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NEWS

12-35 local town in Japan, to the world

FEATURES

42 Twin screw extrusion

46 Ancient grains

50 The Rex Wailes collection arrives at the Archive 52 Beyond the Ri’ichi - From

FACES

56 R&D applications for aquafeed extrudates 60 Bühler’s 2019 Networking Days 66 Betaine in animal feed

126 People news from the global milling industry

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70 World flour day

78 Fortification - Excessive nutrient risk calls for thoughtful approach

78 Using Methionine sources in the feed mill

EVENTS

102 Event listings, reviews and previews

82 Annular Gap Expander

STORAGE

84 Grain entrapment 88 No more grunt work

TRAINING

38 Grain Trading Training held for buyers from China

COLUMNS

24 Mildred Cookson 32 Rebecca Sherratt

10 GUEST EDITOR Samuel Goldberg

98 MARKETS Mehmet Ugur Gürkaynak

124 INTERVIEW Samuel Goldberg

COVER IMAGE: Milling and Grain talks to the Mills Archive trust about the very important transfer of an internationally recognised archive on wind-, water- and steam-driven flour mills, from the UK’s Science Museum to the Mills Archive Trust in Reading, UK- See more on page 50

Feeding the world comes at a cost Why is a film producer guest editing an agriculture magazine? Trust me, it’s perplexing to me as well.

I produced SILO, a film about grain entrapment, but agriculture was far from my mind when the idea was pitched to me five years ago.

Samuel Goldberg

You see, I grew up in New York City and dreamed of working in movies as far back as I can remember. At first it was a need for self-expression, which led to an awareness of and desire for Hollywood glamour, and over time evolved into an appreciation for the power of storytelling to unite people. To produce empathy.

Well, the industry I grew up admiring isn’t what it used to be.

People rarely leave their homes to be immersed in the communal movie-going experience that was a staple of international culture for so long. Today the vast majority of films are either huge superhero “tent poles”, or tiny independent films that release direct-to-digital.

I fear that this new style of “content consumption” – and it is often that, a binge of stories - can create silos of opinion, rather than a shared culture. It becomes like eating candy where we skip the digestion of important intellectual nutrients. I, for one, do watch a fair share of film and tv at home, but the experience pales in comparison to the rush I feel when sitting underneath

the glowing lights of a movie screen surrounded by other people who’ve come for the same reason: to be entertained and to be moved.

Well, when I was pitched the idea for a feature film called SILO I knew next-to-nothing about agriculture, but something about the subject felt important, and weighty. I was a “city boy” with little appreciation for what it took to get life-sustaining resources like food and water delivered to my doorstep. That convenience, I have learned over the past five years working on this film, is afforded to me because farmers work countless hours to fuel our planet.

SILO is about a grain entrapment accident and rescue. It’s a thrilling, artful drama that depicts a day in the life of a small American farm town. But it’s so much more than that. It’s a movie about community. It’s about people who care about each other and must unite to try and save the life of one of their own before he drowns in the crop that has sustained their way of life for generations; a crop that sustains our international community.

So, how did I get here? Well, it’s been a long, tiring, adventurous movie-making journey. One that brought me to all corners of the United States of America in search of authentic stories and generous advisers to assist in the production of an incredibly ambitious film.

SILO has changed my life in a positive way. And I think has done the same for others as well. I pray that it will prevent future deaths. And I hope that, as a reader interested in agriculture and a movie that depicts it, the film enriches your community as well. Thanks for doing what you do.

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The Rex Wailes collection arrives at the Archive

GRAIN ENTRAPMENT

In this issue of Milling and Grain magazine we are very lucky to feature both a Guest Editor column as well as an interview with Mr Samuel Goldberg, Producer of the film ‘SILO: Edge of the Real World’.

Milling and Grain talks to the Mills Archive trust about the very important transfer of an internationally recognised archive on wind-, water- and steamdriven flour mills, from the UK’s Science Museum to the Mills Archive Trust in Reading, UK

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Samuel Goldberg, Producer of SILO

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News AEGIC and Henry Sımon collaboration

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ith over 140 years of experience, Henry Simon is dedicated to sharing its expertise with the milling industry, and today Henry Simon is a recognised brand that has adapted to the changing needs of industry with innovative and intelligent solutions.

Since it is a brand that adopts and pioneers the ‘Intelligent Milling’ concept, it has joined forces with AEGIC (Australian Export Grains Innovation Centre) aiming to enhance technical know-how in the milling industry in Oceania and Far East Asia.

This strategic cooperation includes building the AEGIC e-learning website, which includes useful information about the products, operational schemes, and technical information about grain processing in the milling industry.

Henry Simon are pleased to announce this strategic cooperation with AEGIC for the milling industry and intend to make sure that they will continue such partnerships in the future, aiming to add even more value to their services and share their innovative and intelligent milling solutions for the changing needs of the industry.

What, you might be asking, have we devoted our cover of the November edition of Milling and Grain to?

“We are so thrilled to finally have the Rex Wailes Collection in our safekeeping and we are passionate about making inroads into the material so that researchers can learn more from its unique records. As the national repository for the history of milling, Rex’s material forms a vital part of the story of how the world has been fed and fueled by mills. This is only the start of the journey, as it will take time and further funding to help us preserve and open up the collection to the public,” says the Trust’s development director Liz Bartram. In short this is a very important transfer of an internationally recognised archive on wind-, water- and steam-driven flour mills, compiled by Englishman Rex Wailes throughout the 20th Century, to the UK’s Mills Archive Trust in Reading from the UK’s Science Museum.

It’s a major collection that will be open to the public and attract millers and others from all around the world who are interested in our milling history. To visit the Trust in Reading and view documents, drawings and images from the era where industry transitioned from one energy source to another and from stones to roller milling this could not be a more important development. In fact, it is an historical moment in its own right.

Not far from Heathrow airport (in fact you can get to the Reading on a bus from Heathrow airport) visitors can make the journey easily.

Milling and Grain, published by Perendale Publishers Limited, is supporting the collection at the MAT and has the honour of having the room in which the collection is to be housed named after its title - The Milling and Grain Room.

Our good friend and Curator and Trustee at the Archive, Mildred Cookson, is writing on the importance of The Rex Wailes Collection in this issue. We have invited her to make additional contributions specifically about what’s in the collection over the coming months.

Our collective congratulations go to the Mills Archive Trust and its entire team for developing MAT into a fully authorised and recognised archive that not only represents the milling industry’s past but is a safe and proper place for The Rex Wailes Collection to be housed. For the full story see page 50.

Much more to come The Bühler Networking Days 2019 held in Uzwil, Switzerland in mid-August, like any company’s open-house, was for invited guests only. However, it presented so many newly developed technologies that it proved difficult for MAG staff to visit them all in the time available.

In fact, our report in the Events Section of this issue will give you a flavour of what was on show, but much of the detail can only be addressed in separate reports and features, which we will undertake over the next few months.

Not only were there new equipment and processes to visit, but there was a wealth of new innovations and start-ups that will be of interest to all millers, both food and feed millers alike, from around the world - from the big equipment of extruders, pellet mills, roller mills and colour sorters to complete processing lines for biscuit making, to regional breads and cereal products to ingredients such as insect feeds and feed and food safety measures, it was an absorbing experience.

What was most impressive was the way the programme connected all delegates with key environmental and sustainability issues from the perspective of what they could do about them. Keynote presentations ranged from global challenges and the fight for the climate, to the next generation of talent and the future of urban mobility. Sustainability and leadership and unlocking the potential of artificial intelligence all added to an exciting future of food.

An excellent programme that justified the effort to attend by each and every delegate.

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Missouri research farm celebrates 10 years of scientific discovery reen Acres Farm opened in rural Missouri in 2009 and has since been supporting customers by supplying the animal agriculture industry with innovative research and feed additive solutions to help producers feed the world.

On October 4th , employees of Novus International, Inc, which owns and operates Green Acres, along with

their families and community partners gathered at the farm for a private celebration to recognise and highlight the significance of the hundreds of scientific discoveries made possible through the facility and its staff. The event included tours of the barns, pastures and feed mill, handson activities for children, speeches from Novus executives and dinner.

Novus’s success as a global animal health and nutrition company is greatly enhanced thanks to its ability to test its products in-house. Tom “Skip” Hampton, Green Acres senior manager, said that were it not for the farm and Novus’s laboratory at headquarters, the company would have to wait months to explore and share the benefits of its novel products and applications.

“We can perform a number of research trials simultaneously and within weeks or a few months of each other,” Hampton said. “If we were working with an outside research facility we’d have to operate within their schedule and adhere to their guidelines, which may not address all the parameters of the hypothesis we’re hoping to confirm.

Green Acres allows us the ability to take a customer challenge or a new industry regulation and almost immediately begin working toward a solution.”

The 95-acre farm conducts 40-50 research studies a year.

These trials range in subject matter and explore topics like food safety, antibiotic-free production and optimising animal performance. Novus’s team of in-house experts perform rigorous analysis of the study results that is used to help Novus customers achieve their production goals.

The results are often presented in scientific journals, industry publications and at conferences, summits and symposiums held around the world so industry professionals can learn from the knowledge gained through the research.

During the event Novus President and CEO François Fraudeau lauded the 10 member staff at Green Acres for their outstanding contributions to the animal agriculture industry.

“It is through your efforts that Novus is a global leader in methionine and we’ve been able to expand our specialty product portfolio to include alternatives to antibiotics, chelated trace minerals, enzymes, feed quality and preservation solutions and pigmentation solutions,” he said.

“Our ability to share the efficacy of these products and respond quickly to customer needs through these products allows us to be a customer-centric company. Novus can provide excellent customer service and valuable products because of your commitment and dedication.”

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Cimbria provides quality grain storage and processing solutions to Nibulon, Ukraine

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imbria has been supplying high quality equipment for the grain storage and grain terminals of Nibulon, a leading player in the Ukranian grain market. Cimbria are proud to supply their equipment which they believe have played a pivotal roles in the resounding success of the company’s leading position.

The recent delivery to the Ternivka terminal included belt and chain conveyors to the length of 1,848km, and bucket elevators to the combined height of four Great Pyramids of Kheops in Egypt. However the construction of the Ternivka terminal did not take anywhere near as long as an ancient pyramid; it was instead built in just 100 days.

Cimbria, represented by Ms Oksana Stretovych, Director of Cimbria office in Ukraine, was honoured to participate in the Grand Opening of Nibulon’s new River Terminal in Ternivka, Zaporizhizha region, celebrating the 22nd project in a row between Cimbria and Mr Olexiy Vadatursky, Owner and CEO of Nibulon.

Nibulon is the leader of the agrarian market in Ukraine.

The launch of this grain storage facilitiy marked their 27th grain terminal. The project was an investment of US $23 million which was built in four months in the village of

Bühler Insights – Yield Management System (YMS)

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ield is the main lever to improve the profitability of a flour mill. Bühler’s cloudbased Yield Management System (YMS) enables yield monitoring from anywhere at any time. Based on its integration with Bühler Insights, it makes deviations between different recipes visible and comparable.

Thresholds and notifications can be set in order to prevent below standard operating conditions. Both the additional transparency and push notifications help food producers to react quickly if deviations become apparent. With YMS a constantly high yield can be achieved – which is crucial for running a profitable food processing business.

Cloud based yield control Bühler’s YMS integrates data from defined scales directly into Bühler Insights, independent of the plant control system. Various lines can be visualised and assessed. Thanks to the online data collection even those of plants in different locations. By comparing recipe-based yields, the overall mill performance can be continuously improved.

Potential of digital services First on-site installations have confirmed the potential of digital services. Additional information provided by data analysis

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Ternivka, Vilnyansky district of the Zaporizhzhya region.

The capacity of the terminal will allow up to 300,000 tonnes of grain per year. After the terminal has opened in Ternovka, the total volume of elevator capacities at the disposal of the company will reach two million tons of simultaneous storage.

allows systems to be operated at a different level. Yield improvements in the region of one percent have been achieved – even in modern, well operated and maintained flour mills. Given the potential with interconnected and self-optimising processes this is only the beginning.

Bühler Insights YMS is available on Bühler Insights, a central platform for Bühler’s digital services. There, data is collected, analyzed and transformed to valuable information about the mill’s operation. Ultimately, predictive services and machine learning modules will help to improve quality and efficiency of milling plants even further. Bühler Insights is based on Microsoft’s Azure cloud providing maximum reliability and data security. After an initial investment for installation and onboarding the services are available on a subscription base.

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Cargill to open Innovation Lab at University

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niversity of Illinois students, focused on solving some of the world’s greatest challenges across the global food and agriculture systems, will soon have a new space to test their work thanks to a partnership with Cargill. The Research Park at the UrbanaChampaign campus will be the home of the newest Cargill Innovation Lab. Led by Cargill’s digital labs team of data scientists, Innovation Lab students and staff will work directly with Cargill business leaders, operations teams and customers to help move digital ideas in weeks, not months, to test mode.

“Cargill’s commitment to engaging our students in its innovation process will add a new dimension to their educational experiences at Illinois,” said Robert J Jones, Chancellor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

“I had the good fortune to visit Cargill’s headquarters and engage with their leadership in this process. I am excited that Cargill has decided to join the dynamic environment in our Research Park.”

In turn, the Innovation Lab provides Cargill with a pipeline of talented software engineering and data science students and graduates ready to modernise agricultural supply chains and food systems across the globe.

“We are on a constant search for new innovations and new talent, whose fresh thinking can help us bring new technologies to life,” said Keith Narr, Vice President, Cargill’s digital labs team. “With an impressive engineering and computer science program, the University of Illinois is an ideal partner to spur the growth and innovation in our digital business.”

The Cargill Innovation Lab formally opens its doors this fall, following a successful first phase of the partnership, including a 12-week internship program.

“We know our students are motivated by making an impact in their communities,” said Mr Jones. “There are few greater ways to do so than by helping Cargill fulfil its purpose of feeding the world.”

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Milling News A corner of the Turner works

Irish mills and Irish millers Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

An article in The Miller in February 1903 was written to celebrate the setting up of the Irish Association of Millers.

It pointed out that the millers had a good reputation for proficiency and commercial enterprise in their craft, and underlined “their plucky efforts and the fine fight” they made to compete with the large mills on their island and the great imports of American flour.

In the city of Cork, St John’s Roller Flour Mills, belonging to Messrs George Shaw and Son, were well known. ER & F Turner had fitted out the mill with an excellent five-sack plant. The installation, which was described as being on the most modern

lines, was working very satisfactorily.

The milling arrangements in Ireland were not the same as England, with the arrangement of spouts, machines and flow of material requiring a great deal of business acumen to ensure the absolute perfection seen at the model plant of Messrs. George Shaw and Sons.

These problems did not deter Turners’ engineers who “had entered into the work with their customary energy and nerve”.

The highly commendable results were demonstrated by Mr Pertwee, from the staff of Turners, who had managed the installation and showed the visitors round the mill.

Mr Brown, the managing partner, in charge of ensuring the

Turner’s erecting shed

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The roller floor

mill’s prosperity, was a fine first-class practical miller. He was very willing to exchange views and give the benefit of his observations on flour mills and flour milling science.

The mill itself had the customary array of elevator bottoms on the ground floor. The spouts connecting these with the roll hoppers were built very symmetrically, the room being around 14 or 15 feet high. This loftiness was always a good starting point for milling engineers, as it cleared the way for building a plant on economical lines.

In the whole mill there were only three short worms for byproducts, the rest falling into their appointed hoppers and elevators by gravity. Around the elevators and shafting on this bottom floor there was plenty of walking space, which was another good point.

Mounting the first flight of stairs led to the roller floor, where one was faced with a fine array of Turner rolls. The visitors were surprised at the stated capacity of five sacks an hour and were reassured that this was indeed the case. It was found that they employed more break roll surface than had ever been seen before either in England or elsewhere.

The number of inches allotted to the first break was a revelation.

On closer inspection of the whole, each of the rollers had its own particular surface area which, when run conjointly with the others, resulted in a much superior performance to the generally accepted practice at the time. Detailed personal examination verified the innovation and the visitors had no doubt that this would ultimately stand as an additional principle in the technique of flour milling.

The same lavish roller surface was seen on the reduction side of the mill. The set up had evidently been studied both physically and scientifically and the available allotted space was utilised in

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A view of the purifiers

The Turner inter-elevator flour dressing reel

the best way to enhance the nature and yield of the product.

It was abundantly evident throughout the mill’s arrangement that a maximum of patent flour had been aimed at, and that only the highest qualities were saleable, anything under a good patent was not accepted. This total percentage of high-class flour was only made possibly by Turners making a personal and local study of what was required in the making of the mill equipment.

All the processes at the St John Mills had been thoroughly thought through before installation by Turners during their local study of wants and surroundings. There were seven Turner “Dustless” purifiers, the middlings being treated upon the first five. As a result of the elaborate division of stock upon the first break rolls, the sizes of middlings produced were so uniform and appropriate that there was very little secondary purification needed.

It was clearly stated that it was becoming more widely known and recognised that elaborate primary purification was ‘the thing’ and that middlings once or twice rolled never purified so easily.

Attention to this middlings problem could be obviated if millers went all the way in the important matter of primary preparation.

It was found that Turner’s inter-elevators did a first-class job as

Mr Brown, Managing Partner for George Shaw and Sons

scalpers; the stock from each break was treated with just the right amount of friction and movement necessary to free the feed to the succeeding roll from all sign of dusty material. The last break stock was treated on centrifugals. On the top floor of the mill was the usual complement of dressing machinery.

For better examination of the flour from each machine the triple flour worm was not bolted to the roof but was as a table worm running alongside the wall, about 40 inches above the floor. Any flour could be diverted to any worm and it was possible to make almost any grade that was demanded by the trade.

Throughout the whole mill simplicity and efficiency went hand in hand and the mill was noted as a great credit to all concerned.

Messrs George Shaw and Sons were the oldest millers in Cork and extended back to the third or fourth generation. They had advanced with the times and had always been right in the forefront of scientific milling practice.

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DESMÜD delegation visit Turkey’s Minister of Industry and Technology

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delegation from the Milling Machinery Manufacturers Association (DESMÜD) headed by Mr Zeki Demirtasoglu, Chairman of the Board of Directors and accompanying delegation consisting of Mr Gorkem Alapala, Member of the Board of Directors, Mr Halil Ibrahim Gormus, Secretary General and Mr Esat Arber, founder of Arber Tourism and Consultancy Company, met with the Minister of Industry and Technology H.E. Mr. Mustafa Varank at his office in Ankara, Turkey.

The meeting held in an intimate environment focused on the role of the DESMÜD in the success of the milling machinery sector and its growing contribution of generated value added domestically.

Mr Demirtasoglu highlighted that by this contribution they have made to the Turkish economy and exports, the sector has been able to compete with the countries that produce high-tech thanks to the investments made in R&D and innovation by the members of the association.

In 2018 DESMÜD and the Ministry

A painful loss for the milling sector

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r Abdülkerim Selek, Chairman of Board of Directors of Genç Değirmen Machineries in Turkey, has passed away in the early morning in October.

Mr Abdulkerim Selek, who has achieved great success in his business life at a young age and is deeply loved by his colleagues, will be sorely missed.

He was buried in Üçler Cemetery after the prayer performed at the Hacıveyis Mosque in Konya on October 20th.

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of National Education signed a protocol in order to solve the shortage of qualified labour in the sector.

Chairman Demirtaşoğlu stated that they are expecting support from the Minister for future projects of DESMÜD. Mr Gorkem Alapala, Member of the Board of Directors, stated that the sector has successfully managed to carry the brand values of the sector companies abroad with the investments made at home and abroad. He mentioned

an example of his own company, Alapala Machine Industry & Trade Inc founded in 1954, which made a strategic partnership agreement with Satake Corporation in 2015 in order to combine their expertise, resources, experiences and sales networks.

Mr Mustafa Varank, Minister of Industry and Technology, stated that they closely follow the growing numbers of the sectorial output and that as the Ministry, and that they will fully support Turkish Milling Machinery Manufacturers efforts in order to increase their global competitiveness and declared that they will follow the sector activities more closely in the following process.

Left to right: Görkem Alapala (Owner of Alapala), Mustafa Varank (Minister of Industry and Technology), Zeki Demirtaşoğlu (Chairman of DESMÜD), and Esat Arber (Arber Tourism and Consultancy Company - Founder)

Famsun commits to collaborating for a better feed future

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he International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) held their 2019 Annual Meeting at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy from 3-4th October, 2019.

The meeting was officially opened by Dr Berhe G Tekola, Director of the FAO Animal Production & Health Division and Dr Daniel Bercovici, 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.

Representatives from FAO, IFIF and IFIF members AFIA (America), AFMA (South Africa), ANAC (Canada), ANDI (Colombia), FeedLatina, FEFAC (Europe), IFIA (Iran), JFMA (Japan), SFMCA (Australia), SINDIRAÇÕES (Brazil), as well as intergovernmental organisations and private operators in the feed and food chain such as Cargill, Nutreco,

Alltech, Agrifirm, etc. participated the meeting.

Attendees discussed critical issues on regulatory and international standards for residues of approved veterinary drug to ensure feed safety; sustainability challenges; education, training and capacity development; and antimicrobial resistance.

Famsun was the only feed mill equipment and processing solution supplier that participated in the meeting. As one of the thriving forces behind China’s local feed industry as well as global feed and food supply chain, it has promoted feed production in over 140 countries.

According to Steven Shi, Famsun representative and the General Manager of Famsun Europe, the company has been in charge of setting 27 feed industrial standards in China, and it is dedicated to delivering latest international feed safety regulations and spreading good feed manufacturing practices to everywhere it doing business.

The two day meeting also allowed Famsun to learn the latest market data, well understand the demand of feed companies, and the urgency of feed and food supply chain to integrate resources to address challenges in the future.

“To feed a population of 10 billion in 2050 is a big challenge, we need to address together,” said Mr Shi. “We all have a responsibility for adding resources and increasing collaboration.”

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Apply for the Innovations Awards now - Our second application is in!

Rebecca Sherratt

March 24th, 2020 is the date to save in your calendar for the next rendition of the GRAPAS Innovations Awards and GRAPAS Innovations Conference. Taking place at VICTAM and Animal Health and Nutrition Asia, our one-day conference will bring together all entries into the Innovations Awards and provide a day of informative presentations discussing all aspects of flour, rice and pasta processing technology.

Following a successful year of awards for 2019, the GRAPAS Innovations Awards 2020 are now accepting applications. If your machinery for the flour, rice or pasta processing industry was made available to the market no earlier than in 2018 then it is eligible to enter into the GRAPAS Innovations Awards 2020.

The 2019 awards were a brilliant success with three winners crowned: Selis’ DAPS System, Petkus’ OptoSelector 901t and Bühler’s LumoVision. Also receiving the runner-up prize was Balaguer Rolls’ Optical Fluting Test 2.0, and we had other brilliant entries from companies such as Brabender, Dinnissen, Ocrim and Eye-Grain.

Applications close on January 19th, 2020.

Simply email me at rebeccas@perendale.co.uk for more information or an application form.

Yenar join the 2020 GRAPAS Innovations Awards

Applications have only been open for a month, and we have already received our second application into the awards: Yenar’s innovative rollCare Profile Measurement Device.

First released on the market in October 2019 at IAOM SEA in Jakarta, Yenar’s rollCare Profile Measurement Device is a solution designed to optimise the use of rolls in the mill.

The rollCare Profile Measurement Device is the only one device designed using laser technology in the world that is able to check roll profiles while fluting and also in the mills.

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Applications for the GRAPAS 2020 Innovations Awards close on January 19th, 2020.

Simply email me at rebeccas@perendale.co.uk for more information or an application form.

After measurement, this device allows users to compare stats by overlapping automatically the measured profile and the theoretical one and providing users with the deviations. With rollCare, users can easily determine the optimal time required to re-flute their rolls.

Yenar’s solution joins Henry Simon’s HSPU-Purifier, which also entered into the awards earlier last month. The HSPU Purifier brings the advantages of a new design and technology together for higher efficiency in semolina purification and classification processes. The purifier stands out with its new look, and improved ergonomics and functionality for its users.

The design work of machine has been carried out carefully in partnership with Italdesign Company.

Secure your place at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference

Registration to secure your attendance at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference will also be available very soon on the VICTAM official website. Make sure to book your place if you want to secure a seat at the conference and to see which milling innovations are crowned our GRAPAS winners!

From now, until January 1st, 2020, we have an exclusive deal on tickets. Early -bird tickets currently only cost US $30. From January 1st, 2020 onwards, tickets for entry into the GRAPAS Innovations Conference Henry Simon’s HSPU Purifier will cost $99, so book your seats now and take advantage of this brilliant deal!

For any enquiries regarding either the Innovations Awards or the Innovations Conference, feel welcome to email me at rebeccas@perendale. co.uk.

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n September 14th, Satake Corporation held its first seminar for its new semi-assembled rice processing system “Reach” at the Solair Forum, Manila, Philippines.

The seminar was attended by 31 participants from existing rice mills along with investors who seeking opportunities in the rice industry.

“Many were interested in low initial cost and faster returns on investment. Satake also received several serious inquiries for its products including the real-time yield monitoring system” according to Hiroto Ishima, sales representative from Satake.

REACH is a semi-assembled rice milling plant incorporating all receiving, pre-cleaning, husking, milling, optical sorting, and packing stage equipment.

It is designed to maximise the installation efficiency and cost performance by utilising unitised components manufactured in Satake’s Thailand production facility.

The result is an astonishing two weeks of onsiteinstallation time compared to the usual three to four months. For regions where they experience multiple harvests annually, this will allow rice mill owners to start up a production line before the next harvest season and maximise investment return. The line-up currently consists of SYSTEM 7.0 and SYSTEM 3.0, delivering 7.0 and 3.0 tonnes per hour paddy processing capacity respectively.

Satake plans to hold similar seminars in Asia and Africa region to further promote the efficiency and benefit of REACH.

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In total, five new mycotoxins have been added to the testing panel, bringing the total number of detectable mycotoxins to 54. These new additions further increase the understanding of mycotoxin occurrence and the potential risk to animal performance.

The emerging mycotoxins analysed by Alltech 37+ include beauvericin; moniliformin; enniatins A, A1, B and B1; phomopsin A and alternariol. Fusaric acid also features in this emerging mycotoxin category.

“The Alltech 37+ mycotoxin analysis test is the cornerstone of the Alltech Mycotoxin Management program,” explained Nick Adams, Global Director, Mycotoxin Management, Alltech. “We now test for 54 mycotoxins. With this new analytical capability, Alltech is better equipped to understand how contaminated feedstuffs might impact animal performance and health.”

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TRAINING Expanding the understanding of US grain markets for traders, importers and end-users from China was the focus of the US Grains Council China Trade Team offering held on September 2nd, 2019. Participants had an opportunity to learn about US operations including basis trading and hedging.

Grain Trading Training held for buyers from China “This one-day course hosted six participants from China who were interested in learning more about US futures markets and basis trading,” says Guy Allen, IGP Institute Senior Agricultural Economist.

“We also had an opportunity to speak with them on the US supply chain.”

He adds, “This was an important course as they can use these tools to help their procurement of international grain particularly from the US.” This is an example of a one-day customised course offered at the IGP Institute. In addition to grain marketing and risk management

courses, IGP faculty lead trainings in feed manufacturing and grain quality management, and grain processing and flour milling.

Understanding food safety and regulations necessary to comply with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was the topic of the NGFA–KSU Food Safety Modernisation Act (FSMA) training held at Kansas State University’s IGP Institute.

Institute food safety training event held This course was held August 20-22nd, 2019 and hosted 50 participants.

“It was valuable to have such a diverse group so we can understand the requirements and flexibility of the Preventive Controls for Animal Food Rule,” says Cassandra Jones, Course Instructor and Associate Professor of Animal Sciences and Industry. The course offered certificates upon completion on the Food Safety Preventive Controls Alliance (FSPCA) and the Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP).

In order to receive certificates, each participant had to fully demonstrate the requirements by a “preventive controls qualified individuals” per the FDA’s regulation.

Participant Madelyn Tusha, Kent Nutrition Group Plant Engineer, shares that she knew the regulations, but wanted to get a more indepth look as to why they’re in place.

Food production technologies constantly develop due to the increase in global population. To keep up with the demand, those involved with food production are implementing new ingredients into their animal diets to include sorghum DDGS (dried distiller grains).

IGP Institute holds training event To help educate those following the rising trend, the IGP Institute and the US Grains Council (USGC) hosted the Myanmar and Philippines DDGS and Sorghum Seminar. This course was held August 19-20th, 2019 and hosted 11 industry professionals.

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“It’s important for people at the feed mill to understand the reasons as to why procedures are set in place,” Tusha says. “It was helpful to dive deeper into what the FDA looks for and how they can help us.”

The course curriculum was developed by the Food Safety Preventative Controls Alliance. In addition to supporting professional food safety training the IGP Institute also offers training in grain processing and flour milling, grain marketing and risk management, and feed manufacturing and grain quality management.

wanted to enhance the knowledge of adding sorghum DDGS into their feed,” says Carlos Campabadal, Feed Manufacturing and Grain Management Outreach Specialist. “They were able to learn about several different topics including pelleting, export contracts, and how to formulate using DDGS and sorghum. They also toured Kansas State University’s OH Kruse Feed Technology Innovation Centre,” Campabadal says.

He adds, “Participants received a lot of information in the two-day course. Our goal is that this will improve how their companies operate and increase the overall efficiency of their organisations.”

In addition to feed manufacturing and grain quality management, the IGP Institute offers courses in the areas of grain marketing and risk management and flour milling and grain processing.

Silverfox Plansifter

PRODUCT FOCUS November 2019 In every edition of Milling and Grain, we take a look at the products that will save you time and money in the milling process.

Thanks to its modular drive unit and specially enhanced modular panels, Selis’ Silverfox sifter runs more stable with its simple assembly and accessibility features.

Its frame-sifter construction, developed as a result of studies in the R&D office, means there is no metal structure on the passage walls, therefore, heat transfer is dramatically abrogated, and condensation is significantly prevented.

Stainless steel execution on the passage walls provides perfect sterilisation and hygienic conditions.

By means of another developed method, with the usage of special sealing in the sifter, dead areas are minimised and maximum imperviousness secured.

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HSRM Roller Mill

Satake’s Optical Sorter FMSR-IR

As the winner of GRAPAS Innovations Awards in 2018, the HSRM Roller Mill brings cuttingedge technology and functionality together for its users.

The design work of the HSRM has been carried out in partnership with ItalDesign, which has been offering development services ort he automotive and other various industries since 1968.

The HSRM is equipped with Advanced Sensor Technology, which allows real-time tracking of the operating conditions for a higher level in reliability, process optimisation and safety. The sensors are used at the inlet, feeding and grinding systems (stock level, feed roll rotation, main roll rotation and position etc) for a continious and consistent milling performance.

The motor load, air pressure, ambient sensors etc are used for a safe operation, while vibration sensor is responsible for the overall protection of roller mill with a function of predicting any failure.

The new FMSR-IR series is an all-in-one machine with Satake’s latest RGB technology, IR, and shape sorting capabilities all together in one machine to remove unwanted products such as discoloration, foreign material, and irregular-shape defects from products such as tree-nuts, dry beans, corn, seeds, plastics, and a wide variety of products.

Additionally, it is equipped with a user-friendly intelligent software interface with automatic accept and defect profile creation.

Although production capacity depends on incoming product conditions and chute configurations, the FMSR-IR is capable of sorting corn, for example, at nine tonnes-per-hour and pinto beans at seven tonnes-perhour, with a three-chute primary sort configuration.

Furthermore, FMSR-IR comes with a standard stainless steel removable Accept/Reject hopper for easy cleaning, sanitation, and maintenance.

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Munson’s HD-3.5-9-SS Ribbon Blender

Pavan’s SBR-SD 25 Dehusker

A new Munson Ribbon Blender model HD-3.59-SS features an integral bag dump station that collects dust generated during manual dumping activities, improving worker safety and plant hygiene.

Dust is drawn onto cartridge filters of the dust collector, as nozzles within each filter alternately emit short blasts of air on a timed cycle, serving to dislodge accumulated dust and maintain vacuum efficiency.

The unit can blend up to 2.4 m3 of powders, pastes or slurries in 5-to-10 minutes depending on application. Its length-to-diameter ratio and split double-helical agitator reduce the time required to uniformly distribute particles having dissimilar sizes, shapes and bulk densities throughout the batch.

Powered by a 22kW motor and constructed of stainless steel, the unit is available to industrial, pharmaceutical and food-grade standards, ranging from clean mill finishes to 2B, #4 and #7 mirror pharmaceutical finishes to sanitary USDA Dairy finishes with electroplating and chemical passivation.

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The SBR-SD 25 reduces rice breakage, has great aspiration efficiency and considerably improved rubber roll life when compared to the traditional machines. More than this, the husk aspirator separates the husk from the rice by means of an air aspirator.

The solutions’ unique feeding system allows paddy to orient itself in the best possible direction for entering the husker at the highest viable speed for each variety of rice being processed, which combined to the continuous control of the husking pressure, ensures a consistent reduction of broken rice.

The rate of paddy being fed into the husker is also monitored by a level detector, which controls the feed gate pneumatic piston for ensuring even product distribution into the husking chamber.

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Samson Eco-Hopper

Samson’s Eco Hopper is an ideal solution to receive dry bulk materials as it offers a high and reliable import capacity whilst minimising the escape of dust and it is equipped with a host of safety measures to ensure effective and safe performance.

Operation of the Samson Eco Hopper is straightforward. As dry bulk materials such as grain arrive by sea they are offloaded into the hoppers using mobile harbour cranes. At a little over 18m in height and made of reinforced steel, the Eco Hopper provides a sturdy and solid reception unit.

The Eco Hopper is topped by a tapered inlet shroud which minimises any dust generation caused by cross winds. As the crane grab discharges the load, dust filter units situated on three sides of the hopper will keep any fugitive dust from spreading.

The grain then falls through the “Flex-Flap” dust seal system which contains any further dust. Material is discharged from the hopper via a dual outlet fitted with two telescopic cascade discharge chutes. This allows a single truck to be loaded by two chutes simultaneously thus increasing the average loading speed.

Material passes through the Samson Eco Hopper at a peak rate of 1200tph. The unit is wheel mounted which allows it to be positioned across the port in different locations as required and to be moved clear to allow other port operations to continue when not in use.

The Samson Eco Hopper benefits from a variety of safety measures: a storm anchor system (comprising of chains, shackles and attachments to secure the equipment during high winds), ready-to-load traffic lights and sounders, working lighting and safety overload protection. The operators’ cabin is climate controlled and provides a 360-degree view of the operation while accessing all controls.

There is also a hand-held pendant operator remote control unit.

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Twin screw extrusion Wenger revolutionises twin screw extrusion with unique models dedicated to pet food and aqua feeds

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by Adrian Martinez-Kawas, PhD, Wenger Manufacturing

raditional twin-screw extrusion design has served its purpose as the pet food and aqua feed industries developed. Yet both industries now stand at a tipping point where new trends are pushing the traditional systems beyond their limit.

Flexibility is key and what the new generation Wenger twin screw extrusion systems are built on.

The Thermal Twin® extrusion system is tailored for pet food manufacturers, so they can develop a wider range of products using an extensive choice of ingredients while preserving ingredient and product identity.

The Aquaflex® extrusion system is tailored for aquatic feed manufacturers to maximise their investment by giving them the capability to manufacture a wide range of products such as floating, sinking, shrimp, and micro feeds in different product sizes while utilising a broad ingredient selection.

This flexibility is possible given these systems are engineered with a specialised screw profile design to deliver higher volumetric capacity and the capability to operate using a wide range of thermal and mechanical energy cooking conditions.

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Table 1. Energy input and operating cost comparison between Wenger single screw, twin screw and thermal twin screw extrusion systems Extrusion Systems

Single Screw

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125.6

170.7

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Wear Cost ($/mt)

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3.41

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Total Cost ($/mt)

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Cook (%)

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sources utilised in the extrusion process. A review of current extrusion processes in the industry indicates the ratio of consumed thermal to mechanical energy ranges from 1:1 to 2:1.

This ratio determines utility costs as well as maintenance costs, specifically the costs to replace worn rotating elements. A recent study compared energy input and operating cost for three extrusion system (See Table 1). It was observed that even though the total energy input (thermal + mechanical) was higher for a thermal twin screw extrusion system, it was less expensive to operate over time compared to a standard single screw and twinscrew extrusion system.

An extrusion system with the ability to vary this energy utilisation ratio and shift to the most favorable energy sources from a cost standpoint, brings increased flexibility to the cost of operating the system. Wenger extruders are engineered to operate

in thermal to mechanical energy ratios from 1:1 to as much as 14:1.

This is achieved with a twin-screw profile that allows up to four-to-six times more steam injection into the extruder barrel.

Additionally, these systems are coupled with a high intensity preconditioner (HIP) which provides less product moisture variation and increases the starch gelatinisation compared to other steam conditioning designs (See Table 2).

As a result of a wider energy utilisation ratio and a specialised twin screw profile, coupled with a preconditioner which delivers less product moisture variation and increased cook, the flexibility of the Thermal TwinÂŽ and AquaflexÂŽ extrusion systems become key to increase product offerings.

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F shear and more gentle kneading to continuously develop the visco-elastic dough product matrix.

With a Thermal Twin® extrusion system, pet food manufacturers can go beyond the traditional dry expanded and offer high carb, baked, soft moist, vegetable bit inclusion, and high meat pet food. Furthermore, specialty treats (short and long), retort-stable wet food, engineered ingredients (up to 200%% wet meat slurry content), and textured vegetable/meat protein products can be manufactured with this type of system.

With an Aquaflex® extrusion system, aqua feed manufactures can expand their offering to shrimp, floating, micro, sinking, and fish soluble inclusion feed.

New generation twin screw extruder design and thermal cooking allow for a wider ingredient utilisation such as novel animal and vegetable protein sources. Not only is there a wider ingredient selection to work with, inclusion levels of ingredients such as fresh meat and slurries are two-fold in new generation Wenger twin screws extruders when compared to single screw and traditional twin-screw extrusion systems.

Higher inclusion levels suggest all animal protein could be supplied in the form of fresh meat for pet food and fish slurries for aqua feed instead of rendered meals, which translates to premium, clean label products. Additionally, product appearance (smoother surface), palatability, digestibility, and ingredient retention rates are enhanced when quality fresh ingredients are processed using a new generation twin screw extrusion system.

A recent case study in pet food palatability showed higher consumption ratio and first choice preference with pet food manufactured with a new generation extrusion system compared

to traditional extrusion platforms.

Nutritional studies in Brazil, Europe, and the United States indicate that there is less protein degradation and lower fat rancidity levels when thermal energy is emphasised over mechanical energy during the extrusion process. Protein digestibility of up to 95 percent was observed for product generated on a Thermal Twin® extrusion system using fresh meat compared to 80-85 percent protein digestibility of a product using rendered meat meals. Additionally, significant higher retention rate of important ingredients when thermal energy inputs are emphasised (See Table 3).

In two separate case studies in India and Vietnam using a new generation twin screw Aquaflex® extrusion system, a 10 percent formula cost reduction was observed producing shrimp feed and tilapia feed without compromising product integrity. Pellet durability indices above 99 percent were recorded in both studies, where product size ranged from 0.6 mm up to 2.2 mm in shrimp feed and 1.8 mm up to 7.0 mm in tilapia feed. Additionally, an average equipment wear cost of US$1.05/mton was achieved using the new generation twin screw. Significantly lower compared to a single screw (US $2.10/mton) and traditional twinscrew extrusion system (US$3.41/mton).

Overall, the new generation twin screw extrusion systems simply outperform the single screw and traditional twin-screw systems. The flexibility that has been engineered into these extrusion systems supplies pet food and aqua feed manufacturers the precise tool to maximise their investment and optimise cost of operation. Moreover, it can help achieve premiumisation and clean label products by allowing a wider range and higher inclusion level of fresh ingredient utilisation. www.wenger.com

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by Peter Marriott, Area Sales Manager, Henry Simon

ncient grains have been feeding the public since the beginning of civilisation. However, they were largely ignored by Western countries, where selectivelyrefined grains provide an economic advantage.

That’s changing nowadays; grains like quinoa, amaranth, farro, and spelt are growing in popularity with today’s consumers because of their perceived health benefits, according to a new report from The NPD Research Group.

In an interview with Cali Amos, of Health Focus International, reports that half of consumers are interested in ancient grains, and “nearly 40 percent saying they use ancient grains at least once a week.”

Furthermore, “of those consumers interested, more than 20 percent are willing to pay a premium for products including ancient grains.” In the last decade, there has been a renewed interest in the ancient wheat varieties for producing high-value food products with enhanced health benefits.

Bread and breakfast cereals were the first foods into which ancient grains were incorporated and followed by pasta and noodles. The increasing demand for healthy and convenient foods Quinoa grains

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to be consumed on-the-go, resulted in snack bars, sweet biscuits and savory snacks capitalising on these trends.

There is no official definition for ancient grains. Whole Grains Council generally define ancient grains loosely as ‘grains that are largely unchanged over the last several hundred years’. This means that modern wheat (constantly bred and changed) is not an ancient grain, while einkorn, emmer/farro, Kamut and spelt would be considered ancient grains in the wheat family.

Heirloom varieties of other common grains — such as black barley, red and black rice, blue corn — might also be considered ancient grains. Other grains largely ignored until recently by Western palates (such as sorghum, teff, millet, quinoa, amaranth) would also be widely considered to be ancient grains. Sometimes less common grains, like buckwheat, or wild rice, are also included in the list.

Ancient grains are a group of grains and pseudo cereals (seeds that are consumed like grains) that have remained mostly unchanged for thousands of years. They’re dietary staples in many parts of the world such as China, India, Africa, and the Middle East, and today getting more popular every day in Western countries.

Sorghum is an ancient grain that widely used in gluten-free food applications. It is suitable for use in gluten-free breads and other baked products such as cakes and cookies. In Southern Africa, farmers eat tannin-rich sorghum Sorghum farms in order to gain the energy needed to sustain themselves for long period of time.

Teff is another one with small seeds that is grown mainly in a few regions of North Africa.

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The ancient Incan, Mayan, and Aztec civilisations consumed amaranth as part of their daily diets. The pseudo cereal quinoa is a plant native to the Andean region of Peru and Bolivia. Quinoa contains large amounts of polyphenols, fibers, proteins, fatty acids, and minerals. 2013 was the International Year of Quinoa and saw the continued growth of this pseudo grain.

Internationally, launches of quinoa products increased by more than 50 percent in 2013 and have had a remarkable rise in popularity, growing more than five-fold over the past five years. In 2014, quinoa moved into the mainstream and can now be found as whole grain, flaked and flour, as well as in breads, breakfast cereals, bars and even as a milk substitute.

Ancient grains are full of fibre and protein containing healthy fats, calcium, iron and other micronutrients. They are also a good source of vitamins and minerals. On the other hand, there are also arguments that bioavailability studies are needed to back up ancient grain health benefits.

Processing of ancient grains is important since it potentially may affect their nutritional value as well as taste. As the first stage of processing, milling of ancient grains has utmost importance since distributions of nutrients show wide variation among the milled products.

As an example, a research study done in India on evaluation of roller milling potential of amaranth grains showed that conditioning moisture influenced the milled products yield and composition and milled products showed unique nutritive composition and functional properties.

Likewise, soaking the quinoa grains removes the saponins which give a slightly bitter taste to the products. Furthermore, ancient grains can be challenging for bakers since they may require special formulation and processing conditions to avoid inferior product quality in terms of volume, texture, taste as well as staling characteristics. We need to focus on more research and development studies including their milling and potential baking characteristics, in order to make people globally benefit of the unique attributes of ancient grains. www.henrysimonmilling.com

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The Rex Wailes collection arrives at the Archive

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

Milling and Grain talks to the Mills Archive trust about the very important transfer of an internationally recognised archive on wind-, water- and steam-driven flour mills, from the UK’s Science Museum to the Mills Archive Trust in Reading, UK Complied by Englishman Rex Wails throughout the 20th Century, It’s a major collection that will be open to the public and attract millers and others who are interested in our milling history from all around the world.

Milling and Grain, is supporting the collection and has the honour of having the room in which the collection is to be housed named after its title - The Milling and Grain Room.

July 23rd, 2019 was a momentous day for the Mills Archive. After long negotiations, the Science Museum released the Rex Wailes Collection, which had been held in their offsite store for more than 30 years, never to see the light of day. It is now in our care and thanks to support from Perendale Publishers, the collection is housed in the “Milling & Grain Room” at our quarters.

There was great excitement as the collection arrived, although Nathanael, our Archivist, now has his work cut out to go through and list more than 40 boxes of photos, glass plates, correspondence, diary entries plus many large technical drawings.

Rex passed away in 1986, having amassed a wealth of material that captures how milling evolved during the early 20th century. Personally, having met Rex and talked about the mills on Anglesey, I was quite moved to see his life’s work arrive.

His biography is on our web site, written by Nathanael, and here is the quote from Rex on how he started his life-time passion and work with windmills.

“One day, while I was photographing the big six-sailed tower mill at Coleby Heath, now demolished on account of the nearby aerodrome, the miller asked me if I would like to have a look inside.

“He showed me over from bottom to top and we finally ended up just under the fantail, looking out over a stretch of country that is said to have been settled by the exservice men of Roman times. Here in the mechanism of the mill was part of the history of mechanical engineering in the solid; just the thing to whet the appetite of a budding engineer with a taste for the historical side of the profession. Since that day I have tried to look inside every mill I have come across, both at home and abroad.”

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Rex travelled the world looking at mills and writing them up, so it makes it a very international archive as you will see from the continuing story.

I look forward to writing about this collection in future articles, and providing you with a fascinating glimpse into this mill stalwart’s work. Rex himself aptly wrote articles for ‘Milling – the predecessor of this current magazine - which I will M&G_maggio_ESP.pdf be writing about in these articles. 19:26 1 08/05/19

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by Hiromi Saita, Senior Staff, International Management Office, Satake Corporation, Japan ince its foundation in 1896, Satake’s 123 years of history have been an endless challenge with technological breakthroughs and regional boundaries.

Initially started as a short grain rice milling machine manufacturer in Japan, Satake’s products now range from rice milling machinery, flour milling machinery, biomass gasification systems and microbial analysers for ballast water, to packaged rice for the food industry.

Ri’ichi Satake Satake currently serves its customer with 29 offices in 13 countries outside of Japan, and supply products and services to over 150 countries worldwide, establishing and extending its global production system and service network.

We would like to go back in time and explore how Satake expanded its application of the short grain rice milling machine beyond the realms of imagination to all other products.

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In 1863, Ri’ichi Satake was born in a small town of HigashiHiroshima city, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan, as the first son of the Satake family who made their living as farmers for generations. It was in 1878, at age of fifteen, during the laborious work of manual rice milling that the first new ideas started to flash through Mr Satake’s mind on how to improve the rice milling process.

However, as he was about to start trials on a new type of rice milling machine, he was appointed as a person in charge of water management of the largest lake in Hiroshima Prefecture. In 1893, immediately after completing this work, he was again assigned 52 | November 2019 - Milling and Grain

as a commander of line construction for the railway between Mihara city and Hiroshima city, both in the prefecture.

The railroad later became one of the main lines in Western Japan, the Sanyo line.

Furthermore, he was then chosen for the post of line construction between Kyoto city and Nara city.

It was 1895, he was finally able to start the development of the rice milling machine.

In 1896, Riichi had realised his dream of creating a power-driven milling machine the first of its kind in Japan.

He not only designed it but crafted all parts by himself in a small shack. Its performance was 20 times more efficient than that of man-powered alternatives and impressed everyone who saw the demonstration; he immediately sold three of them.

However, not completely satisfied with its tall bulky heavy weight body (at near 370kg in total), he was led to recalling all machines he had already delivered to customers and begin the addition of further improvements.

The improved version became the famous four-linked type motor power-driven milling machine, twice the capacity but half the size of the first machine. The sales of this revolutionarily efficient rice milling machine expanded so rapidly that soon the tiny manufacturing facility became one of the largest in the area, hiring over 200 employees. This is the foundation of the current Satake Corporation.

Ri’ichi continued improving the equipment and, in 1908, his new invention resulted in the first circulating abrasive type milling machine in Japan, now including an emery milling chamber and an internal spiral roll.

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Satake’s first overseas expansion began 85 years ago, in 1932. As people in northern part of China suffered from undernourishment (particularly beriberi due to vitamin B1 deficiency), provision of vitamin-rich “germ-retained rice” became an urgent necessity, and Satake’s germ-retained rice milling machines were exported to Manchuria.

In 1933, the need for Satake’s rice machines to mill kaoliang increased and they began major export. In 1939, Satake established a rice milling machine manufacturing facility - Satake Manchuria.

The business outside of Japan continued to grow. In 1942, Ri’ichi’s son, second president Toshihiko Satake visited Burma (now Myanmar), Thailand, and French Indochina (now Vietnam and Cambodia) at the request of the Japanese Government and

took about 10 months to conduct an intensive survey of the rice mills in those areas.

From the result of these on-site surveys, Satake learned more about rice variety and rice milling environments in different countries outside of Japan and found that rice milling equipment optimised for Japan and nearby countries is not necessarily best suited for rice in Southeast Asian countries.

The rice from Southeast Asia typically held much less fat and fragility than that of Japan, which resulted in a higher percentage of broken rice once milled. Satake developed the “Tropics HStype” rice milling machine, which was optimised for the region.

In 1950, Satake participated in the Food Machinery Exhibition held in Burma by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). Since then, Satake has expanded their export and sale of rice milling machines to Asian countries.

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by Brabender, Germany luten-free flatbread, omega-3 noodles, chocolate rice, lupine puffs, woodruff licorice, vegan hot dogs? Extruder products are some of the most trendsetting and promising options for product innovations on the market.

There is practically no other process that offers so much potential for entirely reshaping a food matrix. Therefore, practical equipment with extrusion devices are now necessary tools for product developers in the baked goods, pasta, and snack industries.

With the TwinLab-F 20/40, Brabender has now introduced its current top model for the R&D laboratory world. We spoke about the background, possible uses, and innovative device features with the application technicians in Brabender’s extrusion laboratory, Julian Foerster and Michael Landers.

Extruded foods — Where is the trend headed?

ML: With extrusion as a modern key technology, new developments for snack products, breakfast cereals, flatbreads, noodle products or confectionery can be prepared at lab scale.

Innovative foods are made possible by varying the parameters of screw speed, temperature, and shear during their interaction at extrusion.

JF: At the moment, for example, protein texturisation of plantbased raw materials for the booming market of meat substitute products is in high demand. Laminar structures are created in the product during the wet extrusion with subsequent cooling of the denatured proteins. This meat-like texturing provides sufficient bite and the desired mouthfeel.

Which current challenges from the industry need to be solved in the laboratory?

ML: We need to be able to evaluate the options for the product

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development process step-by-step in a realistic fashion in the laboratory. For this purpose, we offer our clients technical solutions.

This is because any possible risks of new procedures must be checked out reliably before proceeding to production with them in large quantities. This means that we need recipes and real products, for example, for the sensory test, texture analysis, or color value optimisation during development. The TwinLab opens up a wide field in this regard: Raw materials can be extruded in various geometries in sophisticated process conditions.

Market-driven solutions with new raw materials and innovative products — Where does lab scale extrusion come in?

JF: Our TwinLab has been designed primarily for research and development. It enables contemporary and flexible product design from a range of raw materials: Not just “classic” corn, wheat, rice, or soy, but also with other legumes such as peas, lentils, or lupines.

Above all, this also includes innovative products made of potatoes, vegetables, or nuts in the snacks segment. Raw material mixtures with fibers, oils, sugar, or micronutrients are also possible.

ML: For this purpose, the TwinLab has six openings for dosing solid or liquid ingredients, four on the top and two on the side of the liner. I would like to name a few typical examples of the practically unlimited applications: Hot extrusion for direct or indirect expansion, such as for snack foods or breakfast cereals, cold extrusion for pasta, and wet extrusion for textured products.

Various die geometries enable almost an unlimited variety of imaginative shapes: The default is the round die head, which can be configured to diameters from one-to-seven millimetres with die inserts. The TwinLab produces expanded flatbread, confectionery, or snacks with the ribbon die head. And the tubing die head even makes macaroni...

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JF: The range of applications focuses mainly on recipe and product development. In addition, it can also be used to create samples for quality control or for the optimisation of production processes. The new TwinLab is a twin screw extruder at lab scale.

We have used it to test a wide range of shapes, colors, and flavors. During development, it was important to us to be able to adhere to realistic processing conditions. This saves on costs, is consistently quality-oriented, and ongoing production is not impacted for our clients.

ML: Along the length of the liner, four heating and cooling zones provide optimisable temperatures in every process area. With screw speeds of up to 1200 rotations-per-minute, it offers users great flexibility with regard to specific mechanical energy (SME). The twin screws can be individually configured with conveying, kneading, and mixing elements depending on the process sequence. This allows for a wide range of product simulations with different shear forces and allows the TwinLab to be used for a wide range of purposes.

With a width of 60 centimeters, it also fits in even the narrowest of laboratories.

Where do you see the application-related advantages for product development?

ML: Well, I could go on for hours about that. But I’ll name four main arguments for practiceoriented product development with laboratory extruders such as the TwinLab instead of experiments which interfere with production.

For one, you can vary your application ideas in a wide variety of ways with regard to raw material, formulation, machine, and product.

Secondly, you have the option of establishing methods for measuring your quality parameters from the raw material to the end product in advance.

Thirdly, you require significantly less time for your tests, save on material, and have almost no product wastage. Last but not least: You do not need to worry that your ongoing quality management system will be impacted in the first place.

JF: Universities and other research institutions are also increasingly involved in such practice-oriented product development. In collaborative

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Furthermore, in addition to various alarm and safety features for operation, the TwinLab also fulfills the highest hygiene requirements according to EU Regulation 1935/2004 — not entirely unimportant in this day and age.

projects with the sciences and businesses, we at Brabender support our clients with extrusion technology know-how.

Smart workflows are the talk of the town at the moment — does this apply in the laboratory as well?

JF: Yes, we can offer our clients huge advantages with the Brabender product family in this respect. The TwinLab is controlled via our MetaBridge software. It allows multiple laboratory devices to be networked — for evaluating, exchanging, and linking measurement data. Off the top of my head, I have two examples: The Moisture Tester MT-CA is used to measure the moisture level, first in the raw material and then the extrudate, as an important parameter for expansion and shelf life.

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So is lab scale extrusion worth it as a building block for a corporate future strategy for baked goods and snacks?

ML: Product development at lab scale is an essential path to innovative food assortments. We offer our clients suitable technical equipment for lab scale extrusion, the advantages of which are clear: Economical use of resources, speed and flexibility on the path to the pilot product, and quality-assured production. This allows a return on investment to easily be realised with the corresponding innovation philosophy in the company.

JF: New and ongoing development of products is indispensable, both grain-based and using alternative raw materials. The food industry and consumers wish to have interesting products — preferably with added value in terms of taste and health.

We at Brabender believe that extrusion as a technical application will play a key role for new consumer goods. That is why we are glad to invite clients to have a look at the TwinLab on site in our customer and technology center in Duisburg — and not just look, but also experience it in operation live and with their own materials! www.brabender.com

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by Roger Gilbert, Publisher, Milling and Grain

very much depend on our solutions and products. Our common task is to bring these challenges within good, responsible and profitable business solutions,” he added.

He said his company wants to form a "community of people and companies" who will commit to being part of the solution. He also added that the attending 800 industry leaders were testament to that goal in itself. In fact, he reiterated his statement from three years ago, that those attending NWDs2019 were producing food for the tables of over four billion people every day.

Those in the room today produce “food for more than four billion people and mobility solutions for more than one billion people per day", and that made this “a very relevant event.”

tatistics that accompanied Bühler’s 2019 Networking Days in Uzwil, Switzerland are impressive by any industry standard.

This two-day event (with a third day to allow a forum for increased networking and experiences) attracted over 800 industry professionals including many millers from around the world plus the company’s global staff and representatives with a strong compliment of key staff who work in Uzwil itself.

Approximately 1400 people in total attended this year’s NWDs 2019 from August 26-28th, 2019 at Bühler’s head office.

The theme this year centered on ‘Creating Tomorrow Together’ with the whole event taking a meaningful look at the severe challenges that face societies, food providers and millers today. Those challenges not only include climate change, water scarcity, pollution, technology shifts and food safety and food waste, among others.

Stefan Scheiber, Bühler’s Chief Executive Officer welcomed delegates by simply stating that it would not help anyone “if we ignore or play down these challenges ahead or stand still and watch things play out.”

For those in the industry, the equipment manufacturing sector and those supplying millers must have a “willingness to Stefan Scheiber CEO at Bühler says, “we need a radical transition to a food system that operates within the boundaries of human and planetary health”; Irene Mark-Eisenring, Head of Corporate rethink and innovate for a better and more Personnel Development at Bühler says there is power in ‘inclusive diversity’; Stuart Bashford, sustainable world,” he added.

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Targets for our industry

At NWDs2016 Bühler had set targets aimed at reducing energy usage in specific solutions across their existing product range.

Overall savings of 30 percent energy, waste and water were targeted. Whilst these aims have not yet been achieved, Bühler saw the necessity to aim higher given the current "climate crisis".

On average the company aimed at making energy savings to the tune of US $20,000 per customer. These targets have been achieved over the past three years and Mr Scheiber informed the audience during the opening session that time had become critical in meeting the expected food demands of a world of 10 billion by 2050. He predicted a 10-year window in which to address many of these issues.

Therefore, targets set by Bühler at NWDs2019 were markedly higher for the company with a goal to reduce energy usage by 50 percent, a 50 percent reduction in waste and 50 percent reduction in water usage.

An appreciation of industry

There cannot be a bigger appreciation for any company than to attract so many distinguished guests from all over the world, from as far away as Chile, China, America and beyond, Mr Scheiber told his audience.

He highlighted often overlooked achievements of the recent past such as a reference to poverty in decline, education being more widely available, more people living in democracies which underwrites the freedom of the individual and that overall the world was a safer place than it had been at any time over the past 200 years, despite the significant increases in population over the same period.

“All this in contrast to what we see and hear through social media and other communications. Let’s cherish that and make the most of it, but there is a price for the way we are living and the comfort we expect,” he added.

That price can be seen through the consumption of the earth’s resources. Mr Scheiber says our societies combined are consuming 1.75 times the resources that the planet can regenerate each year, which he expressed as the earth’s ‘overshoot day.’

The ‘overshoot day’ now occurs on July 29th - down significantly over the past 50 years from December.

“That means we are now using resources that this planet is not able to automatically restore.”

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The Cubic innovation campus - Accommodating and supporting up to 10 start-ups, the Cubic was also home to innovative and novel processes developed by Bühler and displayed during the NWDs2019. The ones that caught the eye of MAG included (from left to right): ‘GrainiGo,’ a quick and reliable corn quality analyser; ‘Insect Technology’ a significant investment in an alternative protein source that places insect rearing at the heart of a circular economy; ‘Laatu’ the process that delivers food safety in milliseconds and will alleviate food safety outbreaks by utilising a quick and through inactivation of micro-organisms; ‘Total Sense,’ which standardises the measurement of rice and minimises broken rice, improving yield; and finally 3D printing - looking at printing components for processing equipment

As a result of this trend the world is changing quickly and “we are running out of time” to adjust and meet the challenges faced. “We have a 10-year window to avoid things becoming irreversible and this impacts the energy we are using and the CO2 we are producing,” he said.

Industry accepts its responsibilities

As the world becomes increasingly integrated the GDPs of transitional countries will rise and this “will put increasing pressure on sustainable food supplies.”

He pointed to huge investments currently going into developing alternative food sources that had not involved an animal or a field.

Climate change and the awareness of water as a rare resource

were becoming more understood by the public and an issue that now sits alongside these two, and which will have a direct impact on the food production industries, is the use of plastics.

He said packaging waste amounted to 78 million tonnes a year yet only two percent of that was being recycled, while over 40 percent ends up in landfill. With signs of economies slowing after a long period of sustained growth, the question is how to create good business in this changing situation? Seeing trends and responding to situations will make for good business decisions, he added.

He says he has been fascinated to see how much industry has changed technologically and value chains improving their sustainability.

‘Solutions Space’ (From top left) Centre of attention was a dominant-looking twin-screw extruder which was flanked by a dozen other informative equipment displays including: The AlPesa milling system, as explained by Nick Trounce; the new Mill E3 with Arrius in all its glory (Arrius is currently only available together with Mill E3 - see September edition for related feature); the energy-saving, direct-drive pellet press overseen by Walter Signor and a look into the internal working of the TAS cooler/dryer with explanations by Michael Haerteis

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“I am inspired to see that industry accepts the role of coming up with responsible ways to improve production. This creates business opportunity.” And he congratulated his audience for their endeavours.

Mobility and others

Over the past three years Bühler has grown its mobility businesses which now represent over 25 percent of turnover.

The company added the Austrian snacks and biscuits firm Haas to its portfolio last year along with 1700 additional employees. He referred to the adoption of Cloud technology and the importance of the linkage his company now has with Microsoft and the benefits to be gained for customers globally.

He referenced the importance of this type of collaboration, which allows his company to achieve outcomes that could not be achieved acting alone and this included the development of not only networks but the development of talent and the involvement of young people through start-ups and membership of One Young World.

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Innovating, collaborating and educating

But at the centre of the entire event was the company’s new Cubic innovation campus which hosted 20 showcase products and processes as well as accommodating 10 start-ups with conference and refreshments areas.

In terms of its design concept, the new innovation campus Cubic is integrated into the Bühler site in Uzwil and is the bridge that links development, engineering and design teams with modernised Application Centers and the factory.

This enables the company to develop solutions together with customers, start-ups and industry and research partners up to the point of market maturity with much higher speed and efficiency.

The Cubic represents “Innovations for a better world” and it focuses on promoting new training and development methods.

Among other things, it embraces the dual education system of Switzerland, housing apprentices and academics, as well as youth and experience with the aim of innovating, collaborating and educating.

“The Cubic campus will become the epi-centre of our collaborative ecosystem,” says CTO Ian Roberts. “It embodies our innovation spirit and culture, where we will inspire, discuss, understand and derive actions that will support us as an industry to create more sustainable value chains, while contributing to addressing the burning environmental and societal challenges of our time.”

Visitors had access to a fascinating programme of 14 worldclass keynote presentations over the two days that ranged across all aspects of our changing societies and the challenges they face.

There were eight breakout sessions and ‘experience areas’ for milling solutions, innovations and technologies. There was a complete halfday session dedicated to ‘The Future of Mobility’ that covered the production of components for energy supply through battery technology, developments to the shaping of light with precision optical sensors for mobility along with sustainable production of these components.

In addition, there were Application Centres covering chocolate and cocoa to grinding and dispersing, die casing, bakery, nutrition and pasta and grain technology, all open to visitors with Use everything more than once! This coffee cup at the Cubic refreshment bar not only keeps special interests. your brew hot but is a tasty edible snack afterwards!

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The new Cubic innovation campus links development, engineering and design teams with the company's modernised Application Centers and the factory proper

Strategic co-operation

One of the accomplishments achieved during the Networking Days was the announcement of the formation of a strategic cooperation for an industrial flexible packaging solution with the coming together of Bühler and the Canadian company Premier Tech (reported in our September 2019 edition of MAG).

Both companies have agreed to build a design and manufacturing centre in China.

This will “enable future packaging solutions which are significantly more efficient, accurate and food safe by using automated technologies,” announced Johannes Wick, the CEO of Bühler’s grains and food business.

Andres Noreau, CEO of Premier Tech’s systems and automation business says the two companies “are complimenting each other in a perfect way with Bühler’s strong footprint and market position in China and Premier Tech’s recognised know-how in the field of automated packaging technologies.”

Next big step in milling

A second major announcement was the launch of the revolutionised industrial milling system called the Mill E3 (which

was featured in the September 2019 edition of Milling and Grain).

The Mill E3 sets a new standard when it comes to cost-effective mill building from an investment, project completion and energy usage point-of-view. Bühler believes that this is “the next big step forward in milling” and incorporates its blockchain technology.

While the focus in recent decades has been on optimising machines and processes, the basic design of a flour mill has remained largely unchanged with the buildings being five or six stories tall.

It is now possible, using the latest technologies, to reduce the structure of a flour mill to just three levels - or up to 30 percent smaller in volume - than a traditional mill with the same production capacity. Less capital is required and construction is carried out more quickly.

The Mill E3 “is basically a plug-and-play mill,” says Stefan Birrer, head of Bühler’s business area for milling solutions.

The Mill E3 also has the capacity to reduce energy consumption by up to 10 percent without compromising yield or quality. The new Arrius integrated grinding system and the self-cleaning Tubo tubular push conveyor combined play a significant role in saving energy in the Mill E3. www.buhlergroup.com

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etaine, also known as trimethylglycine, is a multifunctional compound, found naturally in plants and in animals, and also available in different forms as an additive for animal feed. The metabolic function of betaine as a methyldonor is known by most nutritionists.

Betaine is, just like choline and methionine, involved in the methyl group metabolism in the liver and donates its labile methyl group for the synthesis of several metabolically important compounds such as carnitine, creatine and hormones (See Figure 1).

Choline, methionine and betaine are all related in the methyl group metabolism. Therefore, supplementation of betaine can reduce the requirements for these other methyl group donors. Consequently, one of the well-known applications of betaine in animal feed is replacing (part of the) choline chloride and added methionine in the diet.

Depending on market prices, these replacements in general save feed costs, while maintaining performance results. When betaine is used to replace other methyldonors, betaine is rather used as a commodity, meaning dosage of betaine in feed formulation can be variable and depends on prices of related compounds such as choline and methionine.

But, betaine is more than just a methyl donating nutrient and inclusion of betaine in feed should be considered as a means of improving performance.

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Betaine as osmoprotectant

Besides its function as a methyldonor, betaine acts as an osmoregulator. When betaine is not metabolised by the liver in the methyl group metabolism, it comes available for cells to use as an organic osmolyte.

As an osmolyte, betaine increases intracellular water retention, but moreover, it will also protect cellular structures like proteins, enzymes and DNA. This osmoprotective property of betaine is very important for cells experiencing (osmotic) stress. Thanks to the increase in their intracellular betaine concentration, stressed

cells can better preserve their cellular functions such as enzyme production, DNA replication and cell proliferation.

Due to the better preservation of cellular function, betaine may have the potential to improve animal performance especially under specific stress situations (heat stress, coccidiosis challenge, water salinity, etc). The additional supplementation of betaine to the feed has proven to be beneficial in different situations and for different animal species.

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Probably the most studied situation regarding to the beneficial effects of betaine is heat stress. A lot of animals live in environmental temperatures that exceed their thermal comfort zone, leading to heat stress.

Heat stress is a typical condition where it is important for animals to regulate their water balance. By its ability to act as a protective osmolyte, betaine relieves heat stress as indicated for example by lower rectal temperatures and less panting behaviour in broilers.

Reduction of the heat stress in animals promotes their feed intake and helps in maintaining performance. Not only in broilers, but also in layers, sows, rabbits, dairy and beef cattle, reports show the beneficial effects of betaine in keeping up performance during hot weather as well as high humidity.

Also, to support gut health, betaine can help. Intestinal cells are continuously exposed to the hyperosmotic content of the gut and in case of diarrhoea, osmotic challenge for these cells will even be higher. Betaine is important for the osmotic protection of the intestinal cells.

Maintenance of water balance and cell volume by intracellular accumulation of betaine results in improvement of gut morphology (higher villi) and better digestibility (due to a well-maintained enzyme secretion and the increased surface for nutrient absorption). The positive effects of betaine on gut health are especially pronounced in challenged animals: e.g. poultry with coccidiosis and weaning piglets.

Betaine is also known as a carcass modifier. The multiple functions of betaine play a role in protein-, energy- and fat metabolism of animals. Both in poultry and pigs, higher breast

meat yield and lean meat yield respectively, are reported in a large number of scientific studies. The mobilisation of fat also results in lower fat content of carcasses, improving carcass quality.

Betaine as a performance enhancer

All the reported positive effects of betaine show how valuable this nutrient can be. Addition of betaine to the diet therefore should be considered, not only as a commodity to replace other methyldonors and saving feed costs, but also as a functional additive to support animals’ health and performance.

The difference between these two applications is the dosage.

As a methyldonor, betaine often will be used in feed at dosages of 500ppm or even lower. To enhance performance typically dosages of 1000-to-2000ppm betaine are used.

These higher dosages result in unmetabolised betaine, circulating in the body of the animals, available for uptake by cells to protect them against (osmotic) stress and consequently supporting animal health and performance.

Conclusion

Betaine has different applications for different animal species.

In animal feed betaine can be used as a commodity for feed cost savings, but it can also be included in the diet to improve animal health and to enhance performance. Especially nowadays, where we try to minimize the use of antibiotics, supporting animals’ health is of great importance. Betaine certainly deserves a place in the list of alternative bioactive compounds to support animal health. www.orffa.com

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WORLD FLOUR DAY

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by Mühlenchemie GmbH, Germany

lour is one of mankind’s most important staple foods, yet we all take it for granted.

The National Day Calendar has certified 20th March as World Flour Day. “At last we have one day in the year that reminds us to appreciate our daily flour – the white gold of life”, says initiator Carsten Blum of FlourWorld Museum with satisfaction.

Farmers, millers, bakers – in fact the entire flour-processing industry from New York to Sydney, from Buenos Aires to Mexico, from Lisbon to Moscow: they all celebrate this day.

Flour. Power. Life.

Products made from flour are the daily food of billions of people. All over the world, flour is made into delicious foods like bread, biscuits, cake, pasta and many other goods. It is one of mankind’s most important staple foods and has been for thousands of years.

Day of appreciation

Why 20th March? The day falls in the middle of the solstice, that varies between 19th and 21st March. In the northern hemisphere, it marks the beginning of spring and the time for sowing; in the southern hemisphere it represents autumn and harvesting.

For farmers and the flour processing industries the days around 20th March are a special time of hope and gratitude. World Flour Day has been officially appointed and certified as an

“international day of action” by the National Day Calendar.

World Flour Day is celebrated around the globe

Millers, bakers, confectioners and pasta manufacturers use this day to draw attention to the significance and diversity of flour products with their creative activities. These all fall under the ancient motto: “Share your bread, and it will taste better. Share your good fortune, and it will multiply!”

The initiator: The FlourWorld Museum

With the new World Flour Day, the FlourWorld Museum draws attention to the civilising power this white gold has always had. “Flour has secured man’s survival for thousands of years”, says Volkmar Wywiol, the founder of the FlourWorld Museum.

Established in Wittenburg, Germany, in 2008, the museum houses the world’s biggest collection of flour sacks. The motifs on the 3,500 or more sacks from 140 countries testify to the pride of the millers. They tell surprising, moving and sometimes incredible stories of what corn, flour and bread mean to people all over the world.

Moreover, flour is a historical power factor of the highest order. In a cultural and historical tour, the FlourWorld Museum illuminates the epoch-making effects flour had on mankind between the Neolithic and the Industrial Revolution and will continue to have in future.

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rom folate-enriched eggs to iron fortified chocolate, the list of foods with added nutrients seems to be growing faster than bread rises. Though a single serving of one fortified food rarely provides excessive nutrients, some people worry that consuming multiple fortified foods, in combination with other vitamin and mineral intake, might be too much of a good thing.

This concern can be addressed by coordinating the planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of simultaneous nutrition programmes, according to reports from a 2017 technical consultation convened by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Reports from the meeting were published in June 2019.

“This is a call for country leaders to evaluate all the sources of nutrients and be thoughtful about what is being provided to consumers,” said Dr Helena Pachón, Senior Nutrition Scientist for the Food Fortification Initiative (FFI) who attended the 2017 consultation.

Defining what an excess of vitamins and minerals means is challenging because at least nine organisations have published “upper levels” for individuals to safely consume on a daily basis (See Table 1). The WHO meeting report stresses that upper levels are not toxic if they are surpassed occasionally. Instead healthy people should avoid consistently exceeding the upper levels.

Pachón said the consequences of excessive intakes of some nutrients, such as vitamin B12, are negligible. She said country leaders should pay more attention to limiting intake of nutrients that can pose a danger at high levels.

One example is preformed vitamin A, which is used in fortification, supplements, and some medicines. Excessive intakes can be harmful and even deadly; pregnant women who consume too much can have babies with serious birth defects such as heart defects and malformations of the face.

On the other hand, vitamin and mineral deficiencies can also be

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Table 1: Upper levels of seven nutrients based on published upper levels of nine organizations Nutrient Iron Folic acid Vitamin A and provitamin A carotenoids Vitamin D Iodine Zinc Calcium

Daily upper level for adults ~ 45 milligrams 1 milligram ~ 3000 micrograms retinol equivalents ~ 100 micrograms ~ 1100 micrograms ~ 40 milligrams ~ 2500 milligrams

Source: Pike, V. and Zlotkin, S. (2019), Excess micronutrient intake: defining toxic effects and upper limits in vulnerable populations. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1446: 21-43.

dangerous and life-threatening. Women who consume too little folic acid (vitamin B9) risk having babies with serious or fatal birth defects of the brain and spine.

Anemia in pregnancy contributes to maternal deaths, in childhood it limits cognitive development, and in adults it lowers productivity. Anemia can be caused by deficiencies of iron, riboflavin, folic acid, zinc, vitamin A, and vitamin B12.

The WHO consultation participants were charged with weighing the risk of excessive intake with the risk of deficiencies. They found that in low- and middle-income countries, exceeding the upper level is uncommon. In some cases, however, fortification combined with supplementation might lead to high intake. They recommended that countries assess the population’s total dietary intake and nutritional status as well as incorporate rapid screening tools for routine monitoring and surveillance.

As an example, consider the United States’ analysis of folic acid (vitamin B9) consumption. Flour and rice labeled “enriched” in the US must include folic acid, breakfast cereals can be

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Researchers analysed national health and nutrition survey data from 2003 to 2006. They found that 60 percent of adults consumed folic acid only from fortified foods, and none of these adults exceeded the upper level of one milligram a day.

Only 2.7 percent of adults consumed more than the upper level.

Nearly half of the adults who consumed supplements with more than 400 micrograms of folic acid exceeded the upper level. The scientists’ conclusion was that, at current fortification levels, US adults who do not consume supplements or take supplements with 400 micrograms or less of folic acid are unlikely to exceed the upper level for folic acid intake.

Another example is in Sri Lanka; here, children ages 6-to-23 months receive a “megadose” of vitamin A every six months. In addition, several brands of margarine, powdered milk, cereals, and biscuits are voluntarily fortified with vitamin A. This combination may lead to an excess of vitamin A intake among these young children. Researchers recommended scaling back the national supplementation programme and monitoring fortification initiatives.

The FFI recommends that countries establish standards for types of nutrients and the levels of each to include in flour and rice.

The FFI also recommends mandatory fortification programmes, in part because they can be more easily monitored than voluntary programs to ensure compliance with the national standard.

Several tools are available to help countries plan, implement, monitor, and evaluate food fortification as part of simultaneous national nutrition programmes: The Fortification Assessment Coverage Toolkit provides standardised methods for the collection, analysis, and synthesis of

data on quality, coverage, and consumption of fortified foods Fortification Monitoring is online training solution for flour and rice fortification. It teaches the basic concepts of internal, external, import, and commercial monitoring Fortify MIS (Management Information System) is an online data collection and aggregation approach for fortification monitoring Fortification Monitoring and Surveillance (FORTIMAS) is an approach for tracking the population coverage and impact of a food fortification programme, available in English, French and Portuguese Global recommendations for nutrients to include in wheat and maize and flour fortification. Adjust these levels downwards if other foods are fortified effectively.

44 items are available in the forms of fortification documentation, available in English, French, Spanish, and Russian For more information on fortification of wheat flour, maize flour, or rice, contact FFI at info@ffinetwork.org.

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Technological recommendations when using methionine sources in the feed mill

by Marc Perel, Solution Application Manager, Adisseo Methiopedia 2, the technical reference guide for methionine edited by Adisseo at the end of 2018 has a full part dedicated on the application of methionine sources in feed. In this article, we will investigate these technological aspects for an accurate and safe use of methionine sources in feed production.

Indeed, liquid and powder methionine products (liquid OH-Methionine, DL-Methionine or L-Methionine) require proper equipment and use in the process. To obtain an optimum feed quality, main process stages need to be managed regarding this methionine addition.

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ain vigilance points at the feed production when adding methionine sources.

Specific equipment is available for the distribution of powder and liquid methionine sources in feed.

This addition is performed in the mixer, but the transfer from the storage point till the mixer and the supplementation in the right quantity need to be mastered to achieve the expected quality of the feed. Indeed, methionine products have to be added at the quantity defined by the formulator and this, for every single batch.

Three main process steps require a right equipment implementation and settings, and a regular monitoring: storage, dosing and distribution.

Safety comes first when speaking about the use of additives or raw material in process. For powder and liquid methionine sources, the safety data sheets have to be accessible easily and quickly in the plant in case of any accident. Before any maintenance intervention, everyone from the plant staff or any external company - maintenance contractor for instance - should be aware of the risks and wear the appropriate PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) such as mask, goggles, plastic gloves, covering suit, etc.

During regular control visits, the presence of these PPE, of risks labelling and spill kits will be verified. One will also check the proper functioning of the shower and eye wash station if any, for the liquid installations.

Storage

Powder sources of methionine (L-Methionine or DLMethionine) can also be packed in bags or big-bags, that will be stored inside the warehouse protected from humidity and weather.

These forms are directly used by the feed mill or come through the premixes.

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IBCs that can be stored outside to save internal space in the feed mill.

The product is also delivered in bulk for a storage in tanks before use.

According to the local regulation, a containment pool may be needed.

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Dosing

A pump allows to bring the methionine product to the dosing step. Pumps used for liquid OH-Methionine are volumetric gear pumps or screw pumps designed for viscous liquids. For powders, the most common dosage device is the screw, generally equipped with a speed variator for better accuracy. Dosing slides is a very fast and accurate interesting alternative.

For the dosage itself, a weighing scale can be used. The scale has the same principle for solid and liquid methionine forms except for emptying: simple gravity cannot ensure a proper pressure in the case of liquid.

For liquid methionine, the working principle involves the continuous automatic filling of the product in a weigher hopper to pre-set mass Using â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;loss in weightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; methodology, the dosing pump will draw a precise amount of liquid OH-Met from the weigher hopper to be sprayed onto the feed in mixer. General dosing accuracy can be achieved around (+/-) one percent error tolerances against set point for these applicators. As an example: at 2kg/tonne, the error is (+/-) 20 g.

Another option to achieve dosage of liquid OH-Met is by

F flow-metering. For flowmeters, three types are possible: mechanical flowmeter, mass flowmeter and electromagnetic flowmeter. The water content of OH-met gives a high conductivity, which allows the use of an electromagnetic flowmeter.

These systems have the advantage of working without a pressure drop and do not need any maintenance. Dosing accuracy is made by the chain of measurement from pulse control to valve closing, and flowmeter accuracy. It is important that the entire chain is built consistently to obtain the highest precision, with a high reliability of the entire dosing operation.

The precision of the dosing system is commonly 0.5 percent. As an example, at 2kg per tonne, a dosing error is (+/-) 10 g. The flowmeter, whatever its type, is placed between the pump and the injection point.

If the plant is using a scale, its metrology will be included in the global program, with the other scales. It mainly consists on a verification with calibration masses, calibration of the zero and span adjustment if needed.

Concerning the flowmeters, the principle is to run the pump in standard working conditions and to collect the product before the mixer thanks to a calibration valve, in a bucket. The accuracy of the dosage is assessed by comparing the value measured by the flowmeter and the quantity that is weighed in the bucket. In case of a slight deviation, parameters such as number of pulses per litre or density have to be rectified. The suitable frequency for these controls is one-to-two times per year.

Distribution

Apart from the efficiency of the mixer to mix solid ingredients and the specific maintenance program of this key machine in the feed plant, the most important feature is the way (where? when? how?) that the methionine sources are applied to the macro-ingredients.

A collector or manifold feeds the mixer through different nozzles, which are key points for application systems for liquid methionine. The right type is a calibrated flat-bed spray nozzle in stainless steel with different sizes and numbers. It allows liquid methionine to be sprayed in small droplets without mist emission, which avoids build-up inside the mixer. Nozzle specifications are defined according to the size and the shape of the mixer. Generally, three-to-five nozzles are used to spray liquid OH-Met. Mixability depends on droplet size. This right droplet size (250 μm) is obtained by taking care of some parameters of the spraying equipment itself and liquid methionine characteristics: - Liquid methionine viscosity - Working pressure in pump - Nozzle selection and positioning Nozzle positioning is defined according to the size and the shape of the mixer and added quantity. Spraying must be done on the moving surface of feed, and liquid must be absorbed before reaching the wall of the mixer to avoid any build-up.

The quantity of feed within the mixer should never cover the mixer’s ribbons (i.e. the working capacity of the mixer). If the ribbons are covered, then a quasimotionless dead space forms over the ribbons; this in turn does not allow dry or liquid methionine sources to homogeneously mix throughout the feed.

Formation of lumps can occur if there are issues with the system settings: nozzles not of the right size, leakage in the mixer, pump not of the right size or a defect in the heating system of liquid methionine leading to a too low temperature and a too high viscosity.

Plus, liquid methionine is added in a low amount compared to some other liquids (oils for example) in formula, so there is no risk of agglomeration.

Working pressure in the nozzles is the second key factor to monitor, as it will influence the spray angle and the droplets size and, ultimately, the contact between the liquid and the solid phases. This pressure can be altered by the abnormal wear of the pump or by some leakages in the liquid system. Therefore, it is important to check it regularly and react in case of any deviation. In most cases, it should be between two-to-five bars.

The methionine sources, like other additives must be added to the right place and at the right time in the mixer. The powder methionine should be added from the beginning of the mixing time, preferably in the center of the mixer, and after or in the middle of the macro ingredients.

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hits the feed in an area where mixing is vigorous. Liquid OH-Met can be sprayed from the beginning of the mixing time. The addition of liquid methionine does not require any increase in mixing time.

Optimal feed quality: mixability and homogeneity:

If done properly, the distribution of the methionine sources leads to a satisfying mixability in feed. For example, for a DLM incorporation rate of 2kg/t, 12.2g of feed should be eaten by the animal to have 95 percent probability to find the expected level of methionine +/-10 percent.

When mixing powder, the main issue is segregation between the fines and the big particles. When working on very heterogeneous feed in terms of particle size, like coarse ground layer feed for example, it is very difficult to mix everything intimately, and segregation can occur after mixing. The risk of particle segregation is much lower with liquid methionine because it will be adsorbed on the feed particles.

Homogeneity (dispersion of methionine in feed) is independent of the nature and inclusion rate of methionine source when equal conditions are applied, as assessed on the field. Both forms of methionine will give equivalent mixing performances.

Even at a rather low incorporation rate (<0.1%), liquid and powder methionine are generally well dosed (recoveries between 90 and 110%) and evenly spread (coefficient of variation below 10%).

With respect to the general requirements for an accurate dosing, a full transfer to the mixer and an appropriate spraying, most of the equipment is suitable for low quantities.

In general, liquid and powder methionine sources lead to same quality of feed.

Equipment for the distribution of these forms are well-designed to have targeted mixability and homogeneity of the product in feed. These installations have to be monitored through time. There is no heavy maintenance operation linked to liquids but mainly inspections.

With liquid methionine, there is no dust, which means no risk explosion, no particles breathed by workers and a better hygiene in the plant. The liquid packaging is also convenient as it does not need to be stored inside the warehouse and can be recycled or sold.

For a same feed quality, powder methionine is suitable for plants using an annual low volume of methionine, as this product in bags or big-bags offers flexibility. On the other hand, liquid methionine is convenient for medium and large feed mills because this product can be transferred from the tank, dosed and distributed in the feed automatically. https://feedsolutions.adisseo.com/en/products/rhodimet/

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he expander technology is one of the best and most comprehensive conditioning methods for compound feed and individual components.

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STORAGE

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by Rebecca Sherratt, Features Editor, Milling and Grain n this issue of Milling and Grain magazine we are very lucky to feature both a Guest Editor column as well as an interview with Mr Samuel Goldberg, Producer of the film ‘SILO: Edge of the Real World’.

Mr Goldberg’s film depicts the tale of Adam Fox and Clay Althoff who are both deeply affected by the death of a fellow community member via grain entrapment. The film delves into the oftenoverlooked dangers of the agriculture industry and thoughtfully considers both the risks and rewards of farming.

Grain entrapment is a danger that not only affects farmers, but people from all walks of life and so it is a surprise that the danger is not more widely discussed, especially in rural communities.

Grain entrapment takes place when an individual becomes sunken in unstable grain that collapses in on itself, trapping the individual inside. Once the victim is completely buried under the grain, it becomes grain engulfment, often resulting in death from asphyxiation.

The suction-like quality of the grain in a silo causes grain entrapment and engulfment to take place terrifyingly quickly.

Human bodies take mere seconds to sink within grain and then only minutes before their bodies are completely submerged.

Bodies often take several hours to then recover, once the person engulfed is discovered to be missing. Entrapment often takes place in silos or grain elevators but can also take place almost anywhere where large bulks of raw materials are stored.

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Statistics and prevention

Purdue University conducted a study in 2011 and its National Agricultural Confined Space Incident Database documented an alarming 900 reported entrapments since 1964. When searching these reported incidents for patterns, Purdue University discovered that the most common raw material wherein entrapment most often occurs is corn. As a result of this, the most incidents take place in states in America known for their corn production such as Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Ohio and Indiana.

Despite various regulations being put into place that are aimed to prevent grain entrapment incidents, deaths from engulfment reached an all-time annual high in 2010 with a reported 26 deaths.

From 2009 to 2010 there was a 34 percent increase in cases of entrapment.

Over 70 percent of modern-day grain engulfment victims are minors working on farms. Smaller farms are exempt from the vast majority of federal labour regulations, thereby children working for parents often are not granted the same safety laws as those in larger farms, wherein those under 16 years of age are not permitted to enter confined spaces.

One of the most prominent regulations preventing grain engulfment deaths on larger farms was the implementation of the regulation by the United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) that forbids augers opening at the bottom of a grain storage facility when someone is currently inside a silo, also known as ‘walking along the grain’.

However, despite this regulation, the dangers of grain entrapment can also occur when silos or grain elevators are

F being cleaned, as damp or encrusted materials can fall and cause potential problems.

On a slightly more positive note, despite the unpleasantly high numbers of grain entrapment incidents, the rate of successful rescues from grain entrapment are increasing yearly. Prior to 2005, only a quarter of grain entrapment victims on average were saved, whereas since then over half of the victims on average are recovered.

Storing grain properly and following the correct regulations is the most effective way to prevent grain entrapment. Grain should be stored at 14 percent or less moisture content and sealed away tightly so it cannot fall victim to the elements and create clumps or areas of irregular density prone to collapse.

Should grain become spoiled, it is more likely that it will give way and be at risk of causing an entrapment. One additional effective method for ensuring your grain doesn’t spoil is thorough ‘coring’, wherein grain from the centre of the storage facility is removed, as this is where the broken and smaller grains prone to insect infestations are often present.

It is also crucial for workers to never be permitted to enter silos or grain elevators on their own. If this cannot be avoided, then workers are required to have a phone or radio with which they can communicate to their colleagues outside. No one who is not permitted to enter a grain storage facility should ever enter.

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Rescues

Rescuing grain entrapment victims proves to be an exceedingly difficult task.

Once victims fall within the raw materials breathing instantly becomes a difficult task. Toxic gases such as nitrogen oxide and carbon dioxide are released from spoilt grains, which can cause asphyxiation, should the area not be sufficiently ventilated. Raw material dust can also contain various toxic spores or moulds that have been known to cause allergic reactions within individuals who breathe them in for extended periods of time.

Temperature also becomes a dangerous factor for grain entrapment victims. Grain silos and dryers keep grain cool by blowing cold air onto it, but this can often lower the temperature of grain to as low as -1 - -5°C, putting victims at serious risk of hypothermia. Grain loading and unloading equipment should all be immediately switched off, should an incident occur.

As the majority of incidents take place on rural farms, getting the suitable rescue teams and emergency services to the area takes time, something which grain entrapment victims don’t have much of. The confined spaces make rescues very difficult and it is important to also ensure that the emergency services aren’t also put at risk whilst saving the victims.

Extracting a grain entrapment victim from grain also isn’t as simple as lifting them out of the materials. The suction-like behaviour of the grain creates an incredible level of friction, resisting all pulling force. To remove a human submerged up to their waste from grain takes 180kg of pulling force, whilst it takes 410kg to remove a person fully engulfed in grain, both amounts being too excessive and able to easily cause dangerous spinal injury to the victim.

If you can’t simple pull an entrapment victim out of the raw materials, then how do you get them out? It is quite an elaborate process. Emergency services usually build makeshift walls around the victim in the grain with plywood, tarpaulins or sheet metal. Following this step, a makeshift cofferdam is created within the grain, enabling workers to remove grain by hand, shovel or grain vacuum so they can be extracted.

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Another technique used is to cut a hole in the side of the silo or grain elevator, although this often requires a consultation with an engineer to ensure that this will not compromise the integrity of the silo.

Plan ahead, should an incident occur

It is integral that farms and storage facilities have plans in place for if a grain entrapment scenario should ever occur. Workers should be trained on what to do in an entrapment scenario which covers entry procedures, recognising grain quality issues, using safety equipment and emergency response.

Farms should also ensure they have phones on site and each worker has access to either a phone or radio on their person at all times. Emergency numbers for rescue should also be up in visible spaces where colleagues can clearly see them in case of emergency.

Teaching your workers how to conduct themselves safely around silos and raw materials is key to prevent any accidents occurring and it is your employees’ rights to receive proper training and have proper safety measures in place when handling raw materials.

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Feed mills and farms have often been opposing forces when it comes to feed management. Although they share a common goal of producing and delivering quality products, inventory management and delivery schedules create friction. Weekend deliveries, feed outages, and last-minute orders frustrate feed mills and run up costs for farmers.

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relying on guesswork, massive spreadsheets, and piles of paperwork to manage feed demands. This has resulted in unreliable inventory data and running low or out of feed at the most inopportune times. FeedView transforms this process, making current and projected feed inventory information easily available on any internet-capable device such as a phone, tablet or computer.

FeedView is a comprehensive feed management solution that combines wireless, battery-powered level sensors with a cloud-based, simple-to-use software. It automatically measures bin levels and projects consumption using historical consumption rates to help farmers project outages and know when to schedule deliveries.

Feed mills flustered Mill managers are often victims of an emergency phone call. A farm is out of feed or will not have enough feed to get through the weekend and so mill staff are called to work overtime or on a day off to make an unscheduled delivery. Upon arrival, the amount of feed in the truck may not fit in the silo and can result in spills or wasted feed.

These interruptions cost the mill money and necessitate extra charges be passed on to farmers, creating tension in the relationship.

Feed mills benefit from FeedView as farmers are better informed about their inventory situation and can be proactive in their ordering. Farmers will also know how much space they have in silos to prevent ordering too much feed.

Orders can be placed ahead of time or sent to the mill automatically using a feature in the FeedView software.

Farmers also have the option of allowing the mill to remotely monitor feed silos on the farm and project what feed needs will be based upon historical use.

F Feedview™ case study Using wireless monitoring to improve farm productivity: Feed monitoring reduced from two hours to 15 minutes a day While farms focus on finishing livestock, operations are often leanly staffed with just two or three people. In the case of a major hog producer in Nebraska, just two employees manage four barns and eight feed bins, readying more than 5,000 head for market.

At this operation each barn has two silos used in tandem.

Once one silo is emptied, feed is pulled from the second silo and the empty silo is scheduled for refill.

Before installing sensors and software, each silo had to be climbed and a tape measure dropped to estimate how much feed was in each silo. Climbing silos, dropping a tape, and recording measurements back in the office could take up to 15 minutes per silo—or about two hours a day.

This process had to be done almost every day—rain, snow, or shine. Measurements were handwritten and manually recorded in a spreadsheet. The amount of feed on hand was then calculated by entering an estimate of the amount of feed remaining in each bin. Some days there just wasn’t enough time to get feed inventory done, which lead to a disconnect between the farm and the mill.

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FeedView converts the sensor data into tonnage and allows for user-friendly tracking and reporting of feed intake, medicated supplements, head count adjustments, and feed orders.

The farm’s goal was to save time and streamline the ordering process. They found the integration of level sensors and software made their operation more efficient.

“With FeedView, I can reorder feed with confidence.

We’ve eliminated most delivery emergencies and overfills, all without climbing feed bins… thanks to the wireless level sensors,” reported the feed order manager.

Employee safety and measurement consistency are ensured by using technology instead of humans to do the work.

“Using sensors to measure feed levels in bins saves a lot of time and is far safer than climbing ladders. Plus, the laser sensors are more accurate than a tape measure because they are aimed at a fixed point in the silo,” he added.

Customer-focused features Many of the features built into FeedView were developed based upon customer recommendations.

“Some of the great feedback we got from our first customers was to add a feature that allowed them to place a feed order directly with the mill using the software,” stated

Scott Hudson, Executive Vice President at BinMaster.

“Now farms can view their recent feed orders without having to track them separately. It also allows them to see their order history and plan in advance when the next order needs to be placed.”

FeedView is feed mill friendly “Customers hate surprises when it comes to their feed inventory,” said Nathan Grube, Regional Vice President for BinMaster. “Now, alerts are sent in advance before feed bin levels get low. They can also look at feed levels anytime and avoid the hassle and extra cost of an emergency or weekend delivery.”

With automation, staff can plan ahead and be notified when it is time to order. Additionally, employees can check feed levels any time of day—even on weekends—from their computer or smartphone. With FeedView, farms are ordering the right amount of feed and eliminating the hassle of overages.

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ymaga strengthens its growth rate by expanding its export destinations and consolidating itself as a reference company in storage projects worldwide.

Such projects include Ridley in Australia, Skeena in Canada, Bakhresa in Tanzania and EMC2 in France.

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plants throughout the eastern states.

Symaga’s customer LGPM has requested 34 hopper silos to achieve a capacity of 12077m3 in the second plant that the Australian company builds in Bendigo.

Another satisfactory project is Skeena Bioenergy in British Columbia, which brings about the first project in Canada for Symaga silos. This two hopper silos installation marks a commercial milestone for Symaga, the first step for Symaga’s North American business expansion.

Bakhresa, one of Tanzania’s top food groups, is now expanding its storage capacity at Dar es Salaam facilities. The project, entrusted to Symaga, includes three silos of 200 tonnes for corn storage.

Bakhresa, owned by Tanzanian businessman Said Salim Bakhresa, has operations in several African countries such as Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia, Rwanda, Burundi, Zimbabwe and in South Africa, as well as Tanzania.

For Symaga, with projects in more than 140 countries, opening to new markets like North America or Australia is key in the company’s business strategy, but so is consolidating growth in markets where penetration began only a few years ago, as is the case in some African countries.

They are proud of their long-term business relationships with key partners, these new ventures come as an endorsement of Symaga’s constant product quality and service over time. This is one of the reason behind French cooperative FAO’s trust in Symaga for a new storage project with 3000 tonnes total capacity.

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he principle and processes of the “mill of the future” are not clearly distinct from those used in mills today. But they do take up less space, are more energy efficient and operate increasingly more autonomously.

There is a long history behind milling grains. We know that hunters and gatherers were already using stones or mortars for crushing grains. With the increasing division of labour, the occupation of miller to process wheat, rye or spelt came into being. During the Middle Ages, the profession of miller in Europe came to be known as disreputable and dishonest because of all the possibilities for cheating. But sometime in the 16th century, Reich law decreed that it was an “honourable” and “guild-worthy” profession.

Challenges for millers

Today, millers around the world, whether their mills are large or small, are important suppliers for many different food producers from the neighborhood bakery to international food corporations.

At Bühler, we have routine contact with our customers. We hear from mill operators about the changes that have taken place in their area of work over the past years, and how these changes affect their work and their needs in terms of mill expansion.

There are two increasingly big challenges which are shared by our customers: Businesses that process the flour - are demanding increasingly higher flour quality and guaranteed consistency within narrow parameters.

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with the challenge of offering a constantly expanding range of flour products while maintaining consistent quality and keeping prices competitive.

Changing markets for raw materials

Our customers also report changes on the side of their suppliers.

International grain markets have significantly changed in the past 20 years. Up until recently, there were central export organisations to ensure standardised and clearly defined product qualities in the countries that export grain.

However, recently, the supply chain on the grain market has become very fragmented. This has an advantage for individual millers in that it allows their needs for grains to be freely covered on a large market.

But, the reverse side to this is that there are many different qualities of grain to deal with. If a miller wants to provide consistent flour quality as years go by, he needs to purchase cleverly and mix various raw materials together. Flour made from the same batch of grain is almost only possible for regional flour specifications or organic products.

In addition, there is a global overcapacity of 30-40 percent in the milling industry, which puts pressure on price competitiveness. Of course, this overcapacity often means mills ‘in the wrong place’ and/or in poor condition. This explains why demand for new mills is holding steady.

Monitoring processes and products

These changes and trends in the milling industry have a direct effect on planning and constructing new mills. To manufacture flours with consistent quality from varying raw materials - in addition to the quality of the plant components - a permanent monitoring of processes and products is essential.

NIR systems can do (almost) anything: online measurement in grain, flour and semolina open up new possibilities for millers.

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replacing manual control by the miller and help to guarantee as well as verify permanent quality. Traceability for every single processing unit all the way back to the wheat field is possible in modern mills.

The changed customer demands encountered by flour mills also entails additional plants for the storage of diverse flours and the blending needed for the desired products. Ultimately, it is lawmakers at all levels that ensure higher requirements for sanitation and food safety.

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We notice: Construction of a new flour mill is oriented to ecological and economical features. Customer requirements for mills must be taken into consideration just as much as the many legal regulations which demand compliance. In addition, increasing competition exerts pressure to improve product quality while lowering production costs.

The next generation of mills needs to enable production of market-conform flours at the lowest cost possible. At Bühler, the next generation of mills is called “Mill E3”. This is a building shell made of conventional parts which is only three stories high and has correspondingly less building volume. This lowers costs for infrastructure (Three stories is the optimal configuration for a Mill E3 but it can have more than three floors).

The actual mill itself is assembled in the finished building shell using pre-installed and tested modules which significantly reduces time and material for installation. These modules are built very compactly and comprise mostly new, energy-saving plant components.

Overall, a new Mill E3 can be built in a very short time, it requires less space and has a more economical total cost. And, thanks to energy-saving technology, it consumes significantly less energy-per-tonne of processed wheat.

Just the energy for the grinding alone is reduced by ten percent.

The energy savings for the entire mill is seven-to-ten percent and, it must be noted, keeping the same parameters for yield and product quality.

Building mills is still an adventure

The challenges in building a new mill have also changed recently. The biggest obstacle is not the actual planning of the mill. It is dealing with local and national officials that can lead to complications and/or delays in the permitting process for new plants. Although it is the customer’s responsibility to obtain the permits, Bühler is directly involved in the process as the project manager and as a supplier of the necessary equipment.

We at Bühler have known how to build a mill for 150 years.

But difficulties can arise anywhere between the permitting phase, in particular, and the construction of the building’s shell and infrastructure by local contractors through to the plant installation and commissioning. For Bühler, with all its professionalism, building a mill ‘anywhere in the world’ is always an adventure because of the local circumstances.

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F CASE STUDY The basic principle of grinding has stayed the same for thousands of years: Kernels of grain are crushed into powder between two hard surfaces. Is it really possible that humans, as innovative as they are, have not yet discovered an alternative to grinding?

Our researchers have tested alternatives over the past decades and developed them to market maturity. But, neither the use of lasers or ultrasound have brought the lab test results even close to the pulverisations methods used today, and they were certainly not superior. Even a chemical approach using enzymes to dissolve the bran and crush the endosperm was proven to be less promising.

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There is still biotechnology. The biotechnological conversion of wheat directly into bread or pasta is conceivable but still open for implementation. But are consumers ready to eat such bread or pasta?

The trend, in fact, seems to be moving in the opposite direction: Consumers want their bread as a natural product with as few unnatural ingredients as possible.

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COUNTRY PROFILE: ALGERIA Capital city: ALGERIA Algiers

Mehmet Ugur Gürkaynak, Milling and Grain Geographical location Located in North Africa, Algeria is located on the Mediterranean coast between Morocco and Tunisia. Other neighbours of Algeria include Libya in the east, Niger in the southeast and Mauritania and Mali in the southwest.

80% of the country’s territory is in the Sahara region. Most of the Sahara has semi-desert characteristics.

Political structure Algeria is a Republic governed by the Presidential system. The country, which gained its independence in 1962, was governed by the National Liberation Front (FLN) within the framework of a one-party political system.

With the new Constitution adopted in the referendum held in 1989, a multi-party system was introduced.

Fickle weather raising input costs Algeria, with its vast lands, oil and natural gas reserves, is the fourth largest economy in Africa after Egypt, Nigeria and South Africa, which are important countries of the African continent.

Algeria has a rich natural resources and a free market economy.

The country, which has been trying to ensure a gradual transition to the new economic system since 2000, needs to make further progress in terms of per capita income, infrastructure, unemployment and privatisation.

The government provides unpaid government support for energy and supply of basic food products such as wheat, oil, sugar.

Although there are quotas on certain products for the purpose of establishing the national industry, many European Union countries’ products originating from the Free Trade Agreement which entered into force in 2005 in accordance with the agreement signed with the European Union in 2002 are subject to a reduction in customs duties. However, there is a quota Exports by main countries (1000 USD) system in agriculture and fisheries sectors.

Country 2016 2017 2018 Algeria is dependent on oil and gas Italy 5,208,346 5,629,480 6,746,876 sector and 70% of budget revenues come Spain 3,879,164 4,103,371 5,638,707 from these sectors. The government’s France 3,424,139 4,431,262 4,923,335 tax revenues mostly come from imported USD 3,866,104 3,467,906 4,781,629 products. In order to register the domestic UK 1,061,293 1,606,170 2,895,672 cash-in-economy, it has enacted since 2011 all payments made by banks with a value of Brazil 1,616,165 2,127,963 2,420,594 over 500,000 Dinars.

Netherlands 1,470,837 1,903,437 1,326,283

Agriculture and livestock sector in Algeria In Algeria, the contribution of agriculture to GDP is around 9%. It is estimated that approximately 14% of the total population is employed in the agricultural sector. Algeria, which has the largest territory in the African continent, covers an area of approximately ​​ 2.4 million kmt.

However, 3.5% of the soils are arable land and only 18.5% of the land that can be used as agricultural land is cultivated. Arable land is owned by the state but is operated by the private sector.

According to 2018 data, grain production in Algeria is around 4.5 million tonnes and grain imports worth 3 billion 275 million USD are imported.

Nevertheless, consumption is expected to reach 8 million tonnes in the coming years. In order to meet this need, approximately 260 thousand acres of land should be opened for irrigation and 500 thousand acres of land should be included in this scope in order to meet this consumption completely.

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Belgium

987,319

920,587

1,399,203

Turkey

1,344,187

1,837,059

1,137,914

Portugal

848,679

955,804

492,465

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China

8,409,855

8,317,844

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Brazil

1,209,132

1,374,143

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France

4,773,926

4,297,508

6,207,903

Spain

3,566,098

3,130,601

3,996,997

Italy

4,645,778

3,755,513

3,652,237

Germany

3,024,539

3,223,225

2,543,136

Turkey

1,935,231

2,007,924

2,031,706

Argentina

1,334,976

1,518,397

1,661,991

USD

2,317,414

1,841,537

1,250,222

Korea

1,091,889

1,689,708

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pulses, potatoes, especially wheat and barley. The country is an important barley exporter.

The country has to import an average of 8 million tonnes of grain per year in order to meet its grain needs. Poultry farming, sheep, goats and cattle are cultivated in the southern regions and highlands.

According to 2018 data, there is approximately 28 million livestock in Algeria with 18 million sheep and 2 million cattle.

The annual production in the country is around 300 thousand tonnes of red meat and 260 thousand tonnes of white meat.

While red meat imports are 60 thousand tonnes, white meat is not imported. The annual red meat imports are worth more than US $250 million. The state plans to produce 425 thousand tonnes of red and 625 thousand tonnes of white meat in the short term.

Most of the fishing boats, which are owned by families, are small. To improve the sector, the government is modernising its fishing ports. The state, which allocates 12 million dinars in this regard, encourages the purchase of more modern and new fishing boats.

For this purpose, the number of boats in the country reached 4,532 recently thanks to the support provided by the state and the funds of the European Union.

Algeria has a coastline of 1,280km and there are over 500 species of fish in the region. The country has 500,000 tonnes of fish reserves. Mostly sardines and anchovies are caught; the

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Foreign trade of Algeria (Million USD) Year

Export

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2015

34,795,951

51,803,071

86,599,022

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29,992,101

47,090,684

77,082,785

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2017

35,191,117

46,053,016

81,244,133

-10,861,899

2018

41,608,036

47,341,6789

88,949,715

-5,733,643

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amount of these fish caught yearly is around 150,000 tonnes.

3000 tonnes of this amount is exported. As for aquaculture, there is an annual production of 500 tonnes.

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Supported by the Department of Veterinary Services, the Ministry for Agriculture and Agro-Based Industries. The event is expected to attract more than 9,000 local, regional and international trade visitors and delegates, representing integrator, veterinarians, livestock farmers, feed millers, wholesaler, retailers, food processors, importers and distributors.

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IAOM 10th Annual Southeast Asia Region Conference and Expo

IAOM SEA recently took place in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 6-8th, 2019 at the Intercontinental Jakarta Pondok Indah Hotel. Milling and Grain were very happy to attend the event and discover the latest in milling innovations in Asia.

Founded in 1896, The International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) has been the key provider of training and educational resources for the grain milling industry since its establishment. For its 120 years if establishment, IAOM has held a variety of workshops, conferences and courses to ensure the training and education of industry professionals.

IAOM is an organisation with a membership of over 1,800 individuals representing over 100 countries. With 15 districts and regions around the world, IAOM provides a dedicated

forum for networking; technical courses; and the discovery of new products and opportunities.

Over 40 exhibitors arrived to showcase their innovations for the industry. The event featured a brilliant set of conference speakers from international companies, including Yenar, who revealed their latest innovation: the rollCare Profile Measurement Device, which they also subsequently entered into the 2020 GRAPAS Innovations Awards.

Other exhibitors at the event also included Muhlenchemie, Nara Group, Statec Binder, NEUERO Industries, Imeco, Fawema, Blaguer Rolls and Bastak, to name a few.

In addition to this, talks covering topics ranging from mill heat treatments, the global wheat index, rice flour production, food safety, wheat industry trends, Indonesian wheat and much more were covered by speakers such as Ocrim, CETEC, Henry Simon, Bühler Asia, AGM Tech, Wingmen Group and many more.

Livestock professionals lined-up to attend ILDEX Indonesia 2019 ILDEX Indonesia 2019, the fourth edition of the International Livestock, Dairy Meat Processing and Aquaculture Exposition, was pleased to report strong attendance and plentiful business opportunities. The exhibition ran from the 18th to the 20th September 2019 at Halls 3&3a, ICE, Jakarta, Indonesia, delivering the highest quality and variety of new technology, business opportunities and numerous overseas trade buyers.

This edition of ILDEX Indonesia was larger than last year’s rendition. In over 10,000 square-metres of the Indonesia Convention and Exhibition center (ICE), ILDEX is showcasing 250 leading brands from 25 countries, where 73 percent of exhibitors are international companies.

Moreover, there are also three international pavilions for China, South Korea, and the Netherlands together with the FoodTech Indonesia pavilion. The main business sectors at ILDEX included animal health, animal housing and farm equipment, animal feed and ingredients, breeding and genetics, incubation & hatchery, slaughter to processing and lab and IT. At the conference, ILDEX offered 48 sessions including 12 academic sessions and 36 technical sessions by associations and top brands. All of the conferences were free of charge. 91 speakers, including 23 international and 68 local professionals, presented at the conferences.

Mr Heiko M Stutzinger, Managing Director of VNU Exhibitions Asia Pacific Co, Ltd said that “ILDEX exhibition is the leading livestock business platform for international livestock companies to initiate business deals with local companies which will, in turn, stimulate investment in the Indonesian market.

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EVENT ROUND UP A joint meeting between the Turkish flourmilling associations: GUSAD, AUSD, DUNSAD

by Mehmet Ugur Gürkaynak, Milling and Grain The Southeastern Turkish Flour Industrialists (GUSAD), Anatolian Flour Industrialists (AUSD) and Dicle Flour Industrialists (DUNSAD) jointly organised the “2019/2020 Year of Harvest and Post-Harvest” between 18–20th, October in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus at the Concorde Luxury Hotel.

The sector stakeholders who attended the meeting, which attracted great attention, had the opportunity to be informed about the opinions of the experts and the latest developments in the market.

The meeting started with some respectful words and the national anthem of Turkey. Afterwards, Mr Mesut Çakmak, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Southeast Flour Industrialists, Mr Ali İhsan Özkaşıkçı, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Anadolu Flour Industrialists, Mr Veysi Duyan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Dicle Flour Industrialists, Mr Bekir Bağış, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bağışlar Flourmill, Mr Orhan Ercan Head of the Department of Agricultural Products of the General Directorate of Agricultural Products and, finally, Ahmet Güldal, General Manager of the Turkish Grain Board, continued with their own unique opening speeches.

Speakers evaluated the situation in the sector and also had the opportunity to express their views regarding problems and needs for the development of the sector.

In his speech, the General Manager of TMO, Mr Ahmet Güldal, who talked about the works carried out to date, expressed his interest in the aforementioned issues. In his speech, Mr Ahmet Güldal, General Manager of TMO said, “I am pleased to take part in this meeting which provides an opportunity to evaluate the recent developments in our country and the world cereals markets regarding the new season and thank the associations organising the meeting.”

During his speech, Mr Ahmet Güldal also informed attendees about the new prices which will be valid for the season of 2019/2020.

“Domestic anatolia red hard No. 2 with 12.5 percent protein bread wheat 1.450 TL/tonnes, imported 13.5 percent protein bread wheat 1.475 TL/tonnes, domestic and imported barley 1.225 TL/ tonnes will open for sale. I sincerely hope the first sales prices will be both beneficial for our country and our sector” he said.

Participants had the opportunity to listen the speech of Mr Kerem Alkin who is the Secretary General of the Turkey Exporters Assembly. Mr Alkin’s speech, entitled “Global political

economy, the future of trade and its implications for Turkey” was of great interest to the industry.

In the last part of the morning programme, a panel was moderated by Mr Edip Hilmi Aktaş, the Turkish and Middle East Representative of Victam International. The participants of this panel were the Honorary Chairman of Southeast Flour Industrialists, Mr Erhan Özmen with his speech “Harvest 2019/2020 Harvest Year and Predictions”.

Also present was the General Manager of Rylko-Russian Agricultural Market Research Institution, Mr Dimitri N with his speech “Sectoral Horizon Tour, and, Black Sea and Russian Wheat Market”, Chairman of the Association of Ukrainian Millers, Mr Rodion Rybchinskiy with his speech “Ukrainian wheat market 2019/2020 Production, Quality, Price, Export Markets” and Chairman of Anatolian Flour Industrialists Mr Ali İhsan Özkaşıkçı with his speech “Wheat Production in Turkey and Structural Problems”.

In the afternoon part of the programme, participants spent time together exchanging their views on the situation of the sector.

Under the sponsorship of Altınbilek, guests had a pleasant time in the evening attending the lovely gala dinner in Famagusta and left the hotel on Sunday, October 20th.

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crim’s latest technical day brought together the institutions, the academic and the scientific worlds in a day full of exchanges and knowledge. The participation of speakers who were skilled and clear in their explanations was key.

In the evening, attendees gathered at the Ocrim site for an aperitif and dinner which will be long remembered.

More than two hundred guests arrived early in the day at Ocrim’s historical site in Massarotti for an intense and productive conference day. The conference covered topics on corn, wheat and legumes. Quite uncommon topics, such as legumes, or topics covered in an unconventional manner, yet strictly pertinent, given the increasing presence on the market of alternative flours, for example. The conference day was presented and moderated by Marino Scarlino, Former Professor at the Istituto Arte Bianca of Turin.

Sergio Antolini, President of Ocrim, was the first to take the podium and welcome a large crowd, giving a friendly message yet with the intention of providing the results achieved in recent years and the objectives set for the future.

Then Gianluca Lelli spoke, national Head of the economic area of Coldiretti, underlining the importance of the national and international market of a company such as Ocrim, as it interacts constantly and proactively with many other businesses connected to the world of Coldiretti.

“Businesses such as Ocrim are crucial to enriching the engineering and innovation aspects intended for the farming industry as well. Concretely involving the Cremona-based company in the farming industry led to tangible and positive results, and I, as the national head of the economic area of Coldiretti, am pleased to be one of the witnesses and

spokespersons”.

Federico Vecchioni, CEO of Bonifiche Ferraresi provided a financial and political overview of the Italian and European economy, to an international audience. He underlined the importance of the alliance between Ocrim and Bonifiche Ferraresi, defining it as “a journey that continues along the lines of growth and investments”.

Federico Vecchioni invited numerous entrepreneurs attending the conference to do the same, i.e. create a dialogue, join together, support each other, creating new alliances, helpful for themselves and for the economy of their countries.

Massimo Blandino, Researcher at the University of Turin, presented his paper on “The supply chain of food-grade corn: innovations and changes in the last 20 years”, while Marco Galli, Head of the technologies department at Ocrim, spoke of “Corn processing methods”. Lastly, Massimo Arduini and Rodrigo Ariceaga, respectively CEO and US Sales Manager for the Bologna-based company Molitecnica Srl, discussed “Nixtamalised flour and its uses”.

After a lunch served in the company courtyard, with a menu based on the products discussed during the conference, the third and last part of the technical day was held. Fabio Talamo, Sales Manager at Vomm Impianti e Processi SpA., gave a speech on “Flour heat treatments”, a lengthy presentation that sparked great interest and questions from the audience.

Then Fabrizio Baccinelli, Sales Manager at Ocrim, took the podium, and gave a complete and concrete view of “The production of special flours and trends in the world market.” The last speech of the technical day was given by Simona Digiuni, Biotechnologist at the Ocrim laboratory, with her presentation on “Varieties of flours and their nutritional properties”.

At the end of the technical day Marino Scarlino invited all of the speakers up to the stage to answer the many questions from the audience, leading to a constructive debate.

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JTIC

by Antoine Tanguy, Milling and Grain

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or its 70th rendition, the Technical Days of the Cereal Industries (JTIC) decided to move to the Hauts-de-France, in Lille, in the exhibition centre Lille Grand Palais.

The lovely location housed JTIC on October 16th and 17th, 2019.

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After several years spent in the French capital, this relocation was intended to bring new attendees and to bring the exhibition closer to agricultural territories, particularly cerealbased ones. The Hauts-de-France region is indeed one of the most important grain producing regions, with nearly nine million tonnes of cereals produced each year.

It is, therefore, in this new dynamic that the 70th JTIC was launched. After the opening speech of Xavier Bourbon, President of the AEMIC (organiser of JTIC), the first conference began. Its theme: “What do the market want: reducing or promoting the volatility of food commodities?”.

In the afternoon, two conferences were held, “Quality of 2019 malting barley” and “Artificial intelligence to boost the cereal industries”. The conference program for October 17th was “Wheat quality characteristics in 2019?”, which will be the subject of a more detailed article in a future issue of Milling and Grain. “Improving the milling quality of wheat: technical and economic evaluation of cleaning” and finally “Bakery: what are the future challenges?” were also topics discussed extensively.

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In addition to this busy program of conferences, all available in French and English, visitors were able to wander through the exhibition aisles and discover innovations and new equipment from both national and international exhibitors.

In particular, the presence of the FOSS company and its Eye-Foss grain analyser proved very popular and intriguing. The durum wheat analyser is now also useful for soft wheat and barley since the development of a new calibration for these grains has been established.

Also present were moisture-measurement company Hydronix, whose booth featured several of their innovative products, including moisture sensors. One of their products will obtain the ATEX certification at the beginning of the year 2020, which represents an important asset especially for mills, in order to significantly reduce and precent the risk of dust explosions.

Fischbein informed Milling and Grain about his portable sewing machine that has been in use for more than 100 years and told us why their product has boasted such a long lifespan.

Finally, Chopin Technologies has again brought to JTIC

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Similar to last year’s event, there was also a dedicated exhibition section for start-ups, bringing together six innovative companies that made the trip to Lille with their new innovations.

Finally, as the president of AEMIC underlines, JTIC is an opportunity for new generations of milling students to establish contact with mill operators and equipment manufacturers. “Job Dating” took place on the last day for this very purpose. It is, indeed, one of JTIC’s challenges to build bridges between these generations so that knowledge and experience can be transmitted for generations to come.

With interesting conferences and many exhibitors showcasing their products or services, there was a great deal to engage with at the 70th edition of JTIC. Milling and Grain had the opportunity to ask some questions to Xavier Bourbon, President of AEMIC and Patricia Darjo, Director of the National School of Milling and Cereal Industries (ENSMIC).

Both interviews will appear in future issues of Milling and Grain.

The next edition of the JTIC, the 71st rendition, will also be relocated and will take place in Tours on 4-5th November, 2020.

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GRAPAS, as a conference that focuses on flour and rice milling along with innovation awards, has been running for over 12 years in Asia and Europe alike, encouraging companies to display their latest food-related equipment and services. Many companies exhibiting at next year’s Victam Asia 2020 produce milling equipment for the food sector - some 75 companies from 22 countries have confirmed that they are also participating as GRAPAS exhibitors. However, this will be the first time a dedicated area is being offered to companies wishing to display equipment and services dedicated to the food manufacturing sector.

GRAPAS Exhibition 2020 is being supported by the GRAPAS and Global Milling Conference 2020, organised by Milling and Grain. The GRAPAS Innovation Awards will also be presented at the event. This is a further opportunity for you to introduce your product innovations to a worldwide market via Milling and Grain reporting. Simply request application forms.

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Laboratory equipment Bastak +90 312 395 67 87 www.bastak.com.tr Brabender +49 203 7788 0 www.brabender.com CHOPIN Technologies +33 14 1475045 www.chopin.fr ERKAYA +90 312 395 2986 www.erkayagida.com.tr Next Instruments +612 9771 5444 www.nextinstruments.net Perten Instruments +46 8 505 80 900 www.perten.com Petkus +49 36921 980 www.petkus.com Tekpro +44 1692 403403 www.tekpro.com

Level measurement BinMaster Level Controls +1 402 434 9102 www.binmaster.com FineTek Co., Ltd +886 2226 96789 www.fine-tek.com

Loading/un-loading equipment Golfetto Sangati +39 0422 476 700 www.golfettosangati.com Neuero Industrietechnik +49 5422 95030 www.neuero.de Vigan Engineering +32 67 89 50 41 www.vigan.com

Mill design & installation Alapala +90 212 465 60 40 www.alapala.com Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Christy Turner Ltd +44 1473 742325 www.christy-turner.com

Soon Strong Machinery +886 3 9901815 www.soonstrong.com.tw

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Kay Jay Rolls +91 9878 000 859 www.kjrolls.com

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Genç Degirmen +90 444 0894 www.gencdegirmen.com.tr

Ottevanger Milling Engineers +31 79 593 22 21 www.ottevanger.com

Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Golfetto Sangati +39 0422 476 700 www.golfettosangati.com

Wynveen +31 26 47 90 699 www.wynveen.com

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Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Viteral +90 332 2390 141 www.viteral.com.tr

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Zheng Chang +86 2164184200 www.zhengchang.com/eng

Henry Simon +44 0161 804 2800 www.henrysimonmilling.com IMAS - Milleral +90 332 2390141 www.milleral.com Ocrim +39 0372 4011 www.ocrim.com Omas +39 049 9330297 www.omasindustries.com

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Ottevanger Milling Engineers +31 79 593 22 21 www.ottevanger.com

TMI +34 973 25 70 98 www.tmipal.com

Fundiciones Balaguer, S.A. +34 965564075 www.balaguer-rolls.com

Petkus +49 36921 980 www.petkus.com

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Kay Jay Rolls +91 9878 000 859 www.kjrolls.com

Sangati Berga +85 4008 5000 www.sangatiberga.com.br

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Leonhard Breitenbach +49 271 3758 0 www.breitenbach.de

Satake +81 82 420 8560 www.satake-group.com

Palletisers A-MECS Corp. +822 20512651 www.a-mecs.kr

Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr

Pelleting Technology Netherlands (PTN) +3 73 54 984 72 www.ptn.nl

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Petkus +49 36921 980 www.petkus.com

Plant Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Pingle +86 311 88268111 www.plflourmill.com

Zheng Chang +86 2164184200 www.zhengchang.com/eng

Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr

Process control

Soon Strong Machinery +886 3 9901815 www.soonstrong.com.tw

DSL Systems Ltd +44 115 9813700 www.dsl-systems.com Inteqnion +31 543 49 44 66 www.inteqnion.com

Cetec Industrie +33 5 53 02 85 00 www.cetec.net

Tanis +90342337222 www.tanis.com.tr

Ottevanger Milling Engineers +31 79 593 22 21 www.ottevanger.com

FAWEMA +49 22 63 716 0 www.fawema.com

Unormak +90 332 2391016 www.unormak.com.tr

Safe Milling +44 844 583 2134 www.safemilling.co.uk

Imeco +39 0372 496826 www.imeco.org

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Pelleting Technology Netherlands (PTN) +3 73 54 984 72 www.ptn.nl

Pest control

Packaging

Peter Marsh Group +44 151 9221971 www.petermarsh.co.uk

Ocrim +39 0372 4011 www.ocrim.com

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Nutriad +32 52 40 98 24 www.nutriad.com

Mondi Group +43 1 79013 4917 www.mondigroup.com

Kay Jay Rolls +91 9878 000 859 www.kjrolls.com

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

CHOPIN Technologies +33 14 1475045 www.chopin.fr

Next Instruments +612 9771 5444 www.nextinstruments.net

Henry Simon +44 0161 804 2800 www.henrysimonmilling.com

Viteral +90 332 239 01 41 http://viteral.com.tr

Brabender +49 203 7788 0 www.brabender.com

NIR systems

IMAS - Milleral +90 332 2390141 www.milleral.com

Soon Strong Machinery +886 3 9901815 www.soonstrong.com.tw

Moisture measurement

Biomin +43 2782 8030 www.biomin.net

Genç Degirmen +90 444 0894 www.gencdegirmen.com.tr

Pellet Press

Zaccaria +55 19 3404 5700 www.zaccaria.com.br

Adisseo + 33 1 46 74 70 00 www.adisseo.com

Christy Turner Ltd +44 1473 742325 www.christy-turner.com

TMI +34 973 25 70 98 www.tmipal.com

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Mycotoxin management

Alapala +90 212 465 60 40 www.alapala.com

Imeco +39 0372 496826 www.imeco.org

Tanis +90342337222 www.tanis.com.tr

Hydronix +44 1483 468900 www.hydronix.com

Roller mills

Cetec Industrie +33 5 53 02 85 00 www.cetec.net

Silo Construction Engineers +32 51723128 www.sce.be

Wynveen +31 26 47 90 699 www.wynveen.com

Tanis +90342337222 www.tanis.com.tr

Yemmak +90 266 7338363 www.yemmak.com

Rolls Entil +90 222 237 57 46 www.entil.com.tr

Yemtar Feed Mill Machines +90 266 733 8550 www.yemtar.com

Roll fluting Christy Turner Ltd +44 1473 742325 www.christy-turner.com

Top Silo Constructions (TSC) +31 543 473 979 www.tsc-silos.com

Fundiciones Balaguer, S.A. +34 965564075 www.balaguer-rolls.com Kay Jay Rolls +91 9878 000 859 www.kjrolls.com

Temperature monitoring Agromatic +41 55 2562100 www.agromatic.com

Reclaim System

CHOPIN Technologies +33 14 1475045 www.chopin.fr

Vibrafloor +33 3 85 44 06 78 www.vibrafloor.com

Dol Sensors +45 721 755 55 www.dol-sensors.com

Sifters Filip GmbH +49 5241 29330 www.filip-gmbh.com

Inteqnion +31 543 49 44 66 www.inteqnion.com

Gazel +90 364 2549630 www.gazelmakina.com

Supertech Agroline +45 6481 2000 www.supertechagroline.com

Petkus +49 36921 980 www.petkus.com Selis +90 222 236 12 33 www.selis.com.tr

Tanis +90342337222 www.tanis.com.tr

Training Bühler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Silos Behlen Grain Systems +1 900 553 5520 www.behlengrainsystems.com

IAOM +1 913 338 3377 www.iaom.info

Bentall Rowlands +44 1724 282828 www.bentallrowlands.com

IFF +495307 92220 www.iff-braunschweig.de

Chief +1 308 237 3186 agri.chiefind.com

Kansas State University +1 785 532 6161 www.grains.k-state.edu

CSI +90 322 428 3350 www.cukurovasilo.com

nabim +44 2074 932521 www.nabim.org.uk

Lambton Conveyor +1 519 627 8228 www.lambtonconveyor.com MYSILO +90 382 266 2245 www.mysilo.com Obial +90 382 2662120 www.obial.com.tr Petkus +49 36921 980 www.petkus.com Silo Construction Engineers +32 51723128 www.sce.be Silos Cordoba +34 957 325 165 www.siloscordoba.com Soon Strong Machinery +886 3 9901815 www.soonstrong.com.tw Sukup +1 641 892 4222 www.sukup.com Symaga +34 91 726 43 04 www.symaga.com Tanis +90342337222 www.tanis.com.tr

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the interview

Samuel Goldberg, co-founder of Blood Orange Pictures and Producer of SILO

Samuel Goldberg is a film, television, theatre and live events producer based in New York City. He began his career as an actor and moved into writing and creative producing while studying at the University of Pennsylvania. Samuel has produced multiple award-winning documentaries including Web and Silo: Edge of the Real World and has worked with renowned artists Jon Batiste, Shaina Taub and Louis Cato, to name a few.

Most recently he produced the feature film SILO about a grain entrapment accident and rescue in a small American farm town. Samuel believes in the power of stories to produce empathy and alongside his amazing wife loves telling tales to their infant daughter, Taal.

What inspired you to produce a film about the dangers of grain entrapment?

Five years ago mutual friends introduced me to a film director from Tennessee. He pitched me the idea of a film about grain entrapment, a subject I had never heard of before. As a born and bred New Yorker (from Manhattan) I knew very little about agriculture.

But Marshall, the director, pitched more than just a unique film plot about a grain entrapment rescue. He pitched me on the idea of depicting rural America and farmers in an authentic way that highlighted their devotion to community and to fuelling our planet. I was drawn to that subject given the divisiveness in American culture and the lack of knowledge I personally had about the subject of agriculture. From there, the creative process began.

What valuable information about the milling/farming industry did you discover whilst producing Silo?

Frankly, everything that I discovered was new to me, so I developed a profound appreciation for a profession that is crucial to human survival. As I dug into our research and development process, I was surprised at how dangerous a profession this can be. I don’t think people quite appreciate the safety, logistical, technological and financial complexities of agriculture. I was blown away by that, which made me even more inspired to produce SILO.

Did Sukup approach you or did you approach Sukup, regarding featuring their silo within your film?

We approached Sukup after seeing their grain bins on a beautiful farm in Kentucky. We called their office and two weeks later I was on a plane to Sheffield, Iowa to meet with the family. Their dedication to farm safety and community service is incredible and they jumped right in with both feet.

The scenes of grain entrapment within the film were very realistic. How did you ensure the safety of the actors whilst recreating these entrapment scenes?

We worked with two great stunt men, Bill Scharpf and Jeff Constine. They were on-set to ensure that all stunt scenes looked realistic, but without putting any one in danger.

Furthermore, we had an EMT and/or firefighter on site every single day of our film’s production. They kept us safe and also gave us advice on how to film things, so that they didn’t come off as “phony Hollywood.”

What other safety measures did you have to take when filming in and around a grain silo?

Heights. Always about heights. It’s dangerous to have a cast and crew climbing ladders all the time, so we had a lot of harnessing to do throughout production. We also made sure that corn dust, which is very combustible, was kept at a minimum near our very hot production lights.

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What do you see as a possible challenge that the food industry may face over the next five years and how do we solve this?

Like many industries it seems that people are being forced to “grow or die.” That is a very tough precedent to set. Not every farmer wants to be a huge business. This is often a family legacy passed down generations that is a point of pride for the producer and his/her community. I worry that our globalised society is forcing people to take financial risks that put them in harm’s way physically and emotionally.

How do you think grain production companies can work together to help create a sustainable food future for the world?

I am not an expert in this space, but I will answer as best I can.

I think no matter the profession one must engage in thoughtful dialogue with people different than themselves, to avoid getting stuck “in a bubble.”

In agriculture, I think it is important to connect with the producer and the consumer to see where there are pain points in their experiences with food. Once you have a practical sense of how people are producing and consuming food then you can start to work backwards from there to create a sustainable model to provide what’s needed.

Anything that will be sustainable - meaning will sustain itself for a long period - must not be done in a hurry for a profit motive.

One can do well while also doing good in this world.

How did you gather your research about grain entrapment and the dangers of working in a silo?

We first approached professors of agriculture, starting with Dr. Bill Field at Purdue University in Indiana who is an expert in the space. He helped educate us and opened a lot of doors at American universities. Once we felt the educational perspective was covered, we spent a lot of time with farmers and fire rescue workers to hear about their experiences. Then we just did as much listening as we possibly could.

Is the farming/milling industry something you would like to explore again in the future in your career?

Absolutely. We are already working on another film that approaches this subject from another angle. We feel that rural areas are seldom depicted in film and television and we hope that as a company we can continue to bring a thoughtful artistic perspective to seldom-covered stories.

Left: Samuel Goldberg, cofounder of Blood Orange Pictures and Producer of SILO, talking to Steve Sukup, CFO of Sukup (right).

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Alejandros Cardenas joins Kice

K

ice announced today the appointment of Alejandro Cardenas as a new Regional Sales Manager. In this role, Cardenas will be responsible for the oversight of sales throughout the Mexico territory, providing support for this customer base for the diverse product lines offered by Kice.

Cardenas holds a degree in Chemical Engineering and has spent the last seven years working for Polatecnia in the bulk solids industry in Mexico.

“Alejandro is a great fit for this position, his experience and knowledge will be a great asset for us as we support our customers in this region, said Jeff Kice, Kice Industries.

“We are excited for him to join our sales and support team, and I know he will build strong partnerships and add tremendous value to the customers in this area.”

Dalton Henry to lead US Wheat Associates policy team

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S Wheat Associates (USW) announces that a familiar face is returning to the organisation, naming Dalton Henry as Vice President of Policy. Henry starts his position August 20, 2019, based in the USW Headquarters Office in Arlington, Va. Previously, Henry worked for USW in the same role from March 2015 to December 2016. USW is the wheat industry’s export market development organisation.

“We are happy to have Dalton return to a role he previously served well,” said Vince Peterson, USW President. “Trade policy continues to be a critical part of USW’s mission to develop, maintain and expand overseas markets. Dalton has a strong commitment to our industry and fully understands how important reducing international trade barriers is to our mission representing US wheat farmers.”

“I’m thrilled to have the opportunity to rejoin the team at US Wheat,” said Henry. “Trade policy has always been a critical piece of the puzzle for wheat producers, and I look forward to working on their behalf.”

Sweet hires Jamie Daugherty-Weaver

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weet Manufacturing Company has announced that Jamie Daugherty-Weaver has joined the company as its Marketing Specialist.

Jamie will be responsible for all areas of the company’s marketing and advertising.

This will include design and content creation for our advertisements, website, social media, and company literature, as well as managing trade shows, corporate events, and product launches. She will also provide marketing support to our sales team.

Jamie comes to Sweet after nearly six years at Nexstep Commercial Products where she served as Director of Marketing. After graduating from Wittenberg University, Jamie gained experience with manufacturers and distributors in customer service, inside sales, and marketing roles. She has continued her education in both Marketing and Sales Management, Product Management, and Graphic Design at Clark State Community College.

Kevin Like appointed President of ADM’s North America Flour Milling

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rcher Daniels Midland Company (ADM) has named Kevin Like President, North America Flour Milling. In this role, he will oversee all aspects of the company’s flour milling businesses in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

“The milling organisation is core to our entire Carbohydrate Solutions business, and there is tremendous growth potential as we launch new sustainability and organic platforms and bring our new state-of-the-art facility in Mendota, Illinois, online in the coming months,” said Chris Cuddy, President, Carbohydrate Solutions for ADM. “Kevin’s leadership will be critical to driving all of these initiatives forward, and we are pleased that he has taken on this new role with the passion and energy he has brought to our organisation for the past 31 years.”

Mr Like joined ADM in 1988 and has served in multiple leadership roles at the company.

Most recently, he was Vice President of Commercial and Sales for ADM Milling. Mr Like holds an MBA from Millikin University in Decatur, Illinois, and bachelor’s degrees in agricultural business and economics from South Dakota State University.

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