Jan | Feb 10 - Grain & Feed Milling Technology

A subscription magazine for the global flour & feed milling industries - first published in 1891

February 2010

• LongandfruitfulrelationshipbenefitsUKfeedproducer

In this issue:

• Learning & Development

- Is it a waste of money?

• Switzerland, training institutes

to service the milling sector

• Global Grain & Feed market report

• Extrusion Generating added

value through extrusion in the flour mill

• WheatPreparation

Cleaning, conditioning & colour sorting

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News:Living in challenging times 2New lime kiln 4UK Flour & Grain Milling industry - What’s in store for 2010? 5Web-based bin monitoring 6Remote wireless inventory management via the internet 6The effect of DON on the gastrointestinal tract 6GAME Engineering Ltd become a distributor for SCE Bins 7Faster calibration service for silos & vessels saves money 8New BCPC Board member 9Heat stable xylanase available to EU poultry producers 9An Industry Bouncing Back: Alltech Announces 2010 European Lecture Series 10

FeaturesLong and fruitful relationship benefits 14 UK feed producerGenerating added value through extrusion in the flour mill 16Learning & Development - Is it a waste of money? 24Switzerland offers three training institutes 26 to service the milling sector2010 International Feed Expo - updates from AFIA 28Feed regulators meet with industry representatives in Atlanta 31Raw material outlook, by John Buckley 32

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We live in challenging times and with the natural disasters seen in Haiti and other countries over recent months it

is not just economic challenges we all face.

In Haiti the mill was wiped away in a few minutes with some loss of life and a total loss of a grain processing facil-ity. Engineers quickly brought their skills to the fore and it is hoped that the facility will soon be operational once again.

Elsewhere in the world we face challenges almost every day, perhaps not of the same magnitude but never-theless our resources are stretched and we need all the available advice and assistance we can muster.

Grain and Feed Milling Technology magazine serves to bring together the global resources available to us with technical articles, information on milling engineering

developments and a general weather eye on processing developments throughout the world.

With a regular report on commodities, wide ranging classified adverts and a range of topical issues being cov-ered in each issue there is more than enough to keep the reader stimulated.

This year’s list of articles and other feature show-cases include Regulating granularity, Mill design, Flour mill ancillary machinery, Spelt milling, Screen room trends, Transport and packing & warehousing.

Our readership is expanding and we receive many comments back from readers about how they enjoy read-ing the magazine and how they often use individual articles to highlight issues within the own company.

We hope this will continue and the magazine will remain a useful tool and one which millers will keep on their shelves and pass to newcomers into their companies as an aid to the early education in milling.

Further comments are always welcome and we can be contacted at ‘GFMT’ at 7 St George’s Terrace, St James’ Square, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3PT, United Kingdom (www.gfmt.co.uk) at any time. We hope you have an enjoyable and suc-cessful year.

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Mo n d i S y k t y v k a r announced that it had started up its new

‘Number Four’ lime kiln, which is a part of Mondi’s Syktyvkar STE P m i l l deve lopment project . This complet ion and star t up took place beginning of December 2009.

Mondi Syk t y vk a r s t a r ted reconstruction of the white liquor plant in spring 2008, before the STEP project construction work was initiated. Erection of the lime kiln with a daily production capacity over 700 tonnes of lime (ССС) started in autumn 2008.

The scope of the executed work was extensive: a 105-meter long kiln was delivered to the Mondi site in 12 shell rings, each of them weighing approximately

60 tonnes. It was then erected into a single structure, which was aligned, welded and installed on the foundation suppor ts.

Finally, it was lined up inside w i t h r e f r a c t o r y b r i c k s .

Buildings for the feed-end and the discharge-end, as well as a building for white liquor filtrate were cons truc ted around the kiln. This was followed by the process- and electr ical-equipment and the installation of the cyclone. All the equipment was piped, wired and provided with communication systems.

I n s p i t e o f t h e wo r l d economic downturn in 2009 and the complexity of the project , construction work was comple ted on t ime .

Gerhard Kornfeld, managing director of Mondi Syktyvkar, congratulated the combined mill and project teams for the successful complet ion.

He reported that the start-up was challenging but successful. The f i r s t quick l ime was produced in the lime kiln and the equipment operates to expectation. Quick l ime is required for the production of strong white liquor used for pulp cooking at Mondi Syktyvkar.

“Lime mud dryness on the disc lime mud (DLM) f ilter is

at the required level of 75-77 percent ,” said Mr Kornfeld.

In the near future the kiln will run at a lower capacity and will operate at its design output after the start-up of the other elements of the STEP project during 2010. The new white liquor plant will start operating fully in spring, when the thick liquor filter is put into operation.

Currently the STEP project, valued at EUR 525 million, is 67 percent completed. Its completion is scheduled for the second half of this year and entails the reconstruction of all the main production process capacity, r ep lacement of ou tdated equipment , introduction of new high-technology facilities and improvement of the mill’s environmental per formance.

The main goals of the STEP project are cost reduction through an increase in production process eff iciency. Increased energy output will partially be sold to the electrical grid. Total paper and board production will amount to nearly one million tonnes - a 20 percent increase.

In addition, improvements to the mill’s safety per formance a r e a l s o e x p e c t e d .

STEP project:I n v e s t m e n t p r o g r a m m e

o f E U R 5 2 5 m i l l i o n

Construction of a new wood yard capable of handling four million m3 of wood per year

Rebui ld of sof twood and hardwood pulp production lines

Rebui ld of Whi te L iquor plant, construction of a new lime kiln with the capacity of 700 tonnes of ССС per day

Construction of a new soda recover y boi ler w i th the capac i t y of 3560 tonnes of dr y substances per day

I n s t a l l a t i o n o f a n e w turbo-gener ator wi th the capaci ty of 100 megawat t

Commiss ion ing of a new evaporation plant with the capacity of 550 tonnes of water/hour and two new cooling towers

Rebui ld of PM-14 (of f ice p a p e r p r o d u c t i o n ) a n d BM-21 (board production)

More inforMation:Anna Abakumova, Head of PR and Mass MediaMondi Syktyvkar,Bumazhnikov 2167 026 SyktyvkarRussia

Tel: +7 8212 699938Email: [email protected]: www.mondigroup.com

NewsJanuary - February 2010

New lime kiln


Few would argue that 2009 was a d i f f icul t year for the UK f lour

and grain milling industries, but early signs suggest that conditions in 2010 will be much brighter. According to new research, by leading industry analysts Plimsoll, the market is slowly emerging from the malaise of the past two years.

David Pattison, senior analysts and author of the 2010 Plimsoll Analysis explains, “The recession tore through the market in 2008 and most of 2009 like a tornado and accelerated the rate of change in the market.

“Aggressive ‘growth at all cost’ operators have been forced to abandon their reckless strategies and many have been caught out and are in real trouble.

“However, some amaz ing companies have come through the recession largely unaffected and look set to make 2010 their year. As the market continues to recover dur ing the year the changes wi l l cont inue to come th ick and fa s t .”

When pressed on what likely changes he envisages in the market in 2010 Mr Pattison of fe r s , “more job losses and consol idat ions sadly.”

“Even as the market improves there are a lot of companies, large and small, that survived by the skin of their teeth and they have to rebuild their profit margins and eff iciencies.

“Our latest analysis projects that a further 4000 jobs will have to be shed if companies are to get back to prof it and remain

competitive in 2010. Whether through natural wastage or compulsory lay offs, job losses are necessary. With the average sales per employee figure down to UK£420,000, employees need to ‘buy in’ and contribute more to the recovery of their companies - if you still have a job expect to work much harder in 2010.

“UK£2 billion worth of prof it has been wiped from the market in the last year and employers have no choice but to cut their cloth accordingly and get more from their resources.”

Mergers and AcquisitionsAs for mergers and acquisitions Pattison says, “In all we named 13 companies in our latest analysis that are ripe for takeover or merger with a larger parent. It’s a buyers market in 2010 with many companies still recovering f rom the recess ion .

“Our report has picked some great examples of companies that are currently undervalued b e c a u s e o f t h e recession that would be ver y at trac tive to prospec t i ve owner s .

“For many s truggl ing companies, a buy-out may be the quickest route to get the company back on an even keel – even if it means relinquishing the i r i ndependence . Inevitably, this will further increase job losses as new owne r s wou ld quickly look for efficiency gains and to synergise

t h e i r n e w a c q u i s i t i o n wi th ex is t ing operat ions .”

So, aside from a serious refocus of profitability and the inevitable job cutting and takeovers, does Pattison see any cheer in 2010?

“There are some real good news s tor ie s ou t t he r e .

“We rated 77 companies as ‘strong’ in our latest repor t. As expected this number is down compared to previous years, but these companies will lead the market out of the downturn . They have managed to be commercially successful without jeopardising t he i r f i nanc i a l s t ab i l i t y.”

The new Plimsoll ‘Industry Analysis – Flour & Grain Milling’ report gives an instant performance rating on the top 183 companies in the market. Each company has been rated as strong, good, mediocre,

caution or danger according to their latest performance. A graphical and written analysis will tell you which companies are in trouble and who is getting it right.

Readers of Grain & Feed Milling Technolog y maga z ine are entitled to a UK£50 discount of this new special edition of the Plimsoll Industry Analysis – Flour & Grain Milling report. Call: +44 1642 626400 for further details and quote reference PR/AA36.

More inforMation:Christopher EvansPlimsoll Publishing LtdScotswood HouseTeesdale SouthStockton, TS17 6SBUnited Kingdom

Tel: +44 1642 626400Fax: +44 1642 626410Email: [email protected]: www.plimsoll.co.uk

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BinMaster Level Controls of Lincoln, Nebraska, USA , announces the

introduct ion of B inLink® – a web-based monitoring solution for bins, tanks and silos that enables remote wireless inventory management

of stored material from any computer connected to the Internet anywhere in the world.

The core components of the solution are BinMaster’s SmartBob2 and Smar tBob-TS1 sensors mounted on the bins, a wireless or wired data communications

network, a g a t e w a y t o p r o v i d e connectivity to a personal computer or IP network , and data collection sof tware that can be viewed by any authorised ind iv idua l v ia a n I n t e r n e t connection.

“BinLink provides real-time control as data streams instantaneously from BinMaster sensors to the

Internet providing accurate, reliable bin information,” said Todd Peter son , B inMas ter ’s vice president of sales .

“ B i n L i n k o f f e r s 24 / 7 moni tor ing and is l i ve on the Internet 24 hours a day, seven days a week, streaming the most current inventory data or histor ical data to author ised users .”

Automated alerts immediately can also send email and cell phone alerts when bin conditions meet user-def ined thresholds.

BinLink eliminates the need to manually check bin levels, which saves time, money and manpower and improves the ef f iciency of order ing and logistics for all types of operations from farms, to processing and manufacturing operations, to the largest storage facilities.

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monitor one or a 100 bins and grow as operations expand.

Site mapping capabilities include a built-in visual mapping feature that shows tank types, locations and levels to streamline

operations and optimise delivery, filling and emptying schedules. As Internet data security is critical, BinLink features end-to-end encryption and authentication to ensure data is safe and confidential from the bin to the corporate office.

More inforMation:Jenny ChristensenDirector of MarketingGarner Industries, IncPO Box 29709Lincoln, NE 68529USA

Tel: +1 402 4349102 Fax: +1 800 2784241Email: [email protected]

French INRA scientist s h a r e s h o w t h e m y c o t o x i n D O N

cripples the immune system by targeting the animal’s first line of defense – the intestine

Mycotoxin intestinal absorption - specif ically at the effects of DON on the gastrointestinal tract - is the subject of one of the latest videos on BIOMIN’s Mycotoxin Channel on YouTube.

In this concise, one-minute-plus clip. Dr Isabelle Oswald of the French National Institute of Agricultural Research (INRA) expla ins what happens in

the intestines of animals as a result of the mycotoxin DON.

Also known as deoxynivalenol or vomitoxin, DON is among the most commonly occurring o f Fu s a r i um myco tox i n s of ten associated i l lness in fa rm an ima ls or humans .

The gastrointestinal tract is the first barrier that the mycotoxin DON encounter s in the animal’s body. Once ingested, DON weakens the intestine significantly, altering its protective barrier function and allowing more contaminants to enter the lumen of the gastrointestinal

t r a c t . T h i s p r odu ce s a deleterious effect on the animal.

F r o m a w e a k e n e d gastrointestinal tract, Dr Oswald explains that bacteria are then able to translocate themselves to the res t of the animal .

Dr Oswald is the head of immuno-mycotoxicology a t INR A , spec i a l i s i ng i n research on the impact of mycotoxins on the immune system, par ticular ly in pigs .

Besides the effects of DON, Dr Oswald Oswald has also touched on the long-term

effects of mycotoxins on pigs and ways to analyse the mycotoxin effect in the gastrointestinal tract, on the Mycotoxin channel.

The Mycotoxin channel consists of webinar s that address specific questions on mycotoxin prob lems and mycotox in management issues around the world. Topical sections include analysis , mycotoxin risk management, mycotoxins in general and symptoms .

More inforMation:Website: www.youtube.com/mycotoxinchannel.

The effect of DON on the gastrointestinal tract


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GA M E E ng i n e e r i n g have recently been appointed distributors

for the specialist bin supplier SCE , S i lo Cons t ruc t ion Engineering Limited of Belgium, to bring SCE’s range of single and twin skin bins to the market in the United Kingdom and throughout I re l and .

Koen Verbrugge, sales engineer at SCE commented ‘SCE was so delighted with the collaboration and experience of the staf f of GAME Engineer ing that forming the dis tr ibutorship wa s on l y a log i c s tep . ’

During GAME Engineering’s recent working relationship on the construction of f inished produc t blending bins for Wagg Foods, they were most impressed by the people and service provided. So much so that GAME Engineering plan to bring this successful working partnership to the advantage of

new cus tomers looking for turn key bin installation package.

Working closely w i t h SCE and with other sub contractors, GAME Engineer ing can offer a design and build service for twin and single skin bins including erection, installation o f conveyo r s , f e e d e r s a n d other process mach iner y. Civil engineer ing, electr ical engineering and control can be provided within GAME Engineering’s turnkey packages.

GAME Engineer ing Projec t Engineering Manager, Stewar t Brown said, ‘Over the years I have had exper ience of

many bin suppliers, but these bins from SCE are the best I have seen. I feel that bringing SCE to the UK will be to the benef i t of many future bin projec ts . We are currently deve lop ing many projec t s involving new bins and I look for ward to work ing more closely with SCE in the future’.

for More inforMation :GAME Engineering Dave Burkitt Contracts Director Witham St Hughs Business Park Witham St Hughs, Lincoln, LN6 9TW, United Kindgom

Tel: +44 1522 868021 Email: [email protected]: www.game-engineering.comº

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Faster calibration service for silos & vessels saves moneyAvery Weigh -Tronix

has launched a faster and more convenient

method of calibrating silos and vessels mounted on load cells. Force calibration is faster than traditional methods as it causes minimal disruption and equipment downtime.

Tradit ional vessel and si lo calibration involves one of two methods. Either more than 500Kg of weights are delivered

to and then carried across the customer’s site to the vessel ; or the vessel is f illed with a measured material using a flow meter to achieve a precise weight. Both of these options are disruptive and involve downtime since there are health and safety implications and ideally the container needs emptying before calibration.

Emptying the container is both time consuming and may involve

safety procedures if it is full of volatile materials . The test cycle is also generally a long and labour intensive process since the engineer generally needs to hang the weights from the vessel structure or measure the added medium using a f low meter.

Force calibration uses hydraulic pressure instead of weights. There is also generally no need to empty the vessel, in fact Avery Weigh-Tronix can apply a force to

the existing material to get an accurate calibration. The method involves applying force to the installed load cells and measuring that force with an independent se t of h igh accur acy r e fe r ence load ce l l s .

The method is h igh ly accurate, up to +/- 0.1 percent, and is traceable t o U K A S / Q S R M C .

There are three methods d e p e n d i n g o n t h e application and the ground clearance beneath the

vessel or silos. These are push up, push down or pull down.

Using the push up method, j ack s and re fe rence load cells are placed beneath the exis t ing vessel . The jack s then reduce the load on the vessel ’s load cel ls apply ing weight that can be measured by the reference load cells .

The push down method uses an H type bracket, which f its over the existing load cell mounting bracket. The jack and reference load cells are again used for measurement and calibration.

Finally, the pull down calibration u se s hyd r au l i c c y l i nde r s and reference load cells to accurately calibrate the silo or hopper. This negates the need to hang weights onto the vessel’s structure and is quicker and easier to set up. Only small threaded bosses, or pull down points, need to be added to the suppor t s t r uc ture .

Says Maureen Bott, product manager for Aver y Weigh-Tronix: “In today’s economic climate it is even more vital that load cells are calibrated since accurate weighing of the customer’s material is vital to keep control of costs. We have found inaccuracies of up to f ive percent on site, which can equate to large losses of valuable mater ia l . Force ca l ibrat ion causes minimal disrupt ion , u n l i k e m o r e t r a d i t i o n a l methods. It is accurate, fast, causes minimum downtime and i t i s cos t e f fec t i ve .”

More inforMation:Avery Weigh-TronixFoundry LaneSmethwickWest MidlandsUnited Kingdom

Tel: +44 845 9002244 Email: [email protected]: www.averyweigh-tronix.com



Da n i s c o A n i m a l N u t r i t i o n h a s received authorisa-

tion from the EU Commission for the use of its more heat-stable xylanase in broiler, layer, turkey and duck feed.

Danisco Xylanase maintains ef f icacy af ter exposure to feed conditioning and pelleting temperatures of up to 90°C.

For ease of addition into vitamin and mineral premixes, Danisco Xylanase is available in a highly concentrated form, containing 40,000 xylanase units /g. For

accurate inclusion directly into feed, more dilute versions of Danisco Xylanase are available.

Niels Otto Damholt, Danisco’s European Regional Director says, “Proven enzyme heat stability remains a key requirement for our customers. Our heat stable xylanase can be used easily and confidently in the vast majority

of feed manu-facturing pro-cesses, thereby eliminating the need to use liquid enzyme application

systems for pelleted feed.”

Danisco Animal Nutrition, a business unit of leading global food ingredient specia l i s t Danisco A/S (Denmark), pio-neered the development and use of enzymes and betaine in animal nutrition. Its products are now widely used by poultry and pig producers through-

out the world. The company’s mission is to deliver innova-tive, sustainable solutions that increase efficiency and safety of the food production chain in an environmentally sensitive way.

More inforMation:

Danisco Animal NutritionPO Box 777, MarlboroughWiltshire, SN8 1XNUnited Kingdom

Tel: +44 1672 517777Fax: +44 1672 517778Email: [email protected]: www.danisco.com /animalnutrition

Heat stable xylanase available to EU poultry producers

BCPC has announced the appointment of Jim Orson to its Executive Board.

Mr Orson is currently Research and Technical Director of The Arable Group (TAG), which is now par t of the country’s la r ges t independent crop research and information centre following its recent merger with Cambridge’s National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB).

“We are extremely pleased to welcome Jim to the BCPC Executive Board,” says Dr Colin Ruscoe, Chairman of BCPC.

“His pr ac t ica l exper ience of arable farming, especially

in the weed control sector, i dea l l y comp lement s t he exper t ise we already have and I know that J im – with his experience in TAG – will

br ing a prac t ica l approach to bear on all our activities.”

Hav ing ga ined a BSc in Agr icu l ture f rom Reading University, Mr Orson joined ADAS where he took on posts as District Adviser, Agronomist and then finally Head of Cereals Development. He then became Director of the Morley Research Centre – a farmer-owned research station in Nor folk providing information to support the businesses of some of the biggest farmers in Europe.

He has been very active on industry committees including: the UK Government’s Advisory

Committee on Pesticides, the Steering Committee of Field Scale Evaluation of GMOs, Chair of the Weed Resistance Action Group and he is currently on the UK Government ’s Adv i sor y Commi t tee for Releases into the Environment.

More inforMation:BCPC 7 Omni Business Centre Omega ParkAltonHampshire, GU34 2QD United Kingdom

Tel: +44 1420 593200 Email: [email protected]: www.bcpc.org

New BCPC Board member



John F. Kennedy once observed, “When written in Chinese the word crisis is

composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.”

The year 2009 was marked by almost unprecedented crisis, which had a domino effect across the globe. However, in the midst of crisis, many organisations renounced the danger and chose ins tead to embrace the opportunities presented.

This resilience and ability to ‘Bounce Back ’ is the theme of Alltech’s 2010 European Lecture Tour. Speakers on the 39 stop tour, taking place from February 1st -12th, will explore how agriculture and the animal production industry can bounce back from an arduous year of high raw material prices and low profits and bounce forward to a year of growth and profitability.

“The Bounce Back lecture series will focus on how to succeed in life and in business - it is a forum for solutions. We invite attendees to bounce back from the challenges of the past year and to bounce forward with optimism, with innovative technologies and with a fresh approach. We also want to discuss how we as an industry need to bounce back, satisfy consumer demands, and put ourselves on more solid footing for the future through branding,” said Alltech President, Dr Pearse Lyons.

The ‘Bounce Back’ programme will present nutritional and business strategies that companies can employ to ensure strong earnings and to increase profitability in 2010. Industry concerns such as an ever-increasing demand for traceability and the inability to secure consistent raw materials will be addressed. Building sustainable teams through the training and development of employees, strategy formulation a s we l l a s e s t a b l i s h i ng p rog r es s i ve management sys tems wil l be explored.

The ‘Bounce Back’ programme is based on a model that Alltech has successfully implemented across its global offices and facilities. In a year of crisis, this model has enabled Alltech to continue to increase sales and growth as well as building five manufacturing facilities around the world and opening a unique co-generation plant in Serbia and a new facility in Clovis, New Mexico.

Adhering to the ‘Bounce Back’ model, Alltech has made traceability a core component of its business strategy over the past five years through the company’s unique Alltech Quality System covering its entire supply chain, which has been recognised around the world. The company’s commitment to ‘Primacy in science’ is stronger than ever, as highlighted by the 98 patents protecting its brands and technologies. At a time when Mycotoxins pose major concerns, the company offers an industry leading and scientifically proven patented solution and is a reference for the industry through the website www.KnowMycotoxins.com.

During the ‘Bounce Back’ lecture tours, participants will be provided with ten key points of ‘Bounce Back’ as well as ten factors that are essential in order to attract, train and retain talented team members.

For the first time ever, the tour will feature panel discussions which will invite guests to submit questions in advance. Questions can range from business strategies such as better staff training as well as fundamental nutritional strategies.

“This year’s tour is not just about nutrition but it is also about profit, sustainability and building a platform for the future. In 2009 Alltech was recognised as one of the seven greenest companies in the USA by Inc magazine. With the European Lecture Tour, we invite you to learn from our experiences and to share your ideas with us on how we can all work together to build a sustainable future as well as a better today”, continued Dr Pearse Lyons.

Dates and locations for the 2010 European Lecture Tour are:

February 110am Dunboyne Castle Hotel, Dunboyne, Ireland4pm Hilton Hotel, Belfast, Northern Ireland9am Mercure Rennes Centre Gare, Rennes, France4pm Hotel IBB Andersia, Poznan, Poland

February 29am Moredun Institute, Edinburgh, Scotland3pm Hilton Doubletree, Bristol, England9am Hotel Propellen, Billund, Denmark3pm Clarion Hotel Bergen Airport, Bergen, Norway

February 39am Mercure Caen Centre, Port de Plaisance, Caen, France3.30pm Kortrijk Xpo Meeting Center, Kortrijk, Belgium9am Sokos Hotel Presidentti, Helsinki, Finland3pm Atlantis Conference Centre, Tartu, Estonia

February 49pm Hotel de Wageningsche Berg, Utrecht, Netherlands3pm Best Western Premier Hotel Krautkramer, Munster, Germany9am Maritim Park Hotel, Riga, Latvia3pm Le Meridien Villon, Vilnius, Lithuania

February 59am Courtyard by Marriott Warsaw Airport Hotel, Warsaw, Poland4pm Radisson SAS Hotel, Kiev, Ukraine9am Ufa, Russia2pm Crowne Plaza Hotel, Minsk, Belarus

February 89am Ramada Parc Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania3pm Swissotel Grand Efes Izmir, Izmir, Turkey

9am Merian Palace Hotel, Stara Zagora, Bulgaria3pm Mediterranean Palace, Thessaloniki, Greece

February 99am Hotel Hyatt Regency, Belgrade, Serbia3pm Radisson Blu Beke Hotel, Budapest, Hungary9am Kaldera Boutique Hotel, Banja Luka, Bosnia3pm Hotel Antunovic, Zagreb, Croatia

February 109am Best Western Premier Hotel International, Brno, Czech Republic3pm Hotel Real Fini Baia del Re, Modena, Italy9am Hotel Mons, Ljubliana, Slovenia4pm Hotel Zlaty Klucik, Nitra, Slovakia

February 119am Bellevue Palace Hotel, Bern, Switzerland4pm Hotel Melia Avenida America, Madrid, Spain9am Sheraton Munchen Airport Hotel, Munich, Germany3pm Alltech Italy, Bologna, Italy

February 1210am Hotel Vip Santa Iria, Lisbon, Portugal9am Hotel Barcelo Sants, Barcelona, Spain2:30pm Royal Mansour Meridien Hotel, Casablanca, Morocco

More inforMation:Christina LombardCommunications Manager Europe and AsiaAlltech European Bioscience Centre Sarney, Summerhill RoadDunboyne, County MeathIreland

Tel: +353 1 8252244Fax: +353 1 8252668 Email: [email protected]: www.alltech.com

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The German bulk goods l eve l mea surement specialist, UWT Level

Control, is pleased to announce the opening of their first sales office in the United Kingdom.

Based in the historic Shropshire town of Shrewsbury Mr Graeme Hughes has been sup-porting UWT clients since October 2009. His objective is to increase the profile of

the UWT range of products such as the Rotonivo, Vibranivo, N i vo b o b a n d Nivowave i n t h e U K .

Graeme brings to UWT exten-sive knowledge o f i n d u s t r i e s including quar-r y i n g , s t e e l /

paper manufactur ing and mining following a success-ful career in technical sales.

Graeme is quoted as saying: “I am very happy to join UWT, a company whose products and customer focus are second to none. After many years of working in a wide range of industrial markets I am looking forward to providing solu-tions for our UK customers regarding their level meas-urement requirements”. The Shrewsbury off ice joins the other successful subsidiaries of UWT Germany, Memphis (USA) and Shanghai (China), a group which is tasked with

supplying the UWT products into all applications where it is vital that a level point or content is measurable.

Come and see us at Hillhead 2010!!

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The line was loaded through IBC tote bags which where emptied into the fixed bins blended to feed three packing lines.

From 2003 to 2006 GAME made various

modifications to the plant adding conveying routes and moving packing machinery to meet the increasing and changing demands of the finished product blending and packing.

This included the truck intake with filtra-tion and separation of oversize materials, the bulk storage of the raw materials with batch weighing; screening machines; support struc-tures; finish product weighed into IBC tote bags complete with the electrical; mechanical and process control installation.

Projects Director, David Burkitt says, “The project included liaising with Wagg Foods building contractors and Andritz Sprout. With the proj-ect starting in August 2002 it was up and running for Christmas and in production for January 2003, all within the original time scale.”

By the middle of 2003 Wagg Foods required a dedicated fin-ish product blending and pack-ing line on the Dalton Mill site.

The existing building was extended to form a packing hall. GAME designed and installed a blending line, which enabled Wagg Foods to continuously blend up to eight finished products and deliver these to the packing lines automatically at 12 tonnes per hour.

For over eight years Wagg Foods has worked closely with leading materials handling

and process engineering firm GAME Engineering to build and develop the extrusion facility at their Dalton Mill in the UK.

This relationship, built on common understanding and trust, has enabled Wagg to build a plant, which has allowed their busi-ness to grow and develop with the minimum of disruption during its planned expansion.

Back in 2001, Wagg Foods already had a successful and thriving business and wanted to develop their brand by installing its first extrusion line.

GAME Engineering was selected to design and build this line as part of a multi-stage project.

The original brief was to design the plant with room and capacity for a second line at a future date. Wagg Foods had negotiated a package of process equipment and start up support from Andritz Sprout of Denmark. Using Wagg Foods free issue process equip-ment GAME Engineering Ltd supplied the design and project management along with the mechanical handling systems to complete the process.

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GAME Engineering places a huge importance on comply-ing with the health and safety regulations.

“GAME has a skilful team of project managers, engi-neers and fully trained site personnel, many with expe-rience in feed milling, coal mining and other heavy indus-tries. GAME is relied upon for our expertise and knowledge in the pet food and animal feed sectors and has success-fully completed many projects nationwide,” adds Projects Engineering Director David Burkitt.

“Wagg Foods has enjoyed a long and fruit-ful relationship with GAME Engineering and long may it continue. The engineers at GAME have the expe-rience and professionalism we require to complete our projects with minimum dis-

ruption to the rest of the plant,” says George Page, Production Director at Wagg Foods.

The finished project now enables Wagg Foods to significantly increase their product storage and allow automatic blending to packing, which increases their packaging capacity.

This has removed the need of double handling IBC tote bags and conveys fin-ished product directly from the extruders to any of 16 finish product bins which in turn can blend back into the original blend-ing and pack-ing lines.

Further developmentsThen in 2006, GAME made the next

major design change adding a further 10 raw material bins with a second weigher and conveyor system to feed back to the original extruding line. Once that system was in operation, GAME added new grinding and mixing equipment and a second extrusion line within Wagg’s existing build, most importantly this was carried out whilst the plant was still running ensuring that disruption to the business was minimised. This project included a new electrical sub station, electrical installation and changing the control software.

Most recently, from March-December 2009, GAME Engineering were awarded and completed the contract to supply and install the finished product storage and blending facility for Wagg Foods at Dalton Mill. GAME fought off stiff competition from other companies to secure this contract.

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Extrusion serves the food industry as an upgrading process on the one hand

for carbohydrate-based and on the other hand for protein-based raw materials.

With carbohydrate-based raw materials, starch occupies by far the most important place. Other polysaccharides such as cel-lulose and glycogen are especially used in the production of confectionary and in encapsu-lating processes.

Making additional productsGrain-based foods are staples throughout

the world. In the grain year of 2007-08, 2.1 billion

tonnes of grain was harvested around the globe. The production plants of the food industry process millions of tonnes of grain every day. The most important intermediate product in this connection is flour.

In addition to baking flour, grain process-ing also produces dark flour and bran, espe-cially when wheat is processed.

Extrusion technology is one of the numerous possibilities of further processing flour as well as the by-products obtained in grain grinding. It offers especially flour mills the possibility of increasing the value added that they generate. The most important products made by the extrusion process include breakfast cereals, breakfast flakes, baby foods, extruded breading

(crumbs), croutons and modified flours and starches. These are used, for example, as binders in soups and sauces or in the baking industry.

Modified and ‘clean label’ as well

Modified flours are also called swelling flours. They are applied as binders, fillers, or freshness extenders in bakery products.

Swelling flours are characterised by their modified water absorption capac-ity and their solubility characteristics. It is possible by suitable selection of the extru-sion parameters to adjust the viscosity of flour-and-water suspensions to the needs of customers or the requirements of a particular application.

When the correct amount of thermal and mechanical energy is introduced into the extruder, end products will be obtained which are soluble in either cold or hot water and which possess a certain bandwidth of viscosities.

The extrusion process is especially suita-ble for modifying flours because it completely eliminates the need for using chemicals.

Therefore, modified flour can be excel-lently applied as an ingredient in products to which the ‘clean label policy’ applies (no use of ingredients with e-numbers). When extruded swelling flours are used, it is enough to declare wheat flour on the ingredients list.

Alternative to traditional processes

Another field of application for extrud-ers is the production of breading (bread crumbs). Extrusion technology allows bread-ings to be made on the basis of a wide variety of raw materials. Whereas the tradi-tional production method requires the use of high-protein flours such as wheat or rye flours for developing the gluten framework, all starch-containing materials can basically be applied in the extrusion process. This also enables the processing of lower-grade wheat flours or flours made from corn (maize), rice, or potatoes. Raw material quality fluctuations are easier to smoothen out in the extru-sion process. In extrusion, dough leavening is achieved on the one hand through the expansion of the dough at the die, but on the other hand can also be controlled through chemical or physical raising agents.

Reduction of the energy costsIn addition, the extrusion process also

allows different types of breading flours to be made (American bread crumbs, Japanese bread crumbs, cracker meals, etc.) without requiring any modification of the extrusion line.

Moreover, it is possible to accurately adjust the texture, colour, and particle size of the product. In terms of energy efficiency, extrusion is a process excellently suited for producing bread crumbs. Much lower water contents in

The Buhler POLYtwin™ extruder is configurable flexibly and is well suited for the processing of milling by-products in premium food ingredients.

The extrusion of grain-based, starch containing raw materials is a process allowing all but boundless applications. Christopher Rubin, extrusion specialist in the Buhler Pasta and Extruded Products Business Unit, explains the possible value generation and benefits associated with the application of extruders.

Generating added value through extrusion in the flour mill

by Christopher Rubin, Product Marketing Manager - Extrusion, Buhler, Switzerland


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the product recipe and short retention times ensure low energy costs, especially in the downstream drying stage.

Thus, with a capacity of two tonnes per hour, the energy costs per tonne of finished product are twice as high for the traditional process than for the extrusion process.

Furthermore, with a suitable setup, the extruder offers the flexibility of also allowing related products such as baking beans and croutons and even bread chips to be made on the same line.

By-products as a raw materialExtrusion offers additional advantages. It can also process raw

materials such as very dark flours (low-grade flours) and wheat bran. Both are typically made available at low cost to the feed manufacturing industry.

With the aid of the extruder, these by-products can be trans-formed into high-grade foods.

They are extruded into breakfast cereals or are applied in a modified form as ingredients for other foods. Bran flakes are highly popular today. And extruded wheat bran may fetch a price that is double that of native wheat bran.

The opportunities for wheat bran as a high-grade food are vast. The high dietary fibre content of wheat bran gives the product a ‘healthy image’.

Utilisation of lower-price raw materialsThe basis of all the products mentioned up to now, which can

be made by the extrusion process, is grain flour. This is one characteristic that extrusion shares with the conven-

tional baking processes. The basic difference resides in the dough texture. The dough framework of conventional baked products is based on proteins (gluten or pentosans).

On the other hand, the texture of extruded products is based on starch. The raw material used for extrusion must have a starch content of at least five to 10 percent to ensure that the end product will have a stable texture.

But the protein content can be low, that is, below 10 percent. Flours with such a low protein content are normally unsuitable for baking purposes. As the flour price is determined, among other things, by the protein content, low-protein flours are less expen-sive than high-protein ones. The extruder therefore also allows low-price flours to be processed.

ExtrusionIn the extrusion process, a material is forced through a defined

aperture. In order to ensure that this opening (die hole) is not choked,

the material must be either completely or at least partially liquefied by subjecting it to the action of pressure and temperature.

But in practice, the extruder fulfils many more functions: conveying, melting, mixing (dispersion and homogenisation) and proportioning.

In addition, the material undergoes chemical and physical modifications during extrusion, for example starch gelatinisation or protein texturising. At the end of the extrusion process, the product is cut to size and thus shaped by a cutting device.

The raw material and the extrusion parameters deter-mine the product characteris-tics such as texture, bulk den-sity, colour, taste, water solubil-ity and others of the extruded products.

More inforMation:Christopher RubinProduct Marketing Manager ExtrusionBuhlerUzwilSwitzerland

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A few years ago these three topics would not have been considered in the same

article. However today, things are quite different and colour sorters are now considered an integral, if not always significant part of any modern day wheat cleaning flow and now there are few screen rooms that do not have at least one colour-sorting device in the flow, of one sort or another.

Not always part of the main stream, but certainly a significant weapon in the miller’s armoury these days!

And when we consider cleaning and preparing wheat for milling, perhaps the most important aspect of having wheat in a suitable state for arrival at first break is the way in which we carry out the conditioning process. There are more problems that arise on the mill due to poor and inaccurate tem-pering or conditioning than any other single process before first break.

Dry wheat, wet wheat, wheat with variable moisture spread unevenly through the kernel, all of these items can give the miller quite a headache and all are so easy to identify, resolve and correct.

Five principles of separation

We were all taught the five principles of sepa-ration when we studied for our milling exams and the same principles

still apply – obviously, since wheat has remained unchanged, physically, despite the best efforts of the plant breeders.

However, we no longer use separate items of equipment to remove each type of impurity in every screen room since, thankfully, and because of better harvesting techniques, I dare to proffer that wheat is much cleaner than it used to be when it arrives at the mill.

Now that wheat is traded at 15 percent moisture content as opposed to the 16 percent which was the case up until the late 1980s, it is inherently cleaner just because impurities naturally separate away much easier at lower moisture levels. With many farmers also using central, common grain stor-age facilities post harvest, where grain is cleaned to within the accepted two percent limit for impurities prior to storage, the role of the cleaning house, certainly in new mill installations, is very much reduced and screen room flows are consequently greatly reduced in terms of machinery content.

We now use drum separators on intake in much the same way as we did in the mid-20th century, principally, just as a policeman to control large impuri-ties, wood, tramp metal and masonry, often dug up by loading shovels when scraping the last of a season’s grain out.

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“Dry wheat, wet wheat, wheat with variable moisture spread unevenly through the kernel, all of these items can give the miller quite a headache and all are so easy to identify, resolve and correct”


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The sturdy, robust and reliable drum separator

Most drum separators are much more sturdy than those produced even a few years ago, we don’t see the heap of twisted metal screen in the corner of the silo any more, principally brought about by a large lump of tramp metal being allowed to pass through the intake pit grid, left ‘ajar’ by the driver keen to get on his way.

Drum separators, particularly the Buhler and Satake machines, are now extremely robust and reliable, the former having lived through and developed in some really harsh conditions in North Africa and the Middle East and the latter having being developed in the maize mills of East, Central and Southern Africa where they have had to be robust to survive.

Grain storage timesHaving given grain a tertiary clean at the

first point of intake we then store it in dirty wheat silos until it is needed. Grain storage times are much shorter these days since finance does not allow us the luxury of stor-ing grain in quantity, and there is little point in just having grain sat there in storage when money can be better used elsewhere.

However, in some circumstances we can-not avoid having to store some grain.

Imported, specialty wheat, for exam-ple, that may well have been shipped as

a part cargo, split down and shared by a group of indi-vidual millers from an ocean going Panamax or similar sized vessel on coastal vessels from Europe and on which the minimum freight quantity may be greater than we would normally deem acceptable in financial terms for everyday storage.

In such cir-cumstances, in order to main-tain the quality and freshness of this stored grain it is my belief that it should be reg-ularly turned over from one bin or silo to another and


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around two mm diameter and invariably slotted to avoid blinding too often, although it is becoming more regular to see coarser bottom screens, up to five mm slots and then subsequent independent treatment of the grain stream to recover sound wheat rather than the continued removal of impuri-ties.

The reasons behind this are that it allows the separator to operate for long periods of time without blinding up and it ensures that screenings are kept to a minimum.

Gone are the days when we sought to remove every last impurity, rather that we keep a part grain in the stream through first break and support the economic equation of maximising yield which is what we continu-ally strive for in all mills.

It is quite a while since we spent hours as millers seeking that last 0.1 percent extrac-tion from the mill itself having just thrown away 0.2 percent in the screen room in order to let us achieve this. Thankfully such false economies have now been realized and corrected.

Back to colour sorting & mycotoxins

Moving on, we see a plethora of bespoke machines, usually involving some means of stone removal, some gravity separations and occasionally some other specialty process depending on the local growing conditions in the area around the mill or perhaps because of some national or international change in wheat quality as we currently see with unac-ceptable mycotoxin levels being the reason for some millers increasing the scouring capabilities within the wheat cleaning plant or perhaps adopted peeling or debran-ning techniques as part of their processing philosophy.

I don’t propose to dwell on this subject here as it is addressed elsewhere quite adequately.

As far as colour sorting is concerned and in connection with mycotoxins, there are those who believe that mycotoxins can be treated to highlight the level of contamina-tion by a variance in colour, usually red and then use this colour variation to separate out the offending grain kernels.

Some others believe that density or hag-berg levels will vary according to the level of mycotoxin present.

Personally, whilst I applaud the research work being done, I have yet to be convinced that there is any form of practical applica-tion of this technology yet in operation in any mills, wherever they may be, and await developments before signing up to any ‘wonder cure’ for the unwelcome mycotoxin levels we currently see.

Perhaps more useful and practically appli-cable is a good housekeeping regime, regular

we have come to expect from the ever-dependable Swiss.

Following on from the blending station, the first machine we see in all screen rooms is the milling separator, adequately protected by magnets at the inlets and usually equipped with an aspirating leg at the outlet.

Occasionally we see aspiration at the inlet, particularly in organic mills where long straw is a particular problem. Organic grain, when growing naturally, tends to have longer straw than wheat grown under more chemi-cally controlled conditions, but, since organic grain is sold at a premium, the farmer or con-tractor has no desire to allow any to fall to the floor in the field as it is harvested, hence it tends to be treated with ‘kid gloves’ and as well as maximising the amount harvested, along with the grain itself comes a wider range of straw and impurities than we tra-ditionally associate with conventional grain.

Coarse rubble screensAll separators are equipped with coarse

rubble screens generally around 10mm in diameter and finer, sand and seed screens

aerated in order to keep it in its best condition.

Most grain, coming from central storage or from farm directly to the mill is only in our silos for a few days, or weeks at maximum, and sometimes only hours.

Wheat of different varieties and different analytical qualities are blended from the dirty wheat bins and this procedure is becoming more important as quality wheats demand premium prices in the market place. This need to blend more accurately is not just because of finances, but also from a regular quality control point of view.

Loss-in-weight becoming more widespread

The use of loss-in-weight feeder is becoming more widespread and the demise of the volumetric feeder is now almost complete. The Buhler flo-balancer is still very popular at home and abroad and can always be relied on to provide accurate blends. This workhorse for many years is being replaced with even more sophisticated and reliable machinery, as

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colour sorters at both customers and suppliers plants can alleviate any disagree-ment between the two parties.

For this reason it is often quite com-mon to see the retreat channel on a col-our sorter, used as a ‘policeman’ for the whole plant to ensure cleanliness of the grain stream rather than just cleanliness of the grain passing through the colour sorter.

I have no doubt that the application of colour sorters will continue and the scope of use will continue to widen as ideas develop and theories are proven. More on this subject in future issues.

Basic principles of conditioning

And to conclude this article we are led to the contentious subject of conditioning grain. How long should we condition or temper for? Should we temper in one pass or two, or, in some cases, three, where wheat is very dry? The debate has been going on for generations and I doubt whether I will answer all the queries at one shot, however, it is my belief that there are some basic principles to be adopted and if these are adhered to the results will be adequate for the costs incurred.

These basic principles are firstly to match the number of passes to the level of mois-ture being added, obviously having due regard to ambient temperature.

I hesitate to give a percentage rate, since

colour sorters is that they take up very lit-tle space, require little or no steelwork to support themselves and can be brought on line at the flick of a switch – almost ‘plug & play’ as modern jargon would refer to it.

Another significant role for the colour sorter in specialty situations, where per-haps breakfast cereals are the end result of their use is that it is quite easy to standardise the calibration of a machine.

There has often been dispute about the ‘true’ level of impurities in any deliv-ery of grain used for further processing by breakfast cereal manufacturers and a simple reference sample run through

cleaning of silos and a sensible decision as to when is the right time to harvest, dry and store grain. No doubt many will challenge my views in days, weeks and years to come. Your comments are welcome, as always.

Colour sorters can be used to good value in several areas within the wheat cleaning plant, the most common areas thus far in the older mills, and by that I refer to mills built circa 1980 and earlier, and are used in order to tidy up the general layout of a plant and remove old banks of disc separators and trieur cylin-ders that are either badly worn out or no longer performing satisfactorily.

Some of the obvious advantages of

“The small things that the trained eye can see will make a world of difference whether they are left untreated to create havoc at a later date or whether they are dealt with immediately by the diligent manager who then goes on his way knowing that he is on top of his job and can turn his attention to the more significant aspects of management”

“Good management of silos is also crucial to effective

tempering and regular inspection and cleaning of silos

is vital to a mill’s operation”


easily at all time by silos operators or con-tract cleaners alike.

Daily walk-aroundRegular schedules for filter cleaning will

help keep dust levels to a minimum when working in a silo and it is not beyond com-prehension to coincide filter maintenance with silo maintenance so that filters can be cleaned and serviced immediately prior to full inspection and cleaning of individual silos.

And throughout all the items I have referred to in this article there is a need for good management to control all operations.

That daily walk round, using a checklist (mentally stored or printed out and used as a record) is of vital importance.

The small things that the trained eye can see will make a world of difference whether they are left untreated to create havoc at a later date or whether they are dealt with immediately by the diligent manager who then goes on his way knowing that he is on top of his job and can turn his attention to the more significant aspects of management … or at least those items who appear higher on his or her superior’s agenda!

flour mill site, or indeed any other type of mill including rye, maize etc.

Silo management and effective tempering

Good management of silos is also crucial to effective tempering and regular inspection and cleaning of silos is vital to a mill’s opera-tion. Each miller will have his own view as to whether he should use his own staff and equipment to inspect and clean silos.

Some millers choose to use an outside contractor for all confined space entry work, if for no other reason than to absolve them-selves and their employees of the liability that such work involves.

Others choose to manage the risk and train staff accordingly and minimise the expense that contractors will charge. Either way there are some items in the early stages of mill design that can make life easier for whoever is carrying out the cleaning and inspection.

Good access and ventilation provided by sensibly sized access doorways or silo ingress facilities at the top will assist greatly. Good internal lighting is of great value, as is a fixed supply of clean air, which can be accessed

nearly every miller will have a view that conflicts with mine and which I am sure is derived from many years’ practical experi-ence, suffice to say that I believe in generous allocation of tempering capacity at first tem-pering and I also believe in using that space to its maximum potential at all times.

It is acceptable, to leave some space unused after a mill is built if that space is not required for the wheat moisture pertinent at the time, but you cannot add space effec-tively if requirements are underestimated at the design stage.

First-in first-outAn important criteria is the use of First In

First Out (FIFO) techniques when designing bin outlets. All millers are familiar with the, multiple outlets, evenly spaced, etc.

This allows grain to do exactly what the principle describes, let the first grain that was damped to be the first grain to pass out to either first break or the next phase of conditioning. Without this type of bin outlet the operations of effective tempering will be severely compromised.

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ing the technical knowledge along with hands-on experience of dealing with situ-ations whilst using the machines. This experience and knowledge is often gained through technical courses, which encom-

passes technical data along with correct processes and procedures.

It’s often easier to learn this rather than, for example, to take responsibility using ini-tiative, being self motivated, communicating effectively or the ability to solve problems to name but a few.

Although there are many courses on these subjects, unless a person has a certain aptitude for them they can be very difficult to learn. For example, you can have a manager whose technical knowl-edge and experience is exemplary, but who struggles to communicate with his or

her team and causes friction within the workplace.

Therefore, those who are committed to developing their own highly skilled and innovative workforce should invest time and money in a Learning & Development (L&D) Programme to ensure that resources are used efficiently and that there is a structured approach to defining the areas requiring development and the people best suited to each develop-ment stage.

Persistent doubtsUK businesses spend vast

amounts of time, energy and money on L&D – an estimated

UK£38.6 billion in the year 2008. This is clear evidence that senior management believe that learning is essential for future success.

However, research shows that sen-ior management still harbour persist-ent doubts about the ability of L&D to deliver results. Several reasons that

L&D may not deliver results are; lack of structure and analysis to the company’s L&D programme, menu driven training, individuals trained on subjects they have no aptitude for, lack of L&D evaluation and a lack of commitment to learning by management.

A deliberate processLearning must be treated by manage-

ment as a deliberate business process, in the same way that marketing is.

People at work are learning all the time, for example, if a worker shows another worker how to do something then they have passed on knowledge to another person who in return has learnt something. By making learning a deliber-ate business process people are more aware of all aspects of learning and the role they can play within the learning process.

There is often little comparison between training and the requirements of the job, this normally stems from the fact that no analysis is undertaken so there is no real understanding of what is required to help the person perform better.

Some training will be provided in answer to specific training responses, for example, inductions, health and safety, IT, etc but without a structured L&D programme other training can often be adhoc. This can partly be due to the lack of resource - not all companies can afford to have their own training co-ordinator - and it’s often left to a busy manager or HR person to organise.

Therefore, although a training need may be identified and a course booked and attended, there is no knowing wheth-er that was the right course for the right

Learning &Development

- Is it a waste of money?

“Learning must be treated by management as a deliberate business process, in the same way that marketing is”


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person and how effective that information will be in relation to their work.

Consultants vs company training

An L&D programme should provide the company with an analysis of the learning required, the individuals most suited to the learning, encom-pass a variety of learning meth-ods and ensure accurate feed-back is obtained and analysed to ensure the learning activity has been successful.

There are many consultants who offer L&D services that can provide such a programme yet it seems strange that a company may waste money on the training they provide yet are reluctant to invest the resource into a structured programme.

Service levels and costs can vary great-ly between consultancy companies, but there are some who do not charge for the development and administering of the programme as they receive money

through the channels within the pro-gramme itself.

However, care must be taken that the consultancy firm is offering the best quality learning and not just what they can personally offer.

In answer to the question – is L&D a waste of money? The answer very much depends on the approach of companies to their L&D and whether they are committed to developing their own highly-skilled and experi-enced workforce.

“An L&D programme should provide the company

with an analysis of the learning required, the

individuals most suited to the learning, encompass

a variety of learning methods and ensure accurate

feedback is obtained and analysed to ensure

the learning activity has been successful”

More inforMation: Liz ElstubHR Consultant, Risk Revolution LtdHuman Resources / Learning & Development / Recruitment / Health & Safety

Website: www.riskrevolution.comEmail: [email protected]: 07590 230621


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Swiss Institute of Feed Technology (SFT)

The Swiss Institute of Feed Technology (SFT) was founded in 1979 by the then-owner of Buhler AG, Dr René Bühler. Based in Uzwil, its objective was to impart primarily practice-orientated specialist knowledge on feed production to professionals from the feed manufacturing and related industries.

The SFT said that in order to adopt and cover market requirements, a re-orientation of the training concept under the motto ‘hands-on and focused’ was initiated last year and compliments its diploma course that provides the graduate with a final qualification of Feed Production Engineer.

The SFT noted that its educational facilities (training center and experimental lab) are con-tinuously renewed and adapted according to gained knowledge and technical achievements. This enables the students to understand work-ing principles of modern equipment in order to operate state-of-the-art technologies and processes in a feed production plant.

The course is made up of a prepara-tory correspondence course and an intensive course in Uzwil.

The SFT says that in order to reduce attendees’ absence from the job, individual subjects will be dealt with in the future in greater depth in the preparatory course so that the intensive course is reduced to a maximum of seven weeks.

The course will continue to be offered alternately in German and English, but in the future on a three-year cycle.

Officials from the SFT say they will make use of the year in which no diploma course is held to further extend their range of short courses. The numerous queries received for training courses lasting a few days to a maxi-mum of two weeks and dealing with specific subjects is what the SFT said has encouraged it to take this approach.

Short courses will be offered primarily in German and English.

The SFT noted that upon request it will organ-ise customer- or plant-specific courses at the SFT’s

site in Uzwil or at the customer’s location. The SFT can offer simultaneous translation,

if required, into the relevant national language. Another service offered by the SFT is to act as a neutral consultant for plant optimisation and alterations, carrying out inspections and conducting, for example, homogeneity and cross-contamination tests.

Swiss School of Milling (SMS)In the near-by town of St Gallen, the Swiss

School of Milling (SMS), founded over 50 years ago, attracts milling technologists and production manager students from around the world. The SMS courses are in two sections: the corre-spondence course and the main course.

It combines theoretical know-how with prac-tical ‘hands-on’ training.

The correspondence course imparts the basic knowledge required for optimal prepara-tion for the main course, while students are at home working in their regular jobs.

In the Milling Technology subject, the empha-

Switzerland is a centre for feed, flour, pasta and cereal process training. The country offers three highly-respected institutes to foreign students who wish to develop

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sis is placed on the basics of flow-sheet tech-nology and milling equipment of the different sections of a flour mill.

In the natural science subject group, basics of mathematics (including basic physical formulae and units) and chemistry are taught.

In addition, an introduction is given to micro-biology and hygiene.

In Engineering, students acquire basic knowl-edge of electrical engineering, plant engineering and pneumatic and mechanical conveying. As a preparation for flour analyses in the main course, students learn the theoretical basics of the most important analyses according to the International Association for Cereal Science and Technology (ICC) standards.

Required materials are sent to the students by the school.

Students must solve control questions in the relevant areas and return their replies to the school by a certain deadline. Their replies to the control questions are rated and taken into account in the final grade. The time requirement for the correspondence course is about six to 10 hours per week, depending on a student’s previous level of knowledge.

Upon completion of the correspondence course, the students travel to St Gallen to attend the six-month main course at the SMS.

During the main course, four ‘hands-on’ afternoons are held every week.

This means that courses will continue to focus heavily on practice, which is highly signifi-cant for course participants.

The SMS said that due to its close contact with the milling industry, it has the advantage of receiving continuous updates about new developments and market requirements which are integrated in its training sessions.

Students who receive the SMS diploma are professionally prepared to take over middle or upper management positions and are able to offer a real benefit to the company they are working with. In order to create better rounded production managers, the SMS syllabus covers the technology of baking, pasta, cereals and other grain-based food processes.

Buhler Training Center (BTC)Founded in 1981, the Buhler Training Center

(BTC) has been training millers around the world for the past 28 years.

The equipment and presentation material has been constantly updated and besides the large training hall where the latest in equipment is set up for demonstration and training purpose, and features also a highly-sophisticated school mill with a capacity of one tonne per hour.

The courses, in average attended by around 450 trainees a year, have a strong focus on hands-on training as well as the practical applica-tion of the taught subjects.

The BTC is set up to provide training in various languages.

Five standard languages are spoken by the instructors: German, English, French, Spanish and Italian. Courses in other languages like Russian, Chinese, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, Japanese, etc are taught with the assistance of interpreters. Special attention has been given in offering courses that cover all operational aspects of a flour mill.

The course is called Milling Technology I and II and targets mill operators, shift millers and head millers.

Milling Technology I mainly focusing on the explanation of the machine features and optimum machine adjustments for equipment in the cleaning, milling and quality control sec-tions. An extended laboratory session ensures that the participants will understand the quality parameters of flour and how to influence them with the available equipment and processes.

Milling Technology II has a strong focus on theoretical and applied flow-sheet technology. In this context it concentrates on newly developed technologies and machines, such as mycotoxin reduction or colour sorting.

The course target is clearly based on tech-nology issues like various machine combinations for different applications, tempering philosophies with their advantages and disadvantages as well as an in-depth mill diagram session.

Ideally, the two levels should be taken with a one-to-two year break in between.

This gives the participants the opportunity to transfer their acquired knowledge into results in their respective plants.

However, it is also possible to visit both courses one after each other.

In addition to this, special technology courses are offered in:• Durum milling• Oats milling• Maize milling• Brewing technology• Milling Expert Course – Targeted at• production managers, technical direc-

tors and head millers with formal milling education (such as milling school diploma, KSU, City & Guilds degrees, etc) and several years of experience in the milling industry.

This course distinguishes itself by being a discussion forum on eye level rather than the typical training course. In an exquisite group of experts, opinions and facts about milling techno-logical and product related issues are exchanged. Buhler provides a guideline by preparing presen-tations about today’s hot issues that concern the milling industry. This forms a base for discussion.

The Executive Training Course - Targeted at mill owners, directors, general managers and other leading functions in the milling industry.

The course touches mainly on the chal-lenges of producing consistent flour with high quality parameters and the best possible yield. The course does not require previous milling experience and will introduce the whole proc-

ess in chronological order and easy to capture portions. The natural variations of the raw material and the challenges experienced by the operating personnel in the various sections of the milling process will be discussed. So will quality measures of flour and quality assurance instruments.

Key indicators to evaluate the performance of a milling plant as well as various plant operat-ing philosophies round up the course.

Electrical & Mechanical Maintenance Courses - Targeted at maintenance personnel and supervisors.

This course contains an overview over all essential maintenance jobs that have to be carried out. The main focus is on key issues like calibration, fault finding on electrics as well as roll and bearing change on the mechanical side. Aim of the course is to build the confidence and knowledge that even challenging assignments can be carried out correctly by the maintenance crew. This ensures maximum lifetime of equip-ment and minimum unplanned stops.

There are special maintenance courses in: • Plant Automation • Bagging system operation• Fluting machine operation• Tailor-made Courses - On

request the BTC can be booked for tailor-made courses.

This possibility has been used by large milling groups to provide training for their operation personnel in a closed setting. This gives the advan-tage to discuss the specific flow sheets of the concerning plants and special topics applicable to the operation in their markets. This kind of train-ing has often been used to strengthen the team spirit and communication in various companies to improve the future exchange of ideas.

BTC offers on-site courses. Some companies find it difficult to send

one or more employees for training and still ensure the operation of their plant. In this situation on-site education is a suitable alter-native. The advantage of this kind of training is that operating personnel is taught in their own plant, using their equipment, addressing their specific challenges.

More inforMation:Swiss Institute of Feed Technology

Website: www.sft-uzwil.ch Email: [email protected]

Swiss School of MillingWebsite: www.sms-sg.ch Email: [email protected]

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iFeeder Foundation launched to ensure feed sustainability

The Institute for Feed Education and Research – being promoted in short as iFeeder – has launched a major fund raising effort with a goal

of reaching US$2 million within two years. The launch was announced at a luncheon meeting of major US feed industry execu-tives during the International Poultry Expo and the International Feed Expo in Atlanta, Georgia in late January.

While iFeeder was created by the AFIA Board of Directors in May 2009 and went

about establishing itself as a non-profit, chari-table institution in the months that followed, it was only in Atlanta this year that the iFeeder board introduced industry execu-tives to the new foundation and its mission – “to sustain the future of food and feed production through education and research.”

The programme outlined how iFeeder will address the critical needs of leadership and funding to meet the challenges of the global feed industry. These include providing more animal protein for a growing world popula-tion and overcoming the challenges of feeding more than two billion people by 2050.

iFeeder aims to do this with an aggressive education and research programme.

Prior to the launch more than US$100,000 had been pledged by the iFeeder Board of Trustees.

Additionally, the trustees agreed to fund its first project – the updating of the National Research Council’s Nutritional Requirements of Swine with a US$75,000 two-year grant which leveraged more than US$250,000 in grants from other sources. This research review publication will greatly assist the industry in producing portk in the future more efficiently.

The iFeeder board is busy preparing proposals and guidelines for research grants and examining the direction of education programmes.

2010 International Feed Expo updates from AFIA

The 2010 International Feed Expo in Atlanta (IFE), Georgia, USA was on course to attract as many visitors as last year – some 18,000. There is no question that Atlanta is the destination for the world’s poultry industry in the form of the International Poultry Expo (and co-hosted on the Georgia World Congress Centre site); there is a distinct increase in visitors to the IFE from Latin America, Europe and beyond.

According to the organisers, the American Feed Industry Association, booth and stand sales were up by some eight-to-10 percent with the floor area equally growing.

Atlanta in January is becoming a meeting point for feed industry representatives which is following the example of the poultry sector, despite tough time and consolidation within the two industries.


iFeeder chairman Al Gunderson of Vita Plus Corp says, “This is truly an historic moment for all of us to consider what this industry has given to each of us personally and professionally and how we can invest in its sustainable future.”

More inforMation:Website: www.ifeeder.org

International Safe Feed/Safe Food soon to be launched

The international version of the Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program is nearing implementation, according to the American Feed

Industry Association (AFIA), the creator and sponsor of the Safe Feed/Safe Food program that has run successfully in the United States since 2004.

The existing Safe Feed/Safe Food pro-gram is a unique, third-party-verified pro-gram in which more than 350 livestock feed and ingredient facilities, operated by nearly 90 companies, are certified.

Representatives of the European Feed Additives and Pre-mixtures Association, FEFANA, met with AFIA members at AFIA’s office in Arlington, Va., late last year to discuss details of the international version of the program.

The establishment of the International Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program was designed to help facilitate US trade with European feed and ingredient cus-tomers by providing a tool to illustrate compliance with the European Union’s feed hygiene regulation, Regulation (EC) 183/2005, which requires certification from the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system.

In accordance with the regulation, FEFANA submitted a Guide to Good Practice, detailing options for industry com-pliance with the regulation.

Furthermore, FEFANA officials designed their own third-party verification system to illustrate compliance with the regulation. This system is known as the European Feed Additives and Premixtures-Quality System (FAMI-QS), and it is similar to AFIA’s Safe Feed/Safe Food program.

“The FEFANA representatives comment-ed that the Safe Feed/Safe Food program is a high-quality offering, and we feel the same about their efforts to develop the FAMI-QS. Our combined efforts make for a truly out-standing international program,” said Joel G. Newman, AFIA president and CEO.

“While the Safe Feed/Safe Food program is available to facilities that are not members of AFIA, we believe we are delivering on two promises to our members with this program by providing expert leadership and being a voice for the industry.”

AFIA and FEFANA signed an agreement in January last year, providing reciprocity for firms in the International Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program and the FAMI-QS program.

Under the agreement, AFIA’s pro-gram operates under FEFANA’s Guide to Good Practice, a recognised guide by the European Commission. The January meet-ing, between AFIA and FEFANA, included time with representatives of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine and the Agriculture Department’s Foreign Agricultural Service to share pro-gram details.

With the train-ing of the auditors complete, the launch of the international program is expected in the near future. At that time, if an official responsible for a facil-ity wishes to pursue International Safe Feed/Safe Food cer-tification for a plant, he or she may seek inspection and certifi-cation through AFIA. Further, all firms that successfully achieve certification from the International Safe Feed/Safe Food program will be recog-nized as compliant with the domestic version of the program as well.

The Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program is a voluntary, independently certi-fied program designed for the total feed industry.

The Safe Feed/Safe Food program establishes comprehensive standards of excellence that go beyond existing regulations to maximise food and feed safety. The final steps are being taken by AFIA and associated groups prior to the imminent launch of the full International programme..

More inforMation:Website: www.safefeedsafefood.org Website: www.fami-qs.org/

AFIA welcomes greater interaction using social media

Learning the latest news and infor-mation about the American Feed Industry Association is easier now, thanks to the association’s use of

three social media outlets.AFIA recently opened accounts with

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to offer staff members greater interaction with the association’s members, the media and other individuals using these tools.

Learn more about AFIA by using the fol-lowing options: • On Facebook (find AFIA using the

association’s complete name) • On Twitter (follow at FeedFolks) • On LinkedIn (connect using the

association’s complete name)Links to each of these outlets may be

found on AFIA’s home page as well. Visit www.afia.org and click on the

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn logos. News and information about AFIA issues, events and more will be offered via Facebook and

Twitter. Job openings at AFIA member-firms, which already are publicized on AFIA’s online Career Center, are also available for viewing on AFIA’s LinkedIn page, as well as upcoming events and news.

Use of Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn does not mean AFIA will discontinue its practice of disseminating news and informa-tion via news releases and other traditional means. Rather, the use of these social media outlets will allow AFIA to share its messages with a broader audience.

“Receiving additional feedback, particu-larly from members, and engaging in dia-logue with a range of interested individuals are additional benefits of using Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn,” says the AFIA from its stand at the Feed Expo in Atlanta, Georgia in January.

“Making communication about issues and concerns more convenient to members is always of importance to our team,” says Anne Keller, AFIA communications director.

Southern States Plant named 2009 Feed Mill of the Year

A Southern States feed mill in Cleveland, North Carolina, is the 2009 Feed Mill of the Year, according to the American Feed

Industry Association and Feedstuffs, the sponsors of the annual contest. The runner-

The IFE 2010 hosted a large number of Chinese ingredient and equipment suppliers


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“The quality of this year’s candidates was quite impressive as was their dedication to quality control and safety standards,” said Keith Epperson, vice president of manufac-turing and training for AFIA.

He said the 2009 winning mill stood out because there is a “clear commitment from every employee to produce a safe, qual-ity product for the customers of Southern States Cooperatives.”

Nearly 100 feed facilities competed for this year’s award.

“The number of facilities increased again this year,” said Mr Epperson.

“I believe this is due in part to the fact that each facility that applies receives impor-tant feedback in the way of bench-marking information. Comparing their own mill to others in the industry gives managers a way to focus on the areas where they may have scored low so they can make improve-ments.”

Selection of the top plant starts with an online application process and concludes with personal visits to the top sites by an inspection team from AFIA and Feedstuffs. Final selection is based on a combined scor-ing of the application and personal visit.

The winner of the 2008 contest was a Cargill Animal Nutrition plant in Martinsburg, Pa. The runner-up mill in last year’s contest is operated by Ridley Inc, in Beloit, Kan.

AFIA’s 2010 Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers

The American Feed Industry Association’s annual Purchasing and Ingredient Suppliers Conference will be March 10-12, 2010, at the

Hilton Palacio Del Rio in San Antonio, Texas.The conference program will be of

interest to individuals with varying levels of experience in a range of feed industry sectors.

Expect updates on the current and future states of animal agriculture. Top experts from government, as well as the feed, dairy, pork, poultry and grain indus-tries will speak on legislative and regu-latory issues. Information about carbon footprints, animal-rights activism and the commodity markets also will be presented. There will be plenty of interactive ses-sions between speakers and attendees to provide maximum time for participants to ask questions, get answers and engage in substantive dialogue.

In addition to the latest industry informa-tion, PISC is an excellent networking oppor-tunity for colleagues and buyers and sellers to interact. The 2010 event is designed especially to allow more time for one-on-one interaction than in previous years.

runner-up in the AFIA-Feedstuffs 2009 Feed Mill of the Year contest.

The Cargill turkey production unit pro-duces some 7500 tons of finished feed per week, with the majority of that production going directly to Cargill turkey grow-ers. The remainder of the volume goes to George’s for its local poultry-growing operations.

The Harrisonburg mill is a 24/7 opera-tion with 25 hourly employees who have a combined average of 14 years of service, according to mill manager Grant Martin.

“Our mission is to manufacture and deliver finished high-quality feed in the most economical and efficient manner,” said Mr Martin, who explained that the operation is focused on meeting budgeted cost-per-ton manufacturing and delivery requirements rather than on profit.

According to Wayne Sly, area man-ager, the environmental program at the Harrisonburg facility has been recog-nised by the state of Virginia as part of its Environmental Excellence Program. The Harrisonburg plant operates under the ISO 14001 standard for its environmental man-agement system.

Training at the plant includes annual reviews on dust/grain handling, welding and hot work, elevated work, confined spaces, lockout/tagout and hazard communica-tion/chemical safety. Driver training also is emphasised.

Mr Martin said future goals for the plant include earning Safe Feed/Safe Food pro-gram certification.

Aims of the awardThe annual Feed Mill of the Year award

recognizes overall excellence in feed manu-facturing operations and the winners were promoted at the International Feed Expo in Atlanta, Georgia this January.

Increased safety, quality, regulatory compli-ance, operating efficiencies and overall indus-try awareness of food safety are among the criteria reviewed for each applicant. A most-improved mill will be named at a later date.

up is a Cargill turkey production mill in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

The winning feed mill was built in 1978 for FCX Inc. Southern States acquired the assets of FCX and the Cleveland mill in 1985. Last year this full-line mill manufactured 90,500 tons of feed. The mill is certified by AFIA’s Safe Feed/Safe Food Certification Program and the Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points system.

A total of 36 team members, including 23 production, four maintenance, four adminis-trative and five trucking employees work at the mill managed by Mark Whitaker.

Tonnage at the mill is split about equally between bag and bulk at 57 percent and 43 percent, respectively. The largest volumes produced are for beef, horse and poultry feed. The marketing area of the mill is basi-cally comprised of the Piedmont area.

On the bulk side, Mr Whitaker said the mill serves about a 150-mile radius. The plant also makes minerals for other Southern States mills in the region and serves 96 private dealers and Southern States services owned by the company.

In total, the mill produces some 480 formulas, and annual sales at the plant are in excess of US$30 million.

The Cleveland mill has been instrumental in establishing employee training programs, to the extent even of putting together its own manuals.

“We felt like we didn’t train very well, and we wanted to go to a different level and make our training very specific, and we do it all visually,” said Mr Whitaker.

He said he believes the renewed dedica-tion to training has led to improved produc-tivity and retention at the plant. Recycling is another priority for the mill. All paper and cardboard is baled and sent to a local recycler.

Cargill mill in Virginia is 2009 runner-Up

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For two days leading government regulators responsible for maintaining animal feed safety,

met with feed industry represent-atives in Atlanta, Georgia, USA to discuss national feed legisla-tion and its impact on the trade in feed and feed ingredients.

Seventy-five delegates from 21 countries registered for the two-day event that was held on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26, January in the Georgia World Congress Centre in downtown Atlanta, USA.

This, the third annual meeting of the International Feed Regulators, was the most interactive session yet, sharing information and exchanging perspectives on principles of food and feed legislation, border inspection practices, managing undesirable substances and authorization systems for feedstuffs and ingredients.

“Presentations provided by both reg-ulators and feed industry representatives provided background and examples of cur-rent practices, and challenged participants to consider ways to improve regulatory and risk management systems.” Says Dave

Cieslak, Chairman of the International Feed Industry Federation (IFIF) which organised the meeting jointly with the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

“There was good information provided in presentations by regulatory and industry delegates, but participants found the panels and open forum discussions particularly use-ful and informative.”

Dr Cieslak says this most recent meeting has built significantly on the previous two and has become recognized as a unique venue bringing together the key players in feed safety from around the world and included the participation of the Codex Alimentarius secretariat.

IFIF recognized this forum as a great opportunity to develop understanding and synergy between industry and regulators, as well as across geographies. Improved understanding can lead to enhancements in the ways that feed and food safety is accom-plished by the feed industry.

“IFIF is committed to continuing, and expanding, this dialogue between regula-tors and our industry. We will be meeting again at the Global Feed & Food Congress in Cancun Mexico, to be held April 20-23,

2010 where some of these issues will be discussed in more detail. We welcome feed regulators who weren’t able to join us in Atlanta to contact IFIF for more informa-tion,” he adds.

More inforMation:Roger GilbertSecretary GeneralIFIF7 St George’s TerraceSt James’ SquareCheltenhamGlos, GL50 3PTUnited Kingdom

Tel: +44 1242 267702 Fax: +44 1242 267701Email: roger.gilbert@if if.org

The last of three half-day panel discussions, where feed regulators and

industry representatives discussed issues surrounding authorization systems for

feed ingredients

Feed regulators meet with industry representatives in Atlanta

“Seventy-five delegates from 21 countries registered for the

two-day event that was held on Monday 25 and Tuesday 26 of January 2010 in the

Georgia World Congress Centre in downtown Atlanta”


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GLOBAL GRAIN & FEED MARKETS

Every issue GFMT’s market analyst John Buckley reviews world trading conditions which are impacting the full range

of commodities used in food and feed production. His observations will influence your decision-making.

European cereal

markets have

recently been

closely tracking

moves on the

Chicago futures

markets and in

international export

pricing. Chicago, as

noted in our intro,

had its brief run-up,

then turned ‘south’

again.

External factors continued to dominate European grain and feed markets in the opening weeks of 2010 - US weather/

crop news, currency volatility, constant shifts in pundits’ short-medium term views on the global economic outlook and speculators’ often fickle responses to all these issues.

However, the good news for consumers in late-January was that overall feed raw material costs were moving down - in both the energy and protein sectors - amid larger than expected supplies of wheat, maize and soyabeans, prices of all three flirting with three-month lows as we went to press. Price restraint has also been demanded by continuing uncertainty over the growth of world demand for cereals in another recessionary year. Speculators might find it tougher to exert

a bullish influence over the commodity markets in 2010 amid ongoing credit squeezes and US proposals for new restrictions on the activities of banks and hedge funds in futures trading.

Perhaps the biggest upset, though was the US Agriculture Department’s surprise decision to raise its maize crop forecastto a new record 334m tonnes from 328m. This was not a massive rise in terms of nearly 800m tonnes of world maize consumption but it wrong footed the US trade who had expected a crop decline after one of the wettest Novembers on record kept 10% of it in the field far beyond normal harvest dates.

Not that there isn’t still a big, perhaps growing, question mark over the quality of crops harvested under damp conditions and stored with high moisture, not to mention the 5% still unharvested even in January - a large chunk of it lying for some time under snow. Yet even that grain (assuming

Adequate stocks & slow

demand anchor prices


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the US sows what may well be an even bigger record maize crop for 2010.

The US soya crop has also hit a new record level despite an even later start, than maize as farmers brought it in first because of its tendency to spoil quicker under damp harvest weather. Two other, colliding, factors have been driving soya - incessant heavy demand from top world importer China and the growing likelihood that those record South American soya crops we expected in our last issue will all get planted and harvested. Although China is

and Eastern Europe and maybe a bigger than expected crop approaching from the former No 2 maize exporter Argentina too. European consumers have also been able to draw down their own adequate maize stocks left over from last year’s much bigger domestic crop. Along with a general unwillingness on the part of importers to buy more than necessary, this has kept US maize exports far below the levels anticipated by the USDA. That means end-season stocks of maize in the US will probably be looser than expected and upward pressures on prices reduced – even before

it’s eventually harvested, in the spring) will probably not struggle to find homes. The USA’s new 100m tonne corn ethanol industry is an obvious outlet, less fussy in its requirements than the corn food and feed sectors – though a price discount may be expected from these buyers, pointing to a two-tier maize market ahead.

However, overall, there is a slacker feel to maize markets in the US, Europe, Asia and other big compounding regions with alternative supplies still coming through from up and coming exporters like Brazil

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Growth in wheat use slowing down

Last season world wheat consumption grew by over 22m tonnes or about 3.6%. During 2009/10, the increase is expected to be nearer 7m tonnes or about 1.1%. Most of this slowdown is down to the US and the EU, where feeding to livestock boomed last season but has now flattened out, in the US case, even falling. World wheat feeding overall may also drop 1m or 2m tonnes this season, leaving growth dependent on the food and ethanol sectors (though the latter needs watching as a bullish factor).

An even starker shift is taking place on the world export markets – where international wheat prices are ‘made’ with considerable influence on US and EU grain values. Last season world import demand rocketed by 26m to 142.6m tonnes or 22%. This season, it’s expected to drop back by 13%, thanks to better crops and much lower import requirements in North Africa and the Middle East, especially Iran.

None of these changes really has much to do with global recession – more the weather in importing countries and, for some wheat consumers, changes in the supply and cost of maize as the chief competitor in animal feeds. However, the economic squeeze has naturally made import buyers more price-conscious across the cereal sector, either because of tight credit or concerns about depressed meat and feed demand.

On the supply side, competition is as fierce as ever for wheat import custom. World wheat output in 2009/10, far from falling sharply as many predicted this time last year, declined by just 6m to 11m tonnes – barely over 1% from 2008/09’s record 686/683m tonnes (USDA/IGC). Thanks to that massive crop, stocks carried into this season were at a 7-year peak of 164m tonnes – over 40m more than last season’s. So wheat supplies are significantly larger this year during a year of flattening demand.

Wheat value is also set by the price of competing feedgrains and, to a lesser extent rice as a foodgrain in large parts of Asia. The rice price has been rising quite sharply on shortfalls in some countries and there will be some substitution by wheat in south Asia but not by enough to seriously distort total

Another significant development in the past month or so is that analysts are not talking down the next world wheat crop as much as they were in the autumn, removing one of the key reasons for speculators to invest in wheat and helping to keep a premium of about 10% on distant 2010 Chicago futures prices. A similar premium was forecast by futures this time last year but that proved wrong – futures are actually cheaper now than then.

Clearly many of the bullish supply factors have been offset by bearish demand news in the past couple of months. Yet that did not stop commodity prices rallying at one stage fast and far enough for some pundits to predict another bull market was now on the way and that grains – as undervalued commodities – would have to join in the fray.

However, most of this short-lived rally was ignoring fundamentals and based almost solely on an ever weakening US dollar. Paradoxically, the latter was seen as signal that the US/global economy was perking up, allowing speculators to feel more comfortable letting go of the ‘safe’ or ‘‘quality’ currency to spend on more on riskier investments – like commodities. The problem with this argument at the moment is that each week, sometimes each day, seems to bring a different or opposing view on whether the global recession really is ending in the US, China, Western Europe etc. But whatever the wishful thanking of banks and hedge funds trying to talk up the value of their portfolios to punters, the idea that commodity demand is set to roar away does look premature. The reality is that both wheat and feed grains have recently suffered from a paucity of real physical demand. So, not surprisingly, grain prices – like those of crude oil and gold have shed much of these speculative-based gains. In fact, all the recent talk on the EU market has been about the

the only outstanding growth market for soya products so far this season, its heavy demand is eating into US stocks at an uncomfortably rapid pace although it is possible some of thee mega purchases might not get shipped – swapped instead to Latin American soya when these crops are confirmed. Either way, the extraordinary bounce-back in back in Latin American crops should restrain prices ahead – for soya and the entire oilseed meal sector.

Wheat too has also had its share of weather problems in the USA with planting of the US soft red winter crop running late (planted on the same land as the delayed maize crop) and amid generally poor price incentives, leading a drop in total US winter wheat sowings of over 6m acres to their lowest level since 1913! However, while this is a supporting

factor, markets seem to have taken it in their stride. Although SRW is the basis of the highly influential Chicago futures market (which Europe follows more and more these days), it is also the grain in most abundant supply from the largest cross-section of sources – US, Europe east and west, former Soviet Union etc. Even the projected decline in US wheat output in 2010 is more or less offset by huge carryover stocks stocks at the start of the new season. Large wheat stocks will also be held in Europe and massive stocks in the former Soviet countries. As in the maize market, this leaves one wondering how much lower prices would have been without these US weather problems.

Although dearer than in the autumn, even the quality wheats have come down a bit in price recently with confirmation of a bigger than expected Canadian crop, a very large Australian harvest for the second year running and plenty of good quality wheat coming out of the ‘Black Sea’ region, especially from Kazakhstan.



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year’s record but that gap is halved by the 18m tonnes of stocks carried in from last season (versus 12m the year before). As the EU only needs 127m tonnes of wheat for its own purposes, this leaves more than enough to meet some foreseen export demand and still maintain comfortable end-season stocks.

Not surprisingly these EU & world supply/demand equations have made many EU buyers (and importers around the world) reluctant to take on forward coverage. Yet farmers have been equally reticent, watching prices dip again to levels that, for many, offer little if any profit. The result has been a stalemate, slow trade to open the year and an EU market moving increasingly on ‘outside’ factors like the value of the dollar, economic signals, crude oil and gold prices – or simply daily fluctuations in US grain futures.

Probably, this situation will change little until the spring when markets have a firmer grip on what has been planted for winter wheat and will be sown in the spring. Even then, another two or three months will be needed to gauge the impact of crop weather on yields. By this time, wheat value will also be influenced by the first firm information on what US maize and soya farmers will plant for 2010 crops.

US maize crop cliffhangerThe previous year was bad enough but

there’s probably never been a year quite like 2009 in terms of testing US maize farmers’ ability to raise a crop. First there was doubt whether it would all get sown amid record floods in many areas; then an often cool, sunless summer preventing a ‘catch-up’ to beat the risk of early frosts; then the rains came down and latterly snow too – resulting in one of the latest crops in perhaps 70 years of fairly reliable records. However, the almost miraculous escape of 95% of the crop to harvest and silo by end-year did mask the possibility of quality problems caused by the weather, especially amid talk that some might be left in the field until the spring. Maize, of course, is a hardy crop and can take a lot of punishment from the weather once ripe. However, a two tier market does now seem to be opening up as farmers dump as much of their damper, lower quality, light test weight corn as possible on the market rather than risk storage problems, keeping the best back for later. This has helped keep spot corn prices in check and, with them,

conceivably be even larger by mid-2011. European cereal markets have recently been closely tracking moves on the Chicago futures markets and in international export pricing. Chicago, as noted in our intro, had its brief run-up, then turned ‘south’ again. Export prices also enjoyed a bout of strength as Russian and Ukrainian ‘Black Sea’ sellers sold less aggressively and manage to hoist prices on the premise of lower 2009 crops in the CIS region this year. However, the major players in the former Soviet Union are still carrying very large stocks from last year and seem to be returning as more aggressive sellers with lower prices as 2010 gets underway.

Looking at the other top players in the world wheat export market, Canadian 2009 production has recently been revised up by 2.5m to 26.5m tonnes – about 2m less than last year. Australia’s harvest has been trimmed slightly by hot dry weather in the final stages but will still be large for a second year running at around 22m tonnes. EU crop estimates have continued to creep higher over the late autumn and early winter months to around 139m tonnes - only 12m or so below last

wheat demand or wheat value. Maize prices meanwhile seem to be on the way down again, also influencing wheat as a competitor in feeds.

Wheat prices are also influenced by perceptions of what supply will be available from the next crop. Back in the autumn, many analysts were taking of a big cut in sowings for 2010 – maybe 5% or more - and a steep decline in production. Yet the last report from the International Grains Council only expected a 1.1m hectare fall in area. This is only a preliminary figure but if it were correct and average yields stayed stable at this season’s level, it would still deliver an adequate crop. Even if wheat area and yields fell far more steeply and cut production by 5% to 10% - and consumption rose another 10m tonnes - ending stocks of wheat in 2010/11 would still be comfortable in the 130/150m tonne range. Currently, the world is expected to carry about 196/7m tonnes of wheat into the next crop year, starting around mid-2010 – 27m more than last year and almost 70m more than in 2007/8. Without a world wheat crop catastrophe this summer, stocks could


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growing at 2.4% per annum after a 5% drop in first half 2009 but a steeper recovery is possible given China’s still strong economic growth (this may also influence China’s soya demand with impact on world prices).

Elsewhere, we also see maize demand growth forecast for India (+800,000), Nigeria (+600,000), Indonesia (+300,000) which, with smaller gains in other regions, puts world consumption about 28m tonnes higher for this season at 803m. With production at 790m, this requires a like drawdown in stocks, currently seen dropping to 136m by the start of next season for a stock/use ratio of about 16.9% or 9 weeks’ supply.

Stocks were lower still as recently as 2006/07 (109m tonnes or 15% stock/use). However, while that did presage record corn prices in 2007/08, it was in the novel context of record US demand growth for ethanol and world crop shortfalls the following year for oilseeds and wheat. Perhaps above all, those maize prices reflected a new synergy between rocketing crude oil prices and speculative investment fever for anything that looked vaguely like a commodity. The current situation is different. Wheat and soya supply outlooks are currently loose, crude oil is less than half the price at which it peaked (though rising again recently) while ethanol demand growth has slowed markedly (although we must watch this factor for mid-2010, when laws governing its use come up for review).

Bullish maize speculators must also be feeling a bit cautious still after the beating they took last year from misplaced bets on a prolonged commodity boom - not to mention the drying up of their liquidity in the aftermath of the credit squeeze. Speculation will probably remain a factor in the wings, ready to exaggerate any price rises based on weather scares. However, if the US crop is another big one and world demand continue to fall within the boundaries of fresh supplies, speculators might be forced to seek richer rewards elsewhere.

* World barley production has finished up at about 149m tonnes this year, just 5m down from 2008 and one of the bigger crops of recent years. Demand is seen 4m tonnes up but will lag production at 147m tonnes, leaving stocks more or less unchanged around 31m tonnes. Barley prices have mostly followed maize in recent weeks, rising in Oct/.Nov but easing recently. Very early pointers from the IGC suggest world barley sowings will decline in 2010 in the EU and North Africa.

keep up with demand without taking stocks down to risky low levels by the close of this season – and/or that prices are currently too low to ‘buy’ a big enough corn planted area this spring. Yet the commercial view is the opposite with most analysts looking for plantings in the US to rise by 3m to 6m acres which, with a more normal growing season, might add another 10m to 15m tonnes to last year’s record crop figure.

It’s also worth noting that world maize consumption growth is mainly focused on the two largest consuming countries, the US and China. The US expects to need an extra 17m tonnes this season, the lion’s share going to expanding ethanol demand and the rest mainly to 3m to 4m tonnes of reviving feed consumption (which fell by nearly 17m tonnes last season because of the economic recession). China is said to need an extra 7m tonnes this season, mainly for its feed industry. The latter is currently believed to be

global feedgrain markets, for the moment. Not that the US has had any difficulty

meeting demand – which has been rather slack recently amid plenty of alternative supplies of both maize and feedwheat from other sources. Argentina may have dropped out of the No 2 exporter slot after a couple of poor crops but Brazil has expanded its supply enough to fill most of that gap. Eastern Europe/CIS maize (and feedwheat) suppliers have also been biting smaller chunks off US maize export trade, leaving it far behind official forecasts and keeping the bulls tethered in Chicago and overseas maize markets. Argentina’s next crop (harvested this spring) is also doing better than expected and will be trading more competitively into export channels soon.

There has been recent tendency for banks and investment funds to talk up the future value of maize. The rationale is that the current US/world crop may not continue to


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USDA’s January take on 2009/10 world soya supply puts production at 253.4m, up about 44.5m from last year. World soya crush is currently expected to rise by only 11m tonnes with the rest added to stocks or disappearing into human food outlets. Soya meal demand is meanwhile expected to rise by about 6m-7m tonnes, half of that increase in China and the rest spread over many moderate/smaller-sized user countries. If the Latam crops come through as expected, this does not suggest anything other than a flat price trend to falling price trend for the proteins – which is precisely what futures markets point to – even a full year from now - and this should help keep other oilmeal prices under control too.

Supply is also rising for rapeseed meal, up about 2.5m tonnes this season amid larger production in the EU and Canada. The EU alone should consume about 800,000 tonnes more. Thanks to a large Canadian crop, world stocks should remain fairly high through this season, providing a good cushion before the 2010 harvest.

is also roaring ahead of export forecasts for soya meal.

This demand swing to the US owes much to disappointing crops in last spring in Latin America where stocks ran low and exports became less competitive than usual, leaving buyers few other options. It has probably also reflected caution by importers (especially in China) who want to see South American crops up and running, especially after weather played them foul for the past two years.

The good news for consumers is that, so far, the Latin American crop outlook remains very good. Record acreages are being sown and apart from some planting delays cause by excessive rain in southern Brazil, the weather favours big yields. Last issue we pencilled in the possibility of an additional 30m tonnes of South American soyabeans. This looks increasingly likely to be the minimum gain with some local sources talking of as much as 34m to 37m tonnes although most of the crops need to get through the Jan/Mar key stages of pod-setting and filling before buyers can breathe easy.

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Protein/oilmeal prices were promising a firm finish to 2009 but it all went pear-shaped in the new Year as USDA confirmed a record 91.5m tonne US crop and a steep rise in world stocks. There have been some reports of US crushers struggling to find good quality soyabeans to produce the better grade, higher-protein meals while oil content from a lot of this year’s beans will probably be down (more of a problem for crusher profits than feed users). But on the whole, quality does not appear to be a major problem in overall meal pricing.

The big story for soya the past few months has been Chinese demand. With over two thirds of its marketing year still to run, the US has already committed 78% of its crop, of which a staggering 62% is going to China alone. Other destinations have shown more mixed performance with EU demand down (though perhaps reviving more recently) but some Asian countries taking more. The US


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17th - 19th February *The 10th International Exhibition for Grain Industries Technology and Mills, Silos , Automatic Bakery Lines, Fodders, Pasta Equipment Rice Beaters & Packaging Machines, Cairo, EgyptContact: Mr. Yasser Omar, 11, Al Gabal Al Akhdar Al Estesmary Bldg, beside Financial Minister, 6th Floor # 61, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

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2nd - 3rd March *Storage and Discharge of Powders and Bulk Solids, University of Greenwich, United KingdomContact: Caroline Chapman, Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham, Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, United Kingdom


2nd - 5th March *AFMA Forum 2010 (The 7th International Congress for the Animal Feed Industry), Sun City, South AfricaContact: Teresa Struwig, PO Box 8144, Centurion, 0046, South Africa

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8th - 8th June *IGC Grains Conference 2010, London, UKContact: Ann Knowles, International Grains Council 1 Canada Square Canary Wharf London E14 5AE, United Kingdom

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21st - 22nd October *French Food Market, Paris, FranceContact: Marjolijn Cohen, Bridge2Food, Jan van Eijcklaan 2, 3723 BC Bilthoven, The NetherlandsTel: : +31 3022 52060Fax: +31 3022 52060Email: [email protected]: www.bridge2food.com

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23rd - 24th November *Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids, University of Greenwich, United KingdomContact: Caroline Chapman, Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University of Greenwich at Medway, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent ME4 4TB, United KingdomTel: +44 2083 318646Fax: +44 2083 318647Email: [email protected]: www.bulksolids.com

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29th September - 1st October *Animal Farming Ukraine 2010, Kiev, UkraineContact: Kuno Jacobs, CIS Exhibitions BV, Eemnesserweg 27a, 3743 AD Baarn, The NetherlandsTel: : +31 3554 26515Fax: +31 3554 26517Email: [email protected]: www.animalfarmingexpo.com

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7th - 8th October *GLOBALGAP Summit 2010, London, United KingdomContact: Nina Kretschmer, c/o GLOBALGAP Foodplus GmbH, Spichernstr.55, D-50672 Cologne, GermanyTel: : +49 2215 7993 693Fax: +49 2215 7993 89Email: [email protected]: www.summit2010.org

12th - 13th October *Overview of Particulate Handling Technology, University of Greenwich, United KingdomContact: Caroline Chapman, Wolfson Centre for Bulk Solids Handling Technology, University

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- in the farms, fields, orchards and rivers– where our food has its source.

FAO is advocated a new approach to ensuring that the food we eat is free from food-borne haz-ards – everything from pesticides and industrial chemicals, through to unwanted bacteria and con-taminants.

The key is to strengthen each and every link in the complex process of food reaching the consumer –from the way it is grown or raised, to how it is collected, processed, packaged, sold and consumed.

Global Feed & Food, Cancun, Mexico

Through an exclusive deal with the event organiser, the publishers of Grain & Feed Milling Technology can help you to secure a booth at Global Feed & Food.For more information on the exhibition & available options please contact Tuti Tan at Perendale Publishers Ltd.

Tel: +44 1242 267700 Email: [email protected]

Information for

exhibitors


You are invited to attend the

Melbourne’s Etihad Stadium will be host to Australasia’s Leading Milling Forum in 2010.

The emphasis of the conference will be to challenge existing industry practices and gain a better insight into our Australian industries in a global context.

Participants will be challenged to benchmark their companies performanceby industry leaders through examining a range of areas to determine...

“Australia’s Edge – Are We Sharp Enough”

Both international and local speakers will contribute to the program addressinga range of topics relating to the feed and flour industries.

Presentations will examine:

Finance – A World Perspective

Carbon Trading & Sustainable Resources

Benchmarking – Australia V’s Europe and America

New Technology

Challenges Relating to our Grain Supply

And unveiling...

What’s New & Unique

Don’t miss this outstanding opportunity - mark your diary today!

Etihad Stadium

Melbourne • VIC

April 13–15, 2010

The Biennial Conference organised by -:The Flour Millers’ Council of Australia

The Stock Feed Manufacturers’ Council of Australia, andThe Australian Technical Millers’ Association

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 61 3 9819 1433

Fax: 61 3 9819 1477

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Analysis

• Automation Products, Inc.• Brabender® GmbH & Co KG• CHOPIN Technologies• Diversified Laboratories, Inc.• Evergreen Analytical Services, Inc.• Farmertronic Industries A/S• Foss Analytical AS• FOSS UK• Lancaster Laboratories• NDC Infrared Engineering Ltd• Neogen Corporation• Pfeuffer GmbH

• Seedburo Equipment Company• Systech Instruments Ltd

Animal Health & Nutrition

• Alicorp SA

• Danisco Animal Nutrition• Frank Wright Trouw

Nutrition International• Noack - Group of Companies• Papillon Agricultural Products, Inc

West of Scotland Science ParkUnit 3.06 Kelvin CampusGlasgow, G20 0SP, ScotlandTel: +44 141 945 [email protected]

Competence in Food and Feed AnalysisR-Biopharm Rhône Ltd,Unit 3.06 Kelvin Campus, West of Scotland Science Park,Maryhill Road, Glasgow, G20 0SP ScotlandTel: +44 (0) 141 9452924 Fax: +44 (0) 141 [email protected], www.r-biopharmrhone.com

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CENZONE TECH INC.2110 Low Chaparral DriveSan MarcosCA92069 USATel: 760 736 9901Fax: 760 736 9958Web: www.cenzone.comE-mail: [email protected]

Bulk Storage

• Agora Services Ltd• Behlen Mfg Co• Borton L C• Brice Baker Group• Chief Industries UK Ltd• Chore-Time Brock International• Collinson Plc• European Process Plant Ltd• Euroquip Fabrication Ltd• Handling Techniques Ltd• Mailbox Mouldings International

• Schmidt-Seeger GmbH• Silos Cordoba S.L

• Teta Engineering Inc.• Westeel

Maximumbulk

storage

Silo Construction & Engineering

www.sce.be+32(0)51 723128

SCE

Commercial Grain SilosBulk Feed SilosCaleruega 12, 1OC28033 Madrid, SpainContact Antonio BenitezPhone +34 91 767 00 74Fax: +34 91 767 02 38E-mail: [email protected] [email protected]

Elevators & Conveyors

• Aeromaster International Ltd• Agrico Sales• Agromatic AG• Alapala MACHINE Industry

and Trade Inc.• Beaufort Conveyors• Brice Baker Group• Chief Industries UK Ltd• EBM Mill and Elevator Supply• Entecon Ltd• Fischbein SA• Fischbein-Saxon Ltd• Goudsmit Magnetic Systems

BV• Gough Engineering Ltd• Handling Techniques Ltd• Jansen & Heuning B.V. Bulk

Handling Systems• Lachenmeier Maskinfabrik A/S• Paul Hedfeld GmbH• Patz Corporation

• RBH Mill & Elevator Supply• Saati S.p.A.• Schmidt-Seeger GmbH• Silos Cordoba S.L.• Tramco, Incorporated• Tapco

Extruders

Anderson International Corp

• Amandus Kahl• Anderson International• Andritz Feed & Biofuel• Baker Perkins

• Brabender• Clextral• Condex• Coperion GmbH• Dinnissen BV• EEC-Eder• Extru-Tech Inc• Fudex• Insta-Pro International• Jiangsu Muyang Group Co Ltd.• JSConwell Ltd - Buhlermillbank• Muench Edelstahl

• Pavan Group• Wenger Manufacturing Inc• Peter Catchpole• Sarmaksan• Setrem

WWW.EXTRUDER.NL / WWW.EXPANDER.NL

Almex b.v., Verlengde Ooyerhoekseweg 297207 BJ Zutphen, Netherlands, tel.: +31 (0)575 572666

e-mail: [email protected], internet: www.almex.nl

www.buhlergroup.com

Buhler AGCH – 9240Uzwil, SwitzerlandT: +41 71 955 11 11F: +41 71 955 66 11E: [email protected]

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For more information contact the International Marketing Manager,

Caroline WearnEmail: [email protected]

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VICTAMAsia2010

Co-located with FIAAP Asia 2010 – the event for animal feedingredients, additives and formulation.

The Conferences: • The Thai Feed Conference 2010 • Aquafeed Horizons 2010• Petfood Forum Asia 2010 • The GRAPAS Conference 2010 • The FIAAP Conference 2010 • Biomass Technology 2010

Supported by: Thai Ministry of Agriculture & Co-OperativesThai Rice Milling AssociationThai Department of Livestock DevelopmentThai Department of FisheriesThai Feed Mill AssociationThai Petfood Industry AssociationThai Chamber of CommerceThai Convention & Exhibition Bureau

For information visit: www.victam.com or www.grapas.eu

A partnership with synergy

Queen Sirikit National Convention Center . Bangkok . Thailand 3 – 5 March 2010

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Supply Chain

Equipment for sale

A Foeth BVCondex (UK) Ltd

Filter Screen Supply LtdWirtech AG, Process Engineering

Other

Now in its 18th edition, the IMD brings you specific country profiles, A-Z listings of product and services essential to the milling industry, a fully verified list of contacts and much, much more.

Pre-order your printed copy now by calling +44 1242 267703, or visit our secure online ordering service at:www.perendale.com

2010

“Your Reliable Supply Chain Manager”Products we produce and Export:• Banana Meal• Banana Powder• Crude Tuna Fish Oil• Crude Sardine Fish Oil• Tuna Fish Meal• Sardine Fish Meal • Dried and hammered Pineapple Pulp

Email: [email protected]: www.palmviewtrade.com

PALM VIEW TRADE

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Pulverisers

• Altenburger Maschinen Jaeckering GmbH

• Axtel Industries Ltd • Christy Turner Ltd• Netzsch-Condux Mahltechnik

GmbH• Jacobson LLC• Prater-Sterling

Recruitment

AGRI-AssociatesAgribusiness Recruiters

Rolls

Andritz Feed & Biofuel BVAndritz Feed & BiofuelCondex (UK) LtdJiangsu Muyang Group Co., Ltd.Kay Jay Chill Rolls Pvt LtdLa Meccanica srl di Reffo

Millson Engineering LimitedMuench-Edelstahl GmbH

Reynolds Engineering & Equipment, Inc.P.O. Box 707 • Muscatine, Iowa 52761-0012 • USA

Tel: (563) 263-5549 Fax: (563) 264-8420website: www.ReynoldsEng.come-mail: [email protected]

Manufacturer of Air Swept Pulverisers for the fine grinding of many different products

www.jcb-consulting.com+44(0)161 427 2402

Milling IndustryRecruitment Specialist

Mill design construction

• Bratney Companies• Wallace & Associates Inc.• Cimbria Bratney Company• Columbian TecTank

• Interstates• Lurgi PSI Inc • Muench-Edelstahl GmbH• Turner Process Equipment Ltd• Younglove Construction LLC

Painting

• Agora Services Ltd• Euroquip Fabrication Ltd• Silocare Ltd, Silocheck Ltd

Process control

• Converteam UK Ltd• KSE Protech BV

Croston Engineering LtdTarvin MillBarrow Lane,TarvinChesterCH3 8JFTel: 01829 741119Fax: 01829 741169E-mail: [email protected]: http://www.croston-engineering.co.uk

BULK STORAGE, HANDLING, ANDPROCESS ENGINEERS FOR THE ANIMAL FEED, GRAIN, FLOUR, BAKERY, HUMAN AND PET FOODS INDUSTRIES

Stewart InglisINDUSTRIAL PAINTING LTD

[email protected]

British Gas ERS Approved Painting Inspector

Thirty years experience in painting and anti-corrosion coatings , quality control etc. From Europe to the Middle East and in the oil industries from the North Sea to West Africa. please call for more information: Tel: +44 1289 386525

Maximise EfficiencyProcess Control Systems

for Milling Automation

Feasibility, design, build and installation

01473 829188www.suffolk-automation.co.uk

Feed processing

Flour improver

• Alicorp SA• Doves Farm Foods• Dr Eckel GmbH

• Prima Ltd• Smiths Flour Mills

Mill Design & Installation

• Bratney Companies• Croston Engineering Ltd• Muench-Edelstahl GmbH• Silchester Control Systems Ltd • TekPro Ltd• Turner Process Equipment Ltd

Ein Unternehmen der Stern-Wywiol GruppeA member of the Stern-Wywiol Gruppe

• Flour improvers• Enzymes• Baking premixes• Advice on applicationsKurt-Fischer-Strasse 55, D-22926 AhrensburgTel.: + 49 (0) 4102 / 202 001, Fax: [email protected]

www.muehlenchemie.de

SATAKE CORPORATIONUK DIVISIONP.O. Box 53, Bredbury,Stockport SK6 2FGUnited KingdomTel: 44 (0) 161 406 3800Fax: 44 (0) 161 406 3801Web: www.satake.co.ukE-mail: [email protected]

Cereal Milling Engineersto the World

VICTAMAsia2010

Co-located with FIAAP Asia 2010 – the event for animal feedingredients, additives and formulation.

The Conferences: • The Thai Feed Conference 2010 • Aquafeed Horizons 2010• Petfood Forum Asia 2010 • The GRAPAS Conference 2010 • The FIAAP Conference 2010 • Biomass Technology 2010

Supported by: Thai Ministry of Agriculture & Co-OperativesThai Rice Milling AssociationThai Department of Livestock DevelopmentThai Department of FisheriesThai Feed Mill AssociationThai Petfood Industry AssociationThai Chamber of CommerceThai Convention & Exhibition Bureau

For information visit: www.victam.com or www.grapas.eu

A partnership with synergy

Queen Sirikit National Convention Center . Bangkok . Thailand 3 – 5 March 2010



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Grain Processing

Industrial Noodle,Breakfast Cereal& ExtrudedSnackProduction




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Grain Processing

Industrial Noodle,Breakfast Cereal& Extruded SnackProduction


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Asia/Pacific’s largest feed and grainprocessing event.Over 6000 visitors to the 2008 show!

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Alltech European Bioscience Centre = www.alltech.com

Almex b.v. = www.almex.nl

Avery Weigh-Tronix = www.averyweigh-tronix.com

BCPC = www.bcpc.org

Biomin GmbH = www.biomin.net

Buhler AG = www.buhlergroup.com

Buhler AG = www.buhlergroup.com

Chief Industries UK Ltd = www.chief.co.uk

Consergra s.l = www.consergra.com

Danisco (UK) Limited = www. danisco.com/animalnutrition

EL.KA Reclame Adviesbureau = www.elkareclame.be

Extru-Tech Inc = www.extru-techinc.com

GAME Engineering Ltd = www.game-engineering.com

Garner Industries = www.garnerindustries.com

Imas = www.imas.com.tr

Jiangsu Muyang Group Co Ltd = www.muyang.com

Leonhard Breitenbach GmbH = www.breitenbach.de

Mondi Syktyvkar = www.mondigroup.com

Muhlenchemie = www.stern-wywiol-gruppe.de

NABIM = www.nabim.org.uk

nv SCE = www.sce.be

Ottevanger Milling Engineers B.V. = www.ottevanger.com

Palm View Trade = www.palmviewtrade.com

Plimsoll Publishing Ltd = www.plimsoll.co.uk

Safety Revolution Ltd = www.safetyrevolutionltd.com

Satake Corporation = www.satake-japan.co.jp

Schmidt-Seeger AG = www.schmidt-seeger.com

Silos Cordoba = www.siloscordoba.com

Unormak Milling Machines = www.unormak.com.tr

UWT (UK) Ltd = www.uwtuk.com

Wenger Manufacturing Inc. = www.wenger.com

Wynveen International B.V. = http://www.wynveen.com/

2010related links

In every issue of GFMT, we will be providing a list of companies and web links related to key stories and topics within each specific issue.If you would like information on how your company can get involved, please contact our Marketing Manager, Caroline Wearn.Email: [email protected] | Tel: +44 1242 267707

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Bühler AG, Feed & Biomass, CH-9240 Uzwil, Switzerland, T +41 71 955 11 11, F +41 71 955 28 96

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