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62 - Quick method for determining starch quality: The new ViscoQuick from Brabender put through its paces at Kröner-Stärke

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ISSUE HIGHLIGHTS

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NEWS FEATURES

44 Flour special

47 The Milling Hall of Fame 48 Tracking down wheat intolerances

FACES

10-39 50 Customised enzyme systems for constant quality 52 Oldest bakery school in the world celebrates 125-year anniversary

PRODUCT FOCUS

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CASE STUDY

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62 Quick method for determining starch quality

68 Processing longgrain rice - Milling

66 2020 Alltech Global Feed Study

56 grapas

122 People news from the global milling industry

EVENTS

94 Event listings, reviews and previews

STORAGE

72 Cereal imports and exports

78 Dust control system maintenance and troubleshooting 82 Disaster doesn’t wait

TRAINING

40 Grain Procurement and Purchasing courses offered

COLUMNS

22 Mildred Cookson 26 Raghavan Sampathkumar 34 Rebecca Sherratt

10 GUEST EDITOR Bobby Ariyanto

COVER IMAGE: March 20, 2020 marks the first World Flour Day See more on page 44

90 MARKETS Mehmet Ugur Gürkaynak

120 INTERVIEW Constance Cullma

Sustainability in the Flour Milling Industry

What is the meaning of sustainability or the definition of sustainability? The saying calls back to a native American proverb, “ We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”.

Sustainability is the long term maintenance of well being or improving the quality of human life, whilst both living within the carrying capacity of and supporting the eco-system.

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The United Nations’ Industrial Development Organisation’s (UNIDO) vision to address today’s economic, social and environmental challenges is enshrined in the Lima Declaration, which was adopted by UNIDO member states in December 2013.

On this basis, the organisation pursues inclusive and sustainable industrial development to harness the industry’s full potential to contribute to lasting prosperity for all. The mandate is based on the recognition by member states that poverty eradication “can only be achieved through strong, inclusive, sustainable and resilient economic and industrial growth, and the effective integration of the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development.”

PT. Indofood Sukses Makmur Tbk, Bogasari Flour Mills Division, as the largest flour milling company in Indonesia, is committed to implementing Sustainable Development Goals to help people ensure the future of our planet Earth. To achieve these Sustainable Development Goals, Bogasari Flour Mills continues to focus on implementing several programs related to environmental issues, energy issues, employee safety, as well as relations with the community surrounding our factories.

Environmental issues

Our Company is committed to implementing an environmental management system in the company through adopting ISO 14001 as a reference for the application of environmental management

systems. One of the programs recently carried out is the implementation of conservation programs to reduce the use of ground water, one solutions for this involving establishing rainfed reservoirs and using biopore as a groundwater catchment solution.

Six years ago, Bogasari began to implement biodegradable packaging for 25kg products, when 25kg packages of flour became the most popular option within Indonesia.

Energy issues

We are also committed to implementing an energy management system to create an energy efficient culture for every aspect of the workplace. New technology implementation is also carried out by replacing inefficient motors with high–efficiency motors. Bogasari have already received an ISO 50001 Certificate as a company that has implemented an effective energy management system.

Community development, corporate social responsibility

The Community Empowerment Program has been implemented by Bogasari to improve the welfare of people living in proximity to our factory. One recent addition implemented is the establishment of Child Friendly Integrated Public Spaces (RPTRA) in several areas.

With the aim of improving our nations nutrition, since 2003, Bogasari have pioneered new vitamin and mineral fortifications for wheat flour in Indonesia. This program is an example of great success within food fortification that has been recognised by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

We hope, during our keynote speech at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference this month, we can be reminded again of the need for development in milling technology (for flour, rice as well as other cereals). Utilising proper production processes and services are not only more efficient but also prioritise an efficient sustainability system.

Come and witness Mr Ariyanto discuss more about Bogasari Flour Mills and sustainability in the milling industry at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference on March 24th.

Bobby Ariyanto, Senior VP Manufacturing, PT Indofood Sukses Makmur, Bogasari Flour Mills Division

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World Flour Day - Flour special

Dunkirk company handles cereal imports and exports

March 20, 2020 marks the first World Flour Day, a day of recognition for all millers and bakers, as well as farmers, shippers, truckers, bakers and all those who work in flour processing.

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During a recent trip to France to attend the JTIC show in Paris, the Milling And Grain editorial team stopped by Nord Céréales in Dunkirk.

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Quick method for determining starch quality

THE INTERVIEW Constance Cullman, CEO and President, AFIA

Laboratory device manufacturer Brabender from Duisburg, Germany has developed a new device for the rapid determination of viscosity called the ViscoQuick.

Ms Constance Cullman, who is the CEO and President of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), taking up her position in October 201

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A human health concern is now dominating the headlines for milling and all industries - the Corona virus COVID-19.

Throughout this issue you will find certain feature stories flagged with a MAG TV symbol. Scanning the QR code or using the myMAG short hyperlink will take to you our MAG TV content on the Milling and Grain web site. Here you can choose from a broad selection of in-depth video interviews, product demos, facility tours and much more.

MAG TV features content from across the globe in all areas of the industry - but in this issue we have a focus on IPPE - take a walk around the IPPE 2020 show in Atlanta, Georgia. Or listen to Perendale publisher Roger Gilbert interview Constance Cullman, President and CEO of the American Feed Industry Association (more on page 120 of this issue). Check this column each month to find out what new videos are available to view - or visit www.millingandgrain.com/videos

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All sectors are concerned--especially as the epidemic edges closer to becoming a full-blown pandemic. The health consequences are chilling and the effect on business is no less. Pandemic influenza tops the natural hazards matrix of the UK National Risk Register, and emerging infectious diseases are tagged as of considerable concern. On the global stage, the disease has left international supply chains in chaos as huge swathes of China have been shut down. No one doubts that this is going to have a serious impact on world milling and just how serious will depend on how quickly the epidemic is contained.

On a happier note, our cover image celebrates the first ‘World Flour Day’ occurring this month.

The day is a formal recognition of the important role played by millers and bakers in feeding and maintain the health of our growing world population. This story is also linked to another announcement, the ‘Milling Hall of Fame”, which recognises the efforts of key individuals and companies whose innovations have made a pivotal impact upon the world of milling.

Also in this issue is Part 2 of our very popular ‘Dust Explosion Special’ with contributions from some leading companies in the field. Dust explosions are a perennial danger in the grain/ flour/feed industry, but technology is helping detect, prevent and ameliorate the explosive dangers posed by airborne dust.

Our ‘Flour Special” examines alternative wheats, which are proving to be very popular with celiac and gluten-intolerant bread buyers. These nontraditional grains are also very profitable when baked into loaves and other bread products as they can command premium prices from healthconscious consumers. And in keeping with the celebrations surrounding World Flour Day, the oldest baking school in the world, the UK’s National School of Baking, is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary in the most delicious way possible.

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by Roger Gilbert, Publisher, Milling and Grain

ith the coronavirus changing every day if not every few hours, it’s extremely difficult to keep track of the effectiveness of control measures and the responses by governments and public to the growing global impact of this disease that seems to be having its most serious impact on the elderly and those with underlying medical issues.

Our concern is not only for the health of millers, but that the supply of milled products - be that feed or food - continues to supply a population that in some areas is experiencing disruption and even a form of ‘lock-down’.

We, like most people, are listening keenly to government advice on where to travel and where not to travel, as well as precautions and actions to take if we are infected and display, signs such as high temperature, difficulty in breathing and flu-like symptoms. Here in the UK we have adopted a 14-day self isolation period if you suspect you are showing symptoms. You must also contact the local NHS on a special phone number.

However, in other countries more severe ‘lock-downs’ have been adopted. And China - Wuhan in particular – is a good example of what can happen.

At time of going to press, people have been staying at home since the beginning of Spring Festival - over one month. However, almost everyone in China has a mobile phone and uses WeChat - an app that keeps them all connected, has banking and payment facilities, and allows for national messaging. Keeping communication lines open during a ‘lock-down’ is important to allow residences to arrange for food delivery or to arrange for visits to food outlets.

MAG has heard from contacts within Wuxi City in Jiangsu Province that in the last days of February the city had experienced 55 confirmed cases of which 41 had recovered. In the whole of the province there were 631 confirmed cases at the time of which 432 had recovered.

During IPPE 2020 at the end of January visiting feed industry exhibitors from China were unsure of how they would return, given the restrictions on travel developing within China itself. However, all seem to have reached home safely. It was a concern among feed mill equipment suppliers that mills producing feed might not be able to deliver to farms, but that was thought to be a short-term situation.

Famsun itself has reported (elsewhere in this issue) that its 100 construction workers have returned to sites across the country to continue work. They have set up selfisolation units to accommodate staff until they are cleared to work on site.

It appears that everyone is making calculated decisions to limit their exposure - both personally and by company - that allows them to protect themselves and their workers while at the same time continuing to provide the feed that farmers rely upon to provide the food that populations need in order to stay healthy while remaining in isolation for the period required. Our thoughts and prayers are with those impacted by this destructive virus.

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ymaga started 2020 with the installation of three new projects, consolidating its expansion into the Brazilian market and maintaining the company’s continuous growth in Mexico and Romania.

Ab Inbev, one of world’s top brewing groups which markets, among others, its famous Brahma brand, expanded its storage capacity in their Brazilian plants of Uberlandia and Itapisuma. The two projects, trusted to Symaga through Zeppelin Brazil, includes eight and four SCE920/12T60 silos, a total of 13,380m3.

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The analysis valued the environmental and social impacts of poultry production in Brazil at EU €1,345 per tonne of live weight (t/lw) when conventional animal feed is used. However, when innovative animal feed is used, the negative environmental and social impacts of chicken production are reduced by one third.

If innovative animal feed replaced conventional feed, the industry would create a net benefit of €85 per t/lw for Brazilian society compared to a net cost of €180 per t/lw when using conventional feed.

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Joseph, Edgar and Arthur Appleby; Lancashire Millers

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

Milling journals of the past at The Mills Archive

The weekly millers’ journal Milling is the parent of today’s Milling and Grain. Founded in 1891, it contains well-illustrated articles about mills, the milling trade and particularly the men who were leading the roller mill revolution.

Now largely exiled from Lancashire, as well as a retired miller, my attention was drawn to a couple of articles from early issues of Milling that highlighted a family of fellow Lancastrians who had a lasting impact. The items from September 23rd 1892 and May 20th 1893 were followed up by another dated June 5th 1893. I found the latter in The Miller, the other veteran magazine for British millers, which lasted for 100 years but did not have a white knight to rescue it and make it fit for the 21st century.

The impressive Appleby family of Lancashire millers goes back to 1841 when Joseph Appleby settled at Enfield Mills. A 2009 Heritage Assessment for British Waterways describe the mill in Clayton-le-Moors, two miles north of Accrington, as steam powered, built in 1827-1828, extended in the 1872 and demolished in 1968. Milling ceased in 1920 and it became part of the Enfield Soap Works in 1922 prior to its demolition.

The Enfield Mills were at the half-way point of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal and the Appleby Family made good use of the canal by having their own fleet of barges to transport their products. Joseph conducted most of his business at the Leeds and Wakefield markets every week until 1865, when the growing importance and advantages of a sea port led him to switch to the Liverpool Corn Exchange. His son, Edgar Appleby, born at Enfield Mills, began his career as a miller in 1858, and in 1862 took charge of his father’s mill at Accrington, afterwards the mill at Burnley in 1868, and in 1873 the management of the Blackburn Mills, known 22 | March 2020 - Milling and Grain

as the Daisyfield Mills, built by Joseph in 1871 as a millstone mill.

In 1878 on the death of Joseph, the business of the firm continued and was extended by his two sons, Edgar and Arthur, under the old style of Joseph Appleby and Sons. Arthur (1843 - 1902) was also on the board of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, an Alderman of Lancashire County Council and Chairman of the County Bench, sitting at Church. He was a consummate cricketer, playing for Lancashire and England.

Edgar Appleby was invited in 1889 by the National Association of British and Irish Millers (nabim) to accept the nomination for

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President, but he refused this at the time, but was later to take up the Presidency in 1893.

In 1886 the brothers purchased the Carolina Mills in Bootle, which had just been built on the banks of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal close to Liverpool, and contained a small plant installed by Henry Simon. Three years later the mills in Bridgewater Street, Liverpool, were added to the already very large output of the firm.

The Carolina Mills at Bootle were remodelled to increase capacity.

In addition to the original machinery ‘Victoria’ purifiers were added and the mill arranged on more modern lines.

The success of this venture was such that in 1889 after the

purchase of the Bridgewater Street mills was completed all the existing machinery (with the exception of some Gray rolls) were removed and a complete remodelling of the wheat department was given to TW Throop and Henry Simon.

In the mill itself, Mr Simon fitted all his modern improvements in machinery and product handling, including the latest type of rolls and “Reform” purifiers, making it one of the most complete mills in the UK. The capacity was 18-to-20 sacks-per-hour. The mill was fitted with electric lighting by the firm of Thomas Barton of Blackburn and a complete Grinnell Sprinkler system.

During the latter part of 1892 the Blackburn, Daisyfield Mill was

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Milling News also renovated. It was originally fitted out as a roller mill by Child and Son of London, with the then famous “Jonathan Mills” discs, found 20 years later to be very much behind the times. The order was given to Whitmore and Binyon of Wickham Market, Suffolk to install their latest type of rolls and two of their purifiers, the “Victoria” Gray’s Noiseless Roller Mill and the “Best”, raising the output of the mill to 28 sacks-per-hour. Mr George Binyon oversaw the installation himself.

The Daisyfield Mills were advantageously situated, having on one side the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and on the other a siding by which means goods could be received and dispatched to any point in the United Kingdom, via the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. Local customers were delivered their flour by horse and cart.

The mill had five storeys, including the basement, and was built of brick on a stone base. Two railway tracks connected the mill to the east Lancashire line. Cast iron pillars and brick vaulted ceilings were all incorporated into the design to add protection against fire.

The grain silo could hold 20,000 sacks of wheat. On the canal side were two hoist towers, ornately decorated with pyramidal roofs.

The north gable had a keystone inscribed “J.A.S AD 1872”.

Originally, wheat was hoisted up from the canal towpath, to the upper floors. The milling used ten pair of stones powered by a Musgrave engine. A major fire in 1875 led to the rebuilding and extension of the mill. In 1883, the mill was converted to roller milling and the millstones discarded. In 1928, the mill was taken

Appleby’ the workhorse from 1906 to 1968

over by Joseph Rank and eventually closed in 1968, marking the end of large scale milling in Blackburn.

“Appleby”, the black and red-liveried saddle tank locomotive was special; by 1962 it had become the only one of its type still working. Built in 1895 at the Atlas Works of Peckett and Sons in Bristol, Appleby was numbered 568, had 2ft-6in wheels with a 0-4-0 arrangement and worked at a pressure of 80lbs per square inch.

Despite its compact size, the engine, acquired by the Blackburn millers about 1906, was capable of hauling as much as 100 tonnes as it travelled the 400-yard track from the Daisyfield sidings taking wagons filled with grain to the mill’s loading bays. It came to the end of the line in 1968, the same year that steam powered expired on Britain’s railways, when the flour mill ceased production, with the loss of 90 jobs.

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Raghavan Sampathkumar

The UN announced 2020 as the International Year of Plant Health (IYPH). While it is easy to dismiss ‘Plant Health’ as a matter limited only to farming, it has huge direct and indirect implications across different aspects of the food chain.

conflicts. Hence, it is clear that healthy plants are the foundation of healthy animals and finally, healthy humans.

The importance of plant health is vast and affects all areas of the sector. I will disucss the perspectives of food and nutritional security, food safety, economic prosperity, need for holistic understanding of the ONE Health paradigm in the first part of this column.

Subsequent parts will delve deeply into IYPH2020 and what the agri-food sector, particularly the plant science industry, must do to utilise this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to promote the importance of plant health to all stakeholders, including consumers, through education and creating awareness.

As mentioned above, animal and human health is closely linked to plant health because what happens on the farm impacts the entire food value chain stakeholders. For example, if plant health is not maintained optimally, pests and diseases can eat into the harvest in a big way and cause losses to the farmers. This would affect their ability to afford high-quality and nutritious food and might lead to malnourishment and huge loss at the national level due to lost productivity.

Further, toxin-laden food, say corn, would be unfit for animal feed or human consumption and without adequate alternatives, millions of people who consume corn as staple food will get deprived of. On the other hand, this would push up the costs of substitutes such as wheat or sorghum making nutritious food unaffordable particularly for the poor and underprivileged sections of the society.

This does not only affect diet diversity but also puts huge pressure on balancing nutritional requirements. At the macro level, this has huge implications for the governments and policy makers who must be concerned about economic loss due to poor health and low productivity. In extreme cases, the governments may struggle to arrange alternate sources of nutrition due to limitations in production and trade during acute shortages.

Understanding the ‘plant – animal – human health’ nexus holistically

Agriculture is under enormous pressure to produce more food from a shrinking cultivatable area while struggling with water scarcity, land degradation, climate change and many other challenges.

Increased homogeneity of diets in the last 50 years has made more than two-thirds of the global population become heavily dependent on a few crops (rice, wheat, maize and soybean) for their supply of calories. Consequently, shortfalls in production of these crops in any region can create seismic ripple effects globally and push millions deeper into hunger, malnutrition and poverty, particularly in Asia and Africa.

Shortfalls or losses due to poor plant health, caused by infestation of pests and diseases, can lead to losses as high as 40-to-50 percent.

In the pursuit of producing adequate quantities of safe and quality food, maintaining optimal plant health becomes the first and most important factor. It is not difficult to understand how plant health is fundamental to ensuring food safety and avoid passing of harmful pathogens further in the food chain from crops to animals to humans.

For example, aflatoxins are produced by a certain kind of fungi that grow on corn. When the mouldy corn is fed to animals, the toxins greatly impact their health and can even lead to death. Besides impacting animal and human health, aflatoxins have the potential to impact trade and may cause huge monetary loss in terms of foreign exchange, lost in billions of dollars.

A conservative estimate by Partnership for Aflatoxin Control in Africa (PACA) reveals that the continent loses US $670 million due to the rejection of aflatoxin-contaminated corn in certain import markets. Ultimately, farmers’ livelihoods are at stake. If not addressed holistically, all these issues have the potential to threaten peace and harmony and may even lead to social unrest and

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Why is plant health important in the context of food and nutritional security?

Why is plant health critical in the context of food safety?

Food safety has emerged one of the most critical parameters in the food industry in recent years as consumers globally are becoming increasingly concerned about various issues such as contamination, presence of chemical residues etc.

As mentioned above, aflatoxins are but just one example of many types of toxic substances originating from the farm when plant health is not given its due importance. For instance, Ochratoxin A and Fumonisins are produced by Aspergillus sp and Fusarium sp fungi, respectively, on several crops. When passed on to humans through meat or milk, these toxins can cause a variety of health issues such as liver damage, immunosuppression, cancers and stunting.

Aflatoxin contamination of food might even erupt into an enormous public health challenge and lead to several long-lasting socioeconomic impacts, if not controlled at the farm level appropriately.

How is plant health relevant to the ‘one health’ paradigm?

From the above example of the flow of aflatoxins in the food chain, it becomes obvious that human health depends greatly on animal health and welfare which, in turn, depends hugely upon the health of the plants.

Milling News Thus, it must be understood by all the stakeholders in the food chain that weeds, pests and diseases cause not only losses in terms of quantity but can also affect the quality of food. Managing food-borne diseases becomes a great public health challenge (e.g.

Salmonella contamination).

Scientific evidence is accumulating around the hypothesis that Salmonella can have plants as alternative hosts (by suppressing the immunity) and can travel further in the food chain. Besides health, the economic impact of such contamination and subsequent product recalls are indeed, enormous. Hence, plant health must be construed as one of the key pillars of â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;one healthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; paradigm.

How does the issue of plant health affect different food chain entities?

Firstly, farmers, particularly for those that are engaged in exporting their produce and rejection of export consignments of contaminated foods, may cause huge losses. Rejections also effect their reputation and reliability as suppliers if they are engaged in contract farming with export marketing companies. The same applies for the companies that are engaged in sourcing farmed produce from the farmers and exporting them, as they will lose their credibility and potential future businesses in their import markets.

For food processing companies it can cause potential losses in many ways. First and foremost, their reputation and brand image

are at stake when their products are manufactured using the primary agricultural commodities found to be contaminated with disease-causing organisms carried from the farm. This will have far reaching effects on its business prospects in a country, region and possibly on a global scale.

Secondly, they may face legal action according to the laws pertaining to food safety and quality. Furthermore, product recalls, if mandatory, lead to significant loss of revenues and can impact their profits greatly.

Concerned domestic consumers may blame governments for their inability to control the public health disasters and also the discriminatory standards in implementing food quality legislations between exports vis-a-vis domestic consumption.

Furthermore, the issue impacts the image and reputation of a country particularly when it aspires to become a reliable food export hub and may result in reduced international trade prospects and foreign exchange earnings.

It will negatively impact job creation and may potentially lead to economic distress due to unemployment and other related social issues. Some opportunist groups may even try to sensationalise the issues beyond proportions to incite fear and outrage among the general public leading to social unrest.

This topic will be continued in Raghavanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s next column in our following issue.

Raghavan Sampathkumar is a food and agribusiness leader with a 360 degree understanding of the complex geo-political, environmental, socio-economic, techno-commercial and cultural perspectives of the agri-value food chain. He has worked in various subsections including agro-inputs, international trade, biotech and animal nutrition across Asia-Pacific and currently is Chief Manager - Corporate Affairs and Communications for Indofil Industries Ltd. He regularly writes for industrial publications on agri-food trends, food security and sustainability. Also, he pens his poems and thoughts in his personal blog- www.asmalltownkid.wordpress.com

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he American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) and Feedstuffs have announced the four category winners for the 2019 Feed Facility of the Year (FFY) program. AFIA congratulates Western Milling of Goshen as the winner of the commercial dry livestock feed plant category; Koch Foods of Morton as the winner of the integrator category; Quality Liquid Feeds of Menomonie as the winner of the liquid feed plant category; and Trouw Nutrition of Nesoho as the winner of the premix manufacturing plant category.

“The FFY program aims to highlight excellence in feed facilities and I am very proud to say that each of these facilities has risen to a high level of quality and excellence,” said Gary Huddleston, AFIA’s Director of Feed Manufacturing and Regulatory Affairs.

“We hope all applicants receive the value the benchmarking program tool provides in helping them on their journey toward continuous improvement.”

The FFY award program is recognised as a first-class benchmarking program for the animal food industry. It compares and recognises top-performing facilities in four categories: commercial dryfeed, integrator, liquid feed and premix, and from those, an overall winner is selected to receive the FFY award.

AFIA and Feedstuffs have conducted the FFY, and its predecessor program, since 1985, recognising 73 total companies for outstanding performance in animal food manufacturing.

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Mühlenchemie names Grands Moulins des Antilles “Flour Sack of the Year”

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t the annual meeting of the Caribbean Millers’ Association (CMA) Marc Duncker, Regional Sales Manager for Mühlenchemie, presented Arnaud de Moussac from Grands Moulins des Antilles with the flour sack award. The jury was impressed by the mills’ beautiful portrait of a young Creole woman from the Antilles - her healthy look pointing to the life-giving power of the staple food within the sack.

Talking about the winning picture, Xavier Moussac, Director General of the mill, says, “The portrait of the Creole woman on our flour sack shows that Guadeloupe is both mondaine and aware of its historical diversity. The young lady’s jewellery indicates her French-style ‘savour-vivre’, as a Creole she stands for an independent culture that has developed over the centuries in our country.”

As is the case with many other agricultural products, the island state relies on imported wheat, which is then processed industrially into top quality flours and fortified with micronutrients. This flour is an essential part of the Guadeloupe diet.

The jury was full of praise for the delicately drawn picture on the Flour Sack of the Year. It is the first time that a portrait has taken the award which the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenburg presents once a year. The museum, located near Hamburg, houses more than 3,600 flour sacks from over 140 countries and is thus the biggest such collection in the world.

The founder, Volkmar Wywiol, is pleased with the latest poster child for his museum. “Diversity and community, femininity and strength, quality and joie de vivre - these inter-connections are beautifully portrayed on this flour sack. This artistic treatment of Guadeloupe society is one that deserves to be honoured.”

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RDS A W A S N IO INNOVAT GRAPAS: Join us as the winners are announced on March 24th at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference!

Rebecca Sherratt

The time is finally upon us. After months of accepting applications and our judges carefully considering their favourite solutions, the winners of the GRAPAS Innovations Awards will finally be announced on March 24th, during the GRAPAS Innovations Conference at VICTAM Animal Health and Nutrition Asia.

Our final set of shortlisted applicants for the GRAPAS Innovations Awards is yet another brilliant line-up. Companies from all over the world have joined us this year, including FrigorTec GmbH, Brabender, Yenar, Eye-Grain, Henry Simon, Wingmen Group, Dinnissen, Petkus and Henan Jingu Industry Development Co Ltd.

Three keynote speakers join us to discuss the evolution of milling

Along with our impressive applicants for GRAPAS, we are also very pleased to play host to three keynote speakers, who will present their own thoughts on flour milling and innovation at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference: • Professor Li Dongsen, Deputy Secretary General for the China Wheat Milling Association, China • Mr Bobby Ariyanto, Senior Vice-President of Manufacturing, Bogasari Flour Mills, Indonesia • Mr Norman Loop, General Manager, FlourWorld Museum, Germany

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Get your GRAPAS Innovations Conference tickets while you still can!

There is now only a limited amount of time to register for the GRAPAS Innovations Conference, to see all our award applicants in action. The GRAPAS Innovations Conference is taking place at VICTAM Animal Health and Nutrition Asia on March 24th.

To register for the conference, simply visit the VICTAM Animal Health and Nutrition Asia official website and register for the exhibition, then add the GRAPAS Conference to your list of conferences you would like to attend.

Tickets for entry into the GRAPAS Innovations Conference are $99 each, so book your seats now and take advantage of this brilliant deal!

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

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The Rex Wailes Collection Printing blocks in the Rex Wailes Collection

by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive Trust, UK In these days of digital communication, it is sometimes a surprise to realise how time-consuming it used to be to prepare papers for publication. As Rex Wailes was a prolific author, we now have in our possession a large number of printing blocks for the illustrations he used. The blocks were engraved as a negative image and when caught in certain lights they show up very clearly.

Close inspection of an individual block shows how the image was captured as small dots, usually on a zinc or copper surface. The halftone photo engraving of the French Cavier windmill shown here has developed white spots, not showing a starry, starry night, but betraying the use of magnesium as a base, one that corrodes more quickly than zinc.

Photo-etched onto zinc, mounted on blocks of wood cut into standard sizes and given a coat of ink, they were run through a press to provide a positive image on the page.

Early blocks were created by line engraving on a flat sheet of copper, thick enough to be rigid when taking impressions. The outline of the subject was first traced on the copper, and then the engraver guided a triangular tool called a burin or graver along the traced outline. By varying the pressure, a groove of varying depths was cut into the metal, forming either a coarse or fine line on the finished impression.

Until about 1820 line engravings were done mainly in copper, although occasionally brass, zinc, iron and even silver were used.

Thereafter copper slowly lost its popularity in favour of steel, a harder metal that yielded a greater number of impressions before deterioration of the image.

Some of the blocks, such as the one of Bidston windmill have an eerie appearance when properly illuminated. No longer of practical use, these beautiful wood and metal print blocks, depicting mills and their processes, always attract attention at our exhibitions. Sadly, they are now becoming collectorsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; items, some attracting ÂŁ50-100 on EBay. We would be grateful of gifts of mill-related blocks from the first part of the 20th century or earlier. You can be sure that the Mills Archive would not only look after them, but ensure they were shared with the general public both in displays and on our website.

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Zheng Chang contribute to feed industry while faced with COVID-19

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ecently, the epidemic situation in Wuhan, China has been raging, and there is growing public concern over the spread of pneumonia caused

by Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). In the face of this coronavirus outbreak, Zheng Chang, a world leader in feed equipment and engineering solutions, fully guaranteed the health and safety of employees and their families, and have also discussed the progress of projects under construction with global customers for the first time to maximise the promotion of projects in non-epidemic areas.

The project leader of the national strategic project for the Belt and Road, the largest livestock and poultry feed project in Belarus which has an important role in the development of the Belarus (non-epidemic area) feed industry and the local government officials were very concerned about the progress of the project.

Manager Wang, Head of the Zheng Chang team commented, “Although we are in a non-epidemic area, we have not taken it lightly. We have fully popularised the knowledge of epidemic prevention to the team and have done a good job in health and safety strictly. The team members have full confidence in the national epidemic prevention war and in the construction of this international advanced project.”

Due to the mind set and professionality of the Zheng Chang engineering team, the project’s construction progress has not been affected. As of February 7th, the overall project construction progress is 19 days ahead of schedule.

In the future, Zheng Chang will continue to pay attention to the epidemic situation, do an exemplary job in providing stable products, high-quality projects and first-class services for front-line customers, and contribute to the epidemic war.

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TRAINING Two sections of the IGP-KSU Grain Procurement and Purchasing course will be offered to enhance the participant’s abilities to purchase US grains and commodities with greater confidence and effectiveness. The basic course will be held April 20-24th, 2020, and the advanced course will be offered April 28-May 2nd, 2020.

Participants have the option of attending a supply chain field trip held in between the sections on April 24-27th, 2020. They also have the option of taking both sections of the course concurrently.

Basic and Advanced Grain Procurement and Purchasing courses offered This course series benefits individuals who are responsible for purchasing, importing, shipping, and handling US grains in both government and private settings. Participants attending the basic section can expect to investigate the US supply chain, international freight markets, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) quality standards, and grain export markets. During the advanced offering, participants can look forward to discussing topics on cash contracting, futures, trading strategies, options, and price risk management strategies, along with a continued discussion over current market events.

“Participants who attend either or both offerings of the IGP-KSU Grain Procurement and Purchasing course will receive an in-depth look at the purchasing and trading of commodities on an international scale,” says Guy Allen, IGP Institute Senior Agricultural Economist and Course Manager. “If they choose to attend the offered field trip, they will also see first-hand how grains are traded and transported through the US supply chain to international markets.”

Through hands-on training and classroom discussion at the IGP Institute, participants will learn flour and dough analysis practices and methods and correct interpretation and understanding of the results through this course. Experts from the equipment manufacturers and suppliers and Kansas State University faculty will train and educate participants to understand commonly used flour testing equipment and dough testing equipment in the industry today, understand proper testing procedures and methods for the equipment, understand how to correctly interpret the results from the finished test, and understand factors that will impact and alter the test results.

IAOM-KSU Flour and Dough Analysis Topics in the course include farinographs; extensographs; amylographs; alveolabs; SRC; RVA; falling numbers; NIR; manual ash; starch damage; PH// TTA; glutomatics; LECO protein; Rheo F4; DoughLAB; DON/mycotoxins; GlutoPeak; crumb and spread; baking systems and browning reactions; moisture and blending calculations; practical hands-on experience with some of the testing equipment in the IGP Institute grain grading lab.

This course is being held on September 8-10th, 2020.

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Previous course participant, Rolando Solis, charter manager for MF Grains in Panama City, Panama, says he benefited from learning more about all the different parts that make up the grain industry.

“This course gave me the opportunity to become more familiar with the grain industry”, says Solis. “I understand more of the importance of properly managed grains, how to manage risks in such a volatile environment and how communication and news can play a big role in what we do.”

The objectives of this course are to gain a general understanding of the principles of the milling process from wheat receiving to finished product distribution, understanding the relationship between wheat quality and the effect of the milling process, gain knowledge of different wheat types and what products each can produce, gain knowledge of flour functionality and baking performance of different flours, and learn the role each department plays in the success of the milling industry. Participants will discuss all aspects of the flour milling process from wheat selection to milling to flour blending and baking functionality.

IAOM-KSU Introduction to Flour Milling Topics for the course include an overview of the US milling industry; wheat production, supply and demand; wheat classes, uses, and basic wheat chemistry; wheat cleaning and conditioning; gradual reduction process overview; milling math (extraction, tempering and blending); principles of mill flow sheets; overview of the general milling process and major milling equipment; flour and dough testing practices and methods; flour functionality; wheat and flour blending; grade, quality, and mill performance on flour extraction; and practical hands-on experience in the Hal Ross flour mill and KSU benchtop milling and baking laboratories New mill employees, mill HR staff and managers, grain and ingredient procurement managers, feed and flour sales representatives, production schedulers, warehousing and QA personnel, R&D staff, wheat breeders, grain inspection personnel, food program administrators are welcome to attend this event and will no doubt find it especially rewarding.

Yemmak’s LMVS series’ Vibrating Sieve

PRODUCT FOCUS March 2020 In every edition of Milling and Grain, we take a look at the products that will save you time and money in the milling process.

Yemmak’s LMVS series vibrating sieve helps raw materials to be separated according to grain size, whilst also eliminating foreign materials and help to resize granulate objects with vibrating sieve technology through different sieve openings.

Vibrating sieves are machines that have robust balanced construction and maximum screening capability.Vibration effect sourced by vibro motors, helps diversify the products in the preferred sizes.

The numbers of sieve decks are equal to sieve screen. Inlet and outlets of good can be modified according to operation area.

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Alapala’s Carousel Packaging Machine

Henry Simon’s Intensive Wheat Scourer is designed to remove the husk, arista, ears etc in kernels as well as to eliminate residual content, while also helping to reduce the bacterial potential of the product to a large extent.

The intensive wheat scourer consist of eight rotor-fitted wings and a cylindrical abrasive screen, which creates an intensive friction and rubbing action on the surface of the kernel. The machine has also an aspiration inlet to get necessary airflow for dirt and dust removal.

Alapala’s Carousel Packaging Machine (CTMA) is suitable for consecutive bagging operations with granular and powdered products in 10kg, 25kg, or 50kg bags at high capacities. The machine allows a fast and precise filling operation with both four and six spout variations, able to process up to 800 sacks-per-hour.

The Carousel Packaging Machine has a highly automated operation, automating all processes such as weighing, rotation and placement of spouting platforms, product discharge, vibration, sack holding. The release mechanisms are electronically managed by the PLC system. The machine is also combined with an outlet conveyor, sewing unit, and sack shaking station.

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IQ Grain Quality Sorter 1002

Inframatic 8800 NIR Grain Analyser

Swedish company BoMill manufactures an BoMill will be the world leading provider and partner for grain quality sorting solutions, based on the composition and structure of each individual kernel. Improve food safety by removal of mycotoxins, such as fusarium, from a grain lot.

BoMill’s patented grain quality sorting technology makes it possible to analyse each individual grain in a batch and separate them into fractions. Their IQ Grain Quality Sorter 1002 is a laboratory machine that uses NIT to analyse each kernel in a grain sample.

The capacity of the IQ grain quality sorter is 1000 kernels per minute. Compatible small grains include durum wheat, soft wheat, hard wheat and barley.

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IM 8800 is the next generation portable NIR instrument for protein, moisture and oil determination in grain and oilseed, designed by Perten Instruments.

The instrument has been designed with portability in mind to give users freedom to measure grain in-field, at grain storage sites and at grain processing locations. Equipped with GPS enables point specific sampling to generate protein maps on-the-go to make informed harvesting and binning decisions. With uncompromising quality and build standards the instrument provides you with highly accurate data which you can rely on.

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Neogen launches first rapid test for ergot alkaloids

Neogen Corporation recently announced that it has developed a quick and simple lateral flow test for ergot alkaloids, which are natural toxins produced by a fungus that commonly infects rye and wheat. Ingestion of ergot alkaloids can cause ergotism, a dangerous disease in humans and animals.

Neogen’s new Reveal® Q+ MAX for Ergot Alkaloids delivers precise quantitative results in the range of 50 to 5,000 parts-perbillion (ppb) in only eight minutes after extraction. This new test is the first for ergot alkaloids in the simple rapid lateral flow format and is compatible for use with Neogen’s innovative Raptor® testing platform.

“The advanced technology of this test truly changes everything about testing for ergot alkaloids,” said John Adent, Neogen’s President and CEO. “Until we developed this product, the only options that testers had were complex laboratory methods or imprecise visual tests.

If you use one of our Raptor testing platforms, accurately testing for ergot alkaloids, or many other natural toxins, doesn’t get any easier.”

Because of the well-established risk to human and animal health posed by ergot alkaloids, legislation regulating the toxins is expected soon in the European Union. The new test was developed, in part, to help cereal producers and processors meet new requirements that the new legislation will impose.

Neogen’s Reveal Q+ MAX tests for natural toxins provide rapid, fully quantitative test results — and use only water for extraction, as opposed to other systems that use hazardous materials, such as methanol, for extraction. The Raptor testing platforms control the timing, temperature and reading of the test strips, allowing testers to simply add a sample and walk away. They also protect the integrity and consistency of testing data by processing and analysing results without additional operator input.

Neogen Corporation develops and markets products dedicated to food and animal safety. The company’s Food Safety Division markets culture media and diagnostic test kits to detect foodborne bacteria, natural toxins, food allergens, drug residues, plant diseases, and sanitation concerns. Neogen’s Animal Safety Division is a leader in worldwide biosecurity products, animal genomics testing, and the manufacturing and distribution of a variety of animal healthcare products, including diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and veterinary instruments.

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arch 20, 2020 marks the first World Flour Day, a day of recognition for all millers and bakers, as well as farmers, shippers, truckers, bakers and all those who work in flour processing. World Flour Day is a celebration of the crucial role of flour, the so-called “staff of life” that supports the nutritional needs of billons of people around the world. Credit must go to Mühlenchemie, who championed the creation of this special day. March 20th was the chosen day to celebrate flour as it is a special day for harvests. It’s in the middle of the solstice, which varies between March 19th and 21st. In the northern hemisphere spring starts after March 20th, and with it the planting season. In the southern hemisphere autumn starts and, with it the, harvest season. Flour, one of most versatile food staples, is produced in many different forms including breads, rolls, bagels, biscuits, cakes and pasta.

Enjoy World Flour Day!

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Milling Hall of Fame

by Roger Gilbert, Publisher, Milling and Grain

ith the first ‘World Flour Day’ occurring this month it’s timely for us - the milling industry’s oldest continually published magazine - to announce our intention, along with support from the UK’s Mills Archive Trust, to establish the worldwide milling industry’s ‘Milling Hall of Fame’.

Millers of all persuasions and from all cultures have done much to provide the flour our global population and our domesticated animals have come to rely upon to feed themselves.

Millers are the fulcrum when it comes to turning grains and other harvested crops into useable flours and pelleted products that are in turn used to produce desirable foodstuffs and feed rations for communities all around the world.

On ‘World Flour Day’ (March 20th each year from now on) it is timely to begin honouring those individuals who have made significant contributions, both modern and historic, to the production of flours and feed. We propose to recognise those individuals - and more recently companies - who have made significant contributions to the development of milling from its rudimentary mills driven by water and wind power, to the modern, sustainable and energy-efficient mega structures common today.

Remember, today the largest milling company on the planet produces 42,000 tonnes of flour per day and the single largest production site processes just over 11,500 tonnes of wheat per day!

Milling is forever improving its product safety record and its efficiency in order to provide more and more food for more and more people and animals that is affordable while addressing nutritional and environmental demands.

Milling and Grain has been joined by the Mills Archive Trust in the UK, which will accommodate the ‘Milling Hall of Fame’ to support the Hall.

However, the evaluation of those to be inducted into the ‘Milling Hall of Fame’ will be carried out by an independent committee based on submissions and applications received from across the industry. There is an application process to be completed which will require sufficient detail for the committee to make a recommendation to induct into the Hall at least one individual per year from each milling sector. Consideration will be given to applications that identify a ‘point-in-time’ that changed our industry, the person responsible and the details of his/her contribution plus information on the company worked for at that time.

There must be an unlimited number of potential recipients that should be honoured in this way. If you or your company has a leader or individual who has made a contribution of great significance to the betterment of milling, then please consider making an application (which will be available from our website shortly). The ‘Milling Hall of Fame’ should represent your industry’s heroes and not just be the choices or views of one or two people. Therefore, only applications submitted by milling-related companies or by millers themselves will be considered.

Milling and Grain will be proud to announce the first inductee into the Milling Hall of Fame at the GRAPAS Award ceremony in Bangkok on March 24, 2020.

find out more at:

www.millingandgrain.com /web/halloffame

www.millsarchive.org

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Tracking down wheat intolerances

by GoodMills Innovation, Germany

heat makes you sick and fat. As provocative as this statement is, it’s not an uncommon one. For the last decade, in popular science books and the media, wheat’s once untarnished reputation has been progressively eroded.

Many consumers now attribute digestive complaints, malaise or headaches to the wheat in bread and increasingly opt for glutenand wheat-free products. As an alternative to the much-maligned grain, GoodMills Innovation offers 2ab Wheat.

The supermarket shelves offering gluten-free or wheat-free alternatives are getting longer and longer. The UK market for gluten-free products has experienced double-digit growth since 2008 and, in Germany, according to the Federal Association of German food trade (BVLH), the number of gluten-free products launched into the retail sector almost doubled between 2010 and 2014.

About a third of these new products were baked goods.

However, these growth rates are disproportionate to the number of people with gluten intolerance: only one percent of the population actually suffers from celiac disease and Mintel market research shows that 82 percent of consumers who choose glutenfree products have not been diagnosed., The fact that many consumers still consider wheat-free and gluten-free bakery products to be a healthier alternative may partly derive from current food and lifestyle trends. However, it has been proven that wheat products can cause discomfort in people who do not have celiac disease if irritable bowel syndrome

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(IBS) or non-celiac wheat sensitivity (NCWS) are present.

According to recent studies, the number of people falling into these categories is anywhere from 6–13 percent., When it comes to wheat intolerances, there’s no universal panacea. The cause is neither wheat in general nor gluten, so it’s not just a simple matter of removing these. To make the beloved breakfast roll enjoyable again for sensitive eaters, GoodMills Innovation, together with grain breeders and nutritionists, has selected an ancient grain that meets the needs of wheat sensitive and IBS consumers: 2ab Wheat.

To understand the differences between 2ab Wheat, modern wheat and other ancient grains, it’s important to have a close look at the types and triggers of gastrointestinal symptoms.

Wheat-related intolerances: Various triggers

Whether and to what extent wheat is compatible with a person’s digestive system involves a complex interplay of different grain components, all of which stimulate the immune cells in the intestine and trigger complaints in sensitive individuals.

Nutritionist Sybille Kautz explains, “Consumers affected by gastrointestinal issues often turn to gluten-free baked goods as they feel that these are more compatible. However, this is not the case: the fact that sensitive consumers have fewer complaints after they eat gluten-free products is more likely to be associated with lower levels of substances called FODMAP than a lack of gluten. Bread based on oats, rice or corn, for example, is glutenfree and also has a very low FODMAP content.”

FODMAP are short-chain carbohydrates and sugar alcohols such as fructans, fructose, lactose, sorbitol or maltitol. They are present in bread wheat, spelt and rye, as well as in many fruits and vegetables and are rarely or even not digested in the small intestine.

F In sensitive individuals, FODMAP can cause diarrhea or cramps through bacterial fermentation and their osmotic action. In a study conducted by Monash University in Australia, a low FODMAP diet for patients with IBS led to a significant improvement in their symptoms.

Gluten proteins, essential for producing an appealing texture in breads and rolls, are often cited as the bad boy when it comes to digestive issues after bread consumption.

But for IBS and NCWS this now seems to be an over-generalisation.

In fact, it’s the genetic code of the gluten that’s the decisive factor. This code determines the number of celiac epitopes in the gluten, which stimulate the immune cells in the gut. Ancient grains carry either the A genome (AA) – as is the case with einkorn – or the A and B genome (AABBB) – as in emmer. Modern bread wheat also contains the D genome (AABBDD) and therefore carry the harder-to-digest D gluten.

When NCWS first appeared on the medical radar in the 1980s, it was also linked to gluten. But current studies are now highlighting the connection between the condition and ATIs (amylase tryptin inhibitors), proteins found in the endosperm of plant seeds.

ATIs stimulate certain immune receptors and thus trigger or boost inflammatory processes in the gut. In some ancient grains, the bioactivity of these proteins is lower than it is in modern grains.

Ancient Grain 2.0: Well tolerated and indulgent

Michael Gusko, Managing Director at GoodMills Innovation, comments, “Our work on ancient grains was inspired by the apple. Scientific studies show that the protein structures of old apple varieties are often less problematic for allergy sufferers. This not only applies to old varieties, but also to new breeds, which are genetically similar.”

The fact that 2ab Wheat is well tolerated is all down to its genes: it only contains the two original genomes (AA and BB) and is naturally free from the D gluten contained in modern wheat varieties; its FODMAP and ATI content is also low.

2ab Wheat also convinces in terms of taste and technology. Ancient grains have been in vogue for years. However, it has never actually been possible to produce pure ancient grain baked goods with a good sensorial profile.

Einkorn, for example, is perfect for muesli bars or biscuits, but when it comes to bread, it needs to be combined with modern grains and baking agents to achieve appealing results. In contrast, 2ab breads and rolls have a soft, juicy crumb and a pleasant taste without the need to add conventional wheat, gluten or other auxiliaries to the mix.

GoodMills Innovation extended the 2ab concept with another ancient grain: Tartary Buckwheat.

In Asian countries, this prehistoric pseudocereal has a long tradition of use to stabilise blood glucose levels and plays an important role in daily nutrition.

The idea was to create a type of bread that is both easy for sensitive eaters to digest and promotes a balanced metabolism at the same time.

“At GoodMills Innovation, we have developed a thermal treatment that reduces the bitterness of Tartary Buckwheat, making it the ideal ingredient for baked goods such as 2ab bread. Currently, the bread is part of a research study into Personalised Nutrition at the University of Lübeck in Germany and we’re more than excited about the potential results,” explains Gusko.

The wheat pedigree

When looking for a genuine wheat alternative for sensitive eaters, it’s genetics that count. According to the somatic chromosome number, wheat comprises three groups: the diploid series (genome AA), the tetraploid series (genome AABB, such as emmer) and the hexaploid series (genome AABBDD), which also includes spelt and modern bread wheat.

Brad wheat has a relatively high FODMAP content and is therefore on the “red list” of products to be avoided. The D genome in bread wheat is suspected to irritate the intestinal immune cells. Although spelt has slightly lower FODMAP than bread wheat, it is not generally low in FODMAP. Like bread wheat, spelt contains the modern D genome.

As the original form of wheat, einkorn may be a solution for wheat allergy sufferers because of its protein structure. However, it has high FODMAP values and is therefore not suitable for wheat-sensitive people. The ancient wheat 2ab (Triticum turgidum var. sanus) has the lowest known FODMAP content of all varieties of wheat, does not have a D genome and is easier to bake with. Before delivery to bakers, the flour is fermented again to further reduce the FODMAP content. http://goodmillsinnovation.com/en Milling and Grain - March 2020 | 49

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Customised enzyme systems for constant quality

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by Dr Lutz Popper and Sven Mattutat, Mühlenchemie, Germany

he quality of wheat is inseparably linked with the quality of the baked goods.

To meet the variable requirements of the market, tailor-made flour treatment is a key issue in the milling industry.

Highly functional enzyme systems are the most efficient and economical tool to standardise the baking properties of flours.

Millers all over the globe are confronted with a host of various problems. The most difficult challenge is the purchase of raw material. Firstly, being a natural product, grain is subject to considerable fluctuations in quality; these may be caused by climatic factors such as heat, precipitation and frost or by fertilisers and irrigation or bug damage. Secondly, mills have to face the imponderables of the raw material markets.

Mixtures of different origins impair wheat standardisation

Volatile prices and restricted availabilities affect those countries most depending on wheat imports. For instance, a miller in Algeria may have to deal with French wheat one day, and on the next with wheat lots from Canada, the United States, Ukraine, Russia or other wheat exporting areas. Despite this difficult

situation, the flour must have consistent properties and meet the requirements of such diverse end products as bread, baguettes, rolls, wafers, crackers or pasta.

Mühlenchemie: The perfectionist in flour treatment

The use of enzymes and additives is a tried-and-tested way of solving such problems with raw materials. Mühlenchemie is a pioneer in the standardisation and optimisation of flour, and over the decades it has devised a multitude of innovative solutions enabling the industry to enhance even problematical flours.

Best results with precisely adjusted enzyme systems

The main focus lies on the development of complex enzyme systems, which are much more effective than single ingredients.

Over years of applied research, Mühlenchemie’s R&D team has outlined that many single enzymes such as amylases, glucoamylases, proteases, hemicellulases and lipases, with their different specific effects and strengths, do not achieve the best possible results.

In the quality standardisation of flour, especially, what matters most is the interaction of various enzymes and other active ingredients. Mühlenchemie’s enzyme systems make use of the synergistic potential of the individual substances and combine them to create efficient flour improvers.

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A striking example for the innovative approach in product development is the enzyme system Deltamalt. When purchasing raw materials, bakeries generally base their choice on the rheological parameters of a flour, as the laboratory measurements are considered important indicators of the baking properties. These quality parameters can be regulated specifically with the use of enzyme systems.

Concerning the falling number, however, there has been a serious restriction: With traditional amylolytic enzymes, it was only possible to adjust either the falling number or the baking properties properly. The two parameters could not be reconciled. By developing Deltamalt, Mühlenchemie has solved the dilemma: This unique enzyme systems enables millers to optimise both parameters at the same time.

Table 1 shows the effect of Deltamalt on the results of baking and the falling number in comparison with conventional fungal alpha-amylase (Alphamalt VC 5000) and barley alpha-amylase (Betamalt).

Decisive competitive edge with tailor-made flour

Besides standardising and adjusting rheological parameters for flour treatment is an essential tool for optimising the properties of the flour. By enhancing the enzymatic components with other baking-active ingredients like oxidising agents, vital wheat gluten or hydrocolloids, flour properties can be perfected to the last detail.

Whether it is a question of water absorption, fermentation stability, volume, oven rise, browning, softness or shelf life – flour, which is perfectly adjusted to the baking process, ensures a smooth and trouble-free processability and improves the quality of the baked goods significantly.

Besides quality and processing aspects, downstream manufacturers also profit in economic terms. Above all, reliable processing properties reduce the number of interruptions. In addition, improved properties such as a higher water absorption capacity or the optimization of the flour’s lipids and starch, which allow the reduction or elimination of emulsifiers, increase yield and profitability.

Mühlenchemie: A global partner of the milling industry

The flour specialist Mühlenchemie, a member of the Hamburg ingredients enterprise Stern-Wywiol Gruppe, has been operating in flour improvement and flour fortification for over 95 years and is one of the world’s leading companies in this field. The range of products extends from classic flour treatment and fortification to special flours and concentrates for ready-mixed flours. The application covers flour improvement for baked goods, steamed buns and pasta.

The success of Mühlenchemie is the result of consistent innovation, constant enlargement of its facilities for applications technology and production and comprehensive services to its customers. The heart of the company is its Research & Development Department, where the expertise and the skills of more than 100 technologists, cereal scientists, millers and master bakers, from the MC facilities worldwide are pooled, shared and exploited. The lavishly equipped Stern-Technology Center in Ahrensburg/Hamburg comprises three units for flour applications: The baking and rheological laboratory. Every day, customers from all over the world send samples of grain or flour for analysis and treatment recommendations. The analytical and rheological parameters and the baking properties are determined on the basis of a standardised plan. Using these results, the characteristics of the flours are worked out and suitable agents are selected. The trial bakery tests baked and steamed goods of all kinds – bread and baguettes, rolls, mantou, biscuits, crackers and wafers, refrigerated or frozen doughs and yeast-raised or chemically leavened products. The standard programme includes simulation of different production processes from various countries and enables highly specific product development In the milling laboratory, wheat samples are ground under simulated industrial conditions before being analysed in the rheological and baking laboratories. This service is much in demand with mills that import their wheat themselves as the grain can already be assessed while it is still on its long journey by sea.

The pasta laboratory has a multifunctional Pavan pilot plant with a vacuum dough press and an industrial drying cabinet for realistic production trials. For pasta manufacturers that means they do not have to carry out the trials on their own fullscale plant. In the pasta laboratory, grists for pasta can be reconsidered and optimised – a service which is also used to improve the economy of the grists. www.muhlenchemie.com Milling and Grain - March 2020 | 51

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Oldest bakery school in the world celebrates 125-year anniversary

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by Jemima Broadbridge, Senior Press Officer, London South Bank University, UK he National Bakery School (NBS) at London South Bank University (LSBU) is officially the oldest bakery school in the world (established 1894) and celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2019. The NBS marked the occasion with a succession of milestone events.

Festivities kicked off in September 2019 with the launch of a sustainable new eco beer brewed by local brewing companies Toast Ale and Orbit Beers from waste bread produced by bakery students.

The beer launch in Borough Market was followed in October with a special event for leading baking industry figures, city guild members, NBS staff and students and successful baking alumni who previously graduated from the National Bakery School years ago. The party was hosted by the Worshipful Company of Bakers in the City of London at Bakers’ Hall.

At the event, David Phoenix, LSBU’s Vice-Chancellor spoke about the bakery school’s long and illustrious history,

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highlighting some of the key historical moments and baking innovations its staff and students have been involved in over the years. He was followed by bakery businessman and former NBS graduate, David Powell, now a multi-millionaire running a large, successful baking company.

In November, NBS staff and students joined a float on the Lord Mayor’s parade, and presented the new Mayor, William Russell, with a basket of bread to take away, as part of a time-honoured tradition. The historic moment was captured on live TV for BBC viewers.

To symbolically mark the 125-year anniversary, a specially designed commemorative, anniversary cake was created over an eight-month period by expert baker, Jane Hatton. This tall white five-tiered cake was displayed at Bakers’ Hall during the celebrations.

The cake was designed and baked in the shape of a sculptural monument incorporating five traditional cake shapes (square, hexagon, petal, roundel and sphere), coated with white icing, displaying decorative motifs, including a ‘horn of plenty’

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cornucopia of flowers, LSBU’s heraldic shield, a new crest created specially to mark the NBS’ 125th anniversary and the coat of arms representing the Worshipful Company of Bakers.

Jane Hatton said, “The starting point for my design was to think about cake shapes through the ages. I sketched a rough design starting with square, petal, hexagonal, roundel and sphere. I felt that if I put the logos on there in colour then it would have risked drawing the eye away to a particular part of the cake, so I decided to do it all in white, so that it would become a cake of textures instead.”

Jane Hatton teaches baking confectionary at the NBS. She created the cake with an ex student and friend from Japan, who as a student many years earlier achieved top marks in royal icing techniques while working at Brooklands Bakery. Jane said, “Together we worked for five days to create the cake, drawing on both our illustrative skills to decorate it.”

To get a sense of perspective—and of just how significant this 125-year anniversary is for the NBS—we need to go further back in time.

The history of the NBS extends back to 20th October,1894, when the first 60 students took up their studies, consisting of a mixture of theoretical lectures and practical tutorials. Over the next few years, NBS students expanded their skills and knowledge of baking considerably, with the result that they began winning many prizes for baking, while making numerous appearances at bakery exhibitions across the country.

They won several accolades in quick succession, with first places and gold medals clinched at the National Bakers and Confectioners’ exhibition, as well as an award from The Worshipful Company of Bakers at Bakers’ Hall.

It was the politician and educational reformer, Sir Philip Magnus, who as MP for Southwark and represented the London Polytechnic, as it then was, who proposed the establishment of the school. Impressed as he was by the running of a private bakery school by John Blandy in Middlesex, he invited Blandy to the polytechnic for advice on how to set up a national school. Blandy agreed and he subsequently joined forces with Owen Simmonds and Dr Goodfellow, after which the first bakery school was formally established.

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Master Bakers’ Protection Society and the Scottish Association of Master Bakers. The school was managed from that point on by the governing body at the Polytechnic.

In 1915, as the First World War raged, NBS started to take on female students for the first time. The following year, ‘war emergency’ classes were offered, with firms supplying flour, eggs and other essentials.

Unable to remain open for the later years of the war, the school reopened in 1919 and expanded the range of qualifications offered to include a national diploma, while pioneering a course in tea room confectionary designed to train women in every aspect of baking, needed by small restaurants and tea shops.

The school also has a long history of baking and presenting cakes to royalty and other notaries, such as the Lord Mayor. The first of these cakes was a wedding present for HRH Princess Mary in 1921. The school also presented a cake in 1930 in the shape of a doll as a gift to the royal Princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret, followed in 1947 by the Royal Silver wedding cake for the King and Queen.

In 1948, the school presented a christening cake to HRH Princess Elizabeth for young Prince Charles and in 1989,

presented the Lord Mayor with a cake to symbolise his appointment. From this point on, the NBS has provided a cake to the new Lord Mayor, every year in November.

Another milestone occurred in 2004, when NBS bakery students collaborated with fashion designer John Paul Gaulthier, recreating some of his iconic designs in bread.

In 2015, the NBS presented a cake to the Houses of Parliament, marking the 800th anniversary of the signing of Magna Carta, in June 1215. So, 125 years on, where does the National Bakery School see itself now?

Elaine Thomson, Course Director of the NBS, responds to this point: “In its 125-year history, the NBS has always sought to be at the forefront of vocational training for the industry. Historic technological advances in the field of baking science and changes within the education landscape have already helped to increase the diverse range of courses we offer at LSBU and this offering will continue to expand in future.

“We now face the challenge of energising and inspiring the next generation of bakers – from developing craft skills through to investing in applied scientific baking research.” www.lsbu.ac.uk

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Our GRAPAS Innovations Awards 2020 applicants

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by Rebecca Sherratt, Features Editor and GRAPAS organiser, Milling and Grain

he GRAPAS Innovations Conference is rapidly approaching on March 24th, 2020 and Milling and Grain magazine are very pleased to announce that we have a wide range of brilliant innovations this year that have been entered into the awards.

As our readers have no doubt seen in my monthly columns, the GRAPAS Innovations Awards have been receiving applications for the past few months. We have been on the hunt once again to discover the best solutions for the flour, rice and pasta-processing industry.

Our readers and advertisers have been urged to enter their milling solutions into the awards, for a chance to present them at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference at VICTAM Animal Health and Nutrition Asia in Bangkok, Thailand.

At the end of the GRAPAS Innovations Conference, we will announce the winner(s) of the coveted GRAPAS trophy.

Roger Gilbert, Publisher of Milling and Grain magazine says, “the Innovations Awards aim to celebrate all that is great about this wonderful industry we work in. There have been some incredible innovations across the industry during the past 12 months and we look forward to discovering more about them at the GRAPAS Conference”.

Our shortlisted applicants

This year we are very proud to have received applications from all across the world, ranging from China, Germany, USA and Turkey, to name but a few. Each solution brings something unique and special to the industry and certainly lives up to the title as an innovation for milling across the ages.

A focus on World Flour Day and milling technology ever evolving

We are also very proud this year to have a line-up of three very special keynote speakers, who will each be discussing their own unique thoughts and experiences in the milling industry.

Mr Norman Loop of the FlourWorld Museum in Wittenberg, Germany will be joining us at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference, discussing the FlourWorld Museum’s new initiative: World Flour Day. This new initiative, taking place annually on March 20th, is a day for members of the sector, as well as the general public, to come together and appreciate flour and 56 | March 2020 - Milling and Grain

everything this offers to the world- the white gold of life, as the FlourWorld Museum so eloquently describe it.

Also joining us as a keynote speaker is Mr Bobby Ariyano, Senior Vice-President of Manufacturing for Bogasari Flour Mills in Indonesia. Founded in 1969, Bogasari Flour Mills are one the most influential milling companies in Asia. Experts in flour and pasta production, Mr Ariyanto will be discussing his own experiences in the milling industry and how technology has evolved over time to benefit millers.

Last, but certainly not least, joining us will be Professor Li Dongsen, Deputy Secretary General of the China Wheat Milling Association, as well as a professor at Henan University of Technology, China. Professor Dongsen has been a professor of food technology since 1982 and is an expert in grain processing.

He has always held the food production industry every close to his heart and even after his retirement in 2017 continues to pursue his career in grain production.

Join us for the GRAPAS Innovations Conference!

March 24th, 2020 is the day to add to your diary to join us at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference at VICTAM Animal Health and Nutrition Asia. Nutritionists, academia, millers and mill managers are strongly recommended to attend to discover the best in flour processing innovations.

Tickets to attend the conference are US $99. You can register for the conference via the official VICTAM Animal Health and Nutrition Asia website.

For more information please contact: Rebecca Sherratt rebeccas@perendale.co.uk bit.ly/grapas20

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As well as its exterior design, the purifier distinguishes itself from others of its kind with five special sensors it uniquely brings to the sector: Human detection sensor, ambient sensors, vibration sensors, motor load sensors and a digital manometer.

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3: Yenar’s rollCare Profile Measurement Device

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

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

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

4: Dinnissen’s Hamex Hammermill

Much progress has been made on many fronts with Dinnissen’s new Hamex® Fully Automatic Hammer Mill. The method used to produce this machine has been automated and modernised even more compared to previous models, which has considerably reduced the machine’s total price.

The Hamex® Hammer Mill has large inspection hatches that offer fast and easy access for inspection, cleaning and maintenance of the relevant components. These many advantages together make an essential contribution to further reducing the eventual product cost price.

5: Henan Jingu Industry Development Co’s QINPAC Bagging Machine

The 2019 QINPAC is the first generation of QINPAC to serve as a fully automatic bagging machine, suitable for use with up to 25kg flour bags. QINPAC is the perfect solution to complement traditional carousel bagging systems and to liberate operators from having to carry out heavy working operations such as bagging, sewing, labelling, etc. thanks to its automatic functions.

The open-mouth bagger also features microgripping technology to keep the seals functional, easy to use and resilient.

The compact size of the solution means that the machine can be installed in any existing production area easily.

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This system is a range of Brabender products, consisting of: The Brabender Break Mill SM 4 The Moisture Tester MT-CA The Farinograph The ViscoQuick The TwinLab-C 20/40 Extruder

By means of several Brabender instruments involved, the production of a snack product based on a lentil/wheat flour formulation can be simulated on a laboratory scale. Hence, the set-up can be used for R&D as well as for product development.

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F 7: Eye-Grain’s Temperature and Moisture Reader

The measurement of grain moisture is a very important indicator of the overall grain status and quality. When measuring grain moisture, previously a sample had to be analysed in a laboratory. With this invention, users can save time by simply inserting the lance into the grain and taking the readings with the handheld reader.

In 2019, iGRAIN has developed and finalised the world’s first handheld device that reads both temperature and grain moisture at the same time inside silos or other forms of grain storage without removing samples or the need for an advanced PC system. The data can be easily transferred to the PC for further analysis and trend curves.

8: FrigorTec GmbH’s GRANIFRIGOR Control-Logic

With the new controller for the GRANIFRIGOR grain cooling unit, only three simple parameters need to be set: grain type, storage type, grain moisture. The controller then selects the correct setting values completely automatically. Additional measurement technology is not required in the storage facility.

This saves time and money and safeguards against incorrect settings. Furthermore, a store worker can easily operate the device with little training.

Up to now, the chilled air temperature and the reheating were set to ensure the grain was not exposed to excessively moist air.

The grain type and storage facility were only considered when the silo supervisor had the proper know-how. Incorrect settings could therefore not be ruled out.

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F 9: Petkus’ M12 Roeber Cleaner

The new Petkus M12 Cleaner raises the bar for what a seed and grain cleaner should be. With their customers’ input, they have created the most advanced air screen cleaner on the market. The M12 Roeber offers a completely new added value with intelligent assistance systems and was introduced to the market in January 2019.

The screen cleaner is a traditional, proven principle and was already developed in the 19th century by Petkus founder Röber. The main purpose of screen cleaning is to sort the raw material according to size.

All of these brilliant innovations will get their chance to convince members of the milling industry why their solution is deserving of winning the GRAPAS Innovations Awards, during their presentations at the GRAPAS Innovations Conference on March 24th.

This one-day conference at VICTAM Animal Health and Nutrition Asia will showcase the best in milling technologies from the past year and serve as a platform for companies to highlight how their machinery helps millers with their everyday tasks.

The GRAPAS Innovations Conference was a great success in 2019, with three winners crowned: Petkus’ OptoSelector 901t, Selis’ DAPS System and Bühler’s LumoVision solution. Balaguer Rolls also took home the runner-up prize with their OptoSelector 2.0, and not to forget our other brilliant applications such as Eye-Grain’s iGrain-HACPP-App, Brabender’s FarinoAdd-S300, Dinnissen’s Pegasus Wingdoor Mixer, Ocrim’s Titanium Rollers and Bühler’s Moisture Pro, GrainiGo and NOVABLUE, to name but a few.

operator, through a control panel placed on the machine, will be able to automatically call the product requested by the formula.

We are also once again hosting The Animal Feed and Nutrition Awards, as part of VICTAM Animal Health and Nutrition Asia. These awards are given to the most innovative feed processing and nutrition solutions that benefit the market.

At VICTAM International 2019, we were very happy to crown three winners of the awards: Geelen Counterflow’s Electrical Dryer, Van Aarsen’s Hot Start Steam Mixer and Famsun’s SWFL1700 Vertical Pulveriser.

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It is the only identified protease able to act effectively when subject to a wide range of pH levels and remains stable up to 90 degrees centigrade.

Growease is a unique combination of hydrolysed proteins with enzymes contains high levels of all the essential amino acids and branched-chain amino acids. The solution also contains omega-3 fatty acids to aid a wide variety of essential bodily functions. The solution contains a minimum of 20 percent hydrolysed proteins and a up to one percent omega-3 fatty acids.

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Nearly all coolers are controlled manually based upon a number of basic measurements such as level of pellets inside the cooler and the temperature differential between the pellets at discharge and ambient air. Agentis Innovations have designed a complete automated control system for a cooler which discharges the feed based on a number of parameters including temperature and moisture. To the best of our knowledge, there is no other system in the market that is similar to M007 Cooler.

Cardesa is an automatic system for the manual dosing for micro-powder components.

The system is used for the semi-automatic compilation of recipes. In feed mills, very often a large number of powder ingredients are used, which are added in small quantities and for this, sometimes, it’s not convenient to use automatic dosing systems.

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The new ViscoQuick from Brabender put through its paces at Kröner-Stärke aboratory device manufacturer Brabender from Duisburg, Germany has developed a new device for the rapid determination of viscosity called the ViscoQuick. This instrument was tested over a period of four months in the laboratory of the Kröner-Stärke, a producer of (organic) wheat starch and gluten from Ibbenbüren. In this article, wehoat an interview with Matthias Evers (ME), Quality Manager at Kröner-Stärke, about his experience with the machine.

Kröner-Stärke is a family-run business currently managed by the third generation of owners and looks

Quality Manager Matthias Evers (left) and Commercial Director Henrik de Vries (right) are proud of the high-quality products of their company, KrönerStärke

back on more than 100 years of experience in the production of starches. For which sectors does KrönerStärke manufacture products, and who are its clients?

ME: Kröner-Stärke is a globally active company with representation in more than 20 countries and with approximately 110 employees. All products are produced in Ibbenbüren. In addition to the manufacturing of starch and gluten, Kröner-Stärke also develops tailored solutions for customers from the industrial, commercial, and skilled trades sectors.

The products are used primarily for the food industry, such as the baked goods industry, as well as in the pet food segment and many industrial sectors which perform further processing, whereby 40 percent of production is exported. Kröner-Stärke is also the leading provider of organic wheat starch and organic wheat gluten as well as gluten-free starches and flours. KrönerStärke has set itself apart from many other starch and gluten producers by not using microbiocides, extracting agents, additives, or enzymes.

What products does Kröner-Stärke manufacture, and what are the company’s specialties?

ME: Kröner-Stärke offers a wide range of starches and flours.

Options range from native starches, pre-gelatinised starches, wheat protein and pre-gelatinised flours to flour mixtures.

Products made from various raw materials are also available in various quality levels.

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customers worldwide are particularly high. In addition, we develop and produce customer-specific products, such as flour mixtures, and assist customers with the implementation of our products in process workflows as well as the optimisation of production processes.

Mr Evers, you have been working at Kröner-Stärke since 1996 and are responsible for quality control. What controls are performed in your company and what exactly do the quality controls look like in practice?

ME: I should first mention that production at Kröner-Stärke runs

round the clock, seven days a week. All products undergo a threestage control procedure. Before production, the raw materials are first subjected to an incoming goods inspection; this is particularly important, because we deal with natural products which are, of course, subject to natural fluctuations.

This is then followed by a check during production in order to ensure that there are no malfunctions. At the end, there is, of course, an outgoing inspection in order to verify and document the quality of the product. With the many products that Kröner-Stärke offers, a large number of samples are collected, the properties of which are analysed by a nine-man team.

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Delivers viscosity measurement curves within 10-15 minutes: The Brabender ViscoQuick scores top marks at Kröner-Stärke with its measurement speed and wide temperature range

These analyses require a relatively long time to perform, but at the same time need to be performed promptly in order to ensure that production runs optimally and that no defective batches are generated due to insufficient quality.

Which product properties are important for starches and how do you ensure the quality of your products?

ME: In order to be able to assess starches or products containing starch and their possible applications, it is important to know their solubility, their gelatinisation behaviour and their stability. Therefore, it is not only the quality of the raw material that plays an important role, but also its behavior during processing operations, where factors such as temperature, quantity, heating and cooling rates, as well as shear forces play a role.

In order to determine the gelatinisation behavior of starches and starch-containing products, temperature- and timeindependent viscosity measurements are conducted with the aid of the Brabender Viscograph.

For flours, the enzyme activity is also measured, as it has an influence on the gelatinisation properties and hence on the baking behavior. For this purpose, amylograms are recorded using the Brabender Amylograph-E and additional parameters identified, such as the falling number. For assessing the quality of the gelatinisation properties, we use a Viscograph or an Amylograph, depending on the specific application.

Kröner-Stärke not only produces standard products but also develops tailored solutions for customers.

What challenges does this result in for your laboratory tests?

ME: During our tests, we examine all raw materials and monitor production with our analyses. Naturally, both the speed of the test and reliable measurement results are important factors for the analyses.

These two factors affect not only work in the laboratory but the overall production as well. We also have a wide range of production operations. This means that it is important for us to be able to adapt the tests to the various applications in a manner that is as straightforward as possible.

This is also particularly important for the development of customer-specific solutions. In this case, we need to be able to react to the specific requirements by simulating the production processes as closely as possible with our analyses, for example with regard to temperature and the shear forces which occur.

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Mr Evers, you tested the new ViscoQuick from Brabender over a period of four months in your laboratory. What added value does the device offer?

ME: One advantage of the device is, first of all, the speed of the measurements. While measuring viscosity using the Viscograph required approximately 40 minutes-per-sample, it can be done in approximately 10-to-15 minutes with the ViscoQuick.

The shorter test period results from the significantly smaller sample size and the faster heating and cooling rates. This is already a significant advantage, whereby the device also features good reproducibility.

One additional plus factor of the new device is the wider temperature range with which the ViscoQuick can be configured.

This means that a wider range is available, providing greater flexibility. This is a highly interesting aspect, in particular for product developments, but also for the optimization of production workflows, as it allows reactions to be tailored more closely to requirements.

For which applications have you used the ViscoQuick?

ME: We have used the ViscoQuick both for production monitoring in our facilities and during collaboration with one of our clients to improve the production workflow. The project involved production planning from the raw material to the final product. With the measurements from the ViscoQuick, we were able to coordinate individual parameters and develop a sample which was communicated to the client.

How would you summarise what it’s like to work with the new analytical device?

ME: After being trained by Brabender staff, we were able to start performing the measurements without problems, as the device is easy to operate thanks to the integrated MetaBridge software.

We then performed various tests with different materials and compared the device with our current devices. We realised that the ViscoQuick was highly suited to determining the viscosity and/or the gelatinisation behavior of starch and starch-containing products.

You receive information rapidly and in a straightforward manner, whereby the device can be used in a highly flexibly manner for various products, for incoming goods inspections as well as in production and during product development. The ViscoQuick is also ideal for testing non-baked goods, such as sauces.

When it comes to baked goods, we assess the baking behavior and the enzyme activity with the Amylograph. The ViscoQuick is a valuable addition in this area and is highly recommended for rapid viscosity measurements and/or the viscosity curves against temperature. www.kroener-staerke.de www.brabender.com

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he most important consideration in milling long-grain rice is proper control of the polishing pressure. If the pressure is too low, then rice milling will not progress correctly. If the pressure is too high, it will break the rice grain. Milling long-grain using Japanese equipment for short-grain generates a large amount of broken rice. This is mainly due to the inner pressure of the frictional milling machine, which is specifically designed to be high for short-grain rice milling.

Long-grain rice cannot resist such high pressure and, thus, cracks. Moreover, high value varieties such as Basmati and Jasmine rice, mainly for exports, (and whose production yield impacts directly on profits), are even more likely to present a high broken rice rate, even compared to other long-grain rice varieties.

For that reason, careful attention must be paid to the selection of equipment and the operation of these varieties of rice. In addition, the temperature rise of the rice grain during the milling process causes the loss of its natural aroma, hence a suppression of this temperature rise is fundamental.

Since it is rare to find overseas rice processing plants handling wide varieties of rice in small lots like those in Japan, it is more critical to maintain stable performance over time once a machine is installed. Having stable machine performance without using complicated mechanisms such as automatic weight control, like the kinds used in Japan, is desirable.

Some Parboil rice production plants may mix a small amount of calcium carbonate with the raw materials. Parboil rice bran is usually more viscous than brown riceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bran and tends to accumulate inside the machinery and, thus, gives rise to more frequent cleaning. However, adding calcium carbonate can remove the bran deposit from the outset, thereby improving the cleaning frequency of the rice milling machine.

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itself. For this reason, white pig iron cast iron with improved wear resistance is used in the casting part, and the plate thickness of the part where the consumption is severe is increased in advance.

Depending on its variety, the shape (length, width, thickness), the bran thickness and the fragility of the rice, endosperm can be different. Although the milling characteristics of the rice can be determined from its country of origin and its variety to a certain level, ripeness, drying and husking processes do cause a wide range of different characteristics.

Satake combines abrasive, friction and wet milling types to provide high-quality, high yield rice milling which is unique to each milling facility. Specifically, the pressure needed for milling is dispersed as much as possible by adding the pressure gradually for four-to-five passes to minimise the grain temperature rise and broken rice. To seek high yield and quality, some facilities are using seven-to-eight milling machines to mill the rice.

The orientation of rice grain in the milling machine is also very important. If the pressure is applied to the weak belly part, the rice grain will break, and if the pressure is applied only to the tip that holds the germ, only that part will break and become broken at the nose.

Satake has established a rice milling technique for sake milling machines that maintains the rice kernel shape while maintaining peripheral speed and pressures. This technique is used to control the orientation of the rice inside the machine. The combination of rolls, screen and pulleys creates the optimum rice attitude and working pressure, while also controlling the brittle parts of the rice grain so that no excessive force is applied to it.

Satakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milling machinery for the overseas use mainly consist of abrasion VTA, friction VBF, and wet milling KB. Nowadays, the VTA and VBF are the mainstream models in Japan but these models were originally created from the needs of overseas customers in the early 1990s. By making the milling chamber vertical, (previously, it had been horizontal) rice can be filled to the full capacity in the milling chamber and can be polished uniformly and efficiently. Since then, due to the rice shortage

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The abrasion milling type, VTA

This solution uses an abrasive wheel to scrape the bran layers on the brown rice. Abrasive stones are available in a range from coarse to fine, depending on the variety and nature of the brown rice, and can be selected according to the process line configuration.

For example, when used to enhance the milling efficiency of subsequent friction milling, the coarse grinding stone is used. On the other hand, the fine stone is used in a milling line that requires several milling stages with lighter applied pressure, such as basmati rice milling.

The friction milling type, VBF

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The control of the internal polishing pressure is adjusted from the weight at the outlet, the three resistance clicks on the milling roll and indentation, as well as the slot angle of the screen. For this reason, several types of screens are available in the VBF so that the optimum screen can be selected, varying depending on the composition of the raw materials and the rice milling lines.

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The wet milling KB is one type of frictional rice milling machine. Water is added to the raw material to lightly remove the bran from the grain surface and, at the same time, to lower the temperature rise of the grain caused by the polishing process.

The water is only added in very small amounts, therefore, it disappears by thermal evaporation and is absorbed together with the bran, leaving no water drainage requirement. Compared to the same friction milling type (VBF), this machineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s structure is simpler and less costly. The milling pressure is lower, resulting from its horizontal design and, therefore, it is widely used for friction-based milling of long-grain rice. After nearly 40 years since its launch, KB is still one of the most popular milling machines worldwide.

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uring a recent trip to France to attend the JTIC show in Paris, the Milling And Grain editorial team stopped by Nord Céréales in Dunkirk. Here we met with Jean Phillipe Sainte Maresville to talk about the company’s pivotal role in the export and import of cereals to and from France.

“Nord Céréales is an ownership cooperative formed in 1984 by small farmers,” Jean-Phillipe explained. “We have 20 shareholders who sell to exporters who then sell to different countries.”

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Nord Céréales’ impressive complex of silos, docks, railheads and roadways are strategically situated in the central zone of the port of Dunkirk, which allows them access to vessels over the 14-m gauge via the Charles De Gaulle lock, with a capacity of 110,000 tonnes. They also enjoy easy road and rail access (a major motorway hub is close by, and the site enjoys major marshalling yards and railroad links that pass through the centre of the plant).

“On a good year we handle three million tonnes,” Jean-Philippe explained. Most of the grain comes from Northern France by truck, train, or barge. Nord-Céréales serves cooperatives and 72 | March 2020 - Milling and Grain

merchants from the Dunkirk hinterland, which is made up of three leading regions—Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Champagne, and Picardie—and accounts for forty percent of domestic grain production in France.”

According to Jean-Philippe, 40 percent of the grain arrives by truck, another 40 percent by boat and the remaining 20 percent by train. A recent trend is that train traffic is increasing while truck traffic is declining. “The coop members have better logistics with the trains,” Jean-Phillipe explained, “because most of our customers are in the Nord du pan Calais. There are a also lot of rivers so many use barges.”

Because Dunkirk is a major port, the many rail links give Nord- Céréales a competitive advantage over its rivals. “Dunkirk is the main grain terminal for the Nord du Calais La Rochelle,” Jean-Phillipe explained. “We have a lot of competition with Belgium. Starting four years ago we gained a new customer who ships to Dunkirk by train. Before they went to Rouan or Ostend, or Zebrugge in Belgium. These three are our biggest competitors.

The other large French ports for grain are Montrois, LeHavre, Rouan, and Marseilles. However, in Dunkirk we have a big advantage because we can load and unload two Panamax at the same time.”

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“We mostly handle wheat, corn, and barley,” Jean Phillipe added. “In the last two years we have begun importing wood

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Thanks to its eight ventilated concrete silos, the Nord-Céréales terminal boasts 222,000 tonnes of vertical storage, 110,000 tonnes of horizontal storage, and a 3,000 pont dryer.

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With these facilities, Nord-Céréales can take full charge of the grain as soon as it arrives. “The terminal relies on two unloaders,” Jean-Phillipe said, “both manufactured by Vigan.

The second Vigan, which is our newest, is the first of its kind in France, because France is not a country of importation. I saw the

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Nord- Céréales has one grab crane used for unloading barges.

When unloading a Panamax, it uses both the grab crane and the new Vigan, which can unload 600 tonnes an hour.

Jean Phillipe explained why he chose Vigan unloaders: “In my mind the Vigan is the simplest machine. My job is to repair the machines and if we have a machine with a lot of small parts, it is harder to repair. The Vigan is a basic machine and so is much easier to repair. Plus Vigan is the only company that builds the machine, then completely disassembles and checks it. The machine can then be very quickly reassembled on site. Their spout technology is better and doesn’t destroy or smash up the cereal. The pneumatic suction and elbow is gentler on the grain.

Our latest machine must have unloaded one million tonnes.

We’ve had it five years and I’ve never had to repair the spout.” ” Normally the grain or wood pellets are in the silos a maximum of 50 to 60 days. But our job is not to store cereal. Our job is to export cereal. So all the cooperatives cereals that come in and are then exported.

“We have two machines for loading: a Stolz loader and a Keyare loader. Each one can load 1,000 tonnes/hour. The trucks dump into a pit and then are elevated to the silo. The same goes for unloading the train. We have seven pits and each can handle 400 tonnes per hour. We are buying a third machine from Stolz.

Jean Phillipe explained that current plans are to build another silo on the dock’s edge by 2021. The new silo will be used to store wood pellets and corn.

Improving cereal quality

Another advantage Nord-Cereales enjoys is their ability to improve cereal quality, as Jean-Phillipe explained: “While we accept cereals from all over the world, we are responsible for the quality. If there are too many contaminants, I may refuse the wheat. I can increase the quality of the cereal by drying with our gas drying system, which has a capacity of 300 tonnes per hour. I also have a destoner to increase the weight and eliminate bad product. If the wheat comes here with a C quality, we can increase it to a B quality. Some of the silos have grain coolers attached to them. We have temperature sensors in each silo so we can monitor for infestations of aflatoxins, mycotoxins and insect infestations. We take samples from each barge, each truck and each train, which are then tested in our two laboratories for moisture, Hagberg falling number, insect infestation, etc.

Price of wheat

Jean-Phillipe noted that the price of wheat in France is subject to large fluctuations. ”My cost is four to five Euros per tonne. This is the going price In France. In Belgium the price is 3-1/2 to four Euros. The advantage of Dunkirk is fast loading/unloading. The daily cost of day of vessel unloading is very high so high they prefer to come to France and pay less. 60,000 tonnes is the average vessel size. The Panamax is the largest ship we unload everyday, which is about 90,000 tonnes; so it takes two to three days to unload a big ship. We are quicker than Ostend or Zeebrugge and they don’t have the destoner or drier.” www.nordcereales.fr/

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by Alex Kice, KICE Industries, USA ust explosions in the grain and milling industries usually start inside process equipment such as mills, dryers, mixers, classifiers, conveyors, storage silos and hoppers. Dust explosions can cause catastrophic loss of life, injuries, and destruction of facilities and assets.

Maintaining the solution

An important item that affects the continued performance of a dust control system is proper maintenance. When it comes to maintenance, dust control systems are often overlooked and ignored. If a piece of machinery (such as a conveyor) goes down, the whole operation is interrupted.

Such a disruption cannot be ignored and requires immediate attention. However, if a dust control duct gets plugged with material, it is often not even noticed since the suction will often progressively get worse. Soon, the dust control system is rendered ineffective due to a lack of attention. The solution is to include the dust control system in your planned maintenance program.

Troubleshooting the system

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duct or hood. Many of these problems will affect the amount of suction at the hood.

Therefore, by taking an air reading (static pressure) at the hood and comparing it with the reading recorded when the system was originally installed, it can be determined if the system is still functioning properly. This type of reading is simple to take, and the equipment required to do it is inexpensive and easy to use.

Some of the items you should think about when troubleshooting a problematic system could include:

Fan function

One of the items you need to double-check is the rotation of your fan in your dust collection system. Is the fan rotation correct and match the manufacturer’s requirement? This is often associated with motor change out. Fans that are turning the incorrect direction will still move some air but will not overcome nearly as much static as it is intended to.

Cleaning systems

Carefully examine your baghouse cleaning system. There are several parts working together for the baghouse filter to function properly. Any faulty item can affect the efficiency or operation of your baghouse. A magnehelic gauge has low pressure and highpressure port connection to the filter housing to measure internal pressure differential.

This gauge will read 0” – 10” w.c.. when the pressure drop reaches 6” w.c. new bags should be ordered, then changed when the baghouse reaches 8” w.c. As pressure drop increases, the fan damper should be opened more to maintain airflow.

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Dampers

If a single sheet of paper is held up by suction on the airlock discharge, then the airlock may be worn out. If no product is discharging from your baghouse, there is a plug somewhere that needs to be addressed. If dust is allowed to build up inside the baghouse, the overall performance of the system could be greatly affected.

Even small changes to a dust control system will affect the overall system. Once a system is balanced and functioning properly, it’s important to mark the location of dampers and free air inlets and, if possible, lock them into place to prevent accidental or unnecessary adjustments.

Lack of suction

It’s possible for a dust control system to pull too much air.

This may lead to the loss of “good” product. In this instance, it’s important to allow free air into the system or adjust your fan if necessary.

If there is a noticeable decrease in suction at your pickup points, considering addressing the following items: • • • • • •

Someone changed the dampers Fan running backward Filter bags blinded over Line plugged with dust Leaks in ducting Hood design

Suction fan discharge

Bags will get worn out and tear over time. But you can also have bags that are not installed correctly. It is relatively common that filter bags are not properly installed. Bag installation is just as important as any other component.

If broken bags are an issue or the location of the broken bag is in a specific part on the filter, you need to look at ways to protect against wear. For example, consider using a material handling inlet which enters the baghouse housing below the bags and has a shroud to prevent material from impacting the bags. Too frequent pulse cleaning can lead to premature bag failure, as well.

Pulling good product over

Filter bags have been changed too often

Do you have to put in new bags more often than expected?

Why is that? Well, it’s possible your filter is undersized. As we know, air to cloth ratio is a very important part of sizing a baghouse filter. If you have a poor design to begin with, perhaps it’s undersized to begin with. Or if this filter was purchased 25 years ago for one application and has been reallocated for another, perhaps it’s undersized for that process.

Over time, we modify systems to get them to a point to operate and sometimes that includes adding more air or more concentration of dust into a dust collection line. Ask yourself what has changed? Has anything changed that is going to contribute to that higher pressure drop? Also, don’t forget about checking your timer board settings on the reverse air cleaning system.

Bag cleaning pump

• Wet dust indicates leaks in ducting, housing, etc. during rain or snow conditions • Dust gets heavier and lays in line • Agglomerates on the surface of the bag

Some baghouse systems use a PD pump to provide the cleaning air. It’s important to monitor and maintain the PD pump as part of the overall dust collection system. Is there too little CFM and too high of pressure with the PD blower? Is the PD blower speed too high? Try decreasing the off time to allow the tank to get to higher set pressure. Typical cleaning pressure on systems that utilize a PD pump is 10 – 12 PSIG. If the blower is not able to build up to that pressure, the bags will not be cleaned as well as they should be.

Bridge location

Cleaning valves

Dust change

If excessive moisture is allowed into a dust collection system many issues may arise, including:

Is it bridged above or below the airlock? Worn airlock clearance allows air to leak into the filter. As with any type of product, dust must be allowed to flow freely and easily. Improper duct or hopper angles and chokepoints can lead to bridging issues.

Timing

It is important to understand the overall system. Knowing how it operates in optimal and upset conditions can help you identify issues before they become problematic. Does it happen at certain times, such as light product collection or spring/fall?

Dirty filter bags

Are the filter bags dirty and need changing? Any baghouse filter should have a magnehelic gauge installed. This will measure the pressure drop across the baghouse and allow the operator to have knowledge of how dirty the bags are becoming over time.

Noises

Although most facilities are noisy during operation, air leaks and equipment faults can often be heard or detected, such as screeches, squalls, bearings, belts, metal-on-metal.

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Any pulse jet style baghouse should contain an electronic timer board. This board will allow you to adjust the time between pulses as well as the duration of each pulse. Too frequent pulsing can lead to premature bag wear. Infrequent pulsing can lead to more frequent bag changes. It’s important to find the right balance and set accordingly.

Explosion vent

If explosion vents fail prematurely, it’s possible that there is unnecessary stress on the panel. The system shut down sequence is important so you don’t add stress to the panel.

Several styles of panels are available for unusual or problematic systems.

Working with an experienced and reputable system designer will help ensure you are installing a safe and cost-effective solution. Kice Industries has been designing, analysing, and building dust control systems and equipment for over 70 years. When designing a dust control system, one must consider many factors. Kice engineers understand the principles of handling air and apply their experience to every situation. www.kiceindustries.com

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How to protect mills from combustible dust hazards

by Fike Corporation

illing, mixing, conveying and packaging often produce significant amounts of dust in the air inside mills and in their processing equipment. Because flour is a highly combustible dust, safety measures must be taken to ensure the facility and its employees are fully protected from potential hazards involving combustible dust.

Certain inherent characteristics make mills particularly susceptible to dust explosions.

Firstly, the process of milling is to separate wheat grain from its constituents in the form of a fine powder. The finer the dust, the easier combustion can be ignited and the higher its “rate of pressure rise (KST),” which is the velocity at which the pressure in a device increases if combustion occurs. Furthermore, this fine dust has a greater tendency to collect in the mill’s infeed and outfeed hoppers, and to find its way into other areas of production.

Secondly, grinding grain requires many fast-rotating operations and parts, which can create hot surfaces and sparks due to friction. This process, coupled with the transportation of fine powder via conveyors or air jets, produce various potential ignition sources that must be considered.

It’s important to remember that even if an incident hasn’t occurred in the past, that doesn’t mean the process is immune from a combustible dust hazard.

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includes protecting vessels from a primary explosion (via deflagration venting or chemical suppression) and isolating interconnected ducts, tubes, screws or pipes from secondary explosions (via mechanical or chemical isolation devices).

Mills’ infeed and outfeed hoppers often are protected with these traditional venting and suppressing methods. However, the mills

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Protecting the vessel (mill) from primary explosions

Mills’ size limitations often make traditional methods of deflagrations venting and suppressing unobtainable. When venting and suppressing isn’t possible, the often-recommended strategy involves a mill “containing” the primary deflagration and pressure wave.

In other words, a vessel with a Maximum Allowable Working Pressure (MAWP) higher than the dust’s PMAX (the maximum pressure developed in an enclosed deflagration), will be strong enough to withstand the pressure.

Therefore, if the mill or other processing equipment is built to contain the initial pressure, it’s the secondary deflagrations into upstream and downstream equipment that are of most concern in the milling process.

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Protecting interconnected equipment from secondary explosions

While the primary deflagration may be contained in the mill, deflagrations must be isolated from interconnected equipment where secondary explosions are likely. Both experimental evidence and past catastrophes have proven that these secondary explosions may become increasingly more damaging due to three phenomena1: Flame acceleration: Gas flow created by the primary explosion in a vessel will stretch the propagating flame into the pipes, increasing its surface area and rate of combustion, and thus leading to higher flame speeds and pressure. Eventually, the initial deflagration can become a detonation, resulting in much higher explosion pressures Flame jet ignition: When the initial flame reaches the secondary enclosure, it will ignite the remaining unburned material more violently and lead to higher explosion pressures and rates of pressure rise Pressure piling: Gas expansion from the primary explosion will increase pressure into the pipes and the secondary enclosure prior to the passage of the flame, leading to a more violent explosion than for ambient conditions A robust explosion isolation system can keep deflagrations from reaching interconnected processes and causing secondary explosions. Two types of isolation systems may be used: active and passive.

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isolation valves or chemical isolation units. Benefits of active systems include: • Cost of additional containers may be minimal (if suppression system is already installed) • Able to isolate on larger ducts • Can be used to block spark propagation • Reduced pressure drop over the active devices • Ability to view pressure curve of a deflagration event • Can support higher KST (relative explosion severity compared to other dusts) and Pred (maximum allowable pressure to prevent deformation of an enclosure) A passive explosion protection system mitigates or prevents the effects of a deflagration in which the explosion isolation valves are activated in response to the deflagration pressure. Benefits of passive systems include:

• Operates under normal conditions and activates upon pressure increase • Eliminates the need for electronic monitoring system to activate the device • Eliminates maintenance by factory-certified technician required with active systems • Can be inspected and reset without significant downtime • More cost-effective option, if primary deflagration protection is not designed with electronic monitoring e.g. with explosion venting or containment Combustible dust protection expert Fike can perform a site survey of your facility, which will then determine the best solutions to help you reach ATEX compliance and protect people, product and processes from combustible dust hazards. www.Fike.com

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Westrup

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ith over 60 years of experience in the seeds and grain industry, Westrup is a reliable solutions provider that many can attest truly understand how the industry works and how to create the best machinery for your needs. Westrup place a key emphasis on adapting to change, and this is clear in how they continue to innovate and improve every year to reflect the ever-changing technologies in the seeds and grain industries.

First established in 1958 by brothers Troels and Knud Westrup, the brothers took their already impressive knowledge of seed processing machinery to a new level by laying the first foundations for Westrup. From humble beginnings in their garage at home, the brothers soon discovered that the company showed real promise and began to develop.

Expansion soon occurred in the form of a production facility in 1964 in Soroevej, Denmark, the location where Westrup remain to this day. The variety of Westrup innovations continue to come out of Soroevej and they are now known as reliable and professional manufacturers of grain and seed processing technologies around the world.

Their first indented cylinder was built in 1972, followed by the establishment of their modular programme in 1984. A US facility soon followed in 1987, as well as in 1994 facilities

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being built in both France and Germany. In 2007 a facility was established in the South Pacific and in 2009 a sales office in China. In 2018 Westrup celebrated their 60th anniversary.

One particularly impressive service Westrup offer is their test centres, where clients can get their grains and seeds tested on small-scale machines. In doing this, Westrup can inform clients of the best ways in which to utilise Westrup machines in order to get the most out of each and every solution, ensuring success every time.

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“We know that a seed is not just a seed and a grain not simply a grain, therefore we help our customers understand each process and teach how to evaluate the product and adjust the machines accordingly. This way, they will achieve the outcome they are looking for”, says Anders Thorsted, CEO. Preventative maintenance is a service also offered by Westrup, in which Westrup colleagues carry out repairs and give solutions dedicated check-ups.

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Mill renovation for Loulis Group is completed by Henry Simon

eing one of the oldest milling groups in Greece, Loulis started their business in the seventeenth century with a waterdriven stone mill at Aetorahi, Ioannina.

Today, the group is one of the leading milling companies in Greece, and currently active in Greece and Bulgaria with four manufacturing plants. The total milling capacity of the group is around 1,400 tonnes-per-day) with also having their own nationwide distribution network.

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Loulis recently made a new investment by purchasing an industrial mill in North-East Bulgaria (Dobrich region) through its subsidiary company Loulis Mel, Bulgaria EAD. The investment focuses on serving the growing demands in Balkans including Bulgaria and Romania.

The new mill facility has a 100tpd semi-hard wheat processing capacity and 9,000 metric tonnes capacity of steel storage silos, located on a plot of 21,000sqm. The mill was completely established as a turnkey project by Alapala in 2015. The mill is upgraded again

by Henry Simon to satisfy the increasing flour demand from the region in 2019 after it has been taken over by Loulis Group.

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The mill has gone through significant changes with the state-of-the-art engineering and renovation work.

The capacity of the mill is increased from 100tpd to 130tpd with new process design and modern milling machines. The renovation covers replacing the old equipment by six Henry Simon direct pick-up roller mills (HSRM) and two plan sifters (HSQP), with Advanced Sensor Technology.

The mill has also silos that can hold up to 430 metric tonnes of flour, 100 metric tonnes of bran silos. Moreover, a final product warehouse with a capacity of more than 750 metric tonnes. Product handling is carried out with pneumatic and mechanic transportation equipment, which

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COUNTRY PROFILE: THAILAND

Mehmet Ugur Gürkaynak, Regional Director - Turkey, Eurasia and Middle East, Milling and Grain

Geolocation The official name of the country is the Kingdom of Thailand, which is historically a Siam name. Interestingly, the country can be can be considered, geographically, as five unique regions. The northern region is home to many narrow valleys and forests, the central region is renowned for its green and fertile plain, the northeast region possesses a rugged and arid structure, the industrially important eastern region is home to many and the southern region is home to a very tropical climate. As a result of this, Thailand has all the characteristics and culture of a typical Asian country.

The country’s climate is generally humid and hot throughout the year. Although it varies by region, the temperature is around 27 °C on average. The plains in the central region have a largely rainy environment. Summer monsoons, which often cause heavy rains between June and October, are frequently occuring. The months of March and May are hot, it is rainy between June and October and often cooler between November and February.

The capital of the country is Bangkok. Other major cities include Nakhon Ratchasima, Ubon Ratchathani, Chiang Mai, Udon Thani and Nakorn Srithammarat.

Located in the heart of Southeast Asia, Thailand is adjacent to Laos in the north and northeast, Myanmar in the north and west, Cambodia in the east and Malaysia in the south. Thailand has a surface area of ​​513.120 km².

Economic structure The traditional livelihood of the country is agriculture. However, since the 1980s, the export-oriented economy has gained weight and significant growth with the investments and supports made by the state for the textile and clothing sector, the computer technologies and the automotive industries since the 1990s. For this reason, the Thai economy has been one of the emerging economies of Southeast Asia in recent years that has seen a grear deal of growth and has become very effective in global markets.

Approximately half of the Thai economy is part of the industrial sector. Although the agricultural sector meets a small part of the country’s economy, rougly 10 percent, it is the livelihood of almost half of its labour force.

Major export items from Thailand include machinery, electrical and electronic equipment, nuclear reactors, vehicles, rubber and mineral fuels. On the other hand, construction materials such as iron and steel products, motor vehicles, petroleum oils and gold are also the main goods it imports.

The agricultural sector has been losing its key place in Thailand’s economy in recent years and its share in the economy has decreased significantly. Its share in GDP in recent years has been around 13 percent. While employment in the agricultural sector was 52 percent in 1995, this level has fallen below 40 percent in recent years.

The central plains is the area with the most efficient resources.

Here, cotton, corn, cassava and pineapple are grown. Half of the cultivated area, which is 20 million hectares, consists of rice paddy.

In terms of productivity in general, the Thai agricultural sector is inefficient. As a solution to this, the Thai government promotes the use of technology in agriculture and cooperates with other countries to increase the export of products.

The main agricultural product present in the country is rice. It is grown in the central plains section by the rice irrigation method.

However, rain water is sufficient in other regions.

Rice Rice is the most important food product in Thailand. The total cultivation area of rice ​​ is 11 million ha and corresponds to approximately 40 percent of the total cultivated land.

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Rice fields, irrigated and fed with rain, can be classified as plateau ecosystems. More than 80 percent of the rice growing area in Thailand are regions irrigated with monsoon rains, but where the product is harvested once a year. 20 percent of them are regions where crops are obtained more than once a year but irrigation is mandatory for this.

The main policy regarding rice production in Thailand is to produce enough rice for itself, then produce more, export and provide foreign currency input to the country.

May is generally the preferred month for rice planting to begin.

Most Thai farmers must wait for seasonal rain for planting.

Farmers are trying to solve this problem by digging canals in rice fields. They organise rituals in order to increase the fertility of the soil. Rocket festivals around Gecko Villa are examples of this.

The walls made of mud in the rice fields are designed to hold water in the paddy. From here, holes are drilled at some points in the mud walls to irrigate the lower levels of paddy, allowing the water to flow down from the high areas.

Rice, which can be harvested until the end of November, is collected by farmers.

Corn Corn is an important agricultural product in Thailand in terms of use in both food and feed industries. Sweet corn, in particular, is an economically important product and is exported to international markets as canned corn.

The main export markets for canned corn are Taiwan, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. Recently, the Middle East has taken its place among the new export market for canned corn in Thailand.

Domestic corn demand, which was approximately 5.72 million tonnes in 2015, increased to 5.85 million tonnes in 2016. The main reason is the development of the livestock industry and, therefore, the increase in demand for corn, which will be used in animal feed manufacturing. As is known, corn is the most important input for the poultry industry. Feed demand increased by five percent in 2016 due to the increase in poultry and pig production within the country.

Thailand is ranked 24th among the world’s largest seed exporters. It is the third largest seed exporter in Asia after China and Japan. Among the seed varieties produced by Thailand, corn covers a large portion of total exports and imports in terms of value.

Approximately 35 percent of the seed export values are ​​ obtained from corn seed export. If sweet corn seed is added to this, total corn seed export reaches 42 percent.

Thailand imports corn seed in maize season due to insufficient production in the domestic market.

Fishery The Gulf of Thailand and Andaman Sea, which have abundant natural resources, make Thailand the largest seafood producer and exporters in the world. Shrimp in this region, which is famous for its high quality flavour, is the main economic seafood sourced in the country. The country has a beach for fsmring shrimp that is more than 2,500 kilometers long. In addition, there are 22 national marine parks, 936 islands and a

total sea area of 316,118 ​​ square metres.

According to the information obtained in various studies, the total export value of Thailand’s frozen, canned and processed seafood increased by 8.6 percent compared to the previous year, reaching US $4.54 billion, excluding shrimp. Major countries to which these products are exported include the USA, Japan, China, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Half of the canned tuna supply worldwide is made by Thailand.

The increase in the demand for seafood around the world has brought the attention here and private companies to invest in the Thai seafood industry. American food and agriculture company Cargill invested about $70 million into the implementation of technology and innovation to create an efficient and sustainable supply chain at the end of 2018.

However, many Thai private companies prefer to invest in neighboring countries instead of Thailand because they have lower labour costs.

On the other hand, it can be expected that Thailand will take advantage of the ongoing trade wars between the USA and China. Since the two countries add increased tariffs to each other’s products, it is likely that Thailand will increase its share in seafood exports to China. Thailand normally crab and shrimp to China in vast abundance.

You can contact the author at - mehmetg@perendale.com

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11–13 AgriTek/FarmTek Astana 2020 Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan www.agriastana.kz According to official statistics, AgriTek/FarmTek Astana 2019 was attended by 4510 business members, a great success for the event and proving that it is growing significantly year on year. The 2020 rendition is set to be even better than the last, and covers a wide variety of topics concerning harvesting, farming technology, additives, horticulture, heating and air conditioning for plants, animal breeding, livestock and much, much more.

The event is supported by the Ministry of Agriculture, as well as the Union of Farmers of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhstan Union of Poultry Farmers.

17-19 Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference 2020 Seattle, Washington, USA www.afia.org 18-20 ILDEX Vietnam Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam www.ildex-vietnam.com

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7-13 PIX AMC 2020 Gold Coast, Australia www.pixamc.com.au

The Build My Feed Mill Seminar will once again take place during VICTAM Asia and Animal Health and Nutrition Asia on March 25th, 2020, 13:30-15:30.

During the Build my Feed Mill Conference, 10-12 companies are given the chance to present 10-minute presentations about how their solutions assist feed millers in their everyday processes and practices.

The final line-up includes FrigorTec GmbH, PLP Liquid Systems, Halieutica, So Lead Consulting, Tietjen, Amandus Kahl and SCE Silo Construction and Engineering, to name but a few. Contact Rebecca Sherratt at rebeccas@perendale.co.uk for more information.

2020

28-30 Livestock Philippines 2020 Manila, Philippines www.livestockphilippines.com 10-11 Cereals 2020 Cambridge, UK www.cerealsevent.co.uk 23-26 FOOMA Japan 2020 Osaka, Japan www.foomajapan.jp

April 1-2 Solids Dortmund 2020 Dortmund, Germany www.easyfairs.com

National and international exhibitors will present their technologies and solutions for the processing, handling, storage, transport and analysis of powders, granules and bulk solids sectors at Solids Dortmund 2020. Trade visitors are top decision-makers and buyers searching for specific solutions and come from processing industries such as mechanical and plant engineering, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, mining, stone and earth extraction, food and feed, metal, glass and recycling.

Solids Dortmund brings together 500 exhibitors with over 6,200 trade visitors. The focus is on the exchange of products and technical innovations in the processing industry. The entire value-added chain of process engineering for powders, granules and bulk solids will be presented on site.

2020

July 8-10 Indo Livestock 2020 Jakarta, Indonesia www.indolivestock.com

2020

September 15-18 SPACE 2020 France http://uk.space.fr 15-17 AFIA Liquid Feed Symposium 2020 Chicago, Illinois, USA www.afia.org

7-9 ☑ 124th IAOM Annual Conference and Expo Portland, Oregon, USA www.iaom.info

21-24 GEAPS Exchange 2020 Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA www.geaps.com/exchange-expo

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23 The Aqua Feed Extrusion Conference Bangkok, Thailand bit.ly/extasia20

15-17 16th ICC Cereal and Bread Congress Christchurch, New Zealand www.icbc2020.icc.or.at 27-1 Agrishow 2020 Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil www.agrishow.com.br

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TBA Livestock Taiwan 2020 Taiwan www.livestocktaiwan.com TBA JTIC 2020 France www.jtic.eu 1-3 NAMA Annual Meeting 2020 White Sulphur Springs, USA www.namamillers.org

May

14-16 Vietstock 2020 Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam www.vietstock.org

7-13 Interpack 2020 Düsseldorf, Germany www.interpack.com

21-23 FIGAP 2020 Guadakajara, Mexico www.figap.com

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EVENT ROUND UP Livestock Philippines Livestock Philippines is the International Trade Fair for innovative equipment and technology for livestock production and has developed an outstanding reputation since 2011 as the Philippines’ premier event for the aquaculture, feed milling and meat industries and continues to grow bigger and better with each show.

Supported by the Department of Agriculture, Livestock Philippines is the event that will bring together thousands of decision makers including integrators, farmers, feed millers, pre-mixers, meat processors, veterinarians, distributors, retailers and other industry members.

An estimated 280+ exhibitors are due to be attending the 2019 rendition of the event from over 30 countries, including companies from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Thailand, Spain, Taiwan, the UK, Turkey and The Netherlands. Confirmed exhibitors include 4B, Biomin, Changzhou Honghuan Machinery, Ottevanger Milling Engineers, Singao and Yemtar.

A VIP package is also available which gains attendees access to the VIP lounge special suites and a complimentary copy of the exhibition guide. 22 percent of attendees specialise in poultry production, whilst the second-most popular visitors are swine production experts, followed by feed manufacturers, crop, maize and corn producers as well as members of the veterinary drugs industry.

The exhibition is taking place 28-30th May, 2020 at the World Trade Centre Metro Manila in Pasay City.

PIX AMC The theme of the Poultry Information Exchange (PIX) and Australasian Milling Conference (AMC) 2020 is ‘Beyond 2020 – Feeding the Future’ and will provide attendees with a comprehensive program with the latest in innovation and information, featuring knowledgeable industry experts from both Australia and overseas. The event is taking place May 17-19th, 2020.

The program will discuss chicken meat, egg production, free range and organic farming, flour milling and feed milling for all livestock species, including beef, dairy, pigs and others. There will be topics of interest for each and every delegate.

Workshops on numerous special interest areas encompassing all aspects of the poultry industry will also be on offer. For the more technically minded, the Australasian Veterinary Poultry Association (AVPA) will again be holding a scientific meeting after the conference.

The highlight of the conference will be the trade display area, which is the industry’s largest and most extensive to-date. With over 250 booths on display, exhibitors will be on hand to demonstrate their latest products and equipment.

Early-bird registration closes this month, so secure your seat now! Standard registration will remain open until May.

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VIDEO: IPPE Walk About 2020

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IPPE 2020 An excellent show “My exhibitors are telling me so”

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by Roger Gilbert, Publisher, MAG

ttending exhibitions and conferences is a key to staying informed about the latest developments and thinking our industry is adopting and offering an opportunity for us to engage directly with individuals with useful knowledge and advice.

Re-establishing links with companies that have assisted us in the past, are our current suppliers or just being exposed to new ideas and suggestion as we walk around, the time and expense spent in attending can be paid back many times over.

IPPE 2020, held in late January, was an excellent example of how our industry disseminates knowledge, information and technology throughout the globalised feed industry.

Mr Nath Morris, the Expo Manager for IPPE, says the threeday event attracted over 31,500 visitors, reflecting “an eight

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percent increase over 2019 which is always good,” during what is offering a warmer welcome each year weather-wise, he told MAG. “I think it’s been an excellent show because my exhibitors are telling me so.”

“The Georgia World Congress Centre has had an expansion that most people didn’t see last year, and which took up where the dock area was,” Morris continued. “We had some nice walls, but no-one could really tell what was going to happen. We were expecting it to be ready for this year, but we didn’t want to sell booths in that area just in case there was a delay in construction.

“But it was ready in November and we placed universities, government booths, attendee engagement areas, and a 12,000 square foot food court. The Congress Centre really stepped up their game and put some really nice areas in for visitors to have meals and a seat which was very well attended.”

Bringing visitors through that connecting area - now designated the ‘B-to-C Hall’ - made everything flow smoother for those transferring from Hall B to Hall C, he adds.

The international attendance was acceptable, given the developing Coronavirus issue (CoVId-19) restricting visitors coming in from Asia,” says Morris.

Because of the Corona virus crisis, IPPE’s one feed exhibitor from Wuhan in China called in to cancel their participation.

“The CoVId-19 issue that is occurring in Asia affected the number of visitors coming from Asia. But everywhere else: Latin America, Western Europe, and South America was very good,” he added.

Hall A, the most important venue for the feed sector, was full to capacity. Although overall total square footage was down, the number of exhibitors attending the feed hall was up, with several signing up in the latter few weeks.

“Total exhibition numbers are down this year as there’s a group that attendes every second year,” Mr Morris adds. However, that did not detract from the experience of visitors to Hall A.

AFIA – A global conversation

This was the first opportunity for MAG to meet and interview the new President and CEO of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA) at IPPE 2020, Ms Constance Cullman.

She’s now been in her position for six months and wanted to discuss some of her first-hand experiences (read the full interview with Ms Culman at the back of this edition).

“My first-hand experience is one of a fabulous industry, ”Cullman says. “It’s very innovative, far reaching and on the edge of addressing many of the problems and solutions that we see in agriculture today.The issues the industry is facing in the immediate future, include the international situation and trade disruptions we have seen, another is labour and finding skilled employees of all levels to work within the industry and the third and most provocative would be sustainability.”

“We are looking at about a 3.5 percent unemployment rate here in the US right now and to find skilled and unskilled workers in the feed sector has become a bit of a challenge and the management of our member companies have been trying to find suitable labour which is a very difficult situation right across the USA.” The recently signed US-China Phase One Trade Agreement between the two countries is having a major positive impact on the USA’s feed sector, she adds.

“The progress is very positive for the feed industry as here in the US we do rely on China as a major trading partner as well as major source of many ingredients for the feed sector.

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Agreement that was recently signed, helps clear up some of the unpredictability and uncertainty that our members are facing.”

She adds that this will assist the labour situation and give the industry more confidence.

“Companies should be feeling a little more optimistic about making that intense investment in skill sets.”

When MAG asked if the labour shortages being experienced are just in the USA, Ms Cullman said she thought, “it is probably wider. When I talk to my colleagues in Europe and South America they can find people, but can they find the right people—especially when you talk about technologically complex issues and products?”

The USA feed industry is heavily involved in offering scholarships and reaching out and initiating training within the industry. They are not just student orientated but also wants help people to develop their trade skills.

“We have to generate interest by positioning ourselves as an interesting career choice for those mid-career people who are looking for a change,” Cullman adds.

Finally, on the question of feed industry sustainability Ms Cullman says it’s one of her passions.

“Too often we get caught up in defending attacks on our systems and what we do, when really we’ve been a solution for sustainability for a long time.

“We offer a unique solution because we are looking at biogenic systems that are closed, that don’t add increased impacts on environmental challenges but rather ones that with simple mitigation and simple changes in innovation are much more of a solution - we are a value proposition that no one knows about.”

She says that we really need to be talking international about the ‘value proposition’ that the industry brings to sustainability.

“The focus on animal livestock and animal agriculture is not happening just in the US, nor just in the UK or in Asia. We need to have a global conversation about that. Our environmental challenges don’t understand country boundary lines, they are global in nature and I think for us to be able to coordinate and share some of the lessons we have learned in different parts of the world that have more sophisticated systems with other parts of the world benefiting from those is critical,” she concludes

Chinese New Year - interrupted

For Chinese companies exhibiting at IPPE 2020, it meant missing their New Year celebrations. It is obvious that if IPPE wants to have the growing participation of the Chinese feed sector then the timing of this event will have to take into consideration this time of national celebration.

Mr Liu Guangdao, Director and vice-President of Famous Group in China says Chinese New Year is very important to all Chinese. It’s a time when they come together with their families for an extended period.

However, this year commitments for his staff to travel were made long before the outbreak of CoVId-19 and, with the situation changing within China on a daily basis, it was a concern that his staff and those from other Chinese companies might have difficultly returning home.

He told MAG that the impact of the virus on the feed industry was being immediately felt in the transportation of feed rations to farms.

“In the short term it has had an impact is transportation, especially during January and February. We are hopeful that March will see this improve.” He believes that February would be a critical month for the country to come to terms in controlling the spread of CoVId-19.

Bob Chen, also of Famsun, told MAG on February 22 that over 100 Famsun engineers had gone back to customers’ feedmill projects under construction both in China and abroad after an extended Chinese New Year holiday.

“Our engineers will be self-isolated for 14 days in special protective cabins once they come back to construction sites,” he says.

“After the observation period, they will go back to their positions for installation, commissioning, management, supervision and machine operation training.”

The other virus affecting the Chinese feed industry is African Swine Fever (ASF) which Mr Liu believes the industry will recover from gradually throughout 2020.

“The feed industry in China is very stable now and we expect the industry to do better and better this coming year.”

Despite these conditions, the company was very proud to present its largest pellet mill at IPPE 2020. It can produce 17 tonnes per hour of poultry feed rations. It has been designed in the USA by the company’s dedicated R&D team, built in China, and shipped back to the USA. This is the first time it has been exhibited. It will also be shown at this year’s Victam show in Bangkok in March.

“It’s now available to all parts of the world and interest is also being shown from Brazil and other Latin American countries,” says Mr Liu. “We are getting enquiries from our important customers in South American, India, Bangladesh, Pakistan an even from China,” he adds.

Not all is new at IPPE

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equipment. The strategy involves buying refurbished equipment from all over the USA and selling worldwide at affordable prices. As they have become more successful they have extended their factory and now produce a range of new equipment as well.

“Over the years we have built more new stuff and it’s going into feed manufacturing, biomass, recycling and other integration plants. We like to offer used and new and to integrate them into each customer’s system,” adds Mr Hirchler.

The company is exporting to Canada, Mexico, Latin America and the South Pacific but wants to expand beyond those markets.

The range of equipment the company refurbishes includes pellet mills, vertical and horizontal coolers (new and used), hammer mills, mixers, roller mills and “pretty much anything you can see in a feedmill.”

The company gives a 90-day guarantee on used equipment and offers a full refund and a one-year warranty on its new equipment.

“We are trying to grow and branch out into new areas all the time. IPPE is very important for us. This is a world class show. We have been coming for over 30 years and it is our main show. This year the weather has been great and the people and the traffic has been really good.”

There is a lot more to this show than can be accommodated here in MAG and that is the benefit of visiting in person.

We have carried out several interviews with companies attending the event and they are hosted on our www. millingandgrain.com website under the tab ‘MAGTV.’ There is a ‘Walk About’ wrap-up of exhibition stands taken on the last day of the show to highlight the range of companies and equipment on display.

You will also find pictures of the event on our Facebook page. We are happy to have met so many of our customers, readers and writers at this highly relevant show for the international feed sector. We look forward to seeing many of you in Atlanta next year and meeting new people.

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A centennial site in full revival

Profile

Chief Phénix

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reated in 1909, Phénix testifies to a know-how served by modern techniques and a will to progress. Since the 1960s, Phénix has specialised in storage silos and metal covers. This international experience has made Phénix a major player across all of Europe and Africa. Through its innovation, its tailor-made technology, and its integrated design office, Phénix remains a trusted partner for global agriculture.

Chief Phénix is a division of Chief Industries, Nebraska, US, a third-generation, family owned, service-oriented manufacturer since 1954. From humble beginnings, to a diverse, global corporation featuring seven brands, our strength comes from our people, collaboration, and open communication.

Current Chairman and CEO, DJ Eihusen states, “The strength of Chief Industries comes from its ability to benefit from the diversity of its family of brands,” says DJ Eihusen.

“Working together keeps costs low, deadlines met, and workers employed. The future looks very bright for continued growth.”

Chief Phénix is in the forefront of the European Agriculture Economy, recently obtaining their certification in the German Market. “Our primary purpose is to offer quality products that meet the very high and strict European standards”, says Patrice Lepinois, new Site Manager. Located in Rousies, France, Chief Phénix is the only French subsidiary of Chief Industries.

The company’s recent renewal is directly linked to their recent investments in safety, employee training, and continued production and equipment apprenticeship. Similar to the mythological Phoenix, Chief as a company in a state of reinvention and consistently looks for innovative and cost-effective solutions.

Utilising new 3D software, each location has an appointed Global Design Team dedicated to brand development, research, and redevelopment in each of their extensive and diverse product lines.

Historically proven, there is strength in numbers and being one of three locations, Chief Phénix shares commercial and technical support from the United States (Kearney, Nebraska). Our Chief mission is simple, to provide unparalleled personal attention to meeting the needs of our customers while treating all stakeholders with dignity and respect, thereby ensuring our strength and stability.

Chief Phénix is currently expanding their global market into Africa, as well as gaining the trust of their new partners. With an ever-growing sales staff and solid reputation, other new markets on the horizon include Denmark, Romania, and the Czech Republic.

Our staff is now at full force, bringing the Chief employee count from 36 to 47. Going into 2020, our primary focus will be on our valued employees and our finished product.

“Our staff is local, well trained, experienced. Formal training in our field does not exist, it is the tenured ones who transmit their know-how to the new ones. True craftsmanship.”

Crediting its tailor-made technology, the ability to meet EC and EUROCODE standards (replacing the old national standards), Chief Phénix offers a personalised, quality brand of service available for international, national, and local industrialists and farmers.

Offering 100 years of French manufacturing, 50 years of experience in silos and hoods, and flexible and economical storage solutions, Chief Phénix is more than ready to begin again with a new, long life.

Chief Phénix Products include: Industrial and agricultural outdoor silos Interior farm silos Corrugated water and slurry tanks Conical bottoms and floors Ventilation

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the interview

Constance Cullman, CEO and President, AFIA

Ms Constance Cullman, who is the CEO and President of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA), taking up her position in October 2019, started her career working in academia supporting farmers, helping them with livestock forecasts and understanding how markets might look for the year ahead. She’s an ag-economist by training, and this often informs the approach she takes towards industry issues.

Following this, she worked directly for a farming organisation in the late 1990s, at a time when the industry first started talking about sustainability issues; an interesting time for issues that were challenging farmers on trade and the environment.

After this experience, Ms Cullman moved to the US government’s Foreign Agricultural Service to work alongside the country’s major trading partners before joining the corn refining industry where she carried out advocacy work for a major agri-business in the area of technology pesticides and biotechnology - as its head of a government affairs program.

Milling and Grain caught up with Ms Cullman on the AFIA booth at the recent IPPE 2020 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA held in late January 2020.

You’ve recently taken over the mantle of president and CEO of the American Feed Industry Association (AFIA); what were some of your first impressions of the feed industry?

My first impression of the animal food industry is that it’s a dynamic industry, where innovation is playing a key role in turning animal nutrition and feed into a solution for some of the challenges we’re facing in today’s world. The animal food industry sits at the hub of things when it comes to foodproducing animals and pets because we purchase many of our ingredients, such as corn and soy, from farmers and eventually sell our products back to farmers and ranchers.

We’re very much a part of that system, which is an exciting place to be, especially when you look at the innovation that’s taking place.

What brought you to your current position in the feed industry?

I joke that my background has been all over the place. I started out in academia working with farmers, developing livestock forecasts to help them understand what the markets might look like for the next year. I’m an agricultural economist by training, so that often informs the approach I take with the industry. After that, I started working directly for a farmer organisation. This was in the late nineties, a time when the industry first started talking about sustainability. That was an interesting time to be working directly for farmers and the issues that were challenging them on trade, sustainability and the environment. I next worked for the U.S. government at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Foreign Agricultural Service, and I worked closely with our trading partners. With the change in administration, I went to work in the corn refining industry for a brief time. I ended up advocating for a major agri-business in the area of technology (pesticides and biotechnology) as the head of a U.S. government affairs program. I took a break from advocacy when I went to work at the Farm Foundation for three years, which was a tremendous opportunity to take a step back and look at things from a neutral position and inform policy discussions. I learned that I loved advocating for the industry and playing a part in how decisions evolve that affect the sector, which is one of the reasons why I was so excited to join AFIA.

How does your current role play out internationally?

You can’t talk about the domestic industry without putting it into the context of what’s happening globally. A lot of my graduate training was in international trade, so I’ve spent a lot of time focusing on how our domestic sector fits into the

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global picture. Looking forward, it is one of the key priority areas I’m looking at with AFIA. We have recently added new trade expertise to our staff so it’s a wonderful match with my interests. I currently serve on the board of the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) and the board of the Global Feed LCA Institute, which is taking a look at metrics for measuring LCAs for the feed ingredients used in livestock and poultry rations on a regional and global basis. We have a robust agenda for trade at AFIA.

Is the current trade war between the USA and China affecting feed production?

It has definitely affected the industry. We source a lot of ingredients from China, and China is an important export market for many AFIA members. The biggest problem we have faced is the unpredictability the trade tensions have brought to business planning as companies look at how they are going to position themselves. We couldn’t have been happier with the outcome of the phase one trade agreement as it addressed many of our concerns. The first being the registration of facilities to be able to export to China, which has been delayed for nearly a decade for some facilities. We now have a predictable process where Chinese authorities will be working with U.S. authorities on registering facilities that have already met the high standards the Chinese authorities have been looking for. The second major priority was removing the ban on ruminant ingredients. We are also very excited to see the ban on poultry ingredients lifted.

Negotiations were difficult, but implementation will also be challenging. We will remain engaged with U.S. authorities to make sure they put into place a plan that’s workable so we can interact with the Chinese authorities.

How do concerns about antibiotics, GMOs, animal welfare and food safety remain important issues, and how are these concerns being impacted by environmental concerns?

In many ways, they are all directly related. The use of antibiotics is critical to animal welfare, while at the same time, we are introducing more rigorous stewardship protocols governing the responsible use of antibiotics. Animal welfare, GMOs and the use of antibiotics are all directly related to our sustainability model for all of agriculture. When we talk about the environment, we can’t just talk about one issue in isolation as they are all related. Our approach is to keep all these concerns in the forefront, but to keep them in context.

I’m excited about the conversation on the environment as I

think the feed industry is part of the solution. One of the things that we want to do is help people understand that there are consequences to all diet options. For example, if everyone in the U.S. went vegan, it would only reduce global greenhouse emissions by 2.5 percent. Is that worth the loss of nutritive value in people’s diets? Moreover, it does not take into consideration all of the other parts of animals that are used in other sectors of the economy.

People rush to find a silver bullet solution without really understanding the consequences.

How do we get that message out to the general public?

We need to begin to talk about what we do and what our systems look like. I’m not trying to defend the industry; I’m trying to explain what’s happening and what our value propositions are. There are a lot of experts out there and the more we can highlight rigorous science that demonstrates these things, the better off we’ll be. We also have to be transparent about how we do business and how what we’re doing reflects the public’s values. We need to let people know what we’re doing and then prove it. My long-term vision is to increase our engagement with the international community: how we work and trade with different parts of the world, how we meet the nutritive needs of different parts of the world and to make sure the trading rules and standards under which we operate are supportive of innovation and good science.

A large portion of the world population is not being well served by animal agriculture and the feed industry is at the heart of that. Do you see developed countries helping more when it comes to how we provide food to the developing world?

I believe it’s important that the developing world has access to some of the same technologies that we have proven work well and effectively, and those technologies are size neutral. That is the beauty of the feed industry—it is very much a size-neutral technology.

As a member of IFIF, we do a lot of capacity building and outreach and we’re very supportive of those initiatives. We want developing countries to recognise that there are a lot of benefits to their citizens through reaching out and establishing freedom to operate for their entrepreneurs in the animal food sector. The more we produce with less, the lower environmental impact we have. It’s not a small problem and we cannot solve it overnight.

But we are offering a different vision of where we are.

Any final thoughts?

I’m an incredible optimist.

I think we face a lot of challenges, but I’m very optimistic that we can face those challenges; whether it’s for the industry, for society, the environment and see a strong connection between all three.

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PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES Eric Werth named a District Manager for Brock Grain Systems

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ric Werth has been named a District Manager for Brock Grain Systems, according to John Tuttle, Director of Sales for the CTB Inc business unit. In his new position, Werth will be working closely with Brock’s dealers in the Western Corn Belt and Pacific Northwest regions of the United States to help them grow their businesses and increase their familiarity with Brock’s line of storage, handling, conditioning and structural products for grain.

Prior to joining Brock, Werth gained more than 23 years of experience in grain operations and transportation, including over 20 years of supervisory and management positions at grain elevators in Kansas and Nebraska. Through his deep experience in the grain industry, Werth has completed numerous courses in grain operations, as well as safety and health trainings for OSHA compliance.

Glenn Ferriol joins Hamlet Protein

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amlet Protein, the global leader in soy protein specialties for young animals, announced the hiring of new local staff to support the company’s ambition for accelerated growth across the APAC region. Area sales managers, with a long track record in the feed industry, were appointed in Vietnam and Philippines.

Glenn Ferriol joined Hamlet Protein as Area Sales Manager for Philippines; Malaysia and Indonesia. Mr Ferriol is based in Taguig City, Philippines and brings with him strong experience in the animal nutrition and animal health industry, having worked at various multinational companies during his career.

Ferriol stated, “I am thrilled to have joined Hamlet Protein and am ready to support the company towards realising its’ growth ambitions in Asia.

“In the past two years we have invested in our own sales organisation in China, headquartered in Qingdao, and can clearly see the impact of being close to our customers with talented industry professionals that fully understand the challenges of the local market.

We feel strongly about the potential for our solutions in Asia and will focus on swine and poultry”, concluded Hamlet Protein CEO Erik Visser.

Leadership transition at Sukup Manufacturing Co.

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teve Sukup has recently taken over as President and Chief Executive Officer of Sukup Manufacturing Co. Charles Sukup, former President, announced his planned transition to Chair of the Board of Directors in November 2019. Both have served in their previous roles since 1995.

In his previous role as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Steve has been integral to the company’s innovation and growth. His contributions include the advent of the grain bin product line, expanding manufacturing capacity, and growing Sukup’s footprint in commercial sales. As President and CEO, Steve will be fully responsible for day-to-day operations and strategically advancing the company’s mission to preserve and protect the world’s grain supply.

“Innovation is part of our identity at Sukup, starting with my father Eugene’s original Stir Way Automatic in 1963,” said Steve. “As a family-owned company, my priority as president will be to continually outperform our big corporate competitors by staying close to our customers. Sukup is known for understanding the agriculture industry’s needs and providing the innovative solutions to effectively address those needs. I look forward to taking on the role of President and continuing to work with our third-generation family members and dedicated team of employees.”

Marshall Bird joins Kice Industries

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ice recently announced the appointment of Marshall Bird as Vice President of Sales.

In this role, Bird will assume all sales responsibilities related to managing the growth of Kice’s extensive line of product and service offerings.

“Kice Industries is a multi-industry industrial air system solution-based company with world-class people and capabilities, said Bird. I am excited to join such an impressive team and focus on understanding and meeting our customers’ needs, environmental stewardship, and ultimately creating value for society.”

“We are excited about Marshall joining us, said Drew Kice, President & CEO, Kice Industries. Our people have worked extremely hard over the last several years to prepare ourselves for the opportunities in front of us. We’re ready to get out and tell our story.

Marshall brings 30 years of business development experience to our team and will do a fantastic job leading these efforts.”

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