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REGIONAL FOCUS

Turkey

NEWS

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PRODUCT FOCUS

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CASE STUDY

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FEATURES 44 Helping to feed the world sustainably 48 Konya’s milling culture The Alaybeyi flour mill 50 Cooked pasta and B-Vitamins 54 Safe fortification

FACES

112 People news from the global milling industry

58 Nutritional strategies to support intestinal health in poultry 62 Bagging systems

66 Selsaf® an organic feed supplement

70 The Mills Archive Garden Party STORAGE

74 A lesson in innovation

80 Global Industries, Inc. to open new manufacturing facility in Africa

EVENTS

96 Event listings, reviews and previews

TRAINING

41 Successful student training at OCRIM historical headquarters

COLUMNS

16 Mildred Cookson 26 Tom Blacker 28 Christophe Pelletier 34 Chris Jackson

2 GUEST EDITOR Dr Cheryl Kalisch Gordon

90 MARKETS Andrew Wilkinson

110 INTERVIEW Ismail Kemaloğlu

Guest

Editor

Australia – A reliable supplier of quality grain

The cultivation of high-quality milling wheat is a source of great national pride for Australians.

Wheat has been grown in Australia for commercial purposes almost as far back as European settlement in 1788: a long time for us, but short in the history of many others.

Of course the actual practices by which it is grown in 2016 are unrecognisable when compared with those used even 100 years ago. In the early nineteenth century wheat farming in Australia was a hard, dusty business. Planting was carried out using rudimentary horse-drawn machinery. Wheat was harvested by hand and stored in hessian bags.

Today the Australian grain farmer deploys state-ofthe art technologies including global positioning systems and specialised precision agriculture software. Tractors and harvesters are almost completely automated and digital tools allow for the collection and use of great swaths of data.

Our farmers now measure everything from soil moisture to seed penetration, yield and protein variability across fields, employ variable rate input technologies and increasingly rely on sophisticated forecasting tools.

One thing remains the same though – the hot, dry Australian climate – an ideal environment for growing high quality milling wheat.

The Australian grainbelt starts in southern Queensland and wraps itself inland down through New South Wales, Victoria and along the bottom edge of South Australia through to south west to central Western Australia. In any given year, planting of cereals, oilseeds and pulses across the grainbelt amount to some 23 million hectares.

Australian grain farmers grow a range of winter crops including wheat, barley, canola and pulses, which are sown during April-May and harvested from late October through to December. In some areas summer crops, such as sorghum, are also important. Wheat however remains the backbone of Australia’s grain production, accounting for more than 55 percent of production.

Eight main classes of wheat are grown in Australia

– wheat types or varieties are grouped into ‘classes’ depending on what end-use they are most suited to. Each classification varies slightly in its quality attributes. In general though most Australian wheat classes are considered to be among the world’s best for milling.

Australia’s grain sector is predominately exportfocussed – about 65 percent of all Australian grain is exported. On average 75 percent of all wheat grown is exported and this accounts for over 50 percent of all Australian grain exports.

Flour millers in the important North Asia, South East Asia and the Middle East markets source Australian wheat for its superior milling properties.

These properties include high flour extraction rates, bright white flour and low moisture content. Our wheat is also sought out for its white seed coat, fit-for-purpose protein levels and starch qualities.

Together these qualities mean Australian wheat produces flour that is versatile enough to be used in a wide variety of end uses.

Importantly, high extraction rates means Australian wheat provides procurers with value for money, while low moisture levels ensure Australian wheat can be stored for long periods of time without spoiling.

The global consumer is becoming increasingly concerned about food safety and origin.

Australia has an international reputation as one of the cleanest environments in the world and is a world leader in the delivery of a clean and safe food-grade product.

Australian farmers are also considered leaders in managing environmentally sustainable cropping programmes. Ongoing research into environmentally sustainable cropping as well the quality and functionality of Australian grains, pest and disease management, and grain safety are crucial to the future of our industry.

Australian grain farmers annually contribute 1 percent of the gross value of their sales to underpin research into these elements. Australian grain farmers are committed to maintaining Australia’s future as a reliable and responsible supplier of quality, fit for purpose grains to the growing demands of the world’s grain customers.

Dr Cheryl Kalisch Gordon - Manager, Trade and Market Access Grain Growers Limited, of Australia

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Letter to the Editor Global Standards (ISO/TC 293) for Feed Machinery a threat to innovation and free trade

LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Dear Sir/Madam It is critical for industry to respond to the December 2015 article ‘Breaking new ground with feed machinery standards’ (page 38-39) on the ISO/TC 293.

Unfortunately, the only accurate statement in the article is the continued global growth of the feed machinery market.

The US Coalition of Feed Machinery Manufacturers for Fair Trade is in agreement regarding the importance of safety, quality and other related items raised in the article.

However, the coalition unanimously did not support this initiative when it was pushed forward by a single company in China through ISO and our concerns were expressed to ANSI, along with those from AFIA and others, in initial opposition to the proposal to form a new ISO Technical Committee.

As sufficient support was received from various other countries around the globe, ISO/TC 293 was approved. At the present time, each of our groups are participating in the ISO/TC 293’s US Technical Advisory Group to insure that the interests of US companies are properly represented.

We want to communicate to the feed industry at large that we did not support the proposal for the following reasons: • Standards and regulations in the USA and other countries already exist and must be adhered to by industry • Each country, in which our members sell their product, has its own unique standards that also must be adhered to - a single global standard would interfere with the ability to adapt products to meet local standards • Each customer/client also has its own individual standards - a single global standard would interfere with the ability to adapt products to meet the standards requirement by an individual company • The standards would lead to a “commoditisation” of the feed industry - a manufacturer’s strength is based on its ability to differentiate its product from others - standardisation would undermine and remove this differentiation.

• Each company producing a feed or food product has its own unique business model and approach to its own market. As such, and in order to be successful in meeting its own client needs, equipment manufacturers must have the innovation and flexibility to tailor products offered according to a client’s need. “Commoditisation” only serves those who seek the lowest cost manufacturing and not the innovation and specialisation so vital to a vibrant and growing industry.

• Our members believe these types of standards programs as a ‘marketing tool’ to show that all products are of the same quality when in fact there is a range of qualities available. An example of this was in the appliance industry - the manufacturers in the proposing country would get the “standard brand mark” to show consumers that they had a high quality product but the product they were actually producing was of lower quality.

• The standards would quash innovation and would be a critical threat to the well being of the industry and in the end the development of the overall market.

Unique tooling, process approach, etc. are what drives this industry. A set global standard would require an added step for each manufacturer to get approval of each innovation since it would deviate from the standard. This step would also allow competitors to get access to intellectual property, which is already a major issue.

In short, these standards can be indirectly used to gain strategic advantage while undermining free trade, competition and innovation which are the lifeblood for a healthy, growing high-quality global feed machinery market which consumers, producers and manufacturers all benefit from today.

Your sincerely The US Coalition of Feed Machinery Manufacturers for Fair Trade

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Konya’s milling culture

In the centre of Konya, along the Ankara road, there are many flour mills: Plain, Hekimoğlu, Aynınalp, Agile, Great Hekimoğlu, Meram, standalone, Yeni, AVS, Alba and Alaybeyi. Alaybeyi Flour Mill is owned and managed by Mr Fatih Alaybeyi, who is directly related to Dr. Omer Lufti Alaybeyi of Molino milling machinery manufacturers, also based in Konya.

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Source: FAO

Mr Ismail Kemaloğlu graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Science and began his career as an auditor at the Turkish Court of Auditors. Following this, he worked as General Manager at Turkish Grain Board (TMO), Deputy Secretary of Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock, General Director of Turkish Meat and Milk Board, manager of food companies in the private sector and Head of Inspection Board of Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock.

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1.73 Percentage annual growth rate for Turkish wheat production during the period 2006-2011. By comparison, meat production rose by over 10 percent annually in the same period.

4.75 Millions of tonnes of wheat imported by Turkey in 2011, at a value of US$1.6 billion. 2.06 million tonnes of wheat flour were exported the same year, at a value of US$0.93 billion - Turkey’s highest value export commodity that year after hazelnuts.

55.62 Percentage of agricultural labour force in Turkey that was female in 2015; in 2000 it was below 50.

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NEWS

Turkey issues new postage stamp for International Year of Pulses A new postage stamp commemorating “2016 International Year of Pulses” has just been issued in Turkey. Featuring the International Year logo with its heartshaped spoonful of colorful beans, the stamp was produced by the Postal and Telegraph Corporation of Turkey at the request of the country’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock. It has a face value of 2.8 Turkish lira.

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COLUMN

A bridge between Europe and Asia

The directory’s Turkish members now number in excess of over 100.

This is a comprehensive yet growing part of our directory.

They say that Turkey is a bridge between Europe and Asia and yet in this industry at least, there are even more bridges from Turkey out to the rest of the world.

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Terror attack on Turkey has wider significance

Compound feed production

in 2015 up 0.6 percent on previous year; downward trend expected in 2016

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ccording to data provided by FEFAC members, compound feed production in the EU-28 in 2015 reached 157.3 million tonnes, up 0.6 percent on 2014.

While cattle feed dropped by 0.7 percent, pig feed and poultry feed grew by respectively 0.6 percent and 1.2 percent.

Feed costs remained low and even decreased compared to 2014, due to a good 2015 EU cereals harvest and a sufficient supply of oilseed meals globally. This compensated the still decreasing pigmeat quotations somewhat, while pigmeat production continued to increase by close to 4 percent in 2015.

For cattle feed, the picture is varied across Europe, depending on weather conditions for forages production. The lifting of quotas, with a +2 percent milk delivery in 2015 vs 2014, only really showed a visible effect in Ireland and the Netherlands.

Poultry feed production kept growing, boosted by an increase per capita in meat consumption (+2.7%), which primarily benefited poultry meat (+4%). Thus, poultry feed is the leading segment of EU compound feed production, now well ahead of pig feed.

Of the largest EU producing countries, Poland and Spain have been the only good performers, with annual growth close to 4 percent. Germany recorded a significant decrease (-2.9%) after 5 consecutive years of growth; the UK dropped more than 4 percent, especially because of bad results in poultry feed. France, Italy and the Netherlands saw limited changes.

Germany and Spain are equal leaders in the EU for total compound feed production, well ahead of France.

FEFAC market experts are relatively pessimistic concerning 2016. They think poultry feed demand will still rise, though at a slower pace than in 2015 (+0.5%), and pig feed demand will fall (-1.5%), in line with forecasts on EU pigmeat production. Overall, this would lead to a 0.7 percent decrease in compound feed production in 2016 vs 2015.

Quality concerns about the EU cereals harvest 2016 due to bad weather conditions in several EU states may result in higher supply of feed wheat. However, prudence will be required as regards the sanitary quality. Concerning proteins, after the low South American soya harvest 2016 combined with a higher global demand for soybean meal, attention is on the US soya harvest forecast, which is currently quite good.

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All of us on Milling and Grain would like to take this opportunity to extend our deepest sympathies to Turkey following the horrific terror attacks of June 28, 2016.

In this, our Turkish edition for 2016, we would rather have opened by recalling the positive future and all the great success Turkey sees with regards to its milling industry, as a huge number of companies are linked with the flour and feed milling industries either based here or have major operations on Turkish soil, but sadly, instead, we find ourselves mourning with a country who have experienced 17 similar attacks in just over the past year alone.

Turkish officials have reported that so far, among the 41 dead are 23 Turks, two Iraqis, an Iranian, five Saudis, a Chinese national, a Tunisian, an Uzbek, a Jordanian and a Ukrainian. The attacks, which were instigated in the international departure area in Istanbul’s main Ataturk airport, are demonstrative of the fact that this is not just an attack on Turkey, but an attack on the freedoms of citizens from across the globe.

Beyond the tragic human loss, which is indeed immeasurable, there is something else at stake here, and that is the will of others, to infringe on the civil liberties of people around the world.

We are hearing reports of the Turkish people’s resilience to this, and this stoicism in the face of such adversity is recognised by us and our readers. Many of our esteemed colleagues and friends live and work in Turkey and we extend our sincere condolences and warmest regards to them at this time.

Just as we were ‘Je suis Paris’ we are now also ‘Ben Türküm’.

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BUSINESS AS USUAL DESPITE BREXIT The United Kingdom’s referendum on European Union membership Thursday, June 23, 2016, the skies over London crashed with thunder. This wondrous display of pathetic fallacy came to echo what political commentator Andrew Neil referred to as Britain’s crossing into “the most significant political watershed in our lifetime.”

The die was cast as a majority of 51.9 percent to 48.1 percent voted to leave the European Union.

It is an issue that has given rise to bipartisan politics, and witnessed an astronomic rise in voter turnout, while at the same time causing deep division and a heightened sense of unrest.

We at Milling and Grain – an international publication have maintained our neutrality, however, we would like to bring you some of the reactions from across the industry.

We have received several press comments from industry bodies and societies about what Brexit means to them. There is a recurring theme of ‘business as usual’, combined with a collective sense of the necessity for a calm measured response, working collaboratively with our neighbours to reach an outcome suitable for all.

National Farmers Union (NFU)

The NFU, while acknowledging the “diversity of views among its membership”, resolved that, “on the balance of existing evidence available to us at present, the interests of farmers are best served by our continuing membership of the European Union.”

It recognised that the issue crosses numerous areas that are all essential to British farming, but is resolute in the following principles: • To achieve the best possible access Europe’s markets, which will remain extremely important to Britain’s farmers • To get access to markets in the rest of the world, while ensuring protection from imports which are produced to lower standards • To ensure farmers and growers can get the necessary supplies of labour, both seasonal and full-time • To build a British agricultural policy which is as simple as possible, adapted to its needs and guarantees parity of treatment with European farmers, who will still be its principal competitors. “There must be a common framework of a British policy, while allowing a necessary degree of flexibility to devolved governments,” says the NFU. • Regulations and product approvals must be proportionate and based on risk and science.

The NFU has also created a site about what Brexit means for the farming sector at: http://www.nfuonline.com/ news/eu-referendum/eu-referendum-news/what-does-thereferendum-result-mean-for-your-farm/

Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB)

Commenting on the UK’s vote to leave the EU, the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board’s Chief Executive, Jane the King, had this to say: “The AHDB focus remains unaffected by the decision to leave the EU - to equip levy payers with the tools to become more competitive and sustainable.

“Amongst other issues, the decision to leave brings to the fore the need for UK Government to target the best new trading relationships we can for UK food and agriculture both with the EU and other countries.

“AHDB has the skills and expertise to contribute to this work in areas such as market prioritisation, market access negotiations and facilitating relationships between UK exporters and overseas buyers.

“We stand ready to support the industry in identifying how it can best compete outside the EU,” she adds.

“These issues will take time to resolve, but AHDB will play a full part in ensuring UK agriculture is a leading player on the global stage.”

National Association of Animal Health (NOAH)

The National Association of Animal Health responded to the news of Brexit with the following statement that the UK animal medicines sector is “vital for a healthy future.”

Dawn Howard, Chief Executive of the National Association of Animal Health (NOAH) made the following statement: “We are committed to working with the UK regulator, government representatives and other stakeholder organisations on any forthcoming changes to regulations or market access conditions.

“We recognise that the process of leaving the EU is not clear and that this will be a lengthy process of negotiations.

“NOAH will continue to robustly represent our sector’s interests and work hard to ensure continuing access to all veterinary medicines to benefit the health and welfare of our animals and promote innovation across our UK animal medicines sector.”

Global socio-economic and political ramifications

These so far are the reactions we have received to the news of Brexit, please watch our blog ‘The Global Miller’ for other news updates concerning the agricultural and farming industry.

Of course, we are aware that the process of Brexit is far wider reaching than just the UK and Europe, with global socio-economic and political ramifications – again we will act as the conduit for these opinions and reactions from the food and agriculture sectors as and when we can.

We would like the echo the sentiments above: we understand there will be of course diversity of opinion among our readership, and while there is unfortunately still no clear pathway towards a successful Brexit, that working collaboratively and supporting industry is the best way to move forward following the unexpected outcome of this referendum.

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FEED DIGESTIBILITY REVOLUTION A

NEW ADVANCE CAN IMPROVE THE DIGESTIBILITY OF ALL FEED NUTRIENTS WHATEVER THE TYPE OF DIET 10-year research program in bio-engineering and animal nutrition, is about to revolutionise feed digestibility.

A new feedase enzyme solution from Adisseo, called Rovabio® Advance, can improve the digestibility of all feed nutrients, including amino acids, phosphorus and calcium, whatever the type of diet.

Arabinofuranosidases - the key debranching enzymes

Rovabio® Advance’s efficacy is explained by the unique presence of arabinofuranosidases (ABFs); a very important kind of debranching enzyme.

These enzymes work synergistically with xylanases to efficiently break down complex fibre structures in plant cell walls.

By removing hampering branches from fibres, these enzymes open room to allow the xylanases access to the backbone of the fibre chain, greatly boosting their efficacy.

In addition, there are two newly expressed kinds of xylanases (XynC, XynG) in Rovabio® Advance, as well as an increased presence of XynB and XynD compared to the former product, Rovabio® Excel.

This large range of xylanases, in combination with ABFs, explains the consistency of the results regardless of the feed composition.

An innovative approach

“The classical method to produce an enzyme is the random integration of the gene of interest in the strain.

However, this method allows production of only a single enzyme,” explains Olivier Guais, PhD, Biochemistry Development Manager at Adisseo. ”We had to think outside of the box for the development of the most efficient combination of enzymes.”

Specific work on the regulation of the transcription of genes coding for enzymes of interest expression by the fungus Talaromyces versatilis was carried out. This led to an overproduction of the targeted key enzymes while keeping versatility thanks to the broad range of enzymes produced by this microorganism, such as beta-glucanases, cellulases, pectinases, mannanases, and several others.

Proven efficacy

Robust testing across a variety of diets shows that Rovabio® Advance provides improvement in the order of three percent in the overall digestibility of organic matter, supported by a higher digestive retention of starch, protein, and fat.

Thanks to the degradation of the cell wall of vegetable raw material, nutrients’ accessibility to endogenous enzymes is improved.

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Performance trials proving the potential of Rovabio® Advance to save three percent AME and dAA

energy level of the diet, a consistent improvement of three percent AME, three percent dAA and P and Ca availability has been proven.

Many trials evaluating the performance and carcass parameters of broilers based on reformulated diets for a reduction in nutrient level confirm that, with the addition of Rovabio® Advance, AME and dAA content in feed can be reduced by three percent, ensuring the same performance (FCR and BWG) compared with a positive control diet (see graphics).

Thus, Rovabio® Advance is the only feedase, the perfect combination of enzymes, to improve the availability of all nutrients of the feed, whatever the type of diet.

Unique benefits

The product is now authorised in most parts of the world

and is available in different forms (powder at 50g/MT of feed or liquid at 100 to 200mL/MT) to fit various feedmill applications.

“This is a major innovation for the feed industry, leading to an unmatched reduction of costs and reduction of nutrient losses,” says Frank Chmitelin, Vice-President of Global Sales and Marketing Director.

With a potential to replace three percent of the AME and digestible amino acids, Adisseo offers the possibility to decrease the feed cost by €12/MT of feed treated with Rovabio® Advance.

In a feedmill producing 100,000 MT of broiler or turkey feed per year, Rovabio® Advance generates an extra margin of at least €300,000 per year compared to former generations of NSP enzymes. www.adisseo.com

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A maths formula offers global impact for millers by improving flour yield from wheat

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esearch by a University of Huddersfield scientist could aid the development of new strains of wheat that yield higher quantities of extra-nutritious flour.

Professor Grant Campbell is a leading expert in cereal process engineering and is based in the University’s School of Applied Sciences at the University of Huddersfield in the UK. The milling of wheat and the complexities of its kernel are central to his work.

Now his latest co-authored article analyses the different breakage characteristics of hard and soft wheats.

It has been discovered that in certain strains, an intermediate layer may crumble more readily, so that it becomes easier to separate the hard outer shell of bran from the endosperm – the flour – which can also remain united with an inner layer named ‘aleurone’.

“Generally speaking, the layers all stick together and become bran.

“But if we can get the ‘aleurone’ to stay with the endosperm, then that would increase our quantities of flour – and it is also highly nutritious,” said Professor Campbell.

More than half of the world’s food supply consists of cereals, with wheat for bread the most important in terms of global trade, international relations and the security and affordability of the food supply. This means that although flour milling has already achieved high efficiency, any improvement in yields has the potential to make a massive global impact.

Now Professor Campbell’s research into the composition of wheat particles has enabled him to develop a mathematical formula that leads to greater understanding of the way that different wheats break up during the milling process.

Although millers can gain valuable practical insights from the new discoveries, it is also hoped that plant

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Professor Grant Campbell (pictured) researches wheat processing for food and non-food uses, including co-products from bioethanol production in cereal-based bio-refineries

breeders will adopt Professor Campbell’s mathematical equations. This would enable them to breed new wheats that incorporate the crumbly intermediate layer, resulting in higher yields of nutritious flour with exceptional breadmaking characteristics.

Grant Campbell relocated to the University of Huddersfield – where he is Professor of Chemical Engineering – in 2014. He is leading new teaching Wheat grain front and back

programmes in chemical engineering and continuing his long-standing research in cereal process engineering for food and non-food uses.

Originally from New Zealand, he came to the UK to study at Cambridge and had a long academic career in Manchester following a period in industry as a food researcher.

Note: The article entitled ‘A compositional breakage equation for wheat milling’ was published in the Journal of Food Engineering. Professor Campbell’s co-authors are Silvia P. Galindez-Najera, Prasan Choomjaihan, Cécile Barron and Valérie Lullien-Pellerin.

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A German Roller Flour Mill: The New Roller Flour Mills of Mr C Scholtz at Loewen (Silesia)

Seck Eureka Zig-zag separator

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by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK In reading through old copies of the important Victorian journals at the Mills Archive my attention was drawn to an article in The Miller that appeared on page 362 of the issue dated November 5th 1888. The article describes in detail the new mills of Mr Scholz recently built in Loewen in Silesia (now part of Poland and known as Lewin Brzeski), some 60km south west of Wroclaw (formerly Breslau).

Mr Scholtz had a Seck system installed and next month I shall write more about Messrs Seck Brothers with illustrations from their works in Darmstadt. The Loewen mill was situated on the banks of the Neisse, a tributary of the Oder, from which the mill got its source of power.

Two turbines were used, one of 75hp and the other 45hp.

The installations were so arranged that when water was low only one of the turbines would be in operation and so made use of its full capacity. The main building, containing the mill itself and the screen room, separated by a wall, had a length of 140 feet and a width of 50 feet.

There was one other building on the site, which was used as a warehouse.

Seck’s engineers, in planning the working diagram of the plant had to take into consideration that the machinery would be required to work on wheat and on rye alternatively. This problem was solved in an ingenious manner, and the equipment was arranged to enable the miller to pass over from one operation to the other by simply turning a few valves and changing the direction of a few spouts.

How the mill was run The run of the system was as follows: leaving the warehouse, the grain was conveyed automatically to the mill where it passed through a dressing reel into a large silo. From here it went through an automatic weighing machine, and afterwards was conveyed by an elevator to the fourth floor, where it entered the screen room proper.

The screening machines were arranged in the following succession: one Eureka “zig-zag” separator; one aspirator; two large cockle cylinders; one aspirator with magnetic apparatus; one Seck’s patent wheat polisher and one Seck’s brush machine. After having passed through these machines the grain would go on to a pair of cracking rolls, and from there it fell into a large hopper above the first break roller mill, entirely cleaned and ready for being ground.

On the ground floor of the mill, the main shaft was fitted on solid stone foundations and driven by the two turbines.

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the roller mills and millstones on the floor above. At the centre of this floor were the elevator bottoms arranged in one row, to receive the produce from the rolls and stones above by means of worms fixed to the ceiling.

The first floor was entirely filled by the roller mills and millstones. There were twelve pairs of Seck’s fluted rolls and ten pairs of smooth rolls as well as three pairs of millstones, all of which were fitted in a single row. All the roller mills were of solid construction and evidenced first class workmanship; the woodwork was of polished walnut, giving this floor a very pleasing effect to the visitor. The second floor contained the large bin for cleaned wheat, and a flour chamber for the finished flour.

There was also three Seck’s improved middlings and semolina purifiers as well as two dust collectors, one

The Mills of Mr Scholz on the banks of the River Neisse

Longitudinal Section of the Loewen Roller Mills

Cross Sections of the Loewen Roller Mills and the Wheat Cleaning Department

Milling News of which took the dust from the purifiers and the other one from the rolls. Two centrifugal dressing machines were on the third floor for dressing the flour; these were each driven by a half twisted belt from a long shaft below. Also on this floor were the semolina and middlings sizing reels. On the top floor there were the ordinary scalping reels, intermediate centrifugals, detachers and elevator tops.

The mill was working at the “highest satisfaction” The reporters gathered that the mill had been working to the highest satisfaction from the time it was set to work and that all concerned had said that the same system turned out equally good results on rye as it did on wheat. At that time Mr Scholtz had given Messrs Seck Brothers an additional order for enlarging the mill and fitting up a complete silo arrangement.

At this time, The Miller was giving prominence in their advertising for “Seck Brothers, Milling Engineers of Seething Lane, London” to the factory at Darmstadt in Germany and the foundry and works at Oberursel, later more famous for producing engines for World War 1 fighter aircraft and later part of Rolls Royce Deutschland.

All four Seck Brothers were millwrights. Wilhelm Seck founded his business in 1865 in Bockenheim near Frankfurt. In 1870 he went into partnership with two of his brothers Charles (Karl) and Christian. Seck Brothers moved to Dresden in 1873 on the death of Christian. It

Seck’s roller mill manufacturing floor in 1923

appears that later, the youngest brother, Heinrich was responsible for the success of the Dresden business, making it one of the leading roller mill manufacturers in Germany and Europe.

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Imas expands projects with Viteral in feed industry

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mas Machinery, one of the leading companies in the milling industry, is delivering two more projects through its newest brand Viteral which operates in the feed machinery and equipment industry.

Being one of the leading brands in turnkey milling systems, Imas Machinery continues to increase its projects in the feed industry through its Viteral brand. The company is preparing to deliver two more feed plants with 20 and 25 tonnes/hours capacity under the Viteral brand in 2016.

Imas Machinery are carrying out large feed plant projects in Turkey and abroad through the Viteral brand with the experience they gained through Milleral, their powerful brand in the milling industry. They turn Viteral feed milling machines that they produce with high technology into efficient feed plants with a flawless engineering approach and add value to their customers.

Imas Machinery is proactive about responding to all the requirements of its customers in a fast and accurate way, ranging from machinery and equipment production and automatic control systems to process design and after sales training and services.

At the 5th Global Feed & Food Congress and Victam Asia 2016 exhibitions, the company staked a claim among the leading companies in the feed industry and the interest of the sector shows that they are on the right track. They work harder with this awareness. As Viteral, they are proud to deliver two projects: one with 25 tons/hour capacity for Selet Entegre Et ve Süt Ürünleri AŞ and the other with 20 tons/hour for Koçlar Yem AŞ, with high technology machines and a flawless engineering approach.

Bactocell® on-track for EU authorisation for use in minor avian species and minor porcine categories

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allemand Animal Nutrition is pleased to announce that the Panel on Additives and Products or Substances used in Animal Feed (FEEDAP) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has given a positive scientific opinion for use of Bactocell® as a zootechnical feed additive in minor avian species, such as duck and game birds (fattening and laying) and minor porcine categories (weaned and for fattening), including boar.

The opinion is also positive on the re-evaluation of Bactocell® for pigs for fattening and chickens for fattening.

The opinion covers both Bactocell for use in feed and Bactocell Drink for use in livestock drinking water.

Bactocell is currently authorised in the European Union for use in laying hens, chickens for fattening, weaned piglets, pigs for fattening and aquaculture (all fish and shrimps).

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Brabender release new universal laboratory roller mill

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rabender have announced the release of a new roller mill for user-friendly laboratory flour preparation.

The Brabender® Quadrumat® Junior is a universal laboratory roller mill for milling wheat, spelt, rye, barley and rice.

In one passage, the multi-stage grinding process produces laboratory flours that are almost equivalent to commercially produced flour in terms of ash content, yield and baking quality.

These can be used for subsequent analyses such as standard tests with Farinograph, Extensograph, Amylograph, Alveograph or Falling Number.

The new version of the mill offers enhanced usability.

Cleaning is facilitated by an easily removable round sifter.

A more robust housing, larger drawers for flour and bran as well as a lower noise level are substantial advantages of the new Quadrumat® Junior. www.brabender.com

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Wheat sequencing consortium releases key resource to the scientific community

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ollowing the January 2016 announcement of the production of a whole genome assembly for bread wheat, the International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC), having completed quality control, is now making this breakthrough resource available for researchers via the IWGSC wheat sequence repository (at https://wheat-urgi. versailles.inra.fr/).

Wheat breeders and scientists around the world will be able to download and use this invaluable new resource to accelerate crop improvement programs and wheat genomics research.

The dataset will facilitate the identification of genes associated with important agricultural traits such as yield increase, stress response, and disease resistance and, ultimately, will make possible the production of improved wheat varieties for farmers.

Since the January announcement, the IWGSC project team has been fine-tuning the data so that the genome assembly released to the scientific community is of the highest quality possible. The resource released today – based on Illumina sequencing data assembled with NRGene’s DeNovoMAGIC™ software – accurately represents more than 90 percent of the highly complex bread wheat genome, contains over 97 percent of known genes, and assigns the data to the 21 wheat chromosomes.

This data release represents the IWGSC continued effort to produce a “gold standard reference sequence” – the complete map of the entire genome that precisely positions all genes and other genomic structures along the 21 wheat chromosomes. The

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wheat genome is large – five times that of the human genome – and complex, with three sets of seven chromosomes.

“The IWGSC policy has always been to make all data publicly available as soon as they have passed the quality checks,” explained IWGSC Executive Director Kellye Eversole.

As is customary in the scientific community, the dataset is being made available for breeding and research under the “Toronto statement”, which outlines rules for prepublication data sharing, under which the IWGSC reserves the right to publish the first analyses of the data. Detailed information on how to access the data is available on the IWGSC website.

Over the coming months, the IWGSC project team will continue its work towards completing a high quality, ordered sequence of the wheat genome that includes annotating and identifying the precise locations of genes, regulatory elements, and markers along the chromosomes, thereby providing invaluable tools for wheat breeders. The final result will integrate all genomic resources produced under the umbrella of the IWGSC over the last decade, including individual physical and genetic maps.

As the global population grows, so too does its dependence on wheat. To meet future demands of a projected world population of 9.6 billion by 2050, wheat productivity needs to increase by 1.6 percent each year.

In order to preserve biodiversity, water, and nutrient resources, the majority of this increase has to be achieved via crop and trait improvement on land currently cultivated rather than committing new land to cultivation. As for other major crops, a well annotated reference genome sequence will be an invaluable resource towards this goal by providing the detailed maps of genes and gene-networks that can be improved through breeding. www.wheatgenome.org

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EU animal nutrition innovations caught in slow regulatory approval process

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n June 9, 2016, held a on “Innovation in Animal Nutrition” was the subject of a joint high-level EU Conference in Brussels on June 9, 2016, held by FEFAC and FEFANA and which attracted over 170 participants.

In the context of the feed sector’s political and economic framework, the event showcased a series of solutions that animal nutrition can provide.

The programme featured European Commission officials, feed industry representatives and speakers from the farming sector, academia and the banking sector.

FEFANA is the EU’s Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures is the united voice of the specialty feed ingredients business in Europe. FEFAC, is the EU’s Compound Feed Manufacturers’ Federation and represents 25 national associations in 24 EU member states as well as associations in Switzerland, Turkey, Serbia, Russia and Norway who are observers or associate members.

Dr Vytenis Andriukaitis, Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, emphasised in his keynote speech the important role of science and innovation to address key EU challenges and objectives.

The Commissioner underlined the example of the EU ban on antibiotic growth promoters in 2006, which triggered a rush of innovative feed additives coming to the market to restore competitiveness of the EU livestock sector.

“Innovation in animal nutrition is a vital element in

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increasing animal health as well as an important step forward on AMR,” the Commissioner stated.

FEFAC and FEFANA presented the vision of a modern feed industry that intends to shape a smart, resourceefficient Europe through innovation and public-private partnerships. In a vision document, the two organisations outline the feed industry solutions to meet current and future challenges to the EU livestock sector.

FEFAC President Ruud Tijssens stressed the role of animal nutrition in the food chain circular economy.

“It is thanks to animal nutrition science that the feed industry is able to annually convert 90 million tonnes of co-products into high-value feed ingredients for foodproducing animals.

“Innovation in the area of alternative feeds as well as feed processing technology make it possible to continuously reduce the feed industry’s environmental footprint,” he said.

FEFANA President Marco Bruni stated the feed sector has a huge innovation potential to improve the feed efficiency of the EU livestock sector, however, the regulatory approval system for the authorisation of new feed additives needs speeding up.

“There is a strong market demand for the products we deliver, but we often find ourselves caught in a slowly operating regulatory approval process.

“The feed industry vision is therefore also a call on policy makers and risk assessors to streamline the process.

“Furthermore, investment in scientific research in animal nutrition and in innovation, as well as more stakeholder dialogue, are prerequisites to making the vision happen”, Bruni concluded.

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[ Museum Story No. 6 ]

BAKER’S PIPE OF PEACE

A bridge between Europe and Asia Tom Blacker, International Milling and Grain Directory

The Shawnees or Shawanese are a proud Indian tribe with a glorious history. Great chiefs like Tecumseh or Cornstalk or Blue Jacket fought for their cause, but then smoked the pipe of peace with their opponents as a sign of reconciliation. A good custom. The name Shawnee is now found on products, institutions and companies in the USA – as on the flour sack shown here. It stands for tradition and greatness.

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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The month of July brings a very encouraging number of new registrations and updates again to the directory. There has been a range of new companies joining this month: PacMoore of the USA, SS Milling of India, Nordstrong of Canada and Fiorini of Italy.

Updates have been received from Adifo of Belgium, TMSA of Brazil and Cultura of the UK. I am always grateful for the effort and care that companies make to the directory. It’s a real partnership to be involved with companies as they make themselves and their products more accessible with us.

Another interesting note to make is that this magazine issue is focused on Turkey. The directory’s Turkish members now number in excess of over 100. This is a comprehensive yet growing part of our directory.

They say that Turkey is a bridge between Europe and Asia and yet in this industry at least, there are even more bridges from Turkey out to the rest of the world. As you know I spent an extensive week touring Turkey again and having interesting meetings for flour and feed milling.

The associations of feed and flour milling are committed and focussed to developing and improving their domestic market and its place in the world. According to the association, Türkiyem-Bir (www.yem.com.tr) in 2015, feed milling is producing double the quantity of flour milling.

This is a trend that feed and flour milling are growing in tandem, and is part of Turkey’s overall economic developments and successes.

As you will know, Turkey is a developing country with a huge 20 percent of world’s flour trade in exports. Other rising factors such as the Konya Borsa being a new local market for grain trading this magazine has recently covered means Turkey cannot be ignored by the worldwide agricultural industries.

A good recent success story for the industry has been this magazine’s Turkish language website with over 25,000 hits in just 6 months.

Visit our Turkish website now at: www.millingandgrain-tr. com.

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Turkey issues new postage stamp for International Year of Pulses

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new postage stamp commemorating “2016 International Year of Pulses” has just been issued in Turkey.

Featuring the International Year logo with its heartshaped spoonful of colorful beans, the stamp was produced by the Postal and Telegraph Corporation of Turkey at the request of the country’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock. It has a face value of 2.8 Turkish lira.

Pulses are a type of leguminous crop harvested solely for the dry seed. Dried beans, lentils and peas are the most commonly known and consumed types of pulses. Turkey is among the world’s major producers of pulses.

In its resolution establishing the Year, the UN General Assembly assigned FAO to take the lead. FAO’s communication campaign for pulses highlights their nutritional value, economic affordability, health benefits, and environmental sustainability.

Since designation of 2016 as the International Year of Pulses by the United Nations General Assembly in December 2013, Turkey’s Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock has carried out numerous activities – including both national and international events – to focus public attention on the benefits of pulses.

“Turkey is playing an extremely important role in the global campaign to increase production and consumption of pulses,” said Yuriko Shoji, FAO subregional coordinator for Central Asia. “Development of the new stamp is one of many high-profile initiatives.”

The new postage stamps will be shared with international organizations and foreign missions of the Republic of Turkey, and used for postage to increase public visibility for 2016 International Year of Pulses. http://www.fao.org/pulses-2016/en/

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The Pelletier Column

Is a comeback of meat and bone meal (MBM) in feed a realistic scenario?

by Christophe Pelletier The memory is still quite vivid of when the mad cow disease scandal hit the UK some 20 years ago. I can also very clearly recall the stack of faxes from my British customers on my desk when I arrived in the office of the poultry slaughterhouse that I worked for that morning. They were all pretty much identical.

They all contained the same faxes they received from British retailers. The message was simple but the solution was far from it, ‘Sign the form saying you do not use MBM in your feed.’ For those of you who are too young to remember, let me describe the situation in three words: panic, panic, and panic!

Those times were not made for those who like to talk about rational science, as the emotional side of the problem completely dominated the debate. The BSE outbreak was a game changer for the animal protein industry. The negative impact of the crisis went beyond just MBM and just beyond animal protein. It triggered a suspicion about how food was produced and a breach of trust towards both the industry and governments.

Production systems, traceability and transparency All the issues about food safety, food production systems, traceability and transparency that are currently shaping today’s food production all originate in some form from the BSE crisis. Today’s production and marketing strategies of food companies and also of retailers and food service are greatly influenced by what happened 20 years ago.

The current momentum and the desire to meet consumer demand is a result of the European ban on MBM. The trend is not just in the EU but it is global, even in countries where the uses of MBM may be allowed.

In these conditions, is it realistic to consider the reintroduction of MBM in animal feed? The answer to that is a bit complex. As usual with food, the rational and the emotional do not go in parallel. For many consumers, the ban on MBM is perceived as a progress towards better food. From that perspective, they would see the reintroduction of MBM as a step backward.

Business, politics and progressing towards better food It would be highly likely that they would see it as a reinforcement of their perception of how business and politics mix that caused the crisis 20 years ago.

I suspect that the reaction against a non-consensual reintroduction would be quite forceful, even with all the limitations that the EU is considering putting on the use of MBM. On the production side of things, the rational ones will 28 | July 2016 - Milling and Grain

pinpoint the high protein content and the nutritional value of MBM. In the current environment of awareness about food waste and the need to reduce it, the question of what to do with the source of MBM is certainly a valid one. The problem, as usual, is to reconcile the emotional and the rational, and in the food industry, we all know how difficult that can be!

If reconciling both points of view was at all possible, the only way to do this in my opinion would be to do it softly, one step at a time and through an open and candid dialogue where it should be made clear that the opinions of all stakeholders matter and that the outcome is not predetermined. Reintroducing MBM by force would probably have a negative impact on consumption of industrial animal protein and it might not be the best strategy to follow.

Personally, I believe it would be good to have a conversation between all stakeholders. It would not happen 20 years ago and back then was not a suitable time to have such a conversation. Back then, I tried many times but even though my customers could see the pros and cons of using or banning MBM, they simply were not interested in a dialogue on the subject.

They had to make business choices and the ban was the only one that seemed sensible for them; which is fair enough.

It is just a pity that there has not been any attempt since then to have a conversation with the “market” about the issue. After 20 years of keeping silent, trying to change the rules of engagement in the Brussels corridors without an open dialogue is the surest way for a new rejection, and this time I believe it will be final. I also believe that such a dialogue will take time, so there must not be any rush; unless we want to see how the law of action and reaction works.

Consumers have a right to choose Most important of all, I believe that it must be clear that there is no predetermined outcome and that the conversation must be carried out with mutual respect between stakeholders. If the market does not want it, then so be it! MBM producers and suppliers will then have to find other applications for their products.

At the very least, both sides need to meet somewhere where consumers can see that MBM has also some positive sides and producers accept that consumers have the right to choose.

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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Lasting legacy of Grain Trade Australia CEO, Geoff Honey

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ustralia lost an internationally-respected grain trader in mid-June when Geoff Honey, the CEO and Company Secretary of Grain Trade Australia and a GTA representative on the International Grain Trade Coalition (IGTC), died suddenly from a heart attack while cycling.

“It’s an extremely sad day, to lose Geoff who was a true gentleman and a real champion of the industry,” said GTA Chair Peter Reading who reported an incredible response throughout the industry at the shock news of Mr Honey’s death, from grower groups, grain traders, bulk handling companies and government officials.

Mr Honey held Australian government ministerial appointments including Chairman of the Grain Export Certification Reform Program (2009 – 2011); a member of the Wheat Industry Expert Group (2008); a member of ther Grains and Plant Products Export Industry Consultative Committee (2004 – present).

He was Australia’s representative on the International Grain Trade Coalition (IGTC) from 2006 to the present.

IGTC is a global coalition of like-minded grain trade

Mozambique to Fortify Five Foods

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ozambique published legislation on 18 April 2016 to fortify five food vehicles as part of its multi-sector plan to reduce chronic undernutrition. The mandate calls for fortification of wheat flour, corn meal, cooking oil, sugar, and salt.

The law gives industries six months to meet the new requirements. When fully implemented, wheat flour and corn meal will be fortified with iron, zinc, folic acid, and vitamin B12. Fortifying flour with vitamin A, thiamine, riboflavin, niacin, and vitamin B6 is optional.

Cooking oil and sugar will be fortified with vitamin A. Salt will be fortified with iodine.

Mozambique has 13 industrial roller maize mills with a capacity of at least 60 metric tons a day, 13 medium hammer mills with average daily production of 20 metric tons a day, and 10 industrial wheat mills. Small-scale mills which provide services for family

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organisations tasked to facilitate the commercial functions associated with the global trade in grain estimated by the FAO to be 500 million tonnes per year.

He was IGTC’s delegate Team Leader to the UN Biosafety Protocol meetings in Korea in October 2014. Meeting outcomes were extremely successful for the global grain trade. In 2011-2012 he was the chair of Business Planning Development Committee that led to a business model to form IGTC into a formal legal structure and represented IGTC at Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Asia/ Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) commodity forums.

“It’s a great loss not only for Geoff’s family but also for the entire agricultural industry and there’s been a tremendous response from everyone,” added Mr Reading.

The Australian Export Grains Innovation says Mr Honey was widely respected as a person who could effect change.

He discharged his duties in servicing his membership in a very effective and efficient manner.

Grain Trade Australia (previously called NACMA) was formed in 1991 to standardise grain standards, trade rules and grain contracts to enable the efficient facilitation of trade across the Australian grain industry.

Over 95 percent of all grain commercial transactions conducted across the Australian grain supply chain are now conducted using GTA contracts and and/or grain trading standards. GTA is internationally.

Grain Producers Australia Chair Andrew Weidemann said Mr Honey had worked hard at GTA to develop standards for grain trading and marketing, and improving market access, in the post-AWB single desk era, leaving a positive legacy.

He leaves three children and wife and journalist Lucy Broad who is also a well-known person in the Australian agriculture sector.

consumption or do not package their products for the market are exempt from the fortification legislation.

During a workshop earlier in June, Mozambique leaders learned to use FORTIMAS (Fortification Monitoring and Surveillance) as a monitoring tool.

FORTIMAS analyzes trends over time using existing data to determine if fortification is being implemented as expected. It can also identify whether health trends are improving as expected.

FORTIMAS is available in English and French. (FORTIMAS: Une Approche pour le Suivi de la Couverture et de l’Impact d’un Programme d’Enrichissement de la Farine).

The Mozambique legislation is a significant milestone after years of collaborative efforts by fortification advocates. A multi-sector National Committee for Food Fortification was established in March 2012. National leaders have included people from the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture as well as the Ministry of Health. International partners have

included the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), Helen Keller International (HKI), Irish Aid, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Food Program, and Population Services International.

Representatives from Mozambique have attended multiple training events led by Smarter Futures, a publicprivate-civic partnership working to improve health in Africa through fortification of wheat and maize flour.

Smarter Futures partners include HKI, the International Federation for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus, the Food Fortification Initiative, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, and AzkoNobel. The Smarter Futures partnership also developed FORTIMAS then provided the French translation.

With Mozambique, 86 countries have legislation to fortify at least one industrially milled cereal grain. The maps on our website are now colorcoded to reflect the grains required in the legislation.

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COMPANY UPDATES Sustainable farming, food safety and the importance of motivating the next generation

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG This month, I am writing my column to you from the USA where I am attending one of the world’s premier pig farming exhibitions held annually in Des Moines - the state

capital of Iowa.

Catering for a worldwide audience, the World Pork Expo is purely for pork producers; where the latest technologies are showcased along with seminars and educational visits.

This exhibition is of global importance to this particular sector of our industry, where over the three days more than 20,000 pig farmers attended, meeting with exhibiters from nearly 50 countries.

The show highlights what has been achieved, and perhaps most importantly, some of the issues that lie ahead for the industry with some suggested remedies. For instance, we saw companies that can change dirty wastewater into fresh water that is fit to drink.

Worldwide, the provision of clean drinking water may be a bigger challenge than fossil fuel has been in this and the last century.

Efficiently producing food from our world’s diminishing resources A major part of the three day event is the opportunity to network not only with the hightech companies that are so essential to modern food production, but also with the end users, the farmers. Looking at the equipment and technology on display, and although this is a pig farmers event, there was the opportunity for this to be used and adapted for other sectors of our industry in order to produce food more efficiently from our world’s diminishing resources.

At the show, we saw genetics being used for crop production and efficient land use. However, we also saw a positive movement, driven by consumer demand, for livestock production that does not rely on constant and regular use of antibiotics and artificial growth promoters.

Genetics can play an important role with animals bred to produce efficiently and profitably without artificial aids.

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improve productivity, the widely held belief is that this move will in turn improve farmers’ profits, which will then enable more sustainable production.

In order to feed the increased numbers of animals, we are now seeing the novel adaptation of products such as seaweed, algae and insects being developed as alternative sources of protein and nutrients that can benefit both the diet and health of the animals.

Motivating the next generation As I travel around, I see far too many young people not wanting to stay on farms as primary producers. Here in the US the industry is actively encouraging a change of attitude and has developed a National Junior Swine Association. This year alone has seen more than 1200 young people are taking part in competitions demonstrating their livestock skills and knowledge.

I would like to see this sort of initiative adopted worldwide, as all of our agricultural industries need to motivate the younger generation to become involved in primary production and for them to be justifiable proud of their skills and expertise and most importantly for these skills to be recognised by the ever increasing urban populations who do not have an understanding of how their food and water is brought to them.

Agricultural production is no longer a simple occupation, it is now a multifaceted occupation that is carried out by a highly multi-skilled workforce, one that our urban cousins would find incredibly difficult to even conceive.

Looking ahead to Indonesia From America, I will first return to the UK; where I will see how our industry is coping with a very late spring and what the harvest prospects are looking like before returning to Indonesia at the end of July.

Along with the team from Perendale, we will then be attending IndoLivestock in Jakarta and running seminars that will demonstrate the need for high quality feeds to improve livestock production along with Aquaculture.

I hope that we will see some of our readers at this event in a country whose Government has a determination to raise both food production standards and safety. @AgrictecExports

This year marks two significant milestones for Symaga. In addition to celebrating its 30th birthday, the company has accomplished 6000 grain installations worldwide.

Growth has been exponential, particularly over the last three years: from 15 to 24 million square metres of grain storage installations completed.

In 2015 Symaga took part in a venture setting up 23 different installations of 60,000 tons each - the biggest storage project in the world that year. In Indonesia, the company was involved in the construction of the most modern grain port terminal in the country and also installed the world’s largest rice reprocessing facility.

On June 1, Viterra Inc hosted an official grand opening event at its new high throughput grain terminal near Grimshaw, Alberta, Canada. Viterra customers, employees and local government officials gathered to commemorate the company’s significant investment in northwest Alberta. The facility has 30,000 tonnes of grain storage and loading capacity for 104 railcars. It is the company’s second new build in the region in recent years, having opened a state of the art terminal at Sexsmith in 2010.

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How Feed Safety Assurance in the supply chain can improve Argentina’s corn export position

by Johan den Hartog – Managing Director of GMP+ International Argentina is one of the largest economies in Latin America. Its valuable natural resources, largescale agricultural and livestock industry, are an important basis for the country’s large food production. Not only is it one of the world’s largest beef exporters but it is also a leading producer of soybean products.

Besides that, corn is a substantial crop in Argentina.

Market developments

The total corn production in Argentina is about 30 million metric tons annually, but 50 – 75 percent of the produced volume is exported. It is the fourth biggest corn producer worldwide. The recently elected government creates more export perspectives.

South East Asian countries and Middle East are seen as important export destinations, where corn is used as such as feed ingredient, but also in the milling and starch industries (see figure 1). The processing of corn results in corn gluten feed, an attractive feed material.

South East Asia and Middle East have not only quantitative need for feed materials, but are also more demanding on the quality and especially feed safety aspects. Food safety is a topic with growing interest in these subcontinents, and feed safety has a huge impact on it.

When the Argentinean corn exporters fully implement feed safety control in the whole supply chain, their competitive advantage for Asia and the Middle East will considerably increase.

Preventing feed safety hazards

Feed safety hazards may occur in the several stages of the corn supply chain: cultivation, transport, and storage.

Possible pollutions in corn could be about: Insecticides, Mycotoxins (like fumonisins B1 and B2; aflatoxin B1) and Micro-bacterial contamination (salmonella and enterobacteriaceae).

Insecticides are used during cultivation and storage.

However, improper use may lead to residues in corn that 36 | July 2016 - Milling and Grain

exceed the maximum permitted levels. In some cases, we have noticed contamination with insecticides due to combined storage of corn and the use of insecticides.

Mycotoxins can be caused by fungal growth during cultivation, harvesting and storage due to moisture and temperature conditions. In cases of improper storage, combined with excessive temperature and moisture levels, the result in micro-bacterial growth.

GMP+ FSA participation

Currently, approximately 60 companies in Argentina have a GMP+ FSA certificate (see figure 2). These are mainly oil seeds crushing plants, as well as traders and storage companies involved in the soybean meal and corn business.

Raised export of corn and soybean meal to Middle East

and Asia will trigger more Argentinean companies to demonstrate proper feed safety control (see figure 3).

Feed safety incidents with cargoes of corn or soybean meal delivered to export markets in Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific may result in hampering in sales or depression of the prices.

Therefore, it is in the interest of the Argentinean exporters of these products – but also of the whole supply chain – that actors (traders and storage locations as well as transport companies) in the whole Argentinean supply chain are GMP+ FSA certified

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Bowmans refocuses for future growth

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The move will enable the family business to consolidate its 160 year heritage, and to build on its global presence in the food ingredients market.

Bowmans will focus its energy, innovation and future investment in this area.

With a heritage in milling dating back to 1857, Bowmans diversified successfully into the ingredients market in the early 1990s. The business counts major blue chip food processors amongst its customer portfolio. Bowmans has ingredients operations in South Africa, Australia and Thailand as well as the UK. To support the growth of its ingredients business, Bowmans made a significant investment in a blending plant in Hertfordshire, UK in 2012. This pioneered standards of consistency and product traceability in order to deliver the brand protection required by major customers. In July 2016 it will open Europe’s first dedicated production site for gluten-free coatings.

This investment reflects the company’s leading role in meeting the fast-growing demand for specialised ‘freefrom’ production.

The blending plant at Bowmans in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, UK As part of this programme of innovation and rationalisation Bowmans is implementing a plan to move away from flour milling. This move reflects the continued consolidation within the milling sector. Future supplies of high-specification flour will be guaranteed through a new supply chain with strict criteria and quality control. This approach is already used successfully by Bowmans in its international operations, and the change will be seamless and invisible to the customer.

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Whitworth Bros Ltd Flour Millers will purchase and continue to run Bowmans’ Whitley Bridge flour heat treatment plant. The Whitley Bridge flour mill will be contracted to mill for Whitworths Bros. Ltd. until late 2016, at which point it will cease production.

Milling operations at Bowmans’ site in Ickleford in Hertfordshire will cease in September 2016, though the company’s Head Office, R&D centre and ingredients manufacturing facility will continue to operate from the site.

Some staff will be affected by the moves and the management team is working with them and their representatives to minimise the impact of the changes.

Rory Bowman, Chief Executive of Bowman Ingredients comments: “This is a positive move for the company, its customers, suppliers and staff; and will further strengthen our position in the global market.

“Bowmans has a great track record of sector-leading innovation. We led the move to heat-treated flour, which re-invented the food coatings market and has enabled the company to grow a significant coatings business.

The move out of milling enables us to concentrate on those areas that we predict will account for considerable business growth.”

Looking towards the future, Mr Bowman comments: “There are already 21 million allergy sufferers in the UK. One in 100 people are diagnosed with coeliac disease and more are gluten intolerant. With cases of food allergy continuing to rise, the pressure is on food producers to secure legitimately ‘free-from’ production.

“Our new gluten-free plant in Bedford delivers a quality of product that can only be achieved in a fully gluten-free environment. It is clear that the ability to produce free-from products is going to deliver considerable commercial advantage in coming years – and Bowmans’ structural changes free us to lead the response to these trends.”

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Last June 14, 2106, about fifty students, belonging to high schools of Cremona and its province, visited the main production areas of OCRIM historical headquarters. They also attended a lesson held by the Sales Manager, Stefano Mazzini, and by Eng. Daniele Rossini of OCRIM technical department.

Successful student training at OCRIM historical headquarters These students, even if belonging to different schools and training addresses, have a common purpose: they all want to acquire the right tools and knowledge to orient themselves properly in order to take the right university address.

This training day is part of a project commissioned by Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Piacenza and Cremona and coordinated by Fabio Antoldi, Professor of Business Strategy.

Maurizio Galbignani, OCRIM Operative Manager, welcomed the students and explained the general modus operandi of the company to them. Then, Daniele Rossini explained technical and engineering aspects of OCRIM production and Stefano Mazzini talked about business and marketing strategies.

The collaboration between OCRIM and Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore is also witnessed by two conference lessons, held last April, still by Stefano Mazzini and OCRIM Export Manager, Fabrizio Baccinelli, which were about “The competitive strategies in the field of milling plants: how to build competitive

international level advantages”. During the conference lesson, the students understood how fascinating and complex the international milling market is.

The OCRIM team has always been (and continues to be) a strong supporter of initiatives linked to the world of training and research. The team believes that students, once graduated, before “facing” any type of work, must have experience in the world of work and involvement in some training days in order to have a concrete perception of what they could become one day.

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Maxi-Lift Inc.’s HD-STAX

PRODUCT FOCUS JULY 2016 In every edition of Milling and Grain, we take a look at the products that will be saving you time and money in the milling process.

The HD-STAX is Maxi-Lift Inc.’s patented, stackable elevator bucket designed for long life, more capacity, improved reliability, and optimisation of shipping and storing costs. The HD-STAX is designed to stack (nest) together, and results in almost three times more buckets per box, skid and container significantly reducing the unit cost of shipping to international destinations.

The HD-STAX also features thickened wear surfaces that give the bucket fantastic durability and performance. The smooth surfaces of the bucket aid in excellent fill characteristics and smooth discharge to eliminate performance issues found with other bucket designs. The HD-STAX is available in 23 sizes from 5X4 to 18X8, and is manufactured from virgin HDPE material to meet FDA food grade standards.

The HD-STAX is stocked by distributors on five continents for quick delivery around the world.

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Infratec NOVA- Grain Analyser for grain and flour Infratec NOVA is the ‘best- in- class’ whole grain analyser using globally recognised near- infrared transmittance technology to simultaneously test multiple parameters (moisture, protein, oil, starch, etc) in a broad range of grain and oilseed commodities.

Offering unparalleled levels of speed and usability, Infratec NOVA can test grain at rates up to 20 percent faster than other NIR solutions. True networking and identical instruments reduce instrument management work required for consistent results throughout grain receival networks. There are optional modules for flour analysis, test weight and flexible sample handling.

AS SEEN AT PIX/AMC 2016:

The following products are a select range, all relating to the grain processing and storage element of PIX AMC, which demonstrate the wide variety of useful technology and inspiring innovations on display for attendees

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Mixolab, for a simple and complete control of flour quality Evaluating dough rheological performance is an essential part of flour quality control, to help ensure the smooth running of the manufacturing process and the quality of finished products. For example, water absorption determines economic performance and technological behaviour of the dough, mixing behaviour impacts its development, and starch retrogradation influences the shelf life of the finished product.

The Mixolab 2 measures the dough rheological characteristics during mixing while assessing the quality of the protein network, amylase activity and starch gelatinisation and retrogradation properties, from 50g of flour. For this, the device applies a heating/cooling cycle to the dough and records the torque produced by the dough between the two blades.

The Mixolab 2 also features a tool called «Profiler» that converts the curve obtained into 6 qualitative indexes for the user to quickly identify if the flour is in accordance with the specifications.

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Evidence Investigator The Evidence Investigator, the multi-analyte screening analyser from Randox Food Diagnostics, utilises patented Biochip Array Technology to ensure that the detection of mycotoxins is accurate and efficient, offering laboratories comparable results to that of LC-MS/MS. The semi-automated analyser allows the user to simultaneously screen up to 10 of the world’s most prevalent mycotoxins from a single sample of grain or feed. This offers major efficiencies in comparison to traditional methods, including minimal sample preparation and significant cost savings, without compromising on quality.

The analyser uses unique image processing software to translate a light signal generated from the chemiluminescent reactions which take place on the surface of the biochip. Specialist software, designed in-house by Randox Food, then translates data into a quantifiable result per toxin.

Combined with an extensive globally trusted screening portfolio, the Evidence Investigator analyser forms a powerful tool for any laboratory or testing facility.

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New Semolina HP55 Purifier: +10 percent sifting surface, innovative sieves configuration, -12 percent footprint, 4 air-flow adjustment points per each sieve, increased global efficiency Evolved from the proven Semolina HP50, the HP55 has innovative features that place it at the top of its category for the accuracy in the classification of semolina, extraction efficiency, productive capacity and functional efficiency.

By configuring the purifier to have four rows of superimposed sieves, each composed of three sieves, the separation efficiency of the semolina flour is considerably more precise.

Furthermore, the purification surface of the HP55 has been increased by 10 percent due to utilising 550mm square sieves.

The newly designed configuration of the sieves allowed the overall footprint of the machine to be reduced by 12 percent. In addition to saving floor space within the mill, the reduction in size contributes to reducing the energy requirement for the eccentric movement of the machine.

To maximise the purification efficiency of the Semolina, there are four air-flow

adjustment points per sieve length on the Semolina HP55 which enables the miller to precisely control the air flow and maximise the performance based on the current mill operating conditions. The Innovation of the Semolina HP55 model of purifier is protected through four different international patents.

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by Ines Martinez Luengas and Alessandro Mereu, Yara Animal Nutrition

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All organisms must have access to sufficient phosphorous to survive and grow ertilizers and crop-nutrition programs help produce the food required for a growing world population. In addition, these industrial products and solutions contribute to reduced emissions, improved air quality and support safe and efficient operations.

Yara, a global manufacturer of highly digestible, traceable and reliable feed materials and feed additives, has its strength in being a fullyintegrated manufacturer, leveraging a world class global logistics network.

We delivers solutions for sustainable agriculture and the environment. Yara was founded in Norway in 1905, and has a worldwide presence with sales to more than 150 countries. Safety is our top priority.

Our production sites are located in Helsingborg, Sweden; Kokkola, Finland; Durban, South Africa; Le Havre, France and Brunsbuettel, Germany. Our production is certified according HACCP, ISO14001, GMP+, FAMI-QS.

Meat production quadrupled

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grade urea to support the health and the efficient development of poultry, pigs, cattle, horses, aquaculture species and pets.

Products are delivered to customers in over 70 countries worldwide, with a major presence in Europe and expanding markets in Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

The amount of meat produced worldwide quadrupled in the last 50 years. In per capita terms it almost doubled in the same period.

Thereby our objective is to contribute feeding the world in a sustainable way.

The use of inorganic feed minerals is widespread in the feed strategies for all species. Feed phosphates are marketed under the Bolifor® trade name. Our products contain highly bioavailable macro minerals and offer the state-of-the-art in safety and quality guarantees for the feed chain and the welfare/performance of animals.

Yara feed acidifiers, branded under the Bolifor® trade name offer a unique formula of organic acids precisely absorbed onto a special carrier made of diatomaceous earth, itself coated by sorbic acid. This allows specific uses, cost performance and return on investment.

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Rumisan is a feed grade urea, which is considered within the European Union as a feed additive. It is authorised for its use in ruminants and it is by far the most demanded, non-protein nitrogen source in commercial practices. The final product is 99 percent feed grade urea with low humidity and ash. The nitrogen content is 46 percent (288 percent as protein equivalent).

Figure 2: From mine to market - The production process of feed phosphate products is fully integrated

From mine to market

Phosphate rock is a general term that refers most frequently to apatite. This rock contains high concentration of phosphate minerals, which can be commercially exploited, either directly or after processing.

The world phosphate resources are distributed, according to their type, approximately as follows: 75 percent from sedimentary marine deposits, 15–20 percent from igneous, metamorphic and weathered deposits two-to-three percent from biogenic sources (bird and bat guano deposits).

The story of Yara inorganic feed phosphates, starts in the soil with a phosphorous-rich source: the apatite mined from our volcanic deposit in Siilinjärvi, Finland, and converted on site by Yara into phosphoric acid.

The phosphoric acid is the core raw material in the manufacture of phosphorus contained in inorganic feed minerals.

In the feed phosphates plants the phosphoric acid is reacted with milled limestone to produce Bolifor® MCP (monocalcium phosphate) and with magenesium and sodium carbonate to produce Bolifor® MGP and MSP (magnesium phosphate and monosodium phosphate respectively).

The reaction between the dry raw materials and the phosphoric acid takes place in the granulator. Dosification of the raw materials is controlled via a DCS system thus reaching an optimal reaction and product quality.

The granules formed in the granulator are dried in a rotary drier and subsequently screened to obtain an optimal particle size distribution. The granules are sent to the cooler and then stored.

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Yara’s control of the entire industrial process, together with the quality of this exclusive deposit, allow us to manufacture and deliver high-purity products that are naturally low in heavy metals. Typical content of heavy metals in Bolifor MCP are detailed in the Table 1.

Cadmium (Cd) in particular, is considered one of the most toxic elements in the environment. The Cd content of BOLIFOR® is very low.

Yara Bolifor feed phosphates Figure 3: Yara`s Bolifor® feed phosphates product portfolio and its specifications operations add value on top of phosphoric acid in several stages of the be oversupplied and excreted. value chain. Yara has five phosphate bulk terminals in Europe Digestible mineral P sources are very important for the delivery (Brake in Germany, Goole in UK, Brest in France, Budapest in of sufficient levels of digestible P to the animal and to avoid P Hungary and Castellón in Spain), product is send on a regular excretion in the manure, leading to environmental pollution. basis by vessel from either Kokkola or Helsingborg where Yara Bolifor range offer a comprehensive range of high quality Bolifor® feed phosphates are manufactured. minerals suitable for all feed production.

The terminals are located in strategic regions to satisfy local Our products provide high-digestible macro minerals with demand. guaranty of purity and low levels of heavy metals. The Bolifor® From those terminals the market demand is satisfied either by bulk or bagged material. product range of feed minerals complies with the modern, highKokkola and Helsingborg also export product to markets in yielding production and remains the preferred choice to obtain Latin America, the Middle East and Southeast Asia. Yara South the highest animal performance.

Africa is also producing feed phosphates in Durban to attend the local market.

An overview As an overview, the unique benefits of Yara’s inorganic phosphates are: Bolifor® feed minerals • Yara-owned high quality source: its phosphates are of a Macro-minerals, such as phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and consistently high quality because they are from very a clean sodium, are essential elements to sustain healthy and productive volcanic deposit in Siilinjärvi, Finland animal growth. They are part of many biological pathways such • Reliable supply: continuity of supply is guaranteed not only as bone and muscle formation or the energy cycle. because Finland is a stable democratic country but also Inorganic feed phosphates and magnesium supplements, because Yara owns the apatite mine and phosphate production supplying those macro-minerals, are essential ingredients in feed facilities in Siilinjärvi and so controls its whole phosphate diets in order to meet animal requirements. production. Yara is dedicated to the animal nutrition and has Phosphorus in particular plays an essential role in animal been active in the sector for half a century nutrition, only Ca is required in higher quantities. All organisms • Consistency: Yara’s inorganic phosphorus products must have access to sufficient phosphorous to survive and grow. are consistent over time in composition and physical Aproximately 75 percent percent of phosphorous is stored in characteristics. Therefore, they are utilised consistently by bones and the remaining 25 percent takes part of high biologic animals, eliminating under or over formulation to a large value molecules such as DNA, RNA, ATP and phospholipids. In extent, thereby ensuring the animal gets enough of the addition, phosphorus is involved in many biological functions appropriate nutrients at the appropriate time such as cellular metabolism, including storage and transport of • Digestibility and cost-effectiveness: Yara ensures a high level energy (e.g. ATP production), in cellular regulatory mechanisms, of digestible phosphorus, meaning higher absorption rate, that and in bone mineralisation. avoids P excretion in the manure, leading to environmental In plant materials, about 65 percent of phosphorous is present in pollution and making these feeds cost-effective the form of phytate.

• Environmental benefits: because less unutilised phosphate is Monogastric animals lack phytase, the enzyme necessary to excreted out into the environment, Yara’s mineral feeds are degrade the phytate, resulting in a low P-digestibility of feed more environmentally friendly and can help farmers meet ingredients of plant origin. The addition of highly digestible environmental regulations. Unutilised phosphates can pollute inorganic phosphates to the diets is needed to fulfill the animal’s the environment, especially in areas with a high concentration P requirement. of intensive animal farming Inorganic digestible phosphorus inclusion in diets requires • Homogenity and easy to handle: We produce different sized adequate attention because of the physiological requirements granules suited to different applications. We offer a constant of the different animals and the currently limited phosphorus and homogenous particle size reserves in the world, the cost of the diet and the excretion of Our branded feed minerals are designed to reach criteria of phosphorus into the environment. superior quality, excellent nutritional value, high digestibility and Optimisation of the available phosphorus content in the diet traceability. requires reliable and up to date knowledge of the content and In a world of generic commodities, the Bolifor® brand is a fine digestibility of phosphorus in the feed ingredients, otherwise the supply to the animals may be compromised or phosphorus may source of high quality products.

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WELL DONE One of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading millers with more than 34 years in flour industry, selected Alapala for its turn-key flour mill project in Quebec.

The mill with 200T/24 hrs capacity was completed in 5 months and came into operation in the 1st quarter of 2016.

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n the centre of Konya, along the Ankara road, there are many flour mills: Plain, Hekimoğlu, Aynınalp, Agile, Great Hekimoğlu, Meram, standalone, Yeni, AVS, Alba and Alaybeyi. Alaybeyi Flour Mill is owned and managed by Mr Fatih Alaybeyi, who is directly related to Dr. Omer Lufti Alaybeyi of Molino milling machinery manufacturers, also based in Konya.

This close network assists him and his company in achieving its aims, and as a result it has become a flour-mill with a very high reputation. Alaybeyi Flour Mills are a familyrun milling firm. They take part at the Turkish bakery exhibition, Ibatech. They have produced a product catalogue called ‘White Love’ after the white flour they are well-known for.

On Monday 4th April 2016, Professor Dr Hikmet Boyacioglu and I had the pleasure of meeting Fatih at his office in Konya for a tour of his flour-mill and bakery. Mr. Alaybeyi has been a board member of Alaybeyi Flour Mills since 1995, and holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as an MBA qualification.

He told us how he is still developing the company to meet with today’s contemporary demands, and we also heard of Fatih’s new role at the Konya Borsa, which he explained will change a lot for the trading of grain and will have a significant impact on the industry in Turkey.

A brief background about this particular flour-mill

This flour mill was constructed and opened in 1989 and is a mill specialising in high quality fine grade flours and baked goods for many different foods. These include; Turkish soft bread loafs, hamburger breads, rye bread mixes, pitta breads and delicacies such as baklava, different pastries, pasta, cakes, cookies, muffins.

They target the luxury high-end market flour miller, with a real emphasis on quality and niche value added for speciality foods.

They also mill flour for Italian ciabatta bread, French baguettes.

It is a milling brand with a clear niche in this competitive market.

On our tour the bakery was the first place we visited. This was starting at the end of the value chain for Alaybeyi but it was great to see the flour from the mill itself and other ingredients create high quality baked goods for the local market.

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bakery. In the bakery itself, there were Fimak electrical deck ovens and other machinery too for baking the loaves of bread.

High standards of hygiene, signage, uniform, as well as an organised layout, were evident throughout the bakery.

In the same building as the bakery stood the laboratory.

Technical laboratory equipment stood on top of marble stone worktops. Alaybeyi’s importance for research and development in their products is a vital part of their operations. Again in the laboratory, standards were impressive. The testing and application of different wheats, flours and doughs was rigorous and comparable to any other flour-mill.

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Making our way outside, eight GSI silos stand next to the mill building for the storage of wheat. Inside the mill building, the flooring and steps between the levels are made from marble stone, clean as well as cooling in the heat of the day. There were two lines running in operation when we visited. Inside the main roller milling floorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s control room there was a fully digital computerised monitoring system, recording the millâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ongoing activity. This system was different to others I had seen in one small way- there was an animation of local culture on the display unit -- an image of a Mevlevi or Whirling Dervish. This was a unique symbol that emphasises the importance of the link between Konya and this flourmill.

The mill was rather different in construction to other mills brick built with walls of glass on its northern side. The steps between the floors were all marble stone, clean and cool which was a welcome relief. This was unfamiliar but pleasant. What was familiar was that the health and safety standards and signage were comparable to any other European mill. Fatih Alaybeyi also led us through to the packaging area of the mill where large bags are packaged and sent through a chute ready for the waiting delivery trucks below. The mill was operating with more staff than others that I had visited, and due to that the packaging and logistics functions were more manual than automated.

Overall I would highly rate the quality of products and craftsmanship I saw at Alaybeyi Flour Mills. There was competence and high standards across the bakery, test laboratory and flour mill. Technology and automation were good and with investment can become even better. There is only one direction of travel with Alaybeyi, and that is upwards.

More information on the Konya Commodity Exchange can be read here: http://www.ktb.org.tr/

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COOKED PASTA RETAINS UP TO 80% OF ADDED B-VITAMINS

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n many countries, pasta products are made with flour that has been fortified to improve its nutritional value. But during manufacturing, drying and cooking, sensitive vitamins such as riboflavin, thiamine, niacin and folic acid are lost.

In the specialist literature, vitamin B losses through cooking of over 90 percent are mentioned. In order to gain more background knowledge of the subject, Mühlenchemie has done its own stability tests in its new pasta laboratory. According to this study, between 40 and 80 percent of added B-vitamins are retained in the cooked pasta.

In over 80 countries flour is fortified with vitamins and minerals to protect consumers from nutritional deficiencies. While some micronutrients show high stability during processing, water-soluble B-vitamins can react very sensitively to outside influences.

This sensitivity causes them to degrade in pasta products in

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particular. High cooking temperatures and UV light exposure lead to losses of micronutrients and so reduced nutritional value.

Micronutrients are lost to some extent in manufacture and drying as well. These losses are usually taken into consideration when defining the amount of fortification or setting standards, whereas the effect of the cooking process is not considered in the calculation since preparation differs from one household to another. Thus, the target fortification values always refer to the dried product, although for the consumer the only thing that matters is the vitamins remaining after preparation.

Realistic test series in the new pasta laboratory

The data given in the literature varies greatly, so Mühlenchemie’s ingredient specialists wanted to find out for themselves how much vitamin B is lost when cooking fortified pasta, by analysing the vitamin B1, B2, niacin and folic acid content during manufacture, storage and preparation.

At the company’s pasta laboratory there is a Pavan pilot system that can simulate the process parameters of most industrial production plants. On it, spaghetti was made using enriched type 550 wheat flour. The process parameters were 95 bar pressure

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and 40 – 45 °C; drying time was five hours, with temperature and humidity varying between 68 – 87 °C and 45 – 79 % r.H. in the respective drying and relaxation phases. The 1.5 mm diameter spaghetti was then cooked for nine minutes in unsalted water.

The pasta was made in-house, but vitamin analysis was sourced to an accredited outside laboratory. Since quantitative vitamin content analysis can give high fluctuations of 20 to 30 percent, Mühlenchemie had quadruple measurements done in order to get reliable averages.

Fresh, dried and cooked pasta was investigated, as was the cooking water.

Vitamin loss in manufacturing, storage and preparation

Table 1 (Cumulative losses of B-vitamins during the different processing steps of spaghetti)

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shows vitamin reductions in the individual manufacture and processing operations. All B-vitamins showed losses, but to differing extents.

For example, niacin proved to be unaffected by dough kneading, extrusion and drying. Niacin content remained stable throughout the manufacturing process; losses did not occur until cooking.

The prepared pasta still had over 60 percent of the original niacin.

Some had gone into the cooking water.

The situation was the other way round with folic acid. 18 percent of the original content was lost during processing of the flour to fresh pasta. Drying had no effect, while loss during cooking amounted to only about four percent. Folic acid proved to be the stablest vitamin, with almost 80 percent remaining in the product.

Vitamin B1 (thiamine) is known for its high sensitivity to temperature, and this was reflected in the analysis results, with thiamine degeneration taking place mostly during cooking. The final product had only half of the original vitamin B1 content.

Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) had the highest loss. This vitamin is extremely sensitive to light and lost a third in manufacture and drying. Due to leaching losses during the cooking step, retention of riboflavin in the cooked pasta was just 40 percent.

The results of this test series by Mühlenchemie largely confirm existing data in the literature. However, they did not confirm the

The pasta test series was supplemented by another test to gain information on vitamin losses during storage. The only vitamin tested for was riboflavin, which is lightsensitive. Test conditions replicated those of most consumer households – the dry spaghetti was stored in a cupboard that was opened several times a day. The vitamin B2 content was measured three times over the course of a month. Analysis showed that even these short periods of light exposure were enough to massively reduce the riboflavin content, and after 28 days the spaghetti only had a little over 40 percent of the original amount (see table “Losses of vitamin B2 in spaghetti during storage (predominantly stored in the dark).”

These tests show how important it is for manufacturers, retailers and consumers to protect enriched pasta from light and package it properly. The transparent container on the shelf popular as a storage method in many homes is the worst possible alternative. Ideally, packaging should be UV-protected and the product should be stored in the dark.

Preparation should also minimise the loss of nutrients. Vitamin loss can be reduced by a few percentage points simply by minimising cooking time. Soft, overdone noodles have less micronutrients than al dente pasta.

Compensating cooking losses through higher vitamin enrichment

Although some of the vitamin B added to pasta gets lost, vitamin-fortified pasta remains important in the fight against nutritional insufficiency. Every additional fortification means a better nutrient supply. Vitamin B losses in bread are between 5 and 10 percent; those in pasta are much higher. Yet through careful manufacture and packaging, and short cooking times, losses can be reduced to a minimum. Mills and pasta makers also have the option of increasing the amount of vitamin fortification to counteract cooking losses. Normally, the higher vitamin content of the flour or pasta can be shown on the packaging as a sales benefit. www.stern-wywiol-gruppe.de

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Alleviating

‘Hidden Hunger’

whilst achieving adequate and safe fortification

by Corey Luthringer and Beatrice Montesi, GAIN

Despite positive developments in reducing malnutrition over the last few decades, hundreds of millions of people globally still do not consume adequate amounts of essential vitamins and minerals in their diets to sustain good health and development. This is referred to as “Hidden Hunger”, a major public health problem that is holding back entire communities.

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hose suffering from Hidden Hunger may not appear malnourished, but still deal with the consequences of poor brain development, immune function, and work productivity. Especially within the first 1,000 days “window of opportunity” of a child’s life, from conception to the age of two, a lack of key micronutrients that contribute to physical and cognitive growth can have drastic, irreversible, and lifelong impacts.

Communities also suffer from reductions in economic growth and a healthcare system overburdened by the medical treatment of preventable nutrition-related health problems.

Food fortification: a proven, scalable, and cost-effective nutrition intervention

Food fortification – the practice of adding small and safe amounts of micronutrients to staple foods and condiments – is a powerful nutrition success story that is reaching billions across the world. It is simple, scalable and among the world’s 54 | July 2016 - Milling and Grain

most cost-effective development interventions.

The fortification of staples and condiments has been practiced in North America and Europe since the 1920s, and it has greatly contributed to the virtual eradication of diseases like pellagra, goitre, beriberi and scurvy.

The World Bank and the Copenhagen Consensus ranked food fortification as one of the most cost-effective development investments, since it improves people’s health, while indirectly boosting productivity and economic progress.

The example of flour fortification

The fortification of flour with multiple micronutrients, including zinc, iron, and folate can help to alleviate the consequences of Hidden Hunger of public health and economic concern.

Zinc helps strengthen the immune systems and lessens complications from diarrhea, the number one killer of children under five in low and middle income countries (directly through dehydration and indirectly through preventing the absorption of essential macro and micronutrients). Iron and B-complex vitamins (especially B12) prevent nutritional anemia, which improves productivity, maternal health, and cognitive development. Folic acid reduces the risks of neural tube birth defects (NTDs), a defect in the development of the spinal cord that can lead to lifelong physical and cognitive disability.

The solution is quite simple and inexpensive: adding these essential micronutrients to flour, one of the most widely

F consumed staple foods across all socioeconomic groups. The implications of this for diseases prevention, improved productivity and increased economic potential are enormous and require relatively low levels of investment.

If we look at the example of flour fortification, it costs an estimated $US0.12 per person per year to fortify wheat flour with iron and as little as US$0.06-0.24 per person per year to fortify wheat flour with zinc. These costs are minimal compared, for example, to the cost of treating children with spina bifida and immeasurable impact on families.

It has been estimated that fortifying flour with folic acid contributes to healthcare savings of US$ 2.3 million in Chile, 40.6 million Rand in South Africa, and US$ 603 million in the US. Moreover, fortification costs can easily be recovered through sales of “value added” product in the markets.

Fortification is not only cost-effective, but also impactful.

Where flour fortification is mandatory, countries have experienced between 31-58 percent reductions in NTDs. Global NTDs prevalence is around 24 in 10,000 births, but typically it drops to below 10 in 10,000 births after fortification with folic acid.

The role of the private sector

The private sector, especially millers and producers who fortify,

are the gatekeepers to the nutritional health of the populations in their distribution network. It is therefore critical for the private sector to fully engage in the fortification process, and to ensure that quality control and good manufacturing practices are in place. This will allow households to consistently have access to high quality, safe, and adequately fortified foods.

It is estimated that currently, in low and middle income countries, less than 50 percent of products claimed as “fortified” are adequately fortified to the levels indicated in their respective national standards. These include countries where food

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fortification is mandatory by law and where businesses receive support or incentives to fortify.

Enforcement and compliance need to be strengthened to ensure the effectiveness of fortification programs, and there is a strong need for the private sector to be the driving force for this change.

Food fortification should be seen as an opportunity for industry to demonstrate corporate social responsibility and may at times provide industry a competitive edge.

GAIN’s approach

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), one of the few global organizations with an exclusive focus on malnutrition, has developed a deep understanding of what it takes to tackle this complex problem through food fortification, one of the main nutrition interventions that has impact at scale.

Through developing large-scale food fortification programs, GAIN supports countries to build, improve and sustain their national fortification programs. GAIN has proven that multistakeholder partnerships – when governments, civil society and business work together – are critical to success. For example National Fortification Alliances enhance communication and collaboration, creating an enabling environment for support and advice on the process.

GAIN’s work to fortify staple foods and condiments with essential micronutrients reaches more than one billion people in 40 countries worldwide. GAIN-supported flour fortification programs have helped reduce neural tube defects in South Africa through flour fortification with folate and iron deficiency anaemia in Nigeria, Jordan and Morocco through flour fortification with iron.

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fortified rice in the Brazilian market, while raising awareness of the benefits of fortified products.

Urbano, one of the leading rice millers in Brazil noted compelling business opportunities in developing a fortified product, including competitive differentiation in a flat growth market; brandbuilding as an innovative and socially conscious company; and expansion of the product line into export markets (e.g., Costa Rica and Peru).

Urbano consequently embraced fortification as part of its marketing strategy, coinvesting substantially in store collateral, tasting booths, and other marketing materials to promote the product.

Through innovative social marketing, awareness of fortified rice went from a very low level to almost one third of the exposed market in a span of only 12 months. In terms of sales, fortified rice has shown consistent growth since its introduction and faster consumer uptake than comparable new rice subcategories in Brazil. Thanks to the great support of Urbano, this project has reached an estimated two million consumers.

More recently, GAIN, with the support of USAID, has launched the Afghanistan, Pakistan and Central Asian Republics Regional Fortification Initiative, which aims to build capacity for food fortification in order to tackle micronutrient deficiencies across the region, and in particular for Afghanistan.

The primary source of food energy intake in the region is wheat flour. GAIN works primarily with Kazakhstan, the world’s number one exporter of milled flour, to encourage fortification prior to export to Afghanistan and other neighbors.

With the support of its partner agencies, GAIN also works to harmonise import-export policies and fortification standards within a regional initiative such as this, playing a role in the trade environment to increase commerce and regional connectivity.

Conclusion

While food fortification is not the only solution – dietary diversity and affordable access to nutritious foods remain crucial in the fight against malnutrition — it is a powerful tool that enables schoolchildren to learn better, prepares mothers for healthy pregnancies and prevents diseases that burden healthcare systems. As the world population grows and urbanizes, the role of industrially produced foods that can be fortified will continue to increase.

The challenge now is to achieve adequate and safe fortification across the board, otherwise people will continue to be left behind.

As the poorest and most marginalized people rightly demand more equitable development, there is a need to ensure access and affordability of more nutritious food across all communities.

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Nutritional strategies to support intestinal health in poultry

by Leopold Jungbauer & Jan Dirk van der Klis, Delacon Biotechnik GmbH, Steyregg, Austria

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he rising global human population and the improving general human welfare standards comes with an increasing demand for animal proteins. According to an outlook report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the poultry meat production will grow over the next 10 years at around 2.3 percent annually to around 134.5 million tonnes of meat making it the largest meat sector from 2020 onwards.

The major part of this growth will be realised in (sub)tropical regions. Therefore, optimum production performance of birds is crucial under a wide variety of climatic and management conditions. Under all circumstances, good intestinal health is a prerequisite, which is challenged by the worldwide tendency for antibiotic-free poultry production. Moreover, continuous selection for improved growth rate and feed efficiency has a potential negative impact on adaptive immunity, metabolic diseases and heat tolerance.

Optimised bird management and nutrition can help to safeguard intestinal health and increase the disease resilience of birds. This article reviews several nutritional strategies including application of phytogenic feed additives to support intestinal health in poultry.

Intestinal disorders in poultry and their economic impact

Poultry has to face many intestinal health threats. Intestinal health problems can be of nutritional, managerial or pathogenic origin. An overfeeding of protein, or minerals (calcium, sodium, potassium) leads to diuresis (excessive urination), characterised by excessive clear fluids in droppings, resulting in wet litter.

High levels of anti-nutritional factors like phytic acid, trypsin inhibitors, mycotoxins or some non-starch polysaccharides (NSPs) increase the loss of endogenous fluid, due to impaired intestinal barrier function, so-called physiological diarrhoea.

Last but not least, an imbalance in intestinal microbiota (bacteria, protozoa and viruses) can impair intestinal health. Such an imbalance can be initiated by the aforementioned nutritional factors. Coccidiosis remains one of the most universal and major concerns in meat producing poultry and is the most prevalent disease affecting the industry. Williams (1999) estimated that 81

Table 1. Effects of nutritional strategies on the intestinal disease challenges in broiler chickens (Van der Klis, 2014) Measure increased particle size

improved gizzard function and intestinal (anti)peristalsis

changing energy delivering nutrients (carbohydrates for fat)

better energy absorption, fat digestion being more readily affected in case of intestinal disorders

change fatty acid composition (medium chain fatty acids) (increased level of unsaturated fatty acids)

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reduce (fermentable) protein content, maintaining amino acid supply increased dietary inert fibre level

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reduce proteolytic bacteria and their fermentation products reduce C. perfringens counts improve gizzard function and intestinal (anti)peristalsis improved amylase secretion improved bile acid secretion

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Nowadays, global annual financial losses due to coccidiosis are estimated to be 300 million USD. Hafez (2011) reviewed the prevalence of enteric diseases of poultry, with special focus on Clostridium perfringens. He indicated that its prevalence was drastically increased after the EU ban on AGPs, resulting in reduced animal performance, increased mortality rates and increased medication costs. Skinner et al. (2010) estimated that subclinical necrotic enteritis results in a loss to producers ranging from 450 – 750 USD per 10,000 birds.

It is clear that a good understanding of these intestinal disorders is needed to be able to develop effective nutritional intervention strategies and feed additives to reduce intestinal disorders in poultry or alleviate its consequences.

The impact of nutrition on intestinal health

As indicated before, intestinal health issues can have different causes that need to be understood. Intestinal problems that have a nutritional base can be prevented by using well-balanced diets with good quality raw materials, although these are not always readily available. Correct estimates of the nutritional value of feedstuffs and a focus on e.g. reduction of fermentable substrates, proper thermal processing of feedstuffs to eliminate anti-nutritional factors and control for mycotoxins are crucial to minimise intestinal health challenges.

It is well-accepted that using too high dietary crude protein levels can increase growth of proteolytic bacteria like Clostridium perfringens. Recently, Veldkamp at al. (2016) have shown that

Table 2. Effects of some feed additives on intestinal health in poultry (Dhama et al. 2014) Feed additive Probiotic

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Components of the innate immune system and possess antibacterial and immune-modulatory properties Kill a broad range of microbes including bacteria, fungi and viruses Reduce anti-nutritional factors and degrade nonstarch polysaccharides Degrade phytate and increase availability of minerals Bind and immobilisation of toxic material (mycotoxins) in the GI tract Improve nutrient digestibility, especially crude protein with focus on intestinal health Reduce oxidative stress & fatty acids oxidation and improve barrier functions in the GI tract Exert antibacterial effects at high dosages Inhibit quorum sensing and reduce toxin production at low dosages

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reducing dietary electrolyte balance (dEB) significantly reduced wet litter incidence in turkeys and subsequently improved paw quality. In their study, soybean meal was exchanged by vegetable protein sources with lower potassium contents to reduce dEB. This approach however, can result in an increase in feed costs.

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Feed additives to support intestinal health

Recently, an extensive review on the types of growth promoters and feed additives was published

by Dhama et al. (2014). Apart from feed antibiotics they dealt with probiotics, prebiotics, organic acids, antimicrobial peptides, exogenous enzymes, clay minerals, essential oils and herbs as feed additives that control intestinal health. Some of the effects of feed additives on intestinal health are summarised in Table 2 Several studies with phytogenic feed additives indicated positive effects on the intestinal morphology, reporting increased villus/crypt ratios after feeding a phytogenic feed additive based on thymol and Figure 1. Effects of the duration of supply (day 0-21 or day 0-28) of Biostrong 510 in combination anethole (Amad et al., 2013), or with a mixture of medium chain fatty acids (marketed as Biostrong Forte, dosed 750 mg/kg) as increased intestinal integrity as a feed additive to broiler chickens (average of two trials using a clostridial challenge model). was concluded from the effect on transepithelial electrical resistance of duodenal mucosa of broiler fed diets supplemented with thyme essential oils exogenous enzymes to degrade fibre fractions and/or make (Placha et al., 2014). Moreover, pungent substances like fibre-encapsulated nutrients available to the host animal. black pepper, chili and garlic improve intestinal blood flow Carbohydrases such as xylanases have a significant impact on the (Kochhar, 1999), which might reduce the adverse impact of breakdown of insoluble fibre fractions in both corn- and wheatischemia of the gastro-intestinal tract on intestinal integrity based diets. Thereby, xylanases reduces digesta viscosity but also (Niewold et al., 2004). generate arabino-xylo-oligosaccharides, which act as prebiotics, Wallace et al. (2010) tabulated an overview of plant extracts selectively stimulating the growth of beneficial bacteria. with anticoccidial activity, antibacterial activity against E. coli These beneficial bacteria can produce short chain fatty acids and C. perfringens, and/or alleviate their effects on poultry. In (SCFA) in the intestine by fermentation, which in turn can be many cases essential oils were shown not only to reduce weight utilised as an energy source by the animal and result stimulating loss and to improve feed efficiency during a coccidiosis infection, the growth of strictly anaerobic bacterial species. Eckhaut et but also reduce oocysts shedding (e.g. for oregano (carvacrol and al. (2008) have shown that the addition of xylanase reduces thymol), artemesia (1.8-cineole and camphor)).

Salmonella in birds` caeca, cloaca and spleen, possibly mediated Lillehoj (2014) presented data from her lab on the effects of by a specific effect of butyric acid on invasion gene expression. phytogenics on coccidiosis in birds, not only via improved cellSome nutritional interventions that alleviate the consequences mediated immunity, but also reducing viability of the Eimeria of intestinal disease challenges in broilers have been summarised parasites.

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Finally, combinations of essential oils with medium chain fatty These nutritional interventions (Table 1) might exert direct acids have been shown to have synergistic effects. To evaluate antibacterial effects in the intestine (e.g. short and medium the efficiency of such combinations compared to AGP Delacon chain fatty acids), improve the function of the gizzard and conducted two necrotic enteritis challenge trials. A summary of (anti)peristalsis of the gastro-intestinal tract reducing luminal these two trials (Figure 1) show that independent of duration of pH, decrease coccidiosis incidence and/or consequences, and/ application this combination product improved feed conversion or reduce supply of substrate to the bacteria by improving ratio (FCR) and body weight (BW) on day 49. Compared to the nutrient digestibility values. Moreover, physical form of positive control including an AGP, no differences in body weight cereal components of feed may affect the morphological and gain were observed when this product was applied, which shows physiological characteristics of the intestinal tract (Brunsgaard, that this combination is an additional tool in drug-free broiler 1998; Engberg et al., 2004). Branton et al. (1987) reported that production. using wheat ground with a roller mill (coarse ground) compared to a hammer mill (fine ground) reduced necrotic enteritis and coccidiosis related mortality from 29 percent to 18 percent, Conclusion respectively.

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ACHIEVING INCREASED EFFICIENCY THROUGH DETAILED SPECIFICATION

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he increasing application of automation and technology in actual industry have pushed all companies to apply more efficient and specific production systems. The requirements, a producer is subjected to, became tighter in terms of speed, assistance and quality. Every end-line of production withstands to this changes. Bagging technology is one among the most important.

Bagging the final product is a heavy-duty process in every powdery or granular process production plant. So automation is highly recommended but, so far, not all the markets are adopting this solution, for many reasons. In any case the bagging systems are required to be as much flexible and accurate as possible, considering the market destination and the personalisation requested by every plant, considered its product, packaging and market.

Finding applicable bagging systems

Packaging can obviously be considered as a marketing tool.

The surface of the bag, the type of closure and the material used; with all of them allowing a company to add value themselves to a unique and distinctive brand.

Several bagging systems are applicable depending on the products and the reference market. Cement is world-wide packed into valve bags as well as products that need low sanitation requirements and, almost, no closure. FFS (Form Fill and Seal) is often and mostly used for a very high speed production of food 62 | July 2016 - Milling and Grain

products; open-mouth bags are still the most widespread, because of the designâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s many advantages, including accurate weights, more product bulk weight and bag size flexibility as well as being easy opening for the end customer.

For more than 30 years, IMECO has been a world leader in production of weighing and bagging solutions for every kind of powdery or granular products, in the food, chemical or agriculture industry whatsoever.

Progress and technology drove industry to nearly abandon the traditional jute or cotton bags and to replace them with quite new materials such as plastic and paper bags. In terms of ecological balance, contrary to what is known, the use of woven plastic bags, when correctly recycled is preferred; since the manufacturing of paper is very energy intensive. Considering the minor utilisation of jute and cotton and considered the costly process of paper production, plastic materials are the most common in bagging systems all over the world, but a high variety is present. To allow the maximum flexibility, IMECO developed its automatic bagging systems able to handle all the available combination of bags materials, such as PP woven, PP laminated, PP woven with PE liner, PE, multi wall paper, coated paper, paper with PE liner, paper with aluminum among others.

Choosing a bagging system means to opt for a manual or automatic solution. This choice has to be made in a strict relation with the producer needs considering his product, volume production, destination market, bag quality and weight accuracy.

Bagging system performance limit variables

Manual bagging system performances are related to two simple

F variables: human limits – the ability to place the bags properly – and the number of cycles that the scales above can reach. This second variable depends on the specific characteristics of the bagging product: granular, powder, pellet, mesh, flakes and so on.

Depending on the specific product, IMECO is able to provide several feeding devices that work as fast as possible; whilst maintaining the original features and quality of the product: gravity feeder – w/o servo – for plastic granules, granular fertiliser, grain, rice and sugar. Belt feeders can also be installed for those materials that need to be handled carefully such as animal feed, pellets or flakes. Screw feeders are used for powders such as flour, feed pre-mixes or minerals; turbine feeder for cereal flour. IMECO, generally, reached the maximum number of cycles in bagging scales in the whole market.

Fully automatic bagging systems are typically preferred in more industrialised areas and where labour costs or aggressive environment suggest the investment in automation. Nowadays, automatic bagging systems are able to achiever much higher performances than manual bagging systems in terms of production, speed and quality.

For more than 20 years now, IMECO has been on the market with one of its first automatic bag placing solution and today is still riding high. The ABP120 series have amazing performances such as fully automatic bag size changeover, are designed to handle almost all kinds of bag materials, dust tight bird beak spout (1:4) with pre-dump option for high speed bagging and maintenance free bag detection system on the filling spout, to avoid wrong product discharge, are just a taste of its properties.

Sanitation is key

It often happens that automation follows many years of manual

systems in plants that are already in existence. That’s why compactness is also as much important as many other features -- sanitation for instance, with new labour laws forcing plants to raise their environment standards.

In the food industry, sanitation is also mandatory, with a low dust environment, correct design and proper dust aspiration systems all meaning those in the industry now understand that good performances are linked with all of the essential qualifications that now exist in the automation industry.

The upstream process is one, among others, of the most fundamental phases of the bagging system. Precision and lack of dead rates highly increase the whole system efficiency. IMECO systems achieve weighing with one of the lowest margin of error on the market, using the technic of the pre-dumping in order to guarantee a continuous flow, and moreover, a very high accuracy in goods bagging.

Besides sanitation, we must spend a few of words discussing

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the international certification in weighing systems called MID “Measuring Instruments Directive” obtained by IMECO over two years ago. MID is a directive by the European Union, which seeks to harmonise many aspects of legal metrology across all member states of the EU, a very important point in a unified market.

The importance of intuitive and easy to use software

Of course, also a reliable control system guarantees efficient control of the bagging plant. We are talking about the fact that not just the hardware must be heavy-duty but the software must be intuitive and easy to use as well. The world market has changed below different aspects and also the labor market changed itself.

The skills of the operating personnel must also be taken into consideration and the frequent personnel turnover can sometimes turn to be as an handicap. That’s why an easy-to-use software with intuitive control panel with touch sensitive screen are as much important as the mechanical movements.

Electronics assists us by improving our results.

However, if it’s not applied properly, it can become an obstacle that is hard to overtake.

Just like modern smart phones, that are usable by children from a very young age, IMECO have developed intuitive software that allows the client to set their machine by themselves. Keeping the client on the leash is just not acceptable anymore, this era has now ended. The market is simply too crowded to operate in this way and we like clients to understand that suppliers need to turn as a “solutions-finders” as soon as possible to keep their market tight.

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more appropriate than another. For instance, if a high sanitation is required combined system such as sewing and stitches is preferred or pinch bag if paper material is used.

Technology must help us in our day-by-day work

Thinking about bagging doesn’t mean to think just about begging techniques; many thoughts have to be made before to purchasing new equipment. As already wrote above, technology must help us in our job day-by-day. For this reason, we should keep an eye on automatic equipment as much as is possible; selfdiagnosis, for instance, is now readily available.

With these many features, specialists won’t ever lose their time again and you won’t ever need to keep your plant stopped because of malfunctions that you cannot diagnose. Your new equipment will be the one that, almost like a real patient, tell you what is not working properly and what should be the tuning to apply in order to optimise you production plant. It’s also just with a very high standards of quality of the components that you’ll be able to find a reliability that won’t ever let you down.

High standard components are not just inside the machine but are also outside too. I’m talking about remote control assistance.

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n 1817, selenium (Se) was isolated for the first time

by Berzelius. At that time little was known about its biological function, until its nutritional requirement was revealed about 140 years later by Schwarz and Foltz in 1957 (Mehdi et al., 2013). Since then, Se has been recognised as an essential trace element and its supplementation to farm animals has become a common practice worldwide, as Se deficiency increases susceptibility to various diseases and decreases productive and reproductive performances of farm animals (Lyons et al., 2007).

The essence of Se to exert its positive effects lies in the construction of the 21st amino acid selenocysteine (SeCys). SeCys can be found at the active site of a wide range of proteins, also called selenoproteins, which play important roles in the antioxidant defense and immune function. One of the most importent selenoproteins identified is glutathione peroxidase (GPx), which functions as an antioxidant by directly reducing hydrogen peroxides (H2O2) and phospholipase A2 cleaved lipid hydroperoxides and thus reducing the level of lipid and protein oxidation in the cell (Brown and Arthur, 2001).

Selenium metabolism in yeast and animals

Nowadays, farm animals can be supplemented with Se under an inorganic or an organic form.

These inorganic forms are mainly mineral salts such as sodium selenite (SS) or selenate, while organic forms can be found as synthetic selenomethionine (SeMet) or as selenized yeasts rich in natural Se components. These selenized yeasts can be produced in different ways, but the highly consistent selenized yeast ‘Selsaf®’ is obtained due to the specific cultivation of a proprietary Saccharomyces cerevisiae (CNCM I-3399) strain on a medium enriched with SS. During the growth of the yeast, SS will be transformed to hydrogen selenide (H2Se).

H2Se is an intermediate metabolite used by the yeast to synthetise different organic selenomolecules such as the seleno amino acids selenomethionine (SeMet) and selenocysteine (SeCys), but also many other seleno-active components (Kieliszek et al.

2015). Consequently, due to the standardised production procedure, Selsaf® contains 2 natural organic Se fractions which are easily absorbed in the animals’ intestine I) 63 percent SeMet and II) 36 percent SeCys and other active selenocomponents.

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resemblances the amino acid methionine (Met), as the only difference between the 2 is the substitution of the sulfur atom by a selenium atom in SeMet. This will lead to the non-specific incorporation of SeMet in the animal’s body proteins. As such, a pool of Se under the form of SeMet is created in animal proteins found in eggs and milk, leading an efficient transfer of Se to offspring.

Additionally, SeMet is also incorporated and stored in the muscles where it can be addressed in stressful times. Under stress conditions, SeMet will be released from this reserve pool in the muscle due to catabolism and liberated SeMet can be converted to H2Se for the construction of animal SeCys in the selenoenzymes (Schrauzer, 2000).

Figure 1: activation of GPx selenoenzymes

by Selsaf® in comparison with control group and sodium selenite

Figure 2; antiradical capacity of whole blood from beef cattle supplemented with Selsaf® in comparison with sodium selenite

Figure 3; BHV1 antibody titers in serum from beef cattle supplemented with selsaf® or SS

Figure 4; serum bactericide activity from beef cattle supplemented with selsaf® in comparison with sodium selenite

Figure 5; % of animals suffering from MRD (A) and ADWG (B) of beef cattle supplemented with Selsaf® compared to SS

F data). After starting with Se administration, animals in the Selsaf® group exhibited a stronger and faster recovery of their serum bactericide activity and where thus better able to resist pathogens.

Figure 6; effects of different sources of Se on layer performance

Figure 7; effect of Se source on broiler performance

Practical consequences for animal performances

As a matter of fact, in cattle respiratory pathologies are often of bacterial origin and generally appear in a range period between 6 to 10 days after exposure to a stressing event like transport (Hjerpe, 1983).

The fast and strong recovery of the non-specific immune system after transportation with Selsaf® supplementation, was reflected in the incidence of morbidity related to Figure 9; influence of Se from different Figure 8; Deposition of Se from different respiratory disease which decreased sources on MDA sources in muscle from 41,2 percent in control group supplemented with SS to only 4,3 percent in animals receiving Selsaf® (Fig. 5A). Furthermore, To reduce this muscle catabolism under stress conditions and thus the influence of stress on zootechnical performance of farm the ability of Selsaf® supplemented animals to cope with stress animals, Selsaf® harbors a directly available source of active was also twinned in the growth performance as cattle from the control group with SS did not recover quickly their growth seleno-components which can be used immediately for the conversion to H2Se and subsequently for the formation of seleno- deficit accumulated during the period of convalescence (Fig. 5B) (unpublished data). enzymes like GPx. The influence of Selsaf® on animals’ general health and

Interest of Selsaf® for health

The capacity Selsaf® to increase the activity of seleno-enzymes, like GPx, and thus its ability to improve the anti-oxidative status of varies animal species, compared to non Se supplemented animals (NC) was previously demonstrated and is represented for dairy cows in figure 1 (unpublished data).

Additionally, a trial in beef cattle recently demonstrated that supplementation of Selsaf® to these animals is able to increase the antiradical capacity of the whole blood when samples are exposed to a free radical attack. This antiradical capacity is in fact the measurement of the time necessary for the free radicals to hemolyze 50 percent of the erythrocytes. The data in figure 2 clearly show that free radicals need a significantly longer time to destroy erythrocytes in samples from animals receiving Selsaf® compared to SS (unpublished data). This means that Selsaf® is more efficient in improving the antioxidant capacity compared to inorganic sources of selenium (unpublished data).

As oxidative stress is very often related to immunity Selsaf® raises not only the antioxidant capacities of animals but influences their immune system. As such, Selsaf® supplemented animals developed a higher number of neutralising antibodies in serum after vaccination with a bovine herpesvirus 1 (BHV1) vaccine administrated on day 0 and 19 of the experiment (Fig. 3) (unpublished data).

Next to increasing the specific immunity after vaccination, Selsaf® was also capable of improving the innate immunity as evidenced by measuring the bactericide activity of serum, which is the capacity of serum to inhibit the activity of some bacterial strains and thus characterises the non-specific immune system.

In bovine species, a capacity below 90 percent indicates an increased sensitivity to pathogenic infections. Consequently, data show that at the beginning of the trial, so immediately after transportation and before Se supplementation had started, all animals were highly sensitive to infection (Fig. 4) (unpublished

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F performance was also demonstrated in poultry. In a first trial, laying hens were supplemented for 32 weeks (from 18 to 50 weeks of age) with different Se sources, going from SS, Selsaf® to a source of synthetic SeMet. As shown in figure 6 (A-C). The results clearly show that Selsaf® was able to reduce the mortality (A) of the layers while improving their laying intensity (B) and feed conversion ratio (FCR) per egg (C), compared to the other Se sources.

In a second poultry trial done in broilers, additional evidence was gathered to evince that Selsaf® is more capable at improving broiler performance compared to other Se sources (inorganic and synthetic SeMet) as demonstrated by their final body weight at 42 days of age (Fig. 7) (Unpublished data).

Consequently, it appears that Selsaf® is not only capable of ameliorating the antioxidant and immune function of animals but that it also comprises benefits for farmers by reducing morbidity/ mortality of the animals and by improving their performance.

Practical consequences for consumers

Finally, not only farmers seem to profit from the supplementation of their animals with Selsaf® but also consumers might experience some positive effect when eating end-products derived from animals supplemented with Selsaf®. As such, due to the presence of SeMet, Se is deposited in several animal derived products e.g. meat, milk, egg (Fig. 8) which are frequently consumed by humans. In this way, the consumption of animal products might lead to acquisition of natural Se in humans and

Figure 10; influence of Se from different sources on meat overall appearance

Figure 11; influence of Se sources on meat quality

consequently an improved oxidative status with better resistance to pathogenic infections.

Additionally, it is well known that eggs are susceptible to lipid peroxidation due to the presence of polyunsaturated fatty acids (Mohiti-Asli et al., 2008). The oxidation level lipids can be demonstrated by the measurement of malondialdehyde (MDA), a secondary oxidation product formed during lipid oxidation. As such, the concentration of MDA can function as a parameter to assess the influence a certain Se source on lipid oxidation. As a matter of fact, foods appropriate for consumption should present lipid oxidation values below 3 mg MDA/kg of sample with an upper limit of 7-8 mg MDA/kg (Faitarone et al., 2016).

Consequently, by using this parameter, it was recently demonstrated that Selsaf® is able to reduce the lipid oxidation in eggs during 35 days of storage (Fig.9), meaning that their shelf life would increase by supplementing hens with Selsaf®.

In meat the oxidation of lipids and proteins is the most important parameter for the appearance of meat rancidity. On one hand, the oxidation of proteins in meat might decrease the activity of proteases and increases the myofibrillar protein cross linking finally resulting in tougher meat texture while lipid oxidation on the other hand might interfere with the integrity of the cell membrane leading to a lower water holding capacity and the formation of volatile oxidation products interfering with odor and flavor (Rossi et al., 2015).

Recent data indicate that supplementation of Selsaf® to beef cattle might affect the color, odor, surface wetness and overall appearance of the meat during storage. Data clearly show that the color score was higher in the Selsaf® supplemented group from the 4th day and that the other score was higher on the last 2 days while surface wetness was higher starting from the 5th day of storage. Consequently, the overall appearance of the meat was increased from the 4th day of storage by the supplementation of Selsaf® to the animal (Rossi et al., 2015) (Fig. 10).

This trial (Rossi et al 2015) and a recent trial performed in broilers (unpublished data) also showed that not only visual aspects of meat were affected by the supplementation of animals with Selsaf® but that also the water holding capacity (Fig. 11A) and the tenderness of the meat (Fig; 11B-C) were positively influenced to a higher degree compared to other Se sources even synthetic SeMet products. Water holding capacity and meat tenderness are respectively measured by means of drip loss and shear force i.e. the strength or force necessary to rupture a meat sample, indicating that the lower the force needed to rupture the meat the more tender the meat will be.

These results are most a likely a consequence of the higher antioxidative status reached in meat when animals were supplemented with Selsaf® compared to the other Se sources as indicated by the measurements of GPx and total antioxidant capacity (TAOC) (Fig. 12A-B) (unpublished data). In fact, TAOC is the measurement of the combined non-enzymatic antioxidant capacity which thus provides information concerning the overall capability to counteract reactive oxygen species (ROS) and resist oxidative damages.

Conclusion

Figure 12; effect of Se source on antioxidant status of meat

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In conclusion, Selsaf® is a natural source of selenomethionine and selenocysteine offering a dual protection against both oxidative and pathogenic stress for the animal but also exhibiting benefits for farmers and consumers by sustaining animal health and enhancing zootechnical performance for farmers and raising consumers’ satisfaction while preserving food quality during shelf life.

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This was our sixth annual Garden Party for friends, supporters and patrons of The Mills Archive Trust “Among the 70 people attending this year were two practicing millwrights, three exmillers and eight authors of books on mills.

Our staff of five and our five current trustees welcomed three ex-trustees, 11 current volunteers and five volunteer alumni.

“We were pleased that Tony Yoward, one of our initial trustees was able to attend at the age of ninety-and-a-half.

“Professor Grant Campbell, another guest and who donated most of the NW Millers from the Satake Centre, was delighted with the speed and quality of the binding we had carried out on these important journals – we believe the most complete run of the publication anywhere!” - Ron Cookson, Chairman The Mills Archive Trust

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by Tom Blacker, Milling and Grain

n Saturday June 11, 2016 Roger, Tuti and I travelled as guests to attend The Mills Archive’s Annual Summer Garden Party. Milling and Grain’s publishing house, Perendale Publishers is a Patron of The Mills Archive. As a partner to the Mills Archive, supporting this annual even is a true privilege, and we were prepared, as ever, for an interesting and enjoyable day.

The event was orgainsed by Ron Cookson, Chairman of the Trust of the Mills Archive and Mildred Cookson, an Archive Foundation Trustee, as a show of gratitude for the support of all their Friends, who help them continue to care for the records of our milling heritage and make them freely available to the pubic.

Between them, Ron, who was awarded an MBE honour in 2012 for services to heritage, and Mildred, a former flour miller at the Mapledurham watermill for nearly thirty years, no one has a better directive to head such an organisation. Furthermore, as you will be aware, Mildred also writes for Milling and Grain!

On the day upon an 11am arrival time, all guests filed into the library. All were able to view a 100 year long archive for the ‘Northwestern Miller’ in fantastic colour and quality. Presenting and aiding visitors here was Elizabeth Trout, Librarian and Information Manager. The bound copies were welcomed by all visitors and it started off the day with enthusiasm of seeing new projects come to fruition.

This particular project was possible from a grant by the Mercers’ Company. In the round, by obtaining cultural and heritage funding, this archive has been brought back to the industry to understand the past, and preserve positive contributions to the industry from documents to buildings, and more. All this effort helps the development move forward with a proud sense of heritage and founding.

The ‘Quern to Computer’ exhibition in the Founders’ Room was very popular. It is based on the project of the same name, and managed by Archivist, Nathaniel Hodge, who displayed vast knowledge and provided truly interesting answers to visitors’ questions.

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Spanning from 6000BC right through to modern-day milling, the exhibition was a tangible display of the growth of the milling industry, shown through objects, relics, images and written accounts. From small-scale hand powered milling by those who survived growing and eating wheat, right through to today’s digitised, large-scale global industry.

There were models of mills and technologies from past eras as well as milling machinery branded signs of companies that manufactured the tools for milling. Companies that cease to exist today but have given rise to more generations of manufacturers.

This exhibition showed how far technologies and techniques had fundamentally changed; it was a useful show of how great change continues today and into the future.

F In the Garden Hall there was a Owlsworth IJP display and volunteer projects exhibition. The remarkable efforts of interns and volunteers enables The Mills Archive to deliver a great amount of extra effort to punch above its weight and be an all-encompassing institution of the milling industry. With good links to Reading University students and other local people able to give their time and efforts to this charity, it grows from strength to strength. I hope there is another garden party next year to celebrate the work of this organisation again.

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by Darren Parris, Milling and Grain

aving just finished an exciting exhibition in Las Vegas I caught my flight to Dallas, in the middle of the Lone Star State of Texas – which houses at its heart the international headquarters of MAXI-LIFT. I was honoured to be greeted and shown around first hand by Maxi-Lift’s President,

Paul Phillips.

With an unrivalled pedigree, Maxi-Lift is a global leader of plastic elevator bucket production and conveyor belt customisation, offering complete solutions for agricultural elevator applications.

Humble beginnings

I attempted to politely pin Paul down and inquire why our international readers and his customers should choose MaxiLift. Paul’s immediate answer was, “Because of our unmatched customer service, imaginative innovation, product quality, and Maxi-Lift’s reputation for fast delivery. We consistently strive to do better by putting ourselves in the customer’s shoes” I learned that this approach is hereditary in the history of this business. They are always looking to address customer’s problems and in doing so will invent a solution.

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into the company’s past revealing how the business started in 1970. Founder Vic Sahm, was working for a Fortune 500 company based in New York. Vic was recruited by cattle ranchers to help improve the delivery system of a new feed supplement, fortified liquid molasses. Traditionally, farmers would put molasses in a tub and lower an old bicycle wheel or plywood wheel so it just dipped into the liquid. As cattle would lick the wheel, it would rotate and continually pick up new molasses to be licked.

F Vic worked with some of his customers and designed a tub and plastic lick wheel as a solution. He immediately picked up an order for over $100,000 from a farmer in Oklahoma City. They set up a shop and started to produce their innovative ‘Lick Wheels’. The farmers loved the plastic wheels and the company has since sold millions of wheels globally. This wheel is still sold today. These early products were the precursor to producing and selling elevator buckets in the early 1970’s.

Product development for improved customer service

When you have the pleasure of meeting Paul, his hunger to continually improve becomes evermore apparent. Believing there is always room for improvement, he would constantly say, “It’s all about product development”.

This commitment to research and development is demonstrated through the survey conducted by the Maxi-Lift team in the 1990s. He told me they conducted a survey of their customers to find out what they wanted from a bucket.

The man who is always on the lookout to perfect perfection probed his customers and collected data on how long their buckets typically lasted. The average answer was around 3 years, but was that good enough?

They posed another question ‘how long would you realistically like them to last?’ With the exception of ‘forever’, the common answer was that it would be beneficial if the buckets lasted the same length of time as the rubber belts, which is around 5 to 6 years. The company now had a blueprint for improvement.

This market research led the way to the innovative development of the ‘Tiger-Tuff Buckets’ – which significantly improved usable life.

Developed in 1996, some Tiger-Tuff Buckets from this date are in fact still in use in a number of plants giving them a potential 20-year life cycle, depending on how they are used.

Paul explained, buckets are like tyres on your automobile, they are a wear item. Do your grandparents only take their car out to drive at the weekend or are you a trucker driving 24/7? How long they last depends on how they are used and with what type of driver is running the equipment.”

flooring and much in between.

Paul tells me, they are consistently working with a minimum of 10 different types of plastics such as polyethylene, polypropylene, nylon and urethane to name but a few. Different products have different uses and as such will have different requirements. Some plastics might be for sticky applications and some for high heat applications with there being a very special plastic for elevator buckets. Paul explained that plastics

Innovation and automation- investment in perfection

Walking around Maxi-Lift with Paul, I felt like Charlie walking around the chocolate factory - around every corner was more innovation and automation. On entering the main factory, there were more injection moulding machines than I could count, disappearing off into the distance. More than 50 percent of them added in the last few years, doubling production capacity.

Over 150 expertly trained and dedicated staff keep these injection moulding machines running 24 hours a day, 5 days a week minimum, often operating 7-days a week. MaxiLift truly is a one-stop shop for most of your agri-moulding requirements, with hundreds of different moulds making buckets, tray-feeding systems, poultry and swine shed Milling and Grain - July 2016 | 75

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F had different attributes “for example your cup at a football stadium would be flexible and your plastic in a phone would be more rigid.”

As I looked around the factory I could hear the continuous “swish” of plastic pellets passing through the highways of spaghetti junction pipes as each of the respective plastics was pneumatically drawn into the factory. A symphony of sounds as varied as the products they become.

It is extremely impressive. Follow the pipes back from the injection moulding machines through the factory, you will find yourself outside where they all interconnect to an army of more than a dozen storage silos. You begin to fully appreciate the full scale of this operation. More than five million lbs of plastic is on hand, and with trucks feeding the silos continuously throughout the day, one can only begin to imagine how much plastic must pass through in a year.

In the central control room runs an integrated program that is connected to every machine in the factory. This machine allows Maxi-Lift to monitor each machine’s performance, minimising down time and ultimately reducing the cost to the customer.

This completely automated system knows when moulds need to be changed and with continuous monitoring of every possibility, the staff are often able to fix any issues before they occur thus keeping the machines running at an optimum pace. The monitoring is 24/7 and checks every aspect of the factory operation. Product arriving as pellets can be tracked all the way through the factory, from silo storage through the pneumatic tubes to the colour mixer. If a customer requires colour, this can be added and mixed in with the pelleted plastic. The plastic is then injected through the screw to the mould at an extremely high pressure. Depending on the complexities of the mould it will take as few as 30 seconds to more than 2 minutes to fully inject the plastic.

Each mould can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars each. Each machine costs upwards of one million dollars - an investment in perfection, which is continually evident throughout the factory.

The complete package

As we continue the journey through Maxi-Lift we enter the belting side of the business. Paul explains that unlike other Bucket companies, Maxi-Lift offers a ‘Complete Package’ which includes their premium bucket, high quality rubber belting from suppliers such as Fenner Dunlop and ContiTech. We precision drill the holes and match with the correct splices and bolts. Paul said “We take responsibility to make sure everything aligns up correctly, so the buckets align with the belt and bolts. We pay close attention to detail delivering a quality product.”

Paul made a point of highlighting the fact that they only work with premium buckets by upholding their buckets to rigourous tests and assessments – they check the sizes with precision gauges. These buckets are then partnered up with quality, domestically manufactured rubber or PVC belting, which they slit, cut and punch to order for every customer. “The types of buckets, belts, splices and bolts used will often depend on the product being moved such as cement, sand, aggregate, zinc, grains or clay” continued Paul. He explained the importance of fully understanding 76 | July 2016 - Milling and Grain

the customer and their requirements as this effects a number of aspects required in the final product.

The innovation never stops

From the belting shop to dispatch and storage, I find myself in a cavernous room filled with row upon row of floor to ceiling shelving. Paul reminisces about the building of this unit and remembers it was bigger than half a dozen full size football fields. It now houses millions and millions of elevator buckets, waiting for order and dispatch the same day. Whilst there is often nothing special about a large storeroom, in true automated and efficient Maxi-Lift fashion I witness the approaching forklift truck coming along the aisle. With less than a half inch on either side, impressive driving I thought, until it was pointed out that all the forklifts follow a hidden wire under the concrete. This allows narrow aisles, maximising storage space and thus keeping prices more competitive.

The innovation is everywhere, even the small plastic buffer clasps that click around every rack in the factory to avoid damage from a fork-lift. Designed by Maxi-Lift to solve an internal problem, it is now sold internationally as a preventative solution!

We all know that distribution is one of the biggest costs of any product and this is more apparent when you are shipping overseas, and yes, Maxi-Lift came up with a solution to shipping too much air. HD-Stax stackable buckets allow up to three times the product to be shipped in the same space as traditional buckets. Further proof, if it be needed, that Maxi-Lift is truly exceeding their customer’s expectations.

F The importance of training

Oh, but it was not over, Paul introduced us to their new trailer and went on to explain how important training was as part of their ongoing customer service.

Paul told us, “We have Regional meetings where we visit customers and train their guys. This trailer has a complete workshop and can pull up to a customer and be used as a mobile classroom to show maintenance and reliability guys exactly how to complete any belting, splicing, bolting tasks.”

“We can run a complete training session from the trailer. Being hands on helps with our customers, we want to be their trusted adviser, not just a vendor. We also offer design support and alignment advice.”

In addition to the onsite training I also learned this is all available on multiple videos on their website.

A visit off my bucket list

With that we had seen and experienced the whole Maxi-Lift dream. What a pleasure and an honour.

Thank you to Paul Phillips, President of Maxi-Lift for giving up his day for us. An impressive day with a bunch of impressive staff, I would like to thank the whole Maxi-Lift team for allowing me open access to their whole facility and for their time explaining how it all worked. That is truly one visit scratched off my bucket list. Thank you.

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Storage project

by Andy Noble - Glencore Grain UK, Mark Sanderson, and Josh Turner, Peel Ports

Peel Ports London Medway opens new markets for British grain The hugely significant first shipment of wheat to depart from Peel Ports London Medway on the Thames estuary was loaded early last month – opening exciting new export market opportunities for farmers in the south east of England.

Wheat from over 30 farms in the area has been sourced by Glencore Grain to fill the 4,400 tonne Arklow Falcon, at the new loading facility operated by Peel Ports in Sheerness, with the very first load bound for Ireland.

Glencore Grain UK Managing Director, James Maw, said: “Creating a new grain export facility at Sheerness is an outstanding opportunity for farmers of Kent, Sussex and the south east.

Exporting direct from Peel Ports London Medway at Sheerness, the recent development opens a route for rapid access to the important export markets of Europe and North Africa.

“Kent and Sussex are relatively isolated from the main grain supply regions of the eastern counties, which makes a local export facility even more important,” he added. The south east region produces an estimated two million tonnes of wheat a year, along with 240,000 tonnes of barley.”

Welcoming the first ever grain vessel to Sheerness

Paul Barker, Port Director at Peel Ports London Medway, said “We are delighted to welcome the first ever grain vessel to Sheerness. We have been able to handle and store the grain thanks to our partnership with Glencore, which means we are able to invest in the facilities it needs in order to be able to reach its overseas markets.”

“Our ability to handle multiple commodities from the same port is supported by commitment and understanding from our customers. Thanks to such partnerships, we are able to offer them the flexibility they need from a port in order to utilise the most suitable routes to markets for their cargoes.”

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In order to store the grain, Peel Ports’ team converted a warehouse previously used for paper storage. In three days it was cleaned and sanitised to be ready for the first intake on Thursday 26th May, and currently stores 2000 tonnes of grain.

This first export of wheat represents the cropping from around 1400 acres (550 hectares) sourced primarily from farms in Kent and East Sussex, but establishes a highly important route for further shipments from growers across the south east.

More efficient and cost effective Mr Maw highlighted that exporting Kent grain from Sheerness is more efficient and cost effective.

The new route through the port now means Glencore Grain has facility to export grain quickly and efficiently from ports all around the UK – ensuring rapid supply to meet customers’ demands and efficient movement from farms.

The UK is set to export approaching three million tonnes of wheat from the 2015/16 season – one of the biggest totals in history, despite challenging world trade conditions; every shipping consignment is a milestone in delivering the target requirement and supporting UK farmers.

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Global Industries, Inc. to open new manufacturing facility in Africa Global Industries, Inc. has announced the opening of a new manufacturing facility, located northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.

Scheduled to begin operation this fall, the new 2346 m² facility will house state-of-the-art precision manufacturing equipment and technology for the production of MFS silos.

Initially, the new plant will focus on the production of silo sidewall and stiffener components, but will be progressively expanded to include many other Global product systems as they ramp up to full production. Additionally, the new location will also serve as a key distribution center to customers within the region.

“Global Industries has been an active partner in African agriculture for a number of years,” according to Global Industries Vice President of International Sales John Haugh.

“This region has vast areas of extremely fertile crop land, and is poised for unprecedented growth in the very new future.

But continued population growth and food security issues will need to be addressed if they are to effectively meet the agricultural needs of the people in the years ahead.”

Haugh added that innovative storage and handling systems, such as those produced by Global Industries, will play a major role in helping the region become more agriculturally efficient and maximise the production capabilities of farms and commercial grain operations throughout the country.

“Having a local manufacturing and distribution facility is a no-brainer in that it will make it easier for our African customers to obtain the products and services they need,” Haugh concluded. “Having local production, service and support will help make Global Industries a more cost competitive option, while providing customers with faster delivery times and better service as we continue to grow our dealer network in the African market.”

Turnkey project in Djibouti for a new grain and fertiliser terminal The Belgian company VIGAN is proud to announce that it has been awarded a second important turnkey project in Djibouti for a new grain and fertiliser terminal in Doraleh Port.

This project for the Port of Doraleh is a direct consequence of the very successful operations of the SDTV terminal in Djibouti, entirely built by VIGAN in 2008. The SDTV terminal has been successfully unloading above 2MT/year of grain and fertilizer since commissioning in 2009.

The Port of Djibouti is located at the southern entrance to the Red Sea, at the intersection of major international shipping lines connecting Asia, Africa and Europe.

The Port is a minimal deviation from the principal East-West trade route and provides a secure regional hub for transshipment and relay of goods. Since 1998, the Port handled 100 percent of Ethiopia’s maritime traffic, which moves to and from Addis Ababa by truck and rail. To accommodate this important business, the Port has made many additional dry yard areas available and is creating the Port of Doraleh, 20km outside of Djibouti city.

Port De Djibouti S.A. (PDSA) is building the new MultiPurpose Port of Doraleh to improve and replace the current business development of the existing Djibouti port.

The Chinese CSCEC-CCECC Consortium is the main contractor for the building of the quay and the entire terminal. The whole design and manufacturing of the new multi-purpose unloading equipment and warehouses have been subcontracted to VIGAN, while civil works will be completed by CSCEC-CCECC. 80 | July 2016 - Milling and Grain

The new terminal will allow to discharge, handle, store and bag grain and fertiliser for a total of +/- 2,000,000 tons per year, and will handle vessels from 30,000 tons up to 100,000 DWT. Two separate installations for grain and fertiliser will be built to prevent cross contamination.

For the unloading of grain and fertiliser, VIGAN will manufacture and commission: - 1 pneumatic ship unloader NIV600 with unloading capacity of 600 tph/500kW, mounted on rails; - Set of belt and chain conveyor systems; - 1 hopper on wheels with 3 bagging lines of 60t/h and truck loading; - 14 lines of 60t/h bagging systems; - 2 flat warehouses totaling 85.000T (grain terminal) and 2 flat warehouses totaling 145.000T (fertilizer terminal); - 2 bulk truck loading stations; - 2 bulk receiving hoppers; Project completion is scheduled by end of 2017.

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BALAGUER ROLLS

100 years of engineering that today supports affordable and high-quality milled foodstuffs

by Roger Gilbert, Milling and Grain

urning swords to ploughshares, a biblical quotations from Isaiah 2:3–4, took on a new meaning when I visited the popular tourists summer destination of Alicanti in mid-June to help celebrate a milestone for an international company called Balaguer Rolls.

Here, in one of the most hedonistic places on the planet, there is a company ‘turning steel into foodstuffs – the modern equivalent of that now famous biblical phrase.

Balaguer Rolls produces some 16,000 rolls annually for the flour, vegetable oil, chocolate and cereal industry globally – that’s 70 per day – ranging from 150mm to 812mm, based on rolls diameters. Without these precision-made rolls it is doubtful that our food industry could produce the food products of the quality we have come to expect and at a price that is affordable.

Located in the hills that surround Alicante, the village of Onil, which looks down on Castalla and some 40km north of the coast, this company which employs just 160 staff, celebrated it’s 100 year anniversary in June. It has a global reputation as a most committed and advanced manufacturer of it’s type in the world. 99 percent of its production is exported to more than 130 countries.

Rolls are manufactured from base metals including imported pig iron, scrap metals and a selection of specialist metals including titanium, chromium, manganese, cobalt, nickel but to name a few.

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separate groups to tour the manufacturing plant.

Milling and Grain was one of two magazines allowed dispensation to take photographs inside the factory and was escorted around the factory by foundry manager Patricia Pla. After viewing the incoming metal bins, in flat storage and big bags in the raw materials wearhouse, we passed through the laboratory where all incoming metals are tested with the latest scanning and probing equipment before entering the foundry itself. Metal samples of completed rolls are also kept for a period of 10 years for quality control purposes.

This company runs some five induction furnaces which feed into their respective centrifugal machines that spins the molten metal into the shape of the roll layering metal down in Antonio Juan Navas, quality control manager, carries out the ultrasonic testing

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Visitors gather at the company’s welcome area before tours of the three factory sites begin

Tolerance testing over the full length of a roll must be within five microns

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The furnaces operating on our visit were the 2500kW units preparing 4000kg of molten metal each. The completed ‘moulds’ are coated with silica so that they do not stick to other metals and rolled outdoors to cool from their casting temperature of 1550 deg C. The tour covered the ‘roughing area’ and the ‘pre-machining areas’ and then the ‘boring area’, all processes in preparing the basic roll for balancing and shaft fitting. At this point all rolls are ultrasonically tested to ensure there is no cracking and to

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Rafael Sánchez Herrero works on a roll in the ‘roughing area’

Juan Ramon Frances tests the fluting on a roll to ensure it is within the tolerances specified with the company’s purpose built flute testing unit. This handy brief-case size unit carries a three dimension camera that has a lens in its base to read the roll’s fluting

check the structure for any defects and to ensure the boundary between the two metals making up the rolls are fully integrated.

Some of the larger rolls weight up to 20 tonnes and will spin up to 1000rpm so it’s vital that any imperfections are located in the manufacturing process.

“It’s not common that a roll is rejected. Once a roll is approved it receives a serial number, not before,” says Antonio Juan Navas, quality control manager who carries out the ultrasonic testing.

There are also areas for sandblasting for surface and cleaning of rolls using aluminum oxide and other materials and a workshop in a separate building for shafts and any bought-in components that, by the way, are tested to the same high standards as the components made at the Balaguer factory.

roll production is taking place with the addition of the first largescale Rodomach fluting machine that has its own automated tool grinding unit so the 12 tools fitted to the machine can be changed and re-sharpened automatically. This helps the unit flut rolls up to three times faster completing jobs of bigger rolls in just two hours.

When asked what made the machine so fast, the general manager of Rodomach Welding Solutions Roel Doornebosh from The Netherlands, who was on hand to explain the operation, said the fluting tool was able to start slowly and then increase its speed along the roll before reducing speed at the end and then returning quickly to start the process again. He explained that this configuration was effectively quicker that attempting to cut two flutes at a time and also saved on energy.

Latest technologies in use

At the heart of the milling process

The latest development at Balaguer Rolls is the third factory building which houses the high-precision rolls grinding area, the fluting area and where the optical flute testing is carried out. The building interior is kept at between 21-22 deg C year round.

A new piece of hand-operated testing equipment incorporating the latest technology, can determine if rolls, especially those for chocolate, biscuits, breakfast cereals manufacture, are within five micron maximum tolerance set by the industry over the length of the roll. This ensure manufacturers can achieve a precise grind that meets product specifications.

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The foundry site works a two-shift system with 24 people on each shift. Because of the climate, shifts run from 22:00 through to 14:00 each day. As demand increases the company is prepared to introduce a third shift from 14:00-22:00.

This was a memorable, three-hour visit to a manufacturer that produces engineered components that perform to the highest standards at the very heart of our milling industry.

Companies such as Balaguer Rolls – which we were invited to help celebrate their 100th anniversary - and others producing these and other unique components for our industry, form critical parts of the milling process and are just as important as the multitude of farmers who grow the cereals and cocoa that pass between them.

BALAGUER ROLLS’ ‘ 100TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Hard work, humbleness, honesty, respect and passion for work

by David Balaguer (Translated by Heinz Sidler)

"Don’t you think it’s amazing to be here?

All together, celebrating our century of life?

Imagine, a 100 years …

I have to confess that just thinking of it makes me feel dizzy" 100 years is a truly magical figure, with too many meanings.

If we speak of persons, to reach 100 years is more than a physical achievement, it is almost like challenging nature.

But if we speak of the world of enterprises, I think the merit is even greater. Few companies, only a very few, are able to celebrate what is bringing us together here today.

History in the making

Do you know what? We have made history!

Not only has our company been able to reach this amazing age, in fact, we have done so with the pride of having achieved, during this period of time, and today produce the best rolls in the world for the food industry.

It has not been easy to be sure. During such a long period of time we have lived and outlived many situations. Some better, others more difficult, ones full of joy, others bitter and hard. Nothing else but the reflection of a lifetime. Of a life still looking to the future, because, as opposed to the 100-year-old person, Balaguer still has a lot to tell and to do.

Our 100 years mean experience, but not weariness; they mean motivation and new challenges; they mean responsibilities and goals. Our 100 years have gone, they are history but, above all, they mean the future, because we feel young and fit to continue building on this dream which has lasted for four generations. Four generations which we could equate to the ‘four sons’ of one family.

Sons one and two

Who is the ‘first son’? The firstborn son is the one who faces all the problems life presents for the first time and who really suffers all the negatives from doing things nobody has done before.

Probably the ‘second son’ is counseled by his elder brother: However, he also has to cope with similar situations in his life - difficulties and the unknown. Not easy either.

It hasn’t been easy for the first two generations of Balaguer, who had to overcome the period of creating and innovating, in endless workdays and taking hard decisions, but the right ones.

The third son

And here comes the ‘third son’, Santiago - Mr Balaguer - as we all here have known him. Let us suppose he found himself in a familiar situation, easy, supported and counseled by his elder brothers.

Apparently, the path seemed straight forward, but company life is sometimes more uncertain than personal life.

In fact, this ‘third son’, this third generation, had to make a tremendous effort and use all his energy to perform the big step forward: internationalising a small family company from a small village in Alicante; our beloved Villa de Onil.

A challenge in capital letters, but with a success of the same proportion.

The test was passed thanks to, it has to be said, the professionalism and the efforts of a group of persons educated on the principle of hard work, humility, honesty, respect and passion for work.

Such are the qualities that have always belonged to this ‘third son’, who we today remember and honour.

This charismatic gentleman, humble and fantastic, extraordinary father, excellent boss, who transmitted to us those values which enabled Balaguer to cross the oceans and to be present in other continents, and who today is no longer with us.

He is not here physically, but I am sure that somehow he manages to find a way to join us and to celebrate with us our first century. Nobody deserves it more than he.

The fourth son

And so the ‘fourth son’ of our story has arrived - the fourth generation.

And not only that, in the meantime we have reached 100 years.

But as opposed to a one 100-year-old person who feels tired and is getting ready for his last journey, Balaguer feels renewed forces, is up to date, young … confident in the company that still has alot to tell and many pages to be written in its ongoing history. There is a lot of life ahead for Balaguer.

We are the fourth generation. We are over 160 persons, links in a chain, getting up every day to make the best rolls in the world for the food industry.

We are this fourth generation and are ready to undertake a new trip, yet another trip. And it will not be our last. Right now we have the ticket to take Balaguer Rolls to each and every corner of the world where there is a mill, without exception, investing and growing in what we know we do best, our finest dish, the best rolls in the world!

A trip to where our far-away customers feel close to and protected by the Balaguer company, because our customers know that here we work day-after-day to make their lives easier.

If this is our aim, and our determination is not to stop striving forward, I am convinced that this trip will make sure that in another 100 years we will come together here again, celebrating another milestone, the second century of the Balaguer Rolls company.

We will probably contemplate that celebration from another perspective – perhaps from higher above - but we will live it with the same satisfaction that today Santiago must be experiencing.

It is up to us to keep working on his dream, his plan and above all do so with the same values, those which he passed on to us, the values of effort, humility, honesty, respect and passion for our work. The passion for Balaguer.

Thank you, thank you very much to each and every one of you here. Without you, all of what I’ve said simply would not have happened.

David Balaguer (left) with his brother Santiago

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Today the word “quality” is present in all we discuss, and when it comes to food this includes everything from the ingredients right through to food packaging

hilst millers worldwide are consistently improving the variety of flour mixes, it is necessary for the packaging industry to continuously upgrade their practices too. Italpack replies to millers’ need for neat and natural packaging, based upon their years of experience and challenges taken on to help them grow into what they are today.

Italians are well known for their imagination and composition and Italpack are no exception. They have distinguished themselves with a range of easy to use, compact and reliable machines, which are based on a carousel concept – a concept they say is still today much ignored by other manufacturers.

Carousel packers require less space, and are designed to cope with multiple formats. Being accessible on every side is also a great advantage for cleaning and servicing.

Today, Italpack can boast serving the biggest milling groups worldwide, meeting their standards and yet they still know their smallest customers by name, providing the friendly service and prompt reaction their aftersales are well known for. After all, Italpack say they are more than a machine manufacturer, they become a valuable partner to every miller, ensuring his or her product is packed, efficiently and elegantly, and delivered always on time.

The range includes machines for sizes from 500g up to 15kg with Sos kraft paper block bottom bags, a material that is being preferred over the many options proposed on different markets.

Returning to this notion of quality, the consumers want to see a natural product packed in a natural bag, without suffocating or adding preservatives to one of nature’s richest ingredients – flour.

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rapid and closely set feedback systems, remote assistance and every accessory that modern packaging demands. Exporting to over 90 different countries has provided them with experience of many different products, costumes and climates, affording them the opportunity to innovate and be that step ahead.

One of their most requested machine models recently is their Pack50/10 H.O. This model supplied already in 4 different continents is the solution to those markets who are downsizing 25kg valve sacks into two 12.5kg (or 25lbs on some markets) block bottom bags, making them easier to work with for the consumer, the bread maker, pizza hut, restaurateur or patisseries. The Pack 50/10 H.O. is appreciated not mainly for its High Output of 20 packs per minute on 10kg, but also has been praised for the very neat bag it achieves, ideal for palletizing and always with a perfect closure.

Different closure options available keep every marketing department happy, one of the above mentioned machines was supplied recently to Italpack’s Russian Customer, with four different closing techniques, including the application of a handle to the bag.

While they are very well known amongst the milling industry, ITALPACK’s reliability and technical solutions are appreciated amongst many other packaging requirements, in fact their machines are used for products like sugar and salt.

“Quality” is what today’s buyers are expecting, and is what Italpack is dedicated to. They are proud of every single line manufactured, ensuring the highest standards and care.

More information: Brenton S. Leo, Export Sales Manager at Italpack, Italy www.italpack.net

IGC CONFERENCE 2016

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Trust, Transparency and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Andrew Wilkinson, Milling and Grain

Although China is still a major contributor to global markets, USA and Canada are expected to make a comeback and be reinstated to the summit of world grain producers in the not too distant future

n recent years, external factors such as poor weather have contributed to poor harvests, which have in turn resulted in an understandable level of crop uncertainty. However, the forecast figures for 2016-17 that were announced at the recent International Grain Conference have only previously been bettered once.

Given the backdrop of this very favourable forecast, the mood was suitably upbeat when the members of the council were joined by representatives from industry and other organisations for the IGC Grains Conference, on the theme of “Changing dynamics: the new trading environment,” on June 14 at the Jumeirah Carlton Tower Hotel, London.

This year’s conference consisted of three sessions that focused on external factors. The first session, “Supply and demand outlook” was followed by, “Recent Trade Policy Developments, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP),” with the third and final session discussing the intricacies of international “trade and logistics.”

Opened by the Executive Director of the IGC, Mr Etsuo Kitahara. Mr Kitahara began his address by reminding all of the delegates assembled that, “The IGC is committed to playing an important role in building relationships between the key players in the oilseed market.”

The market has changed a great deal in recent years; one only has to look to the recent successful emergence of the South American powerhouses of Argentina and Brazil. Russia and Brazil have also become the world’s largest players in wheat and soybean markets.

However, there have been other factors that have affected the global market in recent years.

According to Mr Kitahara, external factors such as the TTP, an arrangement that he believes is a, “Mega trade deal with far reaching effects.”

Recent weather patterns have had catastrophic effects on global harvests – particularly in 2008, and alongside this with countries such as Russia reducing their agricultural growing space, competition for land between crops has been intensifying on a global scale.

Supply and demand patterns have also changed a great deal; with export prices being a “good indicator” of this change according to Mr Kitahara, with “global wheat patterns are keeping prices low.”

But with global prices being kept low, how can those with a vested interest in the international grains market ensure that they are able to cope?

SESSION 1.1: SUPPLY AND DEMAND OUTLOOK

Robert Johansson: Chief Economist, USDA “Coping with lower prices.”

Following a brief introduction by IGC Senior Economist Amy Reynolds, Robert Johanssen was the first speaker of the day to take the stand.

Selected as Chief Economist at the US Department of Agriculture in 2016, Dr Johansson is responsible for the Department’s agricultural forecasts and projections and for advising the Secretary of Agriculture on the, “economic implications of alternative programs, regulations and legislative proposals.”

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price environment and matters of interest to US and globally.

However, another topic that was discussed by not only Mr Johansson but by most speakers throughout the day was China, and how the country’s growth has declined and the issues that this new situation was creating in countries that export to Asia.

Although China is still a major contributor to global markets, USA and Canada are expected to make a comeback and be reinstated to the summit of world grain producers in the not too distant future.

As for the immediate future, the US is expected to remain number one exporter of corn and cotton, although recently there has been, “a move away from US corn to other commodities and increase in corn imports from China to countries like Ukraine,” according to Dr Johansson. Further evidence of this can be found in the with the 10 year US corn export projections, which start to “tail off mostly due to South American exports.”

According to USDA predictions, soybean production will remain high, as consumption catches up for corn and soybeans. However, global demand will be outstripping production in 2016/17 whilst global ending stocks edge up.

One consideration offered by Dr Johansson, is the Chinese policy of builds stocks, which has been pushing up their stakeholding, even with this the Chinese market, “still continuing to import a lot of soybeans.”

With the market appearing to offer little consolation for producers, in the short term at least, how will they cope with low

incomes? Well according to Dr Johansson, cost per hectare is a “key consideration.” He also added that producers may also, “cut back on machinery purchases and repair” and they may be much more reserved with their overhead costs.

However, another aspect of the current situation is that overall farm debt will continue to increase, whilst delinquency rates on farm loans will go up slightly with cash rental rates falling, but only slowly, Dr Johansson added. This in turn will see a continued growth of Crop insurance schemes in the US, as well as “Higher prices for corn being driven by a lower price of soybean meal.”

Dr Johansson concluded his address by stating that the low price environment expected to continue “at least in near term,” whilst US plantings will be driven by “producers decisions on which crop will produce the best returns” (or lowest losses).

Mr Jens Schaps, EU grains supply and demand outlook Following Dr Johansson’s address, the next speaker to address the assembled delegates was Mr Jens Schaps, Director for Agricultural Markets, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission, EU. Mr Jens Schaps has worked for the commission of the European Union since 1983. All of which makes him the prefect choice to discuss his chosen topic “EU grains supply and demand outlook.”

In his address, Mr Schaps began by discussing how the international grains market was “a living sector,” with “grains all over the world,” adding that in recent years, “the industry

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has made great progress and we have all benefited from open markets.”

However, Mr Schapps did air on the side of caution with regards to the global cereals market, by stating that in recent years supply has exceeded demand and that this has in turn caused global cereal prices to fall, although in the EU prices have remained relatively competitive.

With regards to the EU’s cereals supply, Mr Schaps also added that there is a strong relationship between the levels of supply in the EU and the levels of production and imports have remained relatively low compared to production, “we in Europe are fortunate as our production levels do not fluctuate like they do elsewhere.”

Production is much greater within the EU, as the union is, “currently operating at a trade surplus of more than 30 million tonnes,” whilst already looking to reach last year’s production levels in the very near future.

However, the same cannot be said for soybeans as according to Mr Schaps, as the EU “currently import nearly half of our domestic usage of 48 million tonnes.”

Mr Schaps then added that we will all have to “think outside of the box,” in order to anticipate the big trends that are coming our way. These include the projection that, “overall agricultural land will shrink,” which Mr Schaps describes as, “an unavoidable global trend.” Overall, “the outlook is positive,” according to Mr Schaps, adding that “wheat is to stay number one in the EU, whilst all other cereals will lose out in terms of area used to common wheat, which will increase to 34 percent.”

“The EU is certainly a key player on global grains market, and thanks to high supply, EU cereals will remain competitive, environmental requirements may impact on crop protection in the EU.” Mr Li Xigui, (CNGOIC) China: Outlook for supply/demand and prices Mr Li Xigui is the Division Director of the Analysis and Forecast Department and Senior Economist at the China National Grain and Oils Information Centre (CNGOIC). Since 2015 he has focused on researching grain policy design and evaluation.

With an address that focused on China’s grain supply and demand price, Mr Li Xigui started by reminding delegates that, although their share of the market may have declined in recent years, China is still the “largest producer and exporter throughout the world and has been for quite a few years.”

According to Mr Li Xigui, China is now in, “a transition period caused by over supply of grain,” adding that, “China’s grain supply is much bigger than the demand in present and near future, which is driven by high import profit.”

What has caused the transition period the Mr Li mentions? Well, in his next point Mr Li described how he believes that 10 million people moving from rural communities into towns have caused it, meaning, “soybean area is decreasing as urbanisation is taking up a lot of space.”

As well as an increase in migration to urban areas, Mr Li also imparted that population growth had now, “hit a downward trend,” even though the single child policy has “stunted population growth” in the past.

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factor causing China’s increase in production are agricultural subsidies and in terms of rice, the implementation of minimum purchase price policy.

However, the outlook for Chinese corn is not looking quite so good. According to Mr Li, “corn growth area will reduce by 2.6 percent and yield is forecast down 0.5 percent,” adding that, “this year they will decrease in terms of supply and demand, however in 2015 and 2016 the import statistics of corn were quite conservative.”

One of the major issues that is affecting global wheat price, as referred to in the afternoon session by President of US Wheat Associates, Mr Alan Tracy, China has stored quite a lot of grain, as according to Mr Li, “the market is saturated.” However, one side effect is that China are under a great deal of stress, “as far as storage in concerned.”

To remedy this, Mr Li recommends reducing imports to boost domestic consumption, “recently we have started to release some of the stock. However the price is not high enough to stop imports. The government has been forced to increase the compulsory purchase price.” Mr Li also discussed the current demand for plant oil being quite strong – remarking that maybe china’s diet is not so healthy after all!

However, Mr Li stipulated that this could be down to the reduced corn price. Like wheat, China has also been storing oilseed for many years, in fact every season “100s of millions of tonnes,” are stored by the Chinese.

In order to instill a “clearer picture of the supply and demand in China,” Mr Li imparted that according to the data that he has at his disposal, “Soybean area and production are both currently decreasing,” in China, whilst imports of soybean are, “still on the rise as domestic production cannot meet domestic demand.”

However, the same statement can also be applied to the US market, which has also increased rapidly. This means that Brazil is still the number one exporter of soybeans; but US export to China is increasing, as China is one of the world’s largest soybeanprocessing centres.

Mr Li concluded his address by stating, “China’s current position and US currency are all factors in the current situation.

Soybean oil price has not increased but is higher than the same period last year.”

Session 1.2: The Impact of external factors on production and trade The second segment of the first session began with an address

by Dr Corey Cherr Head of Agriculture and Weather Research and Forecasts, Lanworth at Thomson Reuters, USA. Dr Cherr’s presentation, titled “Is it getting hot in here? Global weather & 2016 crop outlooks,” looked at the effects of weather on the global markets and how fluctuations in weather can lead to drastic differences in yield size and quality.

The final installment of the morning session was presented by Dr Rory Deverell, Senior Commodity Risk Manager, INTL-FC Stone, Ireland.

Dr Deverell’s presentation, “Trading and managing price risk in a world of known unknowns,” examined our role as risk managers and how this is to “make sense of the information available.”

“Your business is your castle defend it,” added Dr Deverell, with information being, “the best weapon for defending business.”

Before lunch, Ms Katy Lee of the International Grain Trade Coalition (IGTC) gave a short presentation on Electronic Documentation for International Trading.

SESSION 2: RECENT TRADE POLICY DEVELOPMENTS INCLUDING THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP) “An opportunity to be on the ground floor of a fair and balanced agreement” - Ms Fran Freeman The first of the afternoon session focused primarily on the recent trade policy developments; with the soon to be ratified Trans-Pacific Partnership taking real precedence. All speakers seemed incredibly optimistic about the futures of their respective organisations, with the need to keep people informed of policy changes also stressed quite frequently.

Teresa Babuscio, Secretary General COCERAL, Dynamics in Policy and Commerce for Grains Oilseed and agri-bulks Following a brief introduction from Senior IGC Economist James Fell, the afternoon session began in earnest with an address from COCERAL’s Secretary General, Teresa Babuscio I the absence of their President Mr Gary Martin who was absent die to illness.

Ms Babuscio joined COCERAL in 2007 as Policy Advisor in charge of food and safety issues, becoming Secretary General in 2010. Teresa is also responsible for Unistock Europe.

Beginning her address by discussing the benefits of implementing best practice, Ms. Babuscio described how, “increased demand for social and environmental issues, as well as market forces and global trends,” are both the key considerations when “operating conditions and business plans.” It is vital that establish what these are as “we need to operate within these conditions in order to create business values.”

One of the IGTC’s core business values is that they will always pursue partnerships with governmental bodies. Ms. Babuscio informed delegates that, “for-profit entities supporting IGTC are welcome to be identified as IGTC Corporate Stakeholders,” adding that they are also welcome to, “help guide our work.” Trade Associations and Councils working to support international trade of grains.

One example of this willingness to support comes in the form of the IGTC’s endorsement of the TPP

agreement. According to Ms. Babuscio, the TPP, “provides for the use of the most trade enabling and least trade distortive measures, while improving trade and official by addressing regulatory, preexport actions, actions at import, science and risk analysis audit and transparency.”

With the TPP’s endorsement from the IGTC, how has the agreement been received by those who look set to become the key players in the partnership?

Ms Fran Freeman: TTP: An Australian perspective.

One of the TPP’ s key players is Australia. Ms Fran Freeman is the First Assistant Secretary, Agricultural Policy Division for the Department for Agriculture and Water Resources, responsible for developing and coordinating policies aimed improving the profitability, competitiveness and sustainability of Australia’s

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agricultural and food industries; which puts her in the ideal position to commentate on Australia’s view of and role within the TPP. Ms Freeman began her address by stating that, “better utilisation of resources equals higher productivity.” So with this in mind, it’s not surprising that Australia are very much in favour of the TPP, which Ms. Freeman believes will offer, “enhanced trading opportunities,” as the 12 countries currently signed up to the partnership currently, “represent 36 percent of global GDP,” according to Ms. Freeman.

As the TPP has been built on the global rules in WTO, Ms Freeman believes that the partnership presents, “significant opportunities for Australian agriculture,” as, according to Ms Freeman, “34 percent of Australia’s 2014-15 goods exports worth around AUS$86 Billion went to 11 TPP countries.”

With the new market access opportunities that will be afforded by the TPP, more than “98 percent of trade tariffs” will be eliminated, and according to Ms Freeman, this will be a move towards resolving, “behind the border issues with better customs procedures,” and will implement, “mechanisms to address nontarrif barriers.”

“Australia sees these measures to be extremely beneficial to the world trading environment” according to Ms Freeman, who added that TPP, “offered potential forever increasing trading conditions.”

However, Ms Freeman concluded by stipulating that, “It is vital that everyone is aware of the details of the trade agreement,” adding that the nature of the partnership presents, “a really comprehensive model” for the future to come.

Of the twelve nations that have been heavily involved with drawing up the details of TPP, Australia have certainly been one of the foremost architects. However, another key contributor has been Japan.

Mr Masanori Hayashi: An assessment of the TTP – From the perspective of an importing country and trade rules Presenting the Japanese view on TPP was Masanori Hayashi.

A senior researcher at the Organisation for regional and InterRegional Studies at Waseda University, Mr Hayashi has also published numerous reports and books on agricultural/food related GATT/WTO rules and their relationship with the regional trade agreements. All of which more than qualifies Mr Hayashi to discuss the proposed TPP from a Japanese perspective.

“Japan is highly dependent on TPP countries for the supply of grains,” began Mr Hayashi, “TPP provisions on food security, plant quarantine and food safety, modern biotechnology, geographical indications,” were also very attractive prospects within the partnership.

However, Mr Hayashi also stated that it is of vital importance that the Japanese government seize the opportunity, “to communicate the TTP with its citizens transparently.”

Is the TPP a model for future trade agreements? Well, according to MR Hayashi the answer to this question is no, as it does not, “a new type of trade agreement which will go beyond WTO trade rules” On the topic of the Chances of Japan signing a Fair Trade Agreement with the EU, Mr Hayashi stated that, “the Japanese government’s policy is to expand; not only TPP but also other areas –such as EU.” Mr Hayashi also added that the current situation is, “really complicated, as it is very difficult to predict.”

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Mr Hayashi concluded his address by stating that, one issue facing the establishing a global FTA, is that he believes that to “integrate all of these spaghetti balls,” would be very difficult.

Other than those who are currently signed up to join the TPP, there are other countries that have expressed a desire to join the agreement.

Mr Jesus Silveyra: New perspectives for Argentina’s grain sector Mr Jesus Silveyra is a Business Administration Graduate with more than 35 years experience working in the public and private agricultural sector, mainly in production, logistics, implementation, quality control and trading.

Mr Silveyra began his address by discussing Argentina’s current image on the international stage and how it had been bad– “but the current government is trying to recover it.” In economic terms, Argentina has recently exited default and their agricultural industry has made impressive progress already, since the introduction of new policies, Argentinian wheat and corn exports “133 and 91 percent respectively.”

But how have they achieved this? Mr Slveyra told delegates that he believes that the releasing of export quotas had “created extortion in local markets.” However, the current administration, only taxes export on soybeans.

Other policies have also made a huge impact in Argentina.

Public service strategies have been implemented, which include a whole raft of targets for the country to achieve by 2020. These schemes, such as ‘Plan Belgrano’ for the improvement of rail and roads, also includes the establishment of free trade, a 50 percent increase in and oil seeds production and a 20 percent increase in dairy production.

Looking to the future, Mr Silveyra stated that in future Argentina has every intention of signing trade agreements, “our intention is to approach TPP and we will also sign trade agreement with the EU.” The conclusion of the second session was followed by a short break for refreshments.

SESSION 3: TRADE AND LOGISTICS

The third and final session, moderated by Nathan Kemp, Senior Economist IGC, focused on trade and logistics. The key themes of this session were global expansion, respecting the past as well as making plans fir an uncertain future. Respecting consumer integrity, the malevolent impact of legislation and how countries are adjusting their policies to adapt to an ever-changing landscape.

Mr Arkady Zlochevskiy, Grain market scenario and trade outlook for Russia: Major challenges and opportunities Arkady Zlochevsky is the President of the Russian Union and Chairman of its board of directors. He is also a member of the Council on Agriculture and the Advisory Council on Agriculture.

Mr Zlochevsky began his address by informing delegates that this year, Russian agriculture is, “facing another record year,” with corn exports increasing to 4890 metric tonnes, compared with = 12, 000 metric tonnes in 2002/2003.

However, Mr Zlochevsky then went on to discuss how, “30 years ago Russia was the world’s greatest consumer of grain – the Soviet Union brought in 50 million tonnes a year.” Since this fruitful episode, Russia’s competitors have begun to enjoy a great deal of success in markets that had been previously dominated

by Russia, such as Egypt, with “this success is a direct consequence of sanctions,” according to Mr Zlochevsky.

Russia is adapting to this situation, Russia now measures profitability per hectare rather than per tonne. This small tweak has seen their most recent compound annual growth rate projection well ahead of global trends; with the main driving force being, “low production costs.”

However, Mr Zlochevsky warned against becoming too fixated with low production costs, as “Affluent people want to buy cheap things but cheap things are a brake on progress. We must protect the interests of consumers by not supplying cheap alternatives.”

That said, Russia’s growth is currently well ahead of world trends, despite the fact that they are currently heavily sanctioned due to events in the recent past. With regards to the aforementioned sanctions, Mr Zlochevsky believes that the “question is not if, but when sanctions will be lifted.”

Mr Zlochevsky concluded his address by sharing his view that Russia, “are seen as a threat to our competitors as we, as Russia is so competitive. It will be in the interests of our competitors to impose as many restrictions as possible in order to maintain their market share.”

One country that has recently been in conflict more directly than others recently is Turkey, although their wheat trade has remained continuous.

Mr Günhan Ulusoy: Milling industry and trade perspectives Following the conclusion of Mr Zlochevsky’ address, the next speaker to address those assembled was Mr Günhan Ulusoy. In May 2015, Mr Ulusoy was appointed chairman of the Board of the Turkish Flour Industrialists Federation (TFIF). He is also currently the Chairman of Ulusoy Un Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S. All of which places him in a very good position to discuss the current trade and logistics situation in Turkey.

Mr Ulusoy began by stressing the importance of “appreciating our history,” as it “helps us understand our present and our future.” However in the present, “25 percent of Turkish population is currently employed in agriculture – worth US$6 billion.”

In Turkey, wheat is currently the biggest crop, and of the seven regions, Central Antalia is the most productive, with “21.8 million tonnes in 2008 compared with 22.6 million tonnes last year,” according to Mr Ulusoy, who added that this is a, “remarkable increase of corn from year to year.”

The Turkish government does offer some assistance to its agricultural industry, they industry also enjoys a lot of protection from Turkish Grain Board (TMO). In fact, in 2014 TMO purchased 12.5 million tonnes according to Mr Ulusoy “but there was a bumper crop in 2015.” Government intervention also saw the region of SE Antolia’s yield increase, “from 1 to 2 million tonnes due to the culmination of an irrigation project.”

In terms of exports, Kazakhstan are still Turkey’s main export market, although they do export to over 100 countries worldwide, including the far east, where some importers are starting to import more from Turkey.

In order to survive, countries need to adapt. Citing the examples of Italy and the UK, “Italian millers lost their market

share, whereas the UK consolidated their position by partnering with supermarkets.” However, more commonly, Mr Ulusoy told delegates that, “as margins get tighter, the industry will look at ways of making profits.”

As the global market landscape changes, nations must adapt their policies to ensure they are able to remain competitive. A prime example of a nation that has adapted is the USA. Mr Alan Tracy: The changing landscape of world wheat trade The final speaker of the final session was Mr Alan Tracy, President US Wheat Associates. As President, Mr Tracey coordinates the global export market development program for US Wheat Associates. He also maintains close contact with trade and government representitives, the US Department of Agriculture and other partner organisations to promote all six classes of wheat in more than 100 countries around the world.

US wheat leads trade but the trend in soybean suggests that the market is expanding rapidly. “Wheat is real food for real people,” and according to Mr Tracy, “wheat is more complex, more sensible and other than the politics – more fun!” Market decisions are smarter than political decisions Currently, the US exports 17.9 million MT to Africa and Middle East. However, the US market share has been greatly reduced by Russia’s rise, which Mr Tracy describes as being “volatile” and “driven by weather and political decisions.”

This change in the landscape has greatly affected US imports.

According to Mr Tracy’s statistics, in 1985 – “90 million MT,” compared with “15 million MT” in 2011; a move that he refers to as a “dramatic change.”

However, the US has adapted to this shift in the markets by raising 12 million MT in new business with, “quality buyers.”

According to Mr Tracy, “US wheat is no longer an agricultural commodity – now an ingredient and is generating more cash per mega tonne.” Evidence of this can be seen in a recent large purchase of US flour by South Korea, as according to Mr Tracy, “it is a high quality, highly desired product.”

The weather of course another key consideration, although Mr Tracy did provide delegates with an optimistic forecast for this year, “we should experience a dry August in North America, which will have a significant impact on the landscape.”

On that subject of the current economic landscape, Mr Tracy then referred to several studies that discussed how there is “a lot of evidence available” of global markets being distorted by wheat support prices in China that are, “well above market levels.”

Mr Tracy then drew delegate’s attention to the loan rate figure; which is an indicator of “supports in certain countries,” with some soaring well above WTO limits, including China, India, Brazil and Turkey, with the impact country by country being over US$1 billion less in revenue.

Mr Tracy concluded his address by stating that, “US volume share is down but value share is up,” adding that, “domestic support in China and other countries is now the biggest distortion of production.”

The conference was then closed by Etsuo Kitahara who thanked delegates for attending an “interesting and enlightening day” and invited everyone to next year’s Conference on Tuesday 6th June 2017.

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PACE 2016 will be held from Tuesday 13th September to Friday 16th September at the Rennes Exhibition Centre, France.

Created in 1987 at the initiative of the Chambers of Agriculture, in collaboration with the Rennes Exhibition Centre, SPACE promotes innovation by showcasing the technical and technological solutions that farmers and all livestock sectors need to compete and improve their working conditions.

Now the industryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second largest global expo, SPACE is also a source of new prospects, new ideas and new directions to help build the future and improve the visibility and confidence of an industry that plays a vital role in feeding humanity.

Its location at the heart of a large farming region in Europe, its professional status and its international scale are the major keys to success that have cemented its reputation and made it a leading industry expo.

Numerous Exhibitors

At the last count, 1,262 exhibitors have registered from 37 countries including 136 new exhibitors. The different sectors will all be represented at the Expo: animal feed, poultry, cattle and energy; with feed enjoying the greatest exhibitor increase from last year.

There will large numbers of exhibitors present again, even though the EuroTier Expo will be held in Hanover in November. This reflects SPACEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ability to attract livestock professionals and has earned a well- deserved reputation as a fun, international professional trade show where participants enjoy unique, top-quality interactions.

The 30th Expo - a special focus

To mark the thirtieth anniversary, SPACE is launching a new visual to further strengthen its image as a longstanding international professional trade show.

A new version of the website was launched early in the year to provide even more online services to their exhibitors and visitors.

The new version offers a more lively presentation and features more illustrations, photos and videos.

The hundred or so exhibitors present this year who were also present in 1987 will be given a special distinction.

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Industry events Cereals 2016: Innovation and technology in the shadow of a looming storm

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ttracting visitors in search of information on new products, practical advice and insight into industry issues, Cereals, the UK’s leading arable technical event took place at Chrishall Grange in Cambridgeshire on June 15 – 16.

With over 500 exhibitors, the 24,000 visitors took full advantage of the networking opportunities with both new and existing suppliers. On the first day alone, over 1,200 tickets were scanned in

the first 20 minutes of the gates opening.

The Duxford fields were awash with the latest technological advances, all crammed into row after row of industry relevant companies; including manufacturers demonstrating an impressive array of new precision technology, and a plethora of exhibitors demonstrating the benefits of their disease resistant chemicals. All of which afforded farmers and their advisors with the opportunity to drive up both their efficiency and productivity.

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“Difficult times stimulate change,” according to Cereals Event Director Jon Day, but “with change comes opportunity, which often requires taking difficult decisions and altering the status quo.”

“Visitors to Cereals seek the agronomic information, market insight and product knowledge that will ensure their businesses are sustainable now and in the future.”

This year boasted two very different but equally innovative new features; the AgHawk Drone Zone and the Soil Pit “We are excited to be pushing the boundaries, and being the first agricultural event to offer hands on interactions with drones,” stated Mr Day, adding that, “Both the Soil Pit and Drone Zone demonstrated the impact that knowledge can have on crops and farm productivity.”

Expert advice on variety, risk and growth One of the highlights of this year’s show were the regular 45-minute crop tours organised by AHDB. Featuring a selection of handpicked experts who specialise in cultivation, distilling or horticulture, the crop tour discussed the various risk factors involved with growing various varieties of cereal crops in the current climate, as well as the preventative measures that farmers could take to manage this level of risk. Following the tour, members of the audience were invited to ask questions.

The looming storm Hosted by the Oxford Farming Conference, arguably the busiest event of the two-day show was the Brexit debate. Packed into the Arable Conference marquee and spilling out onto the busy thoroughfare outside, was an audience in excess of 500 who not only listened keenly to both sides of the debate, and then participated fully in the ensuing debate with many asking very passionate and direct questions.

At the conclusion of the debate, each participant was given a voting slip – and asked to leave by the ‘remain’ or ‘leave’ – the results were in keeping with other polls done on the day, with an overwhelming 64 percent voting in favour of leaving the EU. In 2017, the Cereals event moves to its other home of Boothby Graffoe in Lincolnshire. With an expected 25,000 arable industry professionals, 500 businesses and organisations, 100 working demos of cultivations and drilling equipment sprayers and machinery, 5.65ha of growing crops; with a conference that brings together industry leaders, next year’s event will take place on 14-15 June.

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he conjoint exposition of the Poultry Information Exchange (PIX) and Australasian Milling Conference (AMC) 2016 was held at the Gold Coast Convention and Exhibition Centre in Queensland, Australia, from Sunday-through-Tuesday, May 29-31, 2016.

“Sustainability – Key concepts for our future” was the theme for the event this time around, a theme well represented not only in the selection of technical presentations but also amongst attendee conversations and exhibiting companies’ products.

The biannual Australian event AMC is the leading conference for feed and flour millers. AMC 2016 was its 14th edition and drew delegates from Australia, New Zealand, the South Pacific and South East Asia.

PIX held its 27th edition of what is known as the premier industry event of the poultry industry calendar in Australia.

While the combined shows attracted over 1500 attendees predominantly from the Asia-Pacific region it also attracted visitors from around the world.

Over the three days I visited many stalls and spoke to a number of AMC exhibitors. It was not surprising to learn that the majority of them had been coming for many years, even before the amalgamation with PIX.

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Above: Drinks and networking prior to the AMC welcome dinner Below: Opening day at the exhibition hall

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Broadbeach is conveniently located between two major airports that offer extensive international and domestic services, with the Gold Coast Airport being just a 30 minute drive away.

When in the Gold Coast there are many easy-to-use public services available including trains, buses, taxis and ferries and,

if you prefer, it seemed as though the area was quite hire-car friendly too.

However, I found that when I made it to Broadbeach that the convention centre, the pristine white sand beach, restaurants, the malls and a multitude of accommodation options were all within a 10-minute walk of each other and so such transport was unnecessary outside of travelling to and from the airports.

In fact the exhibition goers that chose to walk were easily recognizable with their PIX AMC lanyards, offering the opportunity to converse prior to arrival.

While of course it is not critical to a successful show, having the venue located in such an attractive area, with so many entertainment options never hurts, especially in the case of PIX/AMC which opened on a Sunday.

With plenty of quality entertainment options nearby, outside of the conference hours there was plenty to keep attendees busy, whether networking with industry members out at dinner or taking some time out on the beach.

Above: Conference dinner Below: Crazy wigs and good times at the conference dinner

AMC Welcome Dinner

On the opening Sunday evening there were two welcome dinners, one for PIX and the other for AMC, which I attended.

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Wayne Burnes (left), Mark Burnes (centre) , and Francesco Piacintini (right) at the Milling Process Services stand (representing Golfetto Sangati in Australia)

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James Lang (left) and Jon Dalziel (centre) of AGCO Australia, and John Manning (right) of Keogh at the GSI stand

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mingled with drinks for about an hour before proceeding through to the dining hall. It was an excellent opportunity to meet new members of the industry – which was valuable for me - and for others to catch up with old friends.

Alapala and Satake were the proud sponsors of the AMC Welcome Dinner, and it was a great night with a number of awards being presented, one of which was the Stock Feed Manufacturers Council of Australia (SFMCA) 2016 Development Award.

The SFMCA Development Award is made to participants in the stock feed industry who have been recognised as having the potential to become future industry leaders. The Development Award recognises winners from each of the five State Stock Feed Manufacturers’ Associations.

The recipients would go on a study tour with John Spragg, who is the Director & Executive Officer at JCS Solutions & SFMCA. The tour award recipients would visit a number of feedmills, raw material sites and suppliers.

One of the recipients had the following comments to make on behalf of the recipient group, “Thank you to the Stock Feed Manufacturers Society for giving us the opportunity to receive this award, this is a fantastic opportunity for the five of us.

“It is one of those things where when you are working for a company you can see your own mills and that within your own business, but it is very rare that you get the chance to get out into the industry and see how other businesses do it.

“We recognise the great opportunity and experience we will get in being able to see different feedmills, different businesses and different pre-mix plants. It is about getting better ideas on how we can further develop the stockfeed industry, this goal will only

be achieved through collaboration.”

The ATMA (Australian Technical Millers Association) Young Achiever Award 2016 was also presented. Paul Martin of AusPac Ingredients presented the award.

“The purpose of the ATMA Young Achiever award is to give technical millers the opportunity to take a life-changing tour of the world,” he said.

“Allowing the winner to plan their own personal trip ensures that they have the opportunity to pursue things that they are passionate about and that they want to see.

“It is basically the perfect training tool for free.

“The ATMA’s focus is on technical millers for the future and is the reason why we are so pleased to offer this Aus$12,000 award to the winner, and together with that prize Buhler have also given the winner a place in a two-week milling course at their training school in Switzerland.”

(left to right) Claus Martinsen, Steen Frydkjaer, Gordon Spurrel, Martin Liese, Jens Vinther Jensen and Adrian Navie at the Skiold and VMS stand

Daniel Stalker (left) and Simon Kirkman (right) at the FOSS Australia stand

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Supportive environment

One of the stand-out aspects of this event for me was the level of comfort the event organisers and caterers had managed to muster.

All of the staff I dealt with were courteous and friendly.

With the combination of a clearly-communicated and professional schedule running to time, delicious snacks and lunches were served frequently and then cleared away promptly, and ample networking space available outside of the stands, industry members could not ask for a better environment for networking and doing business.

Oh yes, and I must not forget to mention the many selfservice coffee machines that were littered around the showroom floor that everyone appreciated.

(left to right) Justin Xu, Roman Rajcany, Lin Chen, Torsten Rohrbeck, and Yuanjie Fu at the Buhler stand

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Plenary sessions begun Monday morning, with the first few being the most notable presentations for me.

The opening presentation by Rob Cumine, the agriculture manager for Cole’s Supermarket Australia, discussed Coles’ sustainable and interactive approach to the marketplace.

This was followed by a presentation from Grain Growers Australia, senior economist, and Trade and Market Access manager, Dr Cheryl Kalisch Gordon.

This was especially relevant for me as she gave an excellent introduction to grain farm market consolidation and trends over the past five years in Australia. Dr Kalisch Gordon also briefly discussed each trade agreement with implications to the Australian grain market. Also relevant to Milling and Grain magazine was her final discussion around the grain yield increase rate of Australia and how it is relatively slow when matched up against the North American and European production.

Another stand-out session for me was ‘Sustainability as it relates to food and feed; it was chaired by AMC and SFMCA Chairman David Bray and offered a holistic view to multiple facets of sustainability.

The following presentations were given by experts in their fields: World animal protein requirements and challenges for sustainable milling, a feed perspective; recycling opportunities and challenges; generational change in the Australian agribusiness sector – implications for the future, sustainable health for rural communities.

As the titles infer the presentations offered insight into difficulties and solutions related to sustainability we are currently faced with or will be faced with, and some of which were from the perspective of those within the feed industry and some from without.

It was during the hour-long panel discussion following the presentations however, that attendees were able to realise just how equally critical each of speakers fields were to the future success of our sector.

(left to right) Guy Talbot, Wayne Bradshaw, Rosemarie Bradshaw, and Loise Morneau at the Jefo stand

John Williams (left) and Chris McLean (right) at the Essmueller Australia stand

Successful trade show and conference

After speaking to exhibitors throughout the event it is safe to say that the majority of them considered the visitors to be high quality with many reporting a good number of enquiries. One comment I received on multiple occasions was that exhibitors were surprised with the turnout on the opening Sunday, when typically numbers don’t usually pick up so soon.

Overall, most attendees I spoke to were pleased with how the show went. PIX/AMC offered a unique environment in this part of the world for business interactions and information sharing. This might not have been as professional without the support of sponsors.

There were 50 in total supporting the conjoint-event which included Platinum Sponsors -Aviagen, Safe:Food and Santrev. There were too many to mention all here but for us in milling we applaud and recognize MAG supporters who at Gold level included – Alapala, Satake, Jefo, Andritz, Buhler, Sefar, Skov and Elanco; at Silver level - Biomin, Alltech and Perten and at Bronze level – Novus and Evonik.

Thank you all for a great event!

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Ismail Kemalo˘glu

Mr. Ismail Kemalog ˘ lu graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Political Science and began his career as an auditor at the Turkish Court of Auditors. Following this, he worked as General Manager at the Turkish Grain Board (TMO), Deputy Secretary of the Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock, General Director of the Turkish Meat and Milk Board, manager of food companies in the private sector and Head of the Inspection Board of the Ministry of Food Agriculture and Livestock. It could be said that Mr. Kemalog ˘ lu has worked on ‘both sides of the table’, and it is thanks to this opportunity to work with different institutions and organisations that he can claim a more nuanced understanding of agricultural stakeholders – making assessments on many subjects such as the growth of agriculture, expectations of farmers, market analysis and sectoral dynamics in terms of the industry and traders. As Mr. Kemalog ˘ lu was Deputy Director General and Director General of TMO between 2003-2008, he has prior knowledge of TMO and its field of activities. With his new duties at the Turkish Grain Board, he aims to make a positive contribution to the sector by moving the institution forward.

This is your second term as the General Manager of the Turkish Grain Board, have you seen many changes in the industry since you were last in charge?

Turkish grain production, which was 28.8 million tons in 2008, has increased regularly since, and reached 38.7 million tons in 2015. Our total export product (wheat flour, pasta, bulgur wheat, semolina and biscuits) increased from 1.7 million tons to 4.1 million tons in line with the increase in production.

Our finished product export destinations include more than 100 countries - mainly Iraq, Middle East and North African Countries. I observed that it has been a consolidation period in the sector; diversification in the product range, development in bakery products by different concepts such as pitta bread, pastry, lahvash rather than bread, the significant growth in the livestock sector.

Founded in 1938, initially the Turkish Grain Board was formed to deal with wheat affairs, ie. to prevent abnormal decreases or increases in wheat prices, and to protect and regulate the wheat industry. Nearly 80 years on, what are the current challenges faced by the Turkish Grain Board, and what are your present aims and objectives?

TMO is a regulatory institution. First, farmers need to sell their products at a reasonable price for the sustainability of production, and for that reason their basic needs also need to be resolved with the harvest. Two basic needs; storage and financing. The issue, which forced TMO for many years, is that the storage infrastructure of the market couldn’t come to the desired point. For this reason, dissemination of licensed warehousing is intended.

Among other things, the mandate of the Turkish Grain Board in 1938 was “to establish milling facilities and bakeries in locations to be determined”. Did this occur and how did that requirement lead to the milling industry Turkey has today?

TMO contributed to the development of the sector by establishing a bread production facility and flour-mill within the institution, as well as by participating in private sector investments to lead the flour and bread sector in our country.

TMO withdrew from these activities in time.

Also, another key mandate was to organise and manage grain storage. How has this impacted the development of grain storage in Turkey and the overall development of the Turkish milling industry?

TMO led the grain sector with its accumulation of knowledge, experience and modern storage capacity of 4.5 million tons.

The developing private sector has started building its own grain silos to meet raw material needs and reduce external dependence for that. On the other hand, TMO leads the sector for licensed warehousing which will provide many benefits for producers, traders and industrialists.

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Within this scope, “TMO-TOBB Agricultural Products Licensed Warehousing Joint Stock Company”, which was established by the partnership of TMO and TOBB (Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges), started its activities in 2010. TMO carries out its activities with the sector in order to enhance and promote licensed warehousing.

Turkey is a major importer of wheat and other cereals and a major exporter of flour and milled products. How has this come about and what is the future development for the industry in this area of activity?

Turkey is not a net importer of wheat for domestic market needs. Turkey imports for the export of finished products. On average, our country’s wheat production has been 21 million tons and wheat domestic consumption has been 20 million tons in the past 5 years. Therefore, our wheat production usually offsets domestic consumption but we import wheat in order to supply raw materials for the exportation of finished products. The degree of sufficiency for maize in our country is about 85 percent. The sector’s need for raw materials has increased along with the developing industry and evergrowing finished product exportation. Industrialists have gained important markets in the international market. This momentum will continue to increase.

Turkey has a long-term goal of becoming a member of the European Union. Is the grain industry, its production, procurement and processing industries, operating within existing European policies or are there some areas, such as support and subsidies for instance, that have to be further aligned?

TMO prepared Grain and Paddy Rice Implementing Regulations in the scope of harmonisation with the European Union (EU) legislation and these regulations came into force in the 2009/10 purchasing period. As of this date, we have carried out purchasing activities in compliance with the EU standards. The progress reports that were prepared

by EU Commission stated that the TMO’s regulations for EU harmonisation were seen as progress by Common Market organisations.

What do you think is next for the Turkish Grain Industry, where do you see it progressing?

Our grain industry has a high potential for development when the fact of its closeness both to the raw material sources and finished product importing countries is taken into consideration. For instance, the mixed feed sector, which is a bridge between plant and animal production, has increased 169 percent in the past 10 years and reached 20 million tons (2 percent of global production). Besides, our market diversity has increased in the recent years (such as wheat exports to 120 countries and pasta exports to 145 countries). We foresee an increase in our exports to countries other than Middle East and North African Countries with favorable conditions.

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Bunge announces retirement of CFO Drew Burke

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unge Limited announced that Drew Burke, Chief Financial Officer, is retiring effective December 31, 2016. The company plans to name a successor before the end of the year, and is conducting a search that will consider both internal and external candidates. “For the past 14 years and in several roles, Drew has made great contributions to Bunge’s growth and success,” said Soren Schroder, CEO, Bunge Limited.

Drew Burke

“As CFO, he has helped create shareholder value by driving efficient portfolio management, financial discipline and prudent allocation of capital. His financial expertise, deep knowledge of the business and strong leadership have made him a highly valued advisor and member of our team. We wish him all the best in his retirement.”

Mr Burke said “I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished as a team at Bunge over the past 14 years. This was a difficult personal decision for me, as it’s an exciting time for the company. I’ll be staying on until the end of the year to assure a smooth transition, and am confident that with the strategic plan and talented team we have, Bunge will capitalise on excellent growth opportunities ahead.” Mr Burke was named Chief Financial Officer in February 2011, having served as interim Chief Financial Officer since September 2010. He joined Bunge in 2002 as Managing Director, Soy Ingredients and New Business Development. Previously, he was CEO of the US subsidiary of Degussa AG and worked for Beecham Pharmaceuticals and Price Waterhouse & Company.

Pinnacle Foods Inc names Mark A Clouse Chief Executive Officer and Director of the Board

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n 27 April Pinnacle Foods Inc’s Board of Directors named Mark A Clouse as the Company’s new Chief Executive Officer, effective May 23, 2016, replacing Bob Gamgort, who left the Company at the end of April. Mr Clouse will also serve on the Company’s Board.

Mr Clouse, 47, is currently Chief Commercial Officer at Mondelez International, Inc, where he has held a broad range of leadership positions involving iconic brands such as Oreo, Nabisco, Cadbury and Trident during his 20-year tenure at Kraft Foods Inc and the subsequent spin-off of Mondelez.

In his current role, Mr Clouse oversees the company’s commercial execution for all of its five geographic regions, as well as the global sales function. Prior to this, he was Chief Growth Officer for Mondelez, where he was responsible for the company’s growth strategy and oversaw key areas such as corporate strategy, global marketing, global sales, and research, development and quality. In addition, during his tenure, Mr Clouse also led smaller, entrepreneurial businesses in emerging markets, such as China and Brazil, and held leadership roles involving the integration of acquisitions. Before joining Kraft Foods Inc, Mr Clouse served in the United States Army as a pilot and completed his service as a Captain. He is a graduate of the US Military Academy at West Point, with a degree in economics.

Mark A Clouse

Executive assistant joins US Wheat Associates in Taipei

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S Wheat Associates (USW) has hired Fiona Lee as Executive Assistant and Accountant in the organisation’s office in Taipei, Taiwan. Ms Lee will train with long-time Office Manager/ Accountant Serena C Wu, who plans to retire later in 2016. USW is the export market development organisation for the US wheat industry.

“Fiona’s work experience ranges from financial project management to legal matters and translation needs,” said Matt Weimar, USW’s Regional Vice President for South Asia.

“These are strong assets that will certainly benefit the US wheat farmers we represent and our industry and government partners in Taiwan.”

“We knew we had a difficult job to eventually replace Serena Wu,” said Ronald L J Lu, USW’s Country Director for Taiwan.“Serena has served this organisation and our customers faithfully for more than 38 years.

With her guidance over the next several months, though, we are sure Fiona will be well prepared for another long and successful tenure with US Wheat Associates.” Ms Lee comes to USW after serving as a clerk and English secretary at a Taipei law firm and as an executive assistant at Henkel Taiwan, a large industrial products company. She worked as an investment manager with Uni-President and at the consulting firm KPMG Taipei she served on corporate finance teams related to merger and acquisition projects as well as in corporate finance risk management. Ms Lee has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from National Cheng-Chi University, Taipei, and a master’s degree in finance from George Washington University, Washington, DC. She is fluent in Mandarin and English.

Fiona Lee

Gabriel García appointed CEO of Nutreco Iberia

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utreco has appointed Gabriel García as the new CEO of its business unit Nutreco Iberia.

He takes over this position from Javier Rodríguez, who passed away last week. Mr García currently leads Skretting Chile, one of Nutreco´s largest operating companies, and will take up his new position as of 1 September 2016.

As part of his new position, Gabriel García will also join the Nutreco Executive Committee. During the intervening period, CFO Angel Martinez Aso will oversee the management of Nutreco Iberia, together with the existing management team.

Gabriel García

Gabriel García has a degree in forest engineering and holds an MBA. He has been general manager of Skretting Chile for the past 7 years.

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