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Modular silos • Marriage’s Mill - milling since 1824 • Extrusion as an innovation driver • Taking NIR beyond feedstuffs

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The African Milling School • Designing a resilient future • Ship unloading systems • Steel grain bin management

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• India - Challenges facing the milling industry

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Feed Focus • Enzymatic improvement of the quality of pasta and noodles

• Breaking new ground with feed machinery standards

• Heat treatment - precision fumigation with benefits • Key factors in bin usage • Innovation in the milling industry

• Ipack-Ima 2015 Show review

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Flour and Feed event special • The GRAPAS Award for Innovation • Rice Fortification focus • Dust explosion - is suppression the solution in grain hammer mills?

• Gluten-free foods

• Multi-mycotoxin testing in food

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Feedmill of the future • Stabilising rice bran through high shear extrusion • Why India’s agri-food policies need a holistic review • Mycotoxins and mycotoxicosis in livestock production

• 2015/16 Industry Profiles

• Preventing bread waste

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Commodities crop tour • Neutralising mycotoxins • Millet - protein rich, versatile and gluten free • Feed enzymes support the challenge of growing food demand • The story of Flour World

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Jordans mill • Cross-functional role of trace minerals • Hidden hunger • Feed formulation software • Algae’s key role in taking care of consumer expectations

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Editor

Where has this year gone?

It seems like just yesterday we were embarking on the most challenging undertaking our magazine has had to deal with for a very, very long time taking the frequency of publication from six editions per year to 12. This is the last magazine to be produced in our new monthly schedule and I’m pleased to say that without exception we have published on time every month.

In fact it’s worth recording that we ‘graduated’ from a 68-page, bi-monthly, saddle-stitched magazine to a 100-plus page, monthly, perfect-bound magazine supporting almost twice the editorial content without missing one deadline. At the same time we re-branded ourselves and reverted back to our historic title of ‘Milling’ while adding that most important sector of our industry to our title – storage and transportation - by simply adding the word ‘grain’ to become ‘Milling and Grain’.

I would like to express my thanks to all the staff and to all the contributors - some have been with the magazine for over 25 years - in making the transition a success. I would also like to thank our longstanding advertiser and those new to our publication that have joined us on this remarkable journey.

As many of you will know, we have adopted an ambitious plan of having Milling and Grain translated into other languages. Spanish has been a cornerstone in developing our strategy to handle additional languages and my thanks must go to our team in Argentina for their commitment.

We have also translated into Turkish to address a market that has become one of the most comprehensive in milling terms anywhere and my thanks go to our team of eight translators in

that country. Finally, Arabic and the undertaking to produce a magazine in the traditional format was a challenge in itself and my thanks go to our team of three in Cairo.

But it is the dedication of all our staff to commit to getting the job done, to travelling at short notice to attend conferences, exhibitions and industry events and to our suppliers in terms of printing and mailing. As we have stated in our 2016 Media File, we have travelled further than ever before gathering information and promoting the magazine (some 1.2 million km); we have attended more shows and conferences and carried and distributed more magazines; and printed and mailed more magazines than ever before.

And not just those in the UK, but to those in the USA, Argentina, Nigeria, India, Australia and beyond. All have worked to deliver a more relevant magazine to you no matter where you are or how you want to access our content.

Milling and Grain, as a monthly magazine can now reflect industry in a more timely way, on a daily basis through our Global Miller blog, on a weekly basis via our e-Newsletters and now with a monthly 100-plus page magazine. We are even reaching out to those who don’t actively seek us through our social media network that is second to none in our industry so that we are more visible.

This magazine is fast becoming ‘the industry’s magazine’. Myself, and all of us on the team serve the industry, our monthly magazine and you.

We have achieved our first goal in our first year as a monthly. We have great plans for next year and invite you to continue the journey with us. We welcome your involvement in making us the most ‘relevant, visible and timely’ (our original motto adopted some five years ago) magazine to serve this critically important industry.

Merry Christmas to you all and a Prosperous New Year. - Roger Gilbert - Publisher

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Feedmill of the future How we feed the world’s ever growing population is the big question for the milling industry. Milling and Grain magazine goes in search of answers, on a behind the scenes tour of the Van Aarsenbuilt, Kalmar Lantmän project.

See the full story online at www.bit.ly/feedmill

Satake: a global company with a local outlook Darren Parris travelled to Hiroshima in Japan to take a tour of the Satake Corporation head quarters, and took a tour of the Satake museum and sales hall.

See the full story online at www.bit.ly/satakeprofile

The GRAPAS award for innovation Milling and Grain were proud organisers of the GRAPAS conference and award for innovation 2015.

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The science behind a show stopper At the GEAPS Exchange in St Louis, the must see attraction was on the Tapco stand. Can an elevator bucket really be strong enough to lift a 9700 pound H1 Hummer?

Milling and Grain visited Tapco on their stand to witness the demonstration, and then visited the Tapco HQ to find out how it was possible.

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The African Milling School Milling and Grain had the privilege of being the first western magazine to visit Bühler’s African Milling School, located in Nairobi, Kenya to meet its students, teachers and Martin Schlauri – the brainchild of the school.

See the full story online at www.bit.ly/africanmilling

VIV Asia 2015 VIV was the essential meeting point for people seriously involved in producing and processing animal proteins.

Milling and Grain were at the event in force, and reported back in our April issue. www.bit.ly/vivasia

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Cargill officially opens company’s largest feed mill in Pyeongtaek

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argill marked a significant milestone in Korea with the official opening of its Agri Purina feed mill plant in Pyeongtaek, reaffirming its investment in the country and signaling its continued commitment to sustainable growth of Korea’s feed and livestock industry.

Cargill’s feed mill in Pyeongtaek brings world-class productivity and efficiency to the market by providing customers with the best nutrition solutions and feed safety.

This will help customers improve animal performance and grow their business.

The Pyeongtaek feed mill plant incorporates Cargill’s uncompromising approach to feed safety, ingredient quality and product integrity. The company aims to provide customers with safe, trusted feed that maximises the performance of their operations, which in turn helps to improve food safety across Korea’s supply chain.

The nearly 52,610 metres squared facility produces poultry, ruminant, swine and pet food products for animal producers marketed under the Purina and Nutrena brands. With a capacity of 870,000 tons, this facility is the Cargill’s largest animal feed plant in the world. In addition to state-of-art technology, the new feed mill strives to achieve the highest standards of food safety to serve Korea’s animal nutrition industry.

Dr Bokyeun Lee, Korea country representative and president of Cargill Agri Purina Korea, said, “Our customers expect us to keep innovating and adding value to their products, and this investment focuses on delivering for their success.

The new feed mill will enable us to better serve our customers with advanced technology and high quality, safe animal feed. We work with governments, communities and partners to help build a sustainable feed industry with a long-term future.”

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Rice Milling around the World: The advent of industrial processes Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

Joseph Heap & Sons Rice Mill, Liverpool

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK In previous issues of Milling and Grain, I mentioned that the Mills Archive library holds a number of books, catalogues and images on rice production from all corners of the world.

This article moves on from the early primitive methods and the subsequent description of the use of waterpower illustrated in earlier articles, to examine some of our holdings covering the early stages of industrialisation of rice milling.

As well as extensive runs of journals stretching back to the 19th century, we hold a wealth of trade literature and a number catalogues from the manufacturers of mill machinery. These provide much of the background to this article and its illustrations. The journals, including The Miller, Milling (the forerunner of this publication) and the American Weekly North-Western Miller, are a valuable and fascinating source of early advertisements as well as detailed articles of interest to the modern miller. Regular readers of this column will recall that we are still looking for early and contemporary material to enhance our roller mill collection.

Although treated less prominently than flour milling, these sources provide ample coverage of rice milling. The literature contains a great deal of technical information and many designs such as that of Walker’s Patent Rice Decorticator. Advertisements, for example the one I have selected from the Whitmore and Binyon catalogue, underline the wealth of parallel uses for mills in late Victorian times. In this one advert these milling engineers are offering not only rice milling machinery and flour

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milling machinery, but also mills to produce Portland cement and even to wash earth away from diamonds!

An illustrated catalogue at the Mills Archive from the Rangoon agents of the Hamburg firm Nagel and Kaemp, which was established in 1865, displays details of the “Filipina” machine for rice production. This was designed so that it could be fitted into a small building and proved very popular at the time as its size was such that it could be readily transported by horse-drawn carts.

A more elegant 1920 catalogue from another Hamburg engineering firm, FH Schule, shows, along with many illustrations of rice production machinery, several pages of photographs of mills around the world which had installed their equipment. A publicity image of their headquarters indicates that their factory had increased twenty-fold in the last thirty years and that additional works extensions were also being constructed. The mills employing Schule equipment ranged from the small mills in Bangkok to larger ones such as the Messina Brothers plant in Brazil, which had a capacity of almost 30,000kg/day.

In 1866, 364,000 tons of rice left Rangoon and other ports in Burma aboard sailing ships bound for the mills in Bremen, Hamburg and England. Articles in The Miller show that Liverpool was the chief rice milling centre in Britain along with London. Heap’s Mill, a dock mill built in Liverpool in about 1780 survived into this century when it was listed in 2005 by English Heritage as Grade II, “a building of special interest warranting every effort to preserve it”. They highlighted its combination of a mill/ warehouse type of building, specifically designed for a particular use and which had been altered to accommodate changes as technology improved. It is now intend to develop the site in a £130 million project which will

A cutting from a Whitmore and Binyon catalogue advertising rice milling machinery

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Nagel and Kaemp Catalogue for Filipina Rice Mills

Schule Catalogue no 1328 for Rice-milling machinery

Shipping of a Filipina

Headquarters of FH Schule GmbH in 1920

Guan Heng Seng Rice Mill, Bangkok

Nai Thom Yah Rice Mill, Bangkok

Fratelli Messina Rice Mill, Ribeirao Peto, Brazil

Rice Mills and Warehouses Edmund St. Liverpool, 1886

preserve the facade of the building, but not its interior.

Joseph Heap and Sons Ltd will feature in a future article in this series.

The large mills were typically built on docksides to facilitate transfer from sailing ships and steamers. The 1886 architect’s engraving of the new design for Rice Mills and Warehouses in Edmund St. Liverpool shows the layout of a rice mill and warehouse complex adjacent to the Liverpool Exchange Station on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, not far from the docks. Both the mill and the railway have now gone, although the Victorian station facade remains as frontage for offices.

These articles only give a brief glimpse of the several million records held by the Mills Archive Trust. Next month the focus will move to rice milling in Japan. If you would like to know more please email me at mills@millsarchive.org.

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Alltech to acquire Masterfeeds, creating one of Canada’s largest animal nutrition offerings

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lltech and Masterfeeds announced that they have entered into a share purchase, under which Alltech will acquire 100 percent of the outstanding shares of Masterfeeds, Inc., from Ag Processing Inc (AGP). This will provide Alltech complete ownership of Masterfeeds LP, a leading commercial animal nutrition company in Canada.

“This is a crucial time in agriculture, and Canadian farmers are facing ever-increasing pressures, including the continued drive to produce more with fewer resources,” said Dr Pearse Lyons, founder and president of Alltech. “Masterfeeds provides the on-farm support that is critical to Canada’s farmers and ranchers.

This new opportunity will enable more efficient delivery of superior animal nutrition and tailored feeding programmes, supported by robust scientific research.”

Masterfeeds further strengthens Alltech’s presence in Canada by creating one of the country’s largest animal nutrition offerings. Alltech, Masterfeeds and EMF Nutrition, another Alltech-owned Canadian company, employ approximately 700 Canadians, operating 25 feed manufacturing and premix facilities, nine retail locations and seven distribution centres in a business

Agriterra Ltd Sierra Leone Organic Cocoa Trading Agreement

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griterra, the AIM listed panAfrican agricultural company, is pleased to announce that its wholly owned Sierra Leone cocoa business, Tropical Farms Limited has signed a trading agreement with a leading global company focused on natural, organic and specialty foods.

Under the terms of the Trading Agreement, Tropical Farms will use its organic certification and buying networks to source and supply up to

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spanning the entire country.

“Alltech’s investment strategy is unfolding in exciting ways,” stated Rob Flack, president and CEO of Masterfeeds. “Alltech’s primacy in science, supported by an extensive research and development programme, is both cutting-edge and relevant. Masterfeeds’ proven on-farm feeding solutions will be strengthened through proprietary Alltech nutrition technology, adding further value to our customers throughout Canada.”

“Masterfeeds and Alltech are two of the most respected brand names in Canadian animal agriculture,” said Keith Spackler, CEO, Ag Processing Inc (AGP). “This acquisition is a significant development and is grounded in bringing the best nutrition solutions to farmers and ranchers.”

Masterfeeds will continue to be headquartered in London, Ontario, Canada, and led by its current Chief Executive Officer, Rob Flack. In addition, Alltech’s own entity, Alltech Canada, remains headquartered in Guelph, Ontario, serving the entire Canadian feed industry.

“I am confident that Masterfeeds’ future is bright under the ownership of Alltech. Our growth strategies will continue to be supported, creating opportunities both in Canada and abroad for our family of employees,”

said Flack. “We are truly fortunate to become part of a financially strong, growth-oriented private company with a global vision.”

The combined company will have a presence in 128 countries with more than 4,700 employees worldwide.

Both parties expect the acquisition to result in significant new synergies over time.

Completion of the acquisition is expected by year-end and is subject to the execution of typical conditions, including regulatory approvals.

Alltech has more than tripled its sales in the last three years and is on target to achieve $4 billion USD in sales in the next few years.

Since 2011, Alltech has completed 13 acquisitions successfully, with Masterfeeds becoming its 14th. This is Alltech’s second major acquisition in North America this year, following that of Ridley Inc. It is also Alltech’s second acquisition of a company headquartered in Canada, following the success in acquiring EMF Nutrition in 2013.

“This deal underscores our continued momentum in growing our business through strategic acquisitions of best-in-class companies with trusted technology and brand recognition,” said Steve Bourne, vice president of Alltech.

500Mt of Sierra Leonean cocoa beans to the Offtaker during the 2015/2016 buying season; the Offtaker will provide Tropical Farms with prefinancing for the purchase of beans.

The Trading Agreement will leverage Tropical Farms’ extensive infrastructure in Sierra Leone, including a 2000m² state-of-theart warehouse in Kenema. As well as Tropical Farms sourcing and supplying cocoa, the Offtaker has expressed its interest in additional produce and both parties have committed to explore opportunities for organic coffee and other organic food crops.

Adrian Simpson, Managing Director of Tropical Farms, said, “I am pleased to announce this Trading Agreement, which marks a positive step in the recovery of the cocoa industry in

Sierra Leone following the Ebola outbreak in 2014. I am proud to say that Tropical Farms remained active throughout the crisis – utilising our fleet of vehicles, logistics hub in Kenema, and extensive warehousing facilities to support the work of international aid agencies – which was an invaluable support in the heart of the region most affected.

“Now that Sierra Leone has been declared Ebola free, Tropical Farms and Agriterra firmly support postEbola reconstruction and development works. This Trading Agreement, with a leading international company focussed on natural, organic and specialty foods, is a positive step in rebuilding the cocoa industry incountry and redirecting much-needed foreign investment back into Sierra Leone.”

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Paula Kantor Award recognises gender research successes in India

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new award recognises contributions to the livelihoods and economic empowerment of women made by a former giant in the field of international gender research.

The inaugural Paula Kantor Award for Excellence in Field Research, to be given to a young female researcher of Indian origin, aims to recognise outstanding achievements in the field of gender and empowerment of women and girls in India.

Kantor, a gender and development specialist working with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), died tragically on May 13 at age 46, in the aftermath of a Taliban attack on a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan.

She formerly worked as senior rural development specialist at the International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW). The non-profit organisation initiated the award to acknowledge Kantor’s 20 years of experience in executing policy research and programmatic work related to integrating gender into

agriculture and rural development.

“Dr Kantor’s work was largely driven by her desire and passion to improve lives in the global south, especially those of women and girls,” ICRW said in a statement issued to solicit nominations for the award.

“She was a prolific researcher who participated in and worked with several initiatives to better the lives and improve livelihoods for women in conflict-prone and terrorist-affected areas.”

The award will be presented to the winner at the ICRW’s 40th anniversary celebrations in New Delhi, India, in January. In subsequent years, the award will be open to researchers of all origins and recognise research throughout the developing world, the statement said, adding that nominations must be received by December 7.

At the time of her death, Kantor was working on a new CIMMYT research project focused on understanding the role of gender in the livelihoods of people in major wheat-growing areas of Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Pakistan.

New Daily Platts Price Assessment Values Australian Wheat Exports

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latts, a leading global provider of energy and commodities information, has launched the first independent daily price assessment for Australian wheat exports. The new reference reflects the physical spot value of seaborne Australian Premium White (APW) wheat exported free on board (FOB) from Western Australia. It expands Platts’ existing suite of price references for grains, which includes Black Sea and European wheat and corn assessments.

“The new reference, launched in response to industry demand, will serve as a neutral benchmark for Australian and Asian wheat markets,” said Andrew Goodwin, Platts vice president and general manager of agriculture, metals and petrochemicals. “Not only will it provide increased transparency

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to what is traditionally an opaque regional market, but it could prove a significant tool for flour milling economics management, expanded physical trading of wheat, and basis risk management.”

The assessment, Platts APW Wheat FOB Australia, will be assessed using actual spot transactions, bids and offers for Australian milling wheat, normalised to specific quality, volume, location and timing defined in Platts’ structured methodology available at www.platts.com.

“With around 18 million metric tons of wheat exports per year, Australia is by far the largest supplier of wheat to Asia, making it a natural pricing reference point for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region,” said Julien Hall, Platts senior managing editor, Asia agriculture. “A reliable local price reference for this market is being

“Paula’s death was a massive blow to the entire development community,” said Martin Kropff, director general at CIMMYT. “Through her work she was helping to lift up a segment of the global population facing major threats to food security and gender equality.

This award serves to recognise the major role she was playing to help empower men and women to determine their own future.”

Although women play a crucial role in farming and food production, they often face greater constraints in agricultural production than men.

Rural women are less likely than men to own land or livestock, adopt new technologies, access credit, financial services, or receive education or extension advice, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Globally, if women had the same access to agricultural production resources as men, they could increase crop yields by up to 30 percent, which would raise total agricultural output in developing countries by as much as 4 percent, reducing the number of hungry people by up to 150 million or 17 percent, FAO statistics show. sought by Australian exporters and Asian and Middle-Eastern flour millers, which have historically relied on North American wheat futures contracts, which by virtue of the geographic and seasonal difference haven’t tended to reflect APACspecific fundamentals.”

Most Australian milling wheat, used primarily in the making of baking flour that goes into a variety of food products such as breads and noodles, has traditionally been sold by a dozen or so trading firms to flour millers across southeast and north Asia and the Middle East. The Platts price assessment process opens up the price discovery process to active market participants.

The spot physical price references published by Platts are often sought by exchanges for cash clearing and settlement purposes for futures and derivatives contracts. The methodology underpinning the Platts APW Wheat FOB Australia assessment gives it scope for such use regionally and globally when and if needed.

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Milling News A Flour World Museum story No. 6

Reflections and celebrations Tom Blacker, International Milling Directory

Good luck charms from flour In China, flour is used for steamed buns, noodles and dumplings – and has a firm place in regional traditions.

In Shan Xi province it is used to wish good luck. From a dough made of flour and water, skilled women form little works of art. These imaginative, richly decorated figurines are thought to appease the gods and bring the recipient prosperity and luck. They come in brown, white or in vibrant colors, depending on whether they are baked, steamed or cold- formed.

On occasions like the Chinese New Year, Hanshi Day or “Beg for Clever Hand Day,” weddings and birthdays, this old tradition comes to life and takes intricate shape.

The Mühlenchemie FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg is an expression of our company culture and the responsibility we feel towards the miller and his flour, as one of the most important staple foods. The museum is a journey through the millennia, illuminating the development and importance of flour. It is the only one of its kind in the world. www.flourworld.de

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After recent extensive travel, resulting in meetings with flour and feed millers, I have gained a greater understanding of the unique challenges they face, and their need to satisfy a demanding chain of customers.

After a year of lots of travel and exhibitions, in this, the last column of 2015, it is time to reflect upon an eventful year in our industry.

It was a year with lots of new developments and celebrations. Directory members Bühler and Alapala jointly won the Grapas 2015 award at Victam, held in Cologne, Germany.

This award (sponsored by Milling and Grain magazine) celebrates innovative technology, which aids efficient and productive milling. The awards were well received and have generated excellent publicity for both companies in the international marketplace.

With regards to key mergers, directory members Sukup and Dancorn joined together into one family. I would also like to offer my sincere congratulations to Balaguer rolls of Spain who have celebrated 100 years in industry. They have also expanded globally, building new factories and offices.

On that note, it has indeed been a key year for growth with many companies expanding their physical footprint. Those with new factories and premises at their headquarters include Omas, Alapala, Imas amongst many more. The joint partnership between Satake and Alapala is also certain to open new doors for the industry too.

One issue that gained a significant amount of attention this year is that of fortification in mills, with many countries now introducing legislation for mandatory fortification. The first ever global summit was held this year on the subject, by the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN). The 'Future Fortified' Summit, held in Arusha, Tanzania in September generated global attention in the national and international press. We have worked with both GAIN and the Food Fortification initiative (FFI) this year to promote fortification.

Other notable trends also include changes to consumer demands and dietary requirements. 2015 saw gluten-free products on the rise, such change meaning alternatives to the white bread loaf are becoming the norm in Europe and North America.

The constant presence of the International Milling and Grain Directory provides one solution for the latest information, equipment guides and more. You will see improvements and expansions to the website and beyond in 2016. It is our investment to make your tasks and information research as efficient as possible.

With all these dynamic events, it is also good to state that the International Milling and Grain Directory is providing great content with new companies joining and updating daily.

Contact me to ask questions, learn more and ensure your company is reaching the feed and food milling industries with great value for money. It has been a pleasure serving you in 2015. I wish all of our readers and members of the IMD an enjoyable festive season and prosperous 2016. Keep an eye out for our new directory, which will be reaching you very soon.

Tom Blacker Directory Coordinator

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Bamboo Finance and Louis Dreyfus Holding Launch Impact Investment Fund

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amboo Finance, a private equity firm specialising in investing in business models that benefit low-income communities in developing economies and Louis Dreyfus Holding, which owns a controlling stake in leading global agribusiness Louis Dreyfus Commodities, have announced a partnership to launch and jointly manage NISABA, a US$50 million impact investment fund project with a focus on small-and medium-sized agribusiness enterprises (SMEs) in Sub-Saharan Africa. As project sponsor, Louis Dreyfus Holding will invest US$10 million to seed NISABA. “We are excited to apply an integrated investment approach with a vast network of local expertise for the benefit of smallholder farmers and their communities, while demonstrating the value of impact investing,” said Bamboo Finance CEO, Jean-Philippe de

Schrevel. “This is a pioneer partnership that will merge multinational sector expertise with access to finance and impact investment know-how, in order to actively co-manage investments from pipeline to exit. This type of active collaboration represents an important milestone in the field of impact investing”.

“Agribusiness development is at the crossroads of major challenges for Africa. With an estimated population of two billion by 2050, and 330 million young Africans expected to enter the labour market by 2025, global agricultural production is not keeping pace with population growth.

We believe that through appropriate financing tools like impact investing, the private sector must take an active role in addressing such challenges,” said Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Chairperson of Louis Dreyfus Holding.

NISABA will target a balanced

portfolio of countries, activities and commodities, and will invest in financing gaps across the agribusiness value chain in growth markets. The focus will be on SMEs that combine social, environmental and financial returns by improving efficiency through access to data, finance and risk mitigation, training and technology innovation; strengthening market access by linking producers to end-consumers; and building local capacity through post-harvest handling and storage, value-addition or processing solutions, among others.

More information is available on www.nisabafund.com Through its controlling stake in Louis Dreyfus Commodities, Louis Dreyfus Holding has a 164-year-old global presence in the agribusiness sector, with expertise in a wide range of commodities, participation in various diversified businesses and a strong presence in Africa.

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The Pelletier Column

Should the COP Conference (and others) rethink its approach?

by Christophe Pelletier Once again, it is that time of the year. The 21st edition of the Climate Conference will be held in Paris. It is difficult to tell what to expect. A string of nasty climatic events seems to have stimulated more good will than previous years, but talk is cheap. My expectation is that, as with previous COP conferences, the outcome will be the same ritual of impasses and last minute statement about an agreement on the will to take action that will have to be elaborated at next year’s conference. I hope I am wrong, but such conferences have a flavour of déjà vu.

I believe a large part of the problem lies in the processes of the conference. There is too much emphasis on the problems and not enough on the solutions. There is too much finger pointing and blame on which countries cause the most damage and which ones should put their economy in reverse instead of developing scenarios about an entirely new economic model. Timelines about reduction of greenhouse gasses without explaining how to do it and how the future economy would function and why it would function are simply useless. I’d rather see such conferences would work as a forum where the participants could brainstorm about solutions to create the new model, how to make it work and how much time is needed to implement it in the shortest period as possible. The mindset in such conferences should be about helping others succeed in meeting future goals instead of imposing goals that everyone knows will not be met because of many economic, social and political reasons.

Imagine a business where the different departments would not support each other without ongoing monitoring of performance but that just be run on a one-time set of instructions and an evaluation on a vague later deadline.

The very nature of the future challenges to meet requires a collective and collaborative approach. Mutual help and support is indispensable, and that part is lacking.

The issue of climate change should not focus only at countries, but it should look at the different economic activities. Different industries present different profiles per country and a more tailor-made approach is necessary.

Countries must address their problems but climate change is such a cross-border issue that it requires a country x industry matrix approach that must be tackled by all stakeholders across the borders as well.

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differences in environmental impact should be mapped per production system, per species and per location to give a more accurate picture of what, where and which are the highest greenhouse gases producers and develop programs to alleviate and solve the problem. This is especially important as, for a large part, future food demand is going to be about animal protein. Unfortunately, it is rare for food producers to have an opportunity to be an active part of such conferences.

Yet, I believe that the best solutions for the future will come from those who are involved in the field day in, day out. I also believe that it would be quite healthy for the food and agriculture sector to proactively do the matrix exercise, determine the objectives and set brainstorming conferences as I mentioned above, with as main purpose to stimulate and generate solutions that actually works. I would like to see the food and agriculture sector, outside of the FAO, and without company names, set a clear and sound vision of the future and how to realise it. I believe it would show great leadership and it could set an example for other industries that emit large proportions of green house gases. At the same time, the food sector should also send clear signals about what kind of help, be it in resources, in innovations and in support from all other stakeholders from governments, NGOs and businesses it needs to succeed in meeting targets and overcoming the threats of the future.

In my opinion, another major shortcoming in the approach of climate change lies in the reward/penalty system. Our world always seems to give the preference to punishment before reward. It is not a conducive approach. Of course, those who do evil must be held accountable and face the consequences of their actions, but that triggers mostly hiding, dodging and escaping behaviours.

Creativity is used for a negative purpose, which is not being caught. A culture of reward works much more positively. Energy, time and money are all put to work for the better. It focuses on solutions, while punishment always focuses on problems. Further, a lot more people prefer reward and praise than punishment and criticism.

Then, why a reward system is not used more often is a bit of a mystery to me. Perhaps, this is where change ought to start.

Christophe Pelletier is a food and agriculture strategist and futurist from Canada. He works internationally. He has published two books on feeding the world’s growing population. His blog is called “The Food Futurist”.

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Hi Roller Conveyor relocates to new production facility

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i Roller Conveyors, a division of Winnipeg, MB based Ag Growth International (AGI) has relocated to their new production facility. Hi Roller is a leader in the design and manufacture of enclosed belt conveyors.

The 130,000 square foot structure is located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, a few miles from their former location. All manufacturing and office personnel work in the same facility.

The new facility includes a powder coat line. They have also installed numerous overhead cranes to facilitate the smooth movement of product through the facility. The outdoor bridge crane used for loading finished product on to trucks can be seen from a great distance.

Great thought was put into the layout of individual production cells based upon lean principles. Subcomponents are staged such that minimal handling is required. Raw product comes

IFIF launches Global Animal Nutrition Programme ‘Train the Trainer’ in Nigeria

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he International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) is pleased to announce the launch of the IFIF Global Animal Nutrition Programme ‘Train the Trainer’ pilot in Nigeria. Supported by the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), the training programme based on the IFIF FAO Feed Manual of Good Practices for the Feed Industry focussed on increasing safety and feed quality at the production level by bringing together over 30 representatives from the Nigerian feed industries, who will act as multipliers by sharing the training with colleagues throughout Nigeria.

Developed by IFIF in 2015, the Global Animal Nutrition Programme ‘Train the Trainer’ is designed to

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raise capacities for feed safety in developing regions by training key individuals who can then act as trainers on site within a country.

This reflects IFIF’s mission to promote science-based solutions and information sharing for the feed industry, as well as stimulate the adoption of international standards and global equivalency.

Alexandra de Athayde, IFIF Executive Director, explains, “We are pleased that we were able to launch the pilot of the IFIF Global Animal Nutrition Programme in Nigeria, a key player in agriculture in Africa, with the support of NIAS and the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. IFIF members represent over 80 percent of animal

in one end of the building and the finished product comes out the other.

“We are building the same quality product here as we did at the former facility. However, we are doing it more efficiently”, said Mike Spillum, Sales Manager. “We are definitely much prouder as we host customers.

It is also a great facility for our employees – from their workstations to the break room. We owe our success to our employees and this space provides them with an excellent work environment”.

Hi Roller’s new address is 4511 N Northview Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57107-0833 (www.hiroller.com)

feed production worldwide and capacity development for feed safety is one of the key priorities for IFIF.” Ms de Athayde added “IFIF now has the opportunity to evaluate the learning’s from the pilot programme in Nigeria, and based on that, take the programme to other parts of the world to support, train and develop local feed industry to raise feed and food safety standards globally.”

Dr Godwin Oyediji, Registrar and Chief Executive of the Nigerian Institute of Animal Science (NIAS), said, “current laws in Nigeria are still weak and some are without enforcement powers. But Nigeria is making steady progress on feed legislation to achieve international benchmarks for animal feed safety and human food safety.” Dr. Oyediji added “the industry is being mobilised to embrace the FAO/IFIF Code of Practice for Good Animal Feeding and other Codex standards on traceability, contaminants and HACCP.”

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COMPANY UPDATES Future prospects within the agri tec industry

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG As winter draws upon us in the Northern Hemisphere and harvest has had a few rain interruptions in Australia’s Queensland and New South Wales once more I have been travelling looking at different markets in Asia This time with a visit to the Philippines to investigate their future prospects within the agri tec industry. All of the countries that I am privileged to visit have agriculture high on their Governments priority lists but sadly as they become more urbanised and reliant on manufacturing and consumer spending they tend to take food security for granted In Asia the Philippines is serious success story in the last decade has turned itself from ‘the sick man of Asia to a tiger’ How in such a short time has this been achieved in a country that has not discovered oil?

Politically the country has stabilised with democratic elections and strong Presidential leads, there are however still some on going minor security issues in some of the more remote areas In terms of the world economy the USA is maintaining its status quo but with the Federal Reserve Bank being expected to increase interest rates growth is expected Taking Europe as a whole their economic recovery is underway and performing well Asia has slowed down due to China suffering from growing pains Within the region up to 2014 Chinas economic growth ran at 7.3% ( the highest) with the Philippines taking second place at 6.10% making the Philippines one of Asia sunniest regional economies helped by the steady rise in income from the Overseas Foreign Workers receiving higher incomes and sending more money back to support their families which in turn boosts consumer spending Demographically the population increase has slowed down but at 1.2% but it now heads up regional growth however poverty is still an issue that needs to be addressed, as high incomes are slow to filter through to the rural poor.

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policies aimed at reducing overseas debt the government is able now to start to expand its infra structure programme long been recognised as one of its major shortfalls this issue is particularly challenging for a country consisting of more than 7000 islands Luzon the biggest island Mindanao the second but the most significant for the agricultural industry where rice production is the most important farming crop by using modern varieties and growing technologies the country has turned a deficiency into a small surplus Rice being the staple food across the whole country It has a near perfect climate for crop production with warmth and sunshine year round and adequate rainfall.

Pigs and poultry are the main source of protein. The biggest handicap to increasing livestock output is capital investment, whereas the banks are aggressively lending to industry, small scale family farms are unable to source capital for expansion.

The Government runs an effective scheme to ensure that both imports and exports of food items can be traded effectively without corruption. Products include seasonal fruits, seafood sugar and rice and are tackling corruption at all levels The population is over 100 million slightly more than Vietnam but less than half of its neighbour Indonesia with an average age of 23 it has a long term future, education is improving rapidly with more than 1 million now employed in the IT industry overtaking India The down side is that in the farming industry the average age is 53 this is becoming a worldwide problem that demands an answer by improving the standards of living and incomes, encompassing new skills, adopting new technologies and attracting back highly skilled and trained people.

We look forward to helping UK business and others to meet potential clients at the forthcoming INAHGEN exhibition in Manila in February 2016 With forthcoming Presidential elections there is some political uncertainty but with the Government programmes now set in place whoever becomes the next President will take over an improving economy and will see the country continue to prosper with the dedicated and increasingly trained and happy workforce. @AgrictecExports

ADM Expands Food-and FeedIngredient Production in China.

With the opening of two plants in China Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) has increased its capacity to serve growing regional demand for value-added food-ingredients and animal-nutrition products. ADM began operations in China in the mid-1990s, when the company acquired an animal feed premix plant in Dalian, in the country’s northeast.

In recent years, ADM has grown to become one of the top exporters of agricultural products to Asia, and the company markets an extensive range of food ingredients and animal feeds and feed premixes through its network of sales offices located throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

Ag Growth International (AGI), a leader in grain handling, conditioning and storage equipment, plans to expand their sales force with the development of a North American-focused commercial sales team. David Wernsing, director of North American commercial sales will lead a team of 14 experienced commercial sales representatives; 12 representatives based in the US and 2 based in Canada. The team will support AGI’s full commercial product line, including industry leading brands such as Union Iron,Tramco, Airlanco and Westeel. The Hi Roller portfolio will continue to be a prominent part of AGI’s commercial and international product offering and will continue to be led by Mike Spillum.

Biomin has now launched a new website for Austria. The new website will cater specifically to ruminant, poultry and swine farmers. In an age of increased user mobility, the new Biomin website presents a fresh look with ease of navigation on all technology platforms - desktop and laptop computers, and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.

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Global Trade Discussions Spearhead AFIA Equipment Manufacturers Conference - EMC

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he American Feed Industry Association’s annual Equipment Manufacturers Conference, November 5-7, brought attendees to St. Petersburg, Fla., to discuss “Global Warming: Don’t get Burned in a Sizzling World Market.”

Trade experts Joel G. Newman, AFIA president and CEO, and Gina Tumbarello, AFIA director of international policy and trade, led this year’s educational seminar, covering trade-related topics on Capitol Hill, such as passage of Trade Promotion Authority, and trade barrier issues members are experiencing.

“This year has been quite the year for global trade changes and it was convenient, yet pertinent, that this year’s EMC theme was centred around just that,” said Gary Huddleston, AFIA manager of feed manufacturing safety and environmental affairs. “AFIA

wants its members to be ahead of the global trade markets and it is important everyone fully understands what TPA and future trade negotiations mean for the market.”

EMC guest speakers included Carlos Campabadal, PhD, Kansas State University; Rick Held, Held and Associates; Eric Johnson, US Department of Commerce, International Trade Commission; Angela Lambert, Clarion Safety Systems; Joanne Loce, Loce Consulting; and Jay O’Neil, Kansas State University. Speaker presentations addressed the cost of exporting, international trade risks, International Organisation for Standardisation/Technical Committees 293 (ISO/TC 293), safety labels and how culture is changing the trade market and workplace.

During Loce’s presentation,

“Preparing for Generational Workforce Impacts,” she explained different generations have a lot in common; however, it can appear different based on experience.

She said, “The needs and wants of employees are evolving to match the evolving workplace,” and aspects of a company’s hiring process need to be refined to identify top talent.

The conference kicked off with its annual four-person scramble golf tournament and putting contest to raise funds for the Equipment Manufacturers Committee Scholarship Fund. Participants made donations through a raffle for an Apple Watch, which was donated by Maxi-Lift Inc./ Southwest Agri-Plastics, Inc. These raffle donations along with meeting proceeds will be contributed to the scholarship fund.

The Equipment Manufacturers Committee Scholarship Fund, partnered with AFIA’s foundation, the Institute for Feed Education and Research, offers scholarships to assist students pursuing feed related degrees.

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ConAgra Foods announces plans to separate into two independent public companies

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onAgra Foods, Inc. have announced plans to pursue the separation of the company into two independent public companies: one comprising its robust consumer portfolio of diverse and leading brands and the other comprising its market leading foodservice portfolio of innovative frozen potato products.

The consumer brands business will be renamed Conagra Brands, Inc. (“Conagra Brands”) and the frozen potato business will operate under the Lamb Weston name. Immediately following the transaction, which is expected to be completed in the fall of 2016, ConAgra Foods shareholders will own shares of both independent companies. The transaction is expected to be structured as a spin-off of the Lamb Weston business, tax-free to the Company and its shareholders.

“The decision to separate into two pure-play companies reflects our ongoing commitment to implementing bold changes in order to deliver sustainable growth and enhanced shareholder value,” said Sean Connolly, president and chief executive officer, ConAgra Foods.

“We carefully considered a variety of strategic alternatives, and believe that the separation of our Lamb Weston specialty potato business from our consumer brands business is the best way to drive shareholder value. The separation will enable each company to sharpen its strategic focus and provide flexibility to capitalise on the unique

growth opportunities in its respective market. Shareholders will gain direct exposure to more focused consumer and commercial foods businesses, each with distinct customer bases and investment profiles. We are confident that this separation will best position each company to compete and win while creating compelling long-term value for shareholders and delivering benefits to employees, customers and other key stakeholders.”

The two businesses operate in distinct markets and possess unique and compelling growth prospects and investment requirements. In addition, ConAgra Foods believes that the separation will result in other material benefits to the standalone companies, including: Greater management focus on the distinct businesses of consumer brands and foodservice frozen potato products; Increased flexibility, agility and resources to capitalise on their respective long-term opportunities and growth strategies; Tailored capital structures and financial policies and targets appropriate for each company’s unique business profile; and The ability for investors to value the two companies based on their particular operational and financial characteristics and invest accordingly.

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International Year of Pulses 2016

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he Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) has been nominated to facilitate the implementation of the Year in collaboration with Governments, relevant organisations, nongovernmental organizations and all other relevant stakeholders.

The IYP 2016 aims to heighten public awareness of the nutritional benefits of pulses as part of sustainable food production aimed towards food security and nutrition. The Year will create a unique opportunity to encourage connections throughout the food chain that would better utilise pulse-based proteins, further global

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production of pulses, better utilise crop rotations and address the challenges in the trade of pulses.

What are pulses and why are they important?

Pulses are annual leguminous crops yielding between one and 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, used for both food and feed. The term “pulses” is limited to crops harvested solely for dry grain, thereby excluding crops harvested green for food, which are classified as vegetable crops, as well as those crops used mainly for oil extraction and leguminous crops that are used exclusively for sowing purposes (based

reported as the company’s consumer Foods segment, which generated approximately $7.2 billion in fiscal 2015 revenues, as reported. The Consumer Foods segment consists of popular leading brands such as Marie Callender’s, Hunt’s, RO*TEL, Reddiwip, Slim Jim, PAM, Chef Boyardee, Orville Redenbacher’s, P.F. Chang’s and Healthy Choice.

Conagra Brands is also expected to include several businesses currently reported within the Commercial Foods segment, including the traditional foodservice business (sales of branded products to foodservice companies), Spicetec Flavors & Seasonings and JM Swank, as well as certain private label operations which were moved to the Consumer Foods reporting segment in the first quarter of fiscal 2016. These businesses generated approximately $1.8 billion in fiscal 2015 revenues, as reported. Conagra Brands is also expected to retain the Company’s stake in the Ardent Mills joint venture.

Conagra Brands’ core strategy will focus on further strengthening its consumer and foodservice portfolios, driving innovation and improving margins. Conagra Brands will remain committed to its plans to optimise operational efficiency to provide additional resources to invest in the business and pursue strategic acquisitions while also returning capital to shareholders. Conagra Brands expects to maintain an investment-grade profile following the separation, and to remain committed to a strong and attractive dividend. on the definition of “pulses and derived products” of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations).

Pulse crops such as lentils, beans, peas and chickpeas are a critical part of the general food basket. Pulses are a vital source of plant-based proteins and amino acids for people around the globe and should be eaten as part of a healthy diet to address obesity, as well as to prevent and help manage chronic diseases such as diabetes, coronary conditions and cancer; they are also an important source of plant-based protein for animals.

In addition, pulses are leguminous plants that have nitrogen-fixing properties which can contribute to increasing soil fertility and have a positive impact on the environment.

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Bühler opens customer service centre in Thailand

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n October, Bühler opened its newest customer service and roll refurbishment centre in Thailand. Bühler’s 1’800 square metre facility offers a range of local services for its customers. “Being close to our clientele is essential to offer tailor-made customer and engineering services, along the whole lifecycle management of our plants and equipment”, says Mark Ledson, Managing Director, Bühler (Thailand) Ltd. The new centre is located in the Hemaraj Saraburi Industrial Land, in the province Saraburi and employs over 30 service technicians and customer service managers. Services range from roll refluting for roller mills, production of new fluted rolls and an applications area, where customer trials can take place on optical sorters. Furthermore, there are ejector repair facilities and a comprehensive stock of spare parts in order to support customers more efficiently.

On October 1, the centre was opened in the presence of Swiss Ambassador Ivo Sieber, who congratulated Bühler on the successful opening ceremony: “Bühler has established, over the years, very strong partnerships with its customers. I am impressed by their professionalism and wish Bühler continued success with their operations here in Thailand.”

More than 40 customers, representing a cross section of industries – rice, flour, snacks, feed, die casting, Inks and paint production – came to the opening ceremony to see the newest services and latest technologies. This included optical sorting demonstrations, automated packing machines, ejector repair, simulation of full automation control, demonstrations of Bühler’s RollDetect service and the grinding and fluting of rolls.

“Customers showed a lot of interest in our demonstrations, especially our RollDetect service, which now allows mills to be run at maximum efficiency and roll changes to be managed in line with plant maintenance scheduling” says Mark Ledson. “By providing local services and specialist knowledge, we can support our customers to further reduce maintenance costs as well as downtime while boosting efficiency. A well maintained mill, for instance, achieves up to two percent higher yield with significantly less energy consumption“, explains Ledson.

The customer service centre in Thailand further expands Bühler’s unique global service network. Now with 82 service stations, Bühler takes another step towards its goal of 100 service stations worldwide, ensuring proximity to its customers.

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Chain approach in feed safety control is crucial

by Mireille Tulp, Program Manager Marketing and Communication, GMP+ Livestock production and the consumption of animal products are crucial to the economic and nutritional wellbeing of millions of people around the world.

Animal feed plays a leading role in the food industry and is the largest and most important contributor to safe, abundant and affordable animal proteins for a growing population.

The role of animal feed in the production of safe food is recognised worldwide.

China has a crucial position in the global feed market. With its leading position in the world as a feed producer and biggest exporter of feed ingredients (amino acids, vitamins and microelements), but also as one of the biggest importers of soy and fishmeal. At the same time, with increasing wealth, China has become one of the major producers and consumers of animal food products.

In recent years, public concerns about the safety of foods of animal origin have increased because of incidents related to bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), dioxin and melamine contamination and outbreaks of food borne bacterial infections. There are also growing concerns about veterinary medicines’ residues and microbial resistance to antibiotics resulting from in-feed medication, as well as the impact of animal feed on animal, human and environmental safety.

These concerns have lead to awareness for Feed Safety Assurance, which is the reason why many companies in the world have chosen for a GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance certificate. A crucial lesson learned from the past, is that safe feed can only be produced and delivered to a farmer when the whole feed supply chain is involved in feed safety assurance. To ensure adequate control of feed-related hazards that could cause public health risks.

Already in 1992 GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance started in The Netherlands. At that time, the scope of the scheme only covered the production and delivery of compound feed and single feed to farmers. The Dutch feed industry imported about 75 percent of its feed ingredients from other parts of Europe, Asia and North and South America.

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ingredients, supplied through the supply chain.

Due to these kinds of experiences, the scope of the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme was extended to involve the whole feed supply chain. From 2000 onwards, therefore producers of feed ingredients, traders, storage, and transport companies can also participate in the GMP+ FC scheme. Special standards were published, created together with the industry with conditions for implementing and operating a proper feed safety management system.

Assuring the feed safety in whatever phase or stage in the feed chain is built on the same principles, laid down in a similar way in all these standards: a sound prerequisite programme, a detailed and exhaustive hazard plan, and a supporting management system. These three pillars are the base of a complete management system for assuring feed safety. Specific requirements for suppliers are designed to create a feed supply chain where all involved companies assure the safety of the feed in all stages of production and distribution in the same way. With a GMP+ certificate, they can demonstrate they meet the highest standards for feed safety.

It is crucial that risks are controlled early, where they might occur during production, storage and transport. Every entrepreneur in the feed chain must show responsibility for the safety of the feed, placed on the market, and implement proper measures to control these risks. This will avoid, or in case of failure of the control measures for any reason whatsoever, reduce distribution of contaminated feed ingredients lots.

The international coverage of GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance enables such companies to act properly. This is in the interest of all links in the feed chain, and also of farmed animal and aqua feed producers and the following links in livestock and aqua production.

The GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance scheme can support Chinese soy and fishmeal importers, to source safe and high quality products with over 14,500 certified companies in 75 countries. Chinese exporters on the other hand, can benefit from the experience and excellent reputation of the GMP+FSA logo to build trust and reputation while acquiring new markets.

To learn more about what a GMP+ FSA certificate can do for your company check www.gmpplus.org

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17 students from 13 countries were recently awarded the coveted diploma of the prestigious Swiss Institute of Feed Technology (SFT) in Uzwil, Switzerland. The 33rd specialist course in feed manufacturing technology was held in English. This year’s best in class came from Brazil. SFT Director Ernst Nef is now handing over responsibilities for the SFT to Daniel Müller and retiring early.

Swiss Institute of Feed Technology awards Diplomas to 17 Feed Technologists From a total of 20 males and one female participant who had started the 33rd Diploma course of the SFT in spring 2015, 17 successfully completed their training as Feed Production Engineers.

The road to success was not easy. It led the students “up a steep and arduous path”, as the institute’s director Ernst Nef said at the Diploma awarding ceremony. Nef was very happy to see the ninth woman in the SFT’s history successfully completing the course – the Norwegian Aina-Elin Karlsen (Ewos AS): “This proves that animal feed production is no longer a pure men’s domain.”

Reaching the summit

Following intensive ten-month training, the graduates of this year’s course received the Diploma awarding them as Feed Production Engineer or a confirmation of course attendance from the SFT’s director Ernst Nef in the Hotel Uzwil. In his speech, which as usual was full of humor, Nef stressed the significance of lifelong continuing education and praised the graduates for their decision to go back to school once more: “With this decision, you took up a big challenge, which you have now successfully mastered. Today you have reached the summit.

With the acquired knowledge and your great dedication, you are now equipped with the tools you need to meet the high requirements for a safe and economical production of formulated feeds.” He said that on the one hand the goal is to satisfy consumer’s needs for hygienic feeds that are safe for humans and animals alike. On the other hand, he continued, feed manufacturers were increasingly being forced by regulations and legislation to produce and market animal feeds more efficiently and, especially, more responsibly.

A Brazilian as best in class

Ernst Nef personally handed over the Diploma or the confirmation of attendance to each student, adding some amusing personal anecdotes from the class to his congratulations. In line with a longstanding Diploma ceremony tradition, the SFT always distinguishes the student who has achieved the best final score. This year’s distinction went to the Brazilian Leonardo Miyata, employee at Bühler AG in Joinville, Brazil. Peter Hofer, Vice President of the SFT Board, congratulated the best in class for his outstanding average grade of 5.53 out of 6, by handing over the traditional commemorative plate. Leonardo Miyata outperformed the Canadian John Smillie by a hundredth point and Aina-Elin Karlsen by four hundredth points, who ranked second and third, respectively.

Ernst Nef honored SFT Director Ernst Nef will retire at the end of 2015. He is handing over the SFT responsibilities to Daniel Müller.

Marcel Scherrer, the new President of the SFT Board, and his deputy Peter Hofer took advantage of the 33rd diploma ceremony to

acknowledge Ernst Nef’s accomplishments and to thank him for his immense dedication and efforts. As a farewell gift, they handed the visibly stirred fresh retiree a large engraved original cowbell from Appenzell. Nef successfully completed the SFT Diploma course in 1992. Only two years later, he took charge as Director of the Swiss Institute of Feed Technology, holding a total of 20 Diploma courses to date together with his lecturer colleagues.

New concept

The 2015 “Feed Production Engineer” Diploma course was based for the third time on the new concept. The course starts in spring with a 15-week preparatory correspondence course. This is followed by a four-week intensive course in Uzwil. In autumn, the second block is then held with a preparatory correspondence course of the same length and the final intensive training in Uzwil. In the two preparatory courses, students had to work through 21 subject areas.

During the two intensive courses, they must pass a total of 14 written examinations. The highlight and finale of each block are the two oral examinations in the core subjects in front of a panel of experts. The new concept reduces the students’ absence from their jobs.

The 34th Specialist Course in Feed Manufacturing Technology will start in January 2016 and will be held in German.

Focus on practice

The SFT is a none profit association that is recognised by the Association of Swiss Feed Manufacturers (VSF) as an institution of training and continuing education. The SFT imparts practice-oriented specialist knowledge of feed production processes to professionals from the feed manufacturing industry and related industries. A successful completion of the specialist course provides the basis for graduates to understand state-of-the-art process technologies and to apply this expertise to practice. The international Technology Group Bühler AG is the partner of the SFT. To date, over 520 men and women from 69 countries have successfully completed the Specialist Course in Feed Manufacturing Technology.

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ABP120UR multi-spout system

PRODUCT FOCUS DECEMBER 2015 In every edition of Milling and Grain, we take a look at the products that will be saving you time and money in the milling process.

The ABP120UR is a multi-spout system designed for the high-speed bagging of cereal flour and other powdered products that need to be densified or compacted. Placing, filling, and densifying at the same time enables a production capacity of up to 1000 bags (10-50kg) per hour.

The empty bag pick-up system utilised by the ABP120UR means that it is capable of handling open-mouth bags made of various materials (PP woven, PP laminated, multiwall paper or coated paper).

The enclosed design ensures minimal levels of dust generation throughout operation. Last but not least, the coloured touch screen operation interface ensures easy management and control of the machine.

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QualySense AG - QSorter QualySense AG is a Swiss company providing innovative solutions for analysing and sorting grains. By combining state-of-the-art algorithms with Machine Vision (MV) and hyperspectral sensing technologies (NIR), the QSorter Explorer analyses each individual grain based on their physical and biochemical properties. Protein, oil, amylose content, vitreousness, shape, and others, can be quantified and sorted into different classes. The QSorter Explorer is a reliable and customizable solution to increase the quality and safety of food products.

It is currently being used in breeding, and priming towards dietspecific and premium foods.

THIS MONTH We take a look at some of the Equipment on diplay at JTIC 2015 - see the full show review on page 78

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Granolino II

The LabMill

Agromatic AG Switzerland have released the Granolino II, an updated version of the original Granolino whole kernel humidity tester.

CHOPIN Technologies’ latest solution, the LabMill, is designed to evaluate wheat milling behavior (resistance to crushing and extraction rate) and produce flour that is representative (ash, damaged starch, and rheology) of the wheat being milled.

This highly efficient lab-instrument enables fast measurement of temperature, volume and water content of whole kernels. The flow through design of Granolino II allows for fully automatic measurements within seconds for a wide variety of products.

It incorporates patented innovations allowing for the combination of performance, precision, reproducibility, sturdiness, and ease of use.

The featured keypad has only 5 keys allowing for intuitive operation and a display unit that presents humidity (%), volume (HL) and temperature (°C or °F) on an easy to read alphanumerical LCD display in English, German, French or Italian.

The LabMill features a unique milling diagram (2 breaking steps, 1 reduction step, 2 converting steps), a very precise feed system (equipped with a scale) and adjustable rolls.

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FOCUS

SPECIAL FOCUS

Darren Parris and Mark Cornwell of the Milling and Grain team travelled to Cremona, Italy, to visit OCRIM’s headquarters to learn about their new innovative system – the Multifunction Grain Analyser (OnlineMGA).

Chief of OCRIM’s electrical department, Engineer Paolo Molinari took them on a tour of the factory and shared information on the OnlineMGA. The OCRIM research and development team obviously realise that there is a market need for having control and management over the milling process. The key objective of OnlineMGA is to provide significantly improved management throughout the process, in particular giving real time data on the levels of moisture and protein within the wheat.

Having real time control of the production process means that the wheat’s chemical parameters can be managed throughout the conditioning and cleaning phases making this an important aspect of this system.

Key objectives

Controlling the protein and moisture levels is beneficial when milling because it allows the production of flour that has constant timing characteristics. While at the same time the control of wheat moisture at the various phases of water addition is of fundamental importance for the conditioning process.

The device itself is compact enough that it can be inserted at several critical points throughout the milling process without occupying much space. This automated management system

provides a continuous and constant analysis of cereals that enables the control of protein and moisture values. “This machine was installed online, it will mean that product incoming and outgoing will not have its flow disrupted”, says Mr Molinari.

Technology

“The main problem that we have met during our experience is that of measuring moisture in the second tempering stage, this is due to the naturally occurring tendency for wheat grain to be changing. This said change makes it difficult to analyse, but with NIR technology we have solved this problem” explains Paolo.

Online Multi-Grain Analyser This innovative product has been developed using VIS-NIR technology, based on near infrared Spectroscopy. The equipment targets the contained substances with a beam of light that has a defined frequency range. As a result a different absorption spectrum, composed of various wavelengths is obtained.

This spectroscopic process provides accurate readings in realtime, this is possible because it acts directly on the water and protein molecules within the wheat.

Moisture and protein analysis

According to OCRIM the most innovative aspect of the OnlineMGA is the continuous retroactive adjustment that can be carried out on the amount of water added in both dampening phases. This feedback throughout the first and second conditioning phases produces a value of the percentage of moisture required, constant in time, of the wheat that is used in the milling process.

The device contains two step-by-step motors, one of which has a function to regulate product moving past the camera, this must remain constant. The second motor switches off the entire analysis camera periodically; it needs to be reset every 15 and 30 minutes. This is done to make sure the machine is empty, when the device detects it is empty it will produce a receipt.

Paolo explained that when light is put through the column of the machine, a shadow is obtained. The curve of this shadow goes into an automated system that matches the recording against a shadow with the same characteristics by searching through a dedicated database. This is how the percentage of humidity and protein in the product is derived.

OnlineMGA can also be used during the raw material reception of the plant. When positioned before the storage stage, the device can measure the moisture of the whole amount of the product, allowing for the immediate evaluation of all incoming cereals.

All information on parameters measured from delivery to final product can be recorded and combined which in turn guarantees excellent traceability.

The measurement of the cereal’s protein value can be performed at the same time as the wheat moisture analysis, using the piece of equipment.

Production

OnlineMGA was first on show at IPACK IMA in May this year.

OCRIM have already carried out all the tests in order to prove the correct operation of the machine, and it is now available.

Paolo suggested that the main way this system will lead to cutting costs is by means of ensuring that users are paying for grain rather than water upon product reception into the plant.

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Flour as a gift from the gods

A cultural contribution On the initiative of Mühlenchemie, the Music Festival of Mecklenburg - West Pomerania presented the Russian master pianist Evgeni Koroliov on the occasion of its 25th anniversary

The success of a harvest is a matter of divine providence. That is the belief of the Hopi Indians, a people living in close contact with nature, who have developed agriculture in spite of poor soil. The secret of their success: friendly relations with the gods. In order to gain heavenly favour, they initiate a nine-day ceremony every two years to be sure of rain. The emissaries of the Hopi gods are poisonous rattlesnakes; on the ninth day they are passed round, taken into the participants’ mouths and sprinkled with flour. After ritual washing, the snakes are set free in order to take the prayers of the Hopi to the gods. That none of these ceremonies ended fatally provoked the curiosity of the zoologist Charles Mitchell Bogert. In 1941 he discovered why: Poisonous snakes make Hopi wishes come true even when they are toothless.

The Mühlenchemie FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg is an expression of our company culture and the responsibility we feel towards the miller and his flour, as one of the most important staple foods. The museum is a journey through the millennia, illuminating the development and importance of flour. It is the only one of its kind in the world. www.flourworld.de

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hat flour is for human nutrition, so music is for the mind and soul, a truth that transcends all national boundaries. Volkmar Wywiol, the owner of Mühlenchemie and a managing director, recently created a very special bridge between cultures.

On the initiative of Mühlenchemie, the Music Festival of Mecklenburg West Pomerania presented the Russian master pianist Evgeni Koroliov on the occasion of its 25th anniversary.

In the context of Germany’s third-largest festival of classical music, Koroliov gave a concert in the historic St Bartholomew’s church in Wittenburg in August.

On the same occasion the Hamburg businessman invited the concert audience to visit the nearby FlourWorld Museum. After the musical performance, the company’s guests, including numerous customers, were able to experience a vital staple food at the exhibition of flour sacks that demonstrates the historic and cultural significance of flour.

Mühlenchemie has made a major contribution to Wittenburg’s development as an industrial location. The production facility for the Stern-Wywiol group of companies was established in 1998 and has since established itself firmly as a contract manufacturer for the international food market. And the town of Wittenburg, situated between Hamburg and Berlin, is acquiring more and more appeal as a cultural centre.

After founding the unique flour sack museum, Volkmar Wywiol has now

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The historic St. Bartholomew’s church in Wittenburg was filled to the last seat

The miller’s love The best stories are real-life ones.

Evgeni Koroliov interpreted works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Schubert

For example, the song cycle “Die schöne

Müllerin”

(The

Miller’s

Daughter) written by Wilhelm Müller Before and after the concert, the event was celebrated at the FlourWorld museum with the Director of the festival, the artist and representatives of the international milling family

in 1821 and set to music by Franz Schubert in 1823. It came out of a group of songs thought up by a circle of young people including the writer Clemens Brentano, the painter Wilhelm Hensel, his sister Luise and the composer Ludwig Berger. They sang about the tragic fate of a young miller’s

apprentice

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falls

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unrequited love with Rose, a miller’s daughter. The unhappy story found its counterpart in reality, as almost all of the men in the group fell in love with Hensel’s sister Louise. None of them were able to win her heart, but it inspired the classic German song “Das Wandern ist des Müllers Lust” (The Wandering Miller).

The Mühlenchemie FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg is an expression of our company culture and the responsibility

opened up a new venue for the famous music festival. The start there was made with the Russian pianist Evgeni Koroliov, one of the most celebrated contemporary performers of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. The master pianist and winner of numerous awards lives in Hamburg, where he holds the post of a professor at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts. In the historic church, which was filled to the last seat, the audience listened to works of Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Schubert, performed to perfection by Koroliov. His outstanding technique and the supreme expressiveness of his music captivated the audience.

Before and after the concert, the event was celebrated at the FlourWorld Museum with the Director of the festival, the artist, and representatives of the international milling family. Volkmar Wywiol thanked the distinguished, yet modest musician for the unforgettable experience of the concert.

“For us as an enterprise operating internationally it is both a duty and a pleasure to live out the principle of international understanding. Culture is an important bridge towards this goal. And Evgeni Koroliov’s performance is a highlight in this context.”

we feel towards the miller and his flour, as one of the most important staple foods. The museum is a journey through the millennia, illuminating the development and importance of flour. It is the only one of its kind in the world. www.flourworld.de

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Breaking new ground with feed machinery standards A new ISO technical committee (ISO/TC 293) is created to supply the global industry with standards for feed machinery used to produce formulated feed in feed processing mills

by Sandrine Tranchard

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he world’s soaring population and growing demand for animal-derived food has spurred enormous development in feed machinery manufacturing and the feed industry in general. But with policies and technologies differing widely across countries, there is a substantial imbalance in the field. To help harmonise market practices worldwide, a new ISO technical committee (ISO/TC 293) was created to supply the industry with standards for feed machinery used to produce formulated feed in feed processing mills.

A global feed industry

Feed mills purchase feed machines worldwide to maintain, alter, extend or build anew their feed production lines. Yet in the absence of harmonised International Standards, each feed machinery manufacturer produces feed machines to its own specifications, while each individual feed producer procures said machinery to suit its needs. Inconsistent requirements have notably hindered international trading of such machinery and there is urgent demand for International Standards to coordinate business across borders.

Ms Lujia Han, Chair of the new ISO/TC 293, laments the lack of harmonisation: “When international trade in any industry reaches a certain level, International Standards are inevitably required to coordinate relevant technological matters. Feed machinery and its specific component parts are numerous and diverse, and there are a large number of terms defining the feed processing technology. Due to disagreement among countries over terminology issues as well as the application of graphical symbols for feed machinery and feed processing technology, barriers to international trade and technological communication on 38 | December 2015 - Milling and Grain

feed machinery have emerged.”

Terminology, safety and hygiene

Feed mills all over the world have suffered innumerable accidents due to the lack of proper safety measures for feed machinery, including safety design, safety protection design, dust explosion prevention, electrical systems, and the safety requirements involved in layout, installation and the manufacturing of equipment. Dust explosions in feed mills, for example, are a worldwide problem.

In feed processing machinery, many factors can affect feed hygiene, the environment and operators’ wellbeing; so concerted solutions need to be found. The health of humans and animals and the security of people and property, are the top priority of standardisation, underpinned of course by a robust terminology base.

To address these issues, three groups have been created within ISO/TC 293 to work specifically on terminology, safety and hygiene.

ISO/TC 293’s objectives are: Develop International Standards on terminology and graphical symbols, safety, hygiene and test methods for technical requirements, as well as the performance of single equipment and feed production lines that can impact on feed quality, production efficiency and energy consumption Facilitate international exchanges on technical issues, promote international trade, minimise security risks in the feed production process, as well as the risks inherent to feed hygiene, workplace sanitation and environmental pollution Propose the best solutions for the security and hygiene of feed machinery Supply the technical basis for conformity assessment and provide an impartial technological foundation for orders, project inspections and acceptance of complex production lines.

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Looking to the future, Ms Han forecasts a score of benefits for the sector: “The achievement of these objectives will guarantee the feed quality, hygiene, production safety and environmental protection, create a safe and hygienic environment for operators, enhance the efficiency of feed engineering, save on cost, protect the interests of both manufacturers and users, promote manufacturing technology while meeting the authorities’ need to regulate the field – and consequently benefit stakeholders immensely.”

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Future challenges

Going forward, the work of ISO/TC 293 will also focus on the intelligence of feed processing lines and service networks following the modernisation of agricultural processes.

According to Ms Han, “the biggest challenge will be to attract and gather the world’s most outstanding experts – as many of them as possible – and get support from governments in order to keep track of the latest technological achievements in feed machinery and develop International Standards that not only provide international trade with technical support, but also promote manufacturers’ techniques and ensure users get good-quality products”.

Facts and figures:

There are more than 30 000 feed mills in the world.

More than 100 countries and regions are involved in the import and export business of feed machinery every year.

The world’s population is projected to reach 8.5 billion by 2030, 9.7 billion by 2050 and in excess of 11 billion by 2100.

If the global population reaches 9.1 billion by 2050, the world food production will need to rise by 70 percent, and food production in the developing world will need to double.

(Source: UN, FAO)

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US Wheat Associates road trip 2015

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by Roger Gilbert, Milling and Grain Magazine, Publisher

ix classes of US wheat is planted and harvested in almost every month of the year and is recognised as being one of the most reliable globally which can fit precisely to almost every end-use product.

In early November, the US Wheat Associates, which helps to develop markets for US wheat and is working in over 80 countries undertook its annual ‘road trip’ around Europe to explain the current year’s crop outcome in detail for buyers and users.

Rutger Koekoek, US Wheat’s marketing specialist based in The Netherlands, summarised the ‘World Wheat Supply and Demand Situation’ for 2015-16 by identifying global production would reach 733 million tonnes, up eight million tonnes on the previous year with major exporter supplies being up by 11 million tonnes: with major exporter ending stocks increasing by five million tonnes and US ending stock in particular being the largest since 2009-10 at 23.4 million tonnes – or 17 percent above their fiveyear average of 20 million tonnes.

He also recorded the world consumption is set to post a new record. While the trade itself will see a decrease from 2014-15 levels, based on consumption in South East Asia expected to increase, and world feed use up by some five million tonnes.

“The US farm gate average price is to decline,” he projected and suggested an average price of between US$175-193 per tonne.

“The average farm gate price in 2014-15 was US$220 and $252 per tonnes in 2013-14.”

The global crop outlook will be impacted by: El Nino; the lingering drought in Australia which has reduced yield potential; floods in Argentina resulting in lost wheat area and despite moisture conditions in the US for HRW and SRW improving due to recent rains the US SW crop remains dry.

Finally, lower winter wheat area in the Ukraine and poor early crop establishment with increased risk of winterkill have to be considered alongside improved recent rains in southern Russia that will impact its winter wheat crop, he adds.

He told invited delegates that production from the top exporting countries for 2015-16 would be up by

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three million tonnes over 2014-15 at 377 million tonnes while beginning stocks were significantly higher at 63 million tonnes compared to 54 million tonnes in 2014-15, resulting in total supplies being up by 11 million tonnes.

The forecasted change in world wheat production in 2015-16 shows a positive increase of seven million tonnes with RussianUkraine producing an additional seven million tonnes, China four million tonnes and North America three million tonnes. These increases are offset by declines in production in India of seven million tonnes, Canada three million tonnes and Argentina two million tonnes.

The forecasted change in world wheat exports in 2015-16 would be down by two percent at 161 million tonnes with Canada down four million tonnes, India down three million tonnes and the EU down two million tonnes. These declines would be compensated for increased exports from RussiaUkraine by five million tonnes and a likely two million tonne addition from Australia.

Finally, all major wheat importers are expected in increase their demand: Egypt to 11.5 million tonnes; Indonesia to 7.8 million tonnes; Algeria to 7.7 million tonnes; Brazil to 6.7 million tonnes; EU to six million tonnes and Japan to 5.8 million tonnes.

In summary, world wheat production is up between five and seven million tonnes, world wheat consumption up by nine million tonnes and all this supported by a “big supply of better quality wheat than we had last year,” says Mr Koekoek.

And this will leave world ending stocks for 2015-16 at a record high of 228 million tonnes which is well above the 10-year average of 177 million tonnes and having 72.6 million tonnes of that buffer available to world markets, when the 10-year average has been 66 million tonnes.

Global stocks-to-use ratio stands at 32 percent up from 30 percent in 2014-15 and up on the 10-year average of 27 percent.

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Multi-mycotoxin testing in food

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by Claire Milligan, Product Manager, R-Biopharm Rh么ne Ltd, UK

or as long as humans have cultivated and stored grain we have been at risk from mycotoxins with outbreaks of Ergots being reported since the Middle Ages in epidemic proportions. Humans have linked the occurrence of mould with sickness since the 7th and 8th centuries and hence conducted a festival to celebrate the Roman God Robigus who was the protector of grain and trees in order to protect from rust and moulds.

The problem of mycotoxin occurrence has only gotten larger as our societies have grown more complex and our ever increasing population. The more grain and cereal we consume the greater the chances of us coming into contact with moulds and the mycotoxins that may be present.

Fungal growths may be present in cereal grains and can if not detected can cause serious health issues like damage to the immune, cardiovascular, endocrine and nervous systems. Grains such as wheat, barley, oats and rye are extremely susceptible and diseases like head blight can cause substantial agricultural losses, and also lead to problems of mycotoxin contamination by Fusarium fungi. This occurs pre-harvest on the growing crop and can lead to the occurrence of a number of different mycotoxins including deoxynivalenol (DON), zearalenone (ZON), T-2 and HT-2 toxins.

Once harvested further problems can arise if the drying is inadequate or cereals are poorly stored. This post-harvest infection can occur with different fungal species leading to contamination with yet other chemically different mycotoxins such as ochratoxin A (OTA) and citrinin (CIT).

prone to fungal contamination is also uniquely susceptible to Fusarium species, which specifically produces mycotoxins known as the fumonisins (FB1 and FB2). In regions with higher temperatures and moisture conditions Aspergillus infection can also appear with subsequent formations of aflatoxin B1, B2, G1 and G2.

All of these mycotoxins are unlikely to contaminate the same sample at the same time, but co-occurrence of more than one mycotoxin is certainly common in maize or cereal grain.

These mycotoxins are chemically different in structure and therefore each exhibit different toxicological effects, which can be triggered at different levels of exposure. Additionally human and animal species have significantly different degrees of susceptibility to the toxicological effects of these mycotoxins.

Occurrence of multi-mycotoxins in foods

Regulations

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Mycotoxin EU regulatory limit 碌g/kg Cereal type DON

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750

100

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3.0

800

For these reasons and because of the importance of cereals in human diet and animal feed, mycotoxins are tightly regulated in many countries around the world by setting of maximum residue levels (MRLs). As with many other regulations, these limits are much lower for infant and baby foods compared to foods intended for adults. This is because of the additional protection needed during growth and development and the lower body weight of infants In the EU aflatoxins, DON, ZON, FUM and OTA are all regulated in cereals and cereal products, with one limit applying to unprocessed cereals and a lower limit being applied to

F cereals intended for direct human consumption. There are some reductions in toxin levels during processing such as milling, but as the toxins tend to concentrate in the fractions such as bran there are consequent risks for animal feed.

The EU regulations for mycotoxins in cereals are complicated with levels varying from one commodity to another and varying significantly for different mycotoxins. This can be illustrated by the example of EU regulations for bread, processed cereal-based foods and baby foods for infants and young children and maizebased breakfast cereals shown in the table above. Different limits apply to unprocessed cereals and maize, pasta, refined maize oil and various milled fractions from maize as well as to animal feed.

Understanding the complexity of these regulations and carrying out analytical determinations to ensure compliance is a significant challenge.

Analysis of multi-mycotoxins

Analysis of mycotoxins in cereals and cereal products (including animal feed and pet food) is carried out on the raw materials (grain and flour) and on finished products. Analysis is expensive to carry out and it therefore makes sense to target monitoring on those mycotoxins, which are known to be associated with specific cereal products and which are covered by legislation. With the strong possibility of multiple occurrence it also makes sense to determine more than one mycotoxin in an analytical run.

Most official methods, which have been rigorously validated, stipulate the use of immunoaffinity column clean-up (IACs) prior to HPLC analysis. Recognising the importance of analysis of multiple mycotoxins, R-Biopharm Rhône supply immunoaffinity clean-up columns specifically targeted at extraction and

purification of different combinations of mycotoxins in cereals.

The DZT MS-PREP® immunoaffinity columns are intended for clean-up of DON, ZON and combined T-2 and HT-2 toxins, whereas the AOF MS-PREP® columns are aimed at the analysis of aflatoxins, OTA and fumonisins.

The DZT MS-PREP® columns are particularly relevant for the analysis of cereals and cereal products from wheat, oats and rye, whereas the AOF MS-PREP® columns have more relevance to the analysis of maize and maize based products where aflatoxins and fumonisins are more likely to be a problem.

By a simple procedure of coupling two IACs in tandem, i.e.

DZT MS-PREP® and AOF MS-PREP® it is possible to detect all six mycotoxins that need to be monitored in processed cereal based foods and baby foods for infants and young children which include maize.

When single mycotoxins such as aflatoxin B1 or OTA are determined, it is often better to use HPLC with fluorescence detection to reach lower limits of detection. However, DON, fumonisins, T-2, HT-2 toxins require different analytical strategies, and when they are brought together into one method the use of more sophisticated analytical systems such as LC-MS/ MS is the preferred approach.

Analysis without clean up?

Some laboratories will argue that with the specificity of mass spectrometric detection systems it is unnecessary to carry out immunoaffinity column clean-up and crude extracts from cereals can be directly analysed. This approach is acceptable for screening but it has been demonstrated that without adequate clean-up, co-extractives from the matrix can cause interference which impacts adversely on identification and quantification.

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The EU Rapid Alert System for Food & Feed (RASFF)

The EU Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) provides good intelligence information on the extent of cereals being rejected by the authorities and as containing multiple mycotoxins exceeding EU limits. Aflatoxins and fumonisins have been frequently found to co-occur at levels exceeding EU limits for both groups of toxins in the same sample. For example, popcorn from Argentina containing aflatoxins and fumonisins, DON and OTA in cornflour from Poland, aflatoxins and OTA in maize from Ukraine were all rejected by the EU. Along with the notifications sent out by each designated national contact to the EU Commission, the RASFF portal has a searchable online database open to members of the public. This system of alerts has helped avert many food safety risks.

Many consignments of cereals and cereal products are rejected by the EU as containing high levels of individual mycotoxins such as DON, ZON, fumonisins and aflatoxins but it is unlikely these consignments would have been identified as a potential risk to human health without an initial multi-mycotoxin screening.

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A solution to the problem

Immunoaffinity columns targeted at DZT and AOF analysis meet the needs of mycotoxin laboratories engaged in ensuring compliance of cereals with regulatory limits. These columns have been used for the development of validated methods by R-Biopharm Rhône, where the method performance has been demonstrated to exceed the minimum requirements set out both by the EU and standardisation bodies such as CEN. Methods can be supplied to customers in a format compatible with method SOPs to enable ready adoption into an accredited environment.

With products that are manufactured to ISO 9001 and employing an ISO 13485 quality management system R-Biopharm Rhône products are widely used by 17025 accredited laboratories in the EU and elsewhere, and are widely appreciated as being reliable products of consistently high quality.

Final thoughts

Although application of good agricultural practice can reduce the risks of fungal infection of cereals and can minimise mycotoxin levels, the co-occurrence of mycotoxins in cereals is an inevitable fact of life.

There is considerable variability in levels of Fusarium toxins found in cereals from year to year as climate can have a significant impact on toxin formation. Wet conditions during the growing season and during harvest have a major impact on fungal infection, and climate change resulting in less predictable conditions is leading to increased risks of mycotoxin contamination. Testing for the presence of mycotoxins will continue and as trade between countries across the globe grows we can expect legislation to be tightened beyond the EU and its current trading partners.

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FEEDMILL 2025 Milling and Grain journalist Roger Gilbert reports on the predictions made by Mr Harm Klein, from Tebodin Netherlands BV an international operating consultancy and engineering firm.

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lternative raw materials, more focus on the working and living environment, and highly specific technical developments. That’s the answer of Mr Harm Klein, Business Development manager at Tebodin Netherlands B.V., part of Bilfinger SE, on the future feed mill in Europe. He has been designing feed mills for approximately 40 years and shared his vision on the feedmill of 2025 during the Victam Conference.

Mr Klein took on the difficult task of foreshadowing what the feed mill in Europe might look like in 2025, just 10 years away: ‘This question had been posed to Tebodin before, in 1990, and we then created a concept that has basically been realised over the years.’

‘Separation of process lines, roller mills in combination with hammer mills, and sophisticated car loading systems were important issues. Because of the growth market in Western Europe in the 1980s-90s, construction of new factories was common. Engineers could 'go wild' in green field projects.’ ‘Now, growth in Europe is stagnating. Today and probably in 2025, improvements and extensions will take place at existing plants

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and not so often by the realisation of new plants. The latter will be more current in other parts of the world, where significant growth is expected.’

Mr Klein identified three important issues to be taken into consideration for a reliable vision of a future feed mill. The most important of these was alternative raw materials, followed by adjustments to the working and living environment, and thirdly the current technical developments.

‘These issues are the starting points for my glance into the future.’

Alternative raw materials

‘Until recently in developed countries, a silo storage volume for raw materials for 1-2 weeks of production was sufficient, because of a guaranteed supply of raw materials and restricted fluctuation in market prices. From now on, there will be more instability in availability. Causes include the recurrent dryness in grainproducing countries, the increase of prosperity in large parts of the world, the growing demand for meat, and the disappearance of surpluses. More attention will need to be focused on dayto-day purchasing and alternative raw materials will become critically important.’

‘Consequently, the need to maintain your own supply of

F sufficient raw materials will increase and setting up more and more flexible storage will be necessary. This trend has already started. Soy will be partially replaced and alternatives, such as duckweed, algae, insect meal and seaweed are becoming more common. Some of these raw materials will be available for feed on a wider scale within 10 years.’

Mr Klein suggested that the use of sugar beets would find a more valuable market in being reprocessed for colouring agents and thereby disappear from feed industry use. He also reported that the demand for GMO-free raw materials was increasing with several chains of supermarkets aiming to go GMO-free in all products after 2016: ‘This is important for the design of new projects and the manner in which we set up production, such as strictly separate production lines.’

‘Allowing animal proteins back remains a question, but we cannot rule it out, so it has to be taken into account when making new plans. The issue cannot be ignored.’

Working and living environment

Another area of change involves what Mr Klein referred to as ‘the working and living environment’: ‘No matter how important operational efficiency is, the welfare and health of the operators and life stock always come first. Security gets more and more

attention: we continue to collectively strive for zero accidents.’

‘For the operational management in our market, the food processing industry can serve as an example, with attractive management tools such as ‘Lean approach’ and ‘Team responsibility’, where the Technical Department and Production operate as one team, with very good results. For example, downtime and maintenance costs are reduced by over 25 percent.’

‘Concerning legislation, change of behaviour by governments is of great importance. In this respect, animal feed producers joining forces in lobby groups is of utmost importance in determining the approach of governments. The experience we have had in the Netherlands is a very good example of how this might work.’

Reducing energy

Part of improving the working and living environment is reducing power consumption: ‘By far the most energy in our plants is used for the grinding and pelleting processes. The pelleting process alone currently consumes half of the 35-50 kWh/tonne usage and gas uses about 2-6 m3/tonne.’

‘The pelletizer in combination with the conditioner has to become more energy efficient and also more suitable for a wide package of raw materials. The pelleting process should, if possible, take place in its entirety within the die with a great variety in its specification. Current tests with slowly rotating larger dies in the pelleting process show positive results.’

‘A flexible milling process leads, in general, to a significantly lower energy use. Utilisation of roller mills for meals, in combination with hammer mills in the case of pellets, show good results for energy use,’ says Mr. Klein: ‘In daily practice, a combined roller mill and hammer mill installation can achieve for 48 | December 2015 - Milling and Grain

press meal an energy savings of about 25 percent. In all cases, the processing line, with pre-screening and such, has to be executed optimally.’

Single treatments per material

‘Concerning the diversity in raw materials, the preferred situation is to install different treatments, depending on individual properties. In the future, there will be single treatments per material, instead of dose everything at once and then rolling, grinding, expanding and such. Think of the separate treatment of raw materials with high starch content and their individual expansion, for digestibility and protein efficiency. This selected treatment will also prevent 'over-processing' of other raw materials.’

The chain approach and data

‘The use of collected production data will also become more important. For control and automation purposes, the data will be based on information, gathered online. For example, infrared analyzers, capable of executing moisture, protein and fat analyses. By analysing during dosing continuously, parameters can be adjusted online and an optimal preparation is reached. The optimal level of humidity is achieved by moisture measurement, positively influencing energy use and pellet quality.’

‘By scanning the performance of an individual animal or species, the manufacturer can produce the best feed. It is very well possible that, in the future, the animal feed producer becomes less of an isolated link in the chain, but is expressly forced towards integration, possibly by taking a step back or forward in the chain.’

Mr Klein mentioned more technical improvements: ‘Talking about new developments in engineering, and as a feed specialist at Tebodin, I cannot omit mentioning giant steps to be taken in efficient design of processes, building and logistics with 3D design and other tools, for instance those related to clean production.’

‘Finally, another development already ongoing, is the request for a more concentrated product for self-mixing farms that can be mixed locally with self-bought or self-produced materials.

This will increase the quantity of minerals and other small components, requiring adjustments in the production process: a higher dosing capacity and larger scales are necessary.’

Unmanned is unrealistic

In his presentation, Mr Klein shortly addressed some interesting, but unrealistic looking developments: ‘Whether feed mills can technically be run unmanned or not in the future, they are simply not allowed in certain regions, due to a variety of concerns. Legislation will most likely restrict their development.

Likewise, using mash instead of pellets seems not feasible, too, because of the lack of homogeneity, hygiene and improving digestibility.’

Less but more concentrated

Mr Klein summarised his vision: ‘We designers are making giant steps in efficient design. It gives the industry a clean production process which will lead to more concentrated products which can be mixed for feeding purposes on farm. In the future, we might not produce 12 million tonnes of animal feeds in the Netherlands, but we will produce more concentrated feeds for much bigger farms.

To stand still in the feed industry is to regress. That is why Victam has proven to be so vital for our industry.

Harm Klein, firmly concluded that feed mills designed 20-30 years ago ‘will not be suitable in the future.’

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2015/16 industry profiles In our annual end of year company profile section, Milling and Grain invited advertisers to share thoughts about the industry in 2015, as well as specific company details achievements and plans for the year ahead.

We wish to thank all of our advertisers for their continued support and offer our sincere congratulations for what has hopefully been a prosperous year for you. We look forward to serving you in 2016.

During 2015 OCRIM celebrated its 70th anniversary by organising several important events which have involved the company team, customers and Cremona citizens.

OCRIM’s annual event “GRANO, FARINA E…” (“WHEAT, FLOUR AND…), was celebrated at IPACK-IMA 2015 and also involved the famous Chef, Davide Oldani who prepared a special course, made of grain, dedicated to OCRIM. All customers were introduced to the new OCRIM line “Superior Time” and other devices presented, like the onlineMGA and the @ mobile (tablet application), which have been designed to improve and optimise the milling plants automation. These technological and engineering developments showcase the big “steps” in research and development made during these last few years.

OCRIM is considered one of the most important companies in the milling industry. It was founded in 1945 and in a short time the company became widely known all over the world and gained the right trust and consideration.

OCRIM specialises in milling plants, feed mills and general cereals processing, including - and especially - turnkey formula systems. The company invests heavily in research, training, customer services and communication.

OCRIM has two sites in the city of Cremona: the original headquarters in Via Massarotti and the premises at the canal port area.

From the outset, OCRIM has specialised in turnkey projects, and this is why its customers regard the company as a reliable and experienced partner. The company therefore offers oversight of the entire process.

OCRIM’s aim is to supply its customers with long-lasting machinery and high quality, efficient services. Innovative solutions have been introduced in order to reduce energy use and minimise operation and maintenance costs. Automation is a crucial factor for a plant since it has the aim to guarantee maximum performance in terms of yield.

OCRIM invests very much in technological research in order to let the automation dept. study and design the best solutions for each customer.

In recent years, OCRIM has succeeded in giving tangible form to the Italian Made project: the production process takes place exclusively within the company, which believes wholeheartedly in Italian Made quality. The partnership between the futuristic approach of the 50 | December 2015 - Milling and Grain

engineers and the expertise of the workers provides the winning key for creating excellent, high quality products to meet the demands of the milling sector market.

OCRIM also believes in research and development since it is a crucial factor in becoming a benchmark in terms of quality and expertise in the milling sector. In fact, OCRIM has always created innovative systems to improve and simplify the work of design, production, assembly and testing.

OCRIM’s commitment to training dates back to 1965, when the first International School of Milling Technology was founded. Today the School is considered one of the company’s flagships. Theoretical courses are accompanied by practical experience, thanks to a pilot mill with capacity of 24 T/D and a well-equipped laboratory.

OCRIM uses numerous methods of communication to broadcast its philosophy. Indeed, the company benefits from considerable visibility, both through national and international publications of the sector and via its three websites.

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2015/16 industry profiles Sukup Manufacturing Co., Sheffield, Iowa, U.S.A, is a familyowned, full-line grain drying, handling and storage equipment and steel buildings manufacturer, serving the grain industry since 1963.

In July of 2015, Sukup Manufacturing Co. acquired a majority share of DanCorn, a leading dealer in grain drying, storage and handling products located in Denmark. Sukup products will be sold throughout Europe under the Sukup Europe name. Sukup Europe management, product distribution and customer service will be handled through the DanCorn offices and facilities in Hedenstad, Denmark.

Sukup Manufacturing Co. manufactures non-stiffened and stiffened grain bins for on-farm storage, as well as commercial operations.

Sukup bin sizes range from 4.57M diameter, 4.67 M peak height farm bins to 47.55 M diameter, 37.49 M height commercial bins. Sukup commercial bins are available with 3629; 6804; 13.608 or 22,680 Kg peak load roofs.

Sukup also manufactures single and multiple module grain dryers, modular tower dryers and stick-built tower dryers. Sukup Continuous Flow Grain Dryers feature the patented Quad Metering Roll System, which prevents overdrying and ensures more consistent moisture content. Sukup Continuous Flow Stacked Dryers also feature the patented Grain Cross-Over System, which reduces variation in

Excellence in Food and Feed Analysis

Founded in 1988 as a subsidairy of Röhm GmbH in Darmstadt Germany R-Biopharm AG is a leading developer of test solutions for food and feed analysis. It has grown to include sibsidiaries of its own including R-Biopharm Rhône (RBR) in the UK along with companies in the USA, Italy, France, Spain, Argentina, China, India, Brazil and Australia and over 90 worldwide distributors.

With its years of high quality reasearch and design behind it R-Biopharm continues to offer a consistently impressive range of approved tests in the formats of enzyme immunoassays, immunoaffinity columns, dip sticks, card tests and ready-to-use media sheets. The test kits themselves have undergone official validation and certification and manyare recognised as offical AOAC methods and have a high worldwide reputation under the RIDASCREEN®, RIDA® QUICK, EASI-EXTRACT® and PREP® trademarks.

The tests you need

With an impressive portfolio of tests R-Biopharm can offer analysis over a range of areas. From looking at consitiuents such as sugars, acids, vitamins or amino acids which are of interest to manfacturers of processed foods and drinks, to animal species indetifications which

moisture content between the inner and outer portions of the columns as well as between the two sides of the dryers. Sukup Tower Dryers have capacities up to 7000 bph.

Sukup QuadraTouch Pro™ Computerized controls are standard on all models of Sukup Dryers. QuadraTouch Pro™ Controls feature a touch screen display that leads you through start-up and all dryer functions. Remote monitoring of the system is also available.

Sukup has long been known for efficient in-bin drying systems. Their accessory line includes axial and centrifugal fans and heaters, stirring machines, bin floors and supports, and unloading equipment. Sukup fans and heaters lead the industry in performance and efficiency. The first product developed by Sukup was the stirring machine with the other accessory products following shortly thereafter. Since Sukup originally built their company on accessory equipment, it had to be top-notch, and it still is.

A complete line of material handling equipment completes the Sukup product line. Chain Loop Conveyors, Double Run Conveyors, Drag Conveyors and Bucket Elevators from Sukup will gently and efficiently move grain through any size grain storage facility. With their complete line of products, Sukup can supply all the equipment you need to construct an efficient, high-quality grain storage, drying and handling facility.

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became a world wide concern due to food fraud. Cross contamination of allergens such as peanut which can cause life threatening reactions to gliadin and gluten or mycotoxin residues like aflatoxin, ochratoxin or deoxynialenol present in grains. Whatever your requirements, R-Biopharm can offer a test to suit.

Support and training

While high quality test kits are essential the area of product support can be crucial to a customer who has questions or whose results are not what they expected. Whether by telephone or e-mail the technical team at RBR offer a range of support services to make it easy for customers to obtain assistance if required along with literature, publications and posters which can provide basic information, technical specifications and data on our products.

Instructional videos on specific products are also online and free to view at the R-Biopharm Rhône’s Food and Feed YouTube channel.

The professionally shot videos which include short written captions provide an easy to follow step by step visual guide to the use of the product. In addition RBR also offers training in its well-equipped laboratories which gives customers the provision of practical hands on training with the very people who they can call on for help.

Quality first and foremost

Quality Management Systems are designed to give a frame to an organisations activities, and R-Biopharm Rhône’s fully ISO 9001 and ISO 13485 accredited Quality Management System ensures that a high level of quality is maintained, from Research and Development right through to Sales and Dispatch. Backed up by the consistent use of internal auditing, to systematically check completed work, the establishment of formal procedures, ensure consistency of operations, regular maintenance and calibration of equipment to ensure accuracy of measurements and quality control analyses on intermediate and finished products. An R-Biopharm customer can be confident the product they buy and the support they get is the best that the company can give.

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apco Inc., St. Louis, MO, USA manufactures the most widely accepted line of nonmetallic elevator buckets in the industry. Buckets are available in polyethylene, nylon, polyurethane, ductile iron, aluminum and fabricated steel. Popular styles include CC-HD (Heavy Duty), CC-XD (Xtreme Duty), Super EuroBucket™, AA, AC and Continuous.

■ With 1 million buckets in 178 sizes in stock for immediate shipment, Tapco has what you need, when you want it. Certified FDA-compliant (food grade) resins are standard in polyethylene and urethane buckets. FDA-compliant nylon buckets are available by request. ■ Tapco inventories 15 million elevator bolts in six styles (No. 1, No. 3, Fanged and Pointed Fanged, Western 3-Prong, Reference 70) – along with belt splices, abrasion resistant sheeting, drag flights, and hanger bearings.

Call +1 314 739 9191 for more information or free samples. ■

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Company profile The Brabender® company from Duisburg (Germany) develops, manufactures and distributes instruments and equipment for the testing of material quality and physical properties in all areas of research, development and production. As a leading supplier for the food and chemical industries worldwide, Brabender® offers a broad range of solutions for sample preparation, quality control and process simulation on a laboratory scale.

One of the company’s core markets is the milling and baking industry. In this area, it is famous for its three-phase-system, consisting of three standard instruments worldwide for measuring the product quality of flour and dough – Farinograph®, Extensograph® and Amylograph®. New developments like the GlutoPeak® for quick gluten quality checks or the Brabender® MetaBridge® cross-platform and cross-location software stand for the company’s innovative spirit.

Since its foundation in 1923, Brabender® has generated a steady growth in recent years. The family-run Brabender® group today employs around 450 people and has a presence in over 116 countries with 80 distributors.

However, all Brabender® instruments, equipment and application software are developed and produced in-house.

Customer orientation is a crucial part of the Brabender® corporate philosophy. Hence, the company provides its customers with an ongoing and comprehensive advice and support. At the company’s headquarters, they can carry out measurements with their own material at the technical applications laboratory. Over the course of the instruments’ long lifetime, customers can also benefit from a number of services to maintain functionality and reliability.

Brabender® GmbH & Co. KG · www.brabender.com

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2015/16 industry profiles Global Industries: It’s About Relationships Global Industries, Inc. was founded in 1996, but its roots extend back to 1954 when company founder, Virgil Eihusen, started his first construction business.

That company would grow and evolve into Global Industries, thanks in large part to an unwavering focus on Eihusen’s mission to create a single company that could meet all the grain storage, handling and conditioning needs of farmers and commercial interests around the world.

Global and its family of companies know their continued success is driven by this singular mission and never losing sight of the core values on which the company was founded:

Quality. Innovation.

Global seeks out the best craftsman and skilled employees, and then provides them with the highest quality materials, manufacturing techniques and processes available to create products with unsurpassed quality, toughness and durability. They invest heavily in state-of-the-art equipment and technologies to insure the accuracy and repeatability of every product and component they produce, and have even created a dedicated Research and Development Center solely for the purpose of testing and verifying the capabilities and benefits of the products they deliver daily to their customers.

Strong Work Ethic and Family Values

With over one million square feet, under roof, it’s still Global’s 600 plus employees that are the true strength of the company. They take great pride in the work they do. Even with advances in equipment and technology it’s still the passion and expertise of these people that help Global continue to deliver the best products and service in the industry.

Customer Relationships

People want to do business with people they know and trust will be there when needed. Since the beginning, Global has strived to build Since the foundation of the company in 1896, Satake has been working for mankind’s three staple foods – rice, wheat and maize. Today, Satake serves 150 countries through 14 manufacturing and marketing operations in nine countries. Satake is dedicated to serving the needs of customers wherever they may be, in countries both large and small. When customer satisfaction leads to trust in Satake, our dream is fulfilled.

In the field of Rice, Satake has always been one step ahead. Satake invented Japan’s first power-driven rice milling machine in 1896 and has continued to respond to customers’ demands as they change over time. Satake has established the global standard of modern rice milling through its ability to continually develop innovative products and processes. Today, Satake focuses on the value-added functionality of rice to increase the profitability from rice.

In the field of Wheat, Satake has developed the spirit and technology of Robinson Milling Systems (formerly Henry Simon Ltd.) since 1991. Satake adopted its rice milling technology to Robinson’s/ Simon’s wheat processing systems and launched its “PeriTec” wheat debranning system in 1996, much earlier than others. Today, Satake’s capabilities include the ability to design, manufacture and install complete flourmills.

long-lasting relationships based on honesty, clear communication, respect and trust. Customers know Global will answer when called upon and have long understood that Global stands behind everything they sell, and that customer safety, productivity and satisfaction remain Global Industries’ highest priorities.

As Global Industries plots its course into the future, they vow to stay true to the vision of providing complete grain storage, handling and conditioning systems to farm, co-op and commercial customers. Their position as a privately held, family-owned company gives them the ability to respond quickly to customer needs and identify and react to future growth opportunities that best fit their expertise and vision. www.globalindinc.com In the field of Maize, Satake also adopted its rice milling technology for maize. Maize degermers and Corn Fractionators are based on vertical rice milling machines to efficiently separate bran and germ from endosperm. Satake offer a Modular Maize Mill, which produces first class finished products but also has the benefits of fast installation within a very small building footprint.

In other fields, Satake’s technology cultivated through grain processing and optical colour sorting is now widely utilised not only in pulses and nuts, but also in industrial applications such as plastic pellet polishing and sorting and car bumper recycling. In 2008, Satake opened the Sorting and Processing Integrated Centre to help our customers find solutions to all of their sorting and processing problems. At the centre, Satake performs sorting and processing tests on a wide variety of materials, from rice and wheat to food products and industrial plastics.

When you think something new, Think Satake.

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VIGAN, the reliable partner in ship unloading and dry bulk handling Belgium-based VIGAN Engineering SA designs and manufactures handling equipment for dry agribulk cargo: grain pumps, ship unloaders and loaders (pneumatic or mechanical), reaching capacities up to 1,500 tons per hour.

Widely recognised worldwide as an expert in pneumatic bulk handling technology, VIGAN also delivers turnkey projects for port terminals that include conveyors, silos, warehouses and bagging lines.

Since its foundation in 1968, VIGAN has sold more than 1,300 machines all over the world.

Successful 2015 - Basically, the sales pattern has been similar to previous years. The interest in VIGAN technology in ship unloading remains important, with numerous inquiries from existing ports or new facilities. We have also seen a growing demand for ship unloaders with larger capacities, and repeat orders from existing customers.

A reliable solutions provider - For more than four decades, VIGAN has forged its reputation by offering reliable equipment adapted to the customer’s requirements: value-for-money machines and solutions.

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VIGAN maintains permanent technical development, keeping in mind major concerns: the environment, dust suppression, safety, efficiency and reliability.

A bright 2016 - With several long-term projects in the pipeline, VIGAN is confident for next year. The demand for grains remains strong. As grains are a basic staple food in many countries, governments and private companies are both continuing to invest in handling equipment.

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Making employee health and safety your highest priority lobal Industries, Inc recently announced that two of their divisions were honoured at the annual conference of the Great Plains Safety and Health Organisation. MFS/York/Stormor was named as a silver award winner. Additionally, Nebraska Engineering Company (NECO) was named a bronze award winner for their continued efforts and improvements in creating a safe work environment for their employees.

Global safety priorities

At Global Industries, Inc. safety is the highest priority, and that message is continually communicated and reinforced throughout the company and its various divisions. Global Industries has always taken the position that safety is not just for manufacturing employees to practice or upper management to be concerned about. It is a function that everyone is responsible for, and this message is continually reinforced through ongoing training and education that includes, but is not limited to the following actions and processes:

Training

Frequent safety training is scheduled at all Global facilities, and encompasses all levels of employment. Manufacturing personnel sit alongside upper level managers when attending these in-depth training sessions so all employees understand the importance of safety and the proper safety requirements and procedures at every installation.

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related matters and discuss any changes in procedures or policies to insure and/or enhance employee safety.

Comprehensive internal safety audits are conducted annually at all facilities by the divisional safety coordinators and the Global Vice President of Manufacturing.

Voluntary Department of Labor safety audits are conducted approximately every three years.

Every division and corporate meeting begins with a report on safety – There are no exceptions! All meetings.

Active employee safety committees, made up of employees from all departments and levels, have been created at each Global facility Safety competitions in conjunction with governmental Safety and Health Organisations are held at all Global facilities.

Safety investigations and specific safety communications are spread across the entire company when an incident occurs to prevent any “like and similar” incidents.

A safety coordinator is on site at each facility, reporting to the Division General Manager and the Corporate Vice President of Manufacturing Safety Business Operating System in place with discrete metrics and goals for each Division.

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Company ethos

According to Chief Davidson, Global Vice President of Manufacturing, “Maybe most important of all, Global is creating a culture where safety is personal to all employees and is both discussed and supported from the company president all the way down to the last employee hired.

“Our stated goal is to have zero unsafe behaviors within any of our facilities,” Davidson continued, “and we base our training and safety expenditures not around compliance but rather around zero unsafe behaviors. We also strive to train employees to be not only safe at work but also safe at home, because we believe that if we are safe at work and home, then safety truly becomes part of our culture.”

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Storage project New examination facilities put Felixstowe ahead A new ambient-temperature food examination facility has been formally opened at the Port of Felixstowe, the Port of Britain, by Transport Minister, Robert Goodwill MP. The £4 million investment included a major refurbishment and expansion of the examination facilities and the provision of new offices for Suffolk Coastal Port Health Authority.

Commenting on the new facility, Robert Goodwill MP said: “This new state-of-the-art facility will ensure that vital imported products stay as fresh as possible. Some 40 per cent of the food on our supermarket shelves arrives by sea, so it must be checked efficiently in the most hygienic conditions.

“The significant investment currently underway across the UK means our major ports remain world leaders, contributing billions to the UK economy and creating thousands of skilled jobs.”

Steve Gallant, Suffolk Coastal District Council Cabinet Member for Community Health, said: “The new inspection facilities are built to an incredibly high standard – safe, clean and hygienic – to maintain the integrity of the food chain to the highest requirements of upcoming legislation.

“We have a very productive partnership with the Port of Felixstowe, and this is delivering best practice in terms of Port Health. Now our staff are next door to each other, we can get examinations done even more quickly. Being neighbours will also allow a closer understanding of each other’s business and that can only lead to even better efficiency and effectiveness in the future.”

Clemence Cheng, Chief Executive Officer of the Port of Felixstowe and Managing Director of HPH Europe division, added:

“We are committed to a programme of investment across all parts of the port to ensure our customers receive the highest possible levels of service. The new ambient-temperature facility is the latest example of this commitment. The dedication of our experienced examination facilities team, and the close working relationship they have with the Port Health authority, will ensure that together we deliver the very best, most efficient inspection process of any UK port.”

The new facility covers an area of 3,045 square metres with a further 840 square metres of office space and meeting rooms for both port and Port Health staff. Separate examination chambers, including segregated areas for dusty products such as chilli, spices and other powders, allow multiple consignments to be examined without the risk of contamination.

Port focus

Port of Felixstowe (PFL) is the largest container port in the UK, and one of the largest in Europe. PFL is a member of the Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH) Group. Hutchison Port Holdings (HPH), a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings Limited (CK Hutchison), is the world’s leading port investor, developer and operator. The HPH network of port operations comprises 319 berths in 52 ports, spanning 26 countries throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Australasia. Over the years, HPH has expanded internationally into other logistics and transportationrelated businesses. These include cruise ship terminals, airport operations, distribution centres, rail services, and ship repair facilities. In 2014, the HPH port network handled a combined throughput of 82.9 million TEU worldwide.

Storage News

Sweet Introduces New Flite-Veyor® 3026 Incline Conveyor Sweet Manufacturing Company is excited to announce the introduction of a new Flite-Veyor® 3026 incline flat bottom drag conveyor.

The new conveyor is designed for capacities up to 20,000 BPH (508 MTPH) and provides a new incline conveyor option for our Monarch and Titan model Silver-Sweet® bucket elevators. The new Flite-Veyor® 3026 incline conveyor ships with preassembled trough sections to reduce installation time. It offers either a gear motor or v-belt drive and is made of heavy-duty all galvanized construction with USA prime steel. The Flite-Veyor® 3026 incline conveyor features a heavy-duty drop forged chain with a resilient ductile core for shock resistance and an extremely hard exterior surface for superior wear resistance. This chain has a working load of up to 20,200 lbs. and includes easy to maintain “chain links.” This new conveyor also includes a removable head shell and trough bottom for ease of access, maintenance and replacement of key internal components. Many options are available to tailor this new 3026 conveyor for your particular application.

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by Andrew Wilkinson, staff writer, Milling and Grain Magazine

ats are a hardy cereal grain able to withstand poor soil conditions in which other crops are unable to thrive. Although oats, or Aveena Sativa to give the Latin name, are more commonly eaten in the form of oatmeal or rolled oats, they also offer a vast array of other uses; from use as an ingredient in baked goods to use as a treatment for skin complaints. Oats have also found fame in recent years as a health food and are widely believed to be able to help combat a whole raft of serious ailments such as heart disease and diabetes.

Although the crop is considered to be very resilient, a great deal of thought and planning is still required to ensure that the best quality product is delivered from seed to spoon. The very first stage of this journey involves the tending of the soil and seed planting.

Planting

When planting oats, the ground is prepared immediately after the previous crop has been harvested, which is usually during the late summer months time. The soil is then ploughed, a process which vastly reduces the risk of cross contamination of seed from the previous crop.

Once the soil has been prepared, the seed is then sown. Once the seeds have been fully planted, the crop will then need to be tended right up until maturity.

Tending

The biggest problem when tending oats is weeds. To prevent the spread of weeds, a pre-emergent herbicide is applied within a week of sowing the field. The crop is then continually monitored for any pests and diseases. The soil is also tested every four to five years to ascertain the nutrient level. The results of the tests are then used to apply fertiliser, which provides the right amount of nutrients that the oats require. This stage is facilitated on some farms with the use of satellite navigation technology that steers the tractor in a perfectly straight line, thus saving time and ensuring even coverage.

When spring arrives, nitrogen is then applied to the crop with the help of a nitrogen sensor mounted on a tractor, which can calculate how much nitrogen the crop needs. It then adjusts the application rates accordingly, in real time, as the tractor and spreader is moving through the crop. This new technology improves the efficiency of nitrogen application; so only what is needed is used. Once the crop has fully matured, it is then ready to be harvested.

Harvesting

The method that is usually used for harvesting oats is “direct

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heading�. This process involves the cutting of standing grain as soon as the crop has fully ripened. If the grain moisture is consistent throughout the crop and is less than 12 percent; then this is considered to be the method most likely to avoid mass shedding of grains.

Whilst direct heading is the least expensive method of harvesting oats, the danger is that there may be long periods of high relative humidity in which the harvesting dry grain is not possible. This problem can cause considerable delays to the harvesting operation and increase the risk of head loss or grain washed out by rain. Once the matured crop has been cut, the crop is then gathered up into swathes.

Swathing

Swathing is a term used to describe the process of cutting the oat crop and placing it in rows held together by interlaced straws that are supported above the ground by the remaining stubble.

Swathing is considered best practice where the crop is uneven in maturity; or the climate does not allow for rapid drying of the grain naturally. Swathing is also ideal for where there is a risk of crop losses from shedding and lodging.

High yielding crops may gain more from swathing than low yielding crops. Generally, crops expected to yield less than two tonnes per hectare should not be swathed. Picking up swathed oats is significantly slower than direct heading because of the large volume of material.

However, if the crop is either too thin or the stubble is too short to support the swath above the ground, then the crop should not be swathed. The main problem with swathing in these circumstances is that the heads on the ground may sprout and when attempts to pick up heads that are lying close to the soil surface are made, the crop may become contaminated with soil.

Although it is better to swath early to prevent losses from shedding and lodging, one should not do so when the ground is wet after rain. Although it may be easier to swath later, the swaths of a ripe crop may not interlock well enough to withstand disturbance from strong wind.

Harvesting the swath

Once the crop has been swathed, the harvesting must be carried out as soon as possible, ideally within 10 days of swathing. If the crop is left exposed to the elements for too long too long and subjected to long periods of wetting, the grain may sprout and become stained. In more extreme cases the swath could also become contaminated with bronze field beetle.

The stubble being torn out of the field during the swathing operation is one of the major sources of contamination in swathed oats. This usually occurs when the swather is operated at too high a ground speed or when trying to swath when the straw is tough due to it being cool or damp. As well as stubble contamination, another issue that can hinder farmers when harvesting oats is

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Storage of Oats

When destined for human consumption, correct storage of oats is of paramount importance. Purchasers of milling oats will generally require farmers to have a quality management program in place. A suitable program should be able to show that considerations had been taken prior to harvest, that all grain handling equipment - harvester, truck, silos and augers have been thoroughly cleaned and that all residues have been removed.

Grain stores should also be maintained and kept watertight as water can cause mould and sprouting of grain which could render the crop unsellable. Once the crop has been harvested, the grain must be stored safely, effectively and efficiently. When maintaining oat grain quality in storage, there are a number of important factors that need to be considered.

Grain moisture

The two biggest considerations that must be taken into account when storing oats is that they are kept both dry and free from fungal growth. The maximum moisture content at which oats can be safely stored is 12.5 percent unless the temperature is reduced below 15 celsius (C). Above the safe limit, fungi may develop and cause grain spoilage. As well as moisture, another key consideration when storing oat grain is contamination from insects and other pests.

Insect Contamination

For obvious reasons it is vitally important that stored grain

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does not become contaminated by an invasion of insects. Serious infestation will usually occur within three months of harvesting, even in cases where risk of contamination has been reduced to an absolute minimum by application of strict hygiene guidelines throughout the harvesting process. However, in cases where these precautions have not been taken, insect contamination can occur in al little as six to eight weeks. Poor hygiene can also increase the risk of moisture problems and fungal growth.

Grain that has been infested can be cleaned up using Fumigants.

These chemicals can also be used as preventative agents in sealed silos. Currently, the only approved fumigant for oats is phosphine. When applying a phosphine releasing fumigant, the silo must be sealed otherwise the treatment may not be completely successful.

Due diligence is of vital importance throughout the harvesting and storage process in order to ensure that the quality of the harvest is preserved for as long as possible. As well as contamination, another key consideration is the duration of the grain’s storage.

Duration of storage

In most cases, correctly stored grain should have a shelf life of at least 12 months. For this duration of storage to be achieved, the initial moisture content should be lower than 12.5 percent for longer periods of storage.

Thorough aeration is also necessary for long-term storage of oats. Aeration helps to preserve the quality by keeping an even, cool temperature within the storage vessel. It is also a valuable tool for reducing the loss in grain quality caused by moisture, grain insects and mould.

There are many considerations to take when storing oats, and each process is required to ensure that the crop reaches the purchaser and in turn the consumer in the best condition possible.

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Fawema: Know how and experience since 1920

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by Tom Blacker, Milling and Grain magazine

estled in a beautiful area of North RhineWestphalia, Germany is the River Agger. In the river’s valley is the area of Engelskirchen and Fawema’s main international headquarters, situated about 40 kilometers east of Cologne.

Fawema was founded by Heinrich Kleinjung in 1920 and called Fabrik für Werkzeuge und Maschinen. At first, the company manufactured twist drill milling machines, drilling machines, bow saws, grinding machines and other metal working tools. Later on, these products were also exported to the UK. From the mid-thirties onwards contract work and government orders, above all the processing of spare parts for locomotives for the National Railway, contributed to the company’s growth.

By the end of the forties there was an increased demand for portioned foodstuffs, and Fawema, together with their engineer Julius Schwirten, an expert for packaging machines, concentrated on the development and manufacture of dosing machines.

Mark Wild, International Sales Director, described how it was in the 1950s when an order for 200 packaging machines set Fawema on course into the industry it is renowned for today.

Factory workshops and a multi-storey administration building were erected. Continuously improved and new Fawema products resulted in further expansion. The production programme was systematically broadened, first by adding bag filling and closure machines and later by combining them with collating and packing machines into state-of-the-art packaging lines. Now of course, Fawema are a household name for their machine packaging for flour bags, animal feed, pet food, and rice.

Fawema are a part of a group. The sister company, HDG, is located near Lindlar in the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis also, like Fawema, near Cologne. HDG specialise in the forming, filling and sealing systems for sealed rim pouches of food, pet food, pharmaceuticals and cosmetic products. With both companies in the same local region, the solutions and knowhow is well shared and a good partnership exists to provide

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packaging solutions.

During the tour of the company site, Mark provided an afternoon tour of all the offices and production facilities. Mark invites and shows customers their products through all stages of the manufacturing process. We began in the reception where an original 1922 ‘bohrmaschine’ is located.

We walked through Mark’s office first, admiring a very large map of Africa. Africa represents an important market for Fawema due to the rapid and constant population growth and the consequent rise in demand for commodity food products such as maize meal and wheat flour packed in retail size packs of between 1 kg and 5 kg. With hundreds of reference installations all across the continent, the earliest of which date from the early 1970’s, the Fawema brand is favoured by African mills thanks to the unique heavy-duty manufacture which meets the requirements in Africa perfectly and allows the miller to ensure that his products are packed efficiently, speedily and with the minimum of down-time and maintenance.

Packaging

After the office, we went to a storeroom with many bags and packages organised in the style of an archive. Packaging for tea, pet food, flour and many more were on display. After gaining an insight into the different types of packaging, the route down to the machine shop and production area beckoned.

Thirty people work in production and the machine shop in total. The machines begin their journey as steel. Six people work for Fawema in the steel intake and frame building assembly section. The stainless steel, sourced from quality European steel mills, is built to specification from the in-house designer’s plans. There is also an in-house paint shop with six people employed in this section. Mark said that these in-house sections mean certain security and quality control requirements are upheld when they do not have to be there at all. It also affects the cost for the customer. However, the outcomes and results are an all-round higher quality product for the customer.

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In the first assembly hall, mechanics and electronics experts work on the stage of fitting the packaging machines with the correct engineered parts and systems to bring the steel structures to life. There are many other branded products such as new Mettler Toledo combi-unit metal detector and check weighers attached to the model. Mark and I mused on the progress in these technologies and how the food production industry uses x-ray machines as well, and Mark did not rule this out in featuring in flour, rice, pet food or feed packaging machinery in the near-future as well.

Testing

A section of the production area is set aside for testing. I was told how products undergo a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT). Fawema rigorously test run their customer’s new machines before delivery to check through the capabilities and reliabilities and iron out any problems at this stage. Customers frequently are interested in the results and changes from the FATs. Mark invites customers personally to observe these tests, which again showed dedication to meeting customers’ expectations and co-operating as partners. The model I saw undergoing FATs was the FA325, which was set up for 10kg, 11.5kg and 12kg bags.

Wrapped in plastic ready for delivery were three machines: two FA10s for 1 to 5kg wheat flour paper bags and one FA325 for 10kg to 12kg wheat flour. The destination was for an existing mill in Durban, South Africa. These machines have SEW branded motors, again a European-made quality part and the electronics and mechatronics are also European-made.

Electronic suppliers vary in all Fawema’s machinery but Siemens and Schneider are the most likely.

Altuglas® CS sheets is an interesting product used on all

the packaging machines in the assembly halls I saw on the day. Altuglas® is used for all the screens and doors around the steel frames. It is a French-made European standard, EN 263-compliant PMMA sheet used to manufacture sanitary appliances. Mark told me that a lot of their investment goes into the door parts. They commonly measure at around one inch thick for their customer’s needs. The hygiene and sanitary conditions of the assemblage of Fawema packaging machines is common throughout all products and stages.

I was able to see many machines at the near-completion stages. They all differed in some ways. This was due to the unique specifications of each customer’s requirements. For example, one machine had an extra long caterpillar-track style conveyor belt in a long ‘s’ shape.

After the assembly halls and packaging areas, Mark directed me around the offices of the administration, accounts and design offices. I found the designs down in the steel assembly halls to be very interesting. One rising star, Christopher Hoffman, was working independently on new designs and specifications. He stopped to tell me about the top three innovations that he recognises in Fawema machinery: 1. Servo-driven, not mechanically driven, which results in less maintenance for the operator.

2. The many varieties of closing options.

3. Quick change-over time in bag sizes with an average time of 30 minutes.

Mark concluded to me that, ‘the future is in innovation, innovation is in people like Christopher’. This was a brilliant perspective – for innovation is nothing without people.

Milling and Grain magazine wish to thank Mr Mark Wild, and the staff at Fawema. www.fawema.com Milling and Grain - December 2015 | 65

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HRS Heat Exchangers help Muntons close the loop Muntons is a company with sustainability at its core and this project will create a closed loop system, exemplifying the circular economy.

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alted ingredients company Muntons (Stowmarket, Suffolk) is putting the finishing touches to its £5.4 million on-site anaerobic digestion (AD) plant which will help reduce the firm’s CO2 emissions from 27,264 to 26,605 tonnes per annum.

Integral to the success of the 499 kW facility is a three Tank Batch Sludge Pasteuriser System with Energy Recovery from HRS Heat Exchangers, which will help turn up to 80,000 tonnes of Muntons’ liquid malt waste into quality organic fertiliser (known as digestate). This will be used on local farmland, helping the company’s network of growers to produce some of the 250,000 tonnes of barley needed to make Muntons’ malt, around 180,000 tonnes per annum.

Muntons is a company with sustainability at its core and this project will create a closed loop system, exemplifying the circular economy. The company became interested in AD after analysis showed that 60 percent of the carbon footprint of its supply chain came from the artificial fertiliser used by its barley growers. The firm realised that using its liquid malt waste as feedstock for an on-site AD plant would not only produce a high quality digestate for its farmers to use instead of artificial fertiliser, it would also cut

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3,000 tanker movements per year and generate 25 percent of the site’s electricity demand.

The digestate will be pasteurised to meet stringent PAS 110 standards using the HRS Heat Exchangers three Tank Batch system, ensuring that the final fertiliser is free from plant pathogens or other biological contaminants. The beauty of the closed-loop system is that the waste feedstock which is turned into digestate during the AD process has come only from the processing of barley. It is then applied to the next barley crops for use in the factory.

As well as a comprehensive proposal, the Muntons’ team was impressed by the HRS system, which can save up to 70 percent of heat required, as well as its ability to run at a half flow rate, should the volume of digestate stock reduce. Additionally, the equipment’s monitoring feature enables Muntons to track every batch of digestate back to the feedstock from which it was produced. “The fact that the HRS system offers batch reporting was also a big draw; traceability is very important to us,” remarks Lawrence Howes, Project Engineer at Muntons.

Matt Hale, International Sales Manager at HRS: “For Muntons, this whole project has been about maximising efficiency. Although they have an abundance of heat, they still wanted to recapture what they could - our heat exchangers will provide at least 40 percent heat regeneration.”

The HRS system works on a three tank principle; while one tank is being filled, the second tank holds the sludge at 70°C at the same time as the third tank is being emptied (each process lasts one hour). Waste cooling water from the CHP engine is used to heat the sludge in corrugated tube-in-tube heat exchangers, which

is more efficient than heating an entire tank of digestate. HRS has also incorporated an energy recovery section into the process to make it even more efficient: energy is transferred from the hotter (pasteurised) sludge to the colder (unpasteurised) sludge, reducing energy consumption by up to 70 percent compared to normal systems and using heat which would otherwise be wasted.

This means that the digestate is not the only circular part of the process. Heat generated by the engine used to generate electricity is used initially in the pasteurisation process, and then regenerated for use elsewhere on site, for example to heat water for cleaning.

Lawrence comments on his equipment decision making process: “We were already aware of the quality and reputation of HRS Heat Exchangers in the food production industry – using their solution

enables us to make use of an abundance of waste hot water. Not only does the corrugated tube-in-tube technique deliver improved performance, they’re also more resistant to fouling, which means less downtime and maintenance. In addition, we had a short deadline – just 16 weeks – which HRS was able to meet easily.”

The AD plant is currently undergoing commissioning and will become fully operational in late spring. For Muntons, the benefits are clear – better waste management, a reduction in tanker movements, energy generation, and, thanks to its PAS 110 quality pasteurised digestate. All in all Muntons has significantly reduced its carbon footprint saving 1159 tonnes of CO2 pa (from 27,264 to 26,605) – the emission equivalent of 300 average family cars (approx.).

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MARKETS OUTLOOK ‘Black Sea’ crop outlook underpins forward market

by John Buckley

"MAIZE prices proved surprisingly resilient to the USDA issuing a far more bearish than expected set of US and global supply/ demand data in November. As many in the trade anticipated, it raised its estimate for US yields but by more than most analysts expected, to a new peak of 169.3 bu/acre."

CONCERNS about the long-term impact of a weather-challenged autumn sowing campaign in the former Soviet ‘Black Sea’ countries have dominated market sentiment since our last review, keeping wheat prices off the rock-bottom levels that might have been demanded by this season’s huge surplus crop.

All three of the region’s wheat exporters – Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan – have had problems with lack of rain, delaying and/or downsizing planting intentions. Although some moisture has been seen in the last few weeks it has not yet been enough to rescue crops from their shaky start. For those even yet being planted, well beyond optimum dates, there is the added threat of cold snaps that may prevent, or make for uneven, germination. Many of the fields that have sprouted and got underway are not in the best shape to resist ‘winterkill’ if the weather, as it often does in this region, gets bitterly cold. All in all, it doesn’t look promising for next year’s CIS yields.

At this early stage, forecasts circulating in the market obviously tend to be fairly tentative but, based on likely lower sown areas alone, many traders and analysts within the region are looking for a significantly smaller crop. Ukraine’s could be down by as much as one third from this year’s 27m tonnes, Russia’s by perhaps 3m to 5m, maybe more (from 60.5m), Kazakhstan’s by maybe 2m or 3m, again possibly more (from 14m). Overall, the three main exporters could see a drop of up to 10m tonnes – maybe considerably more from this year’s combined 101.5m tonnes.

The decline might also be less than this but only if all three get adequate winter moisture and are lucky with spring and summer weather next year. Doubtless some unplanted or lost fields will be sown with spring wheat but that yields significantly less than winter wheat. There is also the possibility that maize, sunflowers and other spring sown crops may compete more effectively for this land.

Funds and other speculators who have reacted to this sort of scenario in the past with heavy buying, don’t, so far, seem to be rushing to invest in a ‘Black Sea’ based boom in wheat prices, as they’ve done with resounding results at least three times in the last decade. This is partly because it is still early days to be writing these crops off and partly because the sort of losses mentioned above can probably be accommodated without too much trauma by a wheat market currently that is sitting on its largest ever crop and carryover stocks (the latter equivalent to almost four months’ supply).

Also, the funds have had a disappointing year with their commodity investments all round, thanks partly to China’s economic wobbles undermining confidence in world raw material consumption and, in the crop markets, due to several successive years of larger than normal (and larger than expected) supplies.

Nonetheless under the worst case scenario, the CIS outcome could have a significant impact on forward prices. Russia is now the world’s second largest wheat exporter, moving narrowly ahead of the former leader, the USA, if some way yet off the EU’s total. Ukraine is now the sixth and Kazakhstan seventh largest exporter. In total, they are expected to account for 45m tonnes of shipments – 28% of world export supply versus the EU’s 33.5m and the USA’s 22m.

The former Soviet countries have not been the only region suffering weather challenges.

In Australia too, crop estimates appear to be sliding after dry weather linked to the El Nino

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phenomenon curbed yield potential in some states. In the east of the country, excessive rains have now arrived at the wrong time on harvest-ready crops, currently threatened with quality loss.

Argentina, where sowing of wheat has declined to its lowest level in many years, has also had some erratic weather lately including rain on the harvest there too. Like Australia, Argentina is technically on the 2015/16 world crop balance sheets although harvesting about halfway through the season, so marketing into

the next one too. At least, as far as this supplier is concerned, markets have had time to adjust. Although once one of the ‘Big 5’ wheat exporters, Argentina’s role has been shrinking for years due to government interference in export policy and better returns coming from other crops, like soyabeans.

The USA has also had some weather problems slowing its autumn planting campaign and may well see some downsizing of its 2016 wheat crop, probably mainly the soft red winter wheat.

The effect on this market has been muted, however, partly by some recent rains improving the crop outlook and partly by the unusually large stockpile being carried forward from season to season. At the last count, this was expected to approach 25m tonnes by next July, compared with just 16m only two years earlier – and more than the US expects to export for the first time in many years..

Poor exports are to blame. Unable to compete with the CIS countries and Europe in the most active and most contested import markets of the Middle East and North Africa, US shippers have seen their sales slide relentlessly in recent years. The USDA’s current forecast, down by a quarter from two years ago, would be the worst performance in 44 years.

The bottom line is that the US has plenty of wheat to sell if the world needs it – this season or next. The question is, how far do world prices have to rise (or US prices fall) to get it back in the competition for foreign sales?

The EU is in a similar, if currently less acute position, of having more wheat than it needs to offer domestic or overseas users. At

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the last count, this year’s crop had jumped yet again to a new peak of 157.3m tonnes, even bigger than last year’s record 156.5m and it might even exceed that when all the recounts are done.

EU domestic wheat use is estimated to edge up by about 3.3m to almost 127m tonnes this season. Even if the Union exported the 33.5m tonnes USDA have projected (down 5% on the year), it will add 3m tonnes to already ample carry-out stocks next summer (currently seen around 16m tonnes). The trouble is, exports are nowhere near the required pace, currently running 31% down on the year as the Russians and Ukrainians continue to undercut most of their rivals (apart from the EU’s own ‘Black Sea’ supplier Rumania).

This would be weighing on EU wheat prices more, if not for the weakness of the euro. This has an immediate firming impact on the mostly euro-zone producers’ wheat values through the Paris futures markets and, further forward, at least raises European hopes of becoming more competitive on export markets.

However, that effect may be muted until the CIS suppliers have got through their usual ‘front-loading’ of their exports – which at present seems to be still going on.

Another factor that might help EU wheat exports rally is the above threat to the Black sea exporters’ 2016 crops. If these do seem to be getting into serious trouble, Russia would likely re-impose the export duties it used early this year (when its 2015 crop seemed to be at risk – although less so than now) to control trade. There were even rumours in early November that Ukraine was already looking at ways to put an ‘informal’ cap on exports but, at time of going to press, that was so far unconfirmed.

Overall, the various weather issues overhanging 2016 crop prospects will at least demand some caution from those who might have sold the wheat market down, regardless of whether prices fall below the cost of production.

But plenty of maize MAIZE prices proved surprisingly resilient to the USDA issuing a far more bearish than expected set of US and global supply/ demand data in November. As many in the trade anticipated, it raised its estimate for US yields but by more than most analysts expected, to a new peak of 169.3 bu/acre. That boosted the US production estimate by 2.5m to 346.8m tonnes - 14.3m less than last year’s record crop but still more than enough to meet foreseen domestic and export demand which the Department reduced by a combined 2.3m tonnes. It means US carryover stocks will rise rather than fall this season, going out at a hefty 44.7m tonnes their highest for some years and a good cushion if anything goes wrong with the 2016 crop.

The key factor weighing on US – and global maize prices – remains export competition amid yet another year of big production in South America. Although Ukrainian and EU crops are well down this year, so is global consumption and import demand (by over 4m tonnes).

Ukrainian production and export supply is still large in comparison with earlier years while Russia’s crop is a post-Soviet era record 12.75m tonnes (up 2m on last year’s).

The next Latin American crops, which arrive halfway through the world 2015/16 season, are expected by the USDA to dip as farmers shift some land to soyabeans and Brazil’s delayed soya sowing results in a smaller Safrinha or second crop of maize when the soya crop is likely harvested late too. Some local analysts

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disagree with that scenario, however, looking for a similar Brazilian maize crop to this year’s and even a bigger Argentine one as farmers respond to their new president’s expected loosening of the taxes and quotas that have held back production and sales over recent seasons.

Even if Brazil’s next crop does drop by 3.5m tonnes, as USDA suggests, it still expects the world’s second largest maize source to export a record 33m tonnes in 2015/16 – 11m more than last season as it clears some of the large stocks it has built up three huge crops in a row.

The USDA also made another interesting adjustment in November, when it cut its estimate of maize consumption in China (second only to that of the US) by a combined total of 24m tonnes for the three seasons from 2013/14 to 2015/16, blaming substitution by imported sorghum and other corn substitutes in its ever expanding feed industry. That amount has been dumped onto Main changes this month to the world wheat balance (USDA) mn tonnes: CROPS

2014/15

2015/16

Change on month

Europe

156.47

157.27

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World

725.1

733

+0.2

118

+1.5

10.6

-0.6

Australia Russia

CONSUMPTION China

23.67

26

59.08

60.5

118.5

EU

123.5

126.8

India

93.1

93.9

Brazil Russia

World

10.7 35.5

China

-0.5

+0.9 -0.6

36.5

707.1

CARRYOVER STOCKS

-1.0

-0.5

717.4

74.1

+1.0

87.1

-2.5

USA

20.5

24.8

+1.4

World

211.7

227.3

-1.2

EU

13.3

16.3

+0.9

Main changes this month to the world maize balance (USDA) mn tonnes: CROPS

2014/15

2015/16

Change on month

Brazil

85

81.5

+1.5

Ukraine

28.5

23

-2.0

Argentina

26.5

25.6

+1.6

WORLD

1,008.8

974.9

+2.2

China

202.0

214.0

-5.0

USA

301.9

301.1

-1.3

USA

S Africa

CONSUMPTION EU

361.1

10.8

78.0

346.8

12.8

75.5

WORLD

975.5

971.2

China

100.5

114.4

Brazil

11.6

9.7

WORLD

208.2

CARRY-OVER STOCKS USA

EU

44

9.2

44.7

6.5

211.9

+2.5

-0.8

-1.0 -9.6 +23.8 +5.0

-5.5

+1.4

+24.1

needs to around 16m tonnes. But with less being imported by China and others – and world total import demand seen down, that factor sheds much of its bullish clout. European demand for maize is also being held in check to some extent by the huge wheat crop, more of which will supplant maize in EU feeds.

Maize markets still have to find out what weather lies in store for the recently-planted Latin American crops but so far these appear to be proceeding normally. After that, the next talking point will be how much maize US farmers might sow next spring and weather there in the planting and growing season.

In the meantime, barring a lat-Am weather upset, there seems little justification for sustained maize price rallies.

this season’s global ending stocks estimate and along with the higher US stocks, it paints a far more bearish picture for maize prices than expected a month ago.

True, there is still the question of an 18m tonne slump in this year’s European maize crop, expected to double its import

KEY FACTORS AHEAD - WHEAT • The CIS countries have a bigger 2015/16 crop to dispose of than markets expected earlier in this challenging growing season – faced with expensive inputs and often uncooperative weather. So far, Russia and Ukraine have been aggressive sellers , winning the bulk of contested orders from the US, Europe and other rivals and setting a low world price for wheat. But will that role change once the FSU’s front-loaded campaign uses up the larger share of their surpluses and the focus turns back to the problems faced by their winter-sown crops for harvest 2016? A return to export control can’t be ruled out. The EU, US and others have plenty to of wheat to step into any CIS gaps – and

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KEY FACTORS AHEAD - COARSE GRAINS • The USDA’s revisions to its estimate of Chinese maize usage and stocks are primarily responsible for it adding a whopping 24m tonnes to its forecast global stockpile for 2015/16. If correct, that grain was always there, so markets perhaps shouldn’t over-react. Nonetheless, the US will also have 5m tonnes more than it thought to end the season thanks to a larger crop and lower consumption in ethanol. That is more bearish for maize prices going forward.

• Markets have adjusted to lower than expected European and CIS maize crops, heavily offset by larger than expected South American and US production for a larger world crop total than expected last month. The Lat-Am crops (arriving first quarter 2016 onward) may yet be under-rated while the CIS countries may well sow more maize next spring on land vacated by failed winter wheat crops. Depending on what the US and Europe decides to sow too, next season could be well supplied again.

• Maize has met increasing competition in feed outlets (in China from sorghum, barley and other substitutes), in the EU ( from a large domestic wheat crop) and in the US ethanol outlet (mainly sorghum again). That seems likely to continue in the months ahead, demanding some restraint from maize prices.

more. World stocks are also huge and able to meet a large chunk of new crop demand from next July onward. But less CIS competition could be a key factor later in 2016, allowing wheat prices to rise off their current low levels in the second half of the 2016/17 season and maybe earlier than that.

• Wheat area is seen slightly lower in 2016/17 by the IGC. Yields might also be affected if farmers try to cut costs at these low prices by reducing use of inputs. Controlling a price-depressing global wheat surplus may not be such a bad thing if it helps farmers pay their bills and secures future output at the needed level. (After all, world consumption of wheat does grow each year and has put on over 100m tonnes in the past ten years alone.

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And yet more soya meal THE latest USDA outlook has raised world soyabean crush to a new record high of over 273m tonnes with increases for China, the US, Brazil, Argentina and Europe.

This still nowhere near uses up all the excess soyabean stocks carried in from last year and expected to be boosted dramatically again in the new 2015/16 season that started on October 1.

However, it does translate to yet more soyabean meal. In world total terms, production of the leading oilmeal rises to 215m tonnes from last year’s 206.5m, the previous season’s under 90m and the average 1890m of the two years before that.

An estimated 11m tonnes rise in global soya meal consumption basically accounts for all the increase in world total use of oilmeals in a year when virtually all the other major items - sunflowerseed, rapeseed, groundnut and cottonseed meals and cottonseed – fail to show any worthwhile growth – or contract.

The only other major exception is palm kernel meal, output of which rises from 8.6m to 9.1m tonnes. Soya thus goes on to expand it share of the oilmeal market to over 70%. While it’s good to have some variety in the supply chain, this increasing dominance by soya should be welcomed by most consumers, especially compounders in the developed world relying on its high protein and usually consistent quality.

ASll the bnsigns are that soya will remain in heavy supply for the foreseeable future.

The US almost finished bringing in what is now thought to be its largest ever crop at 108.4m tonnes – up 1.5m from last year’s record level and compared with a range of 84m to 91m tonnes in recent seasons.

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• A new and highly influential factor may be a new ‘businessfriendly’ president in Argentina – the world’s largest soya meal exporter – where soyabean stocks have been held back and built up by red tape in the past • Lower costs and big supplies might encourage more demand for these feed ingredients – indeed the USDA has recently uprated its forecasts for soya meal consumption – although the strong US diollar in which commodities are mainly traded offsets some of this price advantage, particularly in countries with weak currencies.

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ahead as a potential 4m to 5m tonne increase in Brazil outweighs a possible 3m to 4m drop in Argentina (which some analysts think may be too pessimistic). Weather for these two major exporters of beans and products started out a bit dry in some areas and too wet in others but seems to be levelling out nicely now.

These crops are being sold now at quite a fast pace. Both countries also have large stocks built up over the past two years, as farmers held onto them as a hedge against their depreciating national currencies and rocketing inflation.

Brazil also had some port logistical problems and both countries some labour disputes that contributed to the bottling up of therse huge crops.

That seems to be changing now, however as Brazil exports for strong US dollars and Argentina looks to a new more ‘business-friendly’ president Macri to lift the barriers that have long hampered trade under the previous administration – export quotas, exchange controls etc. That’s also expected to feed back to larger crops in the future – of greains and oilseeds. All the Lat-Am suppliers need now is good weather to continue into harvest in the spring of 2016 to realise their crop potential.

The US is meanwhile expected to bump up its own soyabean acreage again next spring as rthe crop offers beter potential than maize, its main competitor.

Elsewhere, the oilseed crop outlook is less certain. Rapeseed supplies are still going backwards after several years of rising production, thanks to smaller crops in Canada and Europe. Canada’s crop was recently uprated by 1.3m tonnes but remains 900,000 smaller than last year’s while the EU’s harvest fell by a hefty 2.9m tonnes.

Although carryover stocks are being drawn down to supplement crush, rape meal output will still decline by about 1m tonnes. Next year’s crop outlook remains uncertain with some estimates pointing to slightly lower, others to higher plantings for the EU’s mainly winter-sown crop.

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Industry events 2015 n 01-03 December

Food Ingredients Europe (Fi) & Natural Ingredients (Ni) Paris, France http://bit.ly/1c6GWmu

n 01-03 December

IFF Conference “Hygienisation in the Food Chain” Paris, France http://www.iff-braunschweig.de/index.php

n 08-10 December

Agra Innovate East Africa Nairobi, Kenya http://www.agra-innovate.com

n 09 December

IFF Conference “Hygienisation in the Food Chain” Braunschweig, Germany http://www.iff-braunschweig.de

n 26-28 January 2016

International Production & Processing Expo 2016 Atlanta, USA http://www.ippexpo.org

n 15-17 February 2016 VIV MEA & GFIA 2016 Abu Dhabi, UAE http://www.viv.net

n 22-26 February 2016 Aquaculture 2016 Las Vegas, USA http://www.was.org

n 03-04 March 2016

12th TUSAF Congress: Global Trade and Milling Technologies Sueno Hotels Deluxe, Tasliburun Mevki Kadriye, Belek, Turkey http://www.tusaf2016.org

n 04-06 April 2016

CICFOGRAIN2016, CICFOFEED2016, CGOF2016 No. 50, GanJiang South Road, Honggutan New District, Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China http://www.cicfo.com

n 04-08 April 2016

120th IAOM International Association of Operative Millers Annual Conference & Expo Greater Columbus Convention Center, Columbus, Ohio, USA http://www.iaom.info/annualmeeting

n 18-21 April 2016

15th ICC Cereal and Bread Congress Istanbul Military Museum, Turkey https://www.icc.or.at/node/2143

n 29-31 May 2016

PIX/AMC 2016 - 2016 Poultry Information Exchange (PIX) and Australasian Milling Conference (AMC) Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre, Gold Coast, Australia http://www.millingconference.com.au

n 08-11 October 2016

International Baking Industry Exposition Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, NV, USA http://www.ibie2016.com

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2016 IPPE Exceeds 1,200 Exhibitors

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ith two months remaining until the trade show, the 2016 International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE) has surpassed 1,200 exhibitors with more than 456,000 net square feet of exhibit space.

Comprised of the three integrated trade shows – International Poultry Expo, International Feed Expo and International Meat Expo – the world’s largest annual feed, meat and poultry industry trade show will be held Tuesday through Thursday, January 2628, 2016, at the Georgia World Congress Centre in Atlanta, Ga. “We are pleased that more than 94 percent of the show floor has already been booked. We anticipate more than 28,000 attendees at the 2016 IPPE to learn about the latest products and services offered for the feed, meat and poultry industries,” said IPPE show organizers.

The Expo will highlight the latest technology, equipment and services used in the production and processing of feed, meat and poultry products.

IPPE will also feature dynamic education programs addressing current industry issues, combining the expertise from AFIA, NAMI and USPOULTRY.

Poultry Information Exchange and the Australasian Milling Conference 2016

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IXAMC, the Poultry Information Exchange and the Australasian Milling Conference 2016 will be held at the Gold Coast Convention & Exhibition Centre from Sunday 29 May – Tuesday 31 May 2016.

Being the leading conference within the poultry and milling industry, it will attract over 1400 decisionmaking buyers at the one time and in the one place.

This makes it an ideal opportunity to engage with your target market directly through an exhibition booth or increase your brand awareness via one of the many sponsorship options.

The theme of the conference is ‘Sustainability – Key concepts for our future’ and we are looking forward to exploring this theme in many different ways.

The conference boasts a strong and broad program covering a wide range of topics, which will attract an excellent cross section of delegates. It includes several international keynote speakers, concurrent sessions running each day, a large exhibition and several social and networking functions.

Fantastic sponsorship and exhibition opportunities exist at all levels. The packages have been designed to provide excellent marketing exposure for you to gain access to valuable target markets, prior, during and long after the Poultry Information Exchange and the Australasian Milling Conference 2016.

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• Feed production technology • Packaging • Energy efficiency • Auxiliary equipment • Biomass pelleting technology What’s on show at GRAPAS Asia 2016?

• Rice milling and sorting technology • Flour milling technology • Flakers, extruders • Grain processing systems • Additives Conferences Each of the exhibitions will have their own conferences, including: • The FIAAP Asia Animal Nutrition Conference 2016 • Petfood Forum Asia 2016 • Aquafeed Horizons Asia 2016 • Global Milling Conference with GRAPAS Asia 2016 • Biomass and Biomass Pelleting 2016 • The second ASEAN Feed and Rice Symposium • The second ASEAN Feed Summit

Supported by • Thai Ministry of Agriculture & Co-Operatives • Thai Department of Livestock Development • Thai Department of Fisheries • Thai Feed Mill Association • Thai Rice Milling Association • Thai Chamber of Commerce • Federation of ASEAN Feed Associations • Thailand Convention & Exhibition Bureau Organized by Victam International BV, PO Box 197, 3860 AD Nijkerk, The Netherlands T: +31 (0)33 246 4404 F: +31 (0)33 246 4706 E: expo@victam.com

www.fiaap.com www.victam.com www.grapas.eu See us on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+ or scan the QR codes

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Industry events

Cheers to 100 Years!

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AACC International celebrated its 100th years in its Centennial Meeting in October 18-21 in Minneapolis

by Professor Dr M. Hikmet Boyacıog ˘ lu, International Editor, Milling and Grain Magazine

ACC International celebrated its 100th years in its Centennial Meeting in October 18-21 in Minneapolis, MN, US. More than 1,100 attendees from 38 countries gathered for the AACC International Centennial Meeting to celebrate 100 years of cereal grain science and discuss the future of the industry.

The AACCI Annual Meetings bring together hundreds of individuals from industry, academia and government dedicated to sharing science, networking and discussing global solutions. The 2014 Annual Meeting brought together nearly 1,000 attendees from 39 countries and more than 100 exhibitors.

About AACC International

AACCI is a professional association for scientists who contribute to research, development, and processing of grains and grainbased products. The association has been an innovative leader in gathering and disseminating scientific and technical information to professionals in the cereal grain industry worldwide for 100 years.

According to “History of the American Association of Cereal Chemists” by former Executive Vice president of AACCI Raymond J. Tarleton, in 1914, 11 chemists gathered in Wichita, KS, USA and identified the need for a cereal science association. The AACC was born in May 8, 1915 at first Annual Convention in Kansas City, MO, USA. In 2005, name changed to AACC International, AACCI to better reflect the global nature of its membership and industry.

Opening Centennial Celebration

The centennial celebration at the 2015 Centennial Meeting started on Sunday, October 18 with a fun and relaxing Opening Reception where attendees reconnected with friends and colleagues and made new connections. Eat, drink, and celebrate 100 years of cereal grain science.

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Opening General Session, Awards, and Keynote Speaker Jack Uldrich, Global Futurist The 2015 AACCI Centennial Meeting formally commenced with Opening General Session in Monday morning, October 19. It’s down to business with an impressive opening session including updates on how AACC International is looking forward in the advancement of grain science, honoring members who have made significant contributions to the field of grain science, and the presenting of several of the society awards. This year’s Opening Session also included global futurist, author and speaker Jack Uldrich presented “The Big AHA: How to Future-Proof Your Business Against Tomorrow’s Transformational Trends, Today.”

In this enlightening, energetic, entertaining and educational session, global futurist Jack Uldrich shared insights from his new book (Business as Unusual: The Big AHA) and guided participants through a conversation about how industry leaders can future-proof themselves—and organisations—against “the tides of tomorrow.” Among just a few of the topics Uldrich discussed are: How individuals can become more aware of transformational change and then use this awareness to improve business outcomes, Why humility will be integral to future success, How taking small actions—and some risks—may very well be the smartest and safest thing AACCI leaders can do to position themselves and their organisations’ for future success

The Science

From emerging technologies to nutrition to trends, the scientific programming covered a wide range of important industry topics with more than 40 symposia and technical sessions and 200+ posters.

The new general and plenary sessions brought attendees together each day with topics that encouraged looking at the big

potential employers, funders, and potential collaborators.

Expanded Centennial Exhibit Hall Experience

The action took place this year in the expanded exhibit hall – the place to be for networking, relaxing, dining, connecting with exhibitors, and sharing the latest in our science and you can meet with over 120 of the industry’s leading suppliers while enjoying lunch and networking with colleagues.

What was new this year in AACCI Centennial Exhibit Hall; Cooking Demonstrations featuring “All Star” Grain Chefs on Monday, October 19 and Tuesday, October 20. All Star Grain Chefs Tim Christensen, Cargill; Michael Hollerman, InHarvest; Jim Kyndberg, Radisson Blu and Cookbook Author Robin Asbell; prepared one of their favorite grain based recipes right before your eyes, including tasty samples.

Bundy Baking Museum Display

This year attendees had a chance to enjoy a journey through history as you view a variety of memorabilia and historical artifacts, which were displayed in Bundy Baking Museum Display. This curated display from the Bundy Baking Museum in Urbana, Ohio, was a unique journey through time and tradition of baking equipment provided by the Bundy Baking Solutions. The Bundy Baking Museum generously offered to display a selection of its vintage signage and turn-of-the-century baking equipment during the Centennial Meeting. The museum collection started in started in 1972 by founder Russell T. Bundy and is located at the corporate headquarters of Bundy Baking Solutions in Urbana, Ohio. The museum is dedicated to preserving the heritage, history and spirit of the baking industry. picture and considering alternate perspectives: Biotechnology and Sustainability, Chemistry and Interactions, Engineering and Processing, Food Safety and Regulatory, Health and Nutrition, Ingredients and Innovations, Quality and Analytical Methods, and Emerging Topics.

Plenary Session, Dr Mehmood Khan, PepsiCo

Dr Mehmood Khan, Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer of Global Research and Development, PepsiCo was keynote speaker of plenary session held in Tuesday, October 20. In his presentation titled as “The Growth of Grains: The Role of Cereal-Based Products in Nourishing A Growing Population”, he Dr Khan will discussed the crucial role grains can play in shaping future food and nutrition trends to meet a growing population that is set to reach nine billion by 2050. He noted that from ancient grains to “advantaged grains” to innovative new “convergence” products that combine grains with dairy, grains are enjoying a well-deserved surge in popularity worldwide.

Closing General Session, Awards, and Keynote Speaker Valeri Lantz-Gefroh, Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science In closing session, Wednesday, October 21, AACCI President Gerard Downey, TEAGASC, Ireland passed the presidency gavel to Lydia Tooker Midness, General Mills, USA. After presentation of awards and keynote speaker Valari Lantz-Gefroh from the Alan Alda Centre for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University in New York presented “Distilling Your Message – Communicating Your Science.” Through interactive discussions and practice, Valeri provided the fundamental skills necessary to effectively discuss cereal grain science with the general public, the media, students,

Student Product Development Competition Presentations

Student product development competition finalist presentations were made on Monday, October 19. This competition provided a great opportunity for students to apply the knowledge and skills acquired in school to create new food products professionally and intelligently for the real world. Winners received financial awards and industry recognition, and a chance to cooperate with potential food companies to launch their innovative products to food markets.

AACCI Announced New Strategic Science Focus Areas for 2015 and Beyond

The AACCI Board of Directors met during the Centennial Meeting and prioritised four key areas of strategic science focus for AACCI as we enter into the next 100 years of the association: Researching Health Benefits of Grain and Components, Promoting Sustainability and Benefits of Grain Consumption, Supporting Quality, Food Safety and Regulatory Considerations and Advocating Transparent and Proactive Communication.

AACCI and ICC Continue Collaborations

AACCI and ICC met at the Centennial Meeting to develop a future plan for a platform for collaboration and defined the first step in the process. At this meeting, significant strides were made toward a plan of collaboration. The first step is to create a platform to accelerate collaboration to advance knowledge, create a worldwide network of experts, develop global standards and analytical methods, and inform regulatory policy and research funding.

Future Annual Meeting

2016 AACC International Annual Meeting will be held in Savannah, Georgia, US in October 23 – 26, 2016.

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Event review

Nelly Duprat, Organiser of JTIC (C) with Darren Parris (L) and Peter Parker (R) of Milling and Grain

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by Peter Parker, Milling and Grain Magazine

Alapala showing off the inner workings of the new roller mill

n Wednesday 4th and Thursday 5th November, Milling and Grain team members attended the 66th JTIC International Milling and Cereal Industries show, held this year in Paris.

The autumn weather outside was dismal, but that was soon forgotten when the smell of warm freshly baked organic breads hit visitor’s senses as they arrived at the Paris Event Centre hall.

The event was organised by Aemic, members of their team were in attendance overseeing that the event ran smoothly. As well as making themselves available to approach, there was an excess of additional event staff present to assist visitors with any queries.

With 127 exhibitors and almost 1300 visitors each day (up on 1000 previous years), “the return to Paris is a winning return”, says Jean-Marie Poncey, Aemic’s president, to close the two days of exhibition and conferences.

This exhibition primarily catered towards the milling and baking industries. While the majority of attendees were French, JTIC has reported that 18 percent of visitors were international (mostly representing Italy, Belgium, Morocco and Turkey).

The venue

Laurent Brehm and Philippe Counet from Sefar AG

This year the event was held at the Paris Event Centre at Porte de la Vilette, France. According to Aemic Director, Nelly Duprat, the shift from Reims where previous JTIC events had been held, back to Paris was due to better accessibility for visitors, especially those who fly in from abroad. During the event I managed to speak to Mr Poncey who said “previously a trip to JTIC for international visitors meant a plane, train or car to Reims from Paris, I believe this change in venue will attract more international visitors from places such as Africa and Lebanon.”

The building “A” that housed JTIC boasted 4250m² and within this there was an exhibition hall larger than previous year’s JTIC at 2500m² (excluding conference and eating space), Everything other than the Masterchef inspired food truck was housed inside the event hall. The hall was well lit and each day the stands were bustling with millers, bakers, business people, members of the press, equipment manufacturers, scientists, students and others from all around the world – all with at least one interest in common, cereals or milling.

Opening ceremony

President de I’Aemic, Jean-Marie Poncey gave the opening speech in French. He began by acknowledging that this event they were celebrating 90 years of existence, in his opinion, quite good for such a small organisation.

(R) Muhammed Uzun, Marketing Director, Imas Milleral looking through the Arabic language version of Milling and Grain

Jean Marie said that figures were looking good, with 127 exhibitors in attendance this time around, 26 of which being new to JTIC. He explained that with the change of venue from Reims to Paris, they are somewhat sampling everything collectively as a team this event.

It was announced that for the first time at a JTIC event organic breads would be baked throughout the conference for visitors to sample free of charge. In addition to this some complimentary coffee, champagne and beer was available from a booth in the heart of the event hall.

Mr Poncey closed by wishing us all an excellent, technical, couple of days.

Abdullah Ghandoura, Molino

Conferences

There were four two-hour plenary conferences held which focused on technical, economic and societal themes. This was achieved in partnership with Inra and Arvalis - Institut du Vegetal.

On the Wednesday there were two conferences held, the first was on the control and treatment of air within the context of the cereal industry. It was chaired by Chilles Renaud and animated by journalist, Jérôme Bergerot. The talk covered a wide range of air related topics including issues with air conditioning in secondary processing and the role of air in finished products.

The next conference was on milling and biorefining, it was charied by Joël Abécassis of Inra, and moderated by journalist, Fabienne Chauviére. The talk proposed a review of the state of firstgeneration bioethical process, from both an environmental and an economic point of view. Bio-sourced materials and advances in the green chemistry sector were discussed during this talk.

Thursday saw two more conferences, the first was a talk about the 2015 soft wheat harvest, it was organised by ARVALIS - Institut du Vegetal Partnership and chaired by Chistine Bar l’Helgouac’h. A panoramic overview of the global market was given as well as an update on the technological quality of the harvest.

The final conference for the 66th JTIC was Co-chaired by Aliette Verel and Olivier Descamps; Mac Lesggy moderated it. The discussion was around the innovation of the bakery industry and how the sector and its suppliers are responding to changes in the increasingly globalised market.

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JTIC lunches

The dining at JTIC was very accommodating, enabling successful networking and lively debate during the lunch breaks.

Each day a three-course meal was served with wine. All of the fine dishes were quite novel for one who has not experienced French cuisine before. The dishes served were quite decadent ranging from duck foie gras as an entree to a delicious dessert of poached pears lathered in a rich caramel sauce wrapped in a crepe.

Dinner Pau Brazil-Champs

On the Wednesday evening there was a Brazilian gala dinner.

According to organisers the event was a real success, with more than 200 people in attendance the event was convivial and festive.

The Pau Brasil (near the “Arc de Triomphe”) proposed traditional meals and a show of lively dancing.

After the show, Tony Estanguet, three-time Olympic gold medalist and world champion in canoe/kayak slalom proposed a flashback on his last victory at the Olympic games to the attendees. He shared about the preparation, feelings and concentration that went into his achievements – he went on to give out the best exhibitor awards.

The three best exhibitor awards went to MillBäker, TVI, and Minoiterie Suire. Vivescia won the award for “new exhibitor”, SB International for “International exhibitor” and AgriEthic for “promising exhibitor”.

Francis Xi and George Yang from Gime Tech Ltd.

Ricardo Pereira, President, Sangati Berga (L) with Tom Blacker from Milling and Grain

Ocrim Cremona Italy & Paglierani srl

Frederick and Bernard from Phenix Rousies Industries, part of Chief Industries, Inc.

Valentine Veyssiere, Communications Manager at Chopin Technologies

Qualtech with the Brazilian-themed gala dinner entertainers

The FOSS stand

The Erkaya stand

Jerome Lodz, Papeteries de Vizille

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DJT awards

The Perten stand

Aemic organised a cereals innovation challenge called the Défi Jeunes Talents competition (Young Talent Competition). This competition gave hands to the stage for students to share their innovative ideas for developing and promoting the cereals industry.

This year the Ensmic’s team who created a game about the cereals market won the DJT. Student team members Vincent Gorry, Benjamin Restoux and Florentin Boudoire gave the following explaination of their game.

“The game Cereopole is a project describing the grain chain.

People don’t know very much about the grain chain. Our game is a strategy and economics game. First, it allows everyone to learn about the wheat “to bread chain”, and second, it also allows users to learn about the processing of cereals into malt, semolina and animal feed.

The game will be an educational tooI for schools. It will also help to promote the sector.”

Poster awards

The Ocrim stand

Kassem Nameh and Sebastien Garcia from Satake

The R-Biopharm stand

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The scientific poster award for long term application that was supported by “Industries des Céréales” was awarded to Nesrin Hesso, for her study on “Formulation/process impact on pound cake quality: Study of staling/a material science approach.” As a reward Ms Hesso received a diploma and 250 euros.

The scientific poster award for short term application was delivered by “Chopin Technologies” to Lempa and Lesaffre for their study on “Describing crusty breads using “Bread word for word”, an example with the aspect of a traditional baguette.”

Closing cocktail reception

On the Thursday afternoon as the show was coming to a close everyone gathered around the bar in the centre of the hall to share a variety of available drinks and canapés.

During this closing reception I managed to speak to Ms Duprat, she commented that she was pleased with how the event had gone.

For me the final reception of the 66th JTIC summarised the event, you had young French milling students socialising with company owners, all attendees appeared to have been happy with how the event had served them and the comfort of French cuisine was once again breaking down barriers and connecting individuals irrespective of background.

Jean-Marie closed by saying “getting such results will be a new challenge for next year.

Take part to the 67th JTIC, on November 9th and 10th of 2016!”

See all of our photos from JTIC 2015 on the Milling and Grain Facebook page link: on.fb.me/1DIRuMA

Darren Robey (R) from Foss Analytical

The Brabender stand

Bastak Gida Makine Medikal Pazarlama

Qualisense - (right) SĂŠbastian Kulling

Laurent Guerindon and Fabien Varagnac from MĂźhlenchemie

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Event review

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rom 31st October to 3rd November 2015, the milling industries of the Middle East and Africa came together in Dubai for the annual conference and expo of the Middle East and Africa division of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM MEA).

New heights were reached at this year's event for many reasons, not least that the host hotel, the JW Marriott Marquis hotel is officially the world's tallest hotel.

The opening evening of Saturday 31st October featured a night at the host hotel's outdoor rooftoppark. With familiar faces such as Martin Schlauri from Buhler's African Milling School greeting all attendees. The views out over a warm, clear night's sky and the lights of Dubai were impressive. Food and drink were dotted around an open space, where much networking was facilitated.

The venue for the conference and expo was inside Dubai's World Trade Centre, in the Sheikh Maktoum Hall. It was a large, modern venue with plenty of road, train and taxi stations all linking to Dubai's transport network. Most delegates and attendees used the free shuttle bus service arranged by the organisers.

Registration desks were staffed by local hostesses at the entrance to the hall and provided all conference materials, a copy of this magazine and

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a local gift of an Arabian porcelain china coffee set. There were also many copies of the Arabic language edition of The Future of Flour book, published by Muhlenchemie and IAOM for sale at the desks too.

The opening morning started promptly with an address by Conference Chairman, Mr Essa Al Ghurair, followed by a welcoming speech by the regional director of IAOM MEA and Director of Oman Flour Mills and Atyab Investments, Mr Ali Habaj. He mentioned to the audience that the conference and expo has grown again with over 800 delegates from 60 countries, 230 millers from 125 mills and 190 international exhibitors. At present, these are preliminary figures that will be confirmed by the organisers’ at a later date. The sponsors present were; Cargill, Glencore, Bunge, Louis Dreyfus Commodities, US Wheat Associates, France Exportes Cereals, Copenhagen Merchants, Grain Corp, Al Ghurair Resources,Noble Agri,Ameropa, Buhler, Alapala,CBH Group, Ugur Makina, Agromatic, Sefar, Neuero Industrietecknik, IFFCO Emigrain and PTM. This 2015 event was set to surpass all expectations and be a great success. The exhibitors welcomed existing and new customers and a range of visitors. Visitors in the region from nations such as Egypt, Kenya, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey all travelled to see new innovative products in the exhibition hall, and hear a range of presentations.

The two keynote management presentations from Keith Chambers and Dorie Clark were very well received, and later in the day, presentations about industrial innovations from Omas, Buhler and Chopin Technologies were also well attended.

Later that evening, the Trader's Dinner was held at the Music Hall at Jumeirah Zabeel Sara, on one part of The Palm Jumeriah. The Palm is a haven of luxurious beaches, hotels and residences. The Music Hall held over 600 delegates for a night of fine food and a variety of musical groups playing live on stage; jazz, arabic and pop music all featured.

The impressions and feedback are yet to be confirmed via the organiser's surveys but there were a lot of positive experiences for work and pleasure as a result of participating at this year's IAOM MEA events. A popular evening's dinner outside of Dubai at a desert camp was very memorable on the evening of day two. All delegated were treated to a buffet dinner, admiring the backdrop of a castle, hawks, camels and henna tattoos as well as entertainment in the form of a whirling dervish and fire-eating performers.

After some brilliant sessions on day two and day three about feed milling, international trading markets and new innovations to the industry, the IAOM President, Mr Roy Loepp, then officially closed the 2015 IAOM MEA conference and expo.

He announced that the 2016 venue will be Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. There are high expectations and much anticipation again for a successful event.

All conference sessions with photos and important slides can be found via our Twitter coverage with the hashtag '#IAOMMEA15'.

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Honesty is the most important thing

This year’s IAOM Middle East and Africa event was hosted in Dubai, the second largest of the seven Emirates countries and the gateway between the Middle East and the rest of the world.

In its 26th year, the conference was held in the city’s World Convention Centre and was opened by His Excellency Essa Al Ghurair, the IAOM MEA 2015 Conference Chairman and chairman of Al Ghurair Resources.

His Excellency introduced a revamped conference program that included technical, What’s new? and feed milling sessions plus trading and management topics.

A record number of 800 registered visitors from 60 countries, including some 450 millers from 150 mills joined over 90 exhibitors.

In opening the event, His Excellency Essa Al Ghurair referred to the lifting of the sanctions on Iran and the potential to do business with that country. He also pointed out two important keynote presentations that would give delegates an insight into brand building and brand awareness; one by Dorie Clark and the other Keith Chambers.

“I want to leave you with one thing I have thought about a lot recently.

It is to remind you that this industry touches the rich and the poor, the young and the old and the one thought I have had is ‘honesty’.

How to be honest is the most important thing in any industry, he told delegates. “How can we translate that into our industry. Milling is an industry that is not here for just 10 years or 20 years but has been with us for 1000’s of years and will continue,” he concluded and declared the conference open.

Honesty is a guiding principle for all participants working in the milling industry, he concluded before declaring the 26 IAOM Middle East and Africa 2015 event open.

His Excellency Essa Al Ghurair, the IAOM MEA 2015 Conference Chairman and chairman of Al Ghurair Resources receives recognition for his services to the organisation

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Franciscis ‘Franky’ Welirang

Indonesia is a country of complexity - through its geography, economy and, not least, its diverse population.

The root cause of this complexity is largely down to the country’s make up; of five large islands including the main one of Java that is at its centre both geographically and economically and its many thousands of smaller islands. The country has a population in excess of 250 million of which some 90 million live on Java and is proving to be one of the most challenging growth areas in South East Asia.

Franciscus ‘Franky’ Welirang is the Chairman of APTINDO, the Association of Flour Producers in Indonesia and Director of PT Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk, better known for it division Bogasari Flour Mills which was formed in 1971 and of which at 64-year-old Mr Welirang is Director in Charge. Milling and Grain had the opportunity to meet him in Jakarta at IAOM’s 6th Annual Southeast Asia District Conference in early.

Note: Indonesia supports over 55,000 small medium enterprises (SME) processing flour base product and 200 modern big manufacturers such as biscuits, noodles and bread industries and 31 milling companies of which have flourmills providing their own production. Future development is likely to happen earlier in the East of the country once the current economic condition improve.

To set the scene Mr Welirang, just how many flour mills does Indonesia have?

Before deregulation we had built just five flour mills from 1970.

That was in the Bulog Era. In the 10 year period following deregulation in 1999, we build a further six flour mills and between 2009-2013 12 new mills. In 2014-2015 investors have built and commissioned a further eight new mills. By the end of this year we will have in total 31 mills with 26 mills on Java and 5 outside Java. Today, we are using roughly 60 percent of their combined total capacity.

Indonesia relies on wheat imports yet we hear the government is keen to focus on reducing that dependence. Can you explain the breakdown of where wheat comes from? And do you import wheat flour?

We imported a total of 7.4 million tonnes in 2014 made up of 65 percent from Australia, 21 percent from Canada and 6.6 percent from the USA. Other supply countries included the Ukraine. We also import from India, Russia and Turkey from time-to-time and today with new technologies around, such as the use of enzymes and additive pre-mixes, anything can happen in terms of where we import from. Yes, we also import flour, approximately 205,000 tonnes in 2014, with most 90 percent coming equally from Sir Lanka, India and Turkey.

We are also exporting wheat flour which has seen an almost 50 percent growth in value since 2010 to US$37 million.

Was deregulation necessary in such as important food industry as flour production?

Deregulation was the best way to keep our industry growing.

We have 31 large and small flour mills that had milling capacity 10-11 million tonnes of wheat for milling per year.

National demand for flour-based products continues to grow and they are nutritious. We are a centre for wheat flour production in ASEAN and we can supply East Asia which will be a cheaper supply if it was available. However, our economy is a little but flat at present and therefore demands for flour is flat as well. For over 20 years we have had an average growth rate of around five percent per annum. The real question for us is when is that going to pick up again?

The government would like to believe Indonesia could become self-sufficient in wheat production. How realistic is this goal?

That’s impossible. The priority for the country is to produce rice and its second priority is for us as a country is to produce corn. We import approximately 7.4 million tonnes of wheat annually and this is quite a sensitive area for the government.

We might not be able to become self-sufficient in wheat, but in some area wheat could be grown. For example, we should try to produce tropical wheat varieties. And we do hope the government moves in that direction. We have government

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research centres that have never been pushed. Our industry promotes an alternative at village level food, and we could plant more specialist wheat varieties.

Are multi-nationals assisting in the development of flour milling in Indonesia?

We see the industry moving outbound rather than remaining inbound. Nestle & Mondelez, for example, are here in the country and many other global industry players. In fact, they are all here and it has made us a very competitive market place; the availability of modern mills to make flour and flour-based products very competitively for the consumer is proving critical. What makes prices rise and fall in the main is the international price of wheat and the exchange rate with our Indonesian Rupiah. They have a significant effect given that raw material costs are 85 percent of our production costs.

How do you see the role of flour in nutrition?

One of the cornerstones of flour milling in Indonesia is providing nutrition for our people. Flour provides the carbohydrates people need and is only second to rice. It is very important and is specifically supplied through the variety of products consumers can buy today. Most importantly, flour provides carbohydrates at a price lower than that of rice and is higher in its protein content than rice as well. Flour fortification is a must in Indonesia. We have been fortifying since 1998 as advised by WHO and UNICEF. We fortify our flours with a range of nutritional additives including iron, folic acid and vitamins. That’s one of the main reasons why the demand for flour is increasing in Indonesia.

You have spoken previously about the importance of training? What role do you see the association playing in developing a training facility in Indonesia?

Training is very important. We have 31 major mills using new technology in Indonesia and no training or educational institute to support millers. There are some nine mills in Malaysia, 16 in The Philippines and eight in Thailand. As a region we need to upgrade our knowledge all the time on flour technology. Not necessarily on the principles of milling wheat itself, but the wheat flour technology, the use and application of pre-mixes and enzymes, etc. With this knowledge we can become a service provider for ASEAN countries themselves.

We could liberalise flour production across the region, to countries such as those that are liberated including Philippines and Vietnam and to help liberate those such as Thailand and Malaysia that are still protected.

And in five years?

We could be leading the flour milling Industry and its development across ASEAN.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Milling and Grain Executive Editor Oliva Holden returning to legal career

I Olivia Holden

t is with a heavy heart we say a farewell to our very own Executive Editor, Olivia Holden. Having passed the English Bar exam before joining us, Olivia was always destined to return to the legal sector. Going back to law school, Olivia reflects on her time with Milling and Grain, "I have had a wonderful time overseeing and helping to implement many fantastic changes to Milling and Grain magazine, meeting many great people involved in the feed and flour milling industries. A particular highlight was attending the World Expo in Milan where the topic of ‘feeding the planet, energy for life’ really instilled the fundamental importance of this industry”. Olivia leaves us in December having edited the last 12 editions, we wish her all the best and I am no doubt we will stay in touch.

Valentine Veyssière joins Chopin

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ecent new appointment at CHOPIN Technologies, Valentine Veyssière, is now the Communications Manager. Valentine joins Chopin with a Masters degree in Communications and Intercultural Management from ICD International Business School in Paris. Managing Chopin’s events such as the sponsorship of ICBC 2016 in Istanbul or the AACCI annual meeting, and promoting Chopin’s innovative products in grain analytics. Valentine will be based at the Chopin global headquarters in Villeneuve-la-Garenne near Paris.

IGP Institute names interim associate director

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he Kansas State University IGP Institute has a new administrative leader. Brandi Miller is serving as the interim associate director of the institute. Ms Miller was formerly the institute’s assistant director and distance education program coordinator.

Brandi Miller

“Under Brandi’s leadership the distance education program has grown significantly. We are excited to have Brandi’s innovative ideas and outstanding leadership guiding the programming and team at the IGP Institute,” says Gordon Smith, IGP Institute director and grain science and industry department head.

Ms Miller joined the institute in January of 2010. Since she began, the distance education offering has grown from nine courses in 2010 to 34 in 2015. She was promoted to assistant director in September 2014 to assume some of the administrative duties of a growing IGP Institute program.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in bakery science and management and master’s degree in adult, occupational and continuing education. Both degrees were obtained at Kansas State University.

In regard to her new role, Ms Miller says, “I am excited to be stepping in as interim associate director. IGP has a strong history with internal and external stakeholders and I look forward to continue to build those relationships to strengthen our programming.”

Along with fulfilling her administrative duties, Ms Miller plans to continue her leadership of the distance education program.

She assumes this new administrative position from Mark Fowler, associate director and flour milling curriculum manager, who announced his departure effective in December 2015.

DuPont Board of Directors Names Edward D. Breen Chair and CEO

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he DuPont board of directors has announced it has named Edward D. Breen the company’s chair and chief executive officer (CEO), effective immediately. Breen has served as interim chair and CEO of DuPont since October 16, 2015, and joined the company’s board in February 2015.

“Ed Breen brings to DuPont an exceptional track record of business leadership and value creation. As a chief executive, he has consistently delivered superior returns through robust growth Edward D. Breen and portfolio strategies, across a range of industries. As a DuPont board member and interim chair and CEO, Ed has rapidly and actively engaged in advancing the transformation of DuPont,” said Alexander M. Cutler, DuPont’s lead independent director. “The board has concluded he is the right leader for the company. We could not be more pleased to appoint an executive of his experience and calibre to lead DuPont through its next stage of growth and achievement.”

From 2002-2012, Breen served as chief executive officer of Tyco International plc. Prior to joining Tyco, Breen held senior management positions at Motorola, and at General Instrument Corporation, including as chairman, president and chief executive officer. Mr Breen currently serves as chairman of Tyco and a director of Comcast Corporation. Breen has been awarded numerous governance awards including being named one of the “100 Most Influential People in Business Ethics” by Ethisphere.

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