the precondition for receiving the workbook. The participation in the course will be attested.

The successful participation in a written examination on available and acquired know-how will be certified.

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8th - 10th July 10 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

Feed congress with no ties attached!

Tel: +62 21 8644 756 Fax: +62 21 8650963 Email: devi@napindo.com Web: www.indolivestock.com

SEPTEMBER 29th September 10 - 1st October 10 Animal Farming Ukraine 2010, Kiev, Ukraine Contact: Kuno Jacobs, CIS Exhibitions BV, Eemnesserweg 27a, 3743 AD Baarn, The Netherlands

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Tel: +31 35 5426515 Fax: +31 35 5426517 Email: Kuno.Jacobs@cis-exhibitions.nl

Business casual with no need to wear a tie - that will be the informal dress code when feed industry leaders from around the world meet in the Mexican resort of Cancun in April.

The III Global Feed & Food Congress (www.globalfeed-food. com ) opens in Cancun, Mexico, on April 20, 2010.

“When was the last time you packed for a business trip and you

did not need to put a tie in your suitcase?” comments Roger Gilbert, secretary-general of the International Feed Industry Federation. “But there will be no need for ties in Cancun.

It provides the ideal environment in which to relax while meeting other feed leaders to consider the important issues facing the industry’s future in all countries.

“The setting for the congress is perfect. Hotels, restaurants and

leisure facilities are all within walking distance of the convention centre where the congress takes place.

And all this is on the tropical shores of the Caribbean Sea. “So the message could not be more clear. Anyone who is in the business of producing or marketing feeds for farm animals and aquaculture should be at the congress in Cancun for a wonderful mixture of information, conversation and relaxation. They definitely do not have to bring a tie!”

International Grains Council

Web: www.animalfarmingexpo.com

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7th - 8th October 10 GLOBALGAP Summit 2010, London, United Kingdom Contact: Nina Kretschmer, c/o GLOBALGAP Foodplus GmbH, Spichernstr 55, D-50672 Cologne, Germany Tel: +49 2215 7993693 Fax: +49 2215 799389 Email: kretschmer@globalgap.org Web: www.summit2010.org

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12th - 13th October 10 Overview of Particulate Handling Technology, Kent, 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

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21st - 22nd October 10 French Food Market, Paris, France Contact: Marjolijn Cohen, Bridge2Food, Jan van Eijcklaan 2, 3723 BC Bilthoven, The Netherlands Tel: +31 30 2252060 Fax: +31 30 2252060 Email: mcohen@bridge2food.com Web: www.bridge2food.com

If you have an event that you would like to see in our pages contact Tuti Tan Email: tutit@gfmt.co.uk

Tuesday 8 June Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Westminster London

The new decade: towards greater market stability?

The past decade has seen enormous expansion in the global grains and oilseeds economy, driven by growth in population and prosperity as well as by steeply rising biofuel and other industrial uses. Rising demand for grains was more than matched by increased production, especially after the price surges of 2007-08. World trade in wheat, coarse grains and rice rose by nearly 20% from 2000 levels; in the oilseeds sector, responding to substantially enhanced demand for both animal feed (especially from China) and biofuels, the total trade volume climbed by as much as 50%.

The dramatic price swings and the global economic downturn in the last years of the decade not only presented grain markets with considerable challenges but also threatened the immediate food security of vulnerable populations and dented consumption trends, especially in the feed sector.

Medium-term forecasts suggest that trade in the major grains and oilseeds will see further growth in the next ten years as world demand expands further. While many buyers have significantly improved their ability to manage price risks, the possibility of sudden spikes, not always explained by unforeseen imbalances in grain market fundamentals, remains a concern. Importers, especially those developing countries heavily reliant on external sources of food supply, remain vulnerable to sudden changes in prices and ocean freight costs.

While markets remain unpredictable, improvements in transparency and a better appreciation of likely future trends are vital ingredients for a more stable trading environment. The next IGC Grains Conference aims to improve understanding of global grain and oilseed markets by bringing together all sectors of the industry with government policy makers, to exchange views and consider likely scenarios for the new decade.

In order to secure a place, you are invited to register online at www.igc.org.uk For exhibition and sponsorship opportunities, please contact: Sharon Moncur, Professional Project, email: igc@professionalproject.com; telephone +44 (0)01737 780150

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Classified section Analysis • 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

Bulk Storage

Extruders

• Agora Services Ltd

Feed processing

Anderson International Corp

Silo Construction & Engineering

SCE Maximum bulk storage

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

www.sce.be

Flour improver

+32(0)51 723128

Block 10 Todd Campus West of Scotland Science Park Acre Road, Glasgow Scotland G20 0XA Tel: +44 141 945 2924 info@r-biopharmrhone.com www.r-biopharm.com 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

Commercial Grain Silos Bulk Feed Silos

Caleruega 12, 1OC 28033 Madrid, Spain Contact Antonio Benitez BiopharmRhoneClass.indd 1 31/03/2010 15:36 Phone +34 91 767 00 74 Fax: +34 91 767 02 38 Animal Health & Nutrition E-mail: inpsa@symaga.com inpsa@manchanet.es

• Seedburo Equipment Company • Systech Instruments Ltd

• Alicorp SA

CENZONE TECH INC.

• Teta Engineering Inc.

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

• Alicorp SA • Doves Farm Foods • Dr Eckel GmbH

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

• Schmidt-Seeger GmbH • Silos Cordoba S.L

www.muehlenchemie.de

www.buhlergroup.com

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

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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

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

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

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

• Muench Edelstahl

Advertise in our low cost classified section For more information contact the International Marketing Manager, Caroline Wearn Email: carolinew@gfmt.co.uk

CRAFTMANSHIP IN THE ANIMAL FEED AND FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRY

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114th Annual IAOM Conference & Expo Las Vegas Hilton and Las Vegas Convention Center April 19-23, 2010 ∙ Las Vegas, Nevada Senior-level executives and milling operatives won’t want to miss the 114th Annual IAOM Conference & Expo. Discover how to select a contractor, how to control and reduce microbes, learn about the changing world of wheat variety development, and energy savings and trends. The conference will also keep you ahead of the game with sessions in:

•   • EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT

• FACILITIES MANAGEMENT • QUALITY CONTROL

KEYNOTE ADDRESSES Challenges in the Industry: Safety, Flour Fortification, Third-party Audits and Consumer Trends - Steve Ellis, Cargill FDA’s Direction and Management’s Responsibility in Food Safety - Ricardo Carvajal, NAMA Representative to the FDA on Regulatory Issues Discover the latest technologies and business solutions at the IAOM Expo!

To exhibit or request a brochure, call 1-913-338-3377.

Nonmembers who register for the conference receive a complimentary one-year IAOM membership.

Register Early to Save!

www.iaom.info

Classified section Mill design construction • • • •

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

Croston Engineering Ltd 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

Process control

Supply Chain

PALM VIEW TRADE “Your Reliable Supply Chain Manager”

Analysis & Control

Products we produce and Export:

Intake and Inline measurement of moisture, protein, temperature, structure, ash, fat, fibre, starch and colour. Recipe management and traceability records.

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Banana Meal Banana Powder Crude Tuna Fish Oil Crude Sardine Fish Oil Tuna Fish Meal Sardine Fish Meal Tapioca Chips & Tapioca Powder

AT LAST .... low-cost classified advertising that really works!

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

For maximum control and efficiency call:

01473 829188 www.suffolk-automation.co.uk

• Converteam UK Ltd • KSE Protech BV

From 2010, whether your business is a blue chip multi-national or a sole trader ... GFMT has changed the rules of classified advertising.

Equipment for sale A Foeth BV Condex (UK) Ltd

From early 2010 all GFMT Classified Advertisements will now appear on the websites our TWO online distribution channels: DocStoc and Scribd.

Recruitment AGRI-Associates Agribusiness Recruiters

Both these high traffic channels specialise in the targeted positioning of industry, government and academic documents and information.

Each document is accompanied by independent, unsolicited reader statistics, recording the number of visitors to each document. All future GFMT Classified Advertisements will now appear in these sites with their own traffic records.

Packaging • Arodo BVBA

A Clondalkin Company

Milling Industry Recruitment Specialist

FLEXIBLE PACKAGING

www.jcb-consulting.com +44(0)161 427 2402

CB Packaging is a market leader of multi-walled paper sacks. With over 50 years of experience, we offer solutions for a wide range of industries, including animal feeds, pet food, seeds, milk powder, flour and root crops.

For more information, please call Tim Stallard: +44 (0) 7805 092067 www.cbpackaging.com

• Ehcolo A/S

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

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

INDUSTRIAL PAINTING LTD British Gas ERS Approved Painting Inspector

enquiries@stewart-inglis.co.uk

www.stewartinglis.co.uk

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Other

In addition, all Classified Advertisements will now be accompanied by a 250 word (maximum) profile of your company or service ... at no extra cost! You will also be able to update your profiles twice a year to help you showcase new products and services. All profile content will be ‘keyword compliant’ to guarantee maximum exposure to the major search engines.

Rolls

Painting

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

Filter Screen Supply Ltd Wirtech AG, Process Engineering

Now in its 19th edition, the IMD brings you specific country profiles, A-Z listings of product and services essential to the milling industry, a fully verified list of contacts and much, much more.

Classified Advertising rates for 2010 will remain the same as those for 2009 ... but with all the extra exposure.

Order your printed copy now by calling +44 1242 267703, or visit our secure online ordering service at:

Millson Engineering Limited Muench-Edelstahl GmbH

www.perendale.com

More event info at: www.gfmt.co.uk/events.php

2010

Check out the rates and availability now and have a very prosperous 2010!

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SUMMIT2010 7th - 8th October

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The 10th GLOBALG.A.P Conference

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Good Agricultural Practice

London, UK

Farming for Consumers Everything you need to know about Good Agricultural Practice certification in one place Come and join us for the best networking, discussion and debates at the world‘s favourite conference event for Good Agricultural Practice!

Top International speakers from the private and public sector will provide key insights into Good Agricultural Practice developments around the globe. Join our retailer and supplier members as they share with you how they are implementing GLOBALG.A.P into their global supply chains.

7th - 8th October 2010 HILTON London Metropole Hotel London, UK You want to know more about our event?

Then please visit www.summit2010.org.

HOT TOPICS  Learn about the New Version of the GLOBALG.A.P Standard  Responsible Management of Resources  Residue Monitoring  Smallholder Programmes  Certification Integrity  Social Practices in Primary Production  Aquaculture and Livestock Trends  Linkages to Consumer Labels

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

Agromatic AG = www.agromatic.com Arodo BVBA = www.arodo.be BCPC = www.bcpc.org Behn + Bates Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG = www.behnbates.com Biomin GmbH = www.biomin.net Buhler AG = www.buhlergroup.com CB Packaging Ltd = www.cbpackaging.com Chief Industries UK Ltd = www.chief.co.uk Chronos Richardson Limited = www.servicechronos.com Consergra s.l = www.consergra.com Ehcolo A/S = www.ehcolo.com FRITSCH GmbH = www.fritsch.de GAME Engineering Ltd = www.game-engineering.com Hydronix Ltd = www.hydronix.com Imas = www.imas.com.tr Insects Limited Inc = www.insectslimited.com Jacob Sohne GmbH & Co = www.jacob-pipesystems.eu Jiangsu Muyang Group Co Ltd = www.muyang.com Leonhard Breitenbach GmbH = www.breitenbach.de Mitchells Equipment (Hebei) Co, Ltd = www.mitchells.net.cn

Modern Process Equipment, Inc. = www.mpechicago.com NABIM = www.nabim.org.uk nv SCE = www.sce.be Obial = www.obial.com.tr Ottevanger Milling Engineers B.V. = www.ottevanger.com Palm View Trade = www.palmviewtrade.com Perten Instruments AB = www.perten.com RDS Technology Ltd = www.rdstec.com Satake = www.satake-group.com Schmidt-Seeger GmbH = www.schmidt-seeger.com Schmidt-Seeger GmbH = www.schmidt-seeger.com Silos Cordoba = www.siloscordoba.com Suffolk Automation Ltd. = www.suffolk-automation.co.uk Symaga SA = www.symaga.com UNORMAK = www.unormak.com.tr Vigan Engineering S.A. = www.vigan.com VNU Exhibitions Europe = www.viv.net Vortex Valves Europe Ltd = www.vortexvalveseurope.com Wynveen International B.V. = www.wynveen.com/ Zhengchang Group (ZCME) = www.zhengchang.com

Perfection in grain milling – a highly demanding task. Antares sets new standards for round-the-clock milling. The self-contained roll pack and reliable product feed ensure precise and consistent flour. Maximum hygiene is guaranteed thanks to clever insulation, integrated product inlet aspiration and stainless steel lining. Experience a new level of ease of use and quality from ergonomic controls and operating reliability to the highly impressive design. Antares – The New Art of Milling.

Bühler AG, Grain Milling, CH-9240 Uzwil, Switzerland, T +41 71 955 11 11, F +41 71 955 66 11 milling@buhlergroup.com, www.buhlergroup.com

The New Art of Milling Antares Sanitation. Top hygienic standards for food safety.

Outstanding precision. Ultra-precise settings, consistent flour.

Perfect grinding. Powerfull roll pack, highly consistent grinding.

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