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OPTIMISED LONG TERM GRAIN STORAGE • From ancient grains to superfoods • Pasta - a miller’s legacy • NSP-enzymes to reduce poultry feed costs • Optimal synergy in feed • Silo maintenance • IAOM MEA 2017

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You need silo maintenance most when you don’t think you need it at all

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS NEWS FEATURES

48 Bring back neglected cereals - From ancient grains to superfoods

54 Pasta: a miller’s legacy

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58 Discussing antioxidant strategies and Selenium yeast production secrets

62 The history of brewing and rice milling for sake

124 People news from the global milling industry

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66 Dietary potassium diformate 70 NSP-enzymes to reduce poultry feed costs 74 Optimal synergy 78 “Wheat, Flour and...” Part 2

102 Event listings, reviews and previews

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86 You need silo maintenance most when you don’t think you need it at all

90 Optimised longterm grain storage

TRAINING

44 Food safety training in animal production

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14 Mildred Cookson 18 Raghavan Sampathkumar 31 Tom Blacker 38 Chris Jackson

4 GUEST EDITOR Barbara Kraft

96 MARKETS Zasha Whiteway-Wilkinson

122 INTERVIEW Walid Ali Mohamed Saeed

COVER IMAGE: Inside a DomeSilo - For efficient and economical grain storage, a dome provides the best in protection and the largest storage capacity. See full story on page 90

ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS CEREALS Bring back neglected cereals

Why should we work with ancient cereals? We are working together with private plant breeders in Germany and a small part of our work is with ancient cereals.

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PASTA Pasta - a millers legacy

Many years ago as a young farmer I won a competition for growing the best durum (semolina) wheat in Europe.

It was a pleasing result because the often-wet British weather is not the most conducive to producing quality wheat, as many UK farmers will testify.

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DOMESILO OPTIMISED LONG-TERM GRAIN STORAGE

How DomeSilos allow an economical and reliable solution for long-term grain storage

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The history of brewing and rice milling for sake

MAINTENANCE You need silo maintenance most when you don’t think you need it at all

The efficiency of a plant’s operation depends in part on how effectively the plant’s storage vessels are working.

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Our agriculture started with sake brewing. People offered harvested rice, sake and rice cake to the gods.

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Brabender GlutoPeak optimises receipt of goods at Wiesneth Mühle

Impact of dietary potassium diformate

Sustaining growth rate and optimal feed efficiency in pigs is key to their economic performance through to market.

In the milling industry, being able to determine the quality of raw materials is fundamental.

Being able to test them is an essential task.

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POULTRY SORTER Bühler’s SORTEX B optical sorter

Stone milling has a ‘taste of ancient values’ and the flour is believed to be more digestible.

Bühler increases the maximum output of its optical sorters for grain applications.

The SORTEX B range is now available with six or seven sorting channels. Depending on the configuration, the SORTEX B7 sorts up to 48 tonnes of cereals per hour.

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BIOSTONE MILL The ‘taste’ of the ‘BioStone’ mill

NSP-enzymes to reduce poultry feed costs

The anti-nutritive activities of soluble and insoluble Non-StarchPolysaccharides (NSP-fibre) are eliminated effectively by supplementation of NSPmulti-enzymes into pig and poultry feed.

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PAGE 66 FEED INTAKE Optimal synergy

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Few things more valuable than investing in employees With change being a constant in the grain industry, having the right people with proper skills to respond is a constant challenge. With shifting economic and regulatory pressures, it is more important now than ever to make sure we are investing in our employees. Pairing professional development programmes with our in-house training tools is a great way to ensure employees have the skills to keep our industry running smoothly as we work to safely and sustainably feed the world.

From a company’s point of view, there are many compelling reasons to invest in professional development programmes.

Supporting our employees’ continuing education boosts employee recruitment and retention efforts and provides outstanding candidates for internal promotions. By mapping out a path to building crucial job skills, we can prepare our teams and business enterprise for sustainable success. Our employees will benefit from increased confidence, credibility and job satisfaction. Increasing our teams’ job knowledge also improves safety and effectively boosts the bottom line.

As International president of GEAPS, I am thrilled about the wide variety of training programmes members have developed for our industry. Since 2005 we have been evolving our continuing education program with Kansas State University as a strategic partner, to add online distance education courses. In 2012 we introduced the first formal credential in grain handling operations management. With the success of the programme, we saw a need for a similar option for grain processing professionals and introduced the Credential in Grain Processing Management a couple years ago. The success of these programmes is directly attributable to our industry’s recognition that investment in human asset development is a critical and high-value business strategy.

Credentials are a great opportunity for our employees. Earning credentials shows a commitment to building job skills and continual improvement. As employers, we benefit from having team members who are well equipped to keep our facilities running efficiently, and who are aware of best practices from across the industry. To date, seven individuals have earned GEAPS’ Credential in Grain Processing Management and 188 credentials have been earned overall.

The programme currently offers 25 peer-reviewed online

courses to help build the skills of our peers and colleagues. The flexible nature of the online program makes it an outstanding option for grain industry professionals regardless of geography and time zone. Lectures and coursework are available online at any time over a five-week period. It is also a tremendous career-development resource for employees who haven’t earned a related college degree.

In addition to distance learning, GEAPS offers a number of in-person training options. At the Exchange, our annual international technical conference and exposition, we offer nearly 40 hours of educational programming, including a number of sessions on topics of specific interest to grain processing operations professionals. Between the education sessions and exposition, employees can learn about the latest trends in the industry, and check out the newest innovations in equipment, services and technology solutions and operations best practices.

It exposes them to a global cross-section of the industry, and provides an opportunity to network with peers and suppliers to address developing and emerging issues.

Our new Hands-On Training (HOT) Program at Kansas State University, debuting this December will teach preventative maintenance and repair of common grain conveying equipment.

This innovative programme will give attendees practical, hands-on experience in real-world equipment. This thorough, interactive engagement is rare in our industry, and we are very close to selling out the initial offering.

GEAPS members lead the development all of these programmes, leveraging the collective knowledge of the grain industry and often the academic expertise of Kansas State University and other leading universities.

There are many benefits to supporting our employees’ professional development. Our industry has an ever-increasing demand for continual improvements in safety and efficiency.

Having the right people with critical skills is essential to any effective response to change in our industry. Developing our human assets is a mission-critical strategy as we look to attract and retain the right employees. It is very exciting for me to work with an organisation that provides so many opportunities to make a positive difference.

Barbara Kraft Director of compensation and benefits, Landus Cooperative International President, Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS)

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Embedding a digital footprint Milling and Grain go multi-platform

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illing and Grain was first published as ‘Milling’ in 1891, and today it is the oldest, still-in print magazine servicing the milling industry worldwide.

Milling and Grain magazine has taken action towards becoming the digital media leader by releasing a partnering app, available on both android and iOS devices.

You can download the app for free on the Google Play store by entering in “Milling and Grain” and the same for the App Store.

Every second edition of Milling and Grain is published and printed in French, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese and Turkish and these digital versions are available in PDF format on the app whilst the print editions can be subscribed to separately - the magazines will still be uploaded and available on the website ‘issuu’ the app will just present a mobile alternative.

The topics the magazine covers are industry wide, from cereals to milled grains for food and animal feed production to the technology, storage and research surrounding these subjects.

The magazines further digital footprint extends to an incredibly popular blog, The Global Miller, which has amassed over 1.2 million views on an approximate view count of 36,000 views per month.

You can set the app to notify you when new magazines have been uploaded or when new videos have been added from the multitude of events the team attends throughout the year.

This app is not just a way to read the industry news; it presents an opportunity to experience it.

The team at Milling and Grain publish the magazine once a month as we do with the sister publication International Aquafeed, which is also freshly available on the app store.

Milling and Grain magazines average at 132 pages each with a 53 percent ad to editorial ratio, thousands are distributed regularly at the majority of agricultural events annually and they are delivered to an impressive following of subscribers and companies across all continents.

Therefore, creating an app where people could access the industry leading publication at a moments notice, seemed like a natural progression amid the process of establishing a stronghold on the digital audience through the company’s latest agricultural broadcasting podium.

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One month away from Christmas and the New Year.

Companies are bustling arranging advertorial schedules for the year and reaffirming industry relationships ready to bring the New Year in.

Events are slowing down naturally as we encroach ever closer to the festive period, although as this is written of course it is not yet Halloween. Public holidays are a funny one really, a commercial opportunity to sell sell sell, but yet the whole event is still filled with joy and cheer and based essentially on the importance of the relationships that we hold dear. A concept perhaps not so different to the ones we experience within the agricultural trade.

Putting together this magazine is a lot like cooking. It is just a recipe with different ingredients; each one as important as the other or the whole dish simply won’t taste (or in this case, read) as good.

Imagining a loaf of bread, as seems appropriate for our particular magazine, you have the bulk of the ingredients, the flour, and without the flour you simply don’t have bread. As an industry led trade magazine for us this is the incredible, innovative companies are what make this publication exist, they trust us to do a good job of showing them off and as a result we are able to bring exciting and forward thinking editorial to the magazine, giving it a real flavour. This of course is the salt, the herbs and seasonings of whatever you may desire – they might not seem like much to the naked eye, but without them the blend would seem rather, bland.

Finally, the yeast. The yeast is alive and it is technically not required for all types of bread. But if you want a hearty, barrel-shaped load of fluffy deliciousness, you’ll want to include this single-cell organism into your mixing bowl. After the ingredients for the bread are mixed together, fermentation occurs when the yeast cells break down the large starch molecules into sugars for energy. They use this energy for survival and reproduction. The sugars digested by the yeast, expels carbon dioxide and ethyl alcohol into existing air bubbles in the dough. And this causes the dough to rise.

If you’re still with me at this point, the yeast if you haven’t guessed already, represents the people within the milling industry. This ranges from the team here at Perendale who work tirelessly to put together the magazine every month from all over the world, to the incredible pioneering industry movers and shakers who feature on the iconic interview section. Without the artists behind the inspired adverts or the staff at the multitudes of companies sharing their expert opinions and research with us, for publishing, the magazine simply couldn’t be. Without going back into the science too much, the process of the yeast continues in the bread to become an elastic mass of molecules known as gluten. The more gluten, the stronger your bread becomes, which is a perfect metaphor for what makes Milling and Grain the industry leading milling magazine, every single person in the industry who helps make it happen.

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Gericke group strengthens operations in Asia

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ith the addition of new agents in South Korea and Pakistan and a new location for its Thailand operation, the Swiss Gericke group underlines its commitment to these dynamic markets.

Since the establishment of Gericke Pte Ltd in Singapore in 1993 the company has successfully expanded its presence in the Asian-Pacific market. The philosophy to combine the European based manufacturing of key components such as mixers and feeders with local engineering know-how and sourcing has proven to be the right fit to support multinational as well as local customers with the proven Gericke quality. Today the Singapore office acts as regional engineering and service competence centre, and covers the area with a network of subsidiaries and agents.

Continuing this approach, JW Microtec in South Korea and Imtec in Lahore (Pakistan) will represent Gericke in their respective home markets. They both bring many years of experience in various industries to ensure professional local support.

Additionally a new location of Gericke in Thailand reflects the increased significance of this market for Gericke. Beside Thailand this office also covers Myanmar.

The market activities in Asia are supported by a stateof-the-art test centre in Singapore. The test centre is equipped with original machines and allows for customer tests under near-production conditions. Experienced specialists design the test layout and perform the tests for various types of powder handling and processing applications.

The Swiss Gericke Group has been designing and manufacturing equipment and systems for modern bulk material processes, as well as providing design and consultation services for more than 120 years. Gericke bulk materials processing technology can be found throughout the world in many sectors including the food, chemical, pharmaceutical, plastics and construction material industries.

Nebraska Manufacturer of 2017

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inMaster parent is a top mid-sized NE company Garner Industries of Lincoln has been named Nebraska’s mid-sized manufacturer of the year by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

The company was honoured

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Thursday, October 12, 2017, at the State Chamber’s Manufacturing and Distribution Executive Summit held at the CenturyLink Centre in Omaha.

The Nebraska Manufacturer of the Year award has been presented annually since 2008 to Nebraska

manufacturers that successfully implement innovative ways of conducting business using new products, processes, technologies and strategies.

Garner Industries is a diverse manufacturing company with a 64-year history. The company was established in 1953 as a small tool and die company in the Havelock area.

In the mid-1960s, the company embarked on development of an automated grain bin level monitoring system, which gave birth to the BinMaster line of level control technologies.

The company employs more than 130 individuals in its plastic injection molding, mold manufacturing, CNC machining and BinMaster level sensor manufacturing operations.

Its products are sold in diverse industries, including agriculture, construction, cement, mining, biofuels and food processing. In September of 2017, Garner Industries completed the expansion of its campus at 98th street and Cornhusker Highway.

It now occupies a 115,000-square foot facility located on 32 acres.

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SternMaid opens a second plant n September, SternMaid officially opened its second production plant in Wittenburg.

With the new plant, the contract manufacturer for food ingredients and supplements in powder form has increased its annual production capacity to 50,000 tonnes.

The new complex, covering an area of 5,000 m² opposite Plant one, will in future be used for the manufacture of all retail products. The company has invested a total of some 15 million EUR in its construction and created 50 new jobs. SternMaid now employs a staff of nearly 300.

SternMaid officially opened the new plant in the presence of Rolf Christiansen, Head Administrator of the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim, Wittenburg’s mayor Dr Margret Seemann and some 750 guests.

As Torsten Wywiol, SternMaid’s managing director, commented, “The modern production plant reflects our aim

of consistently offering our customers tailor-made, costeffective and high-quality solutions in the fields of food and food supplements. By building this second plant we are increasing our overall capacity and putting ourselves in an even better position to meet the needs of our retail customers. In keeping with our motto, ‘Blending is our mission’, we will continue to be able to meet the demand for powder mixtures in full.”

The new plant is made up of about 2,500 m² for warehousing, 2,000 m² for production and 500 m² for technical equipment and is directly adjacent to the manufacturer’s existing factory. Space has also been left for further extensions. As far as possible the two plants will work independently of each other.

Plant one will in future focus on all products intended for further industrial processing, whereas Plant two will manufacture all retail products. For this reason, all the small-pack filling lines will gradually be moved into the new production plant by the end of October 2017. The floor space thus released will be converted into blending and filling areas for industrial products. Separation of the two types of production will ease the logistic situation on the site, which has been made difficult by the increasing volume of goods handled.

Every day, up to 200 tonnes of ingredients for the food industry are shipped from SternMaid and exported to over 100 countries around the world. As the production location, Wittenburg is an important part of the SternWywiol Gruppe alongside the Head Office in Hamburg and the research facility in Ahrensburg.

Volkmar Wywiol – founder and Managing Director of SternMaid, Wittenburg’s mayor Dr. Margret Seemann, Torsten Wywiol – Managing Director of SternMaid, head of the district authority Rolf Christiansen and Mark Riemer – Commercial Manager of SternMaid

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MilIsidoro Onos’ Roller Mill at Sant Martí de Provençals, Barcelona (Turner’s System) Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK In 1895 Barcelona, besides being the leading mercantile centre of Spain, was also the principal milling centre. The suburb of Sant Martí de Provençals featured many substantial mills, not the least striking of which was the “handsome building” erected to Turners’ design, for Isidoro Onos.

Described in detail in the June 3, 1895 issue of The Miller, the complete roller plant had a design capacity of 30,000 kilos per diem. The mill building proper was a substantial three-storey erection, 22 and a half metres long by five metres wide, with an engine house, five metres wide by 13 metres long, added to one end, with a boiler house adjoining.

The building was built with ample expansion room should trade justify such a course.

The wheat-cleaning department at the opposite end of the mill was five metres wide by 13 metres long and divided from the mill by a party wall. Occupying three floors, it held two bins, each having a capacity of 1,100 bushels, to which the dirty wheat was elevated on entering the building. From these bins the wheat passed by means of an elevator to a Zigzag separator on the top floor, after which it was treated on a machine for removing stones, and then passed to a system of cockle and barley cylinders, specially arranged for taking out the numerous seeds found in Spanish wheats.

The grading to the cylinders was accomplished by one of Turner’s patent Vibromotor sieves, whose action was found to be effective for grading the wheat. From the cylinders, which were on the second floor, the wheat fell to a Eureka smutter and was then elevated to a Eureka brush machine. These two machines were placed on a platform on the ground floor in order to avoid

Cross Section of the Mill

Longitudinal Section of the Mill

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sinking the elevator bottoms below the floor level. The Zigzag, smutter, and brush machine were each connected to Turner’s patent Whirl dust collectors. In the mill itself two bins received the clean wheat elevated from the brush machine in the wheatcleaning department; each bin had a capacity of 600 bushels.

The machinery was arranged on three floors. The bottom floor provided a spacious platform on which all the roller mills were fixed. The mill was worked on a system of five breaks, these being accomplished on two 40 inch by 10 inch four-roller mills and one 30 inch by nine inch. The reductions were carried out on two 30 inch by nine inch four-roller mills and four 25 inch by nine inch rolls. Exhaust trunks from all the mills led into a main exhaust trunk fixed in the ceiling of the bottom floor and terminated in a Whirl dust collector on the floor above. On the first floor were the scalpers for the first three breaks. These were of the patent Vibromotor type; Turner’s being the sole licensees and manufacturers. A row of seven Turner Dustless purifiers, with an exhaust arrangement for giving a final purifying touch to the wheat before it entered the first break mill, removed any dust which may have escaped the wheat cleaning.

The second or top floor was a very lofty one, open to the roof to allow elevators of a considerable height, greatly facilitating the spouting arrangement to the various machines. Here the reporter noticed another Vibromotor scalper, dealing with the fourth break products, and an inter-elevator reel treating the product of the first reduction of semolina. This was followed by a row of 10 centrifugals, on top of which were placed two inter-elevator reels; one being used a chop-reel, and the other for dusting the break meal. On the top of this line of centrifugals an eleventh was also fixed. The elevators were arranged in a line down the centre of the mill. The sacking-off of the various products was performed on the bottom floor where the lower ends of the elevators and the main shaft driving the roller mill were situated. The plans shown

Cross Section of the Screening House

Engine Room and Boiler House

Eureka Zig-Zag separator

Turner Vibromotor advertisement (1895)

here should make this description easier to follow.

The motive power for the installation came from Turner’s wellknown tandem compound condensing engine and Lancashire boiler. Three line shafts drove the whole of the machinery.

The first, being the roller shaft, which was fixed on substantial piers of masonry in the basement and received its drive direct from the engine fly wheel by means of a double leather belt.

From this shaft the power was transmitted to a shaft on the first floor, driving all the dressing machinery and purifiers, apart from two reels, and extending to the wheat-cleaning department. The drive for this was taken off by means of a fast and loose pulley on the shaft in the bottom of the wheat-cleaning department.

On the top floor of the mill the second shaft drove the elevators and the two inter elevator reels. The third shaft, in the roof of

Turner four-roller mill advertisement

the wheat-cleaning department, drove the wheat elevators and a portion of the wheat cleaning machinery.

This is the only record of the mill I could find, so I would be very interested if anyone in Spain or elsewhere remembers the mill or what happened to it so I can bring our Archive up to date on this mill.

The geographical and historical spread of our holdings at the Mills Archive mean that I can only provide snapshots; if you would like to know more please email me at mills@millsarchive.org.

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The history of milling no matter where it has taken place - is being archived by the Trust.

For well over 100 years milling technology has been global with many magazines serving or having served our industry from flour and food to feed and oilseed processing and now to fish feeds.

A most recent contribution to the Trust’s collection is a complete century of past edition of the now out-of-print ‘NorthWestern Miller’ from the United States.

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Nick Petzold retires from the packaging sector

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or nearly 50 years, Nick Petzold owned Petzold & Company. Delivering over 250 machines to the UK, Nick established a reputation for being a reliable supplier of cost-effective packaging, machines and design.

Fluent in German, Nick worked with Fawema and HDG closely. Upon leaving during the summer, Fawema presented Nick with a very special packaging machine plaque of his own; Type: Nick Petzold, Order No.: Agent No.1, Serial No.: 007, Power: 110% and Year 1946.

Having qualified in 1969, family business connections in Germany, gave the 23-year-old Nick Petzold the opportunity for work experience in Fawema’s factory.

Because he spoke English and owned a suit, they asked him to attend the Fawema stand at Interpack in Düsseldorf that year (he has attended every Interpack since).

Fawema were showing an innovative end of line machine for collating and packing retail flour bags and by a combination of embryonic salesmanship and a large amount of luck, he took an order at the exhibition for one of these machines for Spillers Homepride flour in the UK. This machine was delivered four weeks later and resulted in a quick follow up order for a further twelve from the same customer. The company responded by asking Petzold to establish exclusive representation of their interests in the UK. What followed was 48 years of a highly successful partnership.

During the 1960s and 1970s the UK weight control requirements for retail products were considerably more stringent in the UK than on the Continent, so Nick forged a relationship between Fawema and British technology company Autopack in Malvern, Worcestershire, who would provide Fawema with pioneering weight control equipment for the decades that followed.

This partnership enabled Petzold & Company to install weight-compliant flour packaging machines throughout the

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n recognition of H.S.A. Group's humanitarian work in Yemen, Mr Walid Ali Mohamed Saeed has been awarded the IAOM MEA Regional Leader Award.

Mr Saeed, Managing Director of MIDSTAR Commodity Management Ltd, Dubai, was presented the award on October 23, 2017 at the 28th Annual IAOM MEA Region Conference and Expo Sheikh Rashid Hall, Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE. Speaking of the lead up to his award,

UK taking over 90 percent of the market. In the following years, the business continued to widen its markets, into pet food, chemicals, tea, cat litter, in fact all dry powder and piece products fell prey to Petzold and Fawema!

To date, over 250 FAWEMA machines have been delivered through Petzold & Company to the UK alone.

Nick was also asked to contribute his experience to contracts abroad including, Algeria, Italy and France. In the following years, Petzold expanded into the Republic of Ireland and more recently assisted in the establishment of HDG’s (Fawema sister company) activities.

Representation of two additional German packaging manufacturers resulted in the sales of literally billions of glassine envelopes for After Eight mints every year and the development of the innovative packaging for Hovis ‘Crusty’ loaves that at the time restored Hovis to brand lead. Packaging awards followed from the Institute of Packaging, Food Processing and more recently, Nick was a asked to contribute with his knowledge of packaging machinery to the Nabim remote learning training documentation in 2016.

The core principle of Nick’s MO from the beginning has always been. Make your customer look good by justifying his decision to buy from you. If his decision to do business with Petzold enhances his profile within his company, the goal has been achieved and will frequently lead to lucrative repeat business.

It seems to have worked!

Mr Saeed commented, “One of our mills was affected in the war, it was out of operation for almost a year, but we can say now that the mill is running at almost full capacity but it took us some time to fix what is damaged. At the same time however, the World Food Program took part of our milling capacities for the need and for the distribution of the people, so that really helped in the terms of capacity that we were able to cover.”

He continued, “This award was at least not for me personally, but for Yemen and for our Group and all the

people who stood by us all the time and made the business run. We are very, very honoured to receive this, it is such a prestigious award and the first time it was announced!”

Finally he said, “We were shy to receive this but at the insistence of the industry to recognise what had been done and for the other industries and three surrounding businesses, to do so meant we happily accept such an award and to be a good example also.”

You can find an interview with the winner in the feature interview section of this issue of Milling and Grain.

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The Raghavan Report Safe and quality food: a shared responsibility

by Raghavan (‘Ragha’) Sampathkumar The World Food Day is celebrated every year on October 16, and unlike many other international days, it is always a special one to me as I see this as an opportunity to remind us several important things.

Firstly, contrary to the popular warnings and alarms, I am more optimistic about our ability to feed the growing population now and in future. However, quality and safety of food are as important as producing sufficient quantities of food.

This is what I call a shared responsibility and each entity in the food value chain has its role to play and responsibility to fulfil.

I recently trained a group of people from different countries in Asia and Africa that are working in the Ministry of Agriculture in their respective countries.

The programme aimed at providing them some basic concepts of IPM (Integrated Pest Management) and judicious use of agrochemicals.

From what I learnt while observing them and also listening to their viewpoints, overall focus on food safety (including chemical residues) must be improved particularly in the low-income countries of the developing world.

Food safety is also an important concern for the other countries that export their agricultural produce to different destinations such as the EU and the US, where food safety standards are rather stringent. For millions of farmers in Asia and Africa, who live on their subsistence farms and struggle to make their ends meet, compliance to the food safety and quality standards would be an enormous task.

However, their vicious cycle of poverty can be broken only with sustained efforts and support by all the food chain stakeholders. One of the ways private sector can participate is through exploring pre-competitive partnerships and by joining hands with several civil society organisations for conducting trainings for the farmers on food safety and quality standards and better cultivation methods such as GAP. Governments can contribute to these efforts by ensuring the agricultural extension personnel are trained and capable of further cascading the learning to the farmers.

Civil society organisations and agricultural universities can play a greater role by providing common platforms where all the stakeholders discuss, interact and learn from each other’s successes and failures.

Thus, ensuring food that reaches the consumers is safe, nutritious and is of good quality is a shared responsibility of all the food value chain stakeholders.

One of the major lacunae in most countries of the developing world is that the agricultural education and curriculum is not updated and is far off from the ground realities of today. Because of this, the graduates are not industry-ready despite having the educational qualification. Hence, it is an important area for the governments to look into and do what is necessary to help young students get the necessary skills and knowledge to get employed in the fast growing food industry. And there are more key areas like this where action from all stakeholders are required.

I will be discussing those key areas in the subsequent columns.

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Investing in a new double head auger filler

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o fulfill growing demand from the food and nutraceuticals industries, the contract manufacturer and co-packer SternMaid America has installed a modern double-head system to increase the capacity of its can filling line. Including further peripheral plant components, the company has invested some US$300,000 in this capacity extension.

The double head auger filler dispenses powders into as many as 50 cans per minute per head.

Thus, up to 6,000 cans per hour can be filled with a broad range of powdered products – from instant cocoa to dietary supplements. Changeover for different pack sizes is easy, and the machine is able to fill cans of up to six inches in diameter and three to 10 inches in height.

Filling weight depends on the can size and the product’s bulk volume. Can filling and sealing is now fully automated, but there is potential for future investment as packing and palletising is still done by hand.

Aside from increasing the capacity of its composite can line, SternMaid America’s investment has delivered additional benefits: the single head auger filler, which is now redundant on this line, can be used for filling items such as screw-capped plastic cans, which enables the company to offer a new type of packaging.

Jan Thoele, Executive Vice President of SternMaid America: “Customers expect flexibility and reliable, on-time delivery.

Even short deadlines have to be met at the right time and with top quality. If a company’s plant breaks down unexpectedly and a contract manufacturer is asked to take over, production must be able to start very quickly. Not only do these new investments increase our capacities in the copacking sector, they also make us much more flexible. We can now carry out even large orders in a short time.”

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New technology centre in Lagos

ühlenchemie GmbH & Co. KG has now opened its first technology centre in Africa. In Lagos, Nigeria’s industrial heartland, the specialist for flour improvement and fortification now operates a baking laboratory. Having development capabilities on the spot will enable the firm to meet local millers’ needs more rapidly and efficiently.

The core element of the facility is a trial bakery modelled on Mühlenchemie’s central Technology Center in Germany. Developers at the new facility can customise systems for improving, standardising and fortifying flour and tailor them to local conditions. The facility was planned and built in close cooperation with Vitachem Nigeria Ltd. The new manager is Mr Emenike Okoye, who has more than 20 years of experience of quality assurance in the Nigerian milling industry.

“Thanks to a combination of our comprehensive production capacity in Germany and local development know-how we will, in future, be

able to supply the Nigerian milling industry with customised systems faster than before,” said Lennart Kutschinski, managing director of Mühlenchemie, at the opening of the Technology Center.

He added, “The Nigerian millers are already familiar with Tom Runge, the area sales manager, and his presence at the new facility in the country puts us in closer contact with our customers. Together we will be working to produce applications that ensure consistently high standards for flour and provide a more rapid response to emerging trends.”

At the central Technology Center in Ahrensburg near Hamburg, a team of 100 research scientists and applications technologists works on developing exactly the systems that the global milling industry requires.

Today teams of experts in Mexico, Singapore, India, China, Russia and Turkey support mills on the spot and offer individual solutions to ensure optimum flour quality. The new facility in Lagos adds the first Technology Center on the continent of Africa to this list.

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ADM opens new feed premix plant

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n October 2017, Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE: ADM) officially opened its new feed premix plant in Zhangzhou, South China with a ribbon cutting ceremony in the plant.

Built with an annual production capacity of 30,000 metric tonnes of feed premixes and 80,000 metric tonnes of complete feed and concentrates, the Zhangzhou feed plant represents the fourth in ADM’s expanding animal nutrition network in China, which consists of production facilities in Dalian, Tianjin and Nanjing, as well as a new plant under construction in central China.

Hong Yang, ADM’s Asia Pacific Director for Animal Nutrition, “The Zhangzhou plant adds perfectly to our animal nutrition network in China. With operations in Zhangzhou, we are better equipped to serve our customers in the southern part of the country.”

Donald Chen, ADM’s President of Asia Pacific, in his remarks at the ceremony, “With the growing middle class and changing diet pattern, China’s consumer demand for animal protein will continue to grow.”

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Pavan Group joins GEA

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avan Group will join the industrial group GEA, to increase its range of in the field of plants for the milling industry, for the extrusion of pasta, snacks and breakfast cereals, as well as packaging.

The transaction is still subject to approval by the competent antitrust authorities. The acquisition is likely to be completed in the course of 2017.

GEA is headquartered in Germany and one of the largest suppliers for the food processing industry and for a wide range of other industries.

The international technology group focuses on process technology and components for sophisticated production processes in various enduser markets.

The group generates around 70 percent of its revenue in the food and beverages sector that enjoys long-term sustainable growth. With its 17,000 employees worldwide, in 2016 they generated consolidated revenues of approximately 4.5 billion euros.

Remaining strong and competitive on a global market Andrea Cavagnis, who has directed Pavan Group for 25 years, will maintain his role as President. The roles of Pavan’s whole management team have been confirmed, to highlight the continuity with a management, which has reached a few outstanding goals.

The company commented, “We do believe that this model can reach better performances operating within a bigger and solid Group as GEA is, in order to remain strong and competitive on a global market that increased the need for human and financial resources.”

Continuing they said, “Therefore we have decided to support this new development stage along with GEA, as we believe it represents the best possible partner to strengthen Pavan’s potential, while ensuring a coherent strategy, an effective organisation and a solid financial status.”

GEA will be engaged in promoting Pavan’s growth, in compliance with

the strategic and technological choices of the past few decades, aiming at developing the best technologies and offering the clients the best products and services.

Milestone for growth This acquisition is a milestone for the growth and development strategy of GEA’s activities in the food industry. Pavan’s know-how in the extrusion technologies, the wide range of industrial solutions, R&D’s constant work and its presence in the main international markets represent the basis to strengthen growth, especially as far as integrated process solutions are concerned.

GEA’s acquisition marks a new growth stage for Pavan, which will rely on the support of a big brand with solid industrial and financial capacity and with the ability to enhance and promote the development of innovative technologies and commercial synergy, aiming at offering clients high quality products and services.

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First ‘Belt-and-Road’ Forum – for Feed and Animal Husbandry

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eld on March 18-20, 2018 at the Beijing Friendship hotel, professionals in the world’s feed industry are highly anticipating the first ‘Belt and Road’ Forum – for Feed and Animal Husbandry.

Is there a connection between your business in China and the planned development of Celebrating Muyang’s 50th Anniversary in style in Yangzhou, China - Mr Fen, CEO of ‘Belt-and-Road’ Initiatives? Did you know, Muyang (FR: 2nd from left) and keynote presenter Roger Gilbert, Publisher of Milling and Grain magazine (FR: 4th from left) with Professor Defa Li (FR: 5th from left) of one feed company established a feed mill in China Agricultural University and Secretary General of the China Feed Industry West Asia and got its investment back in one Association year? Do you also know that some Chinese of the times, help enterprises understand relevant policies, vitamin and feed enzyme companies sell all explore the opportunities to go abroad, do a good job of their products abroad? national policy regarding environment, living habits, legal and Finally, are you anxious about the development of financial systems and knowledge reserves in advance of the your business and do not know where to find a ‘blue sea’ market? These are questions Dr Yongxi Ma of the ‘Belt-and-Road’, and comprehend the success and failure of organising committee is putting to the feed industry at industry pioneers in international development.

The meeting will discuss the following areas says Dr home and abroad.

Ma: Experiences and exchanges of internationalisation Come and join the first ‘Belt-and-Road’ Forum for Feed of feed machinery enterprises, livestock and poultry feed and Animal Husbandry, which will light your passion and let you share the future development of the world’s feed production enterprises, aquatic feed production enterprises, dairy enterprises and additives enterprises; large industry and animal husbandry. enterprise groups’ experience and strategy in international “It’s now time for Chinese enterprises to achieve global development. cooperation and development on the basis of going-global More information: and a bringing-in strategy.”

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Taking food steps within bacterial protein

nibio (“Unibio” or “the Group”), is a biotech company with the most advanced technology producing single cell protein from natural gas, is very pleased to announce that they have been selected to form part of the PROVIDE project in cooperation with Innovation Fund Denmark.

The aim of the five-year research project is to increase the value of residual products and optimise resource utilisation. The project has a total investment of DKK 14,780,000 (GBP 1,764,000).

When companies extract certain constituent parts from potatoes, seaweed and single cell protein for use in various food and feed ingredients, large quantities of residual products with a very low value is the result. The residual products are currently often sold as animal feed or end up as waste products. But the residues contain

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valuable proteins, which if they can be extracted cheaply and efficiently, are possible to use to produce different additives such as preservatives, flavours and emulsifiers.

In the project scientists from the Technical University of Denmark and Aalborg University, in cooperation with five companies including Unibio, aim to develop tools using knowledge about protein sequences to scan the residual product for valuable proteins with qualities that make them useful in the production of additives. The scientists also aim to develop tools for the cheap and efficient extraction of the exact protein parts that are to be used in this production.

The consumer benefit is that in the future many additives will consist of natural constituent parts of protein, which will increase the protein content of the finished food item.

Unibio’s U-Loop® technology

allows the conversion of methane gas into a high-value bacterial protein product, Uniprotein®, which can replace fishmeal and soybean meal in animal and fish feed. Unibio’s vision to decouple protein production from farming and fishing, thus freeing up a larger share of the world’s agricultural land and fishing areas for the production of feed instead of protein for animal feed, may now be expanded to the world of food and feed ingredients by the future development of new products and utilisation of all constituents through the project.

Unibio CEO Henrik Busch-Larsen commented, “Taking part in the PROVIDE project is a big opportunity for Unibio. Besides collaborating with some very knowledgeable institutions and companies the focus on creating added value from our core protein product holds great potential for the company as so does the feasibility of an already very promising technology.”

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A key component of the strategic push includes a local Biomin business unit based in Guadalajara, Mexico. A local presence will allow Biomin to build and enhance important relationships with key opinion leaders and research organisations.

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Improving the availability of affordable protein

The importance of a strong reach Tom Blacker, International Milling and Grain Directory October was a very active month for the International Milling and Grain Directory.

The Directory staff were busy attending events such as IAOM South East Asia in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Financial Times’ Future of Agriculture conference in London, UK and IAOM MEA is soon in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

There were also meetings with the UK groups, nabim and the Committee and Annual General Meeting London and South East Milling Society. Roger Gilbert, Publisher of the International Milling and Grain Directory, presented at the directory’s partner organisation The Mills Archive Trust at the Quern to Computer Symposium on the topic of ‘The Miller’s Role to Feed the World’.

It is pleasing to announce that 13 new companies joined the Directory in October and a good few updated their profiles too. With the directory entering its 26th edition has a large role to play in being the industry’s channel to connect buyers and sellers, project investors and project managers, operators and suppliers and more with the global market place.

The International Milling and Grain Directory’s 2018 print edition alone will be read by over 45,000 Feed, Flour, Rice and Semolina Millers in 2018, spanning across 140 different countries. That is on top of the growing digital readership which receives over 4,000 hits per month to the website and has over 1,500 followers on Twitter.

The aforementioned grain industry conference, IAOM MEA will be in Dubai, UAE at the end of October with an abundance of member companies exhibiting their products, networking and looking ahead to 2018 in the Middle East and North Africa region, a growing region in the food and feed industry.

We expect to meet at least 50 member companies from all regions of the world at this one event alone. We look forward to this as a true highlight of the year.

As always, please contact me for any reason for the Directory, follow on social media or meet me at an industry event.

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emin Industries has launched its latest anticoccidial innovation, Cozante™, in Asia Pacific poultry feed markets.

Dr Alfred Chua, Marketing for Animal Nutrition and Health, Asia Pacific, commented, “In an era of responsible antibiotic use in livestock, anticoccidials can help improve the availability of high quality and affordable protein. Kemin is leading the way with anticoccidial innovation to meet the growing consumer demand for safe, wholesome protein.”

Cozante is an intensively researched, natural anticoccidial molecule. The gallic acid-based product requires no withdrawal period and has been shown to control Eimeria spp. either in synergistic association with ionophore or as a standalone in coccidiostat-free farming. It has a unique mode of action compared to chemicals and ionophores to ensure no cross-resistance in poultry.

To significantly enhance the bioavailability of the new anticoccidial molecule at the target site of Eimeriainfection, Cozante is encapsulated using Kemin MicroPEARL™ technology. This and the mechanism of action provide dual innovation, culminating into a naturally safe anticoccidial feed additive.

Dr Chua continued, “Cozante is a natural molecule derived from a medicinal plant widely recognised for centuries in the eastern Mediterranean countries, Kemin is committed to providing the feed industry with safe, well-studied ingredients that are in line with consumer advocacy groups and regulatory guidelines.”

In September, Kemin hosted the “International Cozante Event & IHSIG 2017” in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

The event was attended by more than 80 livestock integrators and top feed mills guests to celebrate the launch of the product for poultry feeds.

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Cultivating the African savannah

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fDB launches pilot programme to cultivate the savannah in eight African countries.

The savannahs of Africa cover a mindboggling 600 million hectares, of which 400 million hectares are cultivable, the President of the African Development Bank, Akinwumi Adesina, has said.

But just 10 percent of this is cultivated, a mere 40 million hectares, Adesina said Wednesday, while speaking at a session titled “Transformation of the African Savannah Initiative” at the 2017 World Food Prize-Borlaug Dialogue symposium in Des Moines, Iowa.

According to the AfDB President, so huge is the potential of African savannahs that the World Bank called the Guinea savannah zone “one of the major underutilised resources in Africa.”

He noted that Africa’s savannahs were better than the savannahs of Brazil, a country notable for turning its savannahs into agricultural wealth, saying Africa’s soils were not acidic and therefore did not need liming which had to be done at massive scales in Brazil.

“The initiative will start by bringing approximately two million hectares of savannah in eight African countries — Ghana, Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda, Kenya, Zambia, and Mozambique — under the cultivation of maize, soybean, and livestock production in optimum conditions.” The goal: to double production in those eight countries.

“Africa must learn from the experiences that have worked elsewhere, while tailoring the interventions to the specific

realities of Africa. We must ensure that small, mediumscale and large-scale commercial farmers co-exist in a way that allows opportunities for all,” Adesina said.

The 2017 World Food Prize Laureate explained that partnerships in research and development would be crucial, saying that was why the AfDB had engaged to work with the strongest possible organisations with proven track records in tropical agriculture from South America.

Some of them, he said, included the Brazilian Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), the Agricultural Corporation of Brazil (CAMPO), as well as others with long experience in conservation agriculture, including the Argentine Association of Zero-tillage (AAPRESID), and the Argentine Agricultural Research Institute.

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“They will work very closely with universities and the national agricultural research systems across the savannahs of Africa,” he noted.

The AfDB Vice-President of Agriculture, Human and Social Development, Jennifer Blanke, also explained that the Bank was determined to increase productivity so that Africa would become a net producer and exporter of agricultural produce.

Blanke said, “The idea is to have more job creation and create the next generation of agripreneurs. We can’t do everything. So, we’ve broken it down to certain number of value chains that we are going to tackle in Africa.

“If you look at the savannah, it has massive potential. In fact, it spans about 400 million hectares and only about 10 percent of it is utilised. It covers about 25 countries and about 240 million people are depending on agriculture in these areas and about half of them are living in poverty.”

The AfDB Vice-President highlighted that the savannah initiative, which begins in November, will use the best technology in order to transform the savannah based on the experience of Brazil.

"Brazil has a history of building their own savannah, which is their cerrados, with these kinds of technologies", Blanke added.

“It was about driving farms that were producing a new variety of soya beans. It was very difficult and we know that, but amazing things happened,” she said.

The Former Minister of Agriculture of Brazil, Chairman of CAMPO and 1996 World Food Prize Laureate, Dr Alysson Paulinelli, in his address, noted that in the 1970s, Brazil was suffering a lot, like Africa today.

Paulinelli said, “We imported two-thirds of what we consumed. Brazilian families had to use about 42 percent of net income to feed themselves. We had to decide how to save Brazil. It was doomed to bankruptcy.

“So, we made a decision to drive a change in agriculture.

The first thing we did was to realise that Brazilian agriculture was not different from colder climates. Brazil, the way things were, could not be self-sufficient, so we had to change our production system.

“The government needed to change first, but the Government was not ready. So, we put together a group of experts and they convinced the Government. After the Government, the farmers had to change and we believed it would benefit them.”

Today, Brazil exports US $100 billion in food items, Paulinelli added.

He explained that the feat was not that difficult, saying that those who want innovation must believe in the benefit of science.

“Now, we are reaching Africa. And, on the request of the AfDB, we will start work in Ghana,” he said.

“The support from Japan was crucial to our success.

Those who were doing the work in the fields received all the information from the institutions.”

Meanwhile, the Ghanaian Deputy Minister of Agriculture, Sagre Bambangi, underscored the biological, socioeconomic and political dimensions to consider.

According to Bambangi, the Government of Ghana initiated a campaign that ensures availability of food in the country, thereby creating job opportunities.

“We in Ghana are delighted to have been chosen to host the TASI pilot programme,” he said.

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Expanding Asia's business

r Eckel opened its international headquarters (IHQ) in Bangkok in September.

The feed-additive specialist celebrated the official company inauguration of Dr Eckel Animal Nutrition (Thailand) Co., Ltd. and its move to the new offices.

The business and political guests, notably the German ambassador Peter Prügel, were impressed by the company’s product and service portfolio, as well as its corporate objectives.

Peter Prügel, German ambassador to Bangkok, “We are pleased that German companies are expanding globally, significantly shaping and successfully participating in the

Probiotic yeast improves piglets performance post-weaning

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esults of a study focused on weaning piglets conducted by the team of Professor G. Savoini from University of Milan, Italy, were presented at the 68th Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP), in Tallinn, Estonia.

This trial shows that probiotic yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 can help facing post-weaning challenges, either to enhance performance when used on top of medicated feed (antibiotics and zinc oxide), or to help reducing feed medication post-weaning.

The authors concluded that this probiotic can become part of the nutritional strategies in a context of medicated feed reduction and that it is compatible with antibiotics and zinc oxide.

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rapid developments in Asia, in agriculture, for example.”

Dr Antje Eckel, Managing Director, explained, “Asia is becoming particularly important for our company, given the tremendous growth in animal nutrition.”

He added, “We have served the Asian feed industry from a representative office in Bangkok for years, and now we will significantly increase our exposure through our IHQ and our German–Thai subsidiary. We appreciate the assistance of the Thai Board of Investment. We will invest our expertise and effort in developing the Asian market, which has significant growth potential.”

This is a milestone in the progressive internationalisation of Dr Eckel, established almost 25 years ago and one of the leading German experts in healthy, efficient and responsible animal nutrition.

Professor Savoini commented, “This is quite a good example of how a probiotic should work, giving economic advantages to the farmers through increased animal performance and possible decreased cost of rearing cycles from lower use of medications in feeds”.

Weaning is one of the most stressful events in pig farming and it does represent a critical step, which must be well managed in order to minimise production losses and secure piglets’ health. The wide use of antibiotics in both human and animal medicine has fueled the appearance and propagation of resistant microorganisms.

Thus, producers are looking to find alternative approaches. Among them, the use of probiotics appears as a solution. The live yeast strain S. cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 is one of the most documented probiotics in swine, with proven effects on microbiota regulation, intestinal structure and natural defenses.

The University of Milan conducted this study on 288 weaning piglets in order to evaluate the effect of the probiotic yeast on post-weaning piglets performance, either in addition to or in substitution of antimicrobials in feed, in a 3-phase feeding programme.

Results An additive effect of the probiotic and antimicrobials - When S. cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 was used on top of medicated feed, this trial showed a significantly improved average daily gain and improved feed conversion ratio: +5.59 percent in ADG and -4.97 percent in FCR. The probiotic is compatible with antibiotics and zinc oxide.

A substitution effect - When S. cerevisiae var. boulardii CNCM I-1079 is used and antimicrobials (antibiotic and zinc oxide) were removed for 39 days (Phase 2 and 3 feed), there were no significant difference in average daily gain and feed conversion ratio.

Men replacing machines - A problem or a solution?

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG I am back in the UK after attending agricultural exhibitions with British companies in both China and the Philippines.

Both countries have agriculture as a high Government priority and where improving the living standards of the farmers and rural communities is of major importance. Clearly demonstrated in Manila by President Dutertem who attended the event, and gave a clear message of support for rural communities changing the farming emphasis, from producing cash crops for export such as bananas and pineapples to basic food production.

This is of course to try and reach a food secure position for his country so that the Philippines does not have to rely on imports of basic commodities, from countries such as Thailand and Vietnam, going forward.

He also committed to developing the nations aqua cultural as a valuable source of protein for the nation. I do hope that he is successful in his ambitious drive Despite the fine words of politicians’ worldwide, last week I heard the Nigerian Minister for Agriculture speaking in London, extolling us to invest and help develop the industry in his country where land is available along with good climatic conditions.

However, farming worldwide as we know is a huge annual gamble for all of our producers.

All of our production and rewards for hard work is ultimately out of our hands and in the control of the one factor that no man can control the weather, for sure we can mitigate some of its effects but without water and sunlight nothing can be produced.

I am reminded from Australia that cereal yields in parts of Queensland and New South Wales are very light this year due to lack of rainfall in areas where irrigation is not possible.

However, because of light rainfall in New South Wales the cotton planting has been achieved much earlier than last year but for good growth it will require irrigation.

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fieldwork for the next seasons winter crops is now complete but as the autumn rains set in working conditions get harder.

The large acreages now farmed are only possible both here and overseas, by the use of very large machinery, which have a huge capital cost and that are very expensive to operate in terms of fuel consumption.

Of course the plus side to that, fewer people are required to produce crops.

I write many times about our diminishing skilled workforce in agriculture I was heartened to hear the Nigerian Minister of Agriculture refer to this problem.

“Man replaced by machines” - a theme only too well known in our traditional heavy mining and manufacturing industries.

Here in the UK for, as far as I am aware with experimental work carried out by our universities, wheat has been produced in field scale from seeding to harvest untouched by human hands. Relying completely on robotic machinery comport controlled for every stage of production, soil preparation, seeding, weed and disease control including harvest, not only using robotic machinery but drones to access timeliness of the operations including harvest.

I am sure that behind all of this technology man must sit to control the computers.

Drones have been developed to assist wide acreage farmers monitor their crops along with all other technologies to assist decisionmaking, a far cry from the hands-on abilities of our forefathers.

If these advanced technologies encourage young people to stay in our industry then that has to be a very positive step forward.

Having produced the crops then for our livestock industries, rations need to be scientifically and correctly balanced to maximise the genetic potential of the animals.

I am thinking here not only of large scale production, but there is a definite need for small-scale mills and mixers to be used co operatively; for small subsistence farmers in developing counties. In these areas the politicians should be able to help, as the world needs to produce more to feed the growing population from diminishing resources.

Our innovative farmers will I am sure meet the challenge. @AgrictecExports

Expanding the market with appointment of Portuguese agent

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ortex Global Limited, a solids and bulk handling components company, has announced the appointment of Alpha Engenharia as its representative agent in Portugal.

This partnership allows Vortex to formally extend its products and services to reach new markets, as the company has not previously held representation in Portugal.

A subsidiary of the company Ana Beco Malheiro, Lda., Alpha Engenharia began activities in 2015. Its main objective is to provide technical and commercial assistance across industries in regards to automation, instrumentation, valves and accessories. Through a rigorous selection of equipment from various suppliers, Alpha Engenharia’s dynamic and competent team ensures the best solutions for use in industrial applications.

By offering great technical support and after-sales service, the company seeks to establish strong relationships with Vortex customers from day one.

Laurence Millington, Managing Director of Vortex Global Limited commented, “We have worked with Alpha Engenharia in the past on other projects in the Portuguese market.

They have proven to be an active sales group that fits very well with Vortex’s ongoing vision for expanding services across Europe. Our expectation is Alpha Engenharia will grow Vortex’s core and engineered business in this promising Portuguese market.”

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New project department for large installations in Egypt

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eing involved in some of the biggest storage projects around the world requires state-of-theart, fully automated production capacities and total coordination between engineering teams.

That is the rationale behind the push of Symaga, leader of the largest project in Egypt, for the consolidation of a new Project Department. To take part and success in such large installations, the technical, commercial and logistic teams must guarantee a perfect planning of work from layout, to delivery of the material, and assembly.

The change in Symaga’s organisation has allowed Project Managers to coordinate large capacity facilities from beginning to end.

Under its leadership, Symaga’s Projects Department

Bridge2Food 2017 protein award winners announced

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nnovation in the protein industry was celebrated with the announcement of the winners of the 2017 Protein Awards 2017 at the Bridge2Food 10thProtein Summit2017 (27-28 September, Reims, France).

Best New High Protein Food was awarded to Jimini’s for Jimini’s Energy and Protein Snack Bars.

Since 2012, the company has released four product ranges with the aim of bringing edible insects into our daily diet.

The product range includes insect snack boxes, high protein pasta, and French honey and energy/protein snack bars. The bars are made with 100 percent European cricket powder combined with organic ingredients and are gluten free, soy free and free of refined sugar.

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has developed the company’s latest plants in Myanmar and Korea, and now is working head on to coordinate the second largest storage project in history: Six paddy rice facilities in Nigeria with over 390,000 tonnes capacity divided into four twin facilities of large capacity and two of less capacity. The project aims to bring Nigeria, one of the largest importers of rice, closer to self-sufficiency.

This groundbreaking initiative would not have been possible without the close cooperation between Symaga and Bühler AG. Best Plant-based Food was awarded to Hampton Creek for Just Scramble Patty.

This product uses Hampton Creek’s proprietary protein isolate from mung bean.

The judges commented that this entry had “clever branding and a great name. The products combine energy and protein, rather than just protein.” “I really like the marketing. They don’t hide that it’s insects but shout it from the roof. The innovative source of protein really makes them stand out.”

Most Novel Protein Ingredient was awarded to DSM for CanolaPRO™, Canola/Rapeseed Protein.

Gerard Klein Essink, Director of Bridge2Food commented, “The judges were impressed with the high quality of entries and the winners should be very proud of their achievements that reflect growing innovation within the protein sector.”

Prizes awarded at LSEMS AGM he London and South East Milling Society’s Annual General Meeting was held again at nabim’s grand headquarters in central London, UK on Tuesday October 10, 2018.

The society joined with nabim again for their usual agenda with around 40 members in attendance. Also the traditional address by the nabim’s President, Mr Duncan Monroe, nabim’s Secretary Mr Nigel Bennett and also nabim’s Director General, Mr Alexander Waugh complemented the evening with drinks and buffet dinner.

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Prizes were awarded to outstanding students with the highest marks for the students of 2017 including: Module 1 Mr Mohammed Muneeb Sarwar, ADM Module 2 Mr Stephen Halleran, ADM Module 3 Ms Claire Marston, Marstons Module 4 Mr Callum Dixon, Heygates Module 5 Ms Laura Lawson, Carrs Module 6 Mr Mohammed Muneeb Sarwar, ADM Module 7 Ms Laura Wilcock, Ripon Select Foods The overall student with the highest marks was Mr Grzegorz Adamczak who won the Silver Medal.

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Grand opening in Hungary

ith a ceremonial opening speech by Mr F.P.R. van Nouhuys, Dutch Ambassador in Hungary, Pelleting Consumables Europe (PCE) celebrated the official inauguration of their new production plant.

The company has created an ultra-modern facility.

The plant is well equipped with high quality production machinery that includes the latest technology, e.g. the special vacuum-tempering furnace that produces superior quality Ring Dies.

Mid 2016 PCE started with manufacturing the first Ring Dies and Roller Shells. Since then, many Ring Dies and Roller Shells have been made.

Due to the high demand for Ring Dies and Roller Shells PCE will double the production capacity in the coming months.

Johan Tijdhoff, PCE, commented, “We are happy to introduce Pelleting Consumables Europe to the world.

From this location we can provide high-grade precision Ring Dies and Roller Shells for Pellet Presses of all brands.�

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New ANH science news app launched

SM has developed an app that will facilitate industry wide access to the latest peer reviewed scientific studies and publications.

The DSM Science News App, has been designed for industry professionals and anyone with an interest in the field, it offers an on-demand library of animal nutrition and health abstracts across a variety of species and topics, including poultry, ruminants, swine, aquaculture and pets (companion animals).

A filter option in the app allows users to select the abstracts by species and key words, letting users tailor the app experience to their topics of interest. The app is updated regularly, and users can choose to receive an alert when a new collection of abstracts has landed for 24/7, on demand scientific insight. It is free and available to download from the Apple and Google Play stores.

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Training Industry experts in food safety learn key concepts in regulatory requirements that impact sectors for animal food.

As the animal food industry continues to expand, the number

Professionals gather for food safety training in animal production of food safety regulations continues to grow.

Professionals in the animal food safety industry learned about these regulations at the NGFA–KSU Food Safety Modernization Act Training held September 26–28, 2017 at the IGP Institute Conference Centre.

The course gave individuals in the animal food industry the opportunity to gain an understanding of the new animal food safety requirements and implement a plan for animal food safety associated with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

H.L. Goodwin, senior economist for the indigenous food and agricultural initiative at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas commented, “I really enjoyed the trainers and lead instructors in the course who were so knowledgeable and interactive, and they really made you feel good about what you were learning.”

He continued, “It’s important, regardless of an operation’s hazard factors, for someone planning to be in the business long-term to go to an education program like this and become certified.”

The training also had an additional component accredited to

A one-week Practical Short Course on Feeds and Pet Food Extrusion will be presented January 21-26, 2018 at Texas A&M University by staff, industry representatives and consultants. The programme will cover information on designing new feed mills and selecting conveying, drying, grinding, conditioning and feed mixing equipment.

Practical Short Course on Feeds and Pet Food Extrusion Current practices for production of pet foods, preparing full-fat soy meal; recycling fisheries by-products, raw animal products, and secondary resources; extrusion of floating, sinking, and high fat feeds; spraying and coating fats, digests and preservatives; use of encapsulated ingredients and preparation of premixes and least cost formulation are reviewed.

Practical demonstration of pet food, vacuum coating and several others are demonstrated on four major types of extruders – (dry, interrupted flights, single and twin screw), using various shaping dies.

Reservations are accepted on a first-come basis. For more information, programmes and application forms, contact: http://perdc.tamu.edu/.

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the HACCP Alliance. After completing both courses, individuals received two certificates and meet the training requirements for a preventive controls qualified individual under the Preventive Controls for Animal Food rule.

The curriculum of the course was developed by the Food Safety Preventative Controls Alliance. The separate HACCP component is accredited by the International HACCP Alliance.

Cassandra Jones, associate professor at Kansas State University explained, “The best part of the course is the interaction among participants.”

She expanded, “We have people from various parts of the grain and feed industries learning the regulations alongside one another and those who will be inspecting them. This encourages valuable discussion to help facilities learn their options for compliance with the rules, and also helps inspectors understand the complexity that compliance can add to existing facility operations.”

Maintaining and repairing grain-conveying equipment can be a messy job. Get dirty and build valuable skills in the all-new Hands-On-Training (HOT) Programme from GEAPS and K-State.

Registration now open for Hands-On-Training Maintaining and repairing grain-conveying equipment can be a messy job. Get dirty and build valuable skills in the all-new Hands-On-Training (HOT) Programme from GEAPS and K-State. Based at Hal Ross Flour Mill, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, the course will run December 12-14, 2017. The cost is US$1,375 for GEAPS members and US$1,725 for non-members.

Hands on experience

The course offers the opportunity to get your hands on conveyors and other working equipment in the two and half day training at K-State. You’ll work in small groups, spending about half a day on each type of equipment. You’ll need to bring your own steel-toed boots, other standard safety gear will be provided.

Space in limited for this programme, so sign up today!

Explosion proof bag dump station

PRODUCT FOCUS November 2017 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.

A bag dump station with an explosion proof electrical system, contains dust emitted from manual dumping activities, compacts empty bags and conveys the material to an elevated destination.

Bags are staged on the bag tray and transferred through a plastic strip curtain into a hooded glove box and onto a grate, which supports the bag and prevents unintended operator contact with moving parts.

The hood is equipped with a polycarbonate skylight that illuminates the interior of the enclosure for improved bag slitting, dumping and disposal.

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Wastesaving Audit A free waste management service aiming to get more food manufacturing businesses to recognise the cost and environmental benefits of baling and compacting waste is being launched.

Wastesaving Audit is being launched by phs Wastekit.

The service includes a free site survey to review businesses’ current waste management practices, a bespoke consultation to advise on where cost savings can be made and a free trial of a baler or compactor machine, plus training in how to use it. It’s the most comprehensive free audit with no obligation currently on offer in the waste management sector.

Wingdoor sifter Looking for improved inspection methods to prevent cross contamination, the Wingdoor sifter combines innovative power and the sieving process. The major advantage of this machine is that the doors can now open over the entire length of the machine.

Therefore, the sieve does not need to be driven out for inspection, so that cross contamination is prevented. The replacement of the sieve mesh is naturally very efficient because the sieve basket can still be moved out of the machine. In addition, the Wingdoor sifter can reach capacities up to 30 tonnes per hour depending on the product.

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Pulverisette 14 premium

Delmhorst Digital Electronic Thermometer

The Fritsch Variable Speed Rotor Mill Pulverisette 14 premium line offers impact, shearing and cutting comminution in one instrument – with a higher performance, better cooling and is significantly quieter than comparable instruments.

Its powerful motor is ideal for the particularly fast comminution of soft to medium-hard, brittle as well as fibrous materials and temperature-sensitive samples with an extremely fast sample throughput of up to 15 litres and more per hour, depending on the material and parameter settings.

Even hard and fatty materials such as feed pellets can be easily comminuted. Samples that are difficult to grind or extremely temperature-sensitive (e.g. plastics) can be embrittled with the addition of liquid nitrogen and subsequently ground.

The heavy-duty motor and especially durable ceramic bearings ensure a particularly high impact and rotor speed with an extra powerful 22,000 rpm.

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This dual range digital thermometer measures temperature from -40° to 300°F or -40° to 150°C. The TM100 is ideal for penetrating samples in bins, trucks or any receiving vessel. Unit features semiconductor technology housed in a sturdy ABS plastic case, 3½” LED readout, low battery indicator and membrane switches with positive tactile feel.

Actual dims (meter) 2¾” L x 1¾” W x 4¾” H. Ship wt 6 lbs. Ship dims 45” L x 7” W x 7” H. The TM100 comes complete with: one TM100 meter, one TS-107 Sensor, one SH44 Handle, three PE22 3-ft. extensions and 9V battery and carrying case.

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Bühler’s SORTEX B optical sorter

Bühler increases the maximum output of its optical sorters for grain applications.

The SORTEX B range is now available with six or seven sorting channels. Depending on the configuration, the SORTEX B7 sorts up to 48 tonnes of cereals per hour.

Optical sorters have become key equipment for food products raw material cleaning. The sorters retain the pole position in terms of quality and result. For decades, they have been used for optimum sorting of food products and for non-food applications with 99.9 percent accuracy. Two years ago, Bühler introduced the SORTEX A and B ranges as optical sorters for grain milling.

The sorters from the SORTEX A (Top Line) and B (Performance Line) ranges have been specifically designed for grain sorting and are suitable for sorting common wheat and durum wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, sorghum, buckwheat and soy beans, sunflower and golden millet.

In this way, Bühler covers the majority of crop processing applications. The latest technology with sophisticated new detection and background lighting systems delivers the best possible grain sorting solution for all applications.

The product range for use in the grain sorting process has a modular design. Each system is individually configured according to the type of grain to be sorted, the process requirements and the output required. The different versions vary in the number of channels, camera equipment, detection software and ejection systems.

Bühler has added two other sizes to its series, offering higher outputs and to rounding off the range for highest grading

capacities. In addition to the previous machine sizes with one to five sorting channels, SORTEX B optical sorters are now also available with six or seven channels.

Without re-sorting, each channel sorts up to four tonnes of grain per hour, which in the case of the SORTEX B7, amounts to a total output of 28 tonnes per hour. However, if one of the seven channels is used for re-sorting, the sorting capacity of each of the remaining six channels is increased in the standard application to eight tonnes of grain per hour.

So, with the B7 machine size, the overall output increases to up to 48 tonnes per hour – with an unaltered high level of accuracy of 99.8 percent, and Bühler’s usual reliability.

The new optical sorter was presented for the first time at the Bühler Networking Days event in August 2016. The response of industry professionals was enthusiastic. A first optical sorter with seven channels has been in use for several months and has fulfilled all expectations so far.

Infected and contaminated grains affect food safety and the end product quality. Bühler’s optical sorters remove grains with signs of fungal attack (e.g. fusarium), leading to a significant reduction of fungal toxins contamination (mycotoxins), such as DON and vomitoxin. They also remove discolored and damaged grains from the product, as well as pest damaged grains, strange materials, exotic seeds and foreign cereals with a high level of accuracy. This helps to produce an end product with an outstanding appearance. The highly precise ejection system minimises loss of good grains, making resorting unnecessary in most applications.

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Bring back neglected cereals

by Professor Dr Thomas Miedaner, Research Scientist

From ancient grains to superfoods

At the GRAPAS 2017 conference, one of the keynote speakers was renowned Research Scientist, Thomas Miedaner PhD., who co-authored ‘Neglected Cereals: From Ancient Grains to Superfood’ with Friedrich Longins, published earlier this year. Milling and Grain have selected his speech to feature in this month’s edition, to share a snippet of the book’s topical debate surrounding the renascence of these neglected cereals.

Thomas Miedaner studied Agrobiology at the University of Hohenheim and received his PhD in Resistance Genetics at a Federal Institute. He returned to the University of Hohenheim in 1987 to get the leader of the Rye & Biotic Stress Research Group at the State Plant Breeding Institute and got his Habilitation in 1998 in Plant Breeding.

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hy should we work with ancient cereals? We are working together with private plant breeders in Germany and a small part of our work is with ancient cereals. Our cereals that I want to introduce are European

cereals that are neglected.

So we ask the question why should we work with ancient cereals? First of course, for diversity on the farm as well as gaining interesting and new features out of these cereals such as resistance to diseases or different flavours, but there are multiple others.

Key advantages:

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Nutritionally valuable Regional specialties and cultural diversity Flavour and enjoyment However, there are not only advantages, there are of course disadvantages too.

Key disadvantages:

• Low yielding • Difficult to plant: smaller (hulled) kernels, uneven germination, early lodging, uneven ripening • Special problems: Loss of grain, bird damage • More difficult to process: Dehulling, different baking properties The main one for the farmer is low yield although there is also the difficulty to plant these cereals because as you can see they are often rather tall, as well as bird damage and the loss of grains, as well as economic performance that isn’t always good.

For the miller, farmer and baker, it is more difficult to process

F because it’s not this convenient product like bread wheat that we are all adjusted to. So we need an improvement by plant breeding for these cereals but we still want to take all of their original flavour and original characteristics. You can get very good products such as noodles and whiskey from spelt. But of course we have to know the characteristics of these different crops.

Looking for the growth potential

As you know, it started about 10,000 years ago with the first cereal domestication in the region of Iran, Iraq, Israel, Palestine and Syria and the archeological findings show us that about 20,000 years ago wild cereals were being collected and grinded already and used for food. Then 10,000 years later, we have evidence of the first cultivation of barley. The neglected wheat that we are speaking of includes Emmer, Einkorn and Spelt.

Looking at the different characteristics, we have a wild cereal, which is brittle and has a split head so it is losing its kernels automatically, which is important for a wild crop. It also has hulls that we have seen in other cereals. The cultivated Emmer has no brittle head but still has the hulls, there is also the durum and the bread wheat.

All these wheats have a common history that is quite long, dating back about 300,000 years ago where Wild Einkorn and Aegilops sp., combined together naturally and produced wild Emmer wheat when 10,000 years this wild Emmer wheat was cultivated and that in turn produced Durum wheat and Khorasan wheat as well as others. Another lucky accident this cultivated Emmer combined with another wild wheat (T. tauschii) to produce our better-known bread and spelt wheat that are very narrowly genetically related.

This activity spread to Europe over the next 5,000 years here until it reached Scandinavia and Northern Great Britain or Scotland.

The neglected wheats that we are speaking of include: • Emmer • Einkorn • Different cultivations of Spelt Establishing an old crop anew means we have to look for the growing potential as well as risks for the farmer; we have to look for processing data, whilst keeping the special advantages of these cereals to market them; and we need the interest of the whole production chain from breeder, farmer, miller, baker and merchant.

All of these people have to be interested in these things.

Starting with the growing potential, it is clear that the yield is much lower than we know it from bread wheat, as a result a reduced grain yield must be compensated by a higher price in order to attract the farmers interest.

You can yield eight tonnes of Bread wheat and six tonnes of Durum wheat and from there it goes down looking at the kernels because you cannot eat and cannot sell them, and so the yield is clearly inferior.

The processing is also different, Einkorn has a very high raw protein content but all other figures are much below the normal Bread wheat. It gets better with Emmer which has a similar baking volume and extraction rate, then the figures get even better with Spelt.

We must also consider that there are differences between these cultivars, one may have a large cultivar whereas one may have a small one and there can be large differences between the species.

Another point would be that even if you know the protein content for a species that does not predict baking volume, it could be very different, so it is important to test the produce.

We can take a look at the advantages and disadvantages of two of the main species, Einkorn and Emmer:

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Common millet (Panicum miliaceum) and the Foxtail millet (Setaria italica)

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Grown since Neolithic time in Europe Drought tolerant – lowest fertile soil Highly nutrient efficient C4 plant with high productivity Not “modern”, but gluten free Very easy to grow Specialty breads and baby food – easily digestible

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Perennial crop (2-3 years) Low requirements, rapid growth No pesticides, low fertilisation Cultivation in marginal areas High straw yield

Processing properties (disadvantages)

• Attention with dehulling reduces grain damage • Less flour yield (70-75%) dough yield satisfactory • Major part of gluten is gliadins, this can cause poor baking quality, low sedimentation value and moderate dough rising.

• Einkorn has very soft gluten, poor dough stability, gas retention capacity and the bread volume is small • Emmer is nearly comparable to spelt

Tips to help with disadvantages • • • •

Reduced dough temperature (water <20 degrees Celsius) Longer processing time (swelling time x2) Low kneading energy Ascorbic acid (Vitamin C), cherry juice powder helps The disadvantages however lead to ‘Artisan bakery’ and a premium product, because essentially these, Einkorn and Emmer, cannot be industry baked, therefore you need special knowledge from the baker.

Perennial crops in general mean that no re-seeing is necessary and has efficient water use. There is a high composition of nutrient reserves in the deeper soil layers and has year round land planting, there is protection again erosion from wind or water.

We don’t really see a market in Europe for perennial crops because the grain yield is very low, so for high production agriculture this might not be the first option.

Lutein is a carotenoid and it plays an important part in preventing eye disease (age-related macular degeneration) and it might have a positive effect on further degenerative diseases also.

Mostly healthy ingredients are also in the end product, they’re visible and possible to taste – this makes the produce functional food.

Is the up soar in “Gluten Free” foods and diets necessary, and how does this impact the reintroduction of neglected cereals?

Only very low amounts of people suffer from wheat intolerance even though a lot of people think they have to be gluten free.

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Einkorn – Compared to bread wheat

• Twice as much mineral salts (Zn, Se) • Four to eight fold the amount of lutein • Twice as much fat; especially, Monosaturated fatty acids • Low activity of lipoxygenase • Low activity α- and β-amylase

I have found this citation from the Internet where someone has said, “I’ve gone gluten free and now I feel so much better, now I only eat spelt or Kamut.”

Yet both of these have the same amount of gluten as bread wheat and for 95 percent of the population, whole grain wheat would be beneficial.

Obviously Coeliac Disease is a disease and if you have it you are not allowed to eat gluten but on average less than one percent of the population is affected. It is similar with allergies, allergies are also a disease and can be tested by the normal allergy tests and the sufferers of this have to also stay at least ‘wheat-free’, this means they are not allowed to eat all wheats and in the case of Coeliacs that means also not rye or barley. My third point on this is about ‘sensitivities’, which has not really been known until now. Not knowing about it until recently also means not really knowing how to compete with this problem, at the moment it is believed that up to five percent could be affected by sensitivity – but as we have no real diagnosis yet, no one really knows. Nor do we know how to combat the problem, perhaps by reducing wheat in the diet that will help.

Pseudo cereal grains can be used nearly like cereals, although they have nothing to do with cereals they are belonging all to different families. They are always gluten free too, which is used often in their advertising. To grow them in Europe however would need a lot more effort and plant-breeding as they are usually much better off being grown in Asia and Africa. You could possibly grow them in your garden but not on a farming level.

Pseudocereals – Gluten free

Chia – C3 plant, very late ripening, small kernels, rich in lipids and linoleic acid, can be used as vegan produce thickener.

Quinoa – C3 plant, needs heat, small kernels, high protein content, saponins must be eliminated or it will be bitter and antinutritious.

F If you want to buy today Emmer bread or spelt bread this has to be grown by the farmer and produced by the breeder of the seeds, it cannot just be bought on the market like bread wheat, this cannot be forgotten.

Summary

All neglected cereals and pseudocereals have positive aspects, but provide also high challenges concerning farming, processing and marketing.

They must be sold for higher prices in excellent (organic?) quality to give rise to a premium product, they cannot be sold for normal supermarket prices. This means that special niches must be found for marketing, especially; health, flavour and regions of origins.

If you want to read more about unlocking the potential of these ancient grains, please consider Mr Miedaner and Mr Longin’s publication ‘Neglected Cereals: From Ancient Grains to Superfood’.

You can also see Professor Miedaner’s full speech on our Global Miller blog under the title “The GRAPAS Conference live!”

For further reading: Neglected Cereals: From Ancient Grains to Superfood

by Thomas Medaner and Friedrich Longin Published by Agrimedia/Erling Verlag ISBN 978-86263-123-0.

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Buckwheat – C3 plant, not cold tolerant, large kernels, rich in complex carbohydrates, contains Rutin, high content of multiple vitamins and minerals.

Amaranth – C4 plant, needs heat, very small kernels, very high protein and fat content, high content of multiple vitamins and minerals.

We have been eating cereals since the times of the Neanderthals; you can even find the remains of kernels between the teeth. This shows that cereals are the basis of all civilisation until the Andes cultivated the potatoes, this notes the importance of the grains combined with the immense health benefits they bring.

Having said this, there is still a long way to with the reintroduction of neglected cereals; we have to look at the agronomy, the risks, and the product quality, what type of product we want, what the costs are, alongside the health implications.

And last but not least, what has to be established is a functioning whole production chain. Going back to what I said earlier everyone has to be involved to bring back the neglected cereals and ancient grains, from the miller to the farmer to the baker, all actively involved in the production chain – and with all the specialist knowledge they need to be getting the appropriate money for the services or the system will not work.

Germany presents one success story in terms of Spelt, we are currently producing 50,000 hectares of spelt, compared to wheat where there is 3.5 million hectares – but it is a nice niche. The estimated turn over for the farmers as a result is 175 million euros, the same for the traders and millers (2015) but for the bakery’s it is estimated at a one billion euro turnover. Emmer is much lower in terms of production but there is multiple types with red, white and black Emmer being available to grow, so there is a possibility to grow it in the future to a success.

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Pasta A miller’s legacy

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by Clifford Spencer, Chairman, M4L

any years ago as a young farmer I won a competition for growing the best durum (semolina) wheat in Europe. It was a pleasing result because the often-wet British weather is not the most conducive to producing quality wheat, as many UK farmers will testify.

Lots of little agronomic tricks went into achieving that result but at the time I did not realise the significance of the event in terms of growing crops ‘out of region’ so to speak. I had visited Italy as a tourist a couple of times before this farming victory but had never really taken in the great food culture there, and in particular the major role of pasta in the Italian diet.

I have just returned from an assignment in Bari, the capital of Puglia, a region of southern Italy, which reminded me of this past farming achievement. Some of the best traditional foods in Italy come from Puglia, the region in the heel of Italy’s “boot”, and its deeply-rooted cucina povera tradition, meaning its cuisine tends to be simple and delicious, relying on fresh, local produce.

Even the act of eating itself is a serious local tradition in Puglia. Walking along the cobblestoned streets in Bari’s old town, I noticed that families usually ate lunch and dinner with their windows and doors open, filling the air with fragrance—and with it the hope of being invited in as a curious passer-by for a bite!

More seriously in Bari, people even hand-roll pasta out on the street. So all this and a bottle of Italian lemon beer got me thinking of the role of milling crops and the effect it can have on everyday life and more importantly giving life. Indeed this was effectively Roger Gilbert’s great concept in forming the charity Milling4Life.

Pasta is normally made of flour, eggs, salt and water and most pasta is made with durum (semolina) wheat flour, but other grains, such as corn, rice, quinoa, spelt, and kamut can be used. The word pasta is commonly used to refer to the variety of pasta dishes and is typically a noodle made from unleavened dough of durum wheat flour mixed with water or eggs and formed into sheets or various shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking.

A global history of pasta through civilisation

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F with nearly 30kg per capita per year, but each American for instance eats an average of 10kg per year. Thousands of books and magazines are published on the subject of pasta and the innumerable ways to prepare it and how to enjoy it. Many countries are inundated with food shows discussing the subject and there are now true pasta connoisseurs on just about every continent.

The history of pasta through the millennia can be used to trace the history of civilisation spanning cultures and continents ranging from Asia, the Mid-East, Europe, the Americas, and parts of Africa, and reaching back at least 3,500 years and there are many aspects of pasta’s history that are surprising.

Its early history starts in the Shang dynasty in China (17001100 BC) where some form of noodles were used being made with either wheat or rice flour. Pasta also appears to have been a feature in the diet of ancient Greek civilisation, flourishing in the first millennium BC and the word lasagne comes from the Greek term “laganon,” which consisted of strips of dough made with flour and water. However around the fourth century BC, the story of pasta shifts to Italy where archaeological evidence can be found of the existence of pasta in the Etruscan civilisation occupying Lazio, Umbria and Tuscany in Italy.

In later centuries, as it became available in dried forms and could be sold in shops and with that pasta grew more and more popular, until by the 19th century, it achieved a presence and stature in Italian cuisine that continues to evolve to the present day. So though Italians cannot claim to have invented pasta they have developed an entire culture and cuisine around it, which is now recognised worldwide.

Durum wheat, deriving from the Latin term tricutum durum (“durum” means “hard” in Latin), is grown in many regions of the world, including the Mediterranean, North America, Russia and Argentina. In Italy, it grows mainly in the southern regions – most notably, in the region I visited of Puglia, which is known for producing some of the finest pasta in the world.

One of the most important qualities of durum wheat is that it contains more proteins than common wheat. These proteins, especially gluten, are essential for producing high-quality pasta – that is, pasta that will remain firm, or “al dente,” when cooked.

The miller’s role in grinding of durum wheat grains produces the coarse semolina flour, which is the only flour used in all Italianmade pasta.

Any other kind of flour – that is, the common wheat flour that is used in many breads, desserts and other preparations – results in a pasta that becomes mushy when cooked and has much less nutritional value.

Indeed in 1967, a law was passed in Italy requiring that only durum wheat be used in the making of all its dried, store-bought pasta which guarantees quality and nutrition for any industrially produced pasta made in Italy.

The enormity of technology

In the last 50 years or so, the technology in the production of pasta has grown along with the demand. If you look inside the factory of one of the many large producers of pasta in Italy you will witness extraordinarily high-tech modernity with huge, very long, spotless and nearly antiseptic spaces, enormous machinery and pasta driers, and an incredibly small number of workers compared with the huge quantity of pasta produced daily.

The choice of top quality wheat, pure and balanced water, together with cutting-edge technology – including fully computerised systems monitoring every single step of the production – guarantee hygiene and the top-notch quality of the pasta produced. Rigorous Italian and international standard

certifications are required by all major pasta companies with the result that pasta today tastes and feels better than ever. There are also different kinds of pasta produced in Italy now, like whole wheat, multi-cereals and organic pasta that are in high demand from foreign markets. Although Italians are a bit conservative on this they are very open to the fact that if others want to have whole wheat, there must be a reason and they are very aware that what is in demand.

Back to the basics

Of course this is a far cry from pasta made at home, as it has been for generations with just wheat flour, water, and a pinch of salt, rolled out by hand, and then cut and shaped according to whichever form of pasta is desired. In northern Italy, a combination of varieties of wheat flours, together with eggs, water, and salt – and sometimes other ingredients, such as spinach for green lasagne – are the usual ingredients for homemade pasta.

Homemade pasta demands a lot of work but there is another alternative in Italy: In every major city and in the smallest of towns, there are shops called pastifici artigianali that fabricate all sorts of pasta. These small, usually family-run operations are very popular, producing a great variety of fresh pasta, with or without eggs – such as, tagliatelle, fettuccine, lasagne – as well as all kinds of filled pastas, such as tortellini and agnolotti. These shops also offer regional specialities, of course – such as, pici in Tuscany, cavatelli in Puglia, and troffie in Liguria.

A final point, Italian children begin eating pasta before they can barely chew. A baby digging into his first bowl of spaghetti is itself worthy of an article in this column: maybe starting with a fork quickly abandoned, soon diving into the bowl with fingers – which is how spaghetti was eaten until around the 16th century – enjoying the event with the whole being. It seems that the sight of a bowl of delicious, tangled strings - or “trii” as spaghetti is called in Sicily, deriving from the Arabic word for “string” – is irresistible to a child.

Pasta, in all its dozens of varieties, is a child’s delight and the amusing pasta shapes and soothing taste soon establish it as a favourite in their repertoire of things to put in their mouths. The first food Italian children eat is pasta, usually a soupy mix with a lot of mixed vegetables, the usual spoonful of extra-virgin olive oil and parmigiano. By the time they are old enough to eat with a fork, they are already great fans of simple sauces with tomatoes.

The famous love and appreciation Italians traditionally hold for their mothers are most likely inextricably entwined with their love for the pasta presented to them each day as children. Besides being delicious and satisfying, pasta is a great source of energy, and children soon naturally crave it. Eating pasta becomes a daily ritual, establishing a life-long, health-sustaining habit.

So millers, you affect and support the everyday life of people more than you can possibly know.

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F Figure 1: Selenium yeast production process at Lallemand yeast plant in Grenaa

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Discussing antioxidant strategies and Selenium yeast production secrets

by Lallemand Animal Nutrition

o mark the launch of the newly authorised formulation of its premium Selenium enriched yeast, ALKOSEL R397 3000, Lallemand Animal Nutrition recently hosted its “Antioxidant Days” in Grenaa, Denmark, home of the company’s yeast plant.

Participants from all over Europe gathered for this technical seminar dedicated to the understanding of oxidative stress in animal production and the use and applications of antioxidant solutions ALKOSEL and Melofeed in animal nutrition. The event closed on a tour of the yeast plant where participants got an insight of selenium enriched yeast production process.

What is Selenium enriched yeast?

Kaspar Kevvai, R&D Project Manager at the Center of Food and Fermentation Technologies, in Tallinn, Estonia, is an expert in yeast fermentation processes and he shared his knowledge on selenium-enriched yeast production. Selenium-enriched yeast, or Se yeast is baker’s yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that contains high levels of organic selenium (Se) compounds such as selenomethionine and selenocysteine.

As he explains, yeast itself does not need Se and contains little of it. To produce Se yeast, inorganic selenium compound, such as sodium selenite, is gradually added to the yeast growth medium. The growing cells organically incorporate selenium atoms within amino acids in place of sulphur (selenomethionine or selenocysteine) (Figure 1). Hence, the production of Se yeast is a delicate process.

Figure 1

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1 LALLEMAND YEAST CULTURE COLLECTION (MONTRÉAL)

2 INOCULUM PREPARATION (LABORATORY)

3 SEED FERMENTATIONS

4 INDUSTRIAL FERMENTATION

5 HARVEST OF THE BIOMASS

6 YEAST CREAM STORAGE

9 PACKAGING

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8 DRYING

7 PASTEURIZATION

F Figure 2: Se bioavailability (transfer rate into eggs) for ALKOSEL, sodium selenite (SS) and synthetic selenomethionine sources (SM1 and SM2) (Barbé et al., 2017)

First of all, to ensure optimal incorporation of organic Selenium within yeast cells, scientists at Lallemand have selected a specific yeast strain (Saccharomyces cerevisiae NCYC R397), based on key criteria, in particular its ability to accumulate important levels of organic Se and the consistent distribution of Se within the different molecular fractions of the cells, as well as batch-tobatch reliability. Then they have developed a specific production process to ensure optimal and constant quality of the product.

ALKOSEL R397 is produced by fed-batch culture: nutrients, including selenium, are supplied incrementally to the growing cells (Figure 1).

Kaspar Kevvai explains, “The crucial part is to add the right amount of selenium over the right time. Adding too little results in a low concentration of selenium in the final product, whereas adding too much will inhibit the growth of yeast.”

The new Se yeast formula, ALKOSELR397 3000, which has just been authorised by the European Commission1 as a

nutritional feed additive is the first Se yeast with a guaranteed minimum selenium content of 3,000 – 3,500 mg/kg mg/kg to be available in the EU market for all animal species. It is the fruit of important investments in production process optimization. Both ALKOSEL R397 2000 (minimum content of 2,000 mg/kg) and the new ALKOSEL R397 3000 are guaranteed to contain 97 to 99 percent of organic selenium and at least 3150 ppm and 4700 ppm of selenomethionine respectively (63%).

How to assess Se yeast quality?

Se yeast ALKOSEL is documented as a highly bioavailable source of Se for animal nutrition when compared to inorganic Se but also to synthetic selenomethionine sources (bioavailability is assessed through Se transfer rate from feed to animal blood, milk or egg) (Figure 2), which indicates that SeMet may not be the only important compound for Se metabolism.

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F balance. But it is also possible to boost the primary antioxidant defenses via the feed. It is increasingly recognised that optimal antioxidant strategy should combine different complementary molecules for synergistic effects, rather than providing high level of one single molecule.

For example, superoxide dismutase from melon is a natural source of primary antioxidant used for humans and all animal species (see boxed text). It appears that providing a combination of SOD and Se yeast (Se enters into the activity of primary antioxidant glutathione peroxidase) is an optimal strategy to reinforce antioxidant defenses, both primary antioxidants acting in synergy through different and complementary enzymatic pathways.

Along the day, various examples of trials results using this combined approach (ALKOSEL and MELOFEED) were provided for swine, poultry, horse and ruminant species, showing What is oxidative stress? benefits on immunity, fertility, welfare, resistance to stress (e.g.

Dr Florence BARBE, researcher on antioxidants, explained the heat stress) and more. issue of oxidative stress and how it impacts animal health and Finally, in addition to zootechnical and health benefits, as performance. Oxidative stress results from an imbalance between Monika Korzekwa, antioxidants Product Manager at Lallemand the production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), and their Animal Nutrition, pointed out, antioxidant supplementation can consumption or deactivation by cellular antioxidant pathways. also benefit the end-products for consumers, as seen in the beef It is important to keep in mind that the formation of ROS is a trial, where meat quality was improved. normal physiological process: they exert some necessary cell Other studies have shown that Se yeast supplementation to dairy functions in the body and play important roles in the immune cows or laying hens result in selenium enrichment of milk or eggs defenses for instance. respectively (Figure 2), which can be interesting in terms of food product quality (eggs with higher Se content showed better preservation features), but also in terms of consumers’ health: a real added value for consumers and farmers.

A recent scientific study was conducted by Ling et al. to evaluate the possibility to produce Se-enriched cheese eligible for nutrition and health claims. The study indicated increased Se content in milk and cheese following ALKOSEL Dr Kaspar Kevvai Dr Florence Barbé Monika Korzekwa supplementation as compared to inorganic Se supplementation. After five weeks of supplementation, the cheese In normal conditions, these ROS are detoxified through and milk reached a steady state of Se content, a level appropriate different antioxidant pathways that can be classified into two for nutrition and health claims related to the cheese Se content, main types: according to the authors3.

The primary antioxidant pathways: enzymatic systems that detoxify and recycle ROS before they can damage the cells (e.g.: superoxide dismutase, glutathione peroxidase, catalase).

References 1 Secondary antioxidants: molecules such as Vitamin E or Official Journal of the European Union L 156, 20.6.2017, C, polyphenols, etc. which inhibit free radicals and stop the p. 22–23 http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ “snowball effect” once main cell components have been attacked TXT/?uri=CELEX:32017R1086 2 and transformed into secondary free radicals.

Barbé F., Sacy A., Poulain S., Chevaux E., Castex M. While primary antioxidant enzymes act upstream of the Comparison of selenium bioavailability in laying hens fed oxidative cascades, secondary antioxidant molecules act later and different organic selenium sources. 21st European Symposium in a stoichiometric way (one antioxidant molecule for one free on Poultry Nutrition 2017, Salou / Vila-Seca, Spain, May 8-11, radical). Thus, antioxidant enzymes have a higher detoxifying 2017 3 power than secondary antioxidants.

Ling K. et al., Selenium supplementation of diets of dairy cows Livestock production conditions can cause oxidative stress to produce Se-enriched cheese. International Dairy Journal, Vol. that has detrimental effects at various levels, leading to loss of 71, August 2017, pp 76–81 performance and health issues. This can be measured by the total antioxidant status of the animal (TAS). Poor antioxidant About Melofeed status has been linked to poor health status, loss of immune Superoxide dismutase (SOD) is a key antioxidant enzyme: system efficiency, and negative impact on reproduction (fertility, SOD is the only enzyme able to transform the most powerful free parturition) and zootechnical performances (growth, feed intake, radical, the superoxide anion into hydrogen peroxide, which is mortality…). For the farmer, these are translated into reduced then converted into water and oxygen by catalase and glutathione herd performance and economic losses. peroxidase.

Melofeed is a natural source of SOD from melon. It contains standardised and guaranteed concentration of SOD and is Combating oxidative stress in livestock resistant against gastric juices thanks to a specific and patented Antioxidants, usually secondary (Vitamin E or C), are provided microencapsulation technology (vegetal origin). through the feed to help the animals maintain their oxidative Analyses have shown that, besides SeMet, ALKOSEL contains other forms of organic Se, in particular selenocysteine, and Se metabolic pathways in the body involve not only SeMet but also other amino acids, in particular selenocysteine. Therefore, the combined presence of SeMet and SeCys in ALKOSEL could offer optimal balance for Se uptake and utilixation by the animal, explaining its superior bioavailability2.

All Se yeasts are not equivalent and K. Kevvai gave further insight about Se yeast analysis. According to him, total Se content measurement is not sufficient, it is important to also measure the content of key organic selenium compounds such as selenomethionine, which is an indicator of successful incorporation of selenium into the highly bioavailable organic molecules.

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by Satake

ur agriculture started with sake brewing. People offered harvested rice, sake and rice cake to the gods. Sake is part of everyday living and its development covers a long historical journey.

Here we introduce the history of sake brewing, the people who contributed to rice milling and sake brewing technology, and modern sake brewing technology.

Start of rice cultivation

It is said that 7,000 – 10,000 years ago rice cultivation started in the mountains around Assam India and Yunnan province China.

Rice cultivation came over to the Northern Kyushu area of Japan through the lower reach of Chang Jiang and the Korean Peninsula around 400 B.C. It reached Setouchi and Kinki areas in around 350 B.C. encompassing the entire area of East Japan by around 100 B.C.

History of sake brewing

It is believed that the methods of sake brewing were brought to Japan with rice cultivation. Priestesses chewed rice during which the effects of saliva hydrolyze polysaccharides such as cellulose or starch by dilute acid and enzymes and glycosylate it into sucrose or glucose. This was simple sake making by spitting chewed rice into a pot and fermenting it by wild yeast. It was not liquid form and too perishable to generate large quantities.

In the year 701, a government office named “Sakebe no tsukasa” (Control of making sake) was established and sake brewing managed by imperial court had started. It led to the technique of sake brewing taking a step forward. Around the year 1000, it is said that there were about 10 kinds of brewing method and they were differentiated. For example, for low-level functionaries, people diluted the concentration of sake to increase its quantity.

By 1300, sake came to enjoy equal economic value to that of rice.

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Around 1500, people brewing sake, added rice malt, steamed rice and water twice. They also applied lactate fermentation and prompted the neutralisation of acid in sake by wood ash. Around 1580, the “3-step brewing method” was adopted. This method brews sake over 3 days, the quantity produced differing by the day. The fundamental sake brewing technique was established during this period. Prior to this, malted rice was added to brown rice while the main constituent of sake was white rice (Katahaku). A newer method where all the ingredients including malted rice were made from white rice was also introduced (Morohaku) which improved the quality of sake even more.

During this period, a new tub containing 1,500kg of ingredients was developed and the brewage increased by a factor of four to five times that of previous. This made possible the large-scale production of sake.

Around the year 1600, wooden mortar replaced by the grindstone, which led to the efficient milling of rice. With increasing manpower, the ability to mill rice increased. Karausu, which was brought from China, transformed milling work. In addition to the 3-step brewing method, today’s many techniques of brewing sake were also developed.

Figure 1: Karausu (A mortar brought from China around 1600)

F Figure 2: Japan’s First Power Driven Rice Milling Machine - Invented by Riichi Satake

For example, preservation through heating (to sterilise sake by boiled water), protection from spoiling, large brewage in Cedar tubs and transportation by cedar tubs etc., (Figure 1).

Establishment of modern technique of brewing

The Research institute of brewing in the Ministry of Finance was founded in 1904. It aimed to contribute to improvement of quality in alcoholic beverages and stable production. It also tried to solve scientifically the current brewing techniques which hitherto had relied on brewers’ experience and theory’s handed down from generation to generation. In 1906, the brewing association was established within the institute and a sake fair, sponsored by the association, was held for the first time. At this fair, brewers from Hiroshima won first and second prizes of the special top 5. When it came to the percentage of prize winning (top 1 to 3) by prefecture, Hiroshima marked 77.4 percent. In the second fair in 1909, Hiroshima achieved an even higher percentage: 85.8 percent.

Some brewers struggled to progress in the making of sake, others who entered their own products to sake fairs were able to demonstrate improved brewing technique. In so doing these Brewers demonstrated their desire for prestige through skill and knowledge rather than profit. In this regard, three people in particular are accepted as contributing to the advancement and spread of sake These three notable originators of sake from Hiroshima were Wahei Kimura (Founder of sake brewery “Kamotsuru”), Senzaburou Miura (Inventor of brewing with soft water) and Riichi Satake (Inventor of domestic power-driven milling machinery).

In 1863, Riichi Satake was born in the present Saijonishihonmachi, Higashi-hiroshima, Hiroshima as the first son of the Satake family of farmers. It was in 1878, at age of 15, during the laborious work of karausu that the first new ideas started to flash through his mind on how to improve the process.

However as he was about to start trials on a new type of rice milling machine, he was appointed person in charge for water management of Namitakiji Lake, the largest lake in Hiroshima Prefecture.

In 1893, immediately after finishing this work, he was assigned commander of line construction for the railway between Mihara and Hiroshima. This later became the Sanyo line. Furthermore, he was then chosen for the post of line construction between Kyoto and Nara.

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the rice-milling machine.

Vertical Rice Milling By 1896, Riichi had invented the first Machine for power-driven milling machine in Japan.

Sake Brewing He not only designed it but also produced its parts by himself. However, dissatisfied with the results, he recalled three of the machines which he had already delivered and added a further improvement, his invention of the four linked type mortar power-driven milling machine. In 1908, he invented the second Satake circulating power-driven milling machine, now including an emery milling chamber and an internal spiral roll.

The current milling machine for sake brewing was structured in 1930. At this time Satake invented the vertical abrasive power-driven milling machine (type C).

This Type C machine was the first to adopt the disc-type milling-roll that was hardened through heating of the emery, and exhibited much superior grinding. Usually milling yield was 70 percent (30% removal) by milling with water wheels and mixed abrasive powders, however the type C achieved 40 percent of milling yield (60% removal of outer layers) leading to better quality Sake.

When rice makes contact with the milling roll during rice milling, its shape is retained by complicated abrasive milling action; for example the structure of milling roll includes two layers of small and large diameter rolls. By reputation from people who have used this vertical milling machine, it has become widely known throughout the sake industry.

Figure 4: RMDB Type Rice Milling Machine for Sake Brewing

Along with pioneering developments in rice types suitable for sake brewing and developments in new yeasts, this led to the continued innovative evolution in sake brewing technology. The premium sake “ginjoshu” was born.

The structure of the type C machine is still in continued use, now in the guise of the present DB / RMDB type of sake rice milling machine. While not changing the basic mechanism, this machine continues the onward development with automatic control of speed of rotation and load depending on the milling yield. However, nothing can take the place of the milling roll that stands out as the best work by its developer Riichi Satake (Figure 2, 3 and 4).

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Impact of dietary potassium diformate on swine performance is backed by analysis of worldwide data sets

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by Christian Lückstädt, ADDCON, Germany

ustaining growth rate and optimal feed efficiency in pigs is key to their economic performance through to market. With mounting pressure on the costs of pig production in general worldwide, nutrition is increasingly under scrutiny.

Compound feed is not only an effective way of delivering nutrients to animals, but it has long been utilised as a delivery strategy for non-nutritive additives used to promote health. For decades the industry relied heavily on antibiotics as growth promoters in feed, until it became clear that the development of bacterial resistance against these compounds could jeopardise their future in the fight against bacterial disease, not only in animals, but also in human health care. The search for alternatives became critical around 15 years ago, beginning in Europe, but more recently in Asia, including India, Indonesia or Vietnam.

It is generally agreed that good gut health is effective against intestinal pathogens, a strategy that has only become evident through the removal of antibiotic growth promoters in feed.

Creating and maintaining a healthy intestinal environment has become essential to productivity and food safety programmes alike. Maintaining a healthy gut requires up to 25 percent of the daily protein and 20 percent of the dietary energy supplied with the feed, so this strategy should be an integral component of the dietary program, to avoid wasting resources.

Table 1: Effects of potassium diformate (KDF), calcium formate, citric acid, formic acid and fumaric acid in pig diets against negative control performance (responses as per cent of negative control) – (data from Rosen; modified after Lückstädt and Mellor, 2010) KDF

Calcium formate

Citric acid

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Fumaric acid

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26

64

32

103

Feed intake

3.52

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0.24

1.15

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Weight gain

8.67

1.68

3.29

4.94

4.00

FCR

-4.20

-1.39

-3.60

-2.75

-3.04

Table 2. Performance analysis of 37 trials with piglets and fatteners, fed diets with KDF, expressed as true values and an average percentage difference from negative control.

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Negative control

449

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Figure 1. Average daily gain of 37 potassium diformate trials in % difference from the negative controls (after Lückstädt, 2016) Figure 2. Feed conversion ratio of 33 potassium diformate trials in % difference from the negative controls (after Lückstädt, 2016)

In many countries, the use of acidifiers in diets for pigs at all stages has already proved itself an effective tool for achieving and maintaining gut health, for instance through the efficient utilisation of dietary nutrients for productivity and health.

This has been demonstrated in university studies and under commercial conditions. Organic acids, their salts and mixtures of these are authorised for use as feed preservatives and as zoo-technical feed additives, both in Europe and elsewhere. Of the non-antibiotic growth promoters, organic acids are among the most reliable and can be used safely with other additives.

Papatsiros and Billinis (2012) reported “…Dietary acidifiers can actually become the most common and efficacious alternative solution to antibiotics, in order to improve health status and performance in pigs.”

The mode of action of organic acids and their salts has been described extensively in the literature (as summarised by Freitag, 2007; Metzler and Mosenthin, 2007). However, the magnitude of the effect on performance has not always been consistent. The reason for this is likely to lie in the variability of pig production conditions, including environmental factors, feed formulation and management.

While biosecurity and hygiene in the feed mill and on farm are essential, the acidification of feed ingredients or finished feeds with organic acids also offers considerable benefits in the control of pathogenic bacteria. Feed acidification is not only effective within the feed, as reviewed by Stonerock (2007), its biggest benefit may occur within the pig itself – in achieving a healthy gut!

Research trials in the UK, France and Ireland with a 0.6 percent potassium diformate (KDF) feed additive showed that the KDF significantly reduced the salmonella count in the feed as well as in the gut of pigs. This effect is particularly well illustrated by data collected on 12 farms in Ireland (Lynch et al., 2007). All but one farm in which KDF was used ended the trial with a much improved salmonella status and the bacteriological prevalence was also low on most farms. Improved hygiene and biosecurity measures alone also improved salmonella status, but to a much lesser extent than with KDF. The reduction in prevalence obtained with KDF alone, compared with the two farms in which KDF and additional hygiene and biosecurity measures were used, demonstrates the additive’s efficacy in improving a healthy gut.

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F Correge et al. (2010) in France also concluded that potassium diformate is an effective tool in salmonella control strategies on commercial farms, as it reduced the percentage of salmonellapositive pigs by 50 percent and decreased salmonella ELISA scores in pork meat juice by 46 percent in grower–finisher pigs.

The UK trial also showed an improvement in daily gain of 7.7 percent, reduced mortality and a reduction in medicinal intervention compared with the rolling average for the unit, which showed an economic benefit to implementing salmonella control measures. Recent data from Hanover University (Hittel and Lückstädt, 2017) on the use of KDF in sows, from the 90th day of gestation till the fourth day after farrowing showed a 90 percent reduction (P=0.06) in the E.coli count in the faeces.

A significant impact of potassium diformate on the reduction of E.coli in the intestine of pigs had previously been reported by Øverland (1998) and Fevrier (2000). More recent studies have demonstrated benefits of adding organic acids to diets for sows. Øverland et al. (2009) added 0.8 percent or 1.2 percent potassium diformate to diets for primiparous and multiparous sows from one mating to the next, feeding the acidifier through gestation and lactation. The performance of the piglets of these sows was also recorded and compared.

The authors found that sows fed the diformate had increased back fat thickness during gestation. Feeding potassium diformate also tended to be associated with heavier a birth weight of piglets, irrespective of dose. It also improved average daily gain, resulting in a greater weaning weight. Sows fed the diets containing potassium diformate tended to have increased milk fat content on day 12 post-farrowing. Additionally, sows fed potassium diformate at a dosage of 0.8 percent under tropical conditions (Lückstädt, 2011) tended (P < 0.1) to have a higher feed intake from 3 days after farrowing onwards. Furthermore, reduced weight loss (P = 0.06) during the weaning period and lower back fat loss (P = 0.05) was observed.

A trial at Fujian University, China (2010) showed that potassium diformate had a significant impact on gut morphology in piglets during the crucial period after weaning. After 15-30 days’ application, the additive was able to increase the length of microvilli in the intestine by up to 14 percent, thus supporting a healthy gut. The same trial demonstrated a significant impact on daily gain (+11%) and feed conversion (9%) in post-weaning piglets.

This was confirmed by subsequent data from Kasetsart University (Poeikhampha and Bunchasak, 2011). The authors found significantly increased villous height in the jejunum of piglets and a tendency to increased total short-chain fatty acid concentration (especially butyric acid) in the caecum. They concluded that KDF has the potential to improve the growth performance, the intestinal lactic acid bacteria population, intestinal short-chain fatty acid concentration and the intestinal morphology – which can be summarised as “gut health” in pigs.

These published results prove irrefutably how a healthy gut and optimal performance can be achieved by dietary means with selected additives.

The data from technical trials carried out worldwide using acidifiers in pig diets can be used to generate useful information as to the potential economic benefit of using organic acids in a pig production operation. Modelling the potential outcomes of the inclusion of a dietary acidifier in a diet for pigs at a particular production stage under a given set of conditions with a given feed formulation, the likely value of the additive can be predicted using a statistical method.

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literature, combining them into a mathematical model that can estimate the effects of feed additives, irrespective of other conditions such as feed composition, housing, temperature or even altitude. ‘Holo-analysis’ takes its name from the Greek, holo, meaning whole; and this is an accurate description of the principles involved. Essentially, holoanalysis is an extension of the statistical technique commonly used in science, metaanalysis, which involves pooling data from similarly designed studies to build a bigger, more accurate model. Holoanalysis, on the other hand, takes advantage of all the data available.

This system of modelling was pioneered by the late Professor Gordon Rosen (Mellor, 2008). Beginning with extensive datamining, a total of 484 publications on the use of dietary acidifiers made up the initial data collection, of which only those with negative controls were included in the model - leaving data from 658 trials, reporting the effects of 158 different acid products on a total of 37,924 pigs (Rosen, 2008). Using a modified multiple regression analysis, inputs are identified that have a significant effect on feed intake, live weight gain and feed conversion ratio.

In this way, a number of feed composition variables were found to be important, especially the use of acids in pig diets, which improved the productivity parameters of greatest importance to economic success. When the input data is confined to one acidifier in particular (59 trials carried out in Europe and North America to 2008), the models also show that the inclusion of potassium diformate has beneficial effects on feed intake (+3.52%), live weight gain (+8.67%) and feed conversion ratio (-4.20%) compared to negative controls. Furthermore, also the impact of KDF against different acidifiers had been validated (Lückstädt and Mellor, 2010 - Table 1).

As a result of its success in Europe, it has also subsequently been tested under tropical conditions. The study described below (Lückstädt, 2016) analysed the average impact from all data collected under tropical conditions on the effect of the additive on weight gain and feed efficiency from commercial and academic trials.

The final data set contained the results of 18 documented studies, comprising 37 trials with KDF-inclusion in piglets and fatteners, at an inclusion rate ranging from 0.2 -1.8 percent.

These studies were carried out between 2003 and 2015 in Australia, Brazil, China, Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam under both commercial and institutional conditions and included 3624 pigs.

Data was analysed using the t-test and a significance level of 0.05 was used in all tests. Results are expressed as percentage difference from the negatively controlled pigs.

The average level of dietary KDF from the data set in all treated pigs was 0.80%. The complete data set is presented in Figures 1 (ADG) and 2 (FCR), which show the difference from the control of all documented trials.

The results of the statistical analysis are shown in Table 2.

Daily gain was significantly increased by 11.2 percent (P<0.001). The FCR was also significantly improved (6.3%; P<0.001) compared to the negative controls.

In agreement with the findings of the holoanalysis, this analysis shows that dietary potassium diformate can also significantly improve pig production, and with it gut health, under tropical conditions.

The findings of the present analysis support the use of dietary KDF as an effective and sustainable growth promoter in postweaned piglets as well as in fatteners. Current findings suggest that KDF can also be used to enhance growth as well as improve the overall economic productivity on-farm under tropical conditions.

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Selecting the right NSP-enzymes to reduce poultry feed costs

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by Dr Hans Christoph Wagner - AVEVE Biochem

he anti-nutritive activities of soluble and insoluble Non-Starch-Polysaccharides (NSP-fibre) are eliminated effectively by supplementation of NSP-multienzymes into pig and poultry feed.

Firstly, such biological active substances cause a partial degradation of NSP-fibre to smaller molecules hence to reduce highly viscous ingesta.

Secondly, impenetrable cellulosic barriers caused by insoluble NSP-fibre are greatly removed. Furthermore enzyme linked feed energy upgrading systems enable nutritionists to precisely recalculate feed formulations on nutrient values and reduced formulation costs. The following article will lead through the specific NSPs subject transmitting practical feed formulation tools to reduce feed costs.

Analysing substrate fingerprints to fulfill enzyme lockkey model principles

Feed ingredients consist of non-starch-polysaccharides (NSP) and specified NSP-fibre substrates if observed in context of enzyme physiology. NSP-fibre substrates refer to the largest heterogenic variety of polysaccharide molecules in nature and as monogastric animals do not synthesise and release any corresponding digestive enzyme, NSP-fibre substrates are practically indigestible. In contradiction, the chemically α-linked polysaccharide molecules of starch substrates are highly digestible and can be depolymerised by body’s own synthesised amylases enzymes.

NSP-enzymes exhibit a high specificity for the corresponding NSP-fibre substrate, hence each enzyme only breaks down a highly specific NSP-fibre substrate. As NSP-fibre substrates of different feed ingredients consist of various NSP-fibre types their typical NSP- molecule fingerprint, so called – the lock - has to be determined to develop the appropriated NSP-enzyme composition – the key. The lock-key-principle is the commonly used term to prescribe this unique one-to-one relation.

As the efficiency of multi-enzymes is linked to fine-tuned compositions and ratios of different NSP-enzymes, research on complexity of molecule determination of NSP-fibre substrates and a better understanding of NSP-enzymes implied in NSP-fibre degradation is an ongoing and one of the most targeted research focuses in feed additive business.

Categorising negative NSP-fibre effects in layer feed ingredients

The negative effects of NSP-fibre play a crucial role in the digestion process of pig and poultry, this might lead to digestive limitations in the gut system and thus have to be considered in developing feed formulations. These negative effects can be categorised into two groups.

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Secondly, insoluble NSP-fibre can encapsulate feed nutrients which become less accessible for digestion and absorption in the relatively small intestine. These nutrients enter undigested the large intestine where they become a substrate for unintended bacterial fermentation. The commonly used synonym to prescribe this phenomenon is the “Nut shell effect”.

Digesting NSP-fibre of feed ingredients by cutting the glycosidical bonds of polysaccharide molecules and taking advantage of nutrients encapsulated by NSP-fibre, the use of a substrate adapted NSP-multi-enzyme in feed is the only available but also most effective choice.

Fulfilling multiple feeding requirements using multienzyme concepts

Multi-enzyme functional activities work synergistically to break down fibre structures which result in enhanced feed digestibility.

The composition and effect of these concepts have to be validated by many animal trials linked to the use of a wide range of feed ingredients and specific requirements for nutrient values of practiced local feed formulation systems for farmanimals worldwide.

Multi-enzyme concepts that combine high xylanase together with high β-glucanase and pectinase enzyme activity, like AVEVE Biochem’s AveMix® XG 10 and AveMix® 02 CS, have

been proven to be very efficient, reliable and cost-effective for use in different varieties of cereal-soy bean diets as well as diets with increasing use of ingredient by-products.

Besides these two main enzyme activities, such multi-enzymes are assembled with sufficient enzyme side-activities like mannanase and cellulase cutting glycosidical bonds of a broad spectrum of underrepresented NSP fibre types, e.g. mannan and cellulose.

The so called “energy-upgrading concept” using multi-enzyme can be practically approached via two different formulation exercises. Firstly, it can be added on top of the feed formulation to improve the animal performances or secondly, it can be used in feed reformulation to obtain the same or better animal performances with an increased incorporation of raw material in the feed. In practice, reformulation with regard to the energyupgrading concept means that the nutritionist can create a new raw material matrix with adapted values for energy, linked to

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ntibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most pressing public health problems. The careless use of antibiotics in livestock has drastically increased the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria in livestock, which in turn can cause antibiotic resistant infections in humans – and these illnesses are difficult to cure.

Unless we take effective action, it will become more and more difficult to treat the world’s most serious diseases. Previous common practice was to use antibiotics as a preventive measure to improve productivity of livestock. Luckily, alternatives for antibiotics are readily available and have been proven to improve health and thereby production of livestock. By replacing antibiotics as preventive measures with sustainable alternatives we can drastically reduce the usage of antibiotics. In turn this expected to reduce risk of further resistance development (Figure 1).

Support the animals – Prevent pathogenic growth

Unfortunately, current available antibiotic replacers are no one-to-one replacer solution for antibiotics but have to work in a more broad range – enhancing the natural weapons of birds against pathogens. The key to an antibiotic free environment lies in a healthy gut and strong immune system. High performance requires a good balance of the micro flora in the gut.

Most ‘bad’ bacteria are normal inhabitants of the intestine of the animal – with low number they are not causing (sub)clinical problems. Therefore it is neither possible nor healthy to completely eradicate them. A healthy situation is an

Figure 1: Percentage of notified tuberculosis cases with multidrug resistance.

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F intestine with high numbers of ‘good bacteria’ and low numbers of ‘bad’ bacteria. To keep a healthy balance it is important to maintain healthy gut conditions such as the right pH environment, the right temperature and the availability of nutrients for the healthy micro flora.

Around 70 percent of all immune cells in the body are located in the gut associated lymphoid tissue. This to give an insight in how the gut is the essential organ for the birds health – it is the most essential barrier against pathogens and a selective barrier for digested feed. The intestine is considered the premium site for immune activation and immune development in broilers as well as layers. The micro flora forms a complex ecosystem that influences the immune system, feed efficiency and health of the bird in general. It is therefore essential for antibiotic replacers to enhance a healthy and balanced gut environment and micro flora population to induce a high performance.

Improving animal performance and health

Champ-Green is a mixture of Medium Chain Fatty Acids (MCFA’s) balanced blend of essential herbal oils and vitamins and minerals.

Active components include linalool, thymol, eugenol and carvacol which have proven antibacterial and fungicidal properties. Furthermore, they stimulate production and secretion of digestive enzymes, which results in a higher digestibility of the feed and absorbance in the gut.

The MCFA’s present are easily digestible and ensures that energy is available in the critical stages of development and under stressful conditions. In addition, they are known to have strong antimicrobial properties. The hydrophilic/lipophilic balance (a measure of the attraction to water or repellence to water) of

Figure 2: The amount of enterobacteria in a contaminated layer diet after addition of 0,05 % oregano and/or 1% calcium propionate. Source: KBBL, 2012

MCFA’s is similar to that of the cell membrane of pathogens. The presence of MCFA’s in the bacteria cell will acidify the normally near-neutral intracellular environment. The acid intracellular environment will inhibit DNA duplication and thereby bacterial growth, eventually leading to death of the bacteria. MCFA’s therefore provide an effective pathogen barrier resulting in growth inhibition and killing of pathogens, reduced disease persistence and thereby promoting a beneficial microbial ecosystem. As an easy digestible source of energy, and with a decreased infection pressure, MCFA’s improve the intestinal health and thereby the digestive capacity, which results in a higher feed-efficiency.

The synergistic combination of MCFA’s and essential herbal oils together disturb the coordinated behaviour of bacterial pathogens – preventing explosive colonisation of pathogenic cultures in the gut. Champ Green can increase intestinal health, enhance reparation of gut wall lesions and thereby it improves the

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Figure 3: The antimicrobial effect of different essential herbal oils against the gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and the gram negative bacterium Escherichia coli.

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Research has shown the synergetic effect of the combined essential oils in Champ Green; combined essential oils have greater antibacterial effect than individual essential oils alone according to various in vitro studies (Figure 2 and 3).

The essential oils in Champ-Green have positive influence on the micro flora in the gastrointestinal tract by supporting the beneficiary bacteria. Also, the essential oils have a positive effect on animal-specific enzyme production and therefore improves nutrient digestibility as well as stimulate feed intake.

In vivo studies have shown that gut morphology is further improved by the MCFA’s; the bioactive fat components present in the product have antioxidant effect and thus help protect the living cells (Table 1).

The key to an antibiotic-free environment is a healthy gut and strong immune system. Studies have shown both the individual, as well as their synergetic effects of the components of Champ Green in improving the immune system and supporting the gastrointestinal tract. Champ Green enhances the natural weapons of poultry against pathogens. Thereby Champ Green provides an accurate and broad response that is required to achieve an antibiotic-free animal production.

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“Wheat, Flour and...”

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by Roger Gilbert

he seventh edition of “Wheat, Flour and…” hosted a conference that touched upon many different important topics.

This way Ocrim has still confirmed its experience and versatility in understanding customers’ needs and expectations. In fact, many various topics were examined: from flour improvers (Lutz Popper) to blending and micro-ingredients management (Fabio Vuoto), as well as Sanitation (Marco Galli) and BioStoneMill (Stefano Mazzini). We have featured these full speeches in the latter half of this article.

Flours blending with or without microingredients are an important step in flours management in order to obtain products that are different among them and useful for several exigencies.

Ocrim, during these last years, has focused its attention just on these points and has developed different solutions in order to supply its expertise both in technical and technological field. The company has invested a lot toward this direction in order to find the right approach and offer the right solutions with the maximum flexibility to the Market.

Another topic, which gained a lot of attention, was the one of Galli’s presentation about “Sanitation”. A week of explanation could not be enough for this topic since it’s very complex and full of argumentation. Galli talked (above 78 | November 2017 - Milling and Grain

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all) about cereal bacterial content during the cleaning process and how to destroy moulds and contamination in the mill.

Regarding the bacterial content problem, Galli said that Ocrim has foreseen a new conception machine for the soft wheat processing, which is very abrasive and with debranning technology, which is able to brush efficaciously the inlet wheat in order to have two effects: Light debranning in order to improve the inlet product in the mill and with fundamental effect to destroy the cereal bacterial content that is contained in the external part of the grain. This is a high-efficiency machine, which is able to reach these two important goals.

Concerning the mould and contaminations problems in the mill, Ocrim R&D dept. has concentrated part of its “energy” on an important machine: The Plansifter. The experts have paid a lot of attention on the sieves material, which is already in plastic material. They worked to improve that plastic material able to destroy moulds and bacterial problems.

After extensive research and tests in specific milling plants and after several and accurate comparisons carried out at OCRIM’s laboratory, the sieves proposal foresees a particular anti-mould and anti-bacterial product, which keeps its efficiency for a long time and guarantees the total destruction of mould and bacteria.

Finally, Stefano Mazzini talked about the BioStoneMill, a new machine and a new cereal processing line, which is gaining a lot of importance in the field

of niche products. The BioStoneMill is conceived as an independent line or integrated in a cylinder industrial milling plant. The aim is to supply a machine that is linked to the most traditional concept of wheat processing but studied and designed through modern industrial and technological concepts.

Ocrim’s challenges are more and more ambitious and diversified and OCRIM works hard in order to find always the perfect bond between industrialised, hightech and modern products meeting the customers’ demand.

The speeches

Ocrim is looking at new ways to guarantee flour quality and safety while improving energy efficiencies in flour milling processes.

At the recent Ocrim conference, ‘Wheat, Flour and …’ held for its key customers and hosted in the Italian town of Cortona in Tuscany, Marco Galli, the company’s technology director, explained a new development for a traditional piece of equipment that may well make a significant difference in the production of safe flour while reducing processing costs.

It involves the introduction of ‘diamonds’ to that ubiquitous piece of milling equipment, the scourer.

Secondly, Stefano Mazzini, the company’s commercial manager, explained a change of direction for the humble stone mill, a traditional piece of equipment that may offer the consumer new flour-based products on a ‘smallbusiness’ basis.

F a new model high-efficient scourer (SHE) that we are working to develop plus the development of anti-microbial sieves.

These two tools will be used to try to counter bacteria problems in particular.

We’re beginning to market the machine we’re testing with the specific purpose to finish the superficial cleaning of the grain and limiting or reducing contamination.

Our goal is first the reduction of ash content in wheat, followed by the reduction of the bacteria content, the reduction of heavy metals contamination and the reduction of pesticide contamination through light scouring which improves maintenance intervals and is easy to retrofit into existing machines.

Sanitation: New frontiers Diamonds are a girls miller’s best friend

by Marco Galli, Technology Director, Ocrim At the end of 2006 the European Commission introduced regulation EU N1881/2006 that set maximum levels for contaminants in foodstuffs and also a maximum level for contamination of heavy metals.

However, for foodstuffs contamination can be defined in terms of physical, chemical and biological substances and materials.

Physical materials include particles and foreign bodies such as glass, stones, earth, metallic and/or plastic parts, non-ripe kernel, foreign seeds, dust, etc. while chemical contaminants include heavy metals, pesticide residues, herbicides, residues of disinfectants both in grain storage and in the environment.

However, it is the biological materials, including bacteria, fungi, moulds and mycotoxins to name the main ones, which Ocrim is developing new processes to help millers combat.

Our research and development centre has identified two solutions to help combat some of these contaminants – they are

The scourer

The scourer has a new polygonal cover, diamond bands secured inside a retention device.

The polygonal cover has 16 sides, which help to overcome the ‘spiralling’ effect of product between the rotor and the cover.

This allows a breakdown of the product flow with a continuous remixing ensuring greater efficiency in the abrasion phase and greater efficiency of micro-impacts on shrivelled and empty wheat.

The abrasive diamond bands are as distinctive as they are innovative and comprise of Ocrim’s unique technology.

This means their lifetime is longer, they create greater abrasion efficiency and there is greater mechanical resistance. The new machine has four diamond bands, which alternate to discharge plates in the bottom of the rotor.

Ocrim’s technology is based on the deposit of a thin layer of synthetic diamonds on the supporting metal base. Synthetic

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They guarantee constant effectiveness over time and they can almost be forgotten about, as they do not need replacing at all frequently.

In fact, the loss of covered surface is only obvious after processing some 200,000-plus tonnes of grain. In that time, they may lose their covered surfaces compared to new ones. They are only reduced in size by 15 percent.

We can calculate that based on the useful lifecycle of approximately 400,000 tonnes on a production process of between 10-12 tonnes per hour, these bands can achieve a lifecycle without maintenance of 40,000 hours of work.

Traditionally, scourers are not very efficient requiring frequent maintenance, they are high energy consumers and have a reduced ‘rubbing rate’. Our conclusion is the traditional scourer is not an efficient machine. Without abrasive parts the power involved and wear rates are very high.

However, wheat rubbing on the abrasive diamond bands produce surface cleanliness and a separation of cortical fraction while considerably lowering power consumption.

A little more detail

So, what actions have we taken?

Whilst these goals are difficult to achieve, we have achieved some and are working on others.

We’ve introduced screen diamond bands in a retention device.

Why have we chosen this type of screen? Simply to avoid the so-called spiral where a product goes through the machine without being really processed.

This new shape makes it possible to interrupt the flow inside

the machine providing an end benefit of better yield and greater efficiency and effectiveness, all because this constant contact of wheat interacting with the abrasive bands.

It is a technology that we are developing further; it’s already used in our scourers.

It provides a greater duration, efficiency, and mechanical resistance and is applied in our machines with four diamond bands. We wanted to analyse how long this material can last as well as testing the wear on the individual diamonds and the results after about 200,000 tonnes are impressive.

We have a reduction of about 45 percent of the surface and reduction in dimension of about 15 percent.

What does this mean? It means that if we were to consider the maximum deterioration in the lifecycle of the whole system, there are years of work, so in a sense you could forget this machine except we would need to have an effective and efficient machine that did not require maintenance work every two months!

Energy consumption

Another important factor is energy consumption and efficiency with these scourers because nowadays one tries to increase the rubbing between the grains of wheat and this is a very great effort that produces a very limited result.

When we considered this idea, we also thought of all the people who have a machine and ask themselves “What can I do to improve their investment?”

So we felt that what has been presented right now can easily be adapted to the machine you already have and this is for two reasons: 1) First of all, so that we take advantage of innovative technology without having to make a major investment and 2) to safe-guard a company’s assets which we believe is very important.

Another important aspect, especially in the European market, is the aim to provide flour that is pure from a microbiological standpoint while preserving all the characteristics of the whole wheat.

The plansifter

To avoid the development of mould inside the plansifter, our Research and Development Centre has developed what we have defined as an ‘anti-microbial sieve’.

The solution proposed by our Research and Development team involves a compound with anti-microbial parts that is integrated to the material itself.

This new product is suited for use in milling systems with no negative consequences and it does not interfere with the characteristics of the flour and it lasts for a long time so it presents a number of advantages in the long term.

We’re not saying that this product can reduce mycotoxins, but we have seen that this product does succeed in a way to inhibit the development of fungi so it is possible at least to limit the development of mycotoxins within the mill.

The fungi’s static activity has been proven and this ensures many benefits, which cover a number of contaminants that today are more or less present in flour.

The way in which Ocrim makes sieves ensures that they can be used in any kind of machine, by any manufacturer. I think that this is a very important concept because it makes it possible for users to have an updated machine, making gradual investments.

To conclude, with sanitation there are no shortcuts so it’s important to achieve and maintain a certain level of sanitation, which involves constant work and constant research.

Our message is that we stand at the miller’s side looking for new solutions so that they achieve this important objective in the easiest possible way, on a regular basis and at lowest possible cost.

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The ‘taste’ of the ‘BioStone’ mill

by Stefano Mazzini, Commercial Manager, Ocrim Stone milling has a ‘taste of ancient values’ and the flour is believed to be more digestible.

It’s a slow process where the product is not heated and is exposed to highly versatile grind that makes a range of different food products that today’s discerning consumer are seeking.

At last year’s open day, we highlighted the pros and cons of stone milling but this year we’re looking at things from a different stand.

Industrial flour milling can lead to all of the requirements of all the world population because over the years it has adjusted to the nutritional values that were changing, but now more and more the market is looking for new products.

There are new requirements and people are trying to rediscover old tastes, old traditions while maintaining very high levels of sanitation.

Stone milling in recent years has provided some answers because it does have the ancient tastes that show their flours are digestible. Stone mills process grains more slowly - so the product is not heated - and it makes it possible to process small quantities in a dedicated environment that is well suited for small businesses.

It is versatile and makes it possible to mill different cereals and it is also possible to create very different food products, which is what the market is asking for and as entrepreneurs we need to meet the public requirements.

If you look on the Internet, you will find dozens of companies that produce mills, but why has Ocrim entered this market which is a niche market and where there’s very strong competition?

But Ocrim has 70 years of experience in the processing of cereals and clearly it’s a great company that is known worldwide.

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So Ocrim will be excellent in its interpretation of stone milling but before making this investment, there are some questions that we need to answer. We need to see if there is a market for this product and the questions are what can I process with a stone mill? What can I produce and what can I obtain? What are the benefits or characteristics of the final product and will we make a profit?

A different type of product

With stone mills, we can process a lot of different types of cereals such as; barley, rice, rye - and these are results that we couldn’t achieve with mills that we use today.

We will obtain a very different type of product even though we have reduced capacity here, we would have semi-whole wheat with products but with better nutritionally qualities.

But what are the benefits of stone milling and in particular for whole wheat?

First of all, we exploit the germ because the nutritional qualities are preserved so these products will obtain a high-added value because they have other benefits such as vitamins, proteins, magnesium, calcium and fibre.

In addition to these benefits in terms of health, these are flours that enable products that are more digestible, with a stronger aroma, more taste, can be better preserved, better nutritional value.

But an important aspect has to with financial accounts - there is already a market for this and it will grow.

Also, it would make it possible for us to sell in small shops or supermarkets.

But stone milling will never replace the milling systems that we use today, but it will be complimentary.

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Sustainability, productivity and stability IMAS North America brought Milleral Milling Systems, specialising in flour milling systems and equipment, to North America in 2011. Headquarters for the Western Hemisphere has been located in New York State since the inception.

The company was established in 1989 as one of the daughter companies of Ittifak Holding, which has controlling interests in retail, food, construction, machinery, agriculture and livestock.

They have been producing turn-key grain milling systems for nearly a quarter of a century and they offer these systems with the Milleral trademark. They manage manufacturing, marketing and after sales service activities successfully in keeping with international norms, with their experienced, professional staff, they set up complete wheat, semolina and corn flour mills throughout the world.

Early in 2017, IMAS North America introduced Viteral Milling Systems to supply the animal feed milling industry with additional offices and service based Texas.

IMAS has equipment in hundreds of mills in nearly 90 countries.

With over 28 years of experience designing, manufacturing, and supporting the milling industry, IMAS is the right choice for flour and feed milling systems with CE, TSEK and ISO 9001:2008 quality certificates.

The company says that they have strengthened their corporate structure by focusing on positive values. They remarked, “With its strong capital, problem-solving professional staff, nearly 20-year corporate memory and specific projects dedicated to the future of the sector; our company manufactures not only machines but also technology, quality, confidence and comfort for our customers.”

They continued, “With the knowledge and experience we have; we develop new technologies and provide solutions to improve production pace and standardisation, minimise production costs, establish effective systems with top-level energy efficiency and meet immediate support necessities.

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They have stated “All human beings and the natural environment are as important as corporate shareholders to our company”. With this approach they take care of the environment for the processes of the flour mills they establish, in addition to the consideration of the nature in our own manufacturing process.They use energy sources as economically possible since they have commented that they are aware that they will share these sources with coming generations.

They continuously investigate energy and system cost savings so that they can provide excellent system effectiveness and engineering to their customers. Combing the quality of the milling diagram, project, manufacturing, installation and system start-up with peak effectiveness. The quality awards their customers have won proves their success in this regards.

With their competitiveness, whilst conforming to international business ethics they provide effective systems to many countries over a wide range of geographical regions. They are aware that effective human resource management is needed to manage manufacturing and marketing activities globally. This awareness has gained loyal team mates to join them and be happy that they are all members of the team.

With the high performance of the sales and marketing team they have been providing high quality Milleral systems all over the world from the Middle East to America, from Africa to the Turkish Republics. They bring value added benefits to their business partners by focusing on their customer satisfaction principle, right investment in human resources and their knowledge.

Ittifak Holding has adopted “sustainability”, “productivity”, and “stability” as the main concepts directing their operations and business development strategies.

A new 60,000 square meters (645,500 square feet) production facility was inaugurated in 2016 in Konya, Turkey.

“We continuously work with the aim of carrying on our innovative position in the market,” IMAS, Integrated Machinery Systems.

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You need silo maintenance most when you don’t think you need it at all

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by Mole Master

he efficiency of a plant’s operation depends in part on how effectively the plant’s storage vessels are working.

Where silo maintenance is concerned, this fact serves as a two-edged sword.

The desire is to have the storage vessels as free of blockages and issues as possible, but there is usually hesitation in stopping or slowing production to get those kinds of problems addressed. Often, that hesitation results in a call being made only after a serious problem has developed.

Mole Master has been the leading expert in the industry for over three decades, so when there’s a serious problem, that first call comes to us. The number of calls Mole Master receives when a storage vessel seems to be in pristine shape is minimal. That is actually a problem.

Mole Master is equipped with the safest, most efficient buildup, contamination, and blockage removal services and equipment available. Mole Master can handle even the most difficult challenges. Our experienced crews are uniquely qualified to handle any obstacles that may arise during a silo-

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cleaning project. We arrive onsite with a variety of tools and systems that have been developed over more than three decades of specialising in silo, bin, bunker, tanks, transport, and process vessel cleanout.

Whether it is a simple clogged feed and grain bin with a few bushels of buildup or an entire bank of silos with many tonnes of hard, non-flowing buildup, Mole Master has the solution.

Silo inspections and preventative maintenance

Mole Master constantly and consistently reminds customers about the importance of regularly scheduled silo inspections and preventative maintenance. It is advantageous (and smart) to have your storage vessels examined on a regular basis. Contracting Mole Master to execute your silo or bin inspection carries the added weight of also incorporating Mole Master’s silo cleaning expertise. The two services are intertwined, and being able to work through one company that is coordinating all efforts makes the process far easier to manage with confidence.

A silo inspection involves an examination of the storage vessel both on the outside and the inside. The first step is that a silo engineer will look at the silo with binoculars to see if

F any immediate problems can be spotted. These might include buckling, bulging, or exposed beams. The interior of the vessel needs to be examined next. Along with visual inspections, the engineer will use a 3-pound hammer to test the sound of the inside walls. A dull, dead sound can be a signal of delamination.

Core samples may be taken for further analysis of suspected problem areas.

Incorporating an experienced silo cleaning contractor to handle all of the necessary rigging is important because the interior of the silo cannot be examined until areas have been cleared of blockages or buildup. Usually this kind of information will be presented in the initial plan, but sometimes the unexpected also occurs, and having a silo cleaning contractor ready at hand can save a great deal of time and money.

Regularly scheduled preventative maintenance can work with regularly scheduled silo inspections quite easily. The inspection can confirm that your structure is safe to use at full capacity. If the inspection indicates there are serious problems, our engineers can provide you with the proper repairs necessary to get your silo safely back into service.

The tools of the trade

Whether Mole Master has been called in for preventative maintenance, to rent you our silo cleaning equipment, or to solve a major problem, a reliable arsenal of equipment is always available. Supplementing the proprietary Big•Mole™ Service that revolutionised the silo cleaning industry, Mole•Master manufactures three engineered products for cleaning out silos, bins, and other storage vessels. Those products are the Junior™ 360º Whip Machine, the Arch•Master™ Auger System, and the Safe-T-Shot™ CO2 Blasting System.

1) The Junior™ 360º Whip Machine

The Junior™ 360º restores lost storage capacity safely, quickly, and economically without the risk of product contamination. The fully adjustable boom and crane bearing allows the unit to provide 100% (360º) coverage of the vessel’s interior from the initial set-up

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F position. The Junior™ 360 is manufactured with a modular design, so it can work in virtually any vessel, regardless of shape or size.

The Junior™ 360º includes a hose reel that is independent from the boom assembly, a unique 360º bearing for infinite positioning of the cutting head, positive mounting for safe operation, and a sectional boom that reaches up to 28’ (8.5m).

Mole•Master manufactures two iterations of the Junior™ 360º. The pneumatic version (JR360P) features a pneumatically actuated cutting head and hydraulic assistance. The hydraulic Junior™ 360º (JR360H) is designed with a hydraulic cutting head that is significantly smaller in diameter than any other head on the market, enabling it to fit into extremely small flow channels or ratholes without losing any power or cleaning capacity.

2) The Arch•Master™ Portable Auger System

The Arch•Master™ is essentially a portable, miniaturised rock drill. Mole Master engineered this product to create flow channels (up to 152’ or 45m deep) in arched or bridged material.

Sometimes the Arch•Master™ can complete this task completely, and in other instances the Junior™ 360º or Big•Mole™ services need to be added to the process.

The Arch•Master™ features a high torque, variable speed, hydraulic power head that can drill quickly through the hardest build-ups. Standing at 7’7” (2.3m) the Arch•Master™ can also accommodate low headroom clearance.

3) The Safe-T-Shot™ CO2 Blasting System

Mole•Master technicians have been using CO2 blasting systems for decades, but recently Mole Master began manufacturing its own CO2 blasting system. Safe-T-Shot™ is designed to safely, quickly, and efficiently remove hardened build-up. Although it is

most often used in industries like the cement industry, it can also be used on particularly difficult blockages in feed and grain silos.

Safe-T-Shot™ can be operated by a trained and certified crew working on the outside of the bin or silo, keeping the workers completely safe during the process. There is no danger of fire or explosions because Safe-T-Shot™ harnesses the power of highly compressed CO2 to fracture hardened material.

In addition to our silo and bin cleaning services, Mole Master sells and rents the JR360 and the Arch•Master so that properly trained plant personnel can do the work “in-house.” Serious problems usually require Mole Master’s highly trained crews.

Calling on decades of experience and a deep knowledge of safety guidelines is worth the investment, but for regular maintenance, a plant’s crew can usually handle the job safely and effectively.

Regardless of the option chosen, if Mole Master is involved in a project, the safety of your plant personnel and our crew is always the first priority. Mole Master goes to great lengths to make sure communication is clear from initial planning through demobilisation. OSHA safety procedures are followed rigorously all day, every day, including a safety “tailgate” meeting at the beginning of every shift. We have erected a training silo at our international headquarters to enable our crews to prepare safely for project completion.

Mole Master has the necessary experience and expertise to handle any silo or bin blockage problem. However, our equipment and our expertise can be just as beneficial to your plant before a problem becomes serious. Schedule regular preventative maintenance and silo inspections.

Let Mole Master help you solve your storage problems before it is too late.

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OPTIMISED LONG-TERM GRAIN STORAGE

How DomeSilos allow an economical and reliable solution for long-term grain storage

by Rebecca Pyper, Dome Technology

t’s well known that wheat farmers enjoyed a strong harvest in 2016, setting records for winterwheat yields during the 2016/2017 marketing year. According to the USDA’s June 2017 report, worldwide winter-wheat production for the 2017/2018 season is approaching last year’s yield.

In some areas, particularly Russia, weather has been ideal for growing grain.

So what to do with a bumper crop? When grain farmers harvest record amounts of grain, prices drop because supply is abundant. The ideal option, then, is to store grain in such a way that its integrity is preserved until demand increases.

An increasing number of grain producers, large and small, are contracting with Dome Technology to build DomeSilos™ for product protection, granting them the freedom to store and sell on their terms. “A DomeSilo is proven to be an economical and reliable solution for long-term grain storage. It’s a sealed vessel that protects against rodents, bugs and moisture,” said Dome Technology CEO Bradley Bateman.

Each DomeSilo is customised to meet the unique needs of the farmers and companies who will use it. But here are a few key benefits present in all domes built for grain:

Cost savings

A dome allows for more storage than a silo with a comparable footprint. A silo’s traditional conical roof cannot support product, so the entire interior cannot be used for storage. Because the hemispherical geometry of a dome renders strength at all points of the structure, the entire interior can be used to contain product.

Traditional bulk storage may require expensive deep-foundation systems based on the amount of weight the structure will hold.

But Dome Technology engineers utilise diverse alternative foundation systems that will often reduce deep-foundation costs.

Customers can save millions as the need for deep foundations may be reduced.

Costs are cut as domes are built with locally available concrete and steel, and the dome’s double curvature requires fewer construction materials with significantly less waste. And a 90 | November 2017 - Milling and Grain

DomeSilo can be built quickly; once the outer weatherproofing membrane is in place, construction materials and machines move inside, so construction can continue regardless of the weather.

Superior product protection through climate control and pest prevention

A dome staves off boundary issues other structures face. First, the PVC membrane covering the entire dome prevents moisture entrance. Second, the combination of the waterproof membrane, polyurethane foam insulation and reinforced concrete structure prevents extreme interior temperature fluctuation. These features reduce heating and cooling of the walls and air inside, preventing condensation.

Domes can be equipped with multiple monitoring systems that help maintain ideal grain conditions: Aeration systems: Aeration forces air through piles to keep temps consistent and achieve or maintain long-term storage moisture content. Besides maintaining integrity, a secondary advantage of climate control is that businesses can safely store product until demand drives up prices. Aeration costs can also be less expensive in a dome because of its seamless, insulated construction.

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According to engineer for Dome Technology Adam Aagard, when grains self-heat, it’s a function of moisture, time and temperature. An aeration system is designed to maintain the moisture and temperature, making sure a dome’s conditions keep grain at its prime.

“The systems we’ve used in the past are designed specifically for aerating and maintaining moisture in grain, and they can typically keep it within one to two percent of desired moisture content,” Aagard said.

If product is coming in hot because it’s been sitting in the sun post-harvest, an aeration system can be designed to pull off heat.

Moisture meters and temperature cables: A cable array hung from the roof monitors humidity and temperature, alerting plant managers when the environment ceases to be ideal.

The seamless dome with no easy-access points also keeps pests at bay, preventing bugs and rodents from working their way into the pile.

Additional and flexible storage

For companies eager to maximise storage, a DomeSilo™ can be built to store almost any amount of grain, whether 10,000 or 100,000 tonnes.

A single dome can also be engineered to store different grains at different times. When an aeration system will be present, all possible types of grain a company intends to store must be identified at the front end “because each has a different resistance to airflow, and we would want to size (the aeration system) for worst case,” Aagard said.

For efficient and economical grain storage, a dome provides the best in protection and the largest storage capacity. For producers wanting to make the most of a bumper crop that means peace of mind can be abundant too. Visit www.dometechnology.com for more information.

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CASE STUDY

Brabender GlutoPeak optimises receipt of goods at Wiesneth Mühle

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In the milling industry, being able to determine the quality of raw materials is fundamental.

Being able to test them is an essential task. iesneth Mühle GmbH in Franconian Pommersfelden, Germany, has taken its quality management to the next level, at the same time introducing a time-efficient system.

In what is one of Bavaria’s largest flourmills, constant thorough inspections in the in-house laboratory are of the utmost importance for maintaining the company’s quality demands. Therefore, before vehicles arriving in the yard in Pommersfelden-Sambach from the agricultural operations in the region are permitted to continue to the incoming goods area, quality inspections must first take place. A sample of the grain delivered is taken directly from the vehicle and transferred to the laboratory facilities via a pipe system.

Here the grain received is quickly ground and its gluten quality is examined. The GlutoPeak, a pioneering quick method developed

by Brabender, the Duisburg-based specialists for laboratory measurement equipment, is used for the purpose. Within a maximum of ten minutes, including preparation and cleaning, the equipment provides rapid, reliable information on the respective grain’s gluten properties and structure – an enormous saving when it comes to a complete quality analysis of incoming goods.

Every day, Wiesneth Mühle mills around 250 tonnes of wheat and rye. In summer, the vehicles belonging to the supplying farmers stretch in a queue way beyond the mill’s gates. A wide variety of other types of grain can also be recorded at two other sites in Nuremberg and Würzburg.

Family tradition with high quality demands

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Image: A member of Wiesneth Mühle’s laboratory staff weighs out the distilled water on the Brabender GlutoPeak

daughters. The trained miller knows exactly what a flourmill’s daily business is all about. She has grown up with the Wiesneth Mühle, and is part of a long family tradition in the miller’s craft.

The Wiesneth Mühle, ideally situated on the small Reiche Erbrach River, was first mentioned in official documents as long ago as the 13th century. For more than 300 years it has been in the possession of the Wiesneth family, who are highly regarded across the region for top quality, reliability and flexibility.

She continues, “Consistency and thoroughness are an absolute must when it comes to the quality demands made of our flours.

Our focus is on the inspections and analyses carried out right at the start of the process, when we receive the grain. In this respect, last year we considerably optimised and improved the possibilities for qualitative laboratory tests by acquiring the GlutoPeak. We liked the idea of quick, simple laboratory tests and the fact we are able to deploy it when receiving grain deliveries, so we can assess the different varieties’ properties.”

The EU’s Fertiliser Regulation, which comes into force this year, also played a role in their decision to invest in the GlutoPeak, “In this framework, we are counting on falling protein values, and therefore want to compensate for this by using the special properties of certain types, in order to continue to guarantee consistent top quality,” she finished.

Brabender’s GlutoPeak ensures consistency during quality recording

The Brabender GlutoPeak comes into use even before beginning analytical differential diagnostics, using the three Brabender devices the Farinograph, Extensograph and Amylograph.

This procedure, with its 3-Phase-System, is comparably timeconsuming, and requires trained lab personnel.

For this reason, up until now only random sample-based analyses have been possible at the receipt of goods stage. But since acquisition of the GlutoPeak in summer 2016, a lot has changed in the incoming goods section.

Julia Wiesneth is delighted, “The Brabender GlutoPeak means for us essential support for recording type-based quality. In this manner we can obtain rapid information that can also be used for estimating protein ratings, for making rheological statements

F about the gluten properties and structure, and therefore making a qualitative assessment of the grain being examined.”

For many types of wheat and mixes, being able to determine the protein and gluten content alone is often not enough to be able to make rheologically valid statements on the expected baking properties. The Brabender GlutoPeak closes this gap, and its consistent monitoring of the goods received provides security.

Wiesneth Mühle’s motto is therefore fitting, “Monitoring provides security’. It engenders trust in the company’s customers, who span baking businesses of various sizes, specialist wholesalers for bakeries and confectioners, as well as pizzerias.”

Rapid, reproducible quality controls

For such customers, determining the quality of raw materials plays a crucial role in the search for the optimum quality. In just a few minutes, the GlutoPeak process provides a ‘rheological fingerprint’ of the wheat flours, spelt flours and other grain-based products produced by Wiesneth Mühle.

The measurement taking is based on the separation and subsequent aggregation of the gluten in a flour-water suspension.

The energy input during the dough-forming creation of a gluten network is depicted by torque curves. This enables conclusions to be drawn on the gluten quality and its specific features, which the GlutoPeak process documents.

This is really appreciated by Luisa Wiesneth, who is responsible for the lab. “Gluten quality is a decisive quality criterion when it comes to assessing baking properties. Not only must this take place as quickly and simply as possible, above all, it must be able to be reliably reproduced for quality management purposes.”

Just like her sister, Luisa is also still a young miller, and since achieving her qualification from the Chamber of Crafts, is entitled

Family – Back (L-R) Johannes, Barbara and Heinrich Wiesneth; front (L-R) Julia and Luisa Wiesneth

to label herself ‘Germany’s best miller 2015/16’.

She stresses the importance of the Brabender GlutoPeak for complete quality assurance, “In the goods received section, the rapid, non-manual implementation of the lab test using the GlutoPeak offers a time-saving alternative to manual washing methods that are often bound up with errors.”

The only work carried out by hand is the weighing of the sample, software then controls measuring and analysis fully automatically.

Gluten quality at a glance: The GlutoPeak process

In a suspension comprising of between three and ten-gramme flour or coarse meal sample and distilled water, the GlutoPeak measures the aggregation behaviour of the gluten proteins gliadin and glutenin.

At a constant speed, the equipment separates the gluten complex, before aggregating it to a characteristic network, which is then broken down by the rotation of a mechanical measuring paddle. As

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F CASE STUDY this occurs, energy inputs are measured, the behaviour over time and torque curves for the physics of the gluten are recorded and graphically displayed by the software as curves.

Decisive is the time taken to reach the maximum point on the curve, the peak, as well as its height and subsequent decline of the curve.

In just the shortest time, these values, which can easily be read at a glance, provide the essential information on gluten quality and its rheological properties. Strong gluten generally shows short rise times with high peaks; soft gluten can be recognised by delayed, flatter curve peaks and very soft gluten shows very flat curves with very late and low peaks, right up to ‘zero peaks’, as is typical of wheat used in biscuits and waffles.

A benefit compared to other systems, which extract gluten, is the characterisation of wholemeal flour. With the same grain, various series of tests, along with their results, showed a good correlation between wholemeal flour and typical bread roll flour.

In a comparison of strong and weak flour - Toast – Bread flour is distinguished by rapid aggregation time and high peaks

Waffle flour on the other hand is distinguished by a long aggregation time and low peaks

The GlutoPeak in use at Wiesneth Mühle

Julia remarks that, “When using the GlutoPeak for analysis, your glance first falls on the ‘Time of maximum torque (BU)’ and ‘Maximum torque (BU)’ values. However, day by day we have come to learn that viewing the entire curve – under consideration of all measurement values – is extremely important for the evaluation.”

The development of the company’s own parameters, in order to be able to evaluate the region’s products as well as possible, concludes the process. “Eventually, thanks to the GlutoPeak, we are able to sort the grain delivered directly into the silos based on its quality,” she notes.

Thanks to the introduction of the GlutoPeak quick method,

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Wiesneth Mühle was able to considerably optimise quality assurance in the goods received department.

Julia Wiesneth draws a conclusion, “With the GlutoPeak, we have been able to simplify our quality assurance procedures. We can now constantly test gluten quality right there as goods arrive. A further great plus for us is also being able to assess the different varieties, which is now possible using the Brabender GlutoPeak.”

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Australian Premium White (APW) Wheat

by Zasha Whiteway-Wilkinson, Milling and Grain

Australian Premium White is made up of unique blend of hard grained white wheat varities selected to ensure consistently high milling performance and flour quality at excellent extraction rates.

Australian Premium White is delivered with a guaranteed minimum protein level of 10 percent.

Australian Premium White is ideal for the production of a variety of Asian Noodles, including Hokkien, instant and fresh noodles. It is also suitable for Middle Eastern and Indian style breads and Chinese steamed bread.

Part two “The New Derivative Landscape for Grains” - Australian Premium White (APW) Wheat In our September edition of Milling and Grain started a series of commodity features stemming from a webinar given by S&P Global Platts.

The webinar was focused on “The New Derivative Landscape for Grains” and covered a multitude of topics, the first of which ‘FOB Black Sea Wheat’, which featured as the part one of this series.

The speaker for this issue’s commodities is Tim Worledge, Editorial Director, Agriculture, S&P Global Platts.

He is responsible for developing the Platts Agriculture unit. He works with a team of dedicated editors to expand Platt’s news, pricing and analysis into the wider grains section.

The next edition of this series will focus on the Black Sea Corn Index; however if you wish to find the full seminar amongst others, follow this link; http://www.platts.com/webinars The unmet need for an Australia wheat index “So some of you will be interested to understand Platt’s Australian Premium White Wheat price is set on a daily basis,” Mr Worledge kicks off.

He continues, “Particularly ahead of the new CME Australian wheat futures that are likely be appearing later this month pending regulatory clearance.”

He starts off describing the companies pricing guidelines.

“We have a set of guidelines that are similar to the Black Sea Wheat assessment, which help us to set our daily prices in a consistent manner.

“Let me share with you why there is a need for an Australian White Wheat index. As many of you might be aware, Australia is in the world’s top five wheat exporters, of which 75 to 80 percent of its wheat is exported. Asia is its major destination and 50 percent of the wheat imported into Asia Pacific comes from Australia. The closest reference for Australian wheat prices is US Chicago SRW wheat futures, which does not fully reflect Asian fundamentals particularly well.”

Referencing the slide showing the APW exports and how they correlate to the CBOT SRW (Chicago Board of Trade, now known as the CME (Chicago Mercantile Exchange) Group), he comments, “If you look at the correlations run, you will see the correlations vary throughout the year. This could be owing to different seasonality’s, it could be new crop supply expectations, it could be harvest pressures or old crop hogging, or forex fluctuations, which are affecting import and export sentiments in Asia.”

He rounds off, “Hence, many market participants have come to us to say Australian wheat could be better served using a derivative that truly reflects a regional market.”

Domestic Australia market-pricing “Moving on let’s look at the Domestic Australia market-pricing situation typically known as the track market. This market typically serves as a reference price for exporters in Australia,” Why there is an unmet need for Australia wheat index?

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Export discounted against domestic market narrowing after LTA system in WA • Since Nov 2015, on average $6.47/mt discount to FOB Kwinana replacement value

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during that period.

“However since May 2016, export cargos have been seen discounted at a lesser level, US$4 below the replacement value after the implementation of the long-term agreement for shipping slots.”

Referring to the new “long-term agreement” in Washington, he points out that, “With the new LTA system in WA exporters enjoyed higher flexibility to move around their slots to match demand, and lately with dryness affecting selling sentiments in the domestic market some traders have felt the export market pricing could be higher than the track market, giving more shorts in track than in the export markets.”

With both international and domestic reference prices covered for Australia wheat, let’s now move on to the Platt’s price assessment process.

Platt’s assesses premium Australian white wheat Moving on to the method in which Platt’s assesses premium Australian white wheat Mr Worledge breaks it down, “With a minimum 10 percent protein on a maximum 12.5 percent on a moisture basis – on the FOB Australia basis.

“So we are always on the lookout for the cheapest export cargos that are coming out of Australia.”

Next, the specifications, Slide 21 “In quality terms, APW1 serves as the base reference for Australian wheat, as it accounts for half of the typical crop season. Although it is quite rare to have no price point for APW on a daily basis it has happened this Agriculture

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year. This is because of a big crop and lower wheat grade being available. Sellers were keener to offload the lower protein, but if we consistently checked for the protein spread differences, normalisation can be applied back to the APW 1 grade on a daily basis.”

He continues, “So an understanding of differences in protein premiums has helped with the price discovery process for the futures grade assessment, if the need arises for original grade.”

Slide 22 Thirdly he goes on to look at the volume.

“We have normalised it to 30,000 tonne export cargoes. Given the typically given volumes, regionally occurring below 28,000 tonnes,” he says.

Furthermore, “Typically FOB values seem to be minimally impacted by cargo sizes as freight advantages seem to be passed down to buyers, especially when the crop sizes are large and there is the need to move volume as quickly as possible.”

Slide 23 Moving onto timing he says, “However, in times of smaller crops as we are noticing at this moment (Slide 22) we hear that very many buyers are moving to a large vessel size for trading. But if we receive a CFR price point from a buyer or a seller, we will net the price point back to a FOB Kwinana basis, after deducting the freight costs for the cargo size reported. As for timing, the typical spot cargoes traded, are 60-90 days ahead as shown in the chart on the slide, and that forms the basis of the Platts assessment window.”

He goes on, “For example, for the July 11th APW export cargo; we were looking for cargoes loading from the 8th of September

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to the 8th of October. There are times when the buyers and sellers will move ahead of this median, depending on their expectations of supply, which are commonly observed ahead of a new crop. For example, over the last two to three weeks South Korean buyers have secured three cargoes for November to December on worries that the supply disruption for their noodle blend given the dryness in the region is expected to result in a lower yield for those grades. So possibly in the future we could consider publishing a forward curve to reflect these forward market trends and spreads.”

Next, location, Slide 24 “Given that western and southern Australia are the major exporting regions we will focus our scanning for price points for those localisations, we normalise our price point to Kwinana port, the major WA port.”

Finally, “Of course Eastern Australian ports are also scanned regularly for consistency to provide some ideas overall on market competitiveness in Australia. Year to year, crop quality and sizes differs especially in the current and upcoming seasons are showing above and below the medium of a normal crop. Understanding and checking for the cheapest exportable origin will be useful. In future we could consider publishing freight rates for major routes as well to compliment those major services.”

Bid-Offer-Deals Slide 25 Starting to sum up the presentation, Mr Worledge delves into the correlation and relationships between the bids, offers and deals.

He begins, “Let me share with you how our daily collected price points look. If you see from the chart, offers and indications from the sellers are usually higher at the top, while the reverse is true for buyers effectively it represents the bid/ ask range for physical cargoes.”

He expands, “The Platt’s assessment sits between these two points, one that’s saying that their selling at that price and another that’s saying that they want to buy at this price, the true value must sit somewhere at the middle, and Platt’s assessment sits in the middle on the black line running through there. Bearing in mind that we don’t always select a midpoint in the assessment.

“Rather we consider that the market supply demand and other factors before we decide the tradable value, it’s not simply a case of taking the best bid and the best offer and then going half way between the two.”

“In the past few weeks if you look graph, the black line has been closer to sellers indications considering the type supply and the expectations owing to the extended dryness across Australia,” he summarises.

Timing of deals (frequency)

Timing: Typical spot cargoes, normalized to a loading 60-90 days ahead of publication date

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Finally, the metrics Slide 26 “Lastly there are some metrics to illustrate, what we have achieved so far, over the 18 months when we started the APW price assessment,” he say’s proudly.

Impressively he points out that, “We’ve managed to trace about 40 percent of the trades done here of which half of the counterparties were made known to us by the buy side or the sale side. Our assessment is on average just US$1.16 per metric tonne away from the traded value, with a margin of error of less that 0.5 percent.”

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New Zealand 3%

Papua New China 2% Singapore Guinea 1% 2%

Middle East 8%

Indonesia 21%

Thailand 5% SEA 6%

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Vietnam 6% Japan 9%

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IFIF and FAO strengthen collaboration at 16th annual meeting At their 16th annual Meeting, IFIF and FAO further strengthened their long-standing collaboration to ensure safe, nutritious and sustainable feed and food.

The International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) held their 16th annual meeting at FAO Headquarters on October 5-6, 2017 to further strengthen their collaboration on critical issues to ensure safe, nutritious and sustainable feed and food.

The meeting was officially opened by Dr. Berhe Tekola, Director of the FAO Animal Production & Health Division and Joel G. Newman, IFIF Chairman, who welcomed delegates and reiterated their commitment to this longstanding partnership and agreed to continue to strengthen their work together to tackle the challenges facing the feed and food chain.

Mr. Newman, IFIF Chairman, highlighted that “the FAO focus on five strategic objectives, emphasis on working in a goal-oriented manner, and the FAO strong efforts reaching out to the private sector have made a tangible and positive difference in our already longstanding collaboration.”

Mr. Newman added that “together with the dedicated colleagues at the FAO we have achieved very important milestones, including the International Feed Regulators Meetings (IFRM), the Livestock Environmental Assessment and Performance (LEAP) partnership, as well as the Global Feed & Food Congress (GFFC) series and our relationship

continues to strengthen year to year.”

Dr Daniel Bercovici, IFIF Chairman-elect for 2018/19 said “our joint meeting with the FAO once again underlined our strong partnership and IFIF is committed to continue to support the FAO initiatives on capacity development for feed safety, the Global Agenda for Sustainable Livestock and LEAP, as well joint efforts on feed and food safety at the Codex Alimentarius. IFIF looks forward to our upcoming IFIF FAO 11th International Feed Regulators Meeting (IFRM) in Atlanta, USA, in January 2018, which is another great example of IFIF FAO collaboration positively impacting the feed and food chain.”

Daniela Battaglia, Animal Development Officer at the Animal Production and Health Division of the FAO, said,“FAO and IFIF have a long standing partnership and this meeting addressed a number of critical issues of common interest, such as the need for capacity development to ensure feed safety and the importance of collaborating to tackle the containment of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). FAO is committed to work with the private sector and feed operators and believes that they can valuably contribute to make the livestock and food sectors more responsible and sustainable to achieve important goals such as public health, and animal health and welfare.”

Digestive performance range in Brazil Nutriad, highlighted digestive health for swine at the recent Simpósio Brasil Sul de Suinocultura (BRSS), in Chapecó (SC-Brazil) in August.

The event consisted of a trade show and symposium and attracted a crowd of over 1,500 professionals from the industry over the course of three days.

Regional Director South America, Marcelo Nunes, highlighted the importance of the event, which allows Nutriad to reach the swine production target audience of nutritionist, veterinarians and other professional, “Nutriad’s digestive performance solutions have shown their efficacy across the world and delivers clear results to producers. The alternative our portfolio offers for the use of growth promoters has been well received by the attendees.”

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Japan-China rice technology seminar The Chinese State Grain Administration has announced the 2017 campaign “Promoting production and sales of high quality grain and oil” providing a major opportunity, as well as a challenge, to develop the rice industry into one of the most important measures in the promotion of structural improvements for supplier’s within the grain industry.

To address this requirement, the Academy of State Administration for Grain, Satake Corporation and Suihua of Heilongjiang jointly hosted the “2017 Japan-China Rice Technology Seminar” in Suihua, Heilongjiang from September 4 to 6, 2017.

Against the background of the campaign, the seminar discussed the promotion of practical improvements in rice production. It

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also highlighted experiences and achievements in both Japan and China regarding China-specific rice quality standards such as: high quality and fine production control of wet-rice cultivation, rice quality control technology and traceability, appropriate rice processing and consumption, and good taste wet-rice breeding.

Satake gave presentations covering “Establishing brand identity for rice producing areas in Japan”, “Appropriate paddy harvesting period and drying technology for quality preservation” and “Processing technology of GABA rice and germ-retained rice”.

On the final day, participants visited both a wet-rice cultivation area and rice mill in Qing’an County, Suihua after which the seminar was successfully brought to a close.

Industry events

IPPE 2018 Attendee and exhibitor registration and housing for the 2018 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) are now open.

IPPE has secured more than 1,140 exhibitors with more than 518,000 net square feet of exhibit space already booked.

The Expo anticipates more than 30,000 attendees through the collaboration of the three trade shows - International Poultry Expo, International Feed Expo and International Meat Expo representing the entire chain of protein and feed production and processing.

The event is sponsored by U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY), the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) and the North American Meat Institute (NAMI).

Register online and receive a discounted price of $50 (USD) until December 1, 2017. The discounted rate applies only to registrations received online. Beginning January 1, 2018, the registration fee will increase to US$100.

The annual global feed, meat and poultry industry trade show is

Presenting at ABC Challenge Asia Nutriad participated in the ABC (Antibiotic Resistance, Biosecurity & Consumers Challenge Asia) on October 17, 2017 in Jakarta (Indonesia). The Belgium headquartered company is both a sponsor and presenter. The conference was centered on safe and high quality poultry meat for Asian customers, complying with the latest rules and regulations.

Recognised international experts provided insight into most recent developments on the matter.

Dr Tim Goossens, Nutriad’s Business Development manager, Digestive Performance, presented on “Enhancing the biosecurity of the young chick’s gut”. His presentation focussed on non-antibiotic solutions available for poultry production.

Erik Visser, CEO, Nutriad mentioned that “Whether one believes that agricultural use of antibiotics in livestock production has fostered an environment

Sponsoring the Intestinal Health Symposium Nutriad sponsored the international symposium organised by The Intestinal Health Scientific Interest Group (IHSIG) group in Bangkok (Thailand).

The focus of the 5th Symposium on Poultry Intestinal Health was on the One World, One Health concept, which recognises that human health is interconnected to the health of animals and the environment.

IHSIG aimed to promote health and welfare in poultry production by provoking debate between the scientific community, poultry producers, regulatory authorities, nutritionists and poultry veterinarians.

Tackling the complex challenges of the feed sector The 11th International Feed Regulators Meeting (IFRM), organised jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organisation

scheduled Tuesday through Thursday, Jan. 30 – Feb. 1, 2018, at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Ga., USA. The Expo will highlight the latest technology, equipment and services used in the production and processing of meat, poultry and animal feed. The week of Jan. 29 – Feb. 2, 2018, will feature dynamic education programmes focused on current industry issues.

The International Poultry Scientific Forum, Poultry Seminar in Spanish, Pet Food Conference and the Environmental Conference for the Meat & Poultry Industry will kick off the week’s education programmes. The Animal Agriculture Sustainability Summit, Worker Safety Conference for the Meat & Poultry Industry, Poultry Market Intelligence Forum and the International Rendering Symposium education programmes will also return for 2018. In addition, several TECHTalks programmes will be offered during the Expo.

Also, save the date for the 2019 IPPE. With the Super Bowl coming to Atlanta in 2019, the IPPE show dates have been moved to February 12 – 14, 2019. Mark your calendar to note this change in the IPPE trade show schedule for 2019 only. that spawns antibiotic resistant super bugs or that excessive prescribing of antibiotics in human medicine has dealt us the same fate, our industry must take steps to mitigate the potential of a looming healthcare crisis.”

He continued, “We see a growing interest in Asian markets to learn more about alternatives for AGP-s. Not only driven by government regulations and pressure from consumer groups, but also following a genuine interest to introduce novel solutions into the market.”

The symposia focus on the One World, One Health concept which recognises that human health is interconnected to the health of animals and the environment. Humans and animals interact with greater frequency and intimacy in a globalised world. These interactions increase the risk of the emergence and spread of disease agents that could adversely impact health, whether human or both.

Dr Tim Goossens, Business Development Manager Digestive Performance, mentioned previously, “The conference will provide an excellent platform for us to show our latest scientific findings related to intestinal health, amongst which is the outcome of the EU-project on evaluating the effectiveness of additives against campylobacter (CAMPYBRO).”

of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) will take place on Monday and Tuesday January 29-30, 2018 in Atlanta, USA prior to the International Production and Processing Expo (IPPE) at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC).

The meeting provides an opportunity for

regulators and feed industry professionals from across the globe to exchange their thoughts and discuss concrete ideas for providing safe and affordable feed and food around the world. Government feed regulators may attend this event at no fee and participation at the IFRM is by invitation only.

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IAOM MEA 2017 Tom Blacker reports from the IAOM Middle East and Africa event: the fasting growing regions with exponential potential

The International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Middle East and Africa Event and Conference 2017 was again a successful conference and exhibition for all involved. The venue was again the Dubai World Trade Centre’s Sheikh Rashid Hall from Sunday 22 - Wednesday October 25, 2017. This was the 28th year of the exhibition and conference and the fourth time Dubai had hosted the event since 1992.

The Middle East and Africa combines some of the fastest growing regions for the food industry and is establishing itself more in alternative industries away from the dominant sectors of oil and gas.

IAOM MEA 2017 impressively showcased the event from the moment a delegate entered, it was clear that the growth of the exhibition booths and quantities had meant an enlarged space to 5000 metres squared floor space. The exhibition was directly next to the conference in the Sheikh Rashid Hall. Around 900 delegates attended with millers being around 40 percent of the total, which is a good balance according to Ali Habaj, Regional Director for IAOM MEA. Habaj also said this is the most diverse range of attendees for all of IAOM’s annual events and bodes well for the future of the international industry group.

Background

A week before this year’s events, a successful five-day training course for millers in Arabic was organised, which attracted a total 34 millers from: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

The honoured guest of note at the 2017 Conference and Expo was Egypt’s Minister of Supply and Internal Trade, His Excellency Dr Ali Elsayed Ali Elmoelhy, who partook in the Wheat Imports: Middle 108 | November 2017 - Milling and Grain

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Industry events East and Africa Regional Outlook panel discussion. Grains, pulses, rice and maize were amongst the most discussed materials for millers attending the events. The final session about Wheat Imports brought some interesting perspectives together.

Mandeep Singh Bindra, Head of Procurement – Grains at the IFFCO Group, United Arab Emirates, said that despite Dubai’s modern infrastructure and buildings, food habits amongst people here have not changed from simple tastes of previous generations, only that demand has intensified with population growth.

New developments and topics outside the industry, yet still disruptive to forward planning were on many minds. For example, the international easing of economic sanctions on Iran and Sudan. Also, political events such as Catalonia and Spain, Brexit and the European Union, North Korea, Donald Trump. Trends from before were raised such as fortification in many more countries in the region. Within the industry, the record harvests from Russia were discussed especially closely in the sessions moderated by Dan Basse, President and Founder, AgResource Co., United States of America. Most were satisfied with the quality of the questions from the delegates to speakers to be a high standard.

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Walid Ali Mohammed Saeed, Managing Director, HSA Group receiving the Leader of the Year award from Essa Al Ghurair

Klaus A. Velten, Managing Director Middle East Region, Bühler

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strength of any exhibition is the technology and it can be reported that this year the technology was at a very high standard.

According to the pre-registered delegate list, the representation from countries around the world was formidable: One from Algeria, 10 from Australia, three from Austria, seven from Bahrain, 10 from Belgium, four from Brazil, five from Canada, one from China, one from Cyprus, 10 from Denmark, 26 from Egypt, one from Finland, 33 from France, 26 from Germany, one from Greece, one from Hong Kong, 16 from India, three from Iraq, 32, 65 from Iran, 32 from Italy, one from Japan, four from Jordan, one from Kazakhstan, 21 from Kenya, 23 from Lebanon, one from Lithuania, two from Luxembourg, one from Malawi, three from Morocco, 15 from The Netherlands, seven from Nigeria, 11 from Oman, three from Poland, three from Qatar, three from Russia, two from Rwanda, 28 from Saudi Arabia, one from Senegal, two from Singapore, 10 from South Africa, eight from Spain, 21 from Sudan, three from Sweden, 44 from Switzerland, 117 from Turkey, nine from Tanzania, three from Tunisia, four from Ukraine, one from Uganda, 88 from United Arab Emirates, 20 from United Kingdom, 22 from United States of America and five from Yemen. Plus, new for 2017, a day-only delegate allowed a lower cost, which was taken up with good effect.

Networking sessions

Networking is a big part of this event every year. All networking sessions, coffee breaks, lunch breaks and dinners were again excellently catered for. This year, the evening entertainments with dinners were specifically for all delegates and exhibitors off site, and away from the day’s business.

The first event was the Opening Reception on Sunday October 22, at the official host hotel, the JW Marriott Marquis with sponsors of Bühler, Brabender,

Industry events Fawema and Sefar. The first day of the conference and exhibition was followed by the Traders’ Cocktail Dinner ‘Hawaiian Night’ at Nikki Beach, sponsored by the material goods trading sector companies: Ameropa, Bunge, Cargill, Cofco Int’l, Glencore, Louis Dreyfus Company and Phoenix. The final evening was at Bollywood at Dubai Parks™, the Local Host evening, sponsored by Al Ghurair Resources and Essa Al-Ghurair. This consisted of a dramatic theatre performance of Jaan-e-Jigar in two parts with a dinner in between, which entertained all and left the conference group enthralled.

Contacts and conclusions

At the conference’s conclusion, Stephen Doyle of King Milling Company and IAOM President 20172018, from Michigan, United State of America then gave a closing speech reflecting on the successes of the past days. Then, it was announced that in 2018, the Conference and Expo will be held in Nairobi, Kenya, which is an exciting hub for all of the Eastern African food industry.

At the conference, Milling and Grain were lucky enough to interview some very inspiring faces from within the industry, including this months interviewee – humanitarian award winner, Walid Ali Mohamed Saeed, Managing Director of the HSA Group..

For an upcoming edition of the magazine we have also interviewed His Excellency, Dr Ali El Moselly, the Egyptian Minister of Supply and Internal Trade.

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Ali Habaj, IAOM MEA Regional Director with Roger Gilbert, Managing Director, Milling and Grain

Meriem al Qarwi, IAOM MEA Regional Office Manager in front of the Imas Milleral stand

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by Laura Clark and Rhiannon White, Milling and Grain n September 28, 2017, the first edition of Livestock and Aquaculture Taiwan Expo and Forum 2017 opened its doors to a ‘mass of people’. The event was held at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center (September 28-30).

Organisers Christopher Eve, Senior Vice President of UBM and Sabine Liu, (GM, Asia Ltd Taiwan Branch) were delighted with the turn out, Mr Eve said, “We are all so excited about this show because it has surpassed our expectations and all the exhibitors are very pleased with the first day’s performance.”

“At this show, exhibitors are representing the agriculture, livestock and aquaculture sectors with a heavy focus on innovative and eco-friendly technology,” expanded Ms Liu. The event attracted 194 companies from 18 different countries across the globe, including: Korea, Chile, Denmark and Canada. Although a truly international gathering, Taiwan was well represented, with 50 members of the Taiwan Agriculture Machinery Manufacturer’s Association in attendance.

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Industry events Mr Eve commented, “So we’ve got the Livestock shows in Malaysia and Vietnam and the Philippines, so we’re really happy that we have one now in Taiwan because I think there’s a lot of potential here.”

He continued, “We have exhibitors with poultry cages, turnkey equipment, antibiotic free feed and feed additives as well as aquaculture systems which are being developed by Taiwan’s top IT companies. We also have bio fertilisers and pesticides, automatic environmental control systems, animal waste recycling systems and many, many more advanced technology and products.”

Designed as a ‘one-stop comprehensive international B2B trading platform,’ the 300 booths provided ample opportunity for industry experts to share their latest products and thoughts on the future of agriculture in Taiwan and further afield.

Ms Liu added, “Exhibitors say they are very happy not only because the business people they’ve met have placed orders, but also all of them are end-users and this is what they are looking for. So today many people

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New vitamin ingredient derived from mushrooms Sam Kuo is the President of Anibio, and he presented at Livestock Taiwan his products which are modern developments alongside the traditional Chinese medical hub.

He explained, “Our company’s product exists within the traditional Chinese medical hub and can be used for swine, chicken or aquamarine creatures, with these properties we are beginning to prepare to market the product internationally.”

He continued, “The most important thing is to ensure it is anti-viral, anti-stress and highly efficient. It takes three months to grow; we put the product in a vacuum bag, in which there are some roots or nutriment for very good health. Then we can cook and dry them and make them into a powder.”

When asked what level of inclusion he used for animal feed, in grammes or kilogrammes per tonne, he developed, “In normal production, for animals with minor diseases - 0.1 percent per tonne. For a very serious disease or if the animal is highly stressed, we use one to three percent. It can be used as a preventative medicine in feed and also to combat an existing disease.”

‘Counter Twin’ to counteract problems in extrusion technology Danny Chang, General Manager, IDAH Co., Ltd., IDAH are based in Taiwan and it is here in our hometown where we began demonstrating our new service to the industry. We have been in the industry for 40 years and we have realised that what our millers need, is not just equipment, but equipment that makes good feed.

It is difficult to say what the definition of good feed is, it could be ‘profitable’ or ‘nutritious’, it could be anything. Right now we are building an extrusion lab, where we hope to utilise people’s skills and experience by doing tests, trials and using education in this environment.

As you know, Taiwan was the very first country in Asia at the forefront of aquaculture 20 or 30 years ago and I would love to provide a service to our clients here in Taiwan, but of course this visit is not just for Taiwan but for greater Asia as well.

It is based on twin school extrusion technology and we have a patent on one of our innovations, that we call ‘Counter Twin’. We really believe this counter twin will solve all the problems we have, for our clients.

The counter twin is different as it uses a twin screw to make the feed. We have been observing the benefits: it’s very easy to use and maintain and it can be made from very versatile products.

Finally, our slogan is, ‘Experience now. Decide later’. We’re offering free education at our stand to show that extrusion and particularly the twin screw can solve many of the problems we have in the industry.

This exhibition has been excellent; a lot of people are interested in our solution. We are not selling equipment, we are giving people a chance to test their ideas and make it a reality.

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Energy saving husk furnace Will Lee, SunCue, held the stand at IAOM to explain a little bit about their products, “Our main products are driers; a lot of factories and rice mills use our driers to dry maize and kernel grains. The dryer reduces moisture and then the grains can be put into silo for one to two years.”

His colleague, Oliver Chiu (not pictured) explained further, “Our specially designed husk furnace allows us to control the temperature, by degree, plus or minus. So we can preserve the quality of the grain once inside the dryer. We currently sell to more than 50 countries in Asia, South America and Europe.”

Technology smart silos Edwin Cheng, Vice President of Almin Co, talks about his company whose focus lies in the storage sector and what makes their temperature control systems ones to watch.

He starts, “Almin Co was founded in 1975, we specialise in silo storage with temperature monitoring systems. You can monitor the temperature on an iphone or android systems and all the information is accessible on icloud, so you are able to see what is happening to the grain within the silo.”

He continues, “You can switch the fans or coolers on and off, using your phone. It is also possible to control some of the settings on a web-based system; the system will then send a message to your phone automatically if it goes beyond the setting point.”

Talking about his business he says, “We are an international business; we have sold produce in: Japan, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines. Taiwan is a very small country, so the market is limited. Our goal is to generate more international business.”

He finishes by remarking, “The show has been great; we have had lots of visitors.”

Industry events have come to our sales office to rebook for next year.”

For this event, UBM Asia Ltd, an organisation with over 30 years experience in hosting trade fairs, joined forces with government authority, the Council of Agriculture (COA).

Mr Eve expanded, “I have spoken with several of the exhibitors and everyone’s really happy to be here at the show and a lot of people are really impressed with the support the show has received from the government and from the associations here.”

He summarised, “So it looks as though the private sector, government sector and academic sector have aligned in order to make this show a big success.”

With all their stars in alignment, the brightest from the agriculture industry in Taiwan and around the world, Livestock Taiwan is set to be an annual event. The next event will be held in July.

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Walid Ali Mohamed Saeed

Mr Walid Ali Mohamed Saeed comes from a reputable and renowned Yemeni Business Family (AL SAEED Family). His business career started by establishing Al Saeed Trading Company in the year 1993 under the umbrella of Hayel Saeed Anam (H.S.A) Group of Companies, which started its business in the year 1938.

Al Saeed trading company has grown rapidly to become a household name for the H.S.A. group in Yemen, while identifying the importance of foodstuff requirement. They started by importing essential food commodities for serving Yemen Market where foods mainly rely on imports in order to benefit the final consumers.

The Group owns and operates two state of the art Bühler built Flour Mills with a combined milling capacity of 7,500 MT/day and has silo storage capacity to store wheat for over 400,000 MT in addition to storage of bagged commodities. The Group also owns a sugar refinery with 2000 MT/day refining capacity.

Attending last month’s IAOM Mideast and Africa Conference and Expo in Dubai, he was named winner of the Regional Leader Award to serve consistent food supply in Yemen – to find out more, a Milling and Grain representative interviewed Mr Walid Saeed at his Dubai office, Midstar Commodity Management Ltd. Can you tell me about your company and the history that surrounds it?

When crises happen, most of the businesses start shrinking due to the risk involved but when you are in business of supply of essential commodities, one can only think to go forward and work to ensure the supplies are intact and as wheat flour is a basic essential commodity, its an essential basis food for the people and must be covered, we have to work hard to ensure the regular supplies with best resources available.

When the government liberalised the subsidies, the private sector played a positive role and that’s the point Group decided to invest in the milling industry while understanding the importance of playing a role in the supply chain of the food industry. It was a major move for the Group to move from import of wheat and wheat flour to invest in the wheat milling industry.

Midstar stood by its commitment to ensure the supplies in order to continue the bulk wheat imports & flour milling operations even in the difficult situation that Yemen was going through.

We are part of a H.S.A. Business Group of companies, which has been in the business since 1938. The H.S.A. Group of Companies is very well diversified in different industries and regions. The group manufacturings are a very big part of the overall business, in addition to trading of Agri-commodities & services.

What are the demographics of your company?

The Group is very well diversified in all forms and even though Yemen is its solid base and where we come from, the group expanded into different countries worldwide. I am honoured to be a member of board of directors of H.S.A. group with primary responsibility of a handling the strategy of the business for the commodities with focus on agricultural commodities.

I have been associated with a number of organisations in the agriculture sector and also had the honour to serve as one of the Council Member of GAFTA (The Grain and Feed Trade Association) for three years. I am also council member of IAOM Middle East and North Africa.

Do you think the food/milling industry can meet Yemen’s needs?

The private sector has been playing a major role in food supply into the Yemen market after the privatisation, and Yemenis are in general very entrepreneurial business people always driven with continuous growth & improvement in their respective field.

In recent times, although the situation in Yemen has been difficult, the private sector performance in order to serve the country has been maintained in these difficult times and been able to supply the essential commodities to the Yemen market and its needs and requirements, but surely not to its full extent as the gap between demand & supply is increasing with each passing day.

That’s the reason, the NGOs and the World Food Program have to fill the gaps in food supply into the market and address the needy, especially for their basic foods.

So yes, absolutely food security is a major concern. It is important to note that on the economy side, there is also the inability for people to pay for goods because of high unemployment, so they have been affected and the high inflation due to the currency devaluation which has affected largely the people purchasing power, so it has been a very difficult situation in Yemen overall.

How would you say Midstar have helped solve these food needs?

Midstar is part of the H.S.A Group and was able to assist the food supply to the country.

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One of the Group wheat flour mills was out of operation for almost a year due to war but with good support; some were fixed in a short span of time by repairing the mills including silos and power plants, which were affected.

Now that mill is running at near full capacity. And at the same time the World Food Programme took part of our milling capacities for the needy and for distribution to the people. This really helped in the terms of utilising the excess available capacity that we were able to offer. By next year hopefully we will be back to the same position that we were in three years ago.

Did you feel honoured by the industry this week?

This award is for each and every person in the group and all the people who stood all the time to make this business run and I am very honoured to receive this prestigious award.

Also, this award has highlighted the Yemen food concern and Yemeni people in general who are in need of assistance & support in this difficult time and we are very honoured that the milling industry recognised the same in order to set an example for encouraging others for securing the basic food for Yemen.

I hope the influence of this award can be shared with other sector industries as well as other countries.

What are your final thoughts?

The Group has an obligation towards society and to be a good citizen, society has been good to the Group for so many years. The humanitarian contribution to society has been positive and met the need for distribution of food to the needy with their capabilities at the time of need.

We believe that whatever we are in today is due to the love and support of Yemeni people and it is the same love and support we are sharing back by doing whatever we can while ensuring the basic essential food supplies for the Yemeni society.

Business should always be two ways in direction and with the support of our people; we are able to run our operations while generating jobs as well as ensuring the food supplies of people.

Once again, I would like to dedicate this award to our Yemeni people and our group and to all who made it happen. Business has to have meaning and I think that success comes from the long-term relationships with people and stakeholders who always stick with you whether in good or bad times.

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hristian Jordan joins Superior Grain Equipment as the Director of Business Development for Superior Grain Equipment. Christian brings more than 20 years of grain storage and handling experience to Superior.

He has focussed on global markets for feed and agricultural machinery at Engineered Systems and Equipment. For the subsequent 12 years he built his career with Sweet Manufacturing Company, a leader in specialised agricultural equipment, control systems and bulk material processing.

Christian Jordan

Based out of Springfield, Ohio, Christian will be responsible for developing the U.S domestic sales territories and for supporting Canadian and International sales growth through business development activities. In addition, Christian will lead new business opportunities such as strategic partnerships and programs. He will also be managing the dealer network in our Eastern Territory.

Anpario appoints Corporate Development Director

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elen Houghton has been announced by Anpario as Corporate Development Director.

Helen will be based from their Cranfield office near Milton Keynes. She will assist in the development of strategic new sales channels and specific sales related projects globally.

Helen will also assume responsibility as the line manager for Marketing and the Global Pricing Strategy Team. She is joining Anpario from Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, formerly Merial Animal Health Ltd where she was Head of Avian for all European markets, and Russia.

Helen Houghton

Miss Houghton was awarded a Nuffield Farming Scholarship in 2010 where she studied disease prevention in the chicken embryo and young chick.

She studied Physiology, Biochemistry and Nutrition of Farm Animals at the University of Reading and went on to achieve her Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine at the Royal Veterinary College.

She has been awarded the RCVS Certificate for Laboratory Animal Science.

Chief Industries appoints new President for Agri Division

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ike Lewis accepted the position of President/General Manager on September 18, 2017, Chief Industries has announced.

Mr Lewis started his career with Chief Agri more than 17 years ago as a Controller for the division, which lead to his most recent position as Vice President of Operations.

Mike Lewis

DJ Eihusen, CEO/President of Chief Industries commented, “We are quite excited to see Mike take on this new role at Chief Agri. He has worn many hats during his 17 years at Chief, and we believe he is well suited for the opportunities that lie ahead. His experience in the industry, along with his appreciation and interest for all stakeholders, should prove valuable.”

When asked about his new appointment Mr Lewis remarked, “I feel very fortunate to have been given this opportunity. Chief has a long history and strong presence in the ag industry and I look forward to contributing to the on-going success of Chief Agri.

Milling and Grain columnist becomes CLFMA Executive Director

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r Raghavan Sampathkumar, monthly columnist for Milling and Grain magazine under the title “Asia’s food future: The Raghavan Report”, has joined The Compound Feed Manufactures Association (CLFMA) as their Executive Director.

Prior to working with CLFMA, he worked with CropLife Asia, an industry association in Singapore as a Directory – Stewardship.

Raghavan Sampathkumar

Mr Sampathkumar is a food and agribusiness professional with diverse experience including agro inputs, biotech, international commodity trade and animal nutrition across Asia Pacific.

He secured his Master of Agribusiness degree with High Distinctions from the University of Adelaide, Australia and is also an alumnus of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, India.

As well as speaking at many industry events, Mr Sampathkumar delivers guest lectures at educational institutes, mentors graduating students, as well as regularly writing on the global food and agricultural sector, sustainability and food security for international publications, blogs and social media.

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