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CONNECTING PAST PRACTICES WITH A FUTURISTIC FEED FOCUS
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A challenging environment for feed producers by Roger Gilbert, Publisher, Milling and Grain
hat has a hospital, school, vineyard and hotel gotten in common? They form part of a privately-owned business that has 24 separate activities including a 300,000-tonnes-year feedmill called the Dawu Project located just north of Beijing at Baoding in Hebei Province. The factory itself is new, being commissioned in early 2018 and coming online fully in June 2018. It has recently completed its first full year of production from five production lines, with two for ruminants and three for pigs. The capacity of the pellet mill for pig feeds is 12-tonnesper-hour-per-line with the 4.0mm die holes; compression ratio is 1: 6. The capacity of the pellet mill for ruminant feed is nine-tonnes-per-hour-per-line with the 4.0mm die hole; compression ratio is 1: 9. A key feature of this mill is the external silo structure for raw materials to complement traditional bag handling and flat storage facilities. The project has four intake points and eight large silos for macro raw material storage; four silos for corn and DDGS and four silos for soybeans and soybean meal. Each soybean meal silo holds up to 250 tonnes and corn silo 1500 tonnes each. 62 | August 2019 - Milling and Grain