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MID-YEAR MILL REPORT • The GRAPAS Award • Grains – challenging press perceptions • How feed and nutrition can combat heat stress • STORAGE: Bespoke solutions

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CASE STUDY

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FEATURES 38 The GRAPAS Award for innovation 42 GEAPS ideas exchange

60 Grains – challenging press perceptions 64 How feed and nutrition can combat heat stress

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112 People news from the global milling industry

45 Mid-Year Mill Report 46 ADM Feed Mill 50 Newcopan

54 The Basra flour mill 56 CTH Mills

EVENTS

86 Event listings, reviews and previews

STORAGE

66 Bespoke solutions

74 Reducing post-harvest loss and improving food security globally

TRAINING

35 IFF practical course: ‘Pelleting of compound feed

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8 Mildred Cookson 18 Tom Blacker 20 Christophe Pelletier 28 Chris Jackson

2 GUEST EDITOR Mahjoub Sahaba

82 MARKETS Sinem Duyum

114 INTERVIEW Erik Heemskerk

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IFIM Milling School

As we approach the midpoint of 2016, I am becoming more and more impressed with the rate at which the IFIM School has continued to grow. Education is key to the future of milling, and we at the school believe that we are at the forefront of ensuring that the next generation of millers are fully equipped with the knowledge required to make a valid contribution to our industry, long after the current generation of millers have all hung up their aprons for the very last time.

The story of the IFIM School begins back in 1994.

The school was established under a joint venture between the Moroccan National Federation of Millers (FNM), US Wheat Associates and the Moroccan Government’s Office of Professional Training (OFPPT).

The French language two-year program was built upon a combination of the Swiss Milling School and French Milling School curricula aimed at taking young college graduates with a scientific baccalaureate and building a solid foundation in milling and cereal sciences. Graduates from the two-year program receive a nationally approved qualification as milling technicians.

Approximately 30 students per year are enrolled on the two-year program.

Additionally, the IFIM School undertakes continuing education courses for the regions millers, and has conducted specialised training programs in French, English and Arabic for millers from across Africa and the Middle East. IFIM has conducted off-site training both nationally, as well as internationally in North and West Africa.

The school has an ISO 17025 accredited cereal laboratory which serves as an industry and national reference laboratory, and has a full Buhler Pilot Mill with a nominal capacity of 800 kg/hr capable of milling bread wheat in purifier and purifier less flows as well as durum wheat in a conventional durum flow. A full wheat inspection laboratory and test bakery as well as a full range of laboratory

milling equipment compliment the training facilities.

Some 400 students have graduated since the inauguration of the school, and have gone on to operational and management positions throughout the industry in Morocco, as well as elsewhere in North Africa, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, and have built a solid reputation for the quality of the school’s education.

The School organises a professional exhibition every two years known under the name of Technical Days of IFIM. Conferences and round tables are planned during these days and are focused on the international market of wheat as well as the new technologies in the milling industry. The sixth edition of IFIM technical days was held in May 2015. More than 60 exhibitors coming from Europe and USA have participated to that event.

At present, IFI is implementing a strategic change its historic role by integrating a professional school for baking & pastry with a training & research development centre in the field of food pasta, couscous & vegetables.

As durum wheat plays an important role in the Moroccan economy and is the basis for pasta and couscous production. Both these products are staple food for the Moroccan population, IFIM wishes to add a training facility and program dedicated to durum milling and pasta and couscous technology and to the research and development of analytical services related to durum and its derivatives.

Going forward, we at the school aim to continue to work closely with the Canadian International Grains Institute (Cigi), Winnipeg, Canada, IFIM is proposing to build capacity for milling durum wheat and pulse crops by creating a Moroccan National Durum Technical Training Centre (DTTC). The DTTC’s primary mission will be to offer vocational training, information, technical expertise and applied research services to the durum wheat sector in Morocco and other North African countries (including Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Mauritania, as well as operative millers from the African French zone).

Mahjoub Sahaba Director at Moroccan Milling Training Institute IFIM Milling School

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CHINA

MID-YEAR MILL REPORT

ADM FEEDMILL

Over the past decade, or possibly longer, one of China’s major feedmilling equipment companies has been constructing more than 350 feedmills annually. In 2014 the company built an astonishing 400 new feedmills around the world.

Many of those mills have been constructed within short time frames and often within 10 months from ground-break to commissioning.

See the full story on page 46

ITALY

NEWCOPAN

The Newcopan mill, located in the quaint Tuscan town of Castelfiorentino just south west of Florence, is a new mill by Golfetto Sangati which was built to produce traditional Tuscan flour.

However, there is much more to what is being produced here than first meets the eye. The Tognetti family, entrepreneurs in the bakery industry for well over 50 years, are proud to show their new mill, which was built with the specific aim of processing one of the most typical and ancient cereals of Tuscany, the Verna wheat.

See the full story on page 50

TURKEY

IRAQ

THE AL BASRA FLOUR MILL

CASE STUDY On the outskirts of the town of Amasya, stands the impressive and modern flourmill of KOZLU Gida, also known as Misun. This leading Turkish mill has chosen FAWEMA for exciting new packing project. Page 80 4 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain

Aybakar announces the delivery of Al Basra flour mill in Iraq last month. Owned

by Kubba group, Al Basra flourmill is one of the most prestigious flour milling companies in Iraq, with the group being in the milling business since the 1960s.

Currently, Al Basra flourmill is the most developed flourmill in Iraq. Equipped with Aybakar’s crown jewel CERES II INOX roller mills, the mill exceeds Iraqi and international standards.

See the full story on page 54

TAIWAN

CTH MILLS

Taiwan has not always been the graceful, peaceful and plentiful country it is today. There was a time following the Second World War when the country was in a poor state and conditions were tough for a population that had not long annexed itself from the Chinese mainland, and was relying on its own dedication and resources to establish a new beginning and to feed itself.

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XXVII Fefac Congress in Antalya “Social acceptance of livestock and feed production in the EU”

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n 21-22 April 2016, the FEFAC XXVII Congress took place in Antalya, with the conference title “Social acceptance of livestock & feed production in the EU”. At the Congress, the participants discussed the compound feed industry’s contribution to the circular economy, the measuring of the environmental footprint of feed production and the responsible sourcing of raw materials. The discussions on all themes supported the view that the feed industry can provide solutions to livestock production with direct benefit for consumers and citizens, thereby stimulating increased societal acceptance of EU’s livestock and feed sector.

In a video statement, European Commissioner for Health & Food Safety, Vytenis Andriukaitis, highlighted the contribution of animal feed manufacturers to the circular economy and food waste reduction by using resources no longer suitable for human consumption in animal feed. The participants agreed with Commissioner Andriukaitis that it is of vital importance to assure feed safety and animal health when using unconventional feed ingredients in order to maintain consumer confidence.

At the Congress it was highlighted that the current political attention for circular economy and resourceefficiency provides an excellent opportunity for the feed industry to showcase its contributions to reducing environmental impacts. A key achievement in demonstrating the results of this approach is the development of pre-competitive measurement tools for environmental performance, such as the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). In the Feed PEF Pilot the category rules for feed production are currently being drafted and expected to be assessed and approved by DG ENVI in 2016.

All presentations given at the Congress can be found on the FEFAC website. www.fefac.eu

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The weather is pretty eclectic here at the moment. Sun follows rain follows grey cloud. Ah, well. “Variety is the spice of life,” they say (whoever ‘they’ are).

Not to be outdone, this month we take you on a whirlwind tour of mills across the globe, each unique and with its own fascinating character.

First, we stop off at ADM’s first feedmill in China, constructed by local company Famsun, who also take the opportunity to tell us about their expansion across Asia and beyond. The various reasons for the slowing pace of the feed milling sector in China are also discussed.

Next: Italy. Appropriately for the land of da Vinci and Michaelangelo, we take you through an artisan mill combining traditional and modern technologies in the processing of an ancient Tuscan wheat variety. Surely, Leonardo would have approved.

Then it’s over to the Fertile Crescent, where they say wheat milling all began. Fitting new technology into an older mill to operate in sub-tropical conditions is never easy, but Aybakar have succeeded at the Al-Basra flourmill in Iraq.

Finally, back to Asia, where you’ll learn about CTH’s latest mill - the newest in Taiwan - and the surprising bonds of friendship and mutual assistance between this company and their competitors next door. Other interesting insights include the challenges of silo construction in a humid earthquake zone.

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We also have all the regular columns our readers have come to expect: Mildred Cookson gives us another fascinating peek into milling history, looking at the redesign - and incredibly fast reconstruction - of a Liverpool mill in the early 1900s. Food Futurist Christophe Pelletier discusses consumers’ apparently contradictory desire for food that conforms to both past and present standards. UK TAG’s Chris Jackson examines Australia and Southeast Asia and talks about the need for farmers to follow the commercial climate.

We also bring you a roundup of the latest happenings in the world of milling, as well as numerous features and items of interest. Don’t miss the piece on this year’s GRAPAS award: learn who won, and why. Event reviews are not thin on the ground: GEAPS, VICTAM, IAOM and TUSAF. So why not kick off your shoes after a long, satisfying day in the mill, and enjoy this magazine with a cup of coffee outside in the sunshine? Of course, if you’re in the UK, you may have to read fairly quickly.

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No2 North Shore Mills Liverpool Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK As with my last article, I have chosen accounts from The Miller and Milling describing the same mill a few years apart at the start of the 20th century. These two Victorian publications, but with some significant gaps, are held at the Mills Archive.

On 7 August 1899, The Miller reported on a visit to the North Shore Milling Company in Liverpool, run by Mill Manager Mr Edward Cooper and his assistant Mr John Westgate. The firm was established on Boundary Street in 1848 before any other flour-mill of this type had been installed in Liverpool. It was capable of 100 sacks (280lbs) per hour and was divided into three separate and distinct plants, all under the same roof.

Along with new silos, the flour and offal warehouses, grain cleaning plant and workshops for millwrights and carpenters, the whole operation occupied a total ground area of 11,000 square yards. There were also cellars beneath the buildings and the mill yard, with a central warehouse used to store grain and the mill products.

The mill was powered by a triple expansion engine, put in during 1895 by Messrs Yates and Thorn of Blackburn and was capable of exerting 1,400 imperial horsepower, the initial steam pressure being 200psi and on the second cylinder about 80psi. In 1898 Thomas Robinson put in new silos, fully equipped with conveyors, elevators and separators.

By 1899 the mill had seven Haggenmacher plansifters manufactured by Whitmore & Binyon in place. The large-scale grain cleaning department had machines for separating, aspirating, grading, seed extraction, washing, stoning, whizzing, conditioning and scouring and during 1899, they were putting in new machines to improve the condition of the wheat passing to the mill.

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Reconstruction: Down time means loss of trade Four years later (19 December 1903) Milling reported how the largest of the three plants was completely reconstructed to increase capacity in just four weeks.

Competition was obviously fierce, as any down time could mean the loss of trade and there were ready competitors who would be quick to take advantage of any lapse to secure new customers.

As Milling pointed out, when a mill is destroyed by fire the loss of the plant is only one portion of the disaster. The owner had to keep his trade together somehow, as losing his customers for the time being meant he was never sure they would stay with him.

This fear of customers walking away and never coming back explained the urgency and speed of the redesign at North Shore Mills.

The mill in question was manufacturing flour on the morning of 14 October and on the 16th the mill was clear of machinery. Skillful organisation and forethought by Mr John Westgate, assistant manager, ensured everything had been prepared in advance.

Both the firm and the milling engineers Messrs Thomas Robinson & Son of Rochdale were ready to begin the work.

At the start of the work, the ground floor and the employee’s elevator were alive with workmen ascending and descending to carry out the work of demolition. On the third floor was the temporary office

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where plans were receiving their final touches. In the mill yard was an appliance put up by Messrs Robinson before the mill stopped work.

One hoist was especially useful, and also a power windlass for pulling the machines along the floor. Already new elevator bottoms were fitted, as well as the work for five lines of shafting under the rolls. On the fourth floor five new centrifugals were already in position with another 26 more to go.

Robinsons had 70 men doing the work, and with around 35 of the mill staff the whole mill was reported as being busy as bees. An illustration shows the goods train loaded with Robinson machinery as it entered the shunting yard from the siding of the Robinson Railway Works in Rochdale. The plans that had been drawn up had three colour sections; the ‘Blue’ portion of the flow was to fix the centrifugals, some purifiers and smooth rolls with all connections.

The ‘Red’ portion was to fix the elevators and spouting to and from ‘Blue’ and ‘Brown’. ‘Brown’ was responsible for fixing the break rolls and scalpers and the remaining purifiers and all connections. The purifiers were to be fixed and flour worms in position as well as two lines of shafting.

By 5 December, which was the time when Robinsons contract finished, all the machinery had been installed, The following Monday, the 7th of December, all shafting and machines were running and the following day the rollers were being feed grain.

Extracts of Milling’s tour after the redesign: “We can take a tour of the mill starting on the first floor where the new mill had drives and five lines of shafting, one for each line of rolls. The elevator bottoms were also located here. On the second floor were the rolls, the break

rolls being 60 ins long and the reduction rolls 40 ins.

These were Robinson’s latest type with patent roller feed and gear driven with a shaker-feed to the last two breaks.

It was noted that there was ample room between the rolls and around the machines, an important fact for the employee’s who were in charge of them. Each line of rolls had an exhaust trunk. The purifiers were located on the third floor in two lines; exhaust trunking over each line cleared the air and kept the room clean and healthy. There was also an elaborate arrangement of flour worms to assist in the making the numerous divisions of flour.

On the fourth floor were wood framed centrifugals, each machine placed singly so as to allow a passage between each and all fitted with Mr John Westgate’s patented ventilating fan for the prevention of condensation.

There was also an improved shutter arrangement for the inspection of the machines which prevented flour dropping on the floor.

The fifth floor had the centrifugals., two high and three tornados, making it five in all and a rotary for dividing the bran. There were also two aspirators for aspirating the wheat as it went on into the mill. All elevator bearings and worms were entirely self-lubricating. All electricity lighting the premises is generated on the premises. These new arrangement appeared to be very popular with the employees.”

These articles only give a brief glimpse of the several million records held by the Mills Archive Trust. If you would like to know more please email me at mills @millsarchive.org .

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US allows corn masa flour to be fortified with folic acid

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he US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it will allow folic acid to be added to a maize product called corn masa flour. The decision is intended to prevent more serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs) among the nation’s Hispanic population.

Corn masa flour is a specially treated maize flour used for tortillas, tamales, and other foods commonly consumed by Hispanics.

Most NTDs such as spina bifida and anencephaly can be prevented if women have at least 400 micrograms of folic acid daily prior to conception and the early days of pregnancy. To improve folic acid intake, in 1996 the FDA changed the US standard for enriched cereal grains to include folic acid. The only maize products included, however, were grits and maize meal. Because corn masa flour was not mentioned in the 1996 standard, manufacturers could not legally fortify these products for the US market.

A review published in 2014 showed that fortifying other grain products with folic acid led to a 36 percent decline in NTDs in the US, but the NTD prevalence among Hispanics was 21 percent higher than among non-Hispanics. In 2012, six organisations - March of Dimes, American Academy of Pediatrics, Spina Bifida Association, National Council of La Raza, Royal DSM, and Gruma Corporation - filed a citizens petition for the FDA to allow fortification of corn masa flour.

In February 2016, more than 40 members of the US Congress urged the FDA to add folic acid to the enrichment standard. Media stories, such as this news service and radio feature, have called attention to the petition for the past several months. Mexico and El Salvador include fortification of corn masa flour in their fortification mandates.

With the new FDA decision, corn masa flour may be fortified with folic acid at a level not to exceed 0.7 milligrams per pound. It is effective immediately.

Gruma Corporation, the world´s largest producer of corn masa flours and tortillas, has committed to deliver fortified products in the US. The North American Millers Association also supports the change.

“Today’s announcement represents a major victory for

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The Complexity of Balancing Sanitary Drying and Efficiency maternal and child health, especially in our Hispanic communities,” said March of Dimes President Dr. Jennifer L. Howse. Leaders of the organisations that filed the citizens’ petition held a news conference today to hail the FDA’s decision. They noted that fortifying corn masa products will save many lives and improve quality of life by preventing birth defects.

“We commend the public and private sectors for working together to find a solution to this public health issue,” said Scott J. Montgomery, Director of the Food Fortification Initiative. He noted that the experience offers several lessons for grain fortification. First, a country’s standard needs to include grains commonly consumed by all segments of the target population. In this case, it was an oversight to exclude corn masa flour from the 1996 legislation. Another lesson is that monitoring is essential as it was NTD surveillance that alerted policy makers to the higher NTD prevalence among Hispanics. A third lesson is that the FDA scientific review confirmed that folic acid is safe for the general population.

In 2012 a retired physician wrote that an opinion piece in support of the petition. He delivered two infants with anencephaly during his career. “They constituted my most devastating obstetric experiences,” he wrote.

Anencephaly is a type of NTD in which the brain and/ or skull is not formed properly. It is nearly always fatal.

In spina bifida, the neural tube fails to close correctly and causes spinal defects. Many affected children undergo repeated surgeries and have lifelong health issues. Severely affected children experience paralysis of the lower limbs and varying degrees of loss of bowel and bladder control.

Even mildly-affected children have permanent loss of some sensation or movement. An assessment of the cost savings in the US from preventing spina bifida showed an annual net savings of US$ 603 million.

Though folic acid for women of child-bearing age has been recommended for more than 25 years, only about one-third of American women take a daily multivitamin containing folic acid. The form of this B vitamin found in leafy green vegetables, fruits, and legumes is hard for the body to absorb, making it very difficult to get the equivalent of 400 grams of folic acid a day from unfortified food alone.

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Most sustainable office in the world based in the Netherlands

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he new head office of dryer and cooler manufacturer Geelen Counterflow in Haelen, The Netherlands, is the most sustainable office in the world, receiving a 99.94 percent score in the BREEAM certification system.

The building for 50 office employees generates 50 percent more solar energy than it needs for heating, air conditioning, lighting and computers. The extra energy is used in the factory for laser cutting of stainless steel and recharging of electric forklift trucks.

Where possible, the building materials are ‘Cradle to Cradle’ certified, which means that they do no harm to the environment and that they can be re-used at the end of their lifetime. The building is constructed out of wood, which is considered to have the lowest CO2 footprint of any construction material.

The design is optimised for employee health and productivity through control of daylight infiltration, air

IFAD and EIB join forces in support of agricultural development

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orking to build greater prosperity for disadvantaged and vulnerable rural people in developing countries around the world, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) signed an agreement today to reinforce and expand cooperation between the two organisations.

The Memorandum of Understanding was signed by EIB’s VicePresident, Pim van Ballekom, and IFAD’s Associate Vice President, HenockKifle, in the margins of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank Group Spring Meetings in Washington DC.

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quality and indoor lighting, and by using healthy materials.

Around the office a natural garden has been created using a variety of native plants and flowers. The landscaping also includes nesting sites for birds, bugs, bats and amphibians.

Sander Geelen is Managing Director of Geelen Counterflow: “In our never ending quest to build the best dryers and coolers for food and feed we apply the laws of nature around gravity, aerodynamics and thermodynamics.

So when we build a new office it only makes sense to respect these laws and the limits of nature too. This office is another step on our journey to phase out fossil fuels. The next step is to develop a new generation of dryers that will use renewable energy only.”

The office was designed by Architecten en Bouwmeesters. Construction management was by Wagemans Bouwadvies. The technical installations were designed by Dubourgraaf and Ad van de Ven was BREEAM-NL expert.

BREEAM is the world’s leading sustainability assessment method for buildings and projects. Globally there are more than 540,700 BREEAM certified developments. In the Netherlands, the system is managed by the Dutch Green Building Council.

The agreement reflects the shared focus of IFAD and EIB on developing agribusiness and creating jobs and prosperity in the countries where the two organisations both operate. In the context of recent international agreements such as the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on climate change, the partnership will focus on investments in agriculture that will result in sustainable and inclusive economic growth and continued food supplies for a growing population.

Through this partnership, the two organisations aim to share knowledge, implement joint projects and provide financial instruments, such as loans and guarantees, to better channel crucial financing to help smallholder farmers maximise their potential.

Pim van Ballekom, EIB VicePresident, said: “Agriculture and agribusiness play a very important role throughout the world, especially in developing and emerging

economies, as these sectors are huge employers and key to social issues such as livelihoods and food security.

They have the ability to create more jobs and to further drive growth in a sustainable manner. But to achieve this, they need the correct approach to investment, as well as sufficient funding. They deserve our full attention and support and this is where the EIB and IFAD can make a real impact.”

“IFAD and EIB share a common belief in the importance of investing in smallholder famers and in developing rural areas. Through the Sustainable Development Goals, the world has envisioned an inspiring future. By sharing our knowledge and working together, our two organisations can make a real contribution to ending hunger, achieving food security and ensuring that agriculture is a sustainable business.” added Associate VicePresident Henock Kifle of IFAD.

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AIB helps corn millers meet recent FDA approval for folic acid fortification

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he Food and Drug Administration announced the approval of folic acid fortification in corn masa flour on April 14. The approval allows manufacturers to voluntarily add up to 0.7 milligrams of folic acid per pound of corn masa flour, consistent with the levels of certain other enriched cereal grains.

Corn masa is used to make a variety of food product, including tortillas, tortilla chips, tamales, taco shells, and corn chips. Folic acid, a synthetic form of folate, is a B vitamin that when taken by a pregnant woman may help prevent birth defects.

Adding folic acid to corn masa will impact the nutritional profile and the ingredient listing of the products to which the masa is being added. AIB International’s food labelling services can help manufacturers update the necessary label components, like the nutrition and ingredient statement, to reflect these changes and meet FDA and USDA food regulations. Additionally, AIB’s lab testing services can test food products to validate fortification levels.

“We know many companies use corn masa in their products and AIB International is here to help them successfully bring products to market that meet this voluntary fortification”, said Valerie Olson, Director of Food Technical Services, AIB International.

“We aim to simplify labelling efforts by providing guidance and support to food companies incorporating folic acid.”

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According to Malcolm Graham from FiveF, the move will allow feed manufacturers the opportunity to retail a versatile range of ration alkalisation options.

“In AlkabupHa® the feed trade is already able to offer an infeed TMR alkaliser for units interested in making their own Alkalage or Alkagrain, but we wanted to help manufacturers become even more responsive to customer needs as more farmers appreciate the benefits of this technology.

“For example, the new Alkablend® blended feeds incorporate the super concentrated Alkagrain 150 Protein Premix at 20 percent, allowing approved blenders to produce a range of bespoke feeds made from the ingredients stocked to balance on-farm feed availability and quality,” Mr Graham said.

“In addition, the high specification Alkanut® ranges are manufactured pelleted feeds ready to use straight off the truck. This is a powerful alkalising feed option proven recently to be particularly useful for automated feeding systems, such as through milking parlours, robots and out-ofparlour feeders.” www.fivefalka.com

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Milling News [ Museum Story No. 1 ]

FLOUR IS LIFE FLOUR IS ART

“Demeter”, K. Willinek

Demeter, the Greek goddess of grain and fertility, watches over the fortunes and welfare of our FlourWorld Museum as a filigree work of art created with 10,000 knots in nylon thread. She also stands for Mühlenchemie in its role as a manufacturer of flour improvers and vitamin and mineral premixes, as a symbol of creative entrepreneurial energy and openness to the world.

Grain was the beginning With its collection of over 3,000 flour sacks from 130 countries around the globe, the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg, near Hamburg (Germany), is unique in the world of grain. It is an initiative and cultural project of Mühlenchemie and a token of thanks to all millers. The museum shows the history of flour and its significance for mankind: FLOUR IS LIFE. Every new sack with an interesting motif is welcome in the Sackotheque and will find a permanent home there.

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Progress, progress, progress!

Tom Blacker, International Milling and Grain Directory With a new month, and the year progressing, it is good to recap the progress and distribution of the current directory. Writing this column has always been a great way to stay in touch, to hear about this progress, and to also look ahead. In terms of progression, I need to say how pleasing it is that the Twitter followers of the directory’s Twitter channel has hit and gone beyond 1000 followers.

For those who aren’t yet followers, it is a great way to stay in touch in-between columns and keep in contact with the team.

This progress on Twitter coincided with a successful tour of Turkey this week. Prof. Dr. Hikmet Boyacioglu and I were the guests of a number of mills, bakeries and manufacturers and I also visited two national organisations to foster closer ties and to also achieve more localised content for the Turkish editions. One of these companies was TurkiyeyemBIR, The National Feed Manufacturer’s Association of Turkey. Located in a group with offices in the centre of Turkey’s capital city, Ankara, Prof. Dr. Hikmet Boyacioglu and I met with the Secretary General, Prof. Dr. Nizamettin Senköylü - look out for the story in one of our upcoming editions! Another story to look out for will be our visit to TMO (Turkish Grain Board) in Ankara, where we met with with Refik Kayhan Ünal, Member of the Board of Directors and Deputy General Manager, and Ayşin Şenses, Press and Public Relations Department Manager of TMO. We found that an overarching theme of our meetings was that similar challenges to current issues faced by European feed milling businesses are taking place in Turkey too.

From these visits, I hope to be providing our editorial teams with a wealth of invaluable material for Milling and Grain magazine in the near future, which I hope you will all enjoy.

The first of these editorials is in fact published in this issue: a review of the conference and exhibition TUSAF (Turkish Flour Industrialists’ Federation) 2016 – with a view to show the continuing levels of development in this industry.

Returning to the directory, so far in the past month of April, five new companies have joined as members; this is great so far but we are on the lookout for more! My colleagues Peter and Ivan in Oceania and Latin America respectively are stepping up to assist in this global reach. Other ways to register your company is via the directory’s homepage www.internationalmilling.com and also by directly contacting us via email -details at the first page of this magazine. Advertising options online and in print are also a great way to establish your products and brand in the industry. These are the best way to renew and begin.

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The Pelletier Column

The best of both worlds

by Christophe Pelletier Several years ago, one of the first presentations I made had the title “Back to the Future or Forward to the Past?” To this day, I still wonder which direction we are heading.

The past is everywhere it seems.

On the consumers’ side, there is a growing desire for food and farming like they believe it was made in the past. Call it authentic, natural, and old-fashioned or any other name that appeals to consumers, many people certainly have the past in mind when they make their food choices. This nostalgia of things that never really were, as I call it, is not a new phenomenon. It comes in cycles and it is more a reflection and a reaction of a general malaise about how the present world is perceived.

Of course, at the same time, consumers expect a level of food safety that today’s technology offers. They would not want to buy the same old food borne diseases. They want the best of both worlds; it is a fair expectation.

We long for what we fear is about to be lost Sometimes we want to part with the past and embrace novelty and progress, sometimes we long for what we fear is about to be lost. The further away from the equilibrium the pendulum goes, the harder it swings back in the other direction, and often it swings back too far. The polarisation of the debate on food and farming is just another expression of the magnitude of the pendulum swings.

The back and forth between future and past is not just in consumers markets, though. There is hardly any week without some research paper on farming by some university “rediscovering” what our forefathers knew from experience about sustainability and preserving resources, although back then the science was not advanced enough to explain what they knew.

Even in summits and conferences where the world elite likes to gather among peers, there seems to have been a renewed awareness about the importance of proper water management and of healthy soils lately. I would have thought that it was a given for anyone remotely involved in food and agriculture.

Sometimes, I have a feeling that we are disconnected with Nature. Perhaps increased wealth and comfort has made us think that we could extract ourselves from our biological nature. Then, it is quite fortunate that the threats and challenges that we are facing act as a wake-up call.

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just about our physical interaction and dependence with Nature. That would be too rational and too easy to deal with, I suppose.

Our nature contains both the emotional and the psychological. It adds quite another dimension of subjectivity that is more challenging to manage. The discrepancy between the emotional and the rational is certainly one of the main causes of tension between different groups and opinions. It expresses itself in many ways. There has always been a tension between tradition and modernity, as there is also between comfort zone and change.

Some will be more conservatives and others will be more adventurous and it is often difficult to find a consensus between such different adaptive behaviours towards the future. If that was not complicated enough, the way the programming that we all follow in our different cultures to perceive and deal with the outside world makes it even more difficult to reconcile different points of views in a global perspective.

Nonetheless, the psychological element is there, like it or not. We cannot ignore it and we cannot deny it. For the future, I believe it is probably a bigger challenge than finding new technologies to solve problems. The trick will be to manage the psychological to lead towards effective solutions and shape a world in which we have a future.

There are useful lessons to be learned from the past There are many useful lessons to be learned from the past, just as there are useful ones from the present. We must learn from them and use them to prevent repeating the same mistakes. It will be useful to mix past, present and a future vision to mix past experience with new knowledge and new tools and to rethink how we could rebuild our systems from scratch by eliminating unnecessary baggage and increase their effectiveness.

Just like in the human brain, we have to find ways to connect both hemispheres and build a bridge between the poles. Our future and current leadership must manage this fluid and grey area so that we use all of the potential within our societies, our histories and ourselves to build the foundation of a solid future. For everything that is polarised, getting the best and eliminating the worst of both worlds is the way to go, unless we want humanity to end up bipolar.

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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Over US$80,000 raised at 6th annual IMEF auctions

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hen the auctioneer’s gavel fell on the final winning bid during the annual IAOM Conference & Expo in Columbus, Ohio, the International Milling Education Foundation had raised US$81,500. The largest fundraising event of the year for the Foundation, the evening included a combination of silent and live auctions. The total included winning bids and pledged donations.

“I can’t say enough about the amazing support we continue to receive for the IMEF auctions,” stated Brad Allen, IMEF President at the conference.

“This year, we had a record number of items donated to the auction by our allied partners and milling companies.

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the funds will be put to good use.”

“Since the first donations were made in 2004, we’ve been able to raise over US$1.3 million,” Mr Allen continued.

“The funds raised have been used to support K-State students and professionals in furthering their education, as well as for developing content for a vocational training program and a website to help promote the milling industry as a great place to make a career.”

The donations ensure that IMEF will be able to continue to inspire leadership and achievement within the milling community as the Foundation supports learning and knowledge resources.

One of the recent projects funded by the IMEF endowment was the development of a Milling Technician certificate program, which is currently under way at Cowley College in Arkansas City, Kansas. IAOM plans to replicate the program in targeted areas within close proximity to milling facilities across the US. In addition, IMEF funds a scholarship program for milling science students at Kansas State University, as well as professionals in the industry to take the IAOM Correspondence Course in Flour Milling and resident milling courses. Two US$2500 scholarships were presented to K-State students for the 2016-17 academic year; and one scholarship to a professional for enrolment in the Correspondence Course.

Donations to the auction were made by milling companies, individuals, partner organisations, equipment and service suppliers and others. We’ve published the full list of donations on the Global Miller blog (gfmt.blogspot.com) http://bit.ly/1r3DkRp

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3 convincing reasons for PreAcid use in broiler production

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ne thing is certain, broiler chicken production is a business for professionals. With advances in breeding, feeding and animal husbandry, no other livestock species has been optimised as much as the modern breeds of broiler chicken. The key to successfully maximising growth performance is a well-developed intestine.

building blocks for the healthy development of the intestine. They support the development of intestinal villi and are therefore needed along the entire digestive tract. Butyric acid and its salts are metabolised at the start of the intestinal tract, where they become available to epithelial cells as a source of energy. In contrast, gluconic acid and its salts are not broken down until they reach the final section of the intestinal tract (Asano et al. 1997), PreAcid is required across the entire digestive tract where they undergo bacterial fermentation that primarily Butyric acid and its salts, the butyrates, are important generates butyrate (Kameue et al 2004; Tsukahara et al 2002).

As butyrate is also the main source Table 1: Effect of PreAcid on the performance parameters of broiler of energy for epithelial cells of the chicken Farm 1 Farm 2 large intestine (Roediger 1980), Positive PreAcid Positive PreAcid feeding gluconic acid and its salts can control Control indirectly stimulate epithelial growth in the final section of the intestinal tract as End Weight (g) 2091±93.1 2155±34.0 2272±124.7 2422±99.4 well. This favours the development of a Daily weight healthy intestinal structure (Biagi et al.

50.5±2.0 51.5±0.7 52.5±3.46 55.5±2.49 gains (g/day) 2006). The combination of butyrate and Feed utilisation gluconate therefore delivers an optimal 1.78 1.76 1.78 1.72 (g/g) supply of energy for epithelial cells Mortality (%) 7.34 6.96 9.03 5.52 along the entire intestinal tract, with the known advantages.

Feed cost/kg 0.72 0.71 0.72 0.70 meat (€) Studies have shown that gluconic acid can also stimulate the growth of useful microorganisms, such as for example bifidobacteria (Asano et al 1994; Tomioka et al 2001). An increased concentration of bifidobacteria in the intestine has a beneficial effect on the host organism’s health and reduces the risk of diarrhoea (Picard et al 2005).

Proven in practice: PreAcid is reliable A series of tests carried out at two large broiler farms examined the effects of PreAcid on biological performance parameters and on the profitability of these businesses.

To this end, the animals at Farm 1 (n=135,300) and Farm 2 (n=103,400) were divided into two feeding groups at each farm. The feed for the positive-control group contained butyric acid in capsule form, while that for the experimental group contained PreAcid.

PreAcid results: higher profitability Following the analysis of eight sequential cycles, the outcomes in the PreAcid group were clear cut: • reductions in mortality up to 39 percent • increases in end weights up to 6 percent • increases in daily weight gains up to 5.7 percent The return from the broiler cycles increased, because the production costs per kg poultry meat fell by up to 2.8 percent (see Table 1).

By using PreAcid, the production costs in both broiler factory farms could be reduced and notably higher dressing percentages achieved.

A positive side effect: As substantially lower odour levels arise during processing, handling PreAcid is clearly more pleasant compared with the use of butyrates.

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IAOM elects president, vice president and treasurer

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rad Allen, vice president and operations lead for Ardent Mills in Denver, Colorado, became the 112th president of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) at the Association’s 120th annual conference and expo on April 7, in Columbus, Ohio.

Stephen R Doyle, vice president at King Milling Company in Lowell, Michigan, was elected 2016-2017 vice president, and Jeff Hole, director of milling at Grain Craft in Mission Woods, Kansas, was elected 2016-2017 treasurer.

Highlighting the importance of safety in the workplace and the importance that the message be industry-wide, Brad Allen announced the theme for his presidency: “Zero is the Goal.”

He also stressed an important secondary theme that focuses on the development and training of a new generation of millers to replace the anticipated 50 percent of the workforce that will retire within the next decade.

As vice president, Stephen R Doyle will be responsible for overseeing preparations for the Association’s 2017

Left to right: Immediate Past President Roy Loepp, President Brad Allen, Vice President Stephen Doyle, Treasurer Jeff Hole, Executive Vice President Melinda Farris.

conference in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is in line to serve as the Association’s president from 2017-2018. Mr Doyle has been an active member of IAOM since 1987.

While serving as IAOM vice president, he will also be president of the International Milling Education Foundation (IMEF), a philanthropic partner of IAOM that funds a variety of educational programs related to the grain milling industry.

As treasurer, Jeff Hole will be responsible for overseeing preparations for the Association’s 2017 and 2018 conferences in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Atlanta, Georgia, respectively. He is also in line to serve as the Association’s president from 2018-2019. Mr Hole has been an active member of IAOM since 1994.

While serving as IAOM treasurer, he will also be vice president of the International Milling Education Foundation (IMEF), a philanthropic partner of IAOM that funds a variety of educational programs related to the grain milling industry. Mr Hole has served as the Central District Chairperson and on the IAOM board of directors from 2006-2012, representing the Central District. He has been on the Employee Relations Committee since 2011.

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The need for farmers to adapt to suit the commercial climate of the day

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by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG Last month I wrote my column as I travelled through India and then on to the Philippines. Since then, my travels have continued through Australia, Vietnam and Thailand where I witnessed agriculture go from one extreme of subsistence farming to another of agriculture on an industrial scale.

In Australia, you are also reminded that farming is totally weather dependent. For instance, the rains have so far missed parts of the Northern Territory and Queensland where livestock are starving and reliant on food deliveries of hay and straw from New South Wales just to keep alive vital breeding stock; with all other animals having either been slaughtered early or died from starvation.

For stock farmers, losing livestock is one of the worst blows that you can suffer when they are nurtured like family. For arable farmers and our urban cousins, this is a fact not understood and can be devastating. It matters not the breed of the cattle, sheep, goat or pigs, their breeding is always a lifetime’s commitment.

Recently, we saw the efforts of the New South Wales farmers who were attempting to alleviate the pressure on their colleagues by sending the biggest ever peace time convoy of trucks laden with forage to the area.

In southern Queensland, the harvest of sorgum is now getting started I think earlier than usual so we hope that the yields are not depressed. In central New South Wales there is a different story where rice yields are proportionate to the amount of rains that they have experienced. However, where we see the price of water exceed the price of land, without water crops or animals cannot survive as we saw earlier in this article.

The commercial realities of farming

Then we look at the commercial realities of farming and the farmer’s own ability to adapt and change to suit the commercial climate of the day.

With farmers changing in Queensland and New South Wales from the world’s most staple of diets, from rice to cotton. Where with new varieties and cropping techniques and of course prices in the millions per hectare being given over to this new crop, and new cotton gins developed to process the crop into cotton, seed 28 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain

and oil. Interestingly, a lot of the Australian cotton oil is sent to America for cooking; a country with a long history of cotton growing.

There are now about 40 cotton gins operating in Australia compared to the 1000 in the USA but using all of the very latest technology to ensure products of the highest quality. The newest gin I was privileged to visit with an investment of over AUS$ 40 mil owned by a farmer co operative with this sort of investment high quality cotton is another export product for the Australian farmers backed with large investments in machinery and irrigation.

Onward to Vietnam

From witnessing industrial farming in Australia I travelled on to Vietnam. What a contrast!

However, a country with paddy fields of less than half a hectare the country still ranks number three in the world for rice exports.

In Vietnam, there is also not such a massive reliance on machinery. They have the man power in abundance with still more than 70 percent of the population still relying on agriculture for their incomes, which in some cases are still below US$ 1000 per year.

However, with technology and education, this should improve and the government has ambitious plans in place to increase outputs.

With that increase in incomes, twinned with modern genetics for crops and livestock, huge increases in productivity can be achieved.

Vitally, as we see vast increases in industrial and housing developments, twinned with increasing urbanisation; all of which is taking place on the best of our agricultural land. This is putting even more pressure on the remaining farmers to use their adaptability and expertise to continue to produce food.

Looking towards Indonesia

Ensuring that we keep hold of the skills that the world cannot afford to lose, with my colleagues at Perendale we will be at Indo Livestock, which this year is held in Jakarta. Here we will be running some practical training sessions to demonstrate new technologies for high quality feeds, in order to improve livestock production.

Before going to Indonesia, I have another exhibition the China Animal Husbandry Expo held this year in Shenyang followed by World Pork Expo in the USA where I hope to see some of our readers. @AgrictecExports

The biotech company Unibio, which won the Danish Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition in 2015, is to construct new production facilities in Kalundborg, Denmark. The facilities - which are to employ unique new technology to produce sustainable protein for animal feed - will be built in connection with Kalundborg’s former water purifying plant. The new production facilities will be built in cooperation with Cowi and CKJ Steel, among others, and construction is expected to be finished by end-2016.

The Hamburg-based Stern-Wywiol Gruppe achieved a record sales figure of 444 million Euros in 2015 – resulting in 12 percent growth for the family business. The number of employees in Germany and abroad rose to nearly 1000. It is planned to continue this positive development in the growing international market for food and feed ingredients with investments of EU€25 million in the next two years. They include internationally well-known names like Hydrosol, Mühlenchemie, SternMaid, SternVitamin, Sternchemie, SternEnzym, HERZA Schokolade and Berg+Schmidt. Each company has specific competence in a particular field, for instance bakery or dairy products, deli foods, meat, fish, chocolate, flavourings, lecithin, enzymes or vitamins.

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Animal Feed Safety Training Coming Soon Kansas State University’s IGP Institure to lead Food Safety Modernisation Act feed training

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he Food Safety Modernisation Act is changing the way we think about animal food safety in the feed industry,” says Cassandra Jones, assistant professor of Grain Science and Industry at Kansas State University.

She adds, “Many in the feed and pet food industries are uncertain about the requirements of the rule and how it applies to their situation.”

As a result, Jones and a team of K-State faculty and alumni are joining with the National Grain and Feed Association to offer the NGFA-KSU Food Safety Modernisation Act Feed Industry Training planned for June 28-30, 2016 at the IGP Conference Center. The preventative controls for animal food training curriculum was developed by K-State in collaboration with faculty from North Carolina State University. As the project manager for the group who designed the curriculum, Jones says she is excited to offer the training for industry and regulators.

“There are many new requirements, and this course will describe those requirements to participants as well as give some ideas for implementation and training to those concepts,” Jones says. She adds, “Many industry and regulatory personnel are requesting training to be a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual. This course will utilise the FDA-recognised curriculum to achieve this certification.”

Key topics covered in the course will include: the applicability of the Preventative Controls for Animal Food rule, the requirements for Current Good Manufacturing Practices, and the items needed in a food safety plan, such as hazard analysis and preventive controls.

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“The concepts participants learn in this course will be pivotal in their success in developing and implementing an animal food safety plan and food safety system,” Jones says.

This course is unique compared to other courses where the curriculum is only for certification as a Preventive Controls Qualified Individual, because it also includes HACCP training. Upon completion of the course, participants will hold two certificates of training – one from the Food Safety Preventative Controls Alliance and one from the International HACCP Alliance.

This is just one example of the trainings offered through IGP Institute. In addition to grain processing and flour milling, IGP offers courses in the areas of grain marketing and risk management, and feed manufacturing and grain quality management. www.igpevents.grains.ksu.edu

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Conditioning, pressing and cooling require more than half of the energy necessary for the production of compound feed. The rising energy costs require the utilisation of possible savings. So it is worthwhile to leverage knowledge and competence for optimised process control!

To help you do precisely that, the IFF is offering a practical course: “Pelleting of compound feed” on June 7-8, 2016, at their centre in Braunschweig, Germany.

Technical knowledge on pelleting will be given both in lectures and in practical exercises at the pilot plant of the institute. In practical tests, different measuring and test methods will be introduced. The participants will be enabled to improve the handling and control of the pelleting process in daily practice with simple means.

The course mainly appeals to employees who are directly involved in the pelleting process and can influence significantly the essential quality properties of the produced pellets (abrasion stability, moisture) by their technical know-how and experience.

The participation in this course is especially recommended for the training and further education of persons who have entered the compound-feed industry from other industries.

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Ready to plug in and run, it is mounted on a mobile frame with quick-action floor jacks for stable operation anywhere in the plant.

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The Bühler pinch closing station offers maximum flexibility.

The open bags are safely guided through the process and therefore ensure top reliability and work safety. The machine can be adjusted quickly and without using any tools to different bag sizes, filling products and bag types made of paper or woven polypropylene.

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Among the many options available are round-to-square pipe transitions, square and conical reducers, flexible stub adaptors and sanitary pipe/tube extenders with clamp ferrules. Transitions are available with flanges on one or both ends as are flangeless/weld stub transitions and flanges can be drilled to suit. Custom shapes such as offset/oblique, rectangular and double-cone types can also be provided upon request.

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SPECIAL FOCUS The cost of ensuring that bucket elevator transport systems are explosion-safe can be up to three times as much as the cost of the transport system itself. That is also why Poeth Solids Processing, developers, builders, and installers high-quality machines and production lines for a wide range of solids handling processes, has developed the innovative and cost-effective Z-Conveyor for the high-capacity transport of bulk solids to great heights.

Poeth. based in Tegelen in the Netherlands, believe that the Z-Conveyor can be used for handling bulk solids in a wide range of sectors including the feed, food, chemicals, petfood and plastics.

The Z-Conveyor or Inclined Chain Conveyor is designed for vertically handling a variety of dry, free flowing bulk materials efficiently and with high capacities he plastic flights are carried by a chain, all contained in a standard trough.

Bulk materials flow smoothly and gently.

All materials are carried “en masse” without tumbling, thereby keeping material agitation and friction to a minimum. Because of the employment of this technique, particle degradation and separation are also minimised.

The Z-Conveyor eliminates the need for expensive investments in ATEX safety systems. The new system is also energyefficient and suitable for handling fragile products. Finally, the construction costs are also significantly lower.

Transporting dry particulates without the high cost of ATEX safety systems Dry organic particulates are explosion-prone by nature, especially when transported at speeds in excess of 1 m/s. Bucket elevator transport systems are very suitable for transporting materials vertically, but such systems are effective only at speeds in excess of 2 m/s.

Accordingly, bucket elevator systems must be equipped with increasingly rigorous and expensive ATEX-compliant safety systems.

As a result, the costs associated with decoupling, explosion suppression, load relief, misalignment protection, automation, and maintenance for bucket transport systems are presently up to three times as high as the cost of the transport system itself.

That is why Poeth Solids Processing has developed a new system for the horizontal, vertical, and/or diagonal transport of explosion-prone dry products, which eliminates the need for investing in expensive explosion suppression, and safety systems that comply with the ATEX standard.

Energy-efficient and gentle transport without major construction costs The innovative design of the new Z-Conveyor developed by

Poeth High-capacity Z-Conveyor Poeth allows for high loading levels and transport capacities from 45 m³ up to 220 m³ per hour. Since the Z-Conveyer has excellent performance characteristics at speeds well below 1 m/s, there is also no risk of explosion. This eliminates the need for making major investments in order to ensure compliance with the increasingly strict ATEX safety standards, including the costs resulting from the new CEN 305 legislation.

The new Z-Conveyor can also be installed without a roof structure, basement, or building pit, resulting in additional cost savings that make it a very attractive alternative to bucket transport. The Z-Conveyor transports powders, particles, and granulates gently and carefully, making it very suitable for fragile

ingredients such as malt, barley, maize, milk powders, coffee, tea, cocoa, soya, pressed pellets, and extruded products.

Poeth brand new Z-Conveyor system is also incredibly energyefficient, offering savings of up to 90 percent of energy costs compared to the alternatives such as pneumatic transport. The system can be used for vertical transport up to heights of 10 metres and more.

Poeth develops, builds, and installs high-quality machines and production lines for a wide range of solids handling processes.

The Z-Conveyor can be used for handling bulk solids in a wide range of sectors including the feed, food, chemicals, petfood, plastics, recycling, and brewery industries.

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Peer Hansen, Director of Marketing and Sales at Eye-Grain, Denmark (left) receives the 2016 GRAPAS Innovation Award for the iGrainCrop Protector technology based on ozonation technology from Roger Gilbert of Milling and Grain with Eloise Hillier-Richardson attending.

Yiannis Christodoulou of Agentis Innovations, Thailand (see picture overleaf), accepted the ‘runner-up’ award for his company’s M007 Real-Time In-Line Feed Reformulation equipment.

Milling and Grain magazine, the world’s oldest milling magazine still in print, sponsors the GRAPAS Innovation Awards. The Award is made to the most innovative and economically beneficial equipment, process or service.

Entries cover three categories: 1. A milling technology development (for flour, rice or other cereal) 2. A production process or refinement that makes for more efficient and/or safe production 3. A service (online or otherwise) that helps millers achieve their goals more efficiently The following were considered innovative and were awarded: ‘commended’; ‘highly commented; ‘runner-up and ‘winner’ by the independent judging panel.

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Eye-Grain APS, Denmark - iGrain and Crop-Protector based on ozonation technology

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“We believe ozonation technology will replace conventional use of fumigants in the coming years,” says Eye-Grain APS of Denmark The advantage of this product: Ozonation technology offers so many advantages over other ways of dealing with infestation and unwanted biologic activity in stored crops.

It is actually the only known technology that efficiently terminates all types of pathogens in stored grain, including insects, fungus, bacteria, etc.

The iGrain© and Crop-Protector © organisations under Eye-Grain APS has been one of the leading frontiers in acquiring know-how on practical application of the ozonation technology for the last 15 years.

Judging panel’s comment “The applicant proposes the use of oxonation by applying ozone (O3)for the control of insect infestation and unwanted biologic activity in stored cereal and other grains. Infestation is one of the major causes of the degradation or even total loss of grain in storage.

“Ever since Methyl Bromide (CH3Br), an ozone depleting and hazardous gas, was disallowed as a fumigant under the Montreal Protocol the industry has struggled to find viable alternatives, such as phosphine, which are similarly hazardous.

“The Applicant has described in detail, not only the principles of the new process but also means for its application. The claims are backed up by a number of respected references and at least one learned paper. ( the Journal of Stored Products Research, 7th May 2013). “The fact that Ozone is highly oxidative and unstable, decomposing rapidly to oxygen without leaving residues is a highly attractive characteristic. “If the process proves to be practical in common use then it will constitute an innovative and valuable advance in protecting food grains.”

The iGrain in the food and feed industries “We have been involved in the development of ozonation technology for 15 years, and supplied some systems and lots of know-how to the grain industry on this technology. We have recently taken the decision to move forward and design a whole series of ozonation machines to cover many of the obvious applications in the grain industry.” – Eye-Grain Grain stores are a perfect habitat for insects that live on dry seeds: they are protected from weather extremes and they offer an unlimited food resource as well as an undisturbed long time span.

Insect infestation in stored grain can result in economic losses up to nine percent in developed countries and 20 percent, locally much higher, in developing countries.

Furthermore, the presence of insects and their remains in grain may pose a health risk to humans and livestock.

At present the available control methods, are decreasing due in some cases to environmental and safety concerns among consumers and the society, thus stressing the demand for alternative control methods.

Gaseous ozone (O3) is highly oxidative, unstable and decomposes rapidly to oxygen without leaving residues. It is a powerful disinfectant used in water treatment and in the food industry and has recently received increasing interest for control of insect pests in stored grain. Several papers report on the potential of ozone to control stored product pests and it has also shown potential for control of insect strains that are resistant to the fumigant phosphine.

Lethal doses and exposure times for ozone vary – and have been reported to range between five parts per million by volume (ppm)/five days to 300ppm/18 hours for insects living among kernels. Ozone can also inactivate storage fungi in grain.

Recent studies show that all life stages of some of the economically most important pests of stored grain worldwide have stages that develop, concealed within kernels, such as eggs, larvae and pupae of primary pests, including insects that attack whole kernels: the weevils Sitophilus Granarius L., S. Oryzae L. and S. Zeamais Motschulsky (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) and the Lesser Grain Borer, Rhyzopertha Dominica F. (Coleoptera: Bostrychidae) can be treated and terminated with the use of ozone including all life stages and their ‘internal stages.’

‘Internal stages’ are to some extent protected from exposure to ozone, however with the newly acquired knowledge it has been possible to design a Crop-Protector Ozonator machine so that the treatment dose and time are matched to terminate these life stages as well.

Safety issues Unfortunately, traditional fumigation has in many cases lead to tragic lethal incidents with Methyl Bromide (now a redundant fumigant), Phosphine and other chemicals.

Fortunately, ozone is not toxic to humans in the doses required for ozonation of stored commodities. The scientific literature describes only a few incidents with ozone in the wastewater industry. None of these were lethal and in wastewater applications the ozone concentration is 100–1000 times higher than in the Crop-Protector Ozonator machine.

The toxicity to humans illustrated below, with indication of the ozone concentrated generated inside the closed loop system (blue circle), and the expected ambient concentration (brown circle).

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RUNNER UP

Agentis Innovations, Thailand - M007 Real-Time In-Line Feed Reformulation

Today, there is no other technology or method that can deliver a solution to the age old problem of moisture variation in the raw material. As such, the industry continues to suffer the consequence of formulating and dosing moisture sensitive material based on a fixed moisture value. The M007 Real Time In Line Reformulation technology will not only instantly and accurately measure the moisture of raw material during the weighing process of batching, but will also instantly and accurately auto-correct the raw material weights to reflect the true dry matter as specified by the formulation.

This sophisticated and intelligent system, identifies each formulation and its original dry matter target for each specified raw material. The auto corrections are real time, meaning that the system will perform this action for each and every batch of feed produced. Importantly, any Judging panel’s comment auto weight corrections are completed without any delay “The applicant is offering a system to optimise the proportions to the usual batching process and all changes made to the of materials in a feed, taking into account and compensating raw material inclusion by the system are captured, stored and for the variations of moisture content in the raw materials. reported for verification, traceability and stock reconciliation “Moisture variations in raw materials used in the feed milling purposes. industry normally adversely affects the ability to optimise the For the first time, feed companies are able to accurately least-cost formulation of feeds. control the true dry matter entering the mixer, produce feed “Agentis Innovations claims to have a unique ability to that is to the correct nutrient density and make significant cost compensate for these variations with its real-time and in-line savings by avoiding nutrient giveaway and stock losses. measurement capability. “The resulting consistent production Agentis Innovations’ M007 Real Time In Line Reformulation of feed at the correct dry matter and formulated cost would technology has been developed in such a way that is provide significant economic benefits “It is anticipated that versatile and flexible, meaning that the same technology can the technology could be modified to work and deliver similar easily be modified to work and deliver the same results to benefits to other milling industries including flour milling.” other milling industries such as flour milling.

Highly Commended Dinnissen, The Netherlands - Hamex® Hammermill with semiautomatic sieve exchanger The screens are positioned in a screen holder on a guiding system. This holder can move outwards over a horizontal slide.

However, the mill housing is fully closed in its extended end position. The pneumatic screen clamp can be released, after which the screens are to be exchanged manually.

The screen holder locks the screens in a hinged clamp that opens up wide during screen exchange, so they slide in easily. The operator only needs to be physically present at the machine when sliding the screens out and in. The guiding system is motorised and being operated in the safety zone.

Due to the very precise fit between the screens and the clamp, product leakage is minimised. The machine is characterized by high capacity, efficiency, very fine and precise grinding and uniformity of the processed end-product

Highly Commended Bastak, Turkey - Sampler Cleaner - Brand 13500 Through its rotatable cylinder sieve inside the device, a sample can sifted and classified. The sample is then collected in the balanced drawers for impurity.

Through the LCD touchable screen, the process can be controlled including sieve turning speed, feeding gate opening, blowing power and process time and language selection, reports and logs.

Light materials, broken materials, good materials and foreign materials can be separated easily and classified for: wheat, barley, maize, rye, oats, etc. Before buying raw materials, this device informs you about the quality of the products by analyzing quality control and impurity. The product has 10-inch touch screen whereas other machines don’t – everything on the machine can be controlled by the touch screen. All results can be printed out and all results are saved in a bulletin log.

Commended IMAS, Turkey - Multimilla Roller Mill Just over a year ago in April 2015, Imas introduced its cast iron Multimilla Roller Mill. The roller mill body is made of lamel black-lead cast iron. This material is used to absorb knocks and vibration in machine bodies. This has advantage over steel.

Inox contact surfaces, Inox main walls: In addition to contact surfaces in other roller mills, Multimilla roller mill main side walls are also completely Inox. This is very important for hygiene and sanitation.

The dimensions are accurate in cast iron bodies as the parts are machined in CNC machines rather than being welded. As a result, the parallelity of roll housings is excellent.

Turbo-negative pressure to eliminate dusting at feed gate: 1) Evacuates trapped dusty air from the inlet hopper to the outlet hopper by using pneumatic system and 2) adjustable turbo system creates negative pressure around the break rolls.

Dust around the rolls is sucked in preventing it from escaping.

Commended Norvidan A/S, Denmark - TADS (Temperature At the Die System) The Norvidan TADS was introduced in 2015 is a system developed to fight salmonella in the animal feed milling industry. Measuring the temperature of pellets immediately when they are produced at the die of the press can establish and record the true, highest pellet temperature of the pellet and display and lock it into a database for documentation, QA purposes.

The TADS is a on-line measuring mechanical device easily mounted on the pellet press door. Via a PLC the signal is provided to at PC for displaying and logging. It is the fully automatic, logging of critical temperature data and hence it reduces the task of staff in the mill and can potentially lead to free staff for other tasks.

TADS also gives information on how well the conditioner(s) are working since the temperature of the meal and the temperature of the leaving the die can be compared and the “Temperature across the Die” is known.

Commended Matador (Jiangsu) Machinery Engineering Co Ltd, China - Feed Machines; turnkey feed plants and biomass machines Matador designs and builds key process machines, but also offers complete plant solutions for the global animal feed and biomass pellets industries. Its business is based on a competitive approach to matching the requirements of successful livestock feed, aquatic feed, pet food and biomass pellets companies. When designing new technologies or customer specific plant solutions, Matador has to take account of the demand for reliable processing, cost efficiency, uniform quality and high-performance animal feed and biomass pellets, considering the shifting availability of feed ingredients, the increasing number of environmental standards and hygiene regulations and the requirement for traceability in the interests of food safety.

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THE IDEA EXCHANGE SIX OF THE BEST

‘The early bird catches the worm,’ an English proverb which dates back to 1670s, was evident in Austin, Texas, USA in February when Kirby Bradley of chaired an early morning gathering of The Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) members under the banner of an Idea Exchange.

Each year a number of companies are selected to give brief presentations on how their product or idea benefits the industry. This year 11 companies participated and presented their latest developments in just a few minutes – the microphone going dead when time was up.

The Idea Exchange is open to all registered attendees and the conference hall at 09:00 on Sunday February 28, 2016 was crowed with standing room only.

Milling and Grain presents six of the best ‘ideas’ presented this year in our post-event report below:

R. Stahl Inc by Ross Blanford, Southeastern Regional Sales Director, R. Stahl Inc “The R. Stahl Epik breaker panel is one of a series of solutions designed for the NEC market to eliminate the need for cast aluminum enclosures in areas where hazardous dusts, gases and fibers are present.

“Constructed of 316S stainless steel, it is designed using UL489 certified explosion protected breaker technology, moving the explosion protection from the enclosure to the breaker itself providing a safer and more cost effective way to install power distribution, heat trace and lighting panels in hazardous locations.

“This is a Class II, Division 1 & 2 Group G certified product with main lug only distribution, up to 42 circuits, GFI/GFCI available in 5mA and 30mA and a unique photo cell designed with both battery back-up and standard fixtures “R. Stahl offers a complete selection of explosion protected electrical and automation equipment along with custom system solutions to help prevent explosions in your facility.”

Email: ross.blanford@rstahl.com www.rstahl.com

Kasa Controls & Automation

by John Claman, Representative, Kasa Controls & Automation

“KTrack Bin Inventory Management and Traceability Software by Konnection provides bin graphics with commodities, volume, and grade factors per bin.

It improves inventory management and provides ‘one step back/one step forward’ traceability as required by the 2002 Bioterrorism Act and by processors due to FSMA. “KTrack works with existing scale-interface software to assign inbound and outbound tickets to the corresponding destination or source bins. It provides bin determination to prevent co-mingling of commodities and helps segregate wet, dry, high protein, GMO, etc.

“For producers, KTrack sends texts and emails of ticket data upon weigh out, improving harvest decisions, quality, and customer service and for plant operators, KTrack sends texts and emails as bins near full to prevent slugging.

“Our software also sends messages if trucks are onsite longer than usual.

KTrack can be accessed remotely, display multiple locations, and can improve service to customers as well as public and employee safety.”

Email: jclaman@konnection.com www.konnection.com

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The Arnold Company

by Albert Middeke, President and owner of the Arnold Company “The ‘Rhino’ Railcar Vibrator Lifter removes the danger of lifting, attaching and removing heavy railcar vibrators.

“Although very beneficial, railcar vibrators typically weigh between 6585lbs (30-40kg), making the task of lifting and maneuvering them quite unsafe for one person.

“The Rhino is powered by a pneumatic motor which operates a smooth and powerful hydraulic system designed to safely and easily adjust the vibrator height and angle with simple joystick controls. This enables a single user to easily lift and align the railcar vibrator to attach and remove it from the railcar pocket.

“The vibrator and the lifter operate off of the same pneumatic line, allowing the user to simply switch air power from the Rhino’s hydraulics to the pneumatic vibrator with the touch of a lever. Custom brackets allow the lifter to be used with either roller vibrators or piston vibrators.

Email: albert@arnoldcompany.com Website: www.arnoldcompany.com

Electro-Sensors Inc by Rick Eller, Sales and Business Development Manager, Electro-Sensors Inc “As crop production and facility automation increase, requirements for hazard monitoring systems to quickly and accurately detect and report equipment failures also increase. This is especially critical where undetected warnings or slow responsiveness may lead to catastrophic losses of human life or plant equipment.

“Traditionally, bearing temperature warning and shutdown values were fixed and did not compensate for fluctuating environments or seasonal temperatures. The HazardPRO TM wireless system solves this by adding ambient sensors in combination with equipment temperature sensors to minimize false alarms while immediately notifying of legitimate warnings to ensure equipment is safely managed.

“Grain elevators incorporating HazardPRO utilize ambient sensors on each side of the tail and head sections to continuously monitor temperature changes and adjust warning and shutdown set points real-time and in direct proportion with the current conditions. The resulting benefit of ambient compensation is increased plant safety with fewer invalid nuisance alarms.”

Email: reller@electro-sensors.com www.electro-sensors.com 4B Components Ltd

by Brian Knapp, Vice President – Electronics Division of 4B Components Ltd “The Milli-Speed is a two-wire loop powered 4-20 mA analog output sensor. It is designed to detect belt slip, belt under speed, stop motion, low speed or zero speed on bucket elevators, conveyors, airlocks, fans and other rotating machines.

“The Milli-Speed is set to the machine’s normal running speed by simple magnetic calibration. During calibration, the 4-20mA linear output signal is automatically scaled for zero speed (4mA) to full speed (17mA) with over speed detection (20mA). Unlike other 4-20mA sensors, the output signal of the Milli-Speed is consistent over different shaft speeds, which eliminates PLC or DCS programming errors.

“The Milli-Speed is Class II Division 1 Groups E, F & G approved for hazardous dust environments. Additionally, 4B’s SpeedMaster™ can be used to verify the calibration of the Milli-Speed to ensure that the alarm and shutdown features of your entire system are working correctly.”

Email: bknapp@go4b.com Website: www.go4b.com/usa

BinMaster

by Scott Hudson, Executive Vice President of Sales & Marketing, BinMaster “Simple, yet sophisticated bin monitoring that tracks real-time temperature development, grain moisture trending, early spoilage detection (CO2), and level indication can now be achieved using a single cable.

“The All-in-One cable is a breakthrough advancement in grain monitoring that saves money and simplifies installation while providing precise digital reporting for a variety of silo and grain conditions. A single cable can monitor temperature, grain moisture, silo head space moisture and if desired, integrate a CO2 sensor option. It can also give an approximation of the level of grain in the silo.

“Data is sent to the Crop-Protector™ Manager software for a complete overview of conditions for each silo, with a matrix view of the entire operation. The All-in-One system allows you to monitor temperature, grain moisture, spoilage protection (with optional CO2 sensor) and control of your aeration fans and roof vents from a single software.

Email: jchristensen@binmaster.com www binmaster.com

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ADM FEEDMILL

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Meeting growing food demand requires fast, smart work

by Roger Gilbert, Publisher

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ver the past decade, or possibly longer, one of China’s major feedmilling equipment companies has been constructing more than 350 feedmills annually. In 2014 the company built an astonishing 400 new feedmills around the world.

Many of those mills have been constructed within short time frames and often within 10 months from ground-break to commissioning.

Milling and Grain was fortunate enough to visit one all-concrete construction coming online when I visited China in December 2015, and was invited by Famsun (Muyang Holdings) to tour the new 110,000-tonne ADM feedmill – the first the company has built in China.

“This is our high-speed solution,” says the project manager for Famsun (Muyang Holdings) to the country’s growing demand for more food and who will remain committed to the project for three months following commissioning.

Slower growth projected

However, the future is not so bright in terms of total constructions as more competitors enter the internal market and falling local demand.

The latter may seem to be an incredible change after so many years of steady year-on-year increases in demand, but those within the feed industry in China point directly to the fall in demand for meat, fish and dairy products, which in turn has brought about a significant drop in total feed production the country has experienced since 2013: At that time output was destined to rise from 189 million tonnes to over 200 milling tonnes per annum.

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Today, total feed production has fallen to under 180 million tonnes and is projected to fall further before stabilising.

Performing at above the global average

Regardless of the cutback, China is still producing more than 133.6kg of scientifically formulated compound feed per head of population, which is the world’s average There is no doubt that a country of 1.3 billion people needs more feedmills and the Famsun (Muyang Holdings) company continues to deliver a large number of those mills at affordable prices and with some sophistication that meets the demands being placed upon the local feed industry to match international feed production standards.

It is also worth noting that China is turning from a supply driven economy to one that has a growing internal demand for consumer products, and food proteins cannot be excluded.

"The demand for new mill building is not limited to China alone" says our guide.

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"Visiting a mill being commissioned brings all those linked yet individual components to life as one functioning unit and allows the building itself to begin to take on a heart beat and a warmth that is a positive force that you know can only be appreciated by all the farmers, livestock and ultimately people who will improve their income and food intake as a result of a construction of this nature"

not have the engineering experience locally to build the mills needed themselves.

“We are also developing outside Asia. Famsun (Muyang Holdings) has nearly 50 agencies, sales and service stations and spare parts warehouses worldwide and close to its customers and is reaching as far away as Spain and the USA and we have already finished three such mills,” he adds.

To achieve its goals, Famsun (Muyang Holdings) has moved away from simply providing worldwide support from is homebase in China.

“In the past we had sales people only outside China, today we have worldwide support from our production bases the provide research and development, servicing and wear housing in several locations.”

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entering the reception area and being guided by Famsun (Muyang Holdings) project manager at the ADM mill.

We are welcome to view all levels of the mill and explore all areas, however due to commercial reasons we are not given permission to report on the production process nor the equipment installed. However, suffice to say this mill measures up to anything we have toured outside China and is operating with most up-to-date computer control systems.

From top to bottom

We visited the header room where we learnt that a large volume of the raw material to be used in compound feeds would be maize, which is a very abrasive material. A ‘white air’ systems has been installed with a new design to collect dust.

The top floor also houses all the dust collection equipment. On the same floor we found sifters that all raw materials pass over before going to the grinding bins for pre-grinding.

The energy for the mill is provided by an independent boiler house constructed by Famsun (Muyang Holdings) and is located across the road. It provides energy to other facilities besides the feedmill in this industrial area.

The control room is fitted with both Famsun (Muyang Holdings) and WEM computer control systems which are run by a production manager.

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manager. The mill was operating a start-up schedule, of just one eight-hour shift per day.

We also viewed the cooler and an automated steam-heated fat coating unit for coating pellets.

There can be nothing better than visiting a new feedmill.

Everything is clean and dust free; the equipment is gleaming and in its livery and branded colours.

Visiting a mill being commissioned brings all those linked yet individual components to life as one functioning unit and allows the building itself to begin to take on a heart beat and a warmth that is a positive force that you know can only be appreciated by all the farmers, livestock and ultimately people who will improve their income and food intake as a result of a construction of this nature. The mill was officially opened on November 12, 2015.

Our visit came a moth later.

Installation of all processing equipment had taken just three months, being lifted into the all-concrete building through an open side that had been left unfinished in order for this to take place, and was only closed after all equipment and internal construction work had been completed.

“Our designers worked with the construction company to build a factory with equipment in place in 10 months,” says the project manager proudly. And we must congratulate him, Famsun (Muyang Holdings), the construction company and ADM for such an uplifting experience. Thank you.

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REPRODUCING AND UP-SCALING LOCAL TRADITIONS

by Tom Blacker, Milling and Grain magazine he Newcopan mill, located in the quaint Tuscan town of Castelfiorentino just south west of Florence, is a new mill by Golfetto Sangati which was built to produce traditional Tuscan flour.

However, there is much more to what is being produced here than first meets the eye.

The Tognetti family, entrepreneurs in the bakery industry for well over 50 years, are proud to show their new mill, which was built with the specific aim of processing one of the most typical and ancient cereals of Tuscany, the Verna wheat.

The strategy for this mill derives from the first PIF (Progetto Integrato di Filiera, i.e. Integrated Production Chain Project), developed by Regione Toscana on cereals. The agronomy department of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa and the medicine department of Firenze University cooperated in order to preserve and enhance local varieties of agricultural products by producing farm-to-table food.

The mill processes grains farmed by 60 Tuscan crop farmers and is the first project of its kind in Italy, thus improving the traceability of flour from farm-to-mill, mill-to-bakery and bakery-to-market; guaranteeing the superior quality of the food.

Verna grain: health and tradition

The Verna variety of flour is also said to be a healthy alternative as Tuscan bread. Here below are its main features: Increased amounts of beneficial nutrients (vitamins of group B as folic acid and vitamin B6 and minerals such as phosphorus, magnesium, selenium) Increased amounts of antioxidants

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This technologically advanced mill, also includes a traditional millstone solely dedicated to the production of whole wheat flour.

The production process comprises of a pre-cleaning system for cereal entering the plant, allowing for the elimination of coarse waste before the corn silage; the grain is then cleaned more intensely and conditioned for the grinding process.

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"The Tognetti family is planning to promote the authenticity and quality of Tuscan food in the UK market; who are always appreciative of the very finest food products"

This technologically advanced mill, also includes a traditional millstone solely dedicated to the production of whole wheat flour.

grinding, guaranteeing a very good final flour yield. Subsequent milling with the new Synthesis mills, sieving using a GQTG Plansichter and the cleaning by Puriswing purifiers ensures the optimal selection of the ground products.

The entire milling process is fully manageable and controllable through computer or mobile devices so that both performance and complete traceability are guaranteed.

Exports and training: key to future growth

In addition to the traditional machines, the cleaning process includes a separator with air extractor, a stone remover, intensive cleaning brushes and an optical sorter, to guarantee perfect sorting of the good cereal to be sent through to milling.

Automatic conditioning keeps the humidity constant during

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To date, Newcopan has enjoyed over 20 years of exports of bakery four to the UK; an admirer of quality products coming from Tuscany. The Tognetti family is planning to promote the authenticity and quality of Tuscan food in the UK market where buyers are always appreciative of the very finest food products.

One of the major attributes that I witnessed when visiting Newcopan is the presence of a very evident focus on establishing sustainable growth.

The partnership with Pisa ‘Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna’ and Firenze University, teamed with the cooperation of wheat farmers, displays Newcopan’s desire to increase its market share going forward so that it will be manufacturing and promoting the benefits of the Tuscan tradition in safe and healthy food products.

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MID-YEAR MILL REPORT IRAQ

THE AL BASRA FLOUR MILL

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ybakar announces the delivery of Al Basra flour mill in Iraq last month. Owned by Kubba group, Al Basra flourmill is one of the most prestigious flour milling companies in Iraq, with the group being in the milling business since the 1960s.

Currently, Al Basra flourmill is the most developed flourmill in Iraq. Equipped with Aybakar’s crown jewel CERES II INOX roller mills, the mill exceeds Iraqi and international standards. These stainless steel roller mills are equipped with PLC driven control units, central lubrication system, rolls that can be replaced within 20 minutes and retractable feed rolls.

With a capacity of 250 tons/day, Al Basra flourmill is controlled by state of art PLC system. The mill features a precleaning system of 50 tons/hour and a cleaning system of 15 tons/hour. All the products are weighed and conveyed to storage by pneumatic systems. The packing system includes double weighing bagging machines at a capacity of 20 tons/hour for flour and 15 tons/hour for bran.

“Trying to fit the latest equipment was very challenging”

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“The mill building was made for older technology and trying to fit the latest equipment was very challenging"

the latest equipment was very challenging. We had to apply many custom made solutions. This is one of our strongest suits: we create tailor made solutions to satisfy the needs of our customer” she said. “The average temperature is over 40 degrees Celsius for more than four months in Basra with a humidity of over 80 percent. We had to take the local conditions into account during our design phase.”

This was not the first time that Kubbe group dealt with Aybakar. The business relationship has been going on over 20 years. The owner of the mill, Mr Kais Hikmet Kubba is very satisfied with his new mill: “ we have been dealing with Aybakar for very long time. Previously, we bought individual machines such as roller mills, sifters and bagging systems from them.”

“I now consider myself part of the Aybakar family”

“Our experience was more than satisfying with reliable machines and good after sales service,” stated Mr Kubba,

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adding that, “I can easily say that I now consider myself part of Aybakar family, as they have always been there for us when we needed them.”

Mr Kubba also complimented the cost effectiveness of the project and the efficiency with which Aybakar executed when he added that,” When we gave them a turnkey Project, we were amazed with the solutions that they created for us. While keeping the investment cost low, they were able to adapt the latest technology to my mill.”

“Thanks to my team of experts and Aybakar’s technology; our flour is the most sought after product in the Basra region.”

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MID-YEAR MILL REPORT TAIWAN

CTH MILLS

A FLOUR MILLING INDUSTRY THAT’S BASED ON FRIENDSHIPS AND PATRIOTISM

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Milling and Grain reports on its visit to the latest new build in Taiwan – CTH Mills – that has the industry talking throughout South East Asia aiwan has not always been the graceful, peaceful and plentiful country it is today. There was a time following the Second World War when the country was in a poor state and conditions were tough for a population that had not long annexed itself from the Chinese mainland, and was relying on its own dedication and resources to establish a new beginning and to feed itself.

“My great grandfather built our original flour mill here in Taipei in 1953 – over 60 years ago. He had been working in Thailand prior to the war and operated a gold shop business in Bangkok’s Chinatown” says Brian Lin Suphananonta, who is in his early-30s and is now operating the family milling business which owns the newest flour mill in Taiwan.

Mr Suphananonta is a fourth generation flour miller at his family-owned Chiao Thai Hsing Enterprise Company where he has worked since 2012. He speaks excellent English and has studied at Boston University, USA, when he gained an undergraduate degree in finance and operation.

He has completed the IAOM Fundamental Milling Course, has attended the OCRIM Milling Training Course and has a KSU/ IGP Milling Specialist Credential.

In his role as ‘Assistant to the Chairman’, he oversees the day-to-day operation of the new mill, which is in the Yangmei District of Taoyuan on the outskirts of Taipei. He is supported by Plant Manager Cheng, who has worked in the family business for more than 50 years and is the second-longest serving employee. Alongside Mr Cheng is Leon Huang, who joined the company at the start of the new build in 2011, and is extremely knowledgeable about the new operating systems within the mill.

The government had asked skilled men “to do something in Taiwan for the food industry,” he adds.

“After the war the Taiwan government asked businessmen who

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had gone abroad to invest in Taiwan and a lot of patriotic people like my great grandfather came back. He built one of the first flour mills in Taiwan.”

Today, the family business ‘tops-and-tails’ the flour milling industry in Taiwan; having built the earliest mill in the country and now the newest mill.

The family business is known locally as CTH Mills and is processing over 1000 tonnes of wheat per day for the Taiwanese market.

The original mills is located in downtown Taipei and accounts for 30 percent of total production while the new CTH Mill, at Taoyuan, makes up the remaining 70 percent.

The new mill was built and equipped by Ocrim and is attracting attention not only from within the country but also from throughout South East Asia as visiting flour millers come from as far afield as Indonesia and the Philippines can testify.

Whilst the old mill was destined to close in 2016 it still continues to process wheat at 300 tonnes per day today, while the new mill processes 760 tonnes per day from its two production lines.

“This is the most technologically-advanced flour mill in the region,” says Mr Suphananonta. “It is fully computerised and highly automated.”

Friendships in flour milling

What strikes the visitor as unusual is that the CTH Mill not only stands right beside the company’s main competitor in the marketplace, but it has a high-level conveyor link which joins the two companies’ production facilities.

“We are very friendly with our neighbor,” says Mr Suphananonta proudly.

It’s the LH Mill and is the country’s number one flour production unit in terms of volume. The location and linkage is all about Taiwanese businesses helping each other, which reflects the spirit of communal effort that has allowed the country to

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survive independently in the South China Sea. “There’s personal friendships involved and a synergy between production units of the two mills. We share the future and on occasion when wheat supplies demand it we can readily supply each other. We also offer each other technical support,” he adds.

Taiwan has a population of some 23 million inhabitants supported by just 20 flour mills of varying capacities and qualities. In the past the country had built 30-40 mills but many were not efficient and have closed.

“Today’s consumers are looking for higher quality foodstuffs

and safety compliance. Older mills cannot achieve what new mills can in these terms, he adds.

“We see these older mills being phased out over time. There is also over-capacity in our marketplace and a lot of the smaller mills are running at just 10-20 percent.

“We try to deliver quality and a value-added services to win over customers, but this is difficult in a marketplace where personal relationships are important.”

Many mills have been family-operated for two or three generations like ours and have loyal customers. They are not

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In addition, the mill has more modern purifiers. An advancement, says Mr Suphananonta is that there is now an extra set to do detailed particle separation from the outer layer of the grain.

The mill itself is positively pressurised to pharmaceutical standards, so it is set up to keep outside air and foreign particles from entering the building. This is in addition to a central vacuum systems that operates through one combined system for the entire mill.

Separate from the mill itself are the brand-new stone grinding mills and this is where the mill is looking to expand its production in future.

“Overall flour standards in the country are high compared to less developed countries in the region.

“We hope to be a pioneer of healthy flour products, with products produced from spelts milled from ancient wheat varieties.

“However, at present we are more of a standard white flour mill but we would like to produce products in the Japanese style, for example, in future,” explains Mr Suphananonta.

Gluten-free, while not yet an issue in Asia is making an impact and one Mr Suphananonta does not favour.

“We should be supporting studies based on sound science rather than just responding to initiatives being undertaken by special interest groups.

“There is a trend for people to believe what they read in magazines and books. This is not a health issue but a fitness issue. People interviewed keep hearing gluten is bad for us.

Scientifically, unless you have celiac disease, it’s not bad for you and therefore not eating gluten is simply a personal choice, which is fine but should not be seen as a choice warranted due to imaginary health concerns.”

Silos to resist earthquakes

losing money and have enough production to sustain themselves, but over the next five to 10 years we will see the next generation unable to take over their families’ operations and there will be a better opportunity for prosperity among the new facilities being built,” he explains.

In the future the milling industry will have to be able to meet increasing regulation requirements, he points out.

“We have had our share of scandals around food safety and oil production caused by people cutting corners.

“With stricter regulations and consumers becoming more sensitive to what they are putting on their tables, we will need people in our industry who are dedicated to safety and quality.”

Equipped for the future

CTH Mills has the first optical colour sorters to be installed in Taiwan and all incoming wheat passes through them. Both are 20-tonne-per-hour capacity machines.

Without the colour sorters one of the problems had been toxin contamination, where damaged and discoloured grains and cereals were finding their way into the production system. The new Ocrim equipment takes care of this aspect of quality control.

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The flour mill is supported by a brand new, all-concrete, 20,000-tonne capacity bank of silos that are arranged in a grid of 28 individual units with 18 1000 tonnes bins plus 10 ‘star’ bins of 600 tonnes.

The entire mill is built like a fortress at a cost of US$100 million including equipment, says Mr Suphananonta.

“We are in an earthquake region on the Pacific rim and therefore the foundations of the mill and silos have been built to withstand a significant earthquake.”

Milling in a hot and humid country also focuses the production staff on addressing mould and condensation challenges.

Mr Suphananonta says mould is always an issue and all areas of the mill have to be cleaned regularly in an attempt to combat the problem and control the moisture levels in the final product.

“We use grade one wheat with a ‘falling number’ above 350 so that our raw materials remain in good condition.”

Wheat storage is limited to a duration of just one month with shipments coming in by trucks every operational day. The company’s quality assurance laboratory also carries out random wheat sampling for trucks coming into the mill.

“We have a full bakery laboratory and we test everything that is workable in our flour.”

Full transparency with customers

The whole mill is controlled by just three operational staff per shift, excluding those on the bagging lines and in warehousing.

The mill runs a two-shift schedule.

All flour passes through a quality control and assessment

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Each batch is signed off by the quality assurance supervisor before receiving a finally stamp of approval from the company’s technical team.

“These specifications are standard. What really concerns us are the bacterial counts and USDA pesticide and toxin residue reports which are directly of concern to bakeries and consumers.”

The company offers its customers the ability to track the products they buy through a website that contains all the certification details by batch number; including each products GMO status. A QR code sticker on its 1kg product packaging instantly links buyers to the relevant batch information online.

“Through this type of transparency customers can see everything we have recorded for each batch produced and wheat used – except sensitive information such as prices of course.

“Our commitment to our customers is to provide a safe, highquality product. And of course we all know that we should get what we pay for.

“Our statistics show that two out of 10 visitors to our website are buyers. Young people are trying to use the service and bread makers also have cell phones and are looking at the batch information we provide on the website. This gives the consumer increased confidence in what we are providing for them and their families.”

Security not overlooked

Security and sanitary standards are also important in maintaining quality standards.

“We need to know who comes into the mill and who goes in and out of all our production areas. Each door is key-card operated.

And there are over 300 cameras monitoring the factory and its production processes.

Finally, Mr Suphananonta talks about the need to maintain cleanliness in the flour mill at all times.

“We have a dedicated team of cleaners that keeps the whole mill clean.” And cleanliness is the company watchword not only throughout the factory and its surroundings, but more importantly in the products it produces.

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GRAINS

– challenging press perceptions

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by Judi Adams, MS, RDN, J Adams & Co.

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isparagement of carbohydrates dates back to the 1800’s and is periodically revived by charlatans who want to sell books or products.

Unfortunately, primarily in developed countries, many citizens are looking for “magic bullets” to lose weight. Low-carbohydrate diets have been shown to reduce weight faster than high-carb diets, but the weight comes back just as quickly when the diet is ended. The good news is that few people can stay on a low-carb diet long enough to do any permanent damage to their bodies.

Grain foods are also accused of causing numerous diseases and conditions, but a recent article from CIMMYT (International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center) puts those accusations in proper perspective: “If it were correct that cereals were the cause of Alzheimer’s, arteriosclerosis, Parkinson’s, autism and loss of cognitive capacity and neurodevelopmental disorders, civilization would have been incapacitated and come to a halt many years ago.”

(Anti-Wheat Fad Diets Undermine Global Food Security Efforts: Wheat consumption healthy despite claims in self-help publications. Roberto J. Peña, Hans J. Braun and Julie Mollins.

2014.)

Gluten-free products. What’s the future?

Gluten-free, which is the therapeutic diet for those with celiac disease (CD), has become a fad around the world in countries where citizens are affluent enough to pick and choose what they want to eat. In reality it is just another low-carbohydrate diet. While we know the incidence of celiac disease (CD) has increased, it still averages about 1 percent of the population worldwide. However, Scandinavian countries as well as Ireland and Italy have much higher percentages as do some Middle Eastern and North African countries.

Dr. David Sheluga, Director of Consumer Insights for Ardent Mills in the U.S., has done extensive research on the gluten-free market. His 2012 research found that many companies tracking gluten-free purchases included products that are naturally glutenfree such as meats, dairy foods, fruits and vegetables, therefore 60 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain

In spite of the thousands of research studies showing grain foods are key in a nutritious diet, they are still demonised in some parts of the world

inaccurately exaggerating sales far beyond what was actual.

However, it is still a huge number. According to Nielsen, the gluten free specialty products category has doubled in size in just the past three years growing from nearly US$600 million in 2012, to nearly US$1.3 billion in 2015 (Nielsen Scantrack, Total US, XAOC). When Sheluga added outlet sales such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, Costco, Aldi’s, health food stores and internet sales, the number jumped to US$1.49 billion. Sales growth is projected

by Ardent Mills to continue to soften through 2018 when growth could be about 2 percent.

The good news for wheat, barley and rye millers is that growth has slowed compared to 2013, the peak growth year at 44 percent increase in sales. 2014 showed a 29 percent growth in sales and a 14 percent increase in 2015. According to Dr. Sheluga, this decline is indicative of a maturing category even with US$50.5 million in new products last year. Existing products grew about US$108 million in 2015, well below the pace of earlier years.

Dr. Sheluga’s research showed that the fastest growing category (50 percent growth) last year was frozen meals – a convenience item. When I remember the labor intensive cooking my mother, a full-time school teacher, did in the 1950’s for my brother who has CD, I appreciate the need for convenience foods for this market.

The number two category was crackers and then breads, bagels, rolls, etc. Interestingly, many of the snack products have moved “Gluten-free” from the top to the bottom of the package and can now be found in the mainstream snack aisle. Even the websites for many of the granola/protein bars and snack chips no longer emphasise that the product is gluten-free. Therefore, many of these were eliminated from Ardent Mills’ 2015 analysis making the size of the category smaller.

There are few gluten-free products in wide distribution in the U.S. A general rule to be a “national brand” is 80 percent or more distribution. Sheluga’s research showed of the 1,632 products in 2014 which have a clear gluten-free claim, were developed especially for the gluten-free consumer and made by companies committed to the gluten-free marketplace, only 23 (1 percent) had over 40 percent distribution. Only one had 60 percent distribution – Betty Crocker’s Bisquick gluten-free mix. Eighty-one percent of the manufacturers have less than US$1 million in sales.

In 2013, four brands, Udi’s, Glutino, Vans and Rudi’s Organic, were the major manufacturers accounting for about 20 percent of

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the total gluten-free sales. Their growth was 52 percent compared to the overall category growth of 44 percent. In 2015 their growth slowed to 1 percent and two of the brands, Glutino and Rudi’s, actually declined in 2015.

Another clue that gluten-free is slowing down is the number of internet searches for “gluten-free.” While still frequent, the searches have decreased 18 percent since 2013.

Enhance the value of your product through grain fortification.

According to the Flour Fortification Initiative (FFI), 85 countries around the world fortify grains with one or more nutrients. Sixtyseven countries just fortify wheat; 12 fortify both wheat and maize; 3 do wheat and rice; 2 countries fortify wheat, maize and rice and 1 country just fortifies rice for a total of only 6 countries that fortify rice.

Fortification nutrients include iron, folic acid and three other B vitamins (riboflavin, niacin and thiamin), vitamins A and D, calcium and zinc. Each country decides which nutrients to use. It may take up to 3 years before seeing the health improvements from iron fortification but only 3-4 months from folic acid.

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Blindness can occur with an insufficient amount of vitamin A which also has lifetime costs and reduced quality of life. Babies born with neural tube defects (NTDs), such as spina bifida, undergo a lifetime of surgeries in addition to lost productivity. Women must have adequate folic acid in their blood before they are pregnant to reduce the risk of NTDs. Since so many pregnancies are unplanned, numerous women do not take pre-prenatal

vitamins with folic acid. Fortified grains are the most convenient and effective way to ensure healthy babies.

Less than 1/3 of total wheat flour production worldwide is fortified, only a little over 50 percent of all maize is and only 8 percent of rice is. Unfortunately, Egypt stopped fortifying folic acid in wheat in 2015 which was a major set-back. According to FFI, 62 percent of all the world’s rice is now industrially milled, therefore opening new opportunities for rice fortification.

Governments and industry need to share the cost of fortifying.

This includes the actual ingredients, necessary start-up machinery, quality control, staff training, etc. In some countries, milling associations have decreased their nutrient costs by ordering pre-mix in large quantities, having it shipped to a central location and then distributing it to their members.

Some governments have eliminated import taxes on pre-mix and/or fortified flour and provided tax incentives for buying the necessary machinery. Governments have even subsidised start-up costs and some NGO’s offer grants for start-up costs. Because the cost is spread among millions of consumers, they pay very little for these essential nutrients in their food purchases.

For more information on fortification regarding costs, imports/exports issues or set up costs, go to http:// ffinetwork.org/about/faq/faq_finance.html or contact FFI through the website.

Keep your labels clean without bleaching

Keeping labels clean is popular in much of the world today - as long as it doesn’t hurt the flavor or functionality of the product. The term “bleached” is not necessarily a good thing on the label, but I understand that some of your customers may require bleaching.

We know that bleaching white flour is not detrimental to the nutritional value of the flour as the bleaching agents do not remain in the final product, but many consumers and numerous web postings do not know that. Bleaching is done primarily for two reasons: a beautiful white color and for improved baking qualities in “green” (fresh) flour.

However, considering that white flour is transported, may sit in a warehouse and then finally on grocery store shelves, could it still be considered “green?” Even some large international mills are no longer bleaching flour.

Could eliminating this one process not only decrease milling costs but keep labels cleaner?

Most countries recommend grains as the base of a healthful diet.

Looking at food recommendations throughout the world, grain foods are usually the largest portion of any government food guide graphic. Many promote whole grains – or at least making half of the servings whole. In spite of the thousands of research studies showing grain foods are key in a nutritious diet, they are still demonised in some parts of the world.

While we know that many citizens may not respect government recommendations, we are assured that governments want healthful citizens for a prosperous economy and to keep medical costs in check.

Our industry’s responsibility is to change the opinions of those who believe that carbohydrates are evil. We can do that by enhancing and promoting the nutritional benefits of grain foods and by keeping our labels as clean as possible.

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HOW FEED AND NUTRITION CAN COMBAT HEAT STRESS

by Zagro Technical Specialists

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any factors contribute to stress in animals; among them are management or husbandry practices, nutrition and environment. In tropical countries, high environmental temperatures are a major stressor especially to poultry.

In general, the ideal temperature for broilers to obtain an optimum body weight is around 10-22 ºC, while in layers a temperature range from 10-30 ºC is required for optimum egg production. Above this ideal temperature, chicken performances will respond negatively.

However, there are ways to control or alleviate effects of heat stress to chickens and one of this is by imposing proper nutrition and feeding in the farm.

Depressing the feed intake is one of the main causes of poor performance at high temperature. Adjusting the feeding practices such as “wet- mash feeding”, using pellet or crumble, choice feeding of calcium source and frequent feeding can help increase feed consumption. Moreover, manipulating the nutrient status of feeds can also help to reduce the effect of heat stress to poultry chickens. You can achieve this through supplementation of considerable amount of fats in the diet, which can enhance birds’ consumption.

A diet with low protein but with a balance of limiting essential amino acids is more beneficial during a hot period than a diet containing high protein. Supplementing with additional electrolytes prevents alkalosis and a drop in feed intake that is caused by heat stress. In addition, vitamin supplementation may help improve bird performance in high temperatures. Vitamin A is poorly absorbed at high temperatures whereas Vitamin E boosts animal resistance and protects cell membranes and B-vitamins boost feed intake and improve nutrient metabolism. Hence, we can see that adjusting the chicken’s nutrient intake during hot periods is of great importance.

Zagro, being committed in providing solutions to the needs of farm animals, has developed an innovative range of products that can help the animals counter the effects of stress. With the help of these products, birds can maximise their performance even under stressful conditions. These products include Zagrosol AD3E, Zagrosol Aminogen, Zagrosol Minpro, Amilyte and Nilstress.

Zagrosol product lines are nutrient supplements via drinking water in liquid form. These oral liquids are innovatively manufactured in such a way that the bio-available nutrients like vitamin oils are completely miscible in animals’ drinking water even without further mixing needed. The Zagrosol AD3E contains a significant amount of fat-soluble vitamins, which can improve reproductive performance, improve fertility, hatchability and bone formation of broiler breeders.

Zagrosol Aminogen is a blended liquid form of concentrated multivitamins and amino acids, which is a good supplement in improving uniform growth of flocks, weight gain and feed conversion ratio especially in broilers. Zagrosol Minpro on the other hand is an oral liquid supplement containing dietary trace and macro minerals and amino acids. It can help improve reproductive performance such as eggshell quality, hatchability, and maintain bone health.

For farms that prefer using powder forms, Amilyte and Nilstress can be the option. These powder supplements are highly soluble in water and won’t just settle down on the drinkers. Amilyte contains the essential nutrients vitamins, electrolytes and amino acids. It is a good fluid therapy to replenish nutrients lost due to stress and avoid further weight loss. Nilstress is a specially formulated anti-heat stress watersoluble supplement with exceptional solubility. It contains powerful combinations of a well balanced key vitamins and electrolytes needed especially at extreme temperature. At times of stress, Amilyte and Nilstress improve the birds’ state of hydration and get them back on feed.

Chickens will always tend to suffer from stress on each day of their lives, thus countering its effect will economically improve their productivity. With Zagro essential water supplements, birds’ potential can be maximized. www.zagro.com

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Bespoke solutions

For every storage challenge ... there is a storage solution

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by Darren Parris, Milling and Grain

ithin the central plains of Spain in the region of Ciudad Real you will find located the realm of the Garrido family and their metal manufacturing empire, Symaga.

Leading the family owned and managed business from up front is the equivalent of the modern day El Cid Campeador, Alfonso Garrido. Like the legend of old who himself served Alfonso IV, Alfonso Garrido drives his companies expansion globally whilst at the helm of his ship “Symaga�, not so dissimilar to the global exploits of Ch ristopher Columbus on the Santa Maria, with more than 90 percent of its business being overseas and outside of Spain.

Syamaga was established in 1985, and now 30 years on, how privileged was I to be cordially invited to their global headquarters and central production plant.

Along with a delegation of potential international customers from Poland I was given free access to explore this successful multinational organisation.

Symaga divided its production into several lines, one specialised in designing, manufacturing and marketing galvanised steel silos for storage; one line focused on livestock, poultry, pig and bovine equipment; and a third one specialised in manufacturing agricultural equipment such as water tanks and vineyards equipment.

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Darren Parris from the Milling and Grain team recently visited Symaga at their global headquarters and central production plant to see how this rapidly expanding company deals with the challenges facing their clients

F I was given unfettered access to the whole complex. The impressive factory is one of the largest in Europe, occupying 100,0002 meters of the 400,0002 meter (4 square kilometer) family owned land on which it resides.

As special guests of Alfonso Garrido, all the potential customers and myself were accommodated at the family ranch Quinta Monteguerra in the heart of the family estate.

Whilst undoubtedly a leading international business, Alfonso likes to get to know all of his customers personally and when you are visiting the Garrido ranch you are treated like family and with five star accommodation and private kitchen you are able to focus your all your efforts on evaluating what Syamaga has to offer.

After we were treated to a classical evening meal of local cuisine and a relaxing regional breakfast we were all chauffeured to the factory. Upon arrival we were given complete access, nowhere was off limits and it was evident that Symaga operate with a policy of complete transparency.

Such is the confidence in the Symaga product that pride in its quality and service has replaced any concern for secrecy.

Investing more than 10 percent of its turnover each year into R&D and innovation, it is clear to see why Symaga has been growing consistently in both sales and size over the last 10

years, with now over 200 staff worldwide. However, even with this growth in size Symaga has managed to maintain its family ethos, it is Alfonso’s philosophy is to get to know the people in the factory personally. With this in mind, it is perhaps less of a surprise to learn that in the years leading up to taking over the business from his father, Alfonso worked in every section of the factory and understands the exact processes involved in his business inside and out.

This understanding first hand of what is required on the factory floor has led Symaga to become one of the most cutting edge companies in respect of automation technology in Europe and the number one in Spain. To put this in perspective Alfonso explains “The process of manufacturing farm silos used to be manual, in

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With 15 new robots in the last couple of years, Symaga now boasts 30 fully automated robots on its silo production line with precision cutting, bending and welding robots along with 13 profiling machines giving Symaga a state of the art production process.

This high level of automation allows Symaga to be very competitive producing over 250 tons of steel a day and over 85,000 tons per year with reduced delivery times and a focus on customer satisfaction.

And it does not stop here, from the initial high quality technical drawing required for a full turnkey project and the accuracy and precision of its work, Symaga also invests heavily in its customers by holding over 10,000 tons of high grade European steel on site at its factory at any one time, therefore no waiting for stock to arrive.

In addition to this, Alfonso explained, “Symaga is proud to guarantee that all its silos are manufactured with a galvanization of 600 g/ m2 coating of zinc which we feel we can claim is between 28 percent and 37 percent more galvanization in our silos than most of our competitors�

Furthermore Alfonso went on to explain that Symaga certifies the manufacture of all its steel structures with a CE marking, which significantly implies that the (EXC2) Factory Control Production is certified by Bureau Veritas for steel structures and components.

It is no wonder, then, that this attention to excellence in the manufacture of its silos through the implementation of a rigid quality management system with strict quality controls has helped encourage a growing number of international customers to begin business with Symaga. With a presence in more than 120 countries, Symaga offers storage solutions for everything from Flat bottom to Hopper or Delivery and Farm Silos, with capacities from 6 to 25,000m3 it is not so hard to see why Symaga is a one stop solution for most international customers.

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storage worldwide on many different projects from Feed mills, flour mills, rice mills through to breweries, port terminal and malting plans to name but a few, which seemed very impressive to me.

As the company has expanded so has its product range, with huge investments being made in a leading plastic injector moulding system allowing Symaga to manufacture new models of farming equipment which have led to large scale turn key projects for the poultry, swine, sheep and beef livestock sectors.

It was clear to me that in the three days I spent with Alfonso Garrido that he inspires his team with an infectious passion for the business. Alfonso told me that he and his staff pride themselves on the high level of customer service they provide. It is of the upmost importance to be able to relate to the customer and their needs by putting themselves in their position in order for them to fully understand what solution they want and what works best for them and not what works best for Symaga.

Alfonso explained that many of their projects are bespoke and with Numerical Control available in all of their automated robots, Symaga can make to order for any project.

After almost 3 hours of solid walking around the factory I visited the logistics area and loading bays. There was what felt like kilometers of shelving with completed products, many completed ahead of schedule and all-awaiting delivery to the customer. From the logistics sector, which can hold over 20,000 tons of steel, both stock and completed products can easily be moved to one of six ergonomically designed loading bays to help maintain product quality.

As my three days at the Garrido ranch drew to a close and I reminisced with my new found Polish and Ukrainian friends it became very clear that my personal feelings from my Symaga visit and my final summing up of what I took away from my stay was shared with all the other visitors, many of whom had signed contracts for new silos during their stay. When I asked all the customers what stood out for them, apart from the generous 70 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain

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Storage News

Practical new technology for pest-free grain

The Board of the Plant Biosecurity Cooperative Research Centre (PBCRC) toured grain growing properties in the Mingenew region of Western Australia in March of this year to see PBCRC stored grain research in action, as part of regular visits with CRC Participants.

“We have been working with the Plant Biosecurity CRC on new ways to manage insect pests in stored grain for several years now,” said Sheila Charlesworth, Chief Executive of the growerbased Mingenew-Irwin Group.

“New, chemical-free methods of controlling pests in grain storage silos are vital for growers’ livelihoods, not to mention protecting the ‘no live insect’ reputation of Australia’s $9 billion grain exports,” she said.

Market access for Australia’s export grains is a major consideration of PBCRC’s Smart biosecurity science initiative, which is leading the development of a long-term model for Australian plant biosecurity research: www.pbcrc.com.au/ smartbiosecurityscience.

“PBCRC researchers are developing several approaches to stored grain protection,” said Dr Michael Robinson, CEO of PBCRC. “Working with growers and industry gives us the opportunity to test them in the real world.”

Annual PBCRC surveys have been monitoring the number of insects Australia-wide with resistance to phosphine, the industry standard fumigant. The results have driven research into alternative control methods.

“One of the alternatives is nitrogen technology, which gives

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growers the ability to control pests in grain silos with low oxygen environments, a technique proving to be both costeffective and chemical-free,” said Dr Robinson.

“Aeration of grain silos is another useful tool for growers, as lower temperatures slow insect growth and give them a chance to get on top of potential infestations, while also reducing insect resistance and increasing seed viability.”

The Plant Biosecurity CRC Board holds meetings around Australia, taking the opportunity to see CRC research in the field and talk to those benefiting.

“Seeing practical research in action on the farm is immensely satisfying for the Board,” said Board Chairman Dr Martin Barlass.

“Partnering with industry speeds the research process but also ensures it is both relevant and practical for growers.”

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by Eloise Hillier-Richardson Milling and Grain

The view inside a Blumberg Grain warehouse system in Egypt

How Blumberg Grain is reducing post-harvest loss and improving food security globally

Grain projects across the world are bringing meaningful benefits for governments and farmers s the world’s population continues to rise, the significance of food security -- the ability to provide reliable access to affordable and nutritious food -- is more important than ever. In fact, the world’s population is expected to reach 9.1 billion by 2050, and global food production will need to nearly

double by 2050 to keep up.

The significance of strong food security innovations have substantial impacts on countries, particularly in the developing world. These innovations have the opportunity to reduce hunger, enhance food security, and improve national, regional and global security. However, many countries across the world do not have the resources to develop effective food security systems in a large-scale environment that can benefit their populations as a whole. Blumberg Grain, a leading global food security company, is working around the world to help these countries improve food security, reduce post-harvest loss and increase the quality and marketable output of harvests by providing harvest protection systems and technology.

Blumberg Grain provides the most comprehensive, stateof-the-art storage units, technology and management systems for post-harvest food safety and security. Whereas in some countries, post-harvest loss can reach 40 to 50 percent due to depletion by insects, rodents, pilferage or inclement weather, Blumberg Grain’s fully integrated crop and food security systems can reduce post-harvest losses of grain, produce, and other perishables to five percent or less. The company modernises agricultural value chains, increases the quality and marketable output of harvests, enables efficient market timing, and significantly boost exports of agriculture products.

A Blumberg Grain warehouse system may look like an ordinary structure, but it’s far from it. The ideal environment for both short and long-term food storage, the Blumberg Grain Warehouse can

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be customised to store bulk or bagged grain, as well as produce and other perishables. The building is scalable and modular, with additions easily incorporated as needs grow.

Blumberg Grain is able to provide these benefits by offering fully integrated systems built around the best pre-engineered steel storage units, for storage of both dry and perishable goods.

Mass-produced in the United States, these lightweight, scalable warehouses use one-third the steel of conventional warehouses, making them the most efficient storage facilities on the market.

By design, Blumberg Grain warehouses can be partitioned for segregation of multiple agricultural products, and each area can include its own sophisticated temperature and humidity adjustors and monitoring controls.

Assembly of the grain or refrigerated storage warehouse does not require a specialised skilled labor force since they rely on bolt-in-place rather than welded construction, allowing for systems to be erected in just a few days.

The facilities can be powered by the local power grid or from independent gas, solar or wind power generators the company provides. What’s more, Blumberg Grain structures are designed to work in rural areas, close to the farmers and their crops, so that harvested product is stored as quickly as possible to reduce waste.

The Shouna Development Project - Egypt

Blumberg Grain has been working closely with the Egyptian Government to develop state-of-the-art grain facilities across the country as part of the Shouna Development Project. This project is replacing open-air wheat storage pits with modern storage systems to provide more reliable harvests and storage.

This project will revolutionise food security in the region. As part of the first phase of the Shouna Development Project, Blumberg constructed 93 Shounas which were completed by April 27, in time for the spring harvest.

The project, a collaboration between the Egyptian Ministry of Supply, the Egyptian Holding Company for Silos and Storage, the Army Engineering Authority, and Blumberg Grain, will

F support the government in recovering crops lost to post harvest losses, saving Egypt up to an estimated US$200 million annually and lessen the amount of currency that goes outside of Egypt to import wheat. The post-harvest loss reduction will help to reduce costs, feed more people, save the government millions, reduce energy use, minimise unrest and help the environment.

David Blumberg, Chief Executive Officer of Blumberg Grain – Middle East & Africa, remarked, “The Shouna Development Project is bringing the highest levels of food security technology to Egypt and will make it the food security hub of the Middle East and Africa.”

The entire Shouna network will be managed by the Blumberg Grain Command and Control Centre, which is a comprehensive management system that monitors grain and other harvested products as they are deposited by farmers, processed, stored and eventually distributed to retailers and customers.

The centre uses satellite feeds and sophisticated sensor technology to monitor grain distribution networks in real time. It also monitors weather patterns – if it indicates an oncoming sand storm, for example, operators will be able to enact emergency protocols to protect the grain inside the system. All of this is monitored centrally and implemented remotely.

Dr. Khaled Hanafy, Minister of Supply and Internal Trade said in a press release when the Command Center opened in December 2015, “The Blumberg Grain Command and Control Centre is the heart of the Shouna Development Project. Its integrated systems will be able to follow every bag of grain as soon as it enters the distribution network. We have never been able to track food supplies like this before. We are looking forward to continuing our partnership with Blumberg Grain and seeing further revitalisation of Shouna grain network in the near future.”

The entire Shouna network in Egypt will be managed by the Blumberg Grain Command and Control Center, allowing for remote monitoring of grain as they are deposited by farmers, processed, stored and eventually distributed to retailers and customers.

The economic impacts for Egyptian farmers is one of the many beneficial outputs of this project. By having a reliable distribution of product that mitigates theft and keeps product from deteriorating, it will allow farmers to receive the best price for their crops and see greater profits.

“Through the efforts to increase food security with Blumberg Grain, we have the possibility to empower farmers to shift from subsistence farming to profitable suppliers; provide access to commodities markets; and increase overall food access while lowering costs by minimising waste,” Philip F. Blumberg, Chairman of Blumberg Partners, the parent company of Blumberg Grain, said.

The second phase of the project, which has already received support from the Egyptian Government, would see the completion of 300 additional Blumberg Grain Aggregation and Processing Centers across Egypt. The impact of the second phase of the grain storage system amounts to an annual savings of US$354 million and combined the first and second phase will generate a savings of

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F Below: Blumberg Grain is working with the Egyptian Government to replace open-air wheat storage pits with modern storage systems to provide more reliable harvests and storage throughout Egypt. Old Shouna (left); new Shouna (right)

US$551 million per year, according to KPMG. Philip F. Blumberg, Chairman of Blumberg Partners noted, “Upon commencement of the second phase, Blumberg Grain is prepared to begin construction of a major Middle East and North Africa Manufacturing Plant and Export Hub in Egypt. This Manufacturing Plant investment would be the beginning of a minimum US$250 million investment program for Blumberg Partners in Egypt.”

Once complete Blumberg Grain’s MENA Manufacturing Plant will be the largest of its type in the world, employing 1,000 Egyptians at full production. With an emphasis on local content and sourcing through Egyptian SMEs, the Manufacturing Plant will have a US $1 Billion impact on the Egyptian economy in the first year, and US $8 Billion over 5 years, according to KPMG. Producing Egyptian-made equipment for grain and cold storage and processing centers, the Manufacturing Plant will make Egypt the leading provider of food security throughout the region.

Cold chain

The continuing and future success of the Shouna Development Project leads to greater possibilities beyond grains in the form of Cold Chain. With post-harvest loss rates over 50 percent in perishable goods in some countries, producers are sacrificing product and profits. Blumberg Grain’s cold storage technology is an innovative solution that improves value chains through the implementation of robust food security systems.

Blumberg Grain uses proprietary controlled atmosphere technology to evacuate the natural air in a cold storage chamber and replace it with nitrogen gas, filtered and pumped in directly from the outside environment using a nitrogen generator. By essentially stopping fruits or vegetables from “breathing,” the product’s aging is suspended. This preserves the freshness, taste and texture, months longer than traditional cold storage methods, and it does so without the use of pesticides or preservatives.

Blumberg Grain also leverages cold cell technology, which is ideal for product compartmentalisation.

Compartmentalisation is critical for storing multiple crops in one facility, as variables such as temperature, humidity and atmosphere can be controlled individually. Optimal storage conditions vary widely depending on each crop’s needs. Berries, for instance, require a different storage climate than would vegetables like cucumbers. Developing a more cost-effective and easily deployable cold storage process will change the way the world stores and cares for its harvests.

Why it matters

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Blumberg Partners Chairman, Philip Blumberg (right) meets with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi (left).

security can be foundational to chart and improve a nation’s growth trajectory. Food logistics, storage and security systems, when properly implemented, can reduce post-harvest loss to five to ten percent, dramatically increasing agricultural output by 30, 40, or even 50 percent.

However, these changes cannot occur without intervention, and the technology exists to make a meaningful international impact and improve food security. This technology mitigates against: post-harvest losses, mould, rot and pest consumption, weather damage, illness, and previously undetectable breaches.

The impacts on countries that greater food security and decreased post-harvest loss provide are considerable. Food security and national security are closely intertwined. Food insecurity creates political instability and directly contributes to the spread of internal instability, which is evident through the mass economic and political problems facing developing countries with food security issues. While in direct contrast, food security contributes to the prosperity needed to reduce conflict. Food security facilities, like the ones that Blumberg is developing in Egypt and other parts of the world, will be a crucial part of providing stability and greater opportunity for economic growth.

There are scalable solutions to world hunger challenges that increases access while lowering costs.

“Reducing hunger, improving food security and by association improving national, regional and global security, can be done without being cost prohibitive, in addition to many short and long term benefits,” Philip Blumberg said. “On a larger scale, these improvements will affect these nations as a whole by decreasing political unrest, conflict and terrorism, stabilising the price of food globally, minimising impact of food production towards climate change and enabling a nation’s focus on nonagricultural priorities.”

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Over 185 years of excellence in precision fabrics

by Daniel Kinek, Product Manager, Sefar AG

efar looks back on over 185 years of producing fabrics for technical applications.

From the beginnings when it was hard manual labour by local Swiss farmers to mechanically weave the silk cloths, up to now with state-of-the-art weaving and finishing facilities in Switzerland, Romania & Thailand.

The portfolio of polymer-based yarns encompasses more than 25 different types, carefully selected for each of the various applications. Polyamide and Polyester are by far the leading yarn types found in milling applications.

Hence, Sefar produces the majority of these yarns itself through integration of yarn manufacturing facilities.

Bolting cloths or milling fabrics still represent one of the core businesses that Sefar caters to. But alongside the still important application of screen printing mesh, Sefar nowadays is also successful in custom fabric solutions for anything from dry foods to iron ore and alumina. Just to name a few.

To sum things up: Sefar is the leading manufacturer of monofilament precision fabrics for customer-specific solutions in separating, coating and dosing for industrial processes and technical applications. Worldwide, approximately 2200 employees work hard every day to produce the best possible precision fabrics and support customers through our 26 international subsidiaries. In countries where Sefar does not have own operations, we typically work with knowledgeable distributors. Close relationships with OEMs worldwide also ensure, that Sefar is always on the forefront of customers’ needs and industry trends.

Food safety requirements for today’s food production

Just like in the last century, millers require mesh for their sifters that produce reliable and accurate sifting. After all, a good yield and precise separation are what generates profit for a mill, no matter if they are small in capacity or like it does for major milling corporations. But with seemingly more and more 78 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain

concerns with food safety and related scandals within the entire food producing industry, it is not surprising that an increasing number of aspects within the entire production chain are being regulated. Regulations by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the EU Commission (European Union) plus several sometimes more local laws and norms try to ensure unified

Beyond mesh

standards, aiming to make our foods – including flour – as pure and healthy as they should be.

However, the awareness and the importance of compliancy with national / international food safety regulations are sometimes not fully understood by millers and/or decision makers for the purchasing process. Baring in mind that not only the plan sifter machine itself but also all consumables more or less come into contact with the flour, adhering to the highest food safety standards should be part of the mind set when selecting these types of components for a mill. This responsibility is also on Sefar – and we take it very seriously.

Peace of mind – the Swiss way

Sefar has always had a quality approach to its product offering and its role in the industry. Maybe it is the Swiss way of doing things. Millers today can have the confidence that SEFAR NYTAL® mesh and the accompanying accessories are not only produced to delivery excellent performance and offer unique variety. All fabrics comply with FDA Regulations Art. 21 as well as the European Unions Regulations 1935/2004 and 10/2011. And it is similar with the Metal Mesh product line, conforming to the FDA’s article 21 and the EU Recommendation “Guidelines for Metals and Alloy”. And for important accessories like sieve cleaners, connector sleeves, dust filter bags, adhesives or stretching equipment our focus on quality is just as high.

As the flour has to migrate through dozens of screens, the mesh has an exposed role when it comes to food safety.

Any potentially dangerous substances on the mesh or in the case of screens breaking and yarn particles getting into the product stream, need to be controlled. At this point it’s hard to comprehend, that sometimes mills – knowingly or unknowingly – use screen printing mesh in their operations.

While these types of mesh may share the same weaving specifications (polymer type, mesh opening etc.), adherence to food safety regulations is not of the same high level as

Sefar looks at the whole milling process in its entirety. Beyond what a single machine like a plan sifter can do. That is probably one of the core reasons why Sefar is a trusted partner throughout the milling industry.

The product offering of fabrics is kept at the highest possible quality level and innovations carefully introduced where we see the need for it. For example our all-new NYTAL Sieve Cleaners* that take a new approach on cleaning performance together with blue colouring of the body to enhance food safety by better visual detection in the unlikely case of fragments breaking off.

With cleaners that are white or transparent in colour, any fragments breaking off are much harder to visually detect when mixed with the more or less same colour end product.

In addition, our knowledgeable Sefar representatives support millers wherever possible in their needs. For example, frequent training sessions on-site are important to improve or secure the understanding when it comes to fabric choices, screening of frames or the role of preventive maintenance with a focus on consumables – especially in control sifters/rebolters. This may seem like a no-brainer to some customers, other may feel it is overly cautious.

At the end of the day, the mill will have to take these decisions, but for example by changing frames and mesh as well as sieve cleaners on a strict 3-month routine including frequent checks during each interval this will drastically improve food safety. Any contamination in this last production step will most likely go straight to your customer, for example a bakery. Certainly a scenario that we all want to avoid!

As with the aforementioned sieve cleaners, understanding food safety conformity should reach beyond just the mesh. Sefar applies this thinking also to other accessory lines like connector sleeves, dust filter bags and adhesives. All these may appear to be less important when it comes to keeping the end product food safe. The adhesive is important as it ensures a strong bond between the mesh and the sifter frame. Then again, it’s clear in colour and used in a somewhat smaller quantity compared to other materials in the process.

However, Cyanoacrylates – the standard type of adhesive used in milling applications – should only be used if it is FDA compliant. The same logic applies when thinking about connector sleeves and dust filter bags. Running a mill is a complex operation with many productions steps and machines and procedures. Each of these end up requiring many consumable parts. But only if food safety is understood and broken down to each and every component, we can be sure that the mill has done everything possible to not only produce nutritious but also safe flour! * Currently available in selected regions Milling and Grain - May 2016 | 79

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with fabrics produced specifically for the milling industry. A similar level of caution should be applied when consumables are sourced from manufacturers or distributors with questionable reputation. At the end of the day, millers and decision makers in a mill need to have peace of mind. In order to focus on what they do best: produce excellent quality flour.

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The challenges of an exciting new packing project On the outskirts of the town of Amasya, stands the impressive and modern flourmill of KOZLU Gida, also known as Misun. This leading Turkish mill has chosen FAWEMA for exciting new packing project

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masya, located in northern Turkey near to the Black Sea coast, is a place of outstanding natural beauty.

Established in the 4th century BC, the town has been the home of a number of civilizations and cultures and has witnessed many transitions of power. Today the town is a thriving hub for fruit agriculture, especially apples, and also for tourism both domestic and international.

On the outskirts of the town of Amasya, stands the impressive and modern flourmill of KOZLU Gida, also known as Misun.

The origins of Kozlu date back to 1940’s when the company was originally established with a small wheat mill in Amasya having a daily capacity of just 16 tonnes. Over the years, the daily milling capacity gradually increased but when the decision was taken to build a new, state-of-the-art mill for 900 tonnes per day, this put Kozlu on the map as one of the top millers in Turkey. Later this year, with further expansion work, the capacity will reach 1500 tonnes per day.

Today, Kozlu is still a family-run business with 3 generations of the family involved in the management of the mill and the philosophy has always been the same: seek the very best in each and every aspect of the business. With this progressive philosophy in mind, the Kozlu family decided unanimously to award FAWEMA the contract to supply a new automatic flour packing line to pack retail-size flour of 1 kg 2 kg and 5 kg. in ready-made paper bags.

Mr. Emir Kozlu explains the criteria behind the decision: “we wanted the best quality flour packing machine available on the market because we wanted to achieve the best possible results”.

Fawema proposed the FA217 machine and the modern and advanced technology included in the packing line perfectly matched the client’s aspirations and objectives. Thanks to modern servo-drive, the machine is extremely accurate and the wear & tear drastically reduced compared to mechanical cam-drive machinery.

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Furthermore, the machine needs no oil bath or lubrication, which means an overall cleaner working cycle and no risk of contamination with the flour. There are very few wearing parts, no rubber suction cups and access to all parts of the machine is immediate and easy.

The deal was agreed and once the order was placed, Fawema set to work at their base near Cologne in Germany. Firstly a layout drawing was produced indicating the footprint of the new line inside Kozlu’s mill and once the customer gave approval, Fawema’s engineers and technical personnel began the design and manufacturing process. Kozlu was always kept well informed on progress and soon the new packing line was ready at Fawema’s factory for inspection and FAT (factory acceptance test).

For this important stage of the project, Fawema invited Kozlu to send key technical members of staff from the mill in Turkey to witness the machine testing which was done recreating the same conditions as those at the mill, by using wheat flour and the original paper bags utilized by the customer. The FAT also serves the purpose of making a personal introduction between the customer himself and the specific Fawema engineer who would then later install and commission the line at the mill. This seemingly casual introduction is actually extremely valuable – for both sides – as it allows the two parties to engage in question and answer sessions while the machinery is still on the supplier’s workshop floor.

Once the machine inspection was completed and the testing was successfully done to the Buyer’s satisfaction, an in-house training program took place for the Kozlu members of staff.

Great importance is placed on this primary training program and justifiably so because it allows the customer’s technical personnel to familiarize themselves with the new equipment before the machinery reaches the mill and gives the opportunity for them to operate the line under the watchful supervision of Fawema engineers. Any minor snags or details can be ironed out at this time ensuring that once the new machinery arrives at the final place of installation, it is tried, tested, certified and approved by both sides,

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which guarantees a speedy and trouble-free installation and startup.

Installation work at the Kozlu plant started with the challenge of hoisting the machinery from ground level onto a high-level floor of the mill and brought inside the building via an open access point. This was successfully done and then it was just a question of laying out the line as was indicated on the Fawema installation drawing and the final commission work commenced. Thanks to the factory acceptance test already carried out at Fawema’s workshop in Germany, the machine commissioning was swift and efficient with the Fawema engineer and the Kozlu technical staff working together as a friendly, well-organised and well-disciplined team.

Once commissioning was successfully completed, a final training session was undertaken to ensure that all the Turkish staff were totally happy and confident with every aspect of the machine operation, before official handover of the line from Fawema to Kozlu was celebrated with a round of excellent, freshly-brewed Turkish tea!

Mr. Emir Kozlu is delighted with the final result: “we needed a machine that would not give us any problems, which would deliver perfect packages and which would work for many years to come.

We are very satisfied with Fawema, we have never faced any difficulties and we understand now that we made absolutely the right decision in choosing Fawema as our supplier”.

Kozlu had worked previously with packing equipment from another source, which functioned on a rotary cycle with mechanical cam-drive but since the installation of the new Fawema linear-design machine with modern servo-drive technology, huge improvements have been evident. Mr. Kozlu explained: “since we started production with the Fawema equipment, packages have become more regular, the production rate is far greater, the machine is more reliable and downtime caused by stoppages or faults has been eliminated. We can work non-stop and this has benefitted our shift efficiency accordingly. The final shrinkwrapped bags of flour are more compact and tightly-bundled compared to before and this means easier and safer storage on pallets in the warehouse”.

Fawema wishes to thank Kozlu Gida for placing their trust in Fawema and to Mr. Emir Kozlu for allowing us to use his words and comments for this article.

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COMMODITY AND TRADE ISSUES Poultry and poultry products: Semi-annual assessments of commodity and trade issues, Turkey

by Sinem Duyum, Agricultural Specialist, USDA Turkey surpasses the European Union in per capita consumption of broiler meat, with 19.39 kg per capita consumed in 2013 and 21 kg per capita in 2014. Broiler meat has the biggest share of total poultry consumption.

Turkey is the world’s 9th largest poultry producer. Poultry sector revenue in 2014 was $ 4.5 billion in Turkey and there was increase in domestic poultry production, consumption and especially exportation. In 2015, exports reached over $450 million despite avian influenza outbreaks and turmoil in the region.

The number of broilers in 2015 reached 214 million with 6.8 percent increase compared with the previous year. The number of laying hens in 2015 reached 99 million with 5.2 percent increase compared with the previous year. Insufficient feed available has been a problematic issue for poultry production and targeted production in the future, as well.

The poultry sector has encountered many problems in raw material importation for feed due to the Biosafety Law and its regulation. According to the Turkish Poultry Meat Producers and Breeders Association (BESD-BIR), the sector increased by 8.8 percent in 2014. However Turkish poultry exports have declined 17 percent in quantity in 2015 because of the geopolitical problems and avian influenza outbreaks.

Poultry Production In Figure 1, the decrease is seen in the number of poultry after 2006 is due to the first Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) case which was in the northwest of Turkey, Balikesir Province, in October 2005. The number of broilers in 2015 reached approximately 214 million with a 6.8 percent increase compared with the previous year. The number of laying hens in 2015 reached 99 million with a 5.2 percent increase compared with the previous year. The number of turkeys in 2015 reached to 2.8 million with 5.4 percent decrease compared with the previous year.

Poultry Meat Production Poultry production facilities are mainly located in the north-west and west of Turkey, which is close to the concentration of consumers, as well as to the customs gates where the raw feed materials are imported.

According to the Turkish Poultry Meat Producers and Breeders Association (BESD-BIR), total poultry meat production including broiler, turkey and the other poultry meat (backyard poultry and meat from laying hens) in 2014 was about 2 million MT and the sector increased by 8.8 percent.

According to Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkSTAT) see Figure 2, broiler meat production was 1,895 MMT and turkey production was 48,663 MT in 2014.

In 2015, broiler meat production has stagnated and realised 1,910 MMT. Broiler meat has 93 percent share in Turkey`s

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total poultry meat production.

Shortages of affordable feed inputs has been problematic issue for poultry production and the sector anticipates it will continue to be an issue to reach their goals for increased production in the future, as well.

Each problem encountered in supplying feed material to the sector has caused production costs to increase and it might be impossible to compete with other exporting countries. The poultry sector has encountered many problems in raw material importation for feed due to the Biosafety Law and its regulation.

On the other hand, Turkish Biosafety Board has recently approved a few more corn and soybean events and their products for feed use in Turkey. The new implementation has relieved the Turkish poultry sector some and given hope they can continue production targets, though import problems still remain due to the law. More detailed information on the biotechnology situation is available in recent FAS Turkey GAIN Reports searchable on the FAS website and also here.

While the price of meat is at an all-time high, so too is the price of feed. As seen in 2014, the price of feed rose more compared

to the rise in price of meat, showing that the poultry sector has been struggling with economic issues even more than the previous years, and added to this high feed price is upcoming policy changes and trouble in export markets.

As part of Turkey’s EU harmonisation process, in 2012 the use of mechanical separated meat (MSM) became prohibited to be used in restaurants, hotels and catering companies. It is also prohibited to sell MSM directly to customers within the country. This is according to national legislation (Turkish Food Codex- Meat and Meat Preparation Communique, No: 2012/74).

MSMs are derived from chest cage, neck and back part of poultry and account for 40 percent of a total poultry carcass. Turkey produced 121,827 MT of this type of meat in 2012, worth $122 million, and the value was crucial for the poultry sector. The share of MSMs in the total poultry production was seven percent and the prohibition of selling this meat domestically has severely impacted to poultry sector. However, shipping of MSM produced for the purpose of export between approved establishments within the country is allowed. The majority of this type of meat is exported to Iraq.

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soybeans as a substitute because of Turkey’s current Biosafety Legislation. More detailed information on the feeding rules is available in the recent FAS Turkey GAIN Report published January 7, 2016.

Manure derived from the last stage of poultry production is considered an important issue by the sector, however there is no improved model for utilising manure in Turkey. Sector believes that the issue in question would be solved with the subsidies by giving supports to possible investors to establish new facilities to utilise the manure for another purpose such as for bioenergy. The sector would like to utilise manure as an energy source however the Ministry of Environment considers manure as a waste while the MinFAL considers it as a fertiliser.

According to the sector, the number of hencoops should be under control for operating the system more efficiently, raw materials for feed should be available and sector profits should be sustainable in order to reach future production targets.

Consumption Turkey surpasses the European Union in per capita consumption of broiler meat, with 19.39 kg per capita consumed in 2013 and 21 kg per capita in 2014. Broiler meat has the biggest share of total poultry consumption. Turkey meat consumption has been at certain level for many years, the consumption per capita was 0.9 kg in 2014. Poultry meat preference is mostly drumstick, which has a 40 percent market share.

According to poultry sector in Turkey, there is no decrease of domestic consumption because of the HPAI outbreaks seen in spring months 2015. However consumers confuse on poultry meat consumption since there has been media news about GM fed and rapidly growing chickens. For this reason, revival of interest to free range raised or organic chickens has been increased.

Poultry consumption varies according to geographical region of Turkey, income level, marital status, living areas as urban/rural and life style. While the highest per capita consumption amount is calculated for Aegean Region, the lowest is calculated for Eastern Anatolia Region since feeder cattle breeding/consumption is most popular in there.

Export Turkish poultry exports have declined by 17 percent in 2015 because of the geopolitical problems and avian influenza outbreaks, see Figure 3. The rapid devaluation of Turkey’s currency by 21 percent drop in 2015 against many foreign currencies has had a major impact on feed costs for poultry producers. This has increased the cost of imported feed items and production.

Additionally there have been serious problems on raw material import because of genetically engineered (GE) product contamination, whereby low levels or dust of GE corn or soy varieties which aren’t approved for use in Turkey are found in shipments and can cause rejection of the entire shipment. These rejections increase the risk to feed importers, disrupt a steady supply of feed for the poultry sector, and eventually increase the cost of feed inputs for the sector.

Although the avian influenza outbreaks were not seen in the commercial broiler flocks, the Turkish poultry export came to a stopping point in 2015 because Iraq banned Turkish poultry imports following the HPAI outbreaks.

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Exportation is mainly to Iraq with almost 50 percent of total export value, and to Israel, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and Uzbekistan. The main good of exportation is poultry meat and according to Turkish Statistic Institute (TUIK), the export value of poultry meat (fresh/chilled or frozen) was US$607 million in 2013. In 2014, Turkey exported 411 MMT of poultry and poultry products mostly to Iraq, and foreign currency inflow was US$668 million. In 2015, Turkey exported 339 MMT poultry worth with US$441million.

Turkish poultry sector believes that poultry products export will resume at their previous pace in 2016 if Turkey does not face any HPAI cases. Exporters of poultry are able to utilise Turkey’s inward processing regime to import feed inputs without taxes, or purchase them from the Turkish Grain Board at world prices, up to a certain amount dependent upon how much they have exported.

Imports Turkey doesn’t import poultry meat from any country since the sector is self-sufficient. Turkey only imports breeding grandparent day old chicks, some quantity of parent stock day old chicks and breeding hatching eggs as well. Commercial poultry meat and egg production is being operated in the country.

Subsidies Poultry Export Subsidies: These subsidies are given to the producers in order to increase Turkey`s poultry export and to give necessary supports to the sector.

• 143.5 TL/tonnage for poultry meat • 225 TL/tonnage for poultry products including cans • 19.5 TL/1000 units for eggs, however if exported eggs are for breeding or hatching the payment is made 50 percent more.

Low Interest Loan Subsidies for investors: This subsidy is given to the investors who are willing to deal with poultry operation in the country.

Working capital loan and investment credit to the tune of 7.5 million TL; 100 percent low interest to the investors who will be operating the breeding poultry facility.

50 percent low interest of investment credit and 25 percent low interest of working capital loan to the tune of 1 million TL; to the investors who will be operating the commercial poultry facility.

50 percent low interest of investment credit and 75 percent low interest of working capital loan to the tune of 1 million TL; to the investors who will be operating the commercial turkey facility.

(1 TL: $ 2.9 as of 2/26/2016) Subsidies within the scope of Rural Development Program (IPARD): The EU subsidies are given to the producers who are willing to operate commercial poultry meat, laying hens and goose breeding as well.

Insurance (TARSIM): Poultry animals have been included within the scope of TARSIM (Agricultural Insurance Pool) since 2005.

Industry events 2016

n 26-28 May 2016

The European Flour Milling Congress 2016 Paseo de la Castellana, 49, 28046 Madrid, Spain http://www.flourmillers.eu

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.pixamc.com.au

n 14 June 2016

IGC Grains Conference 2016 Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel On Cadogan Place Knightsbridge London SW1X 9PY, UK http://www.igc.int

n 15-16 June 2016

Cereals Chrishall Grange, Nr Duxford, Cambridgeshire, UK http://www.cerealsevent.co.uk

n 27-29 July 2016

Indo Livestock Jakarta Convention Center http://www.indolivestock.com

n 13-16 September 2016

SPACE 2016 Parc-Expo Of Rennes Airport La Haie Gautrais 35170 Bruz France http://www.space.fr

n 08-11 October 2016

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

n 24-27 October 2016

IAOM MEA Millennium Hall, Airport Road, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia http://iaom-mea.com

n 04-06 November 2016

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

n 09-10 November 2016

JTIC Paris Event Center 20 Avenue De La Porte De La Villette 75019 Paris - France http://www.jtic.eu

n 15-18 November 2016 EuroTier Messe Hannover, Germany http://eurotier.com

Arable business risk, resilience and reward at Cereals 2016

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rable business risk, resilience and reward will be at the heart of the AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds exhibit at Cereals 2016.

The event, taking place on June 15–16 at Chrishall Grange in Cambridgeshire, sees AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds continue its 2016 ‘risk’ communication theme on its stand (no 1112).

Unveiled at the 2015 Agronomists’ Conference, risk, resilience, reward explores the three ‘Rs’ from an agronomic, business and market perspective.

Dr Martin Grantley-Smith, AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds Strategy Director, said: “Grain price squeezes are putting many arable businesses under significant cost pressures.

“This test on business strength means growers are looking at innovative ways to control costs and build resilient businesses, better able to ride the wave of low prices.”

The stand will feature established favourites – such as Recommended Lists plot tours and independent crop management, market intelligence and business improvement experts – all designed to help improve business rewards for growers.

The European Flour Milling Congress 2016

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very two years, the European Flour Millers’ Congress brings together all the major actors in the wheat, flour & bread chain of the European Union.

Its 2016 conference session will examine a wide range of issues – changes in the grain chain, bakery marketing trends & market prospects – affecting the flour milling business and offer you the chance to question leading international experts in their respective fields.

The event will take place on 26-28 May in Madrid at the Hotel Intercontinental. To register head to their website, where you can also find full programme details, details of accommodation and sponsors, as well as an ‘Experience Madrid’ section where you can find all that’s happening in terms of gastronomy, leisure, culture, shopping and nature. www.flourmillerscongress2016.es

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TUSAF OPENING CEREMONY 2016: "Ready to do our best”

by Tom Blacker

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urkey is a country that nobody in the agricultural industries can ignore, with flour and feed milling both currently enjoying exponential growth. From Thursday 31st March to Sunday 3rd April 2016, a record total of 828 delegates gathered in Antalya for the annual TUSAF conference. Boasting a proud total of 39 exhibition stands populated with foreign companies, delegates were treated to a very impressive display of services and technology.

Mr E Günhan Ulusoy, Chairman of the Board of TUSAF

The grand opening speech of Turkish Flour Industrialists’ Federation (TUSAF) 2016’s congress was given by Mr Ulusoy, Chairman of the Board of TUSAF. He welcomed all Turkish and international participants to the 12th congress on global trade and milling technologies. All were greeted with the warmest regards.

Mr Ulusoy also observed those who have passed away in the past year, such as Mrs Hatice Aybakar of Aybakar, all of whom have been deeply missed in the industry.

According to Mr Ulusoy, TUSAF currently represents all representatives of 412 associations in seven regions. Agriculture constitutes eight percent of Turkey’s annual GDP, which is currently valued at US $6.3billion, and exports are estimated to be valued at US$1bn annually. In order to increase these numbers, TUSAF are “ready to do our best,” added.

fact was obviously a source of great pride for Mr Ulusoy, and he was grateful all of Turkey’s flour industrialists in front of him for making this a reality. If a developing country such as Turkey can be at the forefront of feeding the world, then it was an inspiring sign for the developed world to learn from.

Mr Ulusoy also that the leading regions of Turkey by wheat production amount, descending in a list: Central Anatolia, with Mardin and Gaziantep, followed then Istanbul and then Mersin and Samsun. Turkish milled wheat, as commercial flour exports reach the mature market of the USA now, thanks to research and development.

For example, research and development helping these exports are diabetic flour has been developed here which is helping the sector move forward. Turkey’s milling machinery sector is export driven is also very much export driven, which according to Mr Ulusoy, is currently enjoying “added value 2nd biggest in world behind Italy.

However, despite progress, there are problems and challenges

Expectations for consumption and production of wheat

According to Mr Ulusoy, wheat balances in Turkey currently look good with record production of 26 million tonnes, and a decrease in imports of 40 000 tons from July to June 2015-16.

However, the rate of this decrease looks set to slow down in the short to medium term. The Turkish Grain Board’s (TMO) investments in wheat have helped to increase this figure, Turkey increased its exports and in this same time frame, Turkey’s main market of imports, Russia, has supplied less.

Internationally, 20 percent of the 38 billion tonnes of flour produced is Turkish flour. Turkey is also the biggest supplier to the UN’s World Food Programme. Turkish flour is currently used to help people in need of crises as well as in remote regions of our planet in need, such as populaces of Kiribati and Tonga. This 88 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain

Delegates gathered

L-R Mark Wild - Fawema, Mr Kozlu, Tom Blacker, Hikmet Boyacioglu

Industry events in Turkey, national tax in bran was previously a problem but that has now been resolved. Overcapacity is also a problem in Turkey, 16 million tonnes are presently being used but there are some facilities that are currently running idle. “We must resolve this for R&D and the progress of the industry to grow,” added Mr Ulusoy.

On the 25th February this year, TUSAF along with PM of Turkey, a ceremony at the Konya Ticaret Borsasi (the city of Konya’s Commodity Stock Exchange) signalled a new beginning.

“There is no longer a need follow Chicago, the markets for trading grain and other commodities can follow Istanbul.” This, said Mr Ulusoy, “is very important news for our sector and more development will be brought forward in time too.”

Mr Ulusoy concluded his address by discussing the steps that are currently being taken in Turkey to bolster further the future of Turkey’s milling industry. Universities in Gaziantep and Konya now offer industry courses, and students and their professors were in attendance at TUSAF 2016. TUSAF have launched a new journal of their own in Turkish and English, with the very first edition distributed at TUSAF 2016. They are also providing a new website, with further new developments to come in the near future.

Gary Sharkey, President of European Flour Millers EFM

Following the conclusion of Mr. E. Günhan Ulusoy’s speach, Gary Sharkey, President of European Flour Millers – TUSAF. With 24 of the 29 associate members of TUSAF currently based in the EU, the organisation’s presence in the Continent is certainly growing from strength to strength with Iceland the most recent addition.

According to Mr Sharkey, approximately member of the

European Flour Millers are currently responsible for the production of “45 million tonnes of soft wheat and rye,” which equates to about about one third of all European production. An impressive 3,800 companies and 45,000 employees are currently associated with EFM. Like their Turkish counterparts, European flour millers are currently facing a number of challenges of their own. Labelling changes are one example of such a challenge with the extra cost being “a current topic which the EFM is not in favour of,” according to Mr Sharkey.

The labelling issue comes when flour millers across Europe are beginning to feel the pinch. “Fresh bread is down 1 percent, in 73 percent of the total markets there is a drop in overall consumption, household sizes are changing and trends are coming through such as gluten free and with other dietary changes too.”

Mr Sharkey concluded his address by asking the question, “what is the next weather event? What is the next black swan which will affect our industry?”

Faik Yauz, Treasury, Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges, Turkey

The next speaker to address the assembly of delegates was Faik Yauz of the Turkish Chambers of Commodity Exchanges. Mr Yauz made the point that grain milling and producing bread is one of the oldest professions in the world, in the first region of the world to be populated by mankind.

Mr Yauz added that, “the incoming new industrial revolution will change the industry,” adding that, “industry 4.0 is all about automated machines carrying out systems.” Mr Yauz concluded

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Industry events TUSAF Committee meets Mehmet Ugur Gurkaynak at Entil

Faruk Çelik - Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock

LR - Tom Blacker, Servan Günay, Sales Area Manager MIlling Spare Parts at Depart Alapala, Ayla Mumcu - Marketing at Alapala, and Prof. Dr. M. Hikmet Boyacioglu -Int Ed, Perendale

his address by describing this process of automation as, “the fourth industrial revolution.”

Faruk Çelik, Minister, Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock

“Turkey is in the international community and global village economy,” according to Faruk Çelik, who is the current Turkish

Minister for food, agriculture and livestock. “The problems of 20th century, carry on” stated Mr Çelik, adding that the “age of information has not been fully realised.”

On the subject of unequal income distribution Mr Çelik described the situation as being entirely “unjust,” and not satisfying reasonable standards of “justice and equality.”

With increasing population there is the need to ensure that we maintain the same standards of “good quality nutrition.”

According to Mr Çelik “Agriculture and food has a large global agenda,” which is “increasing in importance.”

However, global agriculture is currently experiencing pressure from another source. Mr Çelik told those assembled that “12 million square kilometers of agriable land is lost every year.” Add that to the issue of an ever-increasing population, there is now more of a pressing need than ever to ensure that the wealth of agricultural knowledge that is possessed is shared.

Mr Çelik concluded his address by stating that, “Free markets are of my belief and are important but regulations are also important to ensure a bright future for agriculture.”

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RECORD NUMBERS AT IAOM 120

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rom 4th to the 8th April 2016, Columbus in Ohio, USA hosted the 120th Annual Conference and Expo of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM). Only breaking for World War II, the event has been an important mainstay in the North American milling industry’s calendar. The venue was at the Greater Columbus Convention Centre and Hyatt Regency Columbus hotel.

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Thiele Technologies - John Miskowiec, Braden Beam and Patrick Hilger

An increase in the number of exhibitors

IAOM’s President, Mr Roy Leopp from Seaboard Corporation of Shawnee Mission in Kansas’ message ahead of the event mentioned, “an increase in the number of exhibitors compared to last year’s very successful exhibition”. He also thanked the many volunteers in the Ohio Valley District of the IAOM that enable the conference and expo to take place. That number was 122 exhibitors, from around the world exhibiting many types of products and services for the milling industries.

Ocrim - Fabrizio Baccinelli, Dean Hoerning, Gelard Richardson, Brad Allen, Alberto Antolini, Marco Galli, Ted KorolchuK, Marco Carpi

Imas - Sayit from Omas and Ertan from Erkaya

SEFAR - Joe Klinger, Wade and Mike Bramson

Quentin Johnson from the FFI

Mark and Martha Cornwell with Rene Steiner from Buhler

John and Pat from Thiele Technologies

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AMVT - Gary Zhu Ph.D

Pepper Maintenance - L-R: Chad Elmy, Randy Springer and Ed LaPreze

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AIB - Jesse Leal and Robert from Action Duct

Alapala - Çagdas Ingin

This record level of growth resulted in a great event for both business and sociable aspects of all participants. Combining technical seminars, educational sessions, updates across all aspects of the industry from farm to fork.

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the international media partner of IAOM. Milling and Grain sent a team from their UK Headquarters and North America regional office to exhibit and attend. IAOM’s next North American annual conferences will be in New Orleans in April 2017 and Atlanta in April 2018.

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BANGKOK

VICTAM, FIAAP & GRAPAS

– proving “that quality counts.”

From humble beginnings in a car park in Bangkok, VICTAM Asia has blossomed into “Asia’s international showcase for the feed and grain industry” expanding by 600 percent over the last 25 years.

This year, the 25th Anniversary of VICTAM Asia, this pattern was unchanging, as the show grew by 11 percent on 2014, and could boast a visitor increase of 5 percent – with the show organisers avowing that this proves “that quality counts!”

With such impressive statistics we took to the fold to find out from the exhibitors what they were showcasing, how well their business was expanding into the evergrowing Asian market, and crucially their feelings on the success of this year’s show.

Here we have the first eight, watch out for more to come in our June edition of Milling and Grain!

Frigortec Ralph Kolb, General Manager and Owner of Frigortec

What is it that Frigortec is here promoting at VICTAM? We have been coming to VICTAM Asia for a long time and we also go to VICTAM in Cologne in Germany, we are here to showcase ourselves to the Asian Market.

Dr Eckel Do you exhibit in Victam regularly?

Yes we participate for the third time at victam and it was a great show

Symaga

What are your major products launch in this event?

We applied this year for our product Anta®Ox Aqua - a unique plant-based feed additive. It contains a carefully composed combination of valuable flavonoids, developed to face the challenges in modern aquaculture - in a natural way. Extensive research has impressively documented the effectiveness in different species: in the laboratory and in the field: in tanks and in huge ponds. The application of this innovative formula in aquaculture and especially in shrimp farming is new, and absolutely promising.

What have you thought about VICTAM Asia this year?

So far so good, I think that the quality of the exhibitors is very good and for us it has been very productive.

VICTAM is always good and it is the main event for Asia and the Asian market.

What do you think of this year Victam?

We met a lot of highly professional key players of the industry and we don’t want to miss them. For the first time we were with 7 people at the booth and especially on Tuesday and Wednesday we needed them all.

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Raúl Pérez, Area Sales Manager for the South East Asia market, Symaga

Lambton What have been your thoughts on VICTAM Asia?

The show is always good, we have a couple of promising leads but generally it’s kind of typical, the company has been four or five times to the show before.

Which area of Asia are your major customers based?

I would say all across Asia: Malaysia, Philippines, Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Thailand, Vietnam, Australia and Indonesia!

What is speical about Frigortec technology?

I would say with our new product range we have eleven different sized machines and the efficiency of these machines is much better than before. Nowadays our sub supplier has better motors, better fans and better compressors also we have frequently converter in each fan and we have done a lot in the development of a new control panel and this allows us to have much more efficiency than before, pairing this all with very detailed and fined filed re-filtration circle. We are at the end a chiller and cooling company and my engineers in the design department have done excellent work. We have done test runs for two years in field in big plants and found out the efficiency is really much better than before, we have done the tests for the whole two years to be 100 percent sure of this.

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KSE Process Technology BV Dennis van Lankeren, Key Account and area manager for the North American Market

Idah Danny Chang, General Manager

What is Idah here to promote at VICTAM? Our aim here is to focus on our aqua feed solutions especially for shrimp feed, which we have been working on for a long time since we started in Taiwan, so we want to promote further our specialist shrimp feed solutions to meet some new clients especially in the booming companies like India Vietnam and Indonesia So you have a strong foundation in the Asian market then?

Yeah of course, we have been here for forty years.

So what are your thoughts on VICTAM Asia this year?

I think it has been better than two years ago, with more people coming and of course because it’s VICTAM people who visit the show are very professional and they are serious. Very unlike other shows, with VICTAM you don’t see many people, that is because the people who visit want something - there is a very specific clientele and that’s why we like VICTAM so much.

Why is KSE exhibiting at VICTAM? KSE is mainly exhibiting to show our ALFRA dosing and weighing systems. We supply dosing and weighing technology for feed factories, aqua feed, premix and pet food. All ALFRA systems contains dosing slides instead of dosing screws, which is the heart of our equipment. The dosing slide is used to have a very accurate and fast dosing flow without contamination.

Have you seen a lot of expansion into the Asian Market?

The Asian market is growing and there are new mills being built every month, even every day, so it is really picking up speed. One of the reasons we are at VICTAM Asia is to speak with current (Asian) customers and expand our presence in the Asian market.

Our company is expanding globally more and more, the Asian market contributes to this.

So how have you found VICTAM Asia 2016?

VICTAM was changing through the days, the first day was a little bit slow. It was good in the morning, but the afternoon was quite empty.

The second day was good with good quality leads. The third day was again more quiet, as all shows have at the last day.

Altinbilek Sedat Dumirbas, Foreign Trader Supervisor

What are you here promoting at VICTAM this year?

We are promoting globally grain silos, all our conveying systems, such as our chain conveyers, elevators belt conveyers, components for grain terminals, feed mills, flour mills, processing facilities.

Imeco Michele Giorgetti, Global Sales and Marketing Directory

Do you exhibit in Victam regularly?

Yes we have been exhibited regularly at VICTAM Asia since 2012 What are your major products launch in this event?

ABP120 high speed fully automatic bag filling line for designed to fill animal feeds into any pre-made open mouth bags EFFEROBOT - Robotic arm palletising solutions for animal feed bags What do you think of this year's Victam?

It has been a successful show, we had many visitors that have been impressed by our fully automatic bagging and palletizing solutions

Have you seen a lot of expansion into the Asian market?

Annually we are expanding by about 250 percent, but actually our main markets are still Eastern Europe, countries like Ukraine, Romania, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan – Asia until the end of Mongolia. In India we are doing well but South Asia we are not as strong but it will get better.

So how have you found VICTAM this year?

You know if you ask most Turkish companies they will say it was not good but if you ask me it was good, because we are here not just to sign contracts we are here to promote our company, meet with new people and to give out our business cards. From the exhibitions we are here to show the customers we are here. We want to show our customers we are working globally, the main aim is not to just sign contracts.

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Official opening of the Expo

Henk van de Bunt introduces Erik Heemskerk, who is taking over as general manager of Victam International from June 1, 2016

Celebrating 25th year in Asia

David Balaguer (centre) of Fundiciones Balaguer SA with two colleagues

FIAAP-Victam-GRAPAS Asia 2016 is an international showcase for Asia’s feed and food millers

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by Eloise Hillier-Richardson, Milling and Grain nce again FIAAP, Victam & GRAPAS Asia proved that quality is the only thing that counts!

This was the early verdict of visitors, conference delegates and exhibitors alike.

As a newcomer to this industry, and its events, FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia offered me an enlightening introduction into the world of feed and food milling.

Held at the BITEC, an exhibition centre near the outskirts of Bangkok, FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia gathers together the animal feed and grain processing industries under one roof, to serve the Asian market.

Originally just VICTAM, first held in a car park in 1991, FIAAP and GRAPAS joined ranks to provide a show replete with all the information and products necessary to those in the feed and food milling industry – and this year was no exception.

Official figures illustrate that the size of the show increased this year making it 11 percent larger than the 2014 show, and with 223 exhibitors and co-exhibitors from 28 countries the show was once again sold out.

Jos van de Berg of Van Aarsen

John Harvey (left) with James Lang and Warwick McCormick of GSI and AGCO

Record visitors

Walking around the BITEC centre and speaking to show exhibitors, the general consensus was that VICTAM Asia 2016 – as it’s still referred to - was a success, not only because of the amount of visitors, but also the ancillary elements that supported the show, such as the conferences and highly anticipated evening events.

Exhibitors held that one of the many qualities of FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia is that they are able to have serious discussions and negotiations with their clients and new potential clients that they meet during the show, agreeing on the high quality of visitors.

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Mark McCall and Arun Mahendran of Schenk Process

Industry events

Sedat Demirbas of Altinbilek

Edward Manchester of Biomin with colleagues and Eloise Hillier-Richardson

A Wenger extruder die

Thomas Heieril Baumann of Buhler

Mayetter Ramos and Gregory Komnik with colleagues from Insta-Pro

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Industry events seem to match the numbers of 2014, despite the show statistics showing a five percent increase in the number of visitors from 2014, reaching a staggering 6374, however a larger proportion said they felt the positive effect of this increase in numbers.

Many conceded that comparatively the amount of visitors is sometimes less than larger shows, but agreed that the clientele at FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia events were often highly specific, as though tailored for the event, making the effort to come to the show to purchase, or talk about something particular, not simply browse the stalls.

One of the more striking facts with regards to visitor numbers, particularly for a newcomer such as myself, was the sheer amount of visitors who attended the show from outside Thailand.

Over 40 percent of the visitors to FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia were from outside Thailand, adding credence to the show organisers’ assertions that these figures “clearly demonstrate that the event is now Asia’s international showcase for the feed and grain industries.”

DanToft of iGrain

Considering conferences

The show was spread across three days, from March 29-31, 2016. On the opening day, in conjunction with GRAPAS, which serves the food milling industry section of the show, Milling and Grain hosted another successful Global Milling Conference, focusing on food flour and rice milling, plus storage and chaired by our CEO and Publisher Roger Gilbert.

The conference was split into three sections: Flour and Rice Milling - Processing & Quality, Rice Milling - Markets, Nutrition & Processing and Milling Innovation - Technology & Development. The overarching idea for the conference seemed to me, to aim to share developments and innovation in order to get the maximum from your processes, along with looking at local or personal issues and helping to translate them globally, to look for solutions.

Over the past half year I have repeatedly read, in a number of publications, that under the current trajectory by 2050 we will reach a global population of nearly 9.5 billion people, a figure I have been told was given to the UN by the man sitting downstairs in my office, our very own Roger Gilbert. It would seem that despite the competitive, yet customarily friendly undertones which float throughout a trade show such as this, the overall idea largely is to help maxmise output and minimise waste.

The conferences add a deeper dimension to the show by allowing those with these innovations and the knowledge of what works well and what doesn’t, to share them with the industry. Without obviously giving away trademark secrets, the conferences encourage growth within the industry through this imparting of knowledge, perhaps at a time when we will need it the most.

Innovation and celebration

Echoing this celebration of innovation was the evening entertainment. A celebratory dinner was held on the evening of March 29, as this year saw the 25th Anniversary of FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia. The celebrations were bittersweet as the incumbent General Manager of Victam International, Henk van de Bunt, bid his farewells to the industry.

Mr Van de Bunt has enjoyed an illustrious career with the organisation.

Playing a central role from the very first show in 1991, held in a car park in Bangkok, over the past 25 years Henk has seen FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia grow by 600 percent. While he will be missed in the day-to-day, he will be joining the Board of the Victam Foundation, so he will still be around with his 102 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain

Paul Eijmberts and colleague from Ottevanger

The Zheng Chang stand

Sortex sold!

The team at Foss

Industry events wealth of experience.

Amidst the fond farewells, and a look back over the last 25 years, heads turned to the future and once again to this idea of innovation, as the coveted Innovation Awards were announced.

The Animal Feed Technology & Nutrition Award, sponsored and organised by AllAboutFeed was won by Huvepharma from Belgium; the Aquafeed Innovation Award, sponsored and organised by aquafeed.com (please note that this is not to be confused with International Aquafeed magazine which has been in print for over 24 years) was won by Kemin Industries (Asia) Pte Ltd from Singapore and the GRAPAS Innovation Award, sponsored and organised by Milling and Grain magazine was won by Eye-Grain Apps from Denmark with runner-up being Agentis Innovations of Thailand.

The aim of the Innovation Award is to celebrate and promote new and exciting developments in the industry, this year focusing on novelty, practical use and benefits to the user in terms of efficiency, safety and cost effectiveness.

This resounding emphasis on utility and efficiency supports my previous belief that members of the industry not only benefit in a monetary way from a show such as FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS Asia, or even by getting their name ‘out there’, but through this imparting of knowledge and this celebration of innovation and achievement.

Without wishing to imbue a the proceedings entirely with a sense of utilitarianism, the awards foster a sense of achievement in knowing you have given back to the industry and act as an impetus to continually make improvements and adjustments to achieve, not only greater status, but a better yield and a better result for the end user: Results which we will need to see year on year if we are to feed 9.5 billion people by 2050.

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the interview

Erik Heemskerk

Victam recently celebrated their 25th Anniversary of holding events in Asia. On the first evening of the event a Celebration Dinner was held. The international audience of over 400 executives from our industry were treated to a wonderful evening program that featured both modern and traditional Thai entertainment.

However, during this evening, came the confirmation of the sad news that Victam’s General Manager Henk van de Bunt is soon to retire. Mr van de Bunt has been with the organisation since the very first show in Bangkok in 1991, in the quarter of a century since Victam has enjoyed a growth rate of over 600 percent. Mr van de Bunt will vacate his post on June 31st. A well-known and respected industry personality, he will certainly be missed by all, although he will still have some presence within the organisation as he will take up a role on the board of the Victam Foundation.

He will be succeeded by Erik Heemskerk, who will start on June 1st. Milling and Grain Magazine met with Mr. Heemskerk at the recent Victam Asia show to discuss his feelings about succeeding Mr. van de Bunt, as well as his past experiences and future plans for when he takes the helm at Victam.

Hello Mr Heemskerk and thank you for sparing a few moments of your time to speak with us. Our first question is just to ask if you could provide a bit of background information about yourself, who you are, and why you feel that you are the right man to be taking over control of Victam?

I am Erik Heemskerk, I am Dutch and I have been working in the events industry for about 20 years now. I started my events career in the Netherlands with Amsterdam RAI, which is one of the main venues in The Netherlands and largest exhibition organisers. After this I did some work in IT for a few years and then I came back into the exhibition industry where I worked for Jaarbeurs (VNU exhibitions).

So basically in the Netherlands I have worked for both of the bigger exhibition organisers. Some time later I decided to set up my own marketing company and tried to develop an event in the applied games industry, which unfortunately didn’t go so well. I then had the opportunity to go to UBM where I became a brand director with the responsibility for pharmaceutical events in Asia and Turkey. I am currently responsible for seven events that take place every year.

That’s great, so you have had a very varied degree of success throughout your career. How do you see your role at Victam and what do you think you bring to your new role?

I start at Victam on June 1st and the reason that I am very happy to be joining Victam is firstly that Victam is an international event which I really like, I really enjoy working in an international environment; basically bringing together the world. Another is the topic, although I don’t know much about it, I think that it is a topic that is incredibly important and it goes much further than you or me.

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When you say that our industry goes much further than you or me, what exactly is that you mean by that?

If we realise that there are still well over a billion people worldwide who are starving, then we understand the absolute importance of this side of the industry for the global population, which is something that I really appreciate. If I, through the Victam shows, can make a difference then I will feel I have achieved something.

We are an organisation that right now works with a large and varied list of companies who work within our show profile but also in other industry sectors. There may be interesting opportunities here. The only shareholder of Victam International BV is the Victam Foundation, which reinvests the profits back into our industry through its charitable projects.

So as you can see there are many reasons why I am so happy to be with Victam!

Victam events focus on animal feed, rice and flour milling, grain processing and more recently biomass pelleting. With regards to Europe and Asia, do you see that Victam will be expanding further on a regional or international scale?

Well, that is certainly the million dollar question. I would certainly love to tell you but unfortunately, coming from outside of the industry I do not yet know enough about the industry to make any judgements on this. At the moment, I am sitting back and learning from everything I see. Victam has recruited me to continue to develop the brand’s portfolio. Hopefully I will be able to tell you much more in six months’ time.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Pancosma & Associates appoints Buis Ebbinge as its new Business Manager for Fatty Acids

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n this new role, Buis will focus on developing the fatty acids portfolio and sales for the Swiss feed additives manufacturer.

Dr. Goetz Gotterbarm, CEO of Pancosma & Associates said, “I am pleased to welcome Buis to the Pancosma group. Having him on board will allow us to strengthen our position in the market for digestive control and prevention.”

Trained as an animal nutritionist at the Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, Buis began his career as nutritionist before moving to Selko, Nutreco’s feed additives business unit. In 2004, Buis coBuis Ebbinge founded the Dutch specialty feed additives company, Daavision, where he managed sales, marketing, communications, and registrations, in addition to developing to new concepts.

Buis commented, “I see many opportunities for this product line, and I look forward to develop the fatty acid business in close cooperation with the Pancosma group.”

Pancosma & Associates has appointed Arjan de Ruyter as its new Director of Operations

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he Swiss feed additives company is a global pioneer in developing, manufacturing and distributing a wide range of feed additives for animal nutrition.

Arjan will be responsible for operations (production, purchasing and supply chain) for the Pancosma group. His new appointment also makes him a member of Pancosma & Associates’ Board of Directors.

He brings extensive experience in the agricultural sector. Prior to this appointment, Arjan was a co-owner of the Dutch specialty feed additives company, Daavision, where he was the Director of Arjan de Ruyter Operations, and headed the design and construction of a production facility for organic acid mixtures.

Before Daavision, Arjan worked at Selko, Nutreco’s feed additives business unit.

Dr. Goetz Gotterbarm, CEO of Pancosma & Associates said, “Arjan brings valuable know-how, and is an asset for us, as we seek to enhance our production capacity, and continue to transform into global leader of innovative feed additives.”

Commenting on his new appointment, Arjan says, “Pancosma has an open culture, and the people here are very enthusiastic and willing. I look forward to boost and leverage Pancosma’s global production capacity, to continue to support our customers with high quality products and service.”

Dr Jack Shere named USDA’s Chief Veterinary Officer

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r. Jack Shere, a long-time employee of USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), was recently named USDA’s Chief Veterinary Officer leading APHIS’s Veterinary Services program.

Dr Shere joined APHIS in 1990 and has held a variety of field and leadership positions – serving as the area commander during the exotic Newcastle disease outbreak in 2003 and spending many weeks in Iowa during the 2015 Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza outbreak where he represented USDA and Secretary Vilsack. Dr. Shere also spent several years in private veterinary practice prior to joining APHIS.

Dr. Shere will bring his enthusiasm for learning to his new role. While he already has many degrees – B.S. in Biology and Chemistry, M.S. in Education with a minor in counseling, doctorate in Veterinary Medicine, and Ph.Ds in both Poultry Science and Microbiology – Dr. Shere wants to continue to be a lifetime learner.

“There’s always new knowledge out there, and you can always acquire more. It’s just fascinating to know how much you won’t ever know!”

Dr Jack Shere

Dr. Shere brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion to the table, which will only benefit this country’s livestock and poultry populations.

Christian Kullmann to be appointed Deputy CEO of Evonik

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vonik’s current strategy chief Christian Kullmann will be appointed deputy CEO of the German speciality chemicals company, putting him in the frame to succeed CEO Klaus Engel, according to a recent report by international news agency Reuters.

Kullmann, formerly head of communications at Evonik, is seen as being close to the present Evonik Chairman Werner Mueller, Germany’s former economic affairs minister. Kullmann became executive board member and chief strategic officer in July 2014.

Christian Kullmann

Dr. Shere brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and passion to the table, which will only benefit this country’s livestock and poultry populations.

112 | May 2016 - Milling and Grain

Strong partner in Grain Management.

One of the big challenges of our age is to supply all the people worldwide with food. Every year, millions of tons of grain are collected, stored, and handled around the globe – and the upward trend is unbroken. Only the most up-to-date plant and equipment can guarantee rapidity and quality while minimizing raw material losses. In order to meet the increasingly stringent challenges, Bßhler Grain Logistics provides with its capabilities the best possible solution – for conveying, cleaing, drying, storing, dedusting or loading and unloading the most important commodity on earth.www.buhlergroup.com

Innovations for a better world.