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The flour market • Grain fortification • Optical sorting • The African Milling School • Loading bulk solids with explosive characteristics

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COVER PICTURE: Our cover picture this month is of the Doruk Marmara Un San AŞ flour mill, in Tekirdağ, Turkey. At one time the company belonged to the Doruk Group Holding, one of the biggest cereal processing groups in the country which had tentacles via its 12 companies that achieved complete vertical integration - from seed production to bakeries - throughout the industry.

Today, after a break-up due to economics, Doruk has just farm operations, a bakery chain and a flour mill.

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REGIONAL FOCUS

Middle East

NEWS FEATURES 30 The flour market

34 The super women of maize and wheat 36 Grain fortification 38 Selenium

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94 People news from the global milling industry

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44 BergaFat: a fat powder with value added

STORAGE

52 Retaining crop biodiversity - in the face of a civil war

58 Elevate & convey - The York M42-200 system

46 Optical sorting

EVENTS

78 Event listings, reviews and previews

56 Loading bulk solids with explosive characteristics

62 Sweet Manufacturing at 60

TRAINING

26 The African Milling School comes to fruition

COLUMNS

8 Mildred Cookson 12 Dik Wolters 14 Tom Blacker 18 Christophe Pelletier 22 Chris Jackson

2 GUEST EDITOR Damon Sidles

72 MARKETS John Buckley

92 INTERVIEW Dr Lutz Popper

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A centenarian organisation with cutting-edge technology The Annual Conference & Expo for the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) will be held in Palm Springs, CA the week of May 4. As the 2014-15 IAOM President, I am pleased to have this great event held in my home district of the Golden West. IAOM is a 119-year-old international professional organisation of grain millers and allied trades representatives devoted to the advancement of education and training opportunities in the grain milling industries. With 16 districts around the world, IAOM members are able to participate in international educational and training forums that provide opportunities for networking, the exchange of ideas, and the discovery of new products and services.

The upcoming global conference will feature a trade show of over 110 exhibitors. Our 12 hours of educational programming is divided into 5 different areas of interest: Product Protection, Facility Management, Employee

Management, Technical Operations and Specialty Milling. In the first year of the Specialty Milling track, the focus will be on pulses and oat processing. We are also introducing a Millers’ Panel discussion this year. It is designed to be an interactive and stimulating session with industry experts as they discuss challenges, opportunities and solutions in the milling industry. Topics such as blower maintenance, pneumatic system designs, sifter maintenance, roll corrugations greatefficiency ideas &will great peoplein this and grinder be discussed moderated panel.

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The IAOM standing committees take great pride in gathering top-notch speakers for the annual IAOM Conference & Expo. This year’s 24 presentations will cover topics such as traceability, specialty milling processing, NFPA updates, regulatory issues, bin repair methods, and various safety-related topics.

All of the committee members work for major milling companies around the globe. I am continually impressed by all of the volunteer work they do for our organisation each year.

This is a must-see venue; I hope you can join us in Palm Springs!

Damon Sidles, IAOM President

Connect with fellow millers and industry power players for two days of education, inspiration and conversation.

Presentation topics include: • Gluten-free or Gluten Free-for-All

• An Arbitrator’s 7 Tests for the Workplace Meet the Milling and Grain team • Revival of the Grist Mill The team are travelling across the globe to industry events. Come along to our stand at any • Ag Safety and Rescue Initiative of the following events, meet the team and pick up a free copy of •Milling andExplosion GrainHazards Assessing Dust • The Steel Cut Process – A Crucial Step in Oat Milling • Carbon Fiber Reinforcement in the Milling Industry • Preserving Roll Integrity • Wheat Traceability

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MIDDLE EAST FAO boosts food security efforts in countries affected by Syria crisis

GLOBAL STATS

The Syria crisis has put extra pressures on food security in communities in an outside of Syria.

See the full story on page 23

Middle East on the rise - iran leads Middle East production Feed production in the Middle East is again on the rise in Alltech’s latest feed survey, up for the third year in a row, reaching 25.47 million tonnes in 2014. This was a one percent rise over 2013.

See the full story on page 24

MIDDLE EAST STATS

60 – Prevalence of chronic malnutrition among children under age 5 (stunting) is 60 percent in Afghanistan (Credit: GAIN) 43 – In Yemen, of those who are food insecure, 43 percent are classified as ‘severely food insecure’ (Credit: GAIN) 0.55 – The amount of tonnes of extra wheat that the Egyptian government will purchase from Egyptian farmers. The Government expects to purchase 4.25 million tonnes of wheat from local farmers in 2014/15, compared to 3.7 million tonnes purchased in 2013/14.

(Credit: FAO) 5. 95% – The increase in maize production in Syria in 2014 compared to 2013, 156,000 tonnes compared to 80,000 respectively (Credit: FAO) 4 | Milling and Grain

FEATURE

A Conference for Middle East Millers

Retaining crop biodiversity in the face of a civil war ICARDA honoured by the Gregor Mendel Foundation See the full story on page 52

Milling and Grain is working with VIV MEA to host the first regional ‘Milling Conference’. It will be held during the VIV MEA in Abu Dhabi from February 16 - 18, 2016. Coming off the back of a hugely successful VIV Asia, the international world of suppliers and buyers, active in food and feed production in the Middle East and Africa, will come together at the ADNEC, located near Abu Dhabi’s international airport, to review all aspects of the ‘Feed to Meat Chain’; which is the theme of this new international exhibition.

More information available at: http://www.vivmea.nl/en/Bezoeker.aspx

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Satake receives order for flour milling plant from largest baker and confectioner in South Korea

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n December 2014, Satake received an order for a 160 tonne/day (t/d) hard wheat flour milling plant from the flour milling company Mildawon Co, Ltd, a member of South Korea’s largest confectionery and bakery conglomerate, SPC group.

The plant will be completed in December 2015.

The SPC group operates about 3200 stores in South Korea under the brand Paris Baguette. The group is the largest confectionery and bakery company in South

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Korea, having had the highest sales for a consecutive 25 years and holding about 80 percent of the market share. It also has about 180 stores in China, the USA, Vietnam, Singapore and France.

Satake received orders for a 480 t/d hard wheat flour milling plant (A mill) in 2009 and for a 360 t/d soft wheat flour milling plant (B mill) in 2011. These mills operate at full capacity.

To expand production capacity, construction of a 160 t/d hard wheat flour milling plant (C mill) was planned in 2014. Satake received an order for the C mill in December 2014 as a result of the success of the previous two and also due to Satake’s flour milling technology being highly rated.

The plant will be completed in December 2015. C mill is to be used for both rye and durum wheat. These materials are used to make rye bread and pasta.

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We welcome a new international editor to Milling and Grain this month!

Dr M. Hikmet Boyacıoğlu, Professor of Food Engineering at Okan University in Istanbul joins us as International EditorTurkey.

Professor Boyacıoğlu will guide the editorial direction of our Turkish edition, writing for the magazine and gathering technical Roger Gilbert and other information for publication. He is well-known in our industry and highly respected. Welcome!

The Turkish edition, which will be published 12 times per year, will compliment our Spanish and Arabic editions, which are published six times per year.

In addition I want to draw special attention to our training feature this month, which highlights the recently launched African Flour Milling School in Kenya – sponsored by Buhler Hikmet Boyacıoğlu - and which will make a significant contribution to food safety, quality and costs of flour and bread production throughout Africa as graduates from its course and programs return to their mills.

We congratulate the company, and wish the managers and lecturers all the best for the future. We are very mindful of the risks associated with working in some regions following recent events. On behalf of all our staff and supporters here at Milling and Grain, we express our deepest condolences to all those caught up in the massacre at Garissa University in north-eastern Kenya recently. It is important that we do not shrink from educating future generations on how achieve food security economically in those areas that need it most.

28 new rice varieties released in 2014

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he International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its partners released at least twenty-eight new rice varieties to governments of eight countries in Asia and Africa in 2014.

These newly-released varieties possess high-yielding and stress-tolerance traits that can help farmers overcome challenges, such as the negative effects of climate change, in their rice growing ecosystems. Some of the varieties released are flood-tolerant (India), drought-tolerant for rainfed rice areas (Nepal), and salinity-tolerant (the Gambia and the Philippines).

IRRI has released more than a thousand modern rice varieties in 78 countries since its founding in 1960.

“The work never stops,” said Eero Nissila, IRRI’s head of breeding and leader of its global rice research partnership in varietal improvement.

“New challenges arise due to climate change and decreasing resources, which is why we need to keep revisiting our agenda and stay responsive to the needs of our farmers and consumers.”

Scientists implementing IRRI’s breeding agenda are sharing the latest in

their varietal improvement work during IRRI Breeders’ Week, happening now at IRRI, 23-27 March 2015.

Critical improvements are being made to IRRI’s breeding infrastructure, which needs to be more responsive to the requirements of current and future rice demand.

Responsiveness requires increasing rice genetic gain in yield and pursuing an agenda that’s driven by what consumers need and prefer. Taken together, these improvements are called Transforming Rice Breeding (TRB), funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

At Breeders’ Week, several updates were presented, which include development of profiles of rice preferred in selected countries in Southeast Asia and Africa; market research on types of rice consumers prefer; updates on the irrigated variety development pipeline that now benefits from an expedited breeding process; breeding hubs in Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia; grain quality and how it integrates into the development of high-yielding rice varieties with desirable traits; managing information through bioinformatics; genotyping services; partnerships within the hybrid rice development program; and exploration of rice’s diversity for breeding.

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COMPANY UPDATES

Schenck Process UK, experts in measuring and process technologies in industrial weighing, feeding, measuring, conveying, filtration and automation, have recently been awarded OHSAS 18001 and ISO 14001 accreditations by Lloyd‘s Register Quality Assurance (LRQA) UK. OHSAS 18001 is an international occupational health and safety management system that requires Schenck Process to implement and maintain standards that control health and safety risks across the organisation. Our employees are our most valued asset and we are strongly committed to their safety and wellbeing whilst they are at work. ISO 14001 is a standard that specifies controls for those activities that have an effect on the environment and to ensure active pollution prevention.

AB Vista has appointed Stacey Homen Henthorn as Commercial Manager for North America, following the company’s continued growth in the region. Ms Henthorn will work alongside the technical team and commercial partners to provide continued support to customers across the US, and develop new business for the company.

Silos Cordoba’s New Manufacturing Plant at Science and Technology Park is 95 percent complete. The project, which began in April last year, is scheduled for completion in May 2015. With its new manufacturing facility, the company’s goal is to become an European leader, not only in manufacturing turnkey grain storage projects, but also in modernity and quality of its facilities, innovation and marketing strategies. The project consists of two buildings.

The main building, designed to house the manufacturing plant, has a rectangular floor plan and is topped with a curved East façade. This area has a capacity of 10,000 square meters.

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Successful Country Mills no 2 Newington Mill Ramsgate (From ‘The Miller’ June 1st 1903)

Milling Journals of the past at the Mills Archive

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

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s I have always had a soft spot for windmills, the second in my series of “Successful Country Mills” is Newington Mill. The mill stood ½ mile north of St Lawrence Church Ramsgate in Kent.

Mr Peter Mack of Newington Mill was said to be a go-ahead young miller “who deserves to succeed”. He transformed his windmill to run on an Armfield system. It was well known that Messrs J. J. Armfield of Ringwood, Hampshire seemed to have had the special knack of fitting their machines into impossible corners, and whole systems into inconceivably small spaces, as in the case of Newington Mills. It was not very often that a windmill was converted this way, and was referred to as ‘a veritable waistcoat pocket installation.’

They introduced a one-sack system, which turned out clean flour and well finished offal’s on three octagonal floors, one measuring just 18ft.6ins across. The flour and offal’s were taken off in the basement of the mill and hoisted straight into wagons or carts.

The first floor (see diagram) contained three double sets of Armfield’s 12in. x 6in. rolls. They stood in a line, which took up 11ft 6ins of the floor, leaving space between

each double set to allow replacement, when the need arose, with 18in rolls. It was felt once the surrounding neighbourhood heard and tried his flour; the new rolls would soon be installed.

There were three breaks and three reductions. The usual wheat cleaning machinery, including magnets placed in front of the first break to intercept any small pieces of wire or nails.

On the floor above the rolls was a double scalper operating upon the chop from the first two breaks, an Armfield purifier of suitable size and capacity and three centrifugals.

The next floor had a break meal centrifugal and a bran duster. It was said that ‘the middlings were divided into two sizes and were being delivered to the rolls in a regular manner, and in good shape, they were bright in appearance, and free from light tissue and branny matter, a fact that any practical miller loves to look upon.’

Everything was said to run quietly and efficiently. The motive power was from a 12 horse power engine, but interestingly by a very simple arrangement the huge 70ft sweeps could be coupled up so that either steam or wind could be used.

Even though the roller plant system was in place the two pairs of 4ft 6in millstones were still retained on the stone floor along with a corn crusher and wheat cleaner. The bin floor contained two bins, one for dirty wheat arriving and the other for the wheat to be stored once cleaned.

Newington Mill Ramsgate in 1904

Mr Peter Mack

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Milling News Newington Mill internal arrangement

The wheat was hoisted up directly from the wagons which could pull up directly under the chain hoist.

The standard mill reference book for the area in our library (Coles Finch,1933) quotes from a letter received in 1931 from the miller Mr Peter Mack:

The mill is about 100 years old. The sweeps, which are in fairly good condition, were last used twenty seven years ago (1904). I think considerable repair would have to be done for them to be used again. The shutters, of course, have been dismantled. We used up to quite recently two pairs of stones, one set of Derbyshire Peak and the other French Burr. We now only use one pair (for grinding barley and farmers’ corn). The other pair have been removed for an oat crushing, maize kibbler and grinder combined. We make our own gas (from anthracite coal) to drive the gas engine, which drives a small flour plant, the stones and crusher all together. We also have a bakery adjoining the mill in which we bake bread. So you see we make our own gas, make our own flour and produce bread from same. Our trade is a mixed one, of course, as is the case with similar businesses, consisting of corn, fodder, flour, bread, which is retailed at our two shops.

Mr Mack added that he had heard that the mill originally stood on the old SE & CR Station site in the town and was moved by the railway company to make room for the line. This is a misunderstanding I think, for the Canterbury millwrights tell me that the mill was erected on its present site by John Holman. Prior to Mr Mack’s ownership, the mill was in the Mascall family, for whom it was probably built. Mr Mack’s assertion that considerable repair would be needed to the mill is underlined by the sketch made only six year later by windmill artist Karl Wood, whose portfolio of 1500 windmill drawings is now cared for by the Mills Archive.

If you would like to know more please email me at mills@millsarchive.org

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Safe feed for safe food in the international market Dik Wolters, Project Manager, GMP+ International In an increasing number of countries, food safety is becoming a high priority for governments and food companies. Stakeholders are realising that the animal feed business is an important part of the food chain, and that feed safety contributes to the safety of animal products for human consumption.

GMP+ International aims to support feed companies worldwide with its Feed Certification scheme to control feed product safety with the latest tools and knowledge.

Food safety, and therefore feed safety, has been an international issue for over 15 years. The development of GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance (GMP+ FSA) certification started in the Netherlands in 1992. Today the scheme has over 13,500 participants in about 70 countries. Its standards are developed based on relevant practical experience. GMP+ International manages the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme, an independent organisation with well-balanced multi-stakeholder participation.

In GMP+ International’s vision, the feed chain is part of the food chain. Hence its slogan, ‘Feed for Food’. The feed chain must provide safe feed so livestock farming and aquaculture can produce safe food products of animal origin. Safe feed can be best provided by a chain approach. Risk-control must be achieved as early as possible in the chain, where the risks occur, to avoid dispersion of contaminated feed materials.

This is crucial from a financial as well as an image point of view. This means every company at each link in the feed chain should apply a proper feed safety control system in a demonstrable way. GMP+ FSA’s basic requirement is that, exceptions aside, all companies in the chain must be certified according to a proper feed safety assurance scheme.

GMP+ International’s mission is to provide support to feed companies regarding feed safety control by means of internationally applicable standards for the whole feed chain.

In this way, it aims to maximise uniformity in international feed safety control. However, it recognises that in certain countries and markets, specific demands and conditions may occur. These are dealt with by GMP+ Country Notes - addons to the international GMP+ FSA standards. Thus, GMP+ International strives for international uniformity as much as possible, and flexibility at the national level if necessary.

Multi-stakeholders’ participation

The GMP+ Feed Certification scheme is managed by GMP+ International. This management is based on well-balanced multi-stakeholder participation. Currently 34 trade associations and food companies support GMP+ International. They are national and international trade associations and international food companies, representing the whole feed chain as well as the animal production and food processing industries.

Reasons for certification

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market. It reassures trade partners that suppliers comply with certain internationally accepted standards and procedures regarding feed safety control. The first trigger for certification is mainly market demand: food-processing companies want to provide safe food products to consumers. It can also inspire confidence towards competent authorities regarding compliance with legal obligations concerning feed safety strategies like HACCP, pre-requisite programs, traceability and so on. Thirdly, a company’s management will want to comply with international standards for reasons of image and as tools in the framework of risk management.

GMP+ Feed Safety Assurance standards

The GMP+ FSA module of the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme provides standards for feed safety control by different types of companies involved in the feed chain: grain collection, feed material production, transport, storage and transshipment, production of additives, pre-mixtures and mixed feeds.

Integrated control tools

Through practical experience of feed safety emergencies, various tools have been integrated into the GMP+ FSA module over the last 20 years. Fundamental are HACCP and the ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 requirements for feed safety management systems (FSMS). Additional prerequisite programs are also integrated for the various types of companies in the feed chain. Product standards (maximum permitted levels of undesirable substances) assure a certain level of feed safety.

All these tools are used to prevent contamination. Corrective tools are traceability and the early warning system: in cases of contamination these prevent further distribution of contaminated feed products.

Participation

The number of participants in GMP+ FSA certification is growing rapidly. There are now over 13,500 in over 70 countries. The top 5 countries are Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, the Czech Republic and Italy. Participation in Central Europe is increasing rapidly. There is a growing interest in Asia and Latin America.

Participation in the Middle East is still limited to a few companies in Israel and the UAE. We notice an increasing interest in feed safety assurance.

Besides the GMP+ Feed Certification scheme, GMP+ International provides additional services like Feed Support Products. Quality managers can use these services to carry out risk assessments. One service offers over 200 generic risk assessments of about 600 feed materials, which can be used in a company-specific risk assessment or suppliers’ assessments.

A second service is the GMP+ Monitoring Database, which companies can use for data storage and analysis, and sharing results with other companies, like their customers. A third service is a set of science-based fact sheets of undesirable substances and processing aids, useful for determining the severity of a contaminant.

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Ocrim will celebrate its open day with ‘wheat, flour and…’ at IPACK-IMA

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015 is an important year for Ocrim, marking 70 years of successful business. The company has decided to hold its anniversary celebrations both in its hometown of Cremona and at IPACK-IMA in Milan.

OCRIM intends to share its happiness and satisfaction with those who have always believed in a company whose productive approach is based on the Italian-made concept.

Many initiatives and events have been organised: on March 14 a great event was held in Cremona’s main square in anticipation of that to come at IPACK-IMA on 21 May. It finished with an amazing evening concert at the beautiful Ponchielli Theatre, offered by Ocrim to the people of Cremona.

March 25 – the exact date of Ocrim’s anniversary – saw the grand opening of the exhibition, Industrial Human Resources in Cremona: Ocrim, Past & Present, held in the beautiful municipal building of Cremona city.

The Beltrami-Vacchelli Photographic Group spent two years working on this complex anthropological journey, documenting what for Ocrim is its trademark: the Italianmade concept. In the afternoon there was a great party at Ocrim headquarters.

But May 21 at IPACK-IMA will be even more of a surprise. At 12.30 pm, the Ocrim booth (Hall 3, B35-C34) will be the site of a jargon-free presentation of the company’s engineering and technological news, told from an artistic-cultural perspective. The Ocrim team will join famous faces from show business and the international culinary scene to welcome all customers and friends to this unique and unmissable event.

In all this, Ocrim demonstrates its desire to invest not only in research and development but also in the communication sector, using the appropriate media to pass on the news of its work in the technological and engineering fields.

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Events and the market place Tom Blacker, International Milling Directory The International Milling Directory (IMD) has enjoyed a lot of growth with new companies and organizations joining recently. The news is very positive with regard to our digital presence, but I will discuss other things with you in this month’s column!

I welcome these four new companies registering for the IMD since my last column: Aytab Investments (Oman), Bilek Tech (Turkey), Centre Storage Systems Ltd (UK) and World Petroleum Council (USA) In the coming months, we are visiting trade shows and conferences all over the world, indeed many of you may be reading this magazine at the IAOM event in the USA, where will will be distributing hundereds of copies of Milling and Grain as well as copies of the IMD.

Heading to Turkey for IDMA

IDMA will be a fantastic event for all millers with a real atmosphere already building. The event will take place from April 23rd to April 26th. There is great excitement for the amount of Middle Eastern, North and East African and Central Asian millers who will attend this large and international milling event for the flour, semolina, rice, corn, bulghur and feed milling machinery as well as incorporating pulse, pasta and biscuit technologies in an exhibition and conference sessions. Darren Parris and myself will be exhibiting the International Milling Directory 2014-15 and will have Media Files for the 2015-16 edition in English and in Turkish. Our exhibition stand is in Hall A, stand A5. You can find it near to Alapala’s large stand if you are attending!

Italy next, for IPACK IMA

IPACK IMA is another exciting event, with great appeal for the European market.

Taking place again at the FieraMilano exhibition complex in central Milan, Italy from 19th to 23rd May. There will be many great International Milling Directory members and advertisers present. Ocrim and will be making a large presence for their machinery, projects and spare parts, along with their sister company Paglierani. A 70th anniversary event will be taking place on their stand on 21st May. We are also looking forward especially to meeting: Bühler for their range of milling and packing equipment, Golfetto Sangati as part of the Pavan group for their roller milling innovation and Clextral as well for the extrusion for feed milling. We look forward to welcoming staff from these companies and many more International Milling Directory members at stand number A15. The stand will be under our company’s name of ‘Perendale’.

In addition, I have seen and continue to see great growth in this magazine’s Market Place in recent months. It covers all hardware necessary for any mill with the finest manufacturers in the industry and their contact details and logos.

The double page every issue is great value for money and I can assist in any enquiries. Please get in touch, my email is tomb@perendale.co.uk and my office phone number is +44 1242 267703.

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Louis Dreyfus Commodities Reports 2014 Financial Results

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ouis Dreyfus Commodities B.V. today reported consolidated net sales of US$64.7 billion in the fiscal year ended 31 December 2014, up 2 percent from US$63.6 billion in 2013, and supported by a 4 percent growth in shipped volumes. The company also reported strong consolidated income before tax of US$837 million, up 10 percent year-on-year, and consolidated Net Income, Group Share, of US$648 million, delivering an excellent Return On Equity (ROE) of 14 percent.

“Louis Dreyfus Commodities is in a very good, well-performing position that enables us to stay focused on our core expertise of securing supplies of food in a changing world, now and in the future,” commented Margarita Louis-Dreyfus, Chairperson of Louis Dreyfus Holding.

“These results prove that our business model and strategy, combining processing and logistics operations with merchandising expertise, is a great recipe for success,” commented Serge Schoen, Executive Chairman of the Louis Dreyfus Commodities Holdings Group.

2014 was marked by an abundant supply, fuelling already high inventory levels for most of the Group’s commodities. This supplyside growth outstripped increase in demand in many commodities, driving price and volatility to low levels.

“The new increase in our sales volumes to 80 million tonnes shipped to destination, as well as our investments of close to US$600 million, are a testimony to Louis Dreyfus Commodities’ approach as a long-term partner and investor, and a positive force for sustainable development in local economies and communities, wherever we operate,” said Claude Ehlinger, Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (acting CEO) of Louis Dreyfus Commodities.

For platforms in the Value Chain segment, plentiful crops fuelled excellent throughputs at Louis Dreyfus Commodities’ industrial and logistics assets. Platforms in the Merchandising segment also delivered a solid performance, relying on their sound market knowledge and the Group’s geographical reach.

Overall, this year’s investments have been geared towards a more dynamic, granular approach, focused primarily on logistics.

The Group also pursued its strategy to secure constant access to liquidity, with the refinancing, one year ahead of maturity, of 3 syndicated Revolving Credit Facilities for a total amount of US$2.1 billion, all at costefficient pricing.

CHS, Dow AgroSciences and Zoetis executives join National Advisory Board, for Women in Agribusiness Summit

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n support of its mission to develop leaders, increase industry knowledge and inspire action, the Women in Agribusiness Summit National Advisory Board today welcomed three new executives who exemplify these objectives through their leadership at their respective companies.

Gloria Basse, vice president, US Pork Business at Zoetis; Lani Jordan, director of corporate communications for CHS; and Kay Kuenker, vice president Dow AgroSciences government affairs, public affairs and sustainability, will join the 17-member advisory board for twoyear terms.

Board members help determine the initiatives that Women in Agribusiness (WIA) will undertake as well as shape the direction and tone of the annual Summit. At Zoetis, the leading global

animal health company, Basse has 25-plus years of experience working to better understand and address realworld challenges faced by those who raise and care for farm animals.

She is currently responsible for all operational aspects of managing the US pork business as well as leading innovative strategies for people development and growth of the business.

At CHS, the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative, Jordan develops the company’s annual corporate communication strategy, which includes being chief media spokesperson, leading crisis communication responses, speechwriting, producing the cooperative’s annual meeting and handling investor relations. She joined the company in 1985.

Milling News Said Jordan about accepting a position on the WIA board, “After attending the Women in Agribusiness Summit the past two years, I was tremendously impressed not only by the calibre of the program, but also by the opportunities to meet the diverse and talented women who are leading industry today and will be our leaders tomorrow. As a director, my goal is to make more women aware of the great networking and development opportunities accessible through this program.”

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She has held positions of vice president of Dow AgroSciences’ Europe Middle East and Africa business, vice president of new business development, Canadian regional commercial unit leader, and more.

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The Pelletier Column

Leading towards a collaborative future

by Christophe Pelletier Not only the world population is growing but, as economic prosperity increases in more and more countries, so does the share of animal protein in the overall food consumption.

For a large part, feeding the iconic number of nine billion people by 2050 will be about feeding the farm animals required to meet future demand for animal products.

When supply and demand shows a strong imbalance between two adjacent links of the value chain, business always feels quite unfair for at least one of them.

Money actually enters a value chain only from the consumer end, and that money needs to be distributed among all the links. When agricultural markets are turbulent, being caught between the rock and the hard place is not the most comfortable.

The animal feed industry knows the feeling well. In most cases, the pain is more of a result of a lack of preparedness to adapt timely than because of just price variations.

Success in feeding a growing population will depend mostly on the ability to foresee and to anticipate future demand, both from a quantitative and qualitative point of view. It is a collective exercise that requires the participation of all the stakeholders. What seems a rock and a hard place is also a bridge between vegetal and animal productions. It puts the feed industry in an ideal position to play a leading role in shaping efficient value chains.

In terms of degrees of separation, the feed industry is the one closest with the highest numbers of links. Towards the consumer end of the chain, it has relatively easy access to knowledge on market trends.

From the crop production end of the chain, the industry follows agricultural commodities’ markets closely. By bringing together knowledge from both the consumer end and the crop production side -and thus helping the other links to produce and supply the corresponding volumes and quality that markets want- a lot of optimization all through the chain is possible.

Let’s face it, leading and organizing such an ongoing optimisation and planning is no small task.

The information and the knowledge are available in many formats and in many places, though. The rise of innovation and of new technologies that allow the collection, monitoring and processing of quantity of data never seen before will be of great help to make markets more transparent.

Optimising through long-term planning has many benefits.

One is to help coordinate forecasts and plans for both vegetal and animal productions.

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Thus, it reduces the chances of heavy shortages or surpluses that result in a succession of enthusiastic booms and brutal slowdowns, while consumption shows a steady increase. Another benefit is to help create greater value for all the partners in the chain, as it helps balance supply and demand more effectively.

This works towards a better sharing of value, reduces uncertainty and allows farmers and businesses to plan better on the long-term to keep up with demand.

Most of the talk about how much food to produce by 2050 tends to revolve around the 70 percent more than in 2010 indicated by the FAO. This is not enough.

Not all food groups will see the same demand increase. For instance, an average chicken consumption increase of 10kg per Chinese represents a need for an additional production volume equivalent to the current US chicken production.

Demand for animal protein, produced on land and in the sea, will be significantly above average. Within that group, there will be differences, too. In particular, poultry and aquaculture will lead consumption growth.

Demand for grain will keep shifting from human consumption to animal feed.

Demand for legumes as well as oilseeds will probably be more challenging to meet than for grains. The feed industry will also have to keep exploring alternative raw materials. Crop production conditions are also expected to change and so are production areas.

Water availability and climate change is already redrawing the world’s agriculture map. Futures scenarios will have to give a local breakdown of global objectives in particular because of different consumption patterns between regions.

As market differentiation will increase in the future, the scenarios must not be limited to volumes only. They also must take into account future demands about quality criteria of food and agricultural products. They will have to include food safety, health benefits and environmental impact aspects as well.

Agricultural commodity markets are likely to further evolve towards pricing that will include nutritional characteristics. As market requirements evolve, food consumption and production conditions change, the scenarios will have to include infrastructure as well as organizational and logistical changes that will come along to produce and to supply the growing population efficiently and sustainably.

Christophe Pelletier is a food and agriculture strategist and futurist from Canada. He works internationally. He has published two books on feeding the world’s growing population. His blog is called “The Food Futurist”.

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Business abroad

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG Milling, and especially feed for livestock, plays a critical role in sustaining a safe and secure feed supply using the diminishing land space to feed an increasing population.

And the UK industry, where I work, has a lot to offer the world - a fact often overlooked by nations seeking to improve their agricultural outputs.

My organisation, UK TAG, was founded to help all agritec companies get their message into the world marketplace, sharing our expertise with a wider audience. We have extensive knowledge of the needs of the agricultural world and help companies promote themselves in the markets best suited to them.

Having just returned from a scoping visit to Assam in North East India, where demand is high, we are now working on a strategy to help companies develop this market. This was followed in March with the support of UKTI, the British Embassy in Thailand, BPEX and EBLEX by arranging a British Pavilion at VIV Asia, where more than 40 UK companies exhibited.

To enhance the UK companies and to re-launch British beef and lamb into the Thai market we arranged two networking events a dinner at Plaza Athene Hotel and a networking reception at the Pavilion. We were honoured by the presence of the Thai Vice Minister, Dr Apichart Pongsrihadulchai, along with senior Government officials and Thai company chairman. From the UK side we were led by our Ambassador Mark Kent accompanied by his commercial team headed by Director of Trade Marcus Whinsley. From the UKTI London Rob Lalley, Head of International Trade, Luis Mullet UKTI Agritec specialist, along with UKTI Trade Directors and Managers from the region and from our industries John Cross Chairman of EBLEX and Guy Kiddy Chairman of BPA This bi-annual event is one of the most influential in the region and arguably in the world.

Because of its preeminent role and location we are able to enlist the help of the British Embassies and High Commissions in the region who identify visitors from their counties interested in the UK companies products and services on show.

This years event attracted over 700 exhibiters and more than 38,000 visitors. I am pleased to support VIV Asia event as it is not open to the public and the vast majority of visitors are professional decision-makers coming from every Asian country - China, India, Africa and Russia as such it – and is one of the few exhibitions that reaches out to the world.

In addition, the organisers run high-class technical seminars at which we had UK experts speaking.

This year we had companies represented in all of the halls ranging from Aquaculture, Animal Health, Animal Feed, Housing Equipment and Genetics pigs, dairy and goats. All of the companies were busy throughout the three days and reported good meetings, which they hope to turn into successful business as they follow up.

We had a successful British Pavilion at VIV Asia, which was very busy throughout the show, and hosted a reception at the Pavilion which was well attended by invited guests, all of which was made possible by financial help from BPEX and the British Embassy.

We are looking forward to taking more companies to our next events China Animal Husbandry Exhibition, World Pork Expo, (USA) Livestock Philippines, Indo Livestock (Indonesia). To keep up-to-date you can follow us on twitter @ agrictecexports 22 | Milling and Grain

BCPC launches new Biotech Crops Info service

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ith growing concerns about food security and the need to feed an expanding world population, the use of crops with novel traits has massive potential. This relatively new and complex science is developing rapidly across the world and it is important that there is an impartial, reliable and current data source.

To help meet this need, BCPC has launched a new service, Biotech Crops Info, available free of charge until endMay 2015. “As well as conventional genetic modification technology, there are other ways that novel traits are being introduced into crops, such as genome editing, gene suppression and other advanced breeding techniques,” explains Martin Lainsbury, editor of the Biotech Crops Manual.

“The Manual has been developed to include all of these. Rapid growth in this sector means that an online service is the best way to provide comprehensive and up-to-date information on globally available GM products, novel traits and genome editing.”

Targeted at anyone involved – or interested – in plant breeding, crop production, agronomy and biotechnology, Biotech Crops Info is free of charge until end-May 2015 after which it will be available for an annual subscription of £195 + VAT. Like BCPC’s authoritative Pesticide Manual and Manual of Biocontrol Agents, the Biotech Crops Manual provides an in-depth search facility.

Users can select by crop, country, trait, product, producer, gene and event code. Most importantly, they can find out the global approvals, where the event can be grown and the uses it is approved for. Users can search the database and select a crop variety that not only combats the pests and diseases they wish to avoid, but also that is approved for their intended market, such as food or just feed use,” advises Mr Lainsbury.

For immediate access to Biotech Crops Info visit bcpcdata.com/btc.

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FAO boosts food security efforts in countries affected by Syria crisis

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he Syria crisis has put extra pressures on food security in communities in and outside of Syria, as millions have fled their homes, many settling in neighbouring countries.

FAO is scaling up its support to Jordan and other countries in the region affected by the humanitarian crisis in Syria that has entered its fifth year.

In the presence of Jordan’s agricultural minister, Akef Alzoubi, FAO Director-General José Graziano da Silva initiated three projects to improve food security and nutrition by making better data available to decisionmakers and preventing the spread of animal diseases across borders.

“Thanks to a $1.6 million grant from USAID’s Food For Peace (FFP) program, FAO will provide technical assistance to government institutions and other partners in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq to establish an inclusive food security information network that will enhance the understanding and analysis of food security issues in the region,” da Silva said during a visit to Jordan.

According to the UN, around 3.9 million people have fled Syria, the vast majority becoming refugees in neighbouring countries.

Better data for strategic action

By improving analysis and data sharing between UN agencies, NGOs and governments on food security, the new information network will allow better-informed interventions for vulnerable populations and ensure that

the limited resources are applied where they are needed most.

“Resources for responding to the Syria crisis are limited in relation to the needs, so it’s crucial for UN agencies and partners to strategically target their assistance, taking into account the severity, scale and underlying causes of vulnerability,” said FAO’s Representative in Jordan Nasredin Hag Elamin.

“Having timely food security information is essential to guide this effort and will help relief and resilience agencies make sound decisions on the types of actions needed to support the affected Syrian population and neighbouring countries that host refugees,” he added.

Complementing this larger effort is a half-million-dollar project funded through FAO’s Technical Cooperation Program (TCP) to help national institutions in Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq better respond to food security concerns and strengthen communities’ resilience to shocks. The FAO Director-General and the government of Jordan signed an agreement that aims to improve availability and sharing of livelihood data and increase the capacities of partner countries for early warning about threats to food security.

Syria, Lebanon and Iraq were facing significant challenges in the fight against hunger and malnutrition even prior to the crisis in Syria. The on-going conflict has raised additional challenges for these neighbouring countries to reach important Millennium Development Goals related to nutrition, food security, access to water and sanitation, as well as child and maternal mortality.

New BIOMIN website now available in Lithuanian

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IOMIN has now launched a Lithuanian version of the new corporate website www.biomin.net.

In an age of increased user mobility, the new BIOMIN website presents a fresh look with ease of navigation on all technology platforms—desktop and laptop computers, and mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones.

Among many new developments, the site features a

stronger species-focus to help users as well as a new and improved search feature.

The new site is now available in English, Chinese, Spanish, German (for Germany), French, Japanese, Czech, Polish and Lithuanian. The adaptation of the new website design to other language and country versions will follow in stages.

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The industry’s most authoritative resource on feed production

MIDDLE EAST ON THE RISE - IRAN LEADS MIDDLE EAST PRODUCTION

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eed production in the Middle East is again on the rise in Alltech’s latest feed survey, up for the third year in a row, reaching 25.47 million tonnes in 2014. This was a one percent rise over 2013.

The region is characterised by feedmills which are on average larger than those seen in other parts of the world and while the prevailing move in other regions is to locate feedmills near farms, in the Middle East feedmills tend to at or close to ports.

• Iran is the biggest player in the Middle East market with feed production in 2014 totalling 11.80 million tonnes • Saudi Arabia and Israel are listed as number two and three in terms of importance with 4.96 million tonnes and 3.50 million tonnes respectively • Poultry feed production is the largest species in the Middle East totalling 17.55 million tonnes with broiler

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accounting for 59 percent and layers at 38.50 percent • Ruminant is the second largest species at approximately seven million tonnes • Pig feed is not produced in any significant volume, reflecting the religious limitations on consumption of pork in the regions • On average 60 percent of the feed produced is in pelleted form, which is a higher percentage than for any of the other regions of the world. This confirms a similar finding in the 2013 survey Middle East Countries by total feed produced Country

Feed Production Total 2014

Feed Production Total 2013

% difference

Iran

11.80

11.70

0.10

Saudi Arabia

4.96

4.63

0.33

Israel

3.50

3.50

0.00

Jordan

1.17

1.30

-0.13

Iraq

0.75

0.75

0.00 0.16

Oman

0.62

0.46

Yemen

0.60

NA

NA

Lebanon

0.60

0.60

0.00 0.00

Libya

1.06

1.06

Kuwait

0.27

0.23

0.04

Bahrain

0.13

0.15

-0.02

ME Total

25.47

24.38

1.09

In the survey, layer feed prices averaged US$485.50 per tonne, while broiler feed is US$573.00 per tonne.

This indicates that the Middle East is the most expensive region on a feed-per-tonne basis and means the overall value of the feed industry based on sales of feed is over US$13 billion.

Global Aquaculture

Alltech’s 2014 feed survey also attempted to estimate the average prices for feed.

• The total aquaculture feed produced in 2014 was marginally up on 2013, totalling 41 million tonnes, an increase of 1.45 percent • Aquafeed production makes up four percent of the total livestock feed production globally • Asia Pacific produced 27.049 million metric tonnes of aquafeed, which makes it the regional leader for aqua in 2014 • The total aquafeed tonnage produced in the Middle East was 0.68 million tonnes with Iran being the largest producer at 0.5 million tonnes

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by Roger Gilbert, Milling and Grain Sponsored and funded by Bühler, the new African Milling School was commissioned in March 2015 and took in its first batch of 27 African apprentices.

The school is the brainchild of Martin Schlauri, who for the past 15 years has been Bühler’s Milling Business Unit Manager. Martin has moved from Uzwil in Switzerland to Nairobi, Kenya, where he now heads up the African Milling School.

The African Milling School comes to fruition The school is part of Bühler’s Middle-East and Africa organization and is located adjacent to the East Africa offices and Service Center.

Professional training for African millers

The new school offers comprehensive and intensive training in the milling industry with a focus on theoretical and practical training through apprenticeships.

The target is to offer professional training for the next generation of millers and to expand on the knowledge base of experienced African millers. It is also to ensure that millers come to understand the new technology and equipment now being used in processing grain into high value finished products.

The African Milling School is located in Nairobi, Kenya, and situated just 25 minutes from Nairobi’s international airport.

“Africa is a great continent, almost one billion people with a growing demand for grain-based food due to both population growth and the movement of people to the cities. More people are moving into cities who can’t go back to their homes and grow their own food. These are the two key drivers and as a result we are seeing growth in the demand for flour and milled products.” he

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says. Local family companies that are well developed mostly own milling companies in the milling sector.

“These people have the will to develop, they have the market and they are entrepreneurs, but they do not have the skills. Running an operation efficiently is always an issue. Africa has good people, it has educated people, it’s just that the skill for the miller is missing,” he told Milling and Grain when we visited Bühler’s head office in Switzerland at the end of the summer.

“So this is where we said that if we, as Bühler, can contribute to the development of the milling industry in Africa, to the wealth of Africa and Africans and to educate and give them the skills to run milling plants, we aim to train 24 next year and 48 the following year so that they then pass on their knowledge in a sustainable way.

The concept of the Milling School

“We looked at different concepts such as working with Universities. It was at the time we were developing our new location in Kenya and we said, ‘Now we have a completely new location and an office and service centre, why not have the African Milling School on the same location? We have an infrastructure there.’

“The early aim was to set up a pilot school for 20-25 production managers. However, we decided to look at training millers, not just production managers. We really need to train millers, as these are the people who touch the machines, who set the rolls and who work with all the equipment through to the sifters. “That’s the concept we have implemented.”

Twenty-seven apprentices will attend three four-week live-in courses per year over a two-year period. The first course took place in February-March 2015 and was booked up when Milling and Grain visited.

Apprentices who successfully complete the two-year course and pass appropriate exams will graduate as millers, a qualification equivalent to a European miller in Germany, Switzerland or Austria. Mr Schlauri says participants in Europe take three years to complete the same course as many of the students start at just 16 or 17 years of age.

“In Africa our apprentices will be 20-years old or older, they will be more educated and more mature and we can focus just on the milling topics. Between courses the school will build up its teaching resources, its infrastructure and milling expertise. “It’s hard to find the type of miller to teach who wants to communicate and give his knowledge to others. All milling schools around the world struggle with this fact.

The school is open to Africans focusing on English speaking countries and its location in Kenya makes it ideal to service the whole of Africa’s milling industries. By sending apprentices to Africa rather than to Europe or the USA, companies can save about three-quarters of the cost associated with training. The fees have been set for 2015 at US$4800 per student per year. “It would cost at least four times as much to send them to Europe, and that’s why [an African school] really makes sense for an African miller.”

Three key factors underline success

There are three convincing arguments that support the school’s establishment in Africa, which represents almost one billion of the world’s population and is likely to see a faster rate of population growth than anywhere else on the planet in the coming years: 1. Raw Materials - The biggest impact will be on the use and return from raw materials. Good millers save money by meeting target moisture levels, yield targets and achieving improved grain cleaning, etc.

2. Maintenance – There are significant costs associated with running equipment especially if the plant is not properly maintained. Re-fluting, or re-corrugating rolls is one area. If you have a trained miller he will be able to tell you.

3. Setting up the mill – Ultimately, it is the whole mill set-up that needs attention and can save significantly on energy and other inputs and resources.

If the concept of the Milling School is successful in Africa, Bühler will consider other regions for future schools. It is obviously too early to say, but there are large areas in South East Asia that have no training facilities to hand. And there has already been interest for a similar project in Latin America. However, countries such as India and China are being well catered-for.

Mr Schlauri was quick to point out that this is not a marketing strategy but an industry service that Bühler is providing. “The millers in this region are just ready for a school,” he says.

Over the next couple of years the school might expand rapidly, given that it’s already filled for the first year and the facility is not yet completely finished.

“It’s good to have higher demand and 24 is a good number. We will keep to that. We want to use this facility to offer training to different sectors, from wheat millers to maize and feed millers and in pelleting.” With wheat, corn (maize) and feed milling, this region is one of the most diverse markets and it’s a region that offers a wider range of opportunities, he says.

“The task I’m undertaking is not just about the administration of the school, as well being a teacher in technology and quality control.

After 15 years as head of grain milling I’m very passionate about this move. I started my career in Africa and I have a lot of contacts in the region. “This is just a step sideways for me and I will be keeping my contacts with many millers in this region and this is the region I know best and I will enjoy finishing my career here.

The setting up of a school in Africa for millers has been his concept: “I’ve promoted it and encouraged Bühler to sponsor it. Now I want to get it running. Besides, when you have had a very rich milling life, this is a way of saying thank you and giving something back,” he adds as a final remark.

In next month’s edition Darren Parris from the Milling and Grain team has been to Nairobi to visit the African Milling School.

See his full report from Kenya in the May edition of Milling and Grain April 2015 | 27

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From the small Easy-to-Clean Dinnox Mill The Easy-to-Clean Dinnox Mill is a very compact hammer mill with a minimum capacity of 30 kg per hour. The small Easy-to-Clean Dinnox Mill is fitted with exchangeable grinding rotors, providing it with a variety of breaking, cutting, and grinding functionalities, as well as exchangeable screening panels and adjustable RPMs. This allows the user to

Dinnissen range of hammer mills easily and quickly switch between an almost endless variety of grinding and screening applications, depending upon the specific ingredients process and the desired end result. In spite of its very compact design, the new Easy-to-Clean Dinnox Mill is also fitted with completely detachable grinding rotors and extra-large inspection hatches, making it easy to access all the components, including the screening panels, and to clean everything quickly and thoroughly. The Easy-to-Clean Dinnox Mill is available in stainless steel 304, RVS 316L, and polished or electrolytically polished RVS. It can also be

fitted with an automatic cleaning system based on compressed air, CIP, or hot steam/air for extra hygienic applications, and complies with all EHEDG requirements.

To the D-Topline Hamex Hammer mill with automatic screen changer The new D-Topline Hamex Hammer mill with automatic screen changer can handle grinding capacities of up to 45,000 kg per hour, and the screen changer has space for 4 to 6 different sets of screening panels. The mechatronic screen changing system automatically selects and places the appropriate set of screening panels in the hammer mill. After the production process has been completed, it also removes and stores the screening panels in less than 40 seconds. This makes it possible to change screens extremely quickly and greatly reduces downtime. The D-Topline Hamex Hammer mill features a new and ingenious design, which greatly increases the surface area of the grinding and screening panels inside the hammer mill, which in turn provides, increased grinding and ringing capacity. The screen storage facility is also fitted with an extra-wide chamber that can be automatically opened. This makes it easier to carry out maintenance and remove damaged screens if necessary, thereby minimising downtime. The new hammer mill has a maximum speed of 1500 RPM, giving it a longer usable lifetime and in lower energy consumption than its predecessors.

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THE FLOUR MARKET The flour market in terms of revenue and volume is expected to reach USD 245.82 billion and 183,100.0 kilo ton respectively in 2020

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ncreasing demand for bread and bakery products and convenience staple food is the major factor driving the flour market globally. With the rise in per capita income and increasing awareness towards convenience food staples, demand for bread and bakery products has increased in recent years. Rising consumer awareness towards low protein gluten free food items is positively driving the consumption of non-wheat flours (rye, corn and rice) in the form of gluten free food items. Expansion of the aquatic feed industry in Asia Pacific has increased the flour consumption in the form of animal feed. These factors are considered to positively drive the growth of flour market during the forecast period from 2014 to 2020.

The global flour market, by application is divided into six application segments: noodles and pasta, bread and bakery products, wafers, crackers and biscuits, animal feed (including pet food), non food application (including bio plastics, biomaterials, and glue), and others (including roux and baby food). Both by revenue and volume, bread and bakery products were the largest contributor in global flour market in 2013, accounting for a market share of 38.73 percent and 35.61 percent respectively.

Generally, wheat flour is being used as principal ingredient for bread and bakery products. With the rise of per capita income and

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increasing awareness towards convenience food staples, demand for bread and bakery products has increased in recent years.

Growth in consumption of bread and bakery products is triggered by factors such as increase in penetration of fast food industry in Asia Pacific and rising demand for convenience food due to lifestyle up gradation.

The global flour market has been segmented into four broad regions: North America, Europe, Asia Pacific and RoW. By volume, Asia Pacific contributed the largest market share in 2013, accounting for 37.32 percent of the overall market. Low average selling price of flour and high population density are key volume growth driver for Asia Pacific flour market. By revenue, Europe contributed the largest market share in 2013, accounting for 32.32 percent of the overall market. High per capita consumption of flour in the form of bread and bakery products and increase in average selling price of flour are key revenue growth drivers for Europe flour market.

Some of the leading players in the market are Ardent Mills Canada (Canada), Archer Daniels Midland Company (US), Associated British Foods plc (United Kingdom), ConAgra Foods, Inc. (US), General Mills Inc (US), King Arthur Flour Company, Inc. (US), Hindustan Unilever Limited (India), Hodgson Mill, ITC Limited (US), White Wings (Australia) and Wilmar International Limited (Singapore) among others.

Global Flour Market – Flourishing Animal Feed Market in Asia Pacific to Lead to Market Growth

The global flour and flour milling market is an important part of the global food industry and is a connecting link between farmers and food processors. The market has come a long way from the days when the use of water-and wind-driven mills was a norm.

The modern flour market uses a combination of highly developed technology and skilled manpower and functions as a continuous-

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flow operation industry. Many large global mills operate 360 days a year.

Recent years have seen a huge expansion in the global flour market, both in terms of production capacity as well as increased global demand. Flour, a fine or coarse powder made by grinding grains, seeds, roots and a variety of cereals, is paramount to the global food industry. The use of flour as a base product in a variety of foodstuff makes the issue of quality and safety of raw materials a vital factor for the global food industry.

Thus, the global flour and flour milling market mostly utilises raw materials supplied by reliable sources that can guarantee excellent standards of food safety and crop protection, coupled with independent inspections at the processing end.

Global import and export of food grains and a variety of flours is crucial to the operation of the global food industry. The flour market serves the food industry at all verticals: a bulk of it goes to larger food manufacturers and bakers, some amount is sold to in-store bakeries and craft bakeries, and some portion of the total global flour production is retailed directly to the consumers.

Increasing Consumer Preferences for Bakery Products Driving Demand

Rising urbanisation across the globe, increased health concerns related to highprotein flours, rising per-capita income of the global population, and changing customer taste are some of the key trends shaping the current state of the global flour market. The increased consumption of bakery and dough-based products to suffice the mounting global population is also a chief trend driving the global flour market.

While changing customer preference has led to a global rise in demand for previously regionally popular flours such as soya, corn, and rice flour, mounting concern about allergies and health issues associated with the use of high-protein flours has created significant opportunities for the market in the form of gluten-free, low-protein alternatives of popular flours. Deregulation of flourmills by government bodies across the world has also led to a flourishing market for privatised flourmills in Asia Pacific.

Asia Pacific and Europe Lead Global Flour Market

The global flour market serves a variety of food-and non-food-based industries through its products. Key applications of the flour market come in the manufacture of pasta, noodles, wafers, biscuits, crackers, bread and bakery products, animal feed, and in non-food applications such as biomaterials, glues, and bioplastics.

Rising consumer preference towards ready-to-eat foodstuff such as a variety of breads and bakery products, and the increased penetration of the fast food industry across the globe have made the global flour market an essential element in the global food chain. With rapidly modernising lifestyles and a constant rise in urbanisation across the globe, demand for easy-to-make staple foods has increased on a global level, providing an enormous thrust to the global flour market.

The flourishing aquatic feed industry and the expansion of commercial farmlands in Asia Pacific have also proved to be highly significant for the overall growth of the flour market due to an increased demand for flour used in animal and aquatic feed.

In 2013, the Asia Pacific market took up the largest market share of the global flour market in terms of demand by volume. Meanwhile, Europe led the global flour market in the same year in terms of revenue.

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The super women of maize and wheat The International maize and wheat improvement centre (CIMMYT) celebrates “Super Women” of Maize and Wheat

by Julie Mollins, CIMMYT

Women make up just over 40 percent of the agricultural labour force in developing countries, a number that varies from about 20 percent in Latin America to 50 percent in parts of Africa and Asia, and exceeds 60 percent in a few countries, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation.

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he International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre (CIMMYT), which conducts various gender-focused research projects, launched a social media crowdsourcing campaign on International Women’s Day to celebrate the achievements of women in agriculture.

The campaign led to more than a dozen published blog story contributions about women in the maize and wheat sectors.

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Jessica Rutkoski conquers math demons, finds success as wheat breeder

Jessica Rutkoski’s focus is on improving all traits of wheat, including crop-yield increases, disease and disease resistance in wheat, focusing on stem- and leafrust pathology. She also programs and analyses data using statistical and qualitative genetics. Rutkoski is an assistant professor at Cornell and divides her time between teaching and working with the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center.

Suchismita Mondal develops climate change resilient wheat

Suchismita Mondal’s work in the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) project has led to the identification of earlymaturing, high-yielding, heattolerant lines with 10- to 15-percent superior yields in the heat-stressed environments of South Asia, two of which were released in India while various others are at different stages of testing.

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Chhavi Tiwari aids women farmers with zinc-fortified wheat

Chhavi Tiwari, senior research associate from Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, India, works with the HarvestPlus program with active collaboration and support from the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) to empower women farmers by making them aware of the value of micronutrient-rich wheat. Her on-farm training programs increase their understanding of crop and soil management techniques, aiding in the improved production of wheat varieties high in zinc content. Zinc deficiency is attributed to 800,000 deaths each year and affects about one-third of the world’s population, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

Paula Kantor engages men to support gender progress

Gender research and outreach should engage men more effectively, according to Paula Kantor, CIMMYT gender and development specialist who is leading an ambitious new project to empower and improve the livelihoods of women, men and youth in wheat-growing areas of Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Pakistan.

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CIMMYT asked readers to submit stories about women who have made a difference in the maize and wheat sectors, including women involved in conservation agriculture, genetic resources, research, technology and related socio-economics.

The “Who is Your Maize or Wheat Super Woman?” stories are featured on the CIMMYT website (http://www.cimmyt.org/).

Contributions include blog stories about women from Britain, Canada, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, and the United States.

Eva Villegas developed transformative quality-protein maize

Eva Villegas won the World Food Prize in 2000 with Surinder Vasal for work that improved the productivity and nutritional content of maize, which improved the diets of millions of poor people. The two developed Quality Protein Maize while working at CIMMYT. Villegas was the first woman to win the award. She also created a scholarship fund for “bird boys”, young men hired

by CIMMYT to prevent birds from eating experimental crops, by aiding in the creation of the scholarship fund that allowed many of them to complete their education.

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Grain fortification Rice fortification seen as next frontier in grain fortification

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by Sarah Zimmerman, Food Fortification initiative

he familiar FFI initials took on new meaning in 2014 as the Flour Fortification Initiative changed its name to the Food Fortification Initiative. The change was due to FFI adding rice to its work. Since rice is mostly eaten as whole kernels, it was not reflected in FFI’s original name.

“We must find practical solutions for rice fortification because literally billions of people live in countries where health burdens are high and rice is a staple food,” said Scott J. Montgomery, FFI Director. “Rice is the new frontier in food fortification, and with our partners we are discovering ways to make fortifying it feasible,” he added.

Wheat flour, maize flour, and rice are most commonly fortified with iron and folic acid to prevent anemia caused by iron deficiency and neural tube birth defects caused by insufficient folic acid. These are both significant health problems. Anemia results in reduced productivity, contributes to maternal mortality, and impairs a child’s cognitive development. The most common neural tube defect is spina bifida in which the baby’s spine does not form correctly. It causes some loss of movement or severe paralysis plus varying degrees of loss of bowel and bladder control. While iron deficiency anemia can be cured, spina bifida cannot be cured, and fortification is a successful prevention strategy.

One measure of global progress towards fortifying grains for healthier lives is the number of countries with fortification legislation. Currently 82 countries have mandates requiring fortification of wheat flour, maize flour, and/or rice with at least iron or folic acid. This compares to 44 countries with such legislation in 2002 when FFI began.

Another measure of progress is the percent of industrially milled flour and rice that is fortified globally. In 2014, FFI estimated that 30 percent of industrially milled wheat flour,

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48 percent of industrially milled maize flour, and 1 percent of industrially milled rice were fortified.

For these estimates, FFI begins with data about the amount of grain available for human consumption from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). For wheat and maize, FFI then applies a formula with each country’s average extraction rate to estimate the amount of flour available.

This is not needed for rice as FAO data represents the milled rice equivalent.

FFI’s focus is on industrially milled grains because that is where fortification is most feasible. FFI assumes that 100 percent of wheat flour is industrially milled, with the exception of countries with a large number of small mills such as India, Nepal, and Pakistan. In contrast, FFI assumes that 0 percent of maize flour and rice is industrially milled unless it has country specific data to indicate otherwise.

Using these formulas, FFI estimates that in 2014 the following amounts of each industrially milled grain were available for human consumption: • 290 million metric tons of wheat flour • 16 million metric tons of maize flour • 222 million tons of rice FFI then contacts national governments, milling associations, non-governmental organizations and UN agencies to estimate how much of each grain is fortified in their country. Those country responses are then compiled into the global estimate.

In 2004, about 18 percent of the world’s industrially milled wheat flour was fortified. FFI does not have previous estimates of the amount of industrially milled maize flour or rice that was fortified, but FFI will estimate fortification of each of these grains in the future.

As another way to understand if fortification programs are achieving their maximum health benefit, in 2014 FFI asked leaders in countries with fortification legislation about six components of their monitoring programs. The answers and

F In 2014 Nicolas Tsikhlakis, Chief Operations Officer and Partner at The Modern Flour Mills and Macaroni Factories in Jordan, requested information from the Food Fortification Inititative because some country leaders were considering removing folic acid from the wheat flour standard. FFI connected Nicolas with experts at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the regional World Health Organization (WHO) office.

With the information provided, the country opted to continue fortifying with folic acid.

Photo by Andrew Gorman for FFI.

Des Devenport, Mill Manager at Delite Flour Mill in Solomon Islands, discusses plans to expand his wheat milling capacity and include fortification.

The mill plans to be fortifying by May 2015. FFI photo by Helena Pachón.

documentation provided will help FFI and partners produce an outline of what should be included in effective monitoring programs.

In addition, FFI, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) created case studies on the flour fortification monitoring programs in Chile, Indonesia, and South Africa. These showed that the internal monitoring in each country was rigorous, while the other type of monitoring were inconsistent. Differences are expected as not all monitoring components (internal, external, commercial, and import) are needed for every program. But all national fortification programs need at least internal and external monitoring to help ensure success.

FFI’s role is to support national leaders working towards

grain fortification. The support provided through multi-sector collaboration includes: • Advocacy resources on the benefits of fortification • Technical assistance for planning, implementing, and monitoring sustainable fortification programs • Tracking progress at the country and global levels Such support is often provided through workshops and training meetings, visits with key decision makers in specific countries, and addressing individual requests for information. In 2014, the 13 members of FFI’s staff led or participated in 26 workshops, made 18 country visits, and addressed 47 individual requests for information.

The full FFI report can be accessed at: http://www.ffinetwork.org/about/stay_informed/ releases/2014Review.html

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by W.L. Bryden, D.D. Moore and S. Shini, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia

elenium exists in four oxidation states: elemental Se (Se0), selenide (Se−2), selenite (Se+4), and selenate (Se+6) in a variety of inorganic and organic matrices.

The natural inorganic forms, selenite and selenate, account for the majority of total global selenium.

Organically bound selenide compounds are predominantly seleno-amino acids; the principle chemical form of Se in animal tissues is selenocysteine, while selenomethionine predominates in plants.

The chemistry of selenium resembles that of sulphur in several respects but these elements are not completely interchangeable in animal systems.

Both, sulphur and Se occur in proteins as constituents of amino acids. Sulphur is one of the most prevalent elements in the body and is present in the sulphur-containing amino acids: methionine, cysteine, homocysteine and taurine. Selenium is a trace element and a component of the amino acids selenocysteine and selenomethionine. Selenocysteine is considered the 21st amino acid in terms of ribosome-mediated protein synthesis.

Selenocysteine is identical to cysteine except that sulphur is replaced by a Se atom, which is typically ionized at physiological pH. The presence of selenocysteine in the catalytic site of Se-dependent antioxidant enzymes enhances their kinetic properties and broadens the catalytic activity of the enzymes against biological oxidants when compared with sulphurcontaining species. Selenocysteine (from animal tissues) and selenomethionine (from plants) are both sources of selenium for synthesis of SePs. Replacement of selenocysteine by cysteine in a selenoprotein usually results in a dramatic decrease of enzymatic activity, confirming that the ionized selenium atom is critical for optimum protein function.

Biosynthesis pathway

Significantly, within all cell types there is a specific biosynthesis pathway that facilitates selenocysteine synthesis and its subsequent incorporation into SePs Cellular Se concentrations are therefore tightly regulated. The regulation of selenoprotein synthesis is central to understanding Se homeostasis and disorders following the failure of homeostasis.

Cellular Se concentration is a key regulator of its incorporation into SePs and acts mainly at the post-transcriptional level in response to alterations in Se bioavailability. Selenocysteine biosynthesis represents the main regulatory point for selenoprotein synthesis and not absorption as occurs with many nutrients.

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A brief history of Selenium Selenium (Se) is an essential trace element for animals and humans. It was discovered in 1818 and named Selene after the Greek goddess of the moon.

Selenium exerts its biological effects as an integral component of selenoproteins (SePs) that contain selenocysteine at their active site.

Some 30 SePs, mostly enzymes, have been identified, including a series of glutathione peroxidases, thioredoxin reductases and iodothyronine deiodinases.

The majority play important roles in redox regulation, detoxification, immunity and viral suppression. Deficiency or low selenium status leads to marked changes in many biochemical pathways and a range of pathologies associated with defects of selenoprotein function may occur.

Selenium content of soils can vary widely.

In areas where soils are low in bioavailable Se, deficiencies can occur in humans and animals consuming plant-based foods grown in those soils.

Selenium deficiency have been reported in many countries including China, Japan, Korea, and Siberia, Northern Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. Within each country there are large regional differences in soil Se status and in some localities there are plants that accumulate Se resulting in selenosis or Se toxicity to grazing animals.

Dietary Se supplementation was first permitted some 40 years ago.

Since then, there has significant advances in our knowledge of Se metabolism and the important role that Se plays in animal productivity and health.

During this period, Se has become an important addition to dietary supplements for animals.

elements as it is incorporated in proteins (SePs) at their highest level of complexity and function. Selenoproteins incorporate selenium only in the form of selenocysteine and this occurs during translation in the ribosome using a transfer RNA specific for selenocysteine.

Seleno-amino acids (selenocysteine or selenocystine and

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Figure 1: General pathways (A) of selenium absorption, hepatic synthesis of selenoprotein P and distribution to various organs.

Graphical representation (B) of the optimal range of selenium required to avoid various human clinical conditions (Adapted from Kumar and Priyadarsini, 2014)

selenomethionine) are required for the synthesis of seleniumcontaining peptides and proteins.

Importantly, selenomethionine (the major dietary organic form of Se) that is biochemically equivalent to methionine, is not incorporated into selenoproteins and therefore, is not a participant in the regulation of selenium homeostasis. There are no known human or animal functionally active SePs that contain selenomethionine.

Only proteins that are genetically programmed and perform essential biological functions are classified as SePs. Some of these SePs are enzymes such as the six antioxidant glutathione peroxidases and the three thioredoxin reductases; the three deiodinases are involved in thyroid function by catalysing the activation and deactivation of the thyroid hormones.

Some SePs have direct roles in modulating immunity and reproductive function, while other SePs facilitate tissue distribution and transfer of Se. Selenoprotein P, for example, functions as a transporter of selenium between the liver and other organs. The functional characterisation of many SePs remains to be delineated.

Absorption, distribution and metabolic rate

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An overview of the metabolism of Se is shown in Figure 1.

Absorption of selenium occurs in the small intestine, where both inorganic and organic forms of Se are readily absorbed.

Selenite is passively absorbed across the gut wall, while selenate appears to be transported by a sodium-mediated carrier mechanism shared with sulphur.

Organic forms of Se are actively transported. The absorption of selenomethionine is via the same carrier transport protein as methionine, with competition taking place between methionine and its seleno analog. Selenium is distributed throughout the body from the liver to the brain, pancreas and kidneys.

The highest Se concentrations are found in the liver and kidneys but the greatest total concentration occurs in muscle because of their proportion of body weight. Selenium is transported by two SePs; selenoprotein P and extracellular glutathione peroxidase (GSH-Px).

Other transport mechanisms have been postulated but not delineated. Only insignificant transitory amounts of free selenomethionine are found in blood. Following protein turnover, the released Se, can be recycled via enterohepatic circulation or excreted. Selenium is eliminated primarily in urine and faeces.

The distribution between the two routes varies with the level of

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Table 1: Selenium compounds and their uses in animals and humans In ruminants, selenite is the primary Name and content Nature or origin Uses compound available for absorption because the reducing conditions within For short-term selenium Sodium Selenate supplementation; the rumen convert the majority of Sodium Selenite Synthetic Inorganic orally in the diet, or by injections Selenase 50 mcg/mL selenate to selenite. for both animals and humans In the rumen, about a third of selenite Biosel Natural Inorganic For long-term selenium 50 mcg/drop supplementation in humans is converted to insoluble forms that are passed into manure. Of the soluble Inactive dry yeast containing Sintomin BIOSEL 2000 high levels of organic All animals selenite that reaches the intestine, some selenium 40% will be absorbed, compared to Selyeast Yeast rich in organic selenium For use as animal feed. about 80 percent of selenomthionine.

Selenomethionine: 1000, 2000, 3000 As a consequence of these differences, Selemax速 (1000, 2000) Inactive dry yeast containing in cows, the digestibility of Se from All animal species and categories 70 % of total selenium in the form of organic selenium selenomethionine selenite is around 50 percent compared SeLECT to about 66 percent for seleniumOrganic, pure Oral administration (capsules) L(+) Selenomethionine & selenomethionine, humans yeast. There is no information on the Vitamin E impact of the gut microbiota on the Se Sel Plex TM requirements of monogastric animals. >50% of total selenium in the form of Yeast rich in organic selenium All animals selenomethionine Inorganic Se is recognised by the AB Tor-Sel速 digestive tissues and is absorbed and Yeast rich in organic selenium All animals and humans selenohomolanthionine converted into SePs. Naturally occurring In contrast, organic Se Predominate form of selenium L-Selenomethionine organoselenium compound supplement in food for humans; (selenomethionine) is not recognized 100% L-selenomethionine made by plants some use in animals as Se-containing by mammalian cells.

Naturally occurring As a consequence, selenomethionine SeMCTM organoselenium compound Humans Methylselenocysteine 98% is absorbed and metabolized relative to made by plants methionine needs.

If selenomethionine is broken down within the cell, Se is released and recognized by the cell as a E are effective in treating mulberry heart disease (a dietetic mineral. It is then processed according to the need for Se. microangiopathy). Reproductive disorders, including retained However, if the cell does not break down selenomethionine, it placenta in dairy cows, and lowered disease resistance are may be inadvertently incorporated into a wide variety of proteins observed in all Se deficient species. Some species, such as rabbits that are not genetically programmed to contain selenium. and horses, seem to be more dependent on vitamin E than Se for The functionality of these proteins will be compromised. their antioxidant protection.

As a metabolic safeguard, neither dietary selenocysteine nor This may reflect species differences in dependence on nonselenomethionine is directly incorporated into selenoproteins. selenium containing GSH-Px. All dietary forms of selenium must be metabolised and converted Selenium presents a nutritional conundrum because it is both to selenocysteine and selenoproteins under the genetically essential and highly toxic. There are several approaches to controlled mechanism within the cell. measuring Se status. These include the measurement of changes Much of the absorbed organic Se is transferred into the amino in plasma Se concentration, measurement of GSH-Px enzyme acid pool, where together with the existing intracellular pool, it is activity, and absorption/retention studies. metabolised by different pathways (see Figure 1). From there, it The use of stable isotopes of Se have been used in human is enzymatically converted in the liver to selenide, which serves studies and to determine endogenous forms of selenium in foods. as the Se source for selenocysteine synthesis.

All of these biomarkers are useful indicators of Se status but because of the role of Se in many biochemical pathways, a single indicator may not be an appropriate index of Se status.

Deficiency and requirements Selenium acts biochemically in the animal or bird in a complimentary manner to vitamin E. Both nutrients prevent Dietary supplementation peroxidation of unsaturated fatty acids in cell membranes.

Selenium is routinely added to animal diets to ensure that Most of the deficiency signs of these nutrients can be explained requirements are met. by their antioxidant properties. The requirement for each is There has been increased interest recently in Se dietary therefore influenced by the dietary concentration of the other. supplementation to enrich animal products. The production of For example, the Se requirement of the chick is inversely selenium-enriched meat, milk and eggs is viewed as an effective proportional to dietary vitamin E intake. Thus Se has sparing and safe way of improving the selenium status of humans. effect on the requirement for vitamin E and vice versa.

There are a range of products available for dietary Se Manifestation of Se deficiency can take many forms and supplementation (see Table 1). varies between species. Muscular degeneration or white muscle Selenium is commonly added to diets as sodium selenite. disease occurs to varying degrees in all species. In birds, However, there has been growing interest in dietary addition of pancreatic fibrosis is an uncomplicated Se deficiency, whereas organic Se. Organic sources are assimilated more efficiently than exudative diathesis (generalised oedema visible under the skin) is inorganic Se and considered to be less toxic and therefore more responsive to both Se and vitamin E. appropriate as a feed supplement.

Pigs with hepatosis diatetica (severe necrotic liver lesions) Yeast has become the most popular vehicle for the addition of are responsive to Se supplements, while both Se and vitamin organic Se because of its rapid growth, ease of culture and high 40 | Milling and Grain

F experimental conditions, as demonstrated on many occasions, dietary supplementation with both the inorganic and organic selenium resulted in similar animal and bird performance.

However, tissue accumulation was significantly greater when the organic forms of Se were fed, which is in accord with the literature. Interestingly, the yeast enriched with SeHLan generated significantly higher Se concentrations in muscle tissue than the selenomethionine enriched product.

The implication of this finding in both pigs and broilers may imply a greater efficacy of SeHLan in stressful commercial environments.

Remarks

Selenium’s nutritional essentiality was discovered in the 1950s.

Figure 2. Proposed metabolic pathways for SeHLan and It is now clear that the importance of having SeMet in animal cells (Source: Tsuji et al. 2010) adequate amounts of Se in the diet is primarily due to the fact that this micronutrient is required for the biosynthesis of selenocysteine as a part of functional selenoproteins. capacity to accumulate Se. The major product in selenized yeast Although animals, and presumably humans, are able to is selenomethionine. efficiently utilise nutritionally adequate levels of Se in both Selenomethionine was found to be four times more effective organic and inorganic forms for selenoprotein synthesis, it is clear than selenite in preventing the characteristic pancreatic that the bioavailability of Se varies, depending on the source and degeneration caused by selenium deficiency in chicks. chemical form of the Se supplement.

Selenium yeast (selenomethionine) was found to be much more Tissue enrichment with Se is greater when organic forms of the effective than inorganic Se in increasing the Se concentration micronutrient are fed. of cow’s milk. This is in accord with many animal studies and Organic selenium, in the form of yeast enriched with human clinical trials that have demonstrated the superior efficacy of L-selenomethionine, in increasing Se muscle content compared selenomethionine, is widely used in animal nutrition. Recently, yeast enriched with SeHLan became commercially available to inorganic Se. and initial research suggests that it may be more efficacious than Selenohomoalanthionine (SeHLan; 2 hydroxy-4selenomethionine for tissue accumulation of Se. methylselenobutanoic acid) was recently identified in Japanese This has obvious implications for the production of Se enriched pungent radish and has generated much interest as it was less animal products but may also be important in commercial toxic in human cell culture than selenomethionine. As shown production units. Greater tissue reserves of Se may enhance an in Figure 2, differences in metabolism between SeHLan and animals’ resilience to stress and disease challenge. selenomethionine may, in-part, explain the apparent difference in toxicity.

Selenomethionie mimics methionine by sharing the same Further reading Bellinger FP, Raman AV, Reeves MA, Berry MJ. 2009. Regulation metabolic pathways and can replace methionine in peptide and function of selenoproteins in human disease. Biochemical synthesis, as noted above, and thus disrupt protein synthesis.

Journal, 422:11-22.

As shown in Figure 2, the proposed metabolic pathway for SeHLan appears to be much less complex; SeHLan is only utilised in the trans-selenation pathway for selenoprotein synthesis and therefore is not expected to interfere with the methionine metabolic pathways. The tissue distribution of these two selenoamino acids may also contribute to differences in toxicity.

Both are distributed throughout the body with higher liver and pancreas accumulation of selenomethionine in contrast to SeHLan which preferentially accumulates in the liver and kidneys.

At higher doses, selenomethionine has been shown to induce pancreas damage whereas SeHLan is excreted by the kidneys without inducing pancreatic damage.

Selenomethionine enriched yeast has been available commercially for many years.

Recently, a yeast product enriched with SeHLan has become available and a number of efficacy studies with growing pigs and broiler chickens have been conducted in Australia with these selenoamino acid sources.

In the studies both selenomethionine (Sel Plex) and SeHLan (AB Tor-Sel) were compared to sodium selenite. In the clean 42 | Milling and Grain

.Brennan,KM, Crowdus, CA, Cantor, AH. et al 2011 Effects of organic and inorganic dietary selenium supplementation on gene expression profiles in oviduct tissue from broiler-breeder hens Animal Reproduction Science 125: 180– 188 Celi P, Selle PH, Cowieson AJ. 2014. Effects of organic selenium supplementation on growth performance, nutrient utilisation, oxidative stress and selenium tissue concentrations in broiler chickens. Animal Production Science 54, 966–971.

Fairweather-Tait SJ, Collings R. Hurst, R. 2010. Selenium bioavailability: current knowledge and future research requirements. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 91:1484S-1491S. Kumar BS and Priyadarsini KI. 2014 Selenium nutrition: How important is it? Biomedicine & Preventive Nutrition 4: 333–341 Schrauzer GN, Surai PF. 2009. Selenium in human and animal nutrition: resolved and unresolved issues. Critical Reviews in Biotechnology. 29:2-9.

Tsuji Y, Mikami T, Anan Y, Ogra Y. 2010. Comparison of selenohomolanthionine and selenomethionine in terms of selenium distribution and toxicity in rats by bolus administration.

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BergaFat:

a fat powder with value added

by Roland Adelmann, Berg + Schmidt, Germany

Berg + Schmidt is one of the pioneers in the development of fat powders without a carrier.

Its “BergaFat” brand has become synonymous with fat powder around the globe. BergaFat is based entirely on palm oil, a valuable and purely vegetable raw material. Thanks to its high palmitic acid content it is readily digestible and also offers a number of advantages over Ca soaps.

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ore and more, in modern animal production, it is a question of optimising the individual components of the feed in order to offer consumers healthy, high-quality products at competitive prices. In this connection the feed is extremely important as a source of energy. That applies especially to feed fats, since they supply over twice as much energy as carbohydrates.

So fats in powder form are a valuable and at the same time practical alternative. They are easy to dose, to store and to handle.

Pure energy for cows in early lactation and highperformance cows

In order to make modern milk production profitable it is essential to provide additional energy, since high-performance cows in the early phase of lactation expend more energy on milk production than they can take in with their feed.

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body’s own fat reserves. This may result in metabolic disorders and reduced fertility. To prevent this and at the same time ensure a high milk yield the cows must be provided with extra energy through their feed. The only way to offer the animals additional energy is to provide fat in a rumen-stable form, either as a top dressing or in the concentrate. The BergaFat range from Berg + Schmidt ensures that high-performance cows are given the extra energy they need. For ruminants the company offers the products BergaFat F-100 / BergaFat F-100 HP and BergaFat T-300.

Only rumen-stable fats are ideal for the environment in the rumen

Normal feed fats consist of saturated and unsaturated fatty acids. Above a certain level, unsaturated fatty acids have a damaging effect on the bacteria of the rumen. This results in poor utilisation of the entire ration or even reduced performance. The bacteria defend themselves against unsaturated fatty acids by hydrogenating them to form saturated fatty acids. They use such hydrogenation as a kind of “detoxification mechanism”, but this only works up to a total of about 4 percent fat in the feed. If the ration is to contain more than this 4 percent fat, the added fat must remain stable in the rumen in order to avoid damage to the rumen bacteria.

Rumen-protected or rumen-stable: an important difference

To prevent damage to the rumen bacteria from unsaturated fatty acids, these fats used to be saponified with calcium in a process involving a chemical reaction. This provides artificial protection for the micro-organisms in the rumen. However, these “rumenprotected” calcium soaps are only stable in the rumen under certain conditions. As soon as the pH drops, Ca soaps are split up into calcium and unsaturated fatty acids. And this applies to their behaviour in the TMR as well as in the rumen. Saponification of the fat also impairs the odour and taste of the feed fats. This

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Sophisticated technology makes BergaFat unique

Unlike the soaps, BergaFat works without any synthetic protection at all.

In the production process, high-melting fat fractions that are rumen-stable by nature are isolated by physical separation. The fatty acids in BergaFat are saturated to the point where they no longer damage the microbes of the rumen. On the contrary: the saturated fatty acids in BergaFat F-100, BergaFat T-300 and BergaFat F-100 HP relieve the burden on the rumen; they do not have to be hydrogenated and therefore meet the nutritional requirements of the high-performance cows.

These fats reach the small intestine unchanged, where they are broken down enzymatically and used as energy.

In other words: fat-powder products without carriers are the new generation of rumen-stable (bypass) fats. With its 100 percent fat content, BergaFat provides more energy than calcium soaps, for these may contain as much as 20 percent non-fat substances such as calcium, ash and water, and therefore correspondingly less energy. Moreover, the BergaFat products are free from trans fatty acids.

Feeding trials with BergaFat

BergaFat increases the quantity and fat content of the milk. The quantity of protein and fat is increased, while the percentage of protein remains the same.

Cows that were given BergaFat T-300 in the trials lost less weight and picked up weight again more quickly than the animals in the control group. This resulted in 26 percent better fertility.

Results from the USA are similar: • 7.6 percent increase in the milk fat content • 8.1 percent more milk fat • 1.7 kg more FCM milk (3.5 percent) • 0.7 percent less feed uptake • 7.5 percent better feed conversion The above figures prove that dairy cows need less feed and nevertheless perform better with the addition of BergaFat.

Feeding trials reveal advantages over Ca soaps

The superiority of BergaFat F-100 over Ca soaps has also been demonstrated in feeding trials. At the same amount of fat (2 percent BergaFat F-100 versus 2.4 percent Ca soap in the dry matter of the feed) BergaFat achieved an increase of 3.1 percent as compared to the control for fat corrected milk, whereas the Ca soap only achieved an increase of 0.8 percent. The economic evaluation of this trial revealed additional proceeds of 10 US cents per cow and day with the use of BergaFat as compared to the control group, whereas the Ca soap caused a daily loss of 18 US cents per cow. In a further trial conducted to verify the

comparison with Ca soap, Bergafat achieved an increase of at least 3 percent in the milk performance parameters.

Rumen-stable fat powder with palmitic acid for dairy cows

In order to compensate for the energy deficit in early lactation, the metabolic system of dairy cows is programmed to mobilise energy for milk production from the body’s own reserves; this may result in metabolic disorders. In order to prevent this it is necessary to provide additional energy through the feed. Energy supplementation is best carried out with BergaFat, which is rich in C16:0, because the palmitic acid necessary for milk production is then absorbed directly out of the bloodstream as well as being synthesised by the animal itself.

Dosage of BergaFat

Dairy cow rations normally contain about 4 to 5 percent fat in the solid matter. In order to feed a higher proportion of fat, rumen-stable BergaFat must be added as extra energy. The dosage of BergaFat depends on the cows’ performance. In the case of exceptionally high-yielding cows, up to 1,000 g per animal and day may be given. BergaFat can be mixed easily with a pelleted concentrate or given directly as a top dressing.

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At the forefront of

optical sorting

by Masazumi Hara, Technical Division, Satake

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he very first optical sorter for the rice milling industry in Japan was introduced on a trial basis in the early 1960s. As far as records show, it was a European sorter of small capacity with only three channels. This optical sorter did not become widely used in the Japanese rice milling industry for two reasons – the purchase and running costs were high, and the market requirement was low. The 1960s were a period of very rapid growth in Japan. Demand for rice exceeded supply, mainly due to poor logistics, and discolored rice was not an issue at the time. In the late 1970s, the demandand-supply balance of rice was reversed and the supply exceeded the demand. The Government restricted the use of agrichemicals and controlled rice production. As a result, areas of fallow paddy field increased. Grass invaded even areas still under cultivation, and pests increased, causing rice discoloration. In the meantime, grass seeds often contaminated harvested rice due to insufficient weeding. Japanese rice mills began to require optical sorters.

In response to the demand from Japanese rice mills, Satake started working on the development of optical sorters in 1978 and released the first one in 1979. It was a 10-channel monochromatic optical sorter using photo diodes. Subsequent models had greater and greater capacity, reaching 30 channels by 1981 and 80 channels by 1986. Originally used in large-scale rice mills, optical sorters are now used by even quite small rice retailers. In 1993, Satake optical sorters obtained a new camera – a chargecoupled device (CCD) with near infrared (NIR) capability, which made it possible to identify and reject tiny specks and inorganic particles of the same or similar colour to the product rice kernels and which conventional sorters could not remove. Machine size was also increased to 160 channels.

In 1994, Japan experienced its worst ever crop of rice, and decided to import rice. Since this was an emergency measure, and the diffusion rate of the optical sorters used in the countries sending the rice was relatively low, the rice imported into Japan contained a lot of discolored and foreign materials, which did

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not meet consumer demands in Japan. Rice exporters overseas who wished to sell rice to Japan introduced optical sorters to ensure their rice quality met market requirements; those rice mills inside Japan that milled imported rice did likewise. Indeed, rice exporters would make the point that a Japanese machine had sorted their rice, thereby guaranteeing the quality of their rice. In the same year, the Japanese Food Control Act was revised and the market demand for quality rice became stronger.

These two events helped the spread of optical sorters in the rice milling industry. Today, optical sorters sort almost all rice distributed in Japan, and rice in Japan is safe and reliable, without contamination by foreign materials such as glass or stones, and beautifully white.

In recent years, due to the exponential advances made in information-communication technology (ICT), the performance of optical sensors has improved and processing units have been highly integrated and accelerated. It is the home appliance

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DON Reduction by Sorting Yield using Full Colour Belt Sorter DON in wheat kernels before sorting 2.29 ppm DON in wheat kernels after sorting 0.96 ppm Sorting Yield : 95.6%

NIV Reduction by Sorting Yield using Full Colour Belt Sorter NIV in wheat kernels before sorting 1.20 ppm NIV in wheat kernels after sorting 0.60 ppm Sorting Yield : 95.6%

DON Reduction by Sorting Yield using Optical Sorter DON in wheat kernels before sorting 2.29 ppm DON in wheat kernels after sorting 1.07 ppm Sorting Yield : 94.4%

Effect of decreasing of NIV using Optical Sorter NIV in wheat kernels before sorting 1.20 ppm NIV in wheat kernels after sorting 0.71 ppm Sorting Yield : 94.4%

industry that is leading technical advancement. Satake adopted these technologies to optical sorting, making it possible to provide high performance optical sorters at a relatively low cost.

Moreover, ‘smartification’, as it is known, makes it possible to provide intuitive and user-friendly operating systems and realtime service in optical sorters.

The Satake range of optical sorters

Today, demands for optical sorting are diversified in material and in variety. Optical sorters are expected to discriminate defective grains and particles not only by contrast, but also by the difference in actual colour. Satake have developed optical sorters that are equipped with full colour cameras to meet customer demand and in a quest for new applications. Originally for rice, cereals and beans, the applications are now becoming infinite.

Compared with conventional monochromatic or bichromatic optical cameras, the full colour camera can gather a large amount of information, which is better for identifying defectives from the product, but requires a large data processing capacity and the skills to determine the threshold (or sensitivity). To solve difficulties in determining the threshold, it is necessary to install an easy-to-operate interface to optical sorters.

Satake offers a series of optical sorters, which are fitted with an easy-to-operate interface, called ‘Satake Smart Sensitivity’, and this software has made it possible to sort a wide range of materials. By having a variety of optical sorters in response to diverse market requirements, not only current users but also new

customers in emerging markets can enjoy the benefits of optical sorting. In addition, those optical sorters can have a ‘real-time shape sorting’ function installed which discriminates defectives not only by the difference in colour, but also by difference in size, length or ellipticity (or flatness).

Satake offers five types of full colour sorters – the RGBS, REZS, FMS, CS and Evolution RGB series, all of which are of the chute type. The RGBS is a large-capacity premium series, which has a robust, enclosed, and hygienic body. It has a high sorting performance (throughput, efficiency and yield). The REZS is a middle-capacity and middle call sorter which has simple mechanisms in a heavy-duty frame. It is open-structured for greater ease of maintenance. The FMS is a small-capacity, movable sorter for entry users. It emphasises cost-effectiveness and usability as well as general versatility. Cost, weight and productivity are duly considered, and the materials and processing methods are highly optimized for mass production.

Another premium sorter that Satake has developed is the Evolution RGB. The difference between the RGBS and the Evolution RGB is the light source. Whilst the RGBS uses a light white LED light source, Evolution RGB employs a full color LED light source, the intensity of which can be readily adjusted.

By adjusting the light intensity properly, output from the full color camera can be natural like human vision. The FMS and Evolution RGB series have better access to the optical section for maintenance, because the front optical module can be turned (in the Evolution RGB) or lifted (in the FMS series).

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Process flow of ‘Satake Smart Sensitivity’

Capturing Image of products

Capturing Image of defectives that you would like to sort

Clicking a button and the software automatically makes threshold

Left: Colour distribution in two dimensions

Colour distribution in three dimensions and threshhold

Shape sorting example

Shape sorting example

Normal shaped product

Deformed product

In addition to these 4 chute types, Satake also offer belt type full colour optical sorters.

DON reduction in wheat flour using optical sorters A typical fungus causing Fusarium head blight on plants of the wheat family is Fusarium graminearum and the main toxin this organism produces is Deoxynivalenol (DON). Fusarium fungus also produces Nivalenol (NIV), believed to be of stronger acute toxicity than DON. It is necessary to reduce DON and NIV to prevent health damage by removing Fusarium-damaged wheat kernels as well as by applying proper agrichemicals or treatments.

In 2009, Satake conducted trials to remove Fusarium-damaged wheat kernels and performed quantitative analyses for DON and NIV reduction using a full colour belt sorter (Model Name : CS300) which employed visible light, and an optical sorter (Model Name: RMGS) which used a near-infrared light range greater than 1400nm, both of which are made by Satake.

According to the resultant report, it was possible to reduce DON contamination from 2.29 ppm to 1.1 ppm (the Japanese provisional standard) and lower by removing Fusariumdamaged wheat kernels from the material wheat kernels using the aforementioned optical sorters. This method was also able to reduce NIV levels by 50 to 60 percent from 1.20 ppm.

Chalky wheat kernel sorting

Generally, wheat is distributed to the consumer after it is milled

Normal shaped product

Deformed product

into flour. For this channel of distribution, the major objectives in sorting are to remove dark and green wheat kernels, skins (bran) of the same colour as wheat flour, and impurities such as stones and straw. This application requires large-capacity optical sorters.

But in India, where wheat consumption is the third greatest in the world, wheat is distributed as grain and consumers tend to mill the wheat grains into flour at home when they need it. For this reason, they have very high standards for the appearance of the wheat kernels. Unwanted chalky kernels will be removed by optical sorting.

As shown in Figure **, chalky wheat has a similar appearance to chalky rice. Whilst sound kernels look translucent, chalky kernels look cloudy due to the loose composition of carbohydrate (starch cells) in their cores. It is difficult to sort chalky wheat kernels from sound wheat kernels using a conventional white light source. To sort chalky wheat kernels from sound wheat kernels, a special light source of a longer wavelength ranges and which has relatively high energy is required from among the visible light wavelength band.

The latest optical sorting technology.

‘Satake Smart Sensitivity’ - easy-to-operate interface As previously described, full colour cameras mounted in Satake optical sorters can gather a vast amount of colour information from the three dimensional colour spaces. The signal processing algorithm must, however, be simple so that

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it can process a vast amount of colour information instantly and in real-time. A traditional monochromatic camera produces 256 colours. A conventional bichromatic camera produces 65,536 colours (256 x 256 – 256 times more than the monochromatic camera). A full color camera produces 16,777, 216 colours (256 x 256 x 256 – 65,536 times more than the monochromatic camera, and 256 times more than the bichromatic camera).

The interface that Satake recommends is ‘Satake Smart Sensitivity’ which can process the data of 16,777, 216 colours provided by a full color CCD camera instantly and create a threshold automatically. This system creates an optimum threshold to discriminate defectives, simply by capturing images of products and defectives. This system automatically applies statistical processing based on the colour information supplied by full colour cameras.

Typical optical sorter applications reject defectives by contrast or by colour information. Satake has added a new function to optical sorters to reject defectives by shape information such as size, length and ellipticity (or flatness).

This algorithm makes it possible to discriminate split or broken materials or immature kernels, crushed or deformed materials, as well as impurities which have the same colour and chemical components but are different in shape from the products. The latest Evolution RGB boasts a high performance shape recognition algorithm that can identify every single piece of the material without reducing throughput.

Optical sorting can sort deformed materials to give a higher yield compared to other physical sorting equipment, such as revolving screens etc. This technology opens the possibility to replace conventional physical cleaning and grading machines with optical sorters, which are compact, hygienic, maintainable and economical in operation.

Future perspective

Optical sorters are widely used in the food industry and on the manufacturing premises of industrial products, and their applications are wide-ranging. Particularly as a technology to recover specific materials from batches of waste materials mixed with various kinds of metals and plastics, leading toward the establishment of a recyclingoriented society. Mazda and Nissan, two major Japanese automobile companies, have been using Satake optical sorters for car bumper recycling since 2003 and 2011, respectively.

Previously, the sensing technology of optical sorters was used to measure the ‘external appearance quality’ of the objects being sorted, in order to identify and remove defectives or irregular products. However, demand for measuring ‘internal quality’ and to sort by material type is increasing, for example, waste plastic sorting and agricultural product sorting measuring specific constituents such as carbohydrate and protein, functional ingredients and hazardous constituents. It is expected that the solution to these requirements will involve optical sorters using infrared rays, X-rays or the Raman spectrometric method, and hyper spectral cameras which can detect multiple wavelengths instantaneously.

In the wheat milling industry, there is a demand for optical sorters which can discriminate and reject Fusarium damaged wheat kernels efficiently and which can sort wheat kernels by protein content. Satake is continually developing and manufacturing quality and highly functional sorting equipment using state-of-the-art technology to respond to the various demands of their customers.

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Retaining crop biodiversity

in the face of a civil war ICARDA (The International Centre of Agricultural Research in Dry Areas) honoured by the Gregor Mendel Foundation for the rescue and conservation of genetic plant material from Syria

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by Olivia Holden, Milling and Grain

n 19th March 2015, Dr Mahmoud Solh, Director General of The International Centre of Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) received the Gregor Mendel Innovation Prize in Berlin, one of the word’s top honours for outstanding contributions to plant breeding. In the face of civil war and political insurgency, Dr Solh and his team worked meticulously under difficult conditions in Aleppo, Syria to save and transport genetic plant material to Svalbard Seed Vault in Norway. Most of the germplasm collections that have been transported are unique landtraces and wild relatives of cereals and legumes, collected from Central and West Asia, and the North Africa region over the past four decades.

More than 80 percent of the globally unique collection of crop genetic resources has now been safely duplicated at this Arctic facility. The Svalbard Seed Vault has received a total of 116, 484 plant genetic materials from ICARDA. The relentless effort of ICARDA’s management and gene bank staff in Syria has contributed to conserving crop biodiversity.

The Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, managed jointly by the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the Nordic Genetic Resource Centre (NordGen) and the government of Norway, is serving as an insurance plan in case of a catastrophic global wipe out of crops.

“Safeguarding these genetic materials is a critical mission for ICARDA”, says Dr Solh, “we are entrusted with the genetic wealth of some 128 countries - a source that we cannot afford to lose as it ensures long-term public welfare”.

Commenting upon ICARDA’s commitment to the rescue of genetic plant resources from the gene bank during the political unrest in Syria, Germany’s Federal Minister of Agriculture, Christian Schmidt praised the actions of the ICARDA team as a ‘grandiose gesture of humanity’. He emphasised that gene banks are not museums of history but instead form the basis for further

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development through breeding and agriculture.

I was able to talk to Dr Solh about his time in Syria, and how the actions of ICARDA have contributed to preserving an invaluable treasure of seeds from indigenous crops in the world’s dry areas.

ICARDA in Syria

ICARDA was first established in 1977 with its founding mandate to promote agricultural development in the dry areas of developing countries. Initial intentions were to set up a main centre or research station in Lebanon with a sub-station for low lands in Syria and a sub-station for highlands in Iran at the time of the Shah of Iran. However, the civil war in Lebanon made it difficult to carry out these plans. The organisation we’re granted about 1,000 hectares by the Syrian government and set up a head quarters there with a substation in Terbol, Lebanon.

Working in the face of a civil war

Even under regular circumstances, the organisation ensures that they have their germplasm collections in its gene bank duplicated outside Syria in case of fire, earthquakes or other natural disasters. The organisation did not envisage any political unrest or civil war as the host country of Syria was relatively stable and safe.

In March 2011, when the unrest first began in southern Syria, about 87 percent of the germplasm collections in its gene bank had been duplicated. This meant about 28,000 seeds were unduplicated. ICARDA gathered all of the support it could to ensure safe duplication could be carried out within three months.

Half of the seeds were sent to Turkey and the other half to Lebanon with the support of the government authorities of both countries.

In Northern Syria, the situation worsened in July 2012.

ICARDA began the transportation of seeds and they were moved in December 2012. The mission to transport the seeds meant travelling in dangerous circumstances and was not without

F difficulties. The last shipment to Svalbard Vault in Norway was carried out from Syria in February 2014. This was extremely difficult. For security reasons, main roads were too dangerous to use. The routes taken to transport the seeds by road from Aleppo were either to Lattakia to be shipped by sea or to Damascus, then to Lebanon.

During the centre operations, unfortunate security circumstances prevailed. The manager of the research station at Tel Hadya and a leader of the group in Aleppo were kidnapped twice but both were safely returned. A Syrian doctor of veterinary medicine was kidnapped when moving sheep and goats to Damascus. He was released from the first kidnappers but currently remains unaccounted for.

All expatriates were moved out of Syria and relocated in July 2012. The centre still has 50 Syrian nationals who remain at work in Syria, mostly in the Aleppo and Tel Hadya research stations.

Those working in the Tel Hadya main station were employed from small villages. The employees that remain are kept under close supervision with minimum mobility. Staff safety is a top priority. ICARDA keeps in constant contact with them via mobile phone.

Dr Solh explained that so far, the main buildings are still intact but seriously affected. Equipment was moved from Tel Hadya to be stored safely in expatriate vacated apartments in Aleppo in June and July. Looting has occurred particularly in the small ruminant research unit but all valuable equipment has been moved out from Tel Hadya to Aleppo.

Syria and food security

To date, the on-going civil war continues to raise fresh

concerns about food security in the nation. The conflict has seen 6.5 million Syrians become Internally Displaced Persons and another 2.7 million Syrian refugees flee to neighbouring countries (source: The Borgen Project). Rainfall deficits have also meant that the production of wheat – the major staple food of this country, often consumed in the form of bread, has steeply declined. The civil war has ravished the country’s production of cereals and further contributed to a major food security problem.

80 percent of Syrian nationals are now food insecure.

Prior to the civil war, Syria was the only Arab country to have achieved food security. The objective of the Syrian government was to ensure that Syria was self-sufficient in wheat. The country was producing up to 4.7 million tons of wheat annually and in good rainy years exporting one to two tonnes of wheat. The country had invested heavily in science and technology and the government was supportive to local rural farmers explained Dr Solh.

Food remained at the centre of the deal ICARDA struck with rebel groups in order to carry out their work. The groups initially

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Dr Solh accepts his award on behalf of ICARDA Photograph courtsey of ©Gregor Mendel Foundation

demanded money to protect the facility where they were working, however, ICARDA refused. ICARDA were solely interested in maintaining crop rotation as 630 hectares of cereals, (wheat, barely) and food legumes (lentil, faba bean, chickpeas and grass pea) had been planted. The rebel groups were willing to protect the centre as long as part of the produce could be taken (it was negotiated that 50 percent would be taken, however, it was the case more was taken). The rebels originate from neighbouring villages. As the groups constantly change, the security situation is often turbulent and unpredictable. Some of the farmers (who are now rebel fighters) used to collaborate with ICARDA on farm trials and demonstration fields in the past, so they know of ICARDA and its mission to help small farmers

The future in Syria

During their time in Syria, ICARDA maintained excellent relations there with the local people and the Syrian government.

The organisation has developed high levels of trust with all collaborating countries over more than 35 years. Almost all countries where ICARDA is collaborating have welcomed scientists to continue carry out their work. Even China and India have invited ICARDA to work in their research stations.

More than 170 special projects are still being completed and staff now safely re-located to where they can implement them. A rational decentralisation strategy has been in place since it was developed in 2012 and approved in 2013 by the Centre Board of Trustees and the CGIAR Consortium Board. ICARDA currently has three main research platforms (Ethopia, India and Morocco).

At the same time, the Board has agreed to make Lebanon a temporary headquarters based on an agreement with the Lebanese government.

Thematic Research Locations have been already established in Egypt for high input irrigated agriculture: in Turkey and Central Asia for research on winter wheat and winter barley. There is also a Regional Cereal Rust Research Centre established at Izmir and supported by the Turkish government in addition to a Thematic Research Location in Sudan on heat tolerance for adaptation to climate change.

Public acknowledgement and a global audience

Commenting upon the prestigious award, Dr Solh stated, “we

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were honoured, we did not think people were watching whilst we were going about our work to safeguard invaluable germplasm collections that ICARDA had in its gene bank. Our aims were to save a valuable heritage and to promote the importance of the collection, the conservation of which will be essential to enhancing food security and coping with climate change”.

Visits to archaeological sites in both Syria and Iraq demonstrated that crops such as lentils, barley and wheat had evolved in these locations over thousands of years. These crops have extremely desirable traits such as the ability to cope with harsh environmental conditions including excessive drought, high temperature, cold, salinity, diseases and pests.

“It was so rewarding to learn about the Gregor Mendel Foundation Award of Germany and to find that it reflects the interest and the commitment of the international community to conserve plant genetic resources as an important heritage from our ancestors. We feel that the award has opened the eyes of a global community to invest not only in the conservation of genetic resources, but also in their utilisation to contribute to food security, improve the income of the rural poor and to create job opportunities” Dr Solh further added.

With thanks to the Gregor Mendel Foundation and Dr Mahmoud Solh of ICARDA.

About ICARDA

The International Centre of Agricultural Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) was first established in 1977 in Syria with mandate to work in North Africa, West Asia, Central Asia and non-tropical dry areas in the 1990s. The Centre is supported by the CGIAR with three founding goals: • Enhance food security in developing countries • Reduce poverty • Protect natural resources (including water, bio-diversity, and the protection of land from degradation) ICARDA works with a tight focus on the problem solving needs of poor farmers. Although global food production has increased by 20 percent in the past decade, food insecurity and poverty remain widespread, while the natural resource base continues to decline.

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Loading bulk solids with explosive characteristics

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by Henrik Frandsen, General Sales Manager, Cimbria

imbria Bulk Equipment has serviced the dry bulk industry for decades, focusing on the loading and conveying of all kinds of industrial bulk goods. The company has therefore gained a vast experience within industrial bulk handling. This experience is constantly being put to use in developing new solutions, which meet the demands of authorities and users for functionality, quality and environment friendly operation. The solutions have been developed on the basis of a product range consisting of various types of loading chutes for open and closed loading of dry bulk materials into e.g. trucks, rail wagons, containers, ships and for stockpiling. The loading chutes are sold under the brand name Moduflex.

The company has an experienced, highly qualified workforce, its own development and construction department and modern production facilities that enable it to construct and manufacture all of the solutions in accordance with the individual requirements of each client. The loading chutes can be designed to solve all kinds of loading tasks and manufactured either as straightforward single equipment or complete systems for large corporate projects.

However, Cimbria Bulk Equipment is not only recognised as a dependable supplier of various transport equipment, the company has also managed to distinguish themselves by being acknowledged problem solvers with the ability to create innovative solutions where particular customer requirements are taken in account.

Membership of the Cimbria Group of Companies means that Cimbria Bulk Equipment can draw on the expertise of the other group members and provide complete solutions for the clients.

Handling explosive products

Dust is an important issue when handling various bulk solids

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such as grain, paper, plastics, sugar, wood or other organic material, as it is the cause of many accidents in the work place.

Not only because of the dangerous effects on the human body working in a dust laden area can have, but also more so because the storing and handling of these products always contains a high explosion risk that might cause destruction of buildings and production equipment and in worse case scenarios - loss of human life. However, in recent years, the increased focus on dust emission with the implementation of the ATEX directive has proven to have a preventative effect.

The correct design of transport equipment with regards to limiting the dust emissions is particularly important. The demands for explosion proof equipment imply that all supplied mechanical parts and electrical components are specially constructed for application in equipment installed in high explosive risk areas. All precautions taken endeavour to create a safe working environment. Beyond the direct improvement of the working environment by bringing down the amount of airborne dust, bringing down the amount of airborne dust furthermore reduces the risk of creating an explosive atmosphere outside of the transport equipment.

Meeting ATEX demands

Through the years, Cimbria Bulk Equipment has gained a great deal of experience when it comes to supplying loading and conveying equipment in compliance with all international regulations. The company has a standard working policy to insure that the supplied equipment is in compliance with the rules laid down in the ATEX-directive. Not only are the assembled parts scrutinised, but also the complete working unit where all factors including the build-up of static electricity and surface temperatures are taken into consideration.

Key words in connection with ATEX related equipment is approval, marking and documentation, where the manufacturer’s declaration plays a key role.

As part of the approval of the Cimbria Moduflex loading chutes,

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is the compilation of a comprehensive technical dossier, which contains considerations concerning health and safety aspects relevant to the loading chutes in relation to the ATEX-directive.

Supply of solution for loading grain product into ships

Due to the factors mentioned above, Cimbria Bulk Equipment has already supplied several Moduflex loading chutes manufactured for plants where dust control, hygiene and compliance with the ATEX-directive are absolute pre-requisite for the delivery. Cimbria Moduflex’s partner in Lithuania, Firma Liucija, has most recently placed an order for a Moduflex loading chute of the type V650F for loading grain into ships. The loading chute is capable of loading up to 1200 m3/h. Due to the nature of the product the loading chute is provided with explosion proof components in accordance with the ATEX directives. The chutes are equipped with 36 chute modules with antistatic strips that give the chute an extended length of approx. 25,000 mm.

To ensure dust-free outloading into ships, the chute outlet is equipped with a heavy duty dust-skirt in order to encapsulate the dust arising when the product is falling onto the peak of the product pile during the loading process. Two rotating indicators, placed in the chute outlet, signal automatically hoisting of the loading chute as the loading proceeds.

The chute is equipped with a cardan joint i.e. a conveying boom with the ability to pivot up and down in conjunction with the loading scenario. The cardan joint is designed for an operational movement between – 20 and +20° and a parking angle of 20°. The purpose of the cardan joint is to keep the loading chute in a vertical position at all times. This can both be in the loading situation, where, due to various ship sizes or due to large differences in tidal water, there is a need for different heights of the loading chute position. But it is also required in the parking situation. It is clearly necessary to keep the loading chute in a vertical position during loading to enable the correct flow of the product, and to keep the wear factor on the inlet and guide cones of the loading chute to a minimum. Apart from this,

without the cardan joint there would be an increased load on one or two of the wires, too, which could eventually result in damage to the chute.

The order follows a series of orders for Moduflex ship and stockpiling loading chutes all designed to meet heavy-duty requirements in terms of capacity and durability.

Loading solution for flour, Valsemoellen, Denmark

The Danish company Valsemoellen A/S is a member of Abdon Mills, a family-owned Scandinavian mill group, with 600 employees worldwide. Valsemoellen produces grain and flour products for industry, catering, bakeries and retail. The Valsemoellen in Koege, Denmark, grinds grain 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, which means that good, reliable machinery is required. As a result, Cimbria has delivered and installed a new plant for reception of grain.

The new plant includes chain conveyors, bucket elevators, baffle plate weigher, sampler, magnetic separator, Delta cleaner and new pipework with a capacity of 100 t/h.

The plant in Køge grinds wheat and rye in particular, but also other types of grain and species such as white wheat and spelt are processed.

In connection with the installation of the new equipment for grain reception, the company has taken the opportunity to replace 3 existing loading chutes with newer models, i.e. 3 Moduflex type S300TSMJ loading chutes replacing Moduflex loading chutes from 1992.

The Moduflex loading chutes are manufactured in accordance with EU regulation no. 1935/04, and thus meet all requirements concerning contact with foodstuffs.

Cimbria Bulk Equipment supplies dust-free chute systems through a network of agents in more than 30 countries around the world.

Further information on Cimbria Bulk Equipment and the Cimbria Group of companies can be obtained by accessing www.cimbria. com or contacting the company at moduflex@cimbria.com.

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ELEVATE CONVEY & The York M42-200 system

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lobal Industries, Inc. announces release of York higher capacity bucket elevator and incline conveyor.

Global Industries Inc, an internationally recognised manufacturer of grain storage, handling and conditioning products, has announced the release of the York M42-200 bucket elevator. This new state-of-the-art system will allow the York product line to have a 20,000 bushel-per-hour elevator with a single row of buckets (20” x 8” LP at 7” spacing) with a 42” pulley. A new trunking size was created (26” x 14”) to accomplish the new capacity.

Key Specifications: - Capacity: 510 MTPH - Buckets: 508 mm X 203 mm LP at 178 mm spacing - Pulley Diameter: 1067 mm - Trunking Size: 660 mm X 356 mm

needs of farmers and commercial customers in the US and around the world.

The company operates a number of divisions that produce agrelated products that can work independently or in conjunction with other Global division product lines.

MFS/York is a leading manufacturer of grain silos for both farm and commercial applications, as well as offering a full line of hopper tanks, bucket elevators and conveyor systems.

Additionally, the company offers materials handling products up to 60,000 bph or 1500 mt/hr.

Hutchinson, another Global Industries, Inc. division, produces a wide array of portable and belt conveyors, grain pump loop systems, farm and commercial unloading equipment, chain and paddle double run and en-masse conveyors a well as a variety of tube, u-trough and feeder system augers

Global Industries, Inc. announces release of york higher capacity bucket elevator and incline conveyor

York ID/ID3336 Incline Conveyer

Additionally, York announced the addition of the ID/ID3336 (33” x 36”) Incline Conveyer. The ID/IDC3336 has a capacity of 20,000 bushels-per-hour at 126 fpm and 25,000 bushels-per-hour at 158 fpm, and features an adjustable inlet hopper as standard and a splice on the return pan to prevent sagging – both new features to the York product line.

Key Specifications: - Capacity: 544 MTPH at 0.64 m/s, 680 MTPH at 0.80 m/s - Conveyor Size: 83.8 cam X 91.4 cm

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York Bucket Elevator

Brownie Systems is the Global Industries’ division that produces commercial grade catwalks, conveyor support systems and leg support towers for grain and bulk handling uses, while Global’s Eclipse product line produces fully galvanised tower and catwalk systems designed exclusively for farm and other light duty applications.

Nebraska Engineering Company (NECO) is a specialised agricultural equipment engineering and manufacturing company that manufactures high-value grain dryers, grain handling, and aeration equipment for agricultural customers worldwide.

Global Industries, Inc. and its divisions believe in using only top quality materials, precision engineering and state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities and processes to deliver their products to market. All Global products are performance-tested and fieldproven to withstand the most demanding conditions.

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Storage project Woldgrain Storage initiate phase 3 of Project Valiant

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by Abi Young, Perry of Oakley Ltd

oldgrain Storage based at Hemswell Airfield, Lincolnshire was established in 1980 to store grain on behalf of its founding members. The original scheme had 20,000 tonne storage and one dryer accompanied by 60tph handling equipment. The main products that Woldgrain handle are oilseed rape, barley, wheat and oats. Their expected throughput each year is between 85,000 tonnes and 100,000 tonnes.

With the success and an increase in membership in recent years the capacity has been increased in stages to 57,000 tonnes of ventilated storage with a total of 2 driers and 2 off 250tph intake systems. Further increases in membership required extra facilities hence Project Valiant Phase 3 has taken place.

Project Valiant Phase 3 comprised of a further 26,000 tonnes of silo storage, carefully arranged with varying size silo’s to fill in several unused plots on the limited size site.

By initiating Project Valiant this represents a further important step along the road to achieving Woldgrain’s ultimate goal of a fully developed store of 85,000 tonnes.

Over a number of years Perry of Oakley Ltd have installed several machines at Woldgrain, including conveyors that were used for filling the original silos in 2012.

This year more new Perry of Oakley machines were installed. These included a 250tph horizontal chain & flight conveyor intake, a 100tph and a 250tph horizontal chain & flight conveyor, a 100tph curved combination chain & flight conveyor, a 100tph and a 250tph belt & bucket elevator, screw dischargers & screw conveyors and an M618 80tph grain drier with PLC control panel.

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Woldgrain is now able to intake up to 750tph and boasts 1 Perry drier, 7 Perry screw conveyors / bin dischargers, 34 Perry industrial specification conveyors, 2 curve combination industrial specification conveyors and 4 industrial specification elevators.

All of Perry’s conveyors are made from durable, heavy duty galvanised steel and are available from 3 different ranges. The agricultural range is capable of capacities of up to 60tph, the heavy duty agricultural range is capable of up to 120tph and the industrial range will comfortably cope with up to 600tph. With the 3 ranges available this enables Perry to tailor each machine to suit the customer’s needs, this has included the machines installed for Woldgrain.

The new 80tph drier installed at Woldgrain is controlled using Perry’s drier PLC panel is a 12” touch screen control panel that is simple to use and easy to follow. It has been designed & programmed in house and each panel is customised to each drier that is sold. There are over 70 alarms and messages allowing you to understand quickly and easily what is happening in your drier.

When the panel is connected to the internet text messages and emails can be sent to set numbers and addresses to give regular status reports on the drying process.

John Burnett, MD of Woldgrain, said: “Perry supplied conveyors for filling the original silos in 2012 uprating from 60tph to 100tph. These have performed very well, they are a quality product at a competitive price and the service and technical back up has been very good when required.” www.perryofoakley.co.uk

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Sweet Manufacturing Company celebrating its 60th Anniversary

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weet Manufacturing Company is proud to be celebrating its 60th anniversary of manufacturing “The Quality Line” of bulk material handling equipment.

W. Dean Sweet in Springfield, Ohio, where the company still proudly calls home today, founded Sweet in 1955. The company originally set out to provide positive change to the agricultural industry. Now 60 years later, Sweet is still a “family oriented” company that has the reputation for integrity, innovation, heavy-duty superiorly crafted products made with USA prime steel and premium components, and unparalleled customer service to the agricultural, feed, aggregates, wood, industrial and biofuels markets.

During the 1960’s, Sweet made two introductions that Alicia Sweet Hupp

became lasting and integral parts of the company today.

First, Sweet introduced something new to the industry at the time and still in place today, the use of galvanized steel in the manufacturing process. Customers appreciated the rust and corrosion resistant qualities obtained, along with longer life and reduced maintenance required for Sweet equipment.

Second, Sweet introduced a young girl as “Miss Sweet” in the marketing brochures for the “Sweetheart” elevator buckets.

That young girl was the founder’s daughter, Alicia Sweet.

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After graduating from Wittenberg University, Alicia joined the Sweet team as Advertising Coordinator. She then spent several years in various departments throughout the organisation. In 1996, W. Dean Sweet named Alicia as President. After 32 years of service, she continues to serve as President and Chief Executive Officer at the company today.

Today, Sweet’s premium products can be found in more than 55 countries around the world. The company is committed to not only maintain its heritage core values rooted in integrity and trust, but also to continue to look to the future by expanding both domestically and internationally. Our vision is to be the world’s first choice provider of material handling solutions. This is supported

by Sweet’s investments in new equipment to ensure that they continuously improve the efficiency of their manufacturing process.

Additionally, Sweet has received the Award for Excellence in HotDip Galvanizing and has been recognized three times by Ohio’s Governor for Excellence in Exporting for having made a strong commitment to the international markets. Sweet has bi-lingual staff, marketing materials and website, project design layout assistance and strives to provide end users with the world’s finest products and service through its partnership with their world class dealer and reseller network.

Alicia Sweet Hupp recently offered the following comments to company employees and dealers: “My father would be so proud of our success and equally thankful for your loyal service.

As we celebrate our 60th anniversary, we should reflect on and learn from our past and plan for our exciting future. We need to focus each and every day on excellence and what we do the best, which is manufacture material handling equipment that is built to last. We should strive to deliver on our company mission to provide innovative quality solutions that create an extraordinary customer experience and remember to be easy to do business with. The words of my father back in 1970 still hold true today: ‘We are not content to bask in past achievements. Rather, we shall continue to design, engineer and manufacture the finest, highest quality material handling equipment.’”

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GEAPS leaders reflect on successful Exchange 2015 Exchange 2015 was a huge success,” said Matt Kerrigan, Bunge North America, GEAPS International president. “It was our second largest conference with 3,215 attendees from 31 countries. We had 35 hours of educational programming presented by 55 speakers and

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the Expo saw 354 exhibitors fill nearly 200,000 square feet of space.

s impressive as the numbers are, the most important measure of success is the feedback we have received from participants. Both new attendees and Exchange veterans found a tremendous amount of value in the conversations they had networking with other attendees, in the number and diversity of the exhibitors in the Expo and the education sessions on emerging trends and technology. Exchange keeps growing every year, and it is because GEAPS places such an emphasis on providing quality in every aspect of the conference.”

Future for the industry/show

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conference so successful. Next year’s Expo will be the largest ever, with more space and more exhibitors. We already sold out the original contracted space, and are in the process of adding more exhibit space, up to 250,000 square feet of total space. We made some changes to accommodate more large-scale booths, which should give exhibitors more options for hands-on displays.

As the show grows, so does the variety. We have a number of companies that have exhibited at Exchange for more than 40 years, and this year we saw 30 new companies exhibiting for the first time. There is always something new to see.”

“GEAPS is also hard at work expanding the other facets of the show,” said Allan Tedrow, McCormick Construction Co., Exchange Educational Programming Committee chair. “The Exchange Educational Programming Committee is already gathering ideas for next year’s sessions, including new processing education sessions. As the show grows, we look forward to offering more operations solutions in the Expo, more education for more sectors of the grain industry and more networking opportunities for attendees in Kansas City in 2017 and Denver in 2018.”

What the general feeling was from the exhibitors and attendees

“The feedback we have received is very positive,” Kerrigan said. “Even though the show has grown tremendously in recent years, we had shorter lines at registration thanks to a new badge-on-demand system. Our educational programming was well attended and well received and covered a broad range of emerging trends and technologies. In the Expo, we heard from both new and returning exhibitors that the show provided a tremendous amount of value and traffic.”

Awards that were presented

Industry Leader Award – George Kornstad, retired GEAPS’ Industry Leader award honors individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to the advancement of grain

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GEAPS Lifetime member George Kornstad received the award for his dedication to the grain industry in the U.S. and overseas.

He started his career at the Continental Grain Company in 1966, and was an elevator superintendent at OSHA’s first inspection of an elevator. In 1993, he accepted a position with the Citizen’s Network for foreign Affairs and spent four years living in Moscow. During that time, he built small grain storage units at 57 sites in Russia and Ukraine. He then went to work on a state-of-the-art export unloading elevator in the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. After retiring in 2003 and returning to the U.S., Kornstad continued his global service to the industry by teaching proper grain storage practices for U.S. AID-funded companies in Russia, Bulgaria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Afghanistan.

Corbett Award – Steve Schmitt, TE Ibberson Co

Steve Schmitt, TE Ibberson Co., received the Corbett Award, which is the highest honor for distinguished volunteer leadership in representing the best interests of Associate members in the pursuit of GEAPS’ core purpose and envisioned future.

After filling multiple roles for his chapters, Schmitt was encouraged to extend his volunteer leadership to the Associates Board, where he was elected and served as a director from 2006-2008, secretary for 2008-2009, vice president in 20092010 and president for 2010-2011. Schmitt valued the leadership experience he gained on the board and emphasised the need to recruit strong board leaders to make the decisions that help the organisation grow and meet the needs of members.

International Member of Distinction – Tim Sullivan, West Central

GEAPS International Member of Distinction is bestowed on a member who has made extraordinary contributions to advancing GEAPS core purpose and values. Tim Sullivan, West Central, was recognised for his continuous contributions over the last 32 years in leadership roles for GEAPS at the chapter and international levels.

Sullivan’s career started with a small contractor out of college, before he moved on to Farmer’s Cooperative Company for 23 years and then to West Central where he currently works.

Sullivan has built his career and reputation on the pursuit of excellence and reliability in grain operations. Throughout his career he has enjoyed collaborating with the high quality industry experts he met through GEAPS and acquiring many lasting friendships along the way.

Sullivan served as chapter president from 1985-1986, and has served on a number of International committees. He was a part of the original GEAPS Grades and Weights committee, subsequently a joint committee with the National Grain and Feed Association that addressed emerging operational and regulatory issues with the US Department of Agriculture Federal Grain Inspection Service.

He also served on the Membership committee, Exchange Educational Programming committee and the Facility Design Conference task force.

From his chapter and committee work Sullivan was elected to serve as a director on the International board from 2002-2005 before being named treasurer. He served as treasurer from 20052011, and then continued to serve as an International director for 2011-2012.

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Supporting traceable and sustainable nutrition right to your doorstep

agro is a leading manufacturer and distributor of animal health, crop care and public health products in the Asia Pacific. Starting off as a division under the prestigious Swiss-based Zuellig Group in 1953, the company was brought to public on the Singapore Stock Exchange in 1996. Over the years it has proven to be one of the leading industry players catering to the needs of farmers and offering the most innovative and value for money agrisolutions all year round.

Zagro’s Animal Health division has dictated and expedited the need for improved quality and productivity. Our business caters to the needs and healthcare of livestock, poultry and aquatic animals. It manufactures and distributes a wide range of nutrition and protection products to ensure that these animals are protected and given the essential nutrition for growth. The workflow, health environment and safety of our production facilities are continually studied and enhanced as all these inevitably contribute to higher productivity.

As a premix manufacturer, Zagro caters specifically to the animals’ needs with customised formulations developed by a team of dedicated veterinarians and animal nutritionists. The wide range of Zagromix and Anavite vitamin and mineral premixes are specifically designed to meet the requirements of different species of animals. Each formula is carefully formulated to achieve animals’ optimum growth, reproduction and production performance.

Apart from the wide product range of Zagromix and Anavite premixes, Zagro also offers customised formulations to address the specific needs of its clients. It allows clients to adjust the premixes according to their animals’ specific requirements and to their target performance instead of adding their specific needs on their own.

The strength of Zagro vitamin and mineral premixes is that these are all manufactured under stringent quality assurance program together with good manufacturing practices. The manufacturing plant uses a Forberg fluidized zone mixing system that ensure homogeneity of premixes, auto dosing micro bins and modern and computerised facilities by Buhler that assures better mixing efficiency. All raw materials are obtained from preapproved suppliers and have gone through quality analysis before being used in production. All raw materials are also well stored as per each advised regulated-storage conditions. Furthermore, stringent quality assurance is carried out daily by a team of laboratory specialists from Pacific Lab Services, the laboratory arm of Zagro which performs a comprehensive range of tests for different needs.

Zagro quality control adheres to standards from raw materials to production process to finished products until goods delivery. This guarantees that each premix nutritional value can be traced and be

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sustainable, thus, ensuring the written requirements to reach the farm as available nutrients for the animals.

Being dedicated in maintaining the highest level of productivity and services, our premixes production facilities have been awarded the following certifications: ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 (by UKAS) inclusive of HACCP Certification and in conformance to GMP requirement, and FAMI-QS Code of Practice for Feed Additives and Premixture Operations. These achievements demonstrate our commitment to meeting our customers’ ever growing demand for the highest level of product and service quality.

Envisioning itself to be the global leader one day, Zagro is on its way to building long-term solutions to an ever-increasing demand for higher quality products at affordable prices. Furthermore it entails itself to leave a mark of excellence in the eyes of its customers. The company remains steadfast and faithful to its philosophy of delivering consistent Agrisolutions to farmers all over the world. Simply put, Total Customer Satisfaction at its best!

VIV Asia 2015 - Plant tour, happy hour and dinner

Concurrent with VIV Asia 2015, the company decided to hold an invitational plant tour and dinner at the fully fitted Zagro Thailand Limited office located at 6/6 Moo 4, RangsitNakornnayok Road Bueng Ytho, Thanyaburi Pathumthani, Thailand.

Guests took a tour around the vicinity of the warehouse and the newly developed office. They were showed the facilities such as guest rooms, auditorium, the bar, gym and the garden.

A brief history about the amenities was shared to show guests the inspiration behind the concept of the structures.

Business partners and guests from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Egypt, UAE and Morocco gathered together to celebrate this milestone. Guests were welcomed and entertained by Thai Cultural dancers and delectable local cuisines were served.

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road-mobile unloaders

Woldgrain Storage initiate phase 3 of Project Valiant Siwertell ship unloaders and by Abi young, Perry of Oakley Ltd loaders are based on unique screw conveyor technology, in combination with belt conveyors and aeroslides and can handle virtually any dry bulk cargo, including grains

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wo orders for Siwertell road-mobile unloaders is of note for the grain industry.

One order has gone to Saudi Arabia while the other is headed to India.

While not destined for handling grain on this occasion, the two orders show the diversity of the mobile system. Siwertell, part of Cargotec, has supplied the first road-mobile unloader to the cement division of the Rashed Al-Rashed and Sons Group in Saudi Arabia.

The unloader had already been built at Siwertell AB’s premises in Bjuv, Sweden and was delivered out in March, just over two months after the order was placed.

The Siwertell diesel powered 5000S road-mobile unloader is equipped with a dust filter and double bellows system to allow seamless, uninterrupted bulk material transfer to trucks or wagons.

It will operate in the Port of Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, unloading at 250tonnes/hour.

Jörgen Ojeda, Director of Siwertell mobile unloaders, said the customer selected a screw-type road-mobile unloader because it best suited the company’s needs and chose a Siwertell unit because it is ranked the best among similar products.

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A road-mobile unloader in action. © Photo courtesy of Siwertell

of material. Maintenance costs are low, while the continuous nature of screw-type unloading coupled with the double bellows system ensures excellent through-the-ship performance.

The second order is for a 10,000S road-mobile unloader going to an undisclosed customer, in India at the end of this month.

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MARKETS OUTLOOK Grain prices bounce as surplus starts to shrink

by John Buckley

“Traders are still debating how far this year’s Russian wheat crop will decline after a dry start, a higher risk of frost damage and difficulty financing spring sowings. A 10-15m tonne fall would probably encourage the government to keep some sort of controls on exports, probably an extension of this season’s ‘temporary’ duty”

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Grain prices have steadied in recent weeks after their long drop amid further signs that 2015/16 supplies will be ‘less loose’ than this season’s - if not exactly ‘tight’ by historical comparison.

Several factors support this view. In the wheat market, analysts are looking for a decline in this year’s Russian, Ukrainian and European crops, possibly the USA’s too (less sown, more winterkill, droughts etc). As we go to press the trade is also getting excited about a possible major flood loss for India’s crop (the world’s second largest wheat producer and consumer).

How much may wheat production decline? The UN Food & Agriculture Organisation recently suggested the next crop could still get to 720m tonnes – just 7m short of last year’s record.

That might seem a bit optimistic given all the above factors (more detail on those below). The International Grains Council meanwhile offered a preliminary assessment of 709m (it remains more conservative on last year’s too at 719m) while the Canadian Wheat has just come out with the lowest estimate of just 703.4m (versus last year’s 724.8m).

But does the world actually need another 720m tonnes-plus harvest? Probably not. Last year’s consumption, after all, was estimated at less than 715m, resulting in a 10m tonne stock buildup that will help cushion the impact of a smaller 2015 crop.

Until recently, that 2014/15 surplus had been weighing heavily on prices which hit five year lows last autumn and recently seemed to be heading back in that direction again. Can we expect another season of consumption growth pacing last year’s 10m tonnes – (mainly in animal feeds)?

The IGC projects a mere 3m tonnes increase in next season’s total wheat consumption at 711m which would reduce ending stocks by just 2m tonnes (from this year’s 198m. It’s possible if maize competition in feeds recedes a little (again, see below) and wheat prices are competitive enough. If not, then wheat markets may be more or less in balance or need only a modest stock drawdown. None of this is the stuff that bull markets are made of.

While the direction winter wheat output is taking is becoming a bit easier to pin down now, most of the key spring wheat crops had yet to be sown as we went to press. Agriculture Canada recently estimated a similar area to last year’s for its own spring wheat crop (the bulk of its annual wheat harvest) while the country’s Wheat Board sees the total crop down from 29.3m to 28.7m tonnes. The EU is also expected to so somewhat less than last year. Russia and Ukraine, whose winter wheat crops appeared to be floundering from the word go, would normally be expected to make up expected any losses to these with more spring sown crops. But, as detailed in our earlier reviews, both are under considerable financing restraints from their weak currencies (expensive input) and credit difficulties (including soaring interest rates).

So how low might this year’s Russian wheat crop go? The government has recently reiterated its view that the total grain crop can make 100m tonnes (versus last year’s 105.3m), maybe a couple of million more as some winter crops came through in better shape than expected earlier. That, western observers say, would imply wheat around 55m tonnes. However, not everyone agrees, give that the country’s ag ministry recently estimated winter losses of almost 17% of the crop – while acknowledging that 9% of what did come through was in poor shape. Consultant Sovecon suggests the grain total (including spring planted crops) could be in a range of 85m to 92m tonnes, with wheat contributing somewhere between 47m and 53m. Even lower forecasts have been aired (75-78m grain total) although these are ‘worst case scenarios’ that are probably too pessimistic now.

Meanwhile, due to their recent export controls, both Russia and Ukraine will have larger wheat stocks

to carry into the new season (about 6m more tha last year in total). Both can therefore be expected to maintain a fairly active presence on the world markets but probably nowhere near the record levels of recent years. The CWB suggests both Russian and Ukrainian wheat exports will drop by about 12% to 17.4m and 9.7m tonnes respectively. It also sees Canadian wheat exports falling by 11% to under 21m tonnes but expects the EU and US to take up much of the slack with higher exports of – Europe’s rising t a new record 32.35m and the USA’s from 24.5m to 27.6m tonnes. (These are all interestingly precise forecasts for this early stage in the year and, as in most years past, will doubtless be open to a fair amount of revision as the season unfolds) Europe’s wheat crop is expected to decline in terms of both area and yield. Some early estimates had the total, including durum, 3m to 5m tonnes below last year’s giant 155m tonne harvest.

More recently, grain trader lobby COCERAL came out with a 10m tonne drop for soft milling wheat at 138.6m tonnes. The EU’s own crop forecasting unit MARS sees soft wheat yields dropping by 4.8% to an average 5.29 tonnes per hectare. Dryness has become a bit of a concern in Germany, the Czech republic and Poland. German yields alone are seen dropping by 11.7% while Hungary and Rumania are also expected to yield significantly less than last year .

That supplies in the EU will still be more than comfortable is underlined by the fact that (a) the EU will also carry in over 5m tonnes more stocks this season than last and (b) various observers including the EU Commission think these will actually rise again

in 2015/16 (even with another year of record exports) to a 10-year high of around 19.5/20m tonnes. Again, that hardly seems a recipe for higher wheat prices going into the new season that starts in July.

That said, the major northern hemisphere wheat exporters’ crops include a fair proportion of as yet unsown spring wheat and the entire crop still has to reach harvest and get safely in the bins.

How do the markets view this set-up influence forward wheat costs? The CBOT futures market has current cash wheat prices just under $5 per bushel – about $184/tonne. For mid-2016 it predicts prices 10% higher at around $5.50 ($202/t) and for those who want to ponder the more speculative 2017 view, it has starting prices of $5.67 softening by mid-year to $5.62/bu

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($206). The EU’s own milling wheat futures market has recently been trading €185/190/tonne, quoting similar prices well into 2016 and a fairly modest €5/tonne premium into mid-2017. While futures often get the ’price revelation’ wrong (they tended to predict higher rather than the lower prices that actually developed for the last couple of seasons) the current price structure at least confirms that most participants are fairly relaxed about the forward outlook for wheat supplies.

Less maize this year The key question emerging for the maize market in the season ahead is not whether but by how much will the global surplus fall? Some early markers have already been put down by the International Grains Council – looking for a potential drop in 2015/16 production from 990m to 941m tonnes while the Canadian Wheat Board saw a smaller decline to 973.5m tonnes.

While technically counted as 2014/15 crops, the South American harvests for the current season have still to be resolved with planting only recently completed for the Argentine crop and, as we went to press, still underway for Brazil’s second or Safrinha crop – the part that determines its export supply and thus its impact on the world maize market. At this stage, both countries are expected to produce rather more than the USDA predicted in March (75m for Brazil and 23.5m for Argentina).

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the US price by about $8 to $10 per tonne and, along with last year’s record US and (though down) still relatively large CIS crops, helping to keeping the world export cost of maize at relatively cheap levels compared with recent past years.

During early April, all eyes were on the US planting intentions report from the USDA – its first survey-based forecast for the new season. The trade had been expecting US maize area to fall by 2m to 3m acres from last year’s 90.6m. On top of that a repeat of that crop’s record (171bu/acre) yield was also thought unlikely.

In the event the USDA forecast a decline in area of just 1.4m acres which, along with a higher than expected estimate for US March stocks immediately sent US prices lower. The effect might be short-lived, however, as current wet conditions in the US southern states are holding up early planting and making a switch to soyabeans – which can be planted later – more likely in this region. So does the corn/soya price ratio which has increasingly favoured the latter crop.

EU maize putput is expected by COCERAL, the grain trade lobby, to drop 10% to 66m tonnes from last year’s 74m. Within the CIS countries, tight finance and weak currencies boosting input costs are also expected to lower maize planting and production. As we go to press, the Ukrainian consultant APK Inform is forecasting its crop will decline by almost 15% to24.3m tonnes. On the face of it, all this points to a smaller world maize crop in 2015 – but how much smaller? Estimates range from a 30m to a 40m tonnes drop – or more. But against that have to be counted this season’s larger carryout stocks Based on its global maize forecast for 2015/16, the IGC has calculated a potential drop in world carryover stocks for the new season of about 20m tonnes to 171m. That sounds quite a fall but it would still leave them at their third highest level since Y2K – hardly a signal for runaway maize prices.

Global feed demand for maize, the largest single outlet, is expected to show an increase of just over 24m tonnes for the current season, ending August 31 compared with 55.4m in 2013/14. That suggests other uses are more or less stagnating after a 33m tonne increase in these sectors in the previous season.

A large chunk of that is clearly down to the dramatic slowdown in growth of corn ethanol production amid the collapsing price of crude mineral oil.

Recent maize price trends have been erratic, waiting on more concrete new crop pointers and subject to fund money ebbing and flowing in tandem with ‘macro-economic’ factors like the strength of the US diollar, the weakness of the euro and attempts to rally the collapsed price of crude oil. These factors seem likely to continue creating volatility into second half 2015.

PROTEINS – soya surplus keeps on growing Given the unprecedented weight of supplies overhanging the soyabean market, it’s slightly surprising that prices have held up

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104/105m tonnes. That’s 3m to 4m under last year’s which was about 10m larger than combined export and domestic crush needs.

Weather permitting, then, the soya surplus goes on through late 2015 when attention will turn back to the next Latin American crops.

Accounting for about half the world’s oilseeds and over two thirds of global oilmeal production, amply- supplied soya will remain the main influence on the smaller oilseed/meal markets, whose supplies are expected to tighten somewhat this season.

Rapeseed output is expected to drop mainly in the EU and CIS countries. Sunflowerseed crops are expected to decline within both Russia and Ukraine. Nonetheless the global oilseed market will remain in huge surplus and the large stocks of soya carried from one season to the next will be available to crush for more meal if the market demands it.

All this spells a fairly placid, possibly cheaper meal market ahead – in dollar terms at least. For consumers within the Euro-zone, the equation is spoiled by the weakness of the single currency, constantly offsetting price declines in supplier markets.

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as well as they have in the last couple of months. Partly that’s been down to some delays in the harvest and marketing of South American crops, exacerbated by some transport strikes in Brazil and some threatened farmer/port stoppages in Argentina too. That has kept demand for US soyabeans strong at a point in the season when this really should be tailing off in favour of the South American suppliers. However, barring some cataclysmic US weather upset in the weeks and months ahead, this is really only delaying the eventual, inevitable, price response to the supply outlook.

If anything, there may be even more soyabeans to dispose of than we expected back in February. Now that the Latin America crops are well into harvest (which is almost over in the main Brazilian producer states), stellar yields have been encouraging some observers to go for a higher regional crop estimate.

To recap on 2014/15 supply, the US crop soared by 16.6m tonnes, Brazil’s is seen up by 8.5m and Argentina’s by at least 2m (but now, probably more like 4m tonnes). So world production increases by 31/33m tonnes or over 11% - maybe even more.

Global crush on the other hand, is seen rising by only 13m tonnes, the remainder mostly added to stocks carried into the 2015/16 season that starts in September. These, not surprisingly, will be record high at around 90m tonnes, so a world awash with soya is moving from prediction to reality.

In late March, the USDA released a slightly lower estimate for this year’s US planted acreage at 84.6m versus trade expectations of 85.9m but still up on last year’s 83.7m – and a new record high. Many US analysts still think this under-rates what farmers will actually sow. Assuming normal weather, planted/harvest area ratios and trend-line yield, it extrapolates to a potential crop of 76 | Milling and Grain

WHEAT • Traders are still debating how far this year’s Russian wheat crop will decline after a dry start, a higher risk of frost damage and difficulty financing spring sowings. A 10-15m tonne fall would probably encourage the government to keep some sort of controls on exports, probably an extension of this season’s ‘temporary’ duty. Ukraine may also be a more cautious seller if its crop declines somewhat as expected. Both at least have larger stocks to carry into 2015/16 but Russia particularly may want to conserve more of these until its domestic food price inflation (and its troubled economy) settles down. A smaller role played by Russia and Ukraine in the world wheat export market wouldn’t mean tight supplies but it would keep prices off the floor set by these two traditionally cheap sellers in recent years.

• Condition ratings for the key US winter wheat crop are not great but at last better than last year’s. That suggests better yields to compensate for a slightly lower planted area. The total US wheat crop size won’t reach the levels seen in the past but – given importers increasing preference for other, cheaper origins, it should be adequate to meet demand.

• European crops are mostly looking good, especially the key French crop, which could set a new record. Some analysts even see the EU wheat total approaching last year’s all-time peak (versus a 5m to 7m tonne drop expected earlier). Along with large carryover stocks, this spells an abundant EU wheat supply to meet both domestic and export needs although, as always, the summer months will decide how much of it comes up to adequate milling specifications.

• Among the other key exporters, Canada expects to sow a similar crop to last year’s. Right now, its spring planting weather will be the key to success. Australia meanwhile seems to be getting some needed rains just in time before its main planting season.

• World stocks of wheat carried into 2015/16 remain hefty, a cushion against any crop weather problems in the months ahead.

• The drop in wheat values close to or, for some farmers below, cost of production remains an issue that may affect future sowing plans.

• Global feed consumption of wheat is expected to rise by about 9m tonnes this season, if remaining below the high levels of three years ago. But will ethanol use of wheat reach expected levels in Europe under the low oil-price scenario?

than expected demand for these products in countries developing livestock production systems – China, India, Indonesia etc.

Developed consumers like the USA may also use more as high meat prices contribute to profitability. Fortunately for consumers worldwide, the supply outlook remains good.

• The slowdowns and reversals seen in global rapeseed and sunflower crop expansions in the past year are likely to be extended in 2015. However, as ‘oil-rich’ oilseeds these will have less impact on the meal sector which will take its main cue, as usual, from the all-powerful soyabean market.

• That suggests soya meal will raise its already dominant share of the protein market. As the high-protein, reliable quality product too, soya will hopefully continue to force price restraint across the meal sector.

COARSE GRAINS • How much maize will the US sow in 2015? Current forecasts suggest a cutback but still enough for another large crop which, with large carryover stocks from 2014, should keep this market well-supplied.

• Ukrainian and Russian maize crops will decline this year but F/V/G(Island):2015 28/10/14 09:46 Page 1 remain very large by comparison with the previous decade, keeping Ukraine especially in the van of international export competition.

• Along with ample maize supplies from Latin America, this should maintain the more competitive global export market for maize that we’ve seen in recent years – maybe not at quite the same frenetic pace but still likely to demand some restrainr from world maize prices.

• A record domestic maize crop has enabled EU consumers to slash imports this season – the main factor in a lower global maize trade. A smaller 2015 crop may affect demand patterns here.

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PACK-IMA will be at the heart of this year’s most comprehensive exhibition event for processing, converting, package printing and logistics.

Fiera Milano’s Expo 2015 will bring together six exhibitions under one roof: IPACK-IMA, MeatTech, Dairytech, Fruit Innovation, Converflex and Intralogistica Italia.

The event has been incredibly well publicized at 55 international fairs over the last two years. 89 trade magazines – 41 of them international – Turkish Airlines, Aeroflot and Etihad’s inflight magazines, national newspapers and many web portals have carried the message far and wide.

Thanks to a promotion offered in collaboration with ICE, the Italian agency for foreign trade, free entrance to the exhibition is available to those who pre-register using the code on the ‘promocard’ sent with the invitation. An advertising campaign via LinkedIn reached 300,000 professionals in relevant industries within its first month.

The Buyer’s Programme supporting incoming foreign professionals visiting the exhibition has been developed with the support of the Ministry of Economic Development and the operational backing of ICE. For all these reasons, 270 buyers from 50 countries will attend. You couldn’t ask for a better guarantee of networking and trade opportunities.

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119th IAOM International Association of Operative Millers Annual Conference & Expo Renaissance Palm Springs Hotel and Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, USA http://www.iaom.info/

A booth full of innovation and improvements at IAOM USA

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he plansifter Seginus (MPAS) is one of the innovations Bühler, from it’s IAOM booth 909, will be showcasing along with various other new and improved machinery.

The Bühler Group, a long-time member of the International Association of Operative Millers IAOM, will be present at the 119th annual conference from May 4 until 8, 2015 in Palm Springs/USA. The MPAS’s seamless synchronous drive has been developed especially for sifting and sorting and is unique worldwide.

With its power unit integrated in the sifter bottom the new plansifter uses only a minimum amount of space. Compared to other plansifters the Segnius offers up to 20 percent more throughput capacity.

The variable speed allows an optimal performance for a wide range of applications.

Another innovation is the Bühler impact machine Matador. The machine destroys insect eggs in flour and semolina with absolute certainty. A mortality rate of ≥ 99.5 percent, the multiple impacts of the crossflow principle and a direct product flow guarantee maximum food safety and low operating cost.

In addition, Bühler will be presenting the improved bran finisher MKLD at the IAOM. The machine reliably removes adherent flour particles from the bran. Twice the number of beaters and an increased peripheral speed optimise the separation efficiency considerably.

Furthermore, the beltless direct drive reduces the energy consumption up to 30 percent.

To round off, three measuring systems for continuous particle size measurement (Online PSM MYTA), the NIR Multi-Online Analyser for determining moisture, protein, ash and starch damage (MYRG) and the sensor MYHB for colour and speck analysis will all be on display at the company’s.

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Global Grain North America 2015 Chicago, USA http://www.globalgrainevents.com

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AgraME experiences significant increase in attendance

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aking place from 16-18 March 2015 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, AgraME, the Middle East’s largest exhibition dedicated to the Agribusiness industry, has seen a 26 per cent increase in visitor attendance. This year has been the most successful edition of AgraME to date with more exhibitors, visitors and delegates than ever before.

AgraME, which is co-located with AquaME and VetME, has also seen a 40 percent increase in exhibition floor space for the 2015 edition due to higher demand from exhibitors. This demand comes mainly from the Poultry and Livestock area of the show, as well as the launch of AquaMe – the regions first exhibition dedication to the aquaculture industry.

The three-day event hosts more than 250 agriculture,

poultry, aquaculture, and horticulture businesses from 36 countries including Turkey, Norway, UAE, Denmark, USA, Brazil, India, Greece, France, Australia, China, Italy, Thailand, Egypt and UK. “This year we have seen a large increase in attendance from the aquaculture industry specifically, which comes down to AquaME being a stand-alone exhibition space for the first time ever. The first day also saw a packed conference agenda with plenty of interesting announcements coming out of the show floor that will help grow the industry regionally - attracting the investment needed to reach the targets set by not only the government, but private entities in the industry as well” said Richard Pavitt, Exhibition Director, AgraME. More information: www.agramiddleeast.com

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TUSAF 2015: Wheat

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he 11th International Congress and Exhibition held by the Turkish Flour Industrialists’ Federation (TFIF) on 5-8 March 2015 gathered flour industrialists, traders and suppliers, miller manufacturers, laboratory suppliers, manufacturers of bread and other bakery products and representatives of the financial sector, as well as respected academicians and experts from the public and private sector. The Congress and Exhibition was organised in Antalya Titanic Deluxe Hotel, where TFIF hosted 600 national and international delegates from 15 countries in the organisation with 35 exhibition spaces, and the main theme adopted was ‘Wheat and Health’.

In his opening speech, Mr Erhan Özmen, TFIF’s Chairman, remembered our deceased colleagues who have made great efforts in the industry. In reference to International Women’s Day on 8 March, included in the congress calendar, Mr Özmen also touched on the role and importance of women in working life and expressed his wishes for more active studies, referring to the platform of a “Commission for defamatory policies for bread and their effects on the industry”.

Mr Özmen explained the current status in the domestic and international markets for the season of 2013-14 as well as his expectations for the season of 2014-15 and shared his knowledge indicating that the new season would be more efficient. He stated Turkey had closed the year of 2014 with 2.184 million tonnes of exports to 109 countries and approximately US$931 million of foreign 80 | Milling and Grain

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exchange inflow and thanked those who contributed.

Mr Özmen also gave the good news of opening of the new head office of TFIF and invited the participants to the opening scheduled for April 2015. Erhan Özmen continued his speech and pointed out the constructive cooperation and dialog of the top four sectors of the world: “Industry-University-Public and Media”. Then he thanked all of the participants, especially Mr M. Mehdi Eker, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, on behalf of himself and the board of directors of TFIF. Mr Ali Avci, Chairman of Cey Group, referred to the importance of wheat in human nutrition, emphasised the value of the chain of wheat-industrialisation and logistics, and mentioned the investments for Samsunport under Cey Group.

Mr Şahin BİLGİÇ, board member of TOBB, started his speech by appreciating TFIF’s supports for antidefamation campaigns for wheat and flour and pointed out the holiness of bread and its importance in our nutrition.

Mr M Mehdi Eker, Minister of Food, Agriculture and Livestock, indicated how significant he considered the title “Wheat and Bread”, as main theme of the congress, and reminded that for 12,000 years human had been eating wheat, whose motherland and gene center is Anatolia and our land is unique with its endemic plants across the world. The Minister also emphasised the importance of wheat in human nutrition and, referring to the defamation campaigns against wheat, flour and bread,

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said food should be consumed sufficiently according to the needs, instead of rejecting them by category. Mr Eker spoke highly of the flour industry’s progress in exports and expressed his appreciation.

Following the opening speeches, Prof Ayşe Baysal, Chairman of BESVAK, as the keynote speaker, indicated our people always had bread on their table, the claims made in defamation campaigns were nonsense and were not based on scientific facts, and it was insulting to say “Do not eat bread”.

The first session of the congress under the title, ‘Wheat, Bread and Health’ was moderated by Prof İrfan Erol, Food and Control General Manager. The first speaker was Prof Artun Ünsal, who told the history of wheat and pointed out the necessity to found a Museum of Flour and Bread Products on Anatolian land, the motherland of wheat.

Associate Prof Nazan Yildirim, Head of the Department of Public Health Agency of Turkey, said the World Health Organisation recommended consumption of whole grain products and mentioned some positive impacts of whole grain products on especially weight control, heart health protection, prevention of cancer and diabetes, and solution of digestive system problems so whole wheat bread and whole grain products were promoted under the programs being implemented.

Dr Joel Abecassis, President of the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC), explained ICC’s vision and mission and then told how the new methods of wheat processing and recent products improve the quality of nutrition and health. Dr Abecassis also announced that the 16th International Cereal and Bread Congress (ICBC 2016) would be held in Istanbul on 17-21 April 2016.

Gary Sharkey, Chairman of Executive Board of European Flour Millers, said everything in food processing was based on raw materials, emphasised the relationship between the variation of market demands and raw materials and closed his speech by expressing his predictions for the season of 2015.

Prof Nevin Şanlier from the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics of the Faculty of Health Sciences of Gazi University highlighted the importance of cereals for adequate and balanced nutrition, indicated that the cereals and their products ranked at the top in food consumption in Turkey, and emphasised that we should prefer whole grain flour for dietary fiber, essential fatty acids, antioxidants, phenolic components, phytoestrogens, and vitamins and minerals.

The last millingand speaker of the session, Dietitian Elvan Odabaşı Kanar, told that people had predominantly eaten cereals grain.com and lettuces since ancient times, the approach to “stop

eating bread to lose weight” was wrong and would lead to irreversible results, and consuming whole grain bread reduced the risk of Type 2 diabetes by 20 to 37 percent.

The second session of the congress was moderated by Mr. Ali İhsan Özkaşikçi, Vice Chairman of TFIF, with the title “Wheat”. The first speaker was Ms Çiğdem Köksal Schmidt, who is a research assistant for Göbekli Tepe project of Deutsche Archäologische Institute, told the importance of the region for civilisation and settlement.

Mr Edip H Aktaş, representative of VICTAM for Turkey, Middle East and Africa, provided information on the global exhibition to be organised in Cologne on 9-11 June 2015 to share information about sectoral developments.

Mr Çağatay Maraş, Head of the Department of Market Monitoring and Assessment of the Soil Products Office, started his speech by presenting the perspective of wheat production and prices in the domestic market and international market and stated that in the light of the current status and possible predictions they expected 2015 to be a good season for cultivation in terms of plant development. Mr. Murat Ceylan, Cash Sales and Marketing Manager of AKBANK, informed about “the direct debiting system” and indicated the system enables collection guarantee, practical risk and collection tracking, cost reduction for collaterals/checks/bonds, reduction of operational risks, automatic accounting and saving of time.

Mr Dmitri Rylko, General Director of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR), explained the shortterm and long-term strategies of Russia for wheat in terms of quality and price.

Ms Emily French, Managing Director at ConsiliAgra, mentioned the importance of implementation of dynamic strategies in her speech focusing on today and the future of wheat production and marketing. The last speaker of the session, Mr Thomas P Scott, Informa Economics President, presented the current status and future of the international wheat market, summarised the situation with a general perspective from 1970 to date, and explained the expectations for 2015-2016 after a summary of different aspects of the wheat market.

TURKISH LANGUAGE EDITION

We are delighted to report that the first issue of our Turkish language edition to be published under the name Milling and Grain was very well recieved by the delagates at TUSAF, who all received a free copy of the magazine.

Copies of our next edition will be available at IDMA 2015

See all of our photos from TUSAF 2015 on the Milling and Grain Facebook page link: on.fb.me/1DIRuMA

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ASIA 2015

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by Olivia Holden, Milling and Grain

A busy stand at Wenger

Amandus Kahl

he integration between western businesses and Southeast Asia’s booming animal protein production and processing industry made VIV Asia 2015, held at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), a vibrant place for colleagues and competitors to explore crucial developments and innovations across a variety of both established and new sectors represented at the trade fair.

Now in its 12th edition, VIV Asia has become one of the most important gateways to Asia’s emerging markets. This year, the concept of the biannual event was ‘Feed to Meat,’ with every segment represented throughout the entire food supply chain. All farm species were covered, from poultry and pork to eggs.

The focus remained on consumer demand - not only for more food to feed a growing population, but healthier, tastier and, above all, safer food. Animal feed and animal health remains at the forefront of feed safety. For the first time, aquaculture was also represented at the trade fair with a dedicated aqua hall.

Ruwan Berculo (Business development and project

“The essential meeting point for people seriously involved in producing and processing animal proteins” - Ruwan Berculo, VIV

Chief Industries

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management, VIV) affirmed, “this event has become a key international platform and point of reference for the complete animal protein industry in Asia where friends, peers and colleagues meet to examine where we are at now, and where we seek to be in the future with regards to food security, animal protein and the role that technology will play.”

This sentiment was evident throughout the exhibition: a shared sense of collaboration and innovation shaped this year’s VIV Asia.

A record breaking 38,425 visitors attended - an overall increase of 15.6 percent from the 33,229 visiting in 2013. This also coincided with an increase in visitor participation from Asia, Oceania, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America and Western Europe.

Thailand itself was also among 15 Asian nations sending more visitors to the event, with the largest increases coming from Cambodia, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and China. Interfacing as global players, visitors from these countries are now very

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focussed, prepared and knowledgeable. International trade fairs such as this one play a crucial role in the advancement of knowledge towards food production for such countries.

Overall, the event in Bangkok attracted visitors from 124 countries worldwide. With 874 exhibitors attending, compared with 770 at the previous event in 2013, the event stood out not only for its success but also for its internationalism. The companies present this year included 178 who were exhibiting for the first time.

Perfect pitches

The first event Milling and Grain magazine attended was the press-networking event which created a platform for exhibitors to meet up and communicate highlights about technology and innovation. Pitches were given from a number of key exhibitors who had just two minutes to surmise what their main products, innovations or presence at VIV meant.

Martin Brötel of Delacon, pioneers for phytogenic feed additives, highlighted in his two-minute pitch that the feed industry is facing new challenges due to the EU ban prohibiting the use of growth products in 2006. Delacon used the international platform at VIV to unveil a new corporate identity and three new products at the exhibition specifically for poultry, meat and diary.

Also present at the networking event were representatives from Cargill (who showcased Promote, a global line of feed additives) the Dutch Poultry

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Centre, and The Agricultural Counsellor of the Netherlands in Thailand and Vietnam, who highlighted that Holland was to play an integral role at this event as the first ever official partner country. He commented that the Netherlands is committed to the “global common search to finding sustainable, climate smart food production.”

The Netherlands are the first in what VIV hope will become an impressive range of partner countries over the coming editions. Two Dutch pavilions, a Dutch innovation seminar and several networking events resulted in a significant boost to trade relations between the Asian and Dutch animal protein professionals. The Mayor of the city of Rotterdam, Mr Ahmed Aboutaleb, opened the seminar and took a guided tour of the exhibition floor where he visited a number of Dutch exhibitors.

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British genetics and agriculture stride forward

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Marcus Winsley (Director of Trade at the British Embassy in Bangkok) spoke on behalf of UK Technology and Agriculture for Genetics (UK TAG) and the British Embassy at the press-networking event, stating: ‘The UK remains strong across all forms of agriculture, imagination, science and integrity, coupled with high standards of safety. With a long history of excellence, agriculture remains at the heart of the British way of life, being defined by quality, sustainability and action in its commitment to safety’.

He further added that the UK has received 18 Nobel

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prizes for science and technology, citing the discovery of the structure of DNA and Dolly the cloned sheep as championing examples of groundbreaking genetic innovation carried out on British soil.

Chris Jackson of UKTAG was also honoured at the ‘VIV Personality Awards’ for his remarkable contribution as a UK ambassador for pigs on behalf of the British Pig Association (BPA). He received the award of ‘Pig Personality of the Year’. With a career spanning over 20 years, Chris made his first journey to Asia in 1995, when he visited Vietnam, a mere 20 years after the war ended. His career has centered on promoting and exporting British pedigree pigs around the world. After the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, he worked with the BPA to reopen markets and to keep the British flag flying whilst the county was shut down in the face of international competition.

The BPA is now a registered trade association and runs a trade show access programme. Developed with UK TAG, any company involved in UK agriculture, technology or genetics can receive help via the trade show access programme to help them export to these shows.

This was the very first time such an award has been awarded to a British national. Mr Jackson emphasised just how worthwhile this event is for the industry.

Commenting on the bi-annual event he affirmed, “this is the most influential show in Southeast Asia.

I would go so far as to argue that this is one of the most important shows in the world for our sector, and it is no coincidence that it is growing in importance.

Les Garcia, Sioux Steel

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The right clientele are attracted, including all key government officials and key decision makers from industry.�

The British Government has supported the British presence at this event, and the British Pig Association has attended every single VIV event since the first edition. The show also serves as an integral link to accessing the Asian market for British exporters.

UKTI were successful in bringing together regional trade managers from Kuala Lumpur, Manila, India and China to network with British exporters.

A further event also placed British trade and produce firmly on the map. VIV Asia 2015 coincided with British beef and lamb gaining market access to Thailand following a shutdown after the BSE crisis.

The World Organisation for Animal Health lifted restrictions after eight years last November. Following a considerable amount of work undertaken by DEFRA and EBLEX, who have worked closely with the department of livestock development in Thailand, the Thai industry agreed to allow exports in February this year.

On March 10th 2015, a celebratory dinner was held and hosted Hybu Cig Cymru (HCC), UK Trade and Industry and Eblex at the Plaza Athenee Hotel, Bangkok. British chef Mark Frederick Berry served a starter of beef carpaccio and a main course of rack of lamb to an invited audience hosted by the British ambassador, His Excellency Mr Mark Kent.

Representing the Thai Government was Dr Apichart Pongsrihadulchai (Vice Minister at the Ministry of

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Agriculture for co-operatives), accompanied by Dr Wimolporn Thitisak (Director General, Department of Livestock and Development). Attending on behalf of the UK were John Cross, Chairman of EBLEX and Guy Kiddy, Chairman of UK TAG. Also launched at the dinner was the UK brand Brunty’s cider. Roger Gilbert and Tuti Tan were present on behalf of Milling and Grain.

Feed to Meat

The ‘Feed to Meat’ concept was represented by engagement from companies involved in every segment, from feed ingredients and additives, animal health and breeding to slaughter equipment and meat processing. Asia, and Thailand in particular, is an important export market for poultry products.

India also stood out as a large emerging market with regards to poultry production. Poultry’s importance in general was underlined by a major growth in Asian countries that have a strong interest in producing chickens and eggs. 52.1 percent of visitors were specifically interested in poultry broilers with 41.2 percent interested in poultry layers. Swine was in third place with 39.9 percent attending specifically with an interest in pigs.

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Pet Health and Aquaculture: emerging areas of interest

The commitment demonstrated by VIV to aquaculture is a timely one. Aquaculture is now the fastest growing animal based food industry and over

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half of the seafood eaten in the US is farmed.

Vincent Veelbehr (Sales Manager, VIV) was responsible for organising the Aquatic Pavilion.

This was a special event for the aquaculture sector and featured several companies at the forefront of sustainable fish and shrimp farming. The theme was how consumer demand drives sustainable aquaculture.

Blue Aqua International sponsored a one-day conference entitled ‘Advanced Shrimp Farming’ which was held on Wednesday March 11th. Dr Farshad Shishehchian (President, Blue Aqua International and World Aquaculture Society – APC President) gave a presentation and chaired the event’s final closing remarks.

Ruwan Berculo also pointed to the success of the Pet Health and Nutrition Conference that generated a significant amount of interest. The conference was split into four sections. The third segment of the conference took a closer look at the technologies used to process pet foods and was sponsored by Milling and Grain magazine. Galen Rokey (Director of Processing Technology, Animal Division, Wenger Manufacturing) discussed processing techniques such as baking and extrusion.

Surrounding programmes such as this clearly demonstrate that VIV excel at addressing emerging and developing areas of interest, making this a ‘mustattend’ event for anyone seeking to keep well informed about techniques, new market segments, potential areas of investment and innovations. We look forward to seeing how the show continues to grow and develop

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when it is next held in 2017. Milling and Grain wish to congratulate the VIV team on their continued success.

The next stops this year will be VIV Russia 2015, scheduled for May 19-21 2015 and in 2016, VIV MEA will open its doors in Abu Dhabi.

The VIV team at the opening of VIV Asia 2015

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IN OUR NEXT ISSUE

Read Roger Gilbert’s report on this year’s successful CropTech-FeedTech discussion that took place as part of VIV Asia 2015. CropTech-FeedTech is organised by Milling and Grain magazine.

See all of our photos from VIV ASIA 2015 on the Milling and Grain Facebook page link: on.fb.me/1DIRuMA

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Colour sorters

Andritz +45 72 160300

B端hler AG

www.andritz.com

+41 71 955 11 11

Welcome to the market place, where you will find suppliers of products and services to the industry - in association with our sister publication The International Milling Directory To be included into the Market Place, please contact Tom Blacker +44 1242 267700 - tomb@perendale.co.uk

www.buhlergroup.com

Insta-Pro International +1 515 254 1260

Satake

www.insta-pro.com

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

Wenger Manufacturing +1 785-284-2133

Computer software Adifo NV +32 50 303 211

Analysis

www.wenger.com

Feed processing

www.adifo.com

Mechanika Nawrocki

R-Biopharm

Cultura Technologies Ltd

+48 52 303 40 20

+44 141 945 2924

+44 1257 231011

www.granulatory.com/en

www.r-biopharm.com

www.culturatech.com

Romer Labs

Format International Ltd

Ottevanger

+43 2272 6153310

+44 1483 726081

+31 79 593 22 21

www.romerlabs.com

www.formatinternational.com

www.ottevanger.com

Amino acids

Coolers & driers

Wynveen

Evonik

Consergra s.l

+31 26 47 90 699

+49 618 1596785

+34 938 772207

www.wynveen.com

www.evonik.com

www.consergra.com

Bag closing

FrigorTec GmbH

Flour Rank Hovis

Fischbein SA

+49 7520 91482-0

+32 2 555 11 70

www.frigortec.com

www.fischbein.com/eastern

Geelen Counterflow

Cetec Industrie

+31 475 592315

+33 5 53 02 85 00

www.geelencounterflow.com

Cargotec Sweden Bulk Handling

www.cetec.net

Famsun (Muyang)

AB

+86 514 87848880

+46 42 85802

www.muyang.com

www.cargotec.com

Bakery improvers M端hlenchemie GmbH & Co KG +49 4102 202 001 www.muehlenchemie.de

Elevator buckets Alapala

Bin dischargers

+90 212 465 60 40

Denis

www.alapala.com

+33 2 37 97 66 11

STIF

www.denis.fr

+33 2 41 72 16 80

Bulk storage

www.stifnet.com

+44 1494 428000 www.rankhovis.com

Grain handling systems

Cimbria A/S +45 96 17 90 00 www.cimbria.com

Hammermills B端hler AG +41 71 955 11 11 www.buhlergroup.com

Tapco Inc

Bentall Rowlands

+1 314 739 9191

Dinnissen BV

www.bentallrowlands.com

www.tapcoinc.com

+31 77 467 3555

Chief Industries UK Ltd

VAV

+44 1724 282828

+31 71 4023701

+44 1621 868944

www.vav.nl

www.chief.co.uk Croston Engineering

Elevator & Conveyor Components

+44 1829 741119

4B Braime

www.croston-engineering.co.uk

+44 113 246 1800

Silo Construction Engineers +32 51723128

www.go4b.com

Enzymes

www.dinnissen.nl Genc Degirmen +90 332 444 0894 www.gencdegirmen.com.tr Van Aarsen International +31 475 579 444 www.aarsen.com Yemtar Feed Mill Machines

www.sce.be

AB Vista

+90 532 5265627

Silos Cordoba

+44 1672 517 650

www.yemtar.com

+34 957 325 165

www.abvista.com

www.siloscordoba.com

JEFO

+86 21 64188282

TSC Silos

+1 450 799 2000

www.zhengchang.com

+31 543 473979

www.jefo.com

www.tsc-silos.com Westeel

Equipment for sale

+1 204 233 7133 www.westeel.com

Certification GMP+ International

Laboratory equipment Bastak

ExtruTech Inc

+90 312 395 67 87

+1 785 284 2153

www.bastak.com.tr

www.extru-techinc.com

Brabender +49 203 7788 0

Extruders

www.brabender.com

+31703074120

Almex

www.gmpplus.org

+31 575 572666 www.almex.nl

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CHOPIN Technologies +33 14 1475045 www.chopin.fr

Doescher & Doescher GmbH

Palletisers

Silos

+49 4087976770

Cetec Industrie

www.doescher.com

Global Industries, Incorporated

+33 5 53 02 85 00

+1 308 384 9320

Hydronix

www.cetec.net

www.globalindinc.com

+44 1483 468900

Ehcolo A/S

www.hydronix.com

+45 75 398411

Obial +90 382 2662120

www.ehcolo.com

Level measurement

www.obial.com.tr

PAYPER, S.A.

BinMaster Level Controls

+34 973 21 60 40

MYSILO

+1 402 434 9102

www.payper.com

+90 382 266 2245

www.binmaster.com

www.mysilo.com

Pelleting aids

FineTek Co., Ltd

Borregaard LignoTech

Symaga

+886 2226 96789

+47 69 11 80 00

+34 91 726 43 04

www.fine-tek.com

www.lignotechfeed.com

www.symaga.com

Loading/un-loading equipment

Pest control

Tornum AB

Neuero Industrietechnik

Rentokil Pest Control

+46 512 29100

+49 5422 95030

+44 0800 917 1987

www.tornum.com

www.neuero.de

www.rentokil.co.uk

Vigan Engineering

Pipe systems

+32 67 89 50 41

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

Agromatic

Jacob Sohne

www.vigan.com

Mill design & installation

Temperature monitoring +41 55 2562100

+49 571 9580

www.agromatic.com

www.jacob-pipesystems.eu

Dol Sensors

Used around

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

Mechanika Nawrocki

Fr. Jacob Söhne GmbH & Co. KG, Germany Tel. + 49 (0) 571 95580 | www. jacob-pipesystems.eu

Visit us! www.pipe-systems.eu+48

52 303 40 20

www.granulatory.com/en

Golfetto Sangati

Training Bühler AG

+39 0422 476 700

Suffolk Automation

www.golfettosangati.com

+41 71 955 11 11

+44 1473 829188

www.buhlergroup.com

www.suffolk-automation.co.uk

Gazel Degirmen Makinalari +90 364 2549630 www.gazelmakina.com

IAOM

Rolls

+1 913 338 3377 Leonhard Breitenbach

www.iaom.info

IMAS - Milleral

+49 271 3758 0

Kansas State University

+90 332 2390141

www.breitenbach.de

+1 785 532 6161

O&J Højtryk

www.grains.k-state.edu

Mechanika Nawrocki

+45 7514 2255

nabim

+48 52 303 40 20

www.oj-hojtryk.dk

+44 2074 932521

www.milleral.com

www.granulatory.com/en

www.nabim.org.uk

Roller mills

Satake

Unormak

Ocrim

+81 82 420 8560

+90 332 2391016

+39 0372 4011

www.satake-group.com

www.unormak.com.tr

www.ocrim.com

Ugur Makina

NIR systems

+90 (364) 235 00 26

NIR Online +49 6227 732668 www.nir-online.de

www.ugurmakina.com

Roll fluting

Thermo Fisher Scientific +1 9786 421132

+34 965564075

www.thermoscientific.com/

www.balaguer-rolls.com

Safety equipment

Packaging

Rembe CB Packaging

+49 2961 740 50

+44 7805 092067

www.rembe.com

www.cbpackaging.com Cetec Industrie

Second hand equipment

+33 5 53 02 85 00 www.cetec.net Mondi Group +43 1 79013 4917 www.mondigroup.com Peter Marsh Group +44 151 9221971 www.petermarsh.co.uk

+1 785 825 7177 vortex@vortexvalves.com www.vortexvalves.com

Fundiciones Balaguer, S.A.

quality

Valves

Rota Val Ltd +44 1249 651138 www.rotaval.co.uk

Vibratory equipment Mogensen

Raw

Materials

Handling +44 1476 566301 www.mogensen.co.uk

Sanderson Weatherall

Vibrafloor

+44 161 259 7054

+33 3 85 44 06 78

www.sw.co.uk

www.vibrafloor.com

Weighing equipment

Sifters Filip GmbH

Parkerfarm Weighing Systems

+49 5241 29330

+44 1246 456729

www.filip-gmbh.com

www.parkerfarm.com

Genc Degirmen +90 332 444 0894 www.gencdegirmen.com.tr

Yeast products Leiber GmbH +49 5461 93030 www.leibergmbh.de

the interview

Dr Lutz Popper

Mühlenchemie, specialists for enzyme-containing compounds for pasta flours, has opened a trials laboratory for pasta and is considerably expanding its efforts in this field. The German company sees the interlocking of expertise in raw materials and plant and equipment as a promising way to advance the development of innovations and product optimisations for the pasta market. Dr Lutz Popper studied at the Technical University, Berlin between 1979-85. He holds a Ph.D in food technology. He has been a scientific director at the Stern Wywiol Group since 1993 and is also head of R&D. Milling and Grain Magazine spoke to Dr Popper about the latest developments and rising to challenges in the industry.

Dr Lutz Popper, please tell us a little bit about your background and your role at Muhlenchemie?

What makes the new pasta plant in Ahrensburg unique?

Muhlenchemie are clearly committed to vitaminized flour for the world. What is the present status of mandatory flour fortification in Europe?

What concrete benefit does your new trials laboratory offer a pasta manufacturer?

When I was asked in 1993 to join Muhlenchemie as head of the research and development department, I was working as assistant professor in the food technology department of the Berlin University of Technology, where I also obtained my diploma as food engineer, and my Ph.D. degree with a thesis on antimicrobial enzymes. Cereal technology was a main subject of my studies, and baking my hobby, which might be the reasons for my employment by Muhlenchemie.

At the beginning, there were only three people in the R&D – including myself! The whole Muhlenchemie team was nine people. Now the R&D has almost 30 people, and Muhlenchemie more than 120.

Honestly, this is a sad story. There is almost no mandatory fortification in Europe, with the exception of the United Kingdom and maybe soon Macedonia. Several reasons prevent the politicians to take the decision for fortification, none of them are of scientific nature. According to epidemic studies, fortification (in particular with folate and iron) would be of great benefit for all Europeans – for health and economic reasons. And flour would be one of the best vehicles to get fortified food to citizens of all social classes and ages.

Muhlenchemie are known for their expertise in the field of enzymes and additives but are now more involved in the production of pasta with the launch of a new pilot plant. What was the deciding factor behind investing in this new area?

Curiosity. A few years ago, the effect of enzymes in baking was already quite well understood. We had a broad range of enzymatic tools for bread baking and some for biscuits and cracker. But then we were wondering whether enzymes could also be useful in pasta production, with its limited availability of water and oxygen. The bets were 50:50. So, trials were performed with small kitchen machines and, in a larger scale, at the IGV near Potsdam. Surprisingly, several enzymes showed effects, though not all of them are really useful. With friendly customers we confirmed the results.

In order to be able to offer pilot scale trials with their raw materials to our customers, we decided to invest in a nearcommercial pasta press and a dryer.

As in the industry, the pasta press works with a vacuum system to reduce the inclusion of air bubbles. The capacity is only 70 kg per hour, so we can run trials with rather small amounts of flour or semolina. We are even able to prepare in the flour in our lab, because we possess a large-scale lab mill with an output of about 10 kg flour per hour. A segment of industrial pasta dryer completes the setup and enables us to run tests, which come very close to industrial scale.

Very few of the pasta pilot plants have been installed in the world, and the combination with the pilot flourmill, our flour rheology laboratory and our flour and additive know-how makes it unique.

The plant is so flexible that practically every manufacturing process can be simulated. This lets us test various enzyme systems for the client until they are exactly right for use, and the client does not have to interrupt his routine production to perform his own tests. Obviously, this saves enormous amounts of time and money. And it gives the client reassurance that no major problems should be expected when he switches his own production system to the new recipe.

Tell us about the practical side of this client support, what steps are involved in developing a product?

To start with, the client sends us his raw material, which we analyse for protein and gluten content, water absorption properties, ash and many other parameters. We also enquire about other aspects of his pasta production: for how long is the dough mixed, how high is the temperature, how much water is added, what is the drying process like? And, of course, we need to know what the customer wants to achieve. Sometimes it is just a question of reducing loss at the cooking stage, sometimes bite is an issue, or a different colour.

Can customers come to your lab in Ahrensburg and be present at the trials?

We are happy to let clients look over our shoulders. That is in fact the ideal situation. When a project is developed in a direct dialogue with the client, we usually find the best solutions.

From your observations, what would you say is the biggest problem for pasta manufacturers?

The quality of the flour! Durum is the ideal variety of wheat for pasta. But due to fluctuating prices and limited availability, many manufacturers have to use soft wheat or mixtures of hard and soft wheat instead. That often causes problems.

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“I must explain a little about the rice culture in Japan, rice is treated very much like fresh fruit or vegetables.

Whenever we buy rice in Japan we look at the date and time it was milled and in a shop we choose the most recent or the freshest�

PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Nutriad continues sales team expansion Europe

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utriad is pleased to announce the appointment of Antonio Vila as Key Account Manager for Western Spain and Portugal. Antonio joins Nutriad from Elanco/Novartis and has over 20 years’ experience in the animal feed pharmaceutical and additives business. He will work alongside Nutriad colleagues to further support customers and develop its growing business in these important markets.

Commenting on Nutriad’s development in Spain and Portugal, Alvaro Bermejo - Country Manager, said ‘We are delighted to welcome Antonio to our Iberian Team, and to the wider EMEA Nutriad group.

His appointment marks an important step in our continuing business development and underlines our long term commitment to bring our unique range of products to our valued customers in the region.’

Justinus J.G.M. Sanders

Antonio Vila stated ‘I am very happy to be joining Nutriad at this exciting time in the Company’s development and look forward to working with the highly professional and committed colleagues throughout the organisation’.

Nutriad, headquartered in Belgium, provides feed additives and services to over 80 countries worldwide through a network of own offices and distributors, supported by 4 application laboratories and 5 manufacturing facilities located on 3 continents.

Dr Stephanie Cottee joins Cargill animal welfare team with global responsibility for poultry

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he will be based in Guelph, Ontario, Canada and report to Dr Mike Siemens, PhD, Cargill’s head of animal welfare based in Wichita, Kan. Dr Cottee’s appointment is effective immediately.

“Stephanie is well-respected as an animal welfare professional and she has a wealth of experience and knowledge that will be valued by Cargill’s poultry businesses and our customers Dr Stephanie Cottee around the world,” said Dr Mike Siemens. “Producing animal protein to meet ever-increasing global consumption is more complex each day and stakeholders ranging from consumers to customers, employees and others are more interested than ever before about how animals are raised and harvested for food. We are known as a leader in animal welfare and our reputation took a large step forward with Stephanie joining the Cargill team.”

Prior to joining Cargill, Cottee held positions of responsibility for animal welfare with Maple Leaf Foods, Ontario Pork, Chicken Farmers of Ontario, National Farm Animal Care Council and she has taught at the University of Guelph. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the University of Toronto. Cottee subsequently earned a Master of Science and PhD in Farm Animal Behaviour and Welfare degrees from the University of Guelph and conducted post-doctorate work there on poultry research.

Anitox strengthens EMEA technical team

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eed milling technologist Henri Rijnders joins pathogen control specialist Anitox to support the drive for higher feed pellet quality and increased milling efficiency through Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mr Rijnders comes to the role from Kemira where he was technical manager of feed applications. Anitox EMEA commercial director John Thornton confirms: “Henri’s 20 years experience improving the quality of livestock feeds makes this a key appointment for us. Demand Henri Rijnders for higher pellet quality has never been greater as understanding of its impact on poultry health and productivity grows. Henri’s skills mean we can continue to drive significant improvements in mill productivity and feed quality using technologies including Maxi-Mil and Finio.”

A Dutch national, Henri Rijnder has a Bachelor’s degree in food science from HAS University of Applied Sciences. He also spent 17 years at Cargill where he held a number of development and technical sales roles in corn and wheat processing for the food and feed industry.

Hydratec Industries appoints Bart Aangenendt as CEO

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ydratec Industries NV has announced that Bart Aangenendt, CEO of subsidiary company Pas Reform, will succeed the Group’s CEO Roland Zoomers, when he steps down later this year. As an Industrial Holding Company listed on the NYSE Euronext Amsterdam Exchanges, Hydratec Industries NV has majority interests in businesses with strong positions in the global agri and food equipment markets and in the plastics and packaging industries in Benelux and Germany.

Bart Aangenendt

Bart Aangenendt will succeed Roland Zoomers when he retires in September this year. Harm Langen, currently managing director of LAN Handling Systems, another Hydratec subsidiary, will replace Mr Aangenendt as CEO of Pas Reform.

Speaking about Mr Aangenendt’s appointment, ten Cate continued: “Under Bart’s direction, Pas Reform has achieved exceptional growth and reputation in the poultry sector worldwide.

“We are delighted that he has accepted this new challenge as CEO of the whole Hydratec Group.”

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Bagging station Maia – consistent and efficient bagging.

The Bühler Maia bagging station stands for a fully automated bagging process for powdered, free-flowing and friable products. Aligned process steps result in a constant filling accuracy and a high bagging capacity. Not only top sanitation but also a unique design complete this new bagging unit. The outcome is compelling: an unparalleled operational reliability for clean bagging, designed for bags with a capacity of 20 to 65 liters. Maia – consistency and efficiency at the highest level.

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Maia bagging station.

Consistent and efficient bagging.

Flexible in use For powdered, free-flowing and friable products.

Top sanitation A dustproof bag spout with a built-in aspiration provides clean bagging.

Unique operational reliability Ensures high efficiency and low operating costs.

Innovations for a better world.