Interwiew With CPM

What makes participating to this upcoming event in LatAm different than the other events?

Latin America is increasingly seen, by many, as the main supplier of food to many regions in the world. Latin America is one of the world’s largest grain producers, led by Brazil as the world’s leading soybean producer. Adding to all this, there is a very structured growth in the Pet Food sector in Latin America, projecting a CAGR of 7.6 percent for Brazil alone. This healthy economic climate is the reason why this region is so interesting to investors and offers a lot of business opportunities.

What are your expectations of Victam LatAm? What outcome do you expect?

We believe this is the right time to find customers and prospects, as well as business partners. CPM is always aiming to build long-term relationships and understand how we can better serve our customers by analysing and understanding their needs and presenting them with solutions. We believe that a good face-to-face discussion is a perfect way to do this. We expect that VICTAM LatAm will open up great business possibilities, by attracting the right audience and providing the tools for exhibitors and visitors to meet each other. In addition, we expect that VICTAM LatAm will enable us to showcase our solutions which are of the highest quality and reliability that the industry can offer.

In what way is Victam contributing to your success?

VICTAM is a well-known global event that enables visitors to discover the latest innovations and technologies and find great business opportunities. We expect VICTAM LatAm will do the same for Latin America and we look forward to meeting visitors from all Latin American countries. VICTAM LatAm visitors looking for the newest solutions in feed plants will certainly find them with CPM.

How do you incentivise sustainability?

We don’t just believe in sustainability; we make it happen. We are committed to making the world a better place for current and future generations. This is why, among other initiatives, we actively promote rework and waste recycling. When it comes to our equipment, we continuously innovate to reduce the energy consumption of our equipment.

What is the biggest challenge within the industry that you are currently facing?

There are two big challenges that the industry is currently facing:

Continuous evolving need for improved sanitary and food grade products

Higher capacity at specific recipes and granulation

What is/are CPM’s most recent milestone(s)and what distinguishes you from others?

We recently acquired Bliss Industries, a majority supplier of grinding equipment for and lead supplier of new petfood facilities in the North American petfood industry.

Some of the things that distinguish us from others are:

The process knowledge that we have accumulated by serving the animal feed and pet food industries for many years.

The focus on customer unique needs and requirements

Automation and controls for complete facility through our Beta Raven brand

Can you tell us a little bit more about your R&D processes?

We would like to invite all readers to join us at our booth so we can talk details because there is a lot to share about this topic. Just a tip of the iceberg, we have various patented technologies for equipment, processes, and parts. Also, we are expanding R&D test centers in multiple company locations around the world.

How are you coping with new trends and technologies?

Through our culture of innovation, we are constantly inventing new ways to meeting customer-specific requirement and needs.

There are a few technologies we can name that we are focussed on:

Sanitary processing, improved cleanability, operator safety, plant safety. R&D testing for customer-specific formulations. Using complete facility controls to shift toward automation through our Beta Raven brand

Resulting in improved reliability and operations efficiency. Blending, batching and weighing is a current trend with automation and important due to restricted diets.

How do you think that new innovations and technologies will impact the industry in 5 years?

Because we continuously aim to improve our business, we reinvent ourselves every 4-5 year. The petfood industry has evolved more toward a “human” diet and we will continue to develop healthy eating trends for pets. With the global markets continuing to domesticate animals, the demand for high-quality petfood is growing.

•

•

•

•

•

2023 April

14- 16

Pet Health Expo

Los Angeles, USA www. pethealthexpo.com

2023 May

1-3

Petfood Forum

Kansas City, Missouri, USA www.petfoodforumevents.com

3-4

Petcare Innovation Europe

Berlin, Germany www.kisacoresearch.com