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38 Think Rice - Think

Thailand
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of the quality of pasta and
noodles
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STORAGE
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62 Cereals 2015
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50 Bhler in South East Asia
EVENTS
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Guest
Editor
Italian tradition at Ipack-Ima

It is my pleasure to
open this months
Milling and Grain
Magazine following
my time shared
with Ocrim at the
recent Ipack-Ima
event in Milan. The
Ipack-Ima event also
coincided with EXPO
2015, of which I
am an ambassador. It is clear that both man
and machine must work together if we are
to tackle the challenge of feeding a growing
population.
So, a little bit about my passion! For me,
cooking is an art. I commenced my career
working with Gualtiero Marchesi. After
which, I gained international experience,
studying with some of the greatest chefs
worldwide -Albert Roux (Le Gavroche,
London), Alain Ducasse (Louis XV,
Montecarlo), Pierre Herm (Fauchon, Paris) travelling all around the world, from the USA
to Japan and Europe.
I returned to Italy in 2003, choosing my home

district where I grew up, Cornaredo (a few
kilometres from Milans western ring road) to
open my own restaurant, DO.
My cooking philosophy can be defined as
Cucina POP. My Cucina POP comes
from the desire to blend the essential with
Meet the Milling and Grain team

The team are travelling across the
globe to industry events. Come along
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the well-made, to create something good

that is accessible, to combine tradition with
innovation. I am convinced that the greatness
of Italian cuisine lies - not only in the variety
and flavours - but also because it is open to
continuous re-interpretation.
It was a great honour to be part of Ocrims

70th birthday celebrations and to listen to their
story. Like my approach to cooking, the Ocrim
brand perfectly combines innovation with a
deep respect for Italian tradition. A true sense
of intrigue captivated the audience during
the event, as three surprises were unveiled.
It was clear to myself, and others that Ocrim
are a vital part of Cremona and there is a deep
link between the people of Cremona and the
company.
To mark the occasion, I cooked and dedicated
a special dish symbolic of innovation: fregola,
crunchy wheat, plum and coffee powder.
I decided to invent this recipe for Ocrim
since it too reflects both my approach and
the Ocrim story of fusing tradition with a
futuristic approach. Then of course there are
the ingredients, wheat and flour. Flour, which
is a product of technology and the work of
Ocrim machines (and men!). Again, man and
machine meet!
I hope you enjoy this edition and turn to the
Ipack-Ima photo review where you will find
pictures of the special Ocrim event.
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Bhler secures rice processing contracts in

excess of USD 100 million across South East
Asia
The contracts, secured over the past two years, have an emphasis
on food safety, hygienic production, energy efficiency and
sustainability.
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90 - percent of the worlds rice is
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South East Asia pacific region.
700 - million tons - the projected
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FEATURE
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1.8 - The Asian population is growing

at 1.8 percent per year at present.
50-80 - the total percentage of daily
calories from rice consumed daily
per person in the region.
27 - Millions of tonnes of paddy rice
produced by Thailand in 2003.
7.5 million tonnes of rice was
exported.
25 - The percentage of Thailands
rice lands which are irrigated.
The rest are rainfed, with a tiny
proportion of deepwater and
upland varieties.
(Source: FAO)
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Think Rice - Think

Thailand
Think Rice - Think Thailand - That
was the challenge delivered to the 500plus delegates, including importers and
buyers, attending the 7th Thailand Rice
Convention in Bangkok
Thailands Prime
Minister addresses
farmer-processor-trader
concerns at Thailand
Rice Convention 2015
On May 20, 2015, Thailands Prime
Minister General Prayut ChanO-Cha officially opened the 7th
Thailand Rice Convention 2015
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MAY 15
Milling
Charles Starkey named American

Feed Industry Association Member
of the Year
he American Feed Industry

Association (AFIA) named
Charles Starkey, PhD, of
Balchem Animal Nutrition and
Health, its Member of the Year
during a ceremony at its board
of directors meeting May 12-13,
in Arlington, Virginia, USA. Mr
Starkey is a staunch supporter
of AFIA, known for providing
leadership to strengthen the Safe
Food/Safe Food program.
The Member of the Year Award
Left to right: AFIA President and CEO Joel G.
is presented to an AFIA member
Newman, Dr Charles Starkey, Dr Jessica (Dunn)
Starkey (wife), and former Chairman of the Board,
who exhibits the utmost support
Dr Alan Wessler
throughout the year to help the
organisation achieve its goals and
objectives. With the exception of
the 83 members on the Food Safety Modernisation Act work group who received
the 2014 Member of the Year Award, only 33 individuals prior have been honored.
Charles is a deeply committed member, always willing to vocalise his knowledge
and feedback. He has spoken at multiple AFIA events and provided comments
on AFIAs response to FDA on the Current Good Manufacturing Practices and
Preventive Controls for Animal Food, said AFIA President and CEO Joel G
Newman.
Mr Starkey currently serves on the feed regulatory, ingredient approval and
definition, international trade and pet food member interest groups, regularly
attends committee meetings and serves as the liaison between the feed, pet food and
rendering industries.
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Trevor Williams
- Plant geneticist who helped establish

worldwide network of gene banks to ensure
future food security
he future survival of mankind will owe much to the

work of Dr (John) Trevor Williams who has died
at 76. He is recognised as making an enormous
contribution towards the conservation of the genes of
the worlds food crops, report the Daily Telegraph in late
April. Dr Trevor Williams died on March 30, 2015.
Dr Williams was the executive secretary of the International
Board for Plant Genetic Resources (IBPGR) in Rome and
its director from 1974-89. He directed the programme of
collecting, conserving and sharing the crop varieties that
farmers had grown for centuries the genetic resources need
for plant breeding and crop improvement.
During that period farmers were adopting new, higheryielding seeds and many traditional crop varieties
risked becoming extinct. One way to preserve genetic
diversity was to place seeds in a gene bank for long-term
conservation.
IBPGR helped to establish an international network of
gene banks, culminating in the opening in 2008 of the
Svalbard Global Seed Vault the Doomsday Vault
inside a sandstone mountain on the Norwegian island
of Spitzbergen. Today millions of seeds are stored for
posterity deep beneath the Artic permafrost.
John Trevor Williams was born at Thingwall in the
Wirral peninsula, just outside Liverpool, UK, on June 21,
1938. He studied botany at Selwyn College, Cambridge,
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graduating in 1959 and completed his PhD in 1962 at the
University of Wales, Bangor. He was a research fellow in
Zurich for three years where he was awarded his DSc. In
1969 he joined the department of botany at the University
of Birmingham as course tutor for the newly established
MSc in Conservation and Utilisation of Plant Genetic
Resources. He trained students from all over the world in
the theory and practice of genetic conservation.
IBPGR was founded in 1974 under the auspices of the
United Nations as an international agricultural research
institute.
His dynamic leadership helped many countries set
up genetic resource programmes for the first time and
sponsored germplasma collection trips all over the world.
In 1980 Dr Williams sent scientists to Afghanistan a
country with a rich base of genetically-varied crops to
rescue the contents of the gene bank there in case they
fell into the hands of the Russians or were destroyed by
the Afghans.
By the time he stepped down as director there were more
than 1000 gene banks or collections around the world.
IBPGR subsequently evolved into bioversity International.
He then moved to Washington DC where he advised the
management of Diversity magazine and was founder of the
International Centre for Underutilised Crops.
The Daily Telegraph reported his many honours and
the societies he belonged to. He was a whirlwind of
energy who encouraged many students to follow a
career in genetic conservation; some of them went on to
become leaders of their own national genetic resources
programmes. He was unmarried.
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The Earsham Roller Flour Mills on the

River Waveney in Norfolk
(From The Miller, October 2nd 1893)
Milling Journals of the past at the Mills Archive
by Mildred Cookson, The Mills Archive, UK

he mill, taken over by
Rank Hovis McDougall
in 1977, sits in the centre
of a wheat growing area in
the valley of the Waveney. Its
history dates back to Saxon
times and the mill adjoins an
ancient earthworks believed to
be from this period.
An early drawing of the
mill shows how it looked in 1793 when occupied by Mr
Thomas Clarke, who had taken over the mill aged 24.
He learnt his trade from his father who owned and ran a
Norfolk mill at Hoxne and he was reputed to be able to
carry two 280 lbs sacks of flour, one under each arm. He
also united his milling business with farming and baking.
The portraits show two Thomas Clarkes, separated by
100 years, both occupiers of the mill. In January 1856
Mr Robert Harvey Clarke, father of the younger Thomas
Clarke, entered into an agreement with Thomas and
Riches and Watts of Norwich. Flour from the mill was

transported by water to Newcastle. In September 1871,
a Situations Vacant advert in the Norfolk News read
Wanted: an experienced Man as Spoutman, apply to R H
Clarke, Earsham Mills.
In 1877 Mr Robert Harvey Clarke took possession of
a site on the banks of the River Yare at Great Yarmouth
and there built the Waveney Mills. These were fitted out
with Whitmore and Binyon machinery and included some
rollers, wheat cleaning equipment and flour dressing
machinery. After two years experience, he approved of
the system and decided to erect a roller plant at Earsham
Mills, which he had now purchased from the Duke of
Norfolk and was run by his eldest son. The order for the
roller mill was once more given to Messrs Whitmore and
Binyon of Wicken Market in Suffolk who were to erect it
on similar lines to the Waveney mills at Yarmouth.
The roller mill (seen in the drawing from 1893) had the
capacity of two sacks of flour an hour. The layout of the
mill can be seen in the sectional elevation. Mr Clarke had
the reputation of being an excellent judge of wheat and
Sectional Elevation
Thomas Clarke 1793
Early drawing 1793

1940s order invoice
took possession of
the Earsham mills.
In 1863 the mill
was rebuilt by the
then owner, The
Duke of Norfolk
and fitted out with
new machinery,
which consisted
of eleven pairs of
millstones driven
by a waterwheel. It
also had auxiliary
power from a
horizontal high
and low pressure
engine by Messrs
Thomas Clarke 1893
also a fisherman, catching a salmon trout in the mill pool

which weighed 12 lbs and shortly afterwards, catching
an eel weighing nine lbs.
In 1900 Charles Marston purchased the Mill and in 1923
was awarded The Miller Challenge Cup. The Marston
family continued at the mill till 1937. The order/invoice
from the 1940s shows the range of products being offered
at that time. The Mills Archive holds many similar
documents from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
offering a rich reward for the researcher. Along with old
and modern photographs they can bring to life a journey
through the history of a mill from its earliest times to
date. Our newly launched website https://millsarchive.
org contains information and images of thousands of mills
throughout the UK and abroad, so take a look! If you
have any queries you can contact me at
mills@millsarchive.org
Alltech Young Scientist award winners

hope to make a world of difference
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wo university students
from 62 countries. The graduate
received awards in the
winner received US$10,000, and
10th annual Alltech Young
the undergraduate winner received
Scientist (AYS) program, the
US$5000. Alltech also recognised
largest global contest of its kind
46 regional and local award winners,
that rewards scientific genius and
who received up to US$2000 each.
experimental application in agriStudents were challenged to pursue
science. Students were challenged
solutions in animal health and
to submit research studies that
nutrition, crop science, aquaculture,
demonstrate a keen awareness of
food science, algae, environmental
science and its applications for
science and other agri-science related
improving the future of the world,
areas.
specifically through agriculture.
This year we encouraged students
Xiaoqiu (Churchill) Wang, who
to push the envelope and to rebel in
Dr Aoife Lyons (left), director of educational
attends Texas A&M University in
their search for solutions to todays
initiatives at Alltech, and Dr Inge Russell (right),
College Station, Texas, USA, was
challenges, said Dr Pearse Lyons,
director of the Alltech Young Scientist program,
present Xiaoqiu (Churchill) Wang with his
the graduate winner. Rafal Bialek,
president and founder of Alltech.
award as the graduate winner of the 10th
a student at Adam Mickiewicz
Once again this group of students
annual Alltech Young Scientist program. Mr
Wang is a student at Texas A&M University
University in Pozna, Poland, won
did not disappoint. We congratulate
the undergraduate division. Nearly
these winners for rising to the
9000 students from 62 countries had registered for the AYS challenge and demonstrating their potential as scientific
this year.
leaders.
Dr Aoife Lyons, director of educational initiatives at
REBELation concluded Wednesday, with featured
Alltech, and Dr Inge Russell, director of the AYS program, speakers University of Kentucky head basketball coach
presented the awards in the famed Rupp Arena during
John Calipari and Lisa Bodell, founder and CEO of
the Alltech REBELation, an international conference
futurethink and author of Kill the Company. Mr Calipari
exploring innovation, inspiration and world-changing
was presented
with the Alltech
Humanitarian
Award.
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ideas.
Worldwide recognition of my current research keeps me
inspired, said Mr Wang, adding that his long-term goal
is to be an independent scientist who makes a seminal
discovery that makes a world of difference.
The goal of his AYS research was to solve what he called
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ADM elects directors

at Annual Meeting and
declares cash dividend
rcher Daniels Midland Company announced

at its 92nd Annual Stockholders Meeting
that 13 incumbent directors were elected to
its Board. The directors are: Alan L. Boeckmann,
Mollie Hale Carter, Terrell K. Crews, Pierre Dufour,
Donald E. Felsinger, Juan R. Luciano, Antonio Maciel
Neto, Patrick J. Moore, Thomas F. ONeill, Francisco
Sanchez, Daniel Shih, Kelvin R. Westbrook and Patricia
A. Woertz.
ADMs Board of Directors also declared a cash dividend
of 28.0 cents per share on the companys common stock
payable June 11, 2015, to Stockholders of record May 21,

2015.
This is ADMs 334th consecutive quarterly payment, a
record of 83 years of uninterrupted dividends. As of March
31, 2015, there were 625,071,516 shares of ADM common
stock outstanding.
ADM also announced its No-Deforestation Policy,
with specific actions related to ADMs palm and soy
supply chains. It includes commitments to work with
respected third-party experts, including The Forest Trust,
to begin mapping the companys supply chains against
high carbon stock forests, high conservation value areas
and peatlands, and to develop appropriate action plans
to create more sustainable, traceable supply chains that
protect these areas. These action plans will also incorporate
information gathered through the implementation of
ADMs Commitment to Human Rights. ADM committed
to publish the action plans and provide regular updates.
Vital legacy of gender specialist Paula Kantor
t is with deepest
condolences that Milling
and Grain magazine
mark the tragic passing of
International Maize and
Wheat Improvement Centre
(CIMMYT) gender and
development specialist Paula
Kantor. Paula was featured in
our April edition celebrating
the Superwomen of maize and
wheat.
Paula died on May 13, 2015
in the aftermath of an attack on
the hotel where she was staying in Kabul, Afghanistan.
We extend our deepest condolences to her family,
friends and colleagues, said Thomas Lumpkin,
CIMMYTs director general.
Paulas desire to help people and make lasting change
in their lives often led her into challenging settings. Her
dedication and bravery was much admired by those who
knew her and she leaves a lasting legacy upon which future
research on gender and food security should build.
A US citizen, Paula joined CIMMYT as a senior scientist
(gender and development specialist) in February 2015 to
lead an ambitious new project aimed at empowering and
improving the livelihoods of women, men and youth in
important wheat-growing areas of Afghanistan, Ethiopia
and Pakistan.
Paula was such a caring, committed, energetic and
talented colleague, said Olaf Erenstein, director of
socio-economics at CIMMYT. She inspired everyone
she worked with and its so sad that her life and career
were prematurely ended. She will be sorely missed our
deepest sympathies to her family, friends and colleagues
throughout the world.
At the time of her death at age 46, Paula had many
years of experience in the area of gender and social
development. She was a respected

professional and prolific writer, having
published more than a dozen peerreviewed academic publications, some
10 peer-reviewed monographs and briefs,
15 other publications and 10 conference
papers during her lifetime.
Dynamic Career
Before joining CIMMYT, Paula served

as a senior gender scientist with CGIAR
sister organization WorldFish for three
years from 2012, working in Bangladesh,
Malaysia and Egypt.
It is such a tragic, shocking waste of a remarkable
talent, said Patrick Dugan, WorldFish deputy director
general and CRP AAS Director.
For two years previously, Paula had worked at the
International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW)
in Washington, D.C., developing intervention research
programs in the area of gender and rural livelihoods.
From 2008 to 2010, Paula was based in Kabul, working as
director and manager of the gender and livelihoods research
portfolios at the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit
(AREU), an independent research agency.
After earning a doctoral degree focused on international
economic development and gender from the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000, she taught in the
Departments of Consumer Science and Womens Studies at
the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Paula was a pillar in our gender work and a dear friend
to many of us, said Lone Badstue, CIMMYT gender
specialist.
It was a privilege to work with her. She had a strong
passion for ensuring that her work made a difference. Its
hard to imagine how to move forward, but Im convinced
that Paula would want us to do that and to make the
difference for which she strived.
Demeter Award
nominations sought for
outstanding women in
agriculture
ominations are now being accepted for

consideration for the Women in Agribusiness
Demeter Award of Excellence, which
acknowledges the outstanding achievements of women
in the agricultural sector.
The awards will be presented at the fourth annual
Women in Agribusiness Summit, hosted by HighQuest
Group, this year in Minneapolis, September 28-30 at the
Hyatt Regency.
The Women in Agribusiness Demeter Award of
Excellence, so named for Demeter, the goddess of
the harvest from ancient Greek mythology, will be
given in three categories. The categories reflect the
mission of Women in Agribusiness Initiatives, which
is to help develop leaders, increase industry knowledge
and inspire action for women in the agribusiness sector.
They are:
Leader of the Year: This category recognises the
individual who has worked to expand and diversify the
offerings of womens initiatives within their company,
or the achievements of leaders and entrepreneurs who
have made accomplishments of significance that further
the mission of Women in Agribusiness.
Innovator of the Year: This category recognises the
individual who has demonstrated innovation in the
initiation, development or launch of gender diversity
programs and/or who has affected positive change in
her company or the industry with regard to womens
advancement. (NOTE: Nominees for this category
should not hold executive positions within their
companies.)
Company/Organization of the Year: This award
recognises the achievements of a company that has
initiated programs to support professional development,
achievements and overall growth of women in the
industry.
Nomination forms, which are due no later than July
10, 2015, and guidelines for submission are available
on the Women in Agribusiness Summit website under
Initiatives.
There is no limit to the number of entries in each
award category, though there will be only one
award recipient in each category. When submitting
nominations, any given individual can be nominated
for only one category. A person or company may selfnominate. Award recipients will be notified prior to
being recognised at the Summit in Minneapolis this
September.
More than 500 attendees are expected at this years
Women in Agribusiness Summit, an industry event
tailored to professional women in the sector.
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No. 1
Summer socials and key conferences ahead

Tom Blacker, International Milling Directory
King-size
king cake
You can get it as a dry cake, with
cream, truffle chocolate, or in worldrecord size king cake, eaten in
Mexico since the 16th century at
Epiphany. To celebrate 200 years
of Mexican independence, Mexico
City bakers made a truly king-size
"Rosca de Reyes" weighing ten tons
and measuring 2360 feet long. The
massive cake took 16,684 pounds of
flour, 56,880 eggs and 8157 pounds
of butter, and cut nicely into 254,000
pieces. But no one knows who
found the porcelain figurine that is
hidden in every Rosca de Reyes. This
will no doubt remain a mystery, for
whoever finds it must make tamales
for all the guests, later at the
"Fiesta de la Candelaria". With this
gargantuan cake that would be an
impossible task.
The Mhlenchemie FlourWorld Museum
in Wittenburg is an expression of our
company culture and the responsibility
we feel towards the miller and his flour,
as one of the most important staple
foods. The museum is a journey through
the millennia, illuminating the development and importance of flour. It is
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Summer is just around the corner and the prospect

of another good harvest for the global northernhemisphere milling industries to process means this
is an exciting and prosperous time for our industry.
Coupled with worldwide exhibitions and conferences
where more new technological products will be
showcased means the forecast is positive and bright
for a sociable and productive summer!
On the events side, I enjoyed distributing the
International Milling Directory at Ipack-Ima, held 19 - 23 May in Milan at
the Fieramilano. To meet with many European and North American millers,
manufacturers and distributors was a real pleasure. I wish to thank all who
allowed me to look at the latest equipment and gave me their invaluable time
during the exhibition.
The scale and range of machinery on display was a real testament to how
seriously exhibitors invest in this event. Ipack-Ima is officially the number
one reference point for grain based food technology, unique in its nature and
size. The exhibition and exhibit halls truly came alive with an eclectic mix of
cooking shows (Ocrim showcased Chef Davide Oldani who is this months
guest editor), Pavan held a Pasta Pleasure Party, and Bhler generated attention
with the spectacular Bhler motorbike. This was not just a reference point for
colleagues and competitors alike to exchange information; it was a winning
Italian combination of theatre and state of the art technology.
I am personally excited for The Global Milling Conference in Kln, Germany
next month, which takes place in conjunction with GRAPAS. The topics on food
safety, quality control, nutrition and milling technology, trends and Developments
look to be at the forefront of the industry today.
The conference is taking place on 11th June, the final day, in the Rehinsaal 4
and 6 meeting rooms at Klnmesse (Cologne Exhibition Halls). For just 75
you will hear eleven leading experts in their fields speak on a variety of subjects
guaranteed to inspire, inform and amuse anyone involved in anything related to
the milling industry. Just visit http://bit.ly/grapas for more information and the
registration form today. The team and I look forward to meeting with you there.
There have been a lot of companies successfully updating their online
International Milling Directory entry ready for the new 24th edition that will
be published later this year. Should you require any assistance, you are always
welcome to email me at tomb@perendale.co.uk or call me on +44 1242 267700.
I truly believe the IMD is an invaluable resource for all and is set to go from
strength to strength!
Tom Blacker
Directory Coordinator
Thailands Prime Minister

addresses farmer-processortrader concerns at Thailand
Rice Convention 2015
Milling News
n May 20, 2015, Thailands Prime Minister

General Prayut Chan-O-Cha officially opened the
7th Thailand Rice Convention 2015 and welcomed
a diverse audience from rice farmer representatives from
across Thailand to processors, manufacturers and exporters
and through to rice traders and rice importers.
In his wide-ranging presentation he had messages for
all sectors of the industry and while acknowledging that
the world price for rice could not be ignored, he called
on all sectors of the industry, both domestically and
internationally, to work together to provide farmers with
better returns for their labours.
He began by acknowledging the invaluable
contribution made by Her Royal Highness Princess
Maha Chakri Sirinthorn to the livelihoods of farmers
throughout the Kingdom of Thailand and to the philosophy
of sufficiency economy that is the royal thought of His
Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
Rice is essential to the Thai way of life and is one of
the important exporting products which the government
has established clear policies and a strategic grain trade
in line with the countrys sustainable development
approach, to reaffirm to rice importing countries and
consumers confidence from all regions around the
world, he told the 500-plus delegates and gathered
international press.
Moreover, through integrating all rice shareholders
agenda including government, farmers and rice traders, it is
to assure that Thailand continues as leading manufacturer
and exporter of rice in the global trade and remains the
worlds best kitchen, steadily and sustainably.
I am very delighted to have the honour of addressing
the importance of rice in Thailand along with the strategies
and rice trade policies of Thailand, he told delegates.
The subjects he covered in his presentation included the
role of Thailand in the global rice market, the demand and
supply trends for the agricultural sector and strategies and
future of Thai rice.
In discussing the global rice scenario he pointed out
that while Thailand ranked number one exporter with
10.97 million tonnes exported in 2014 (worth over
US$5439 million), rice manufacturing and exporting
countries, including Thailand, faced high volatility, market
uncertainty and hindrances affecting rice cultivation
from natural disasters and trade competition.
He called for closer co-operation between ASEAN
rice producing countries and other producers in order
to manage the supply of rice to the marketplace without
causing unnecessary conflict and competition.
He also pointed to external factors, such as the shortages
of water in different rice producing regions that is now
beginning to have a significant impact on rice supply and
demand.
In order to manage the demand and supply of rice that
is in line with current situations and market mechanisms
he said his government would focus on seven aspects
including:
A stable and sustainable development plan for rice
Establish fairness in the rice trading system

Promote and push forward the implantation of
manufacturing and trade standards to meet international
standards
Develop the rice trading system
Encourage rice consumption
Create rice interventions
Enhance the efficiencies in the management of logistics
In the short term the government will accelerate the
restructuring of the management of rice production by
designating rice cultivation areas that are suitable for each
variety and producing rice in the quantities that meet the
market demand and reduce the areas for off-season rice
production in order to keep the rice volume at appropriate
levels.
Moreover, the government will be providing support in
production planning, research and development, offering
assistance in improving rice production and quality,
promoting production of certain rice for niche markets.
He said his government will not disrupt market
mechanisms by focusing its attention on research and
development in good rice varieties with better quality and
higher yields and lower costs. In addition, it will promote
the use of organic fertilisers and bio-fertilisers to maintain
the standard quality and safety of plant food.
He would like to see rice yields increase by 25 percent
compared to 2015 and for rice production costs to be
decreased by 20 percent, all by 2021.
Overall, Prime Minister General Prayut Chan-O-Cha
successfully addressed the immediate issues faced by the
three main groups represented at the Convention - rice
farmers, rice manufacturers/processors and rice traders.
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The Pelletier Column
Beyond nine billion
by Christophe Pelletier
In the past few years, the
number of nine billion by 2050
has become iconic. Although it
certainly indicates the magnitude
of the population growth to
come, this number must be
looked at both with caution and
critical thinking.
The United Nations developed
several scenarios: low, medium
and high population growth. The nine billon number
comes out of the medium scenario. Depending on which
scenario will come true, the actual number would be in the
range of 7.5 to 11 billion. It will be interesting to follow
closely the updated forecasts because future strategies will
differ significantly between the different scenarios.
The number of humans by 2050 is only part of the whole
picture. Regardless of whether it will be more or less than
nine billion, the actual goals to feed the planet are about
global consumption and that goes quite beyond just the
number of people on planet. Consumption patterns will
influence greatly what and how much of it the food and
agriculture sector needs to produce.
In developed countries, the daily consumption of calories
and protein is already almost twice the nutritional needs.
As the economy develops in more and more countries, so
does consumption. In a world where all inhabitants would
consume in the same way as the people of developed
countries currently do, feeding nine billion would actually
mean supplying the equivalent of nutritional needs of
almost 18 billion.
Consumption habits will influence both quantity and
quality. Depending on consumption patterns, the volumes
of production that are needed will vary. The effect of diet
will not be just about volumes on the consumers plates.
The ratio between animal products and vegetal products,
both for human consumption as for animal production,
will differ between different diets. Within the animal
protein group, the choice of which products are popular
will also affect the overall agricultural production needed
to meet future demand. Since different productions require
different amount of energy, agricultural inputs and water,
the environmental impact of the diet will also vary.
As more consumers become more affluent, they tend to
become more demanding. It is human nature. Maslows
pyramid of needs describes the process quite well. Once
the basic physical needs are covered, people choose
something more satisfying emotionally. In the case of
food, once food security is achieved, consumers look for
something more gratifying, be it in terms of quality, status
or societal effect of their choices. Markets are evolving
differently between different regions and they will keep on

doing so.
In developed countries, consumption will not increase
simply because most consumers in these countries already
have reached their physical limits to eat more. The aging
population do not eat as much as younger people because
they have lower nutritional needs and also because they
pay more attention to their health.
In these countries, health, environment, origin and
production methods will increasingly determine what
people buy. In emerging and developing countries,
consumption follows a similar pattern to what happened in
developed countries in the second half of the 20th century
and the wealthier groups already show a similar pattern as
the developed countries. It is logical to expect that some of
these markets will also reach stagnation and show further
differentiation in the future decades. This process will
take place at a variable pace, depending on the countries
economic and demographic conditions.
If consumption markets vary a lot between regions and
countries, so do production conditions, depending on their
natural situation and their access to production inputs. Not
everything can be produced everywhere. Sustainability
is a delicate balancing act between the need to produce
sufficient affordable food and preserving the ability to do
so. It is also a bit of a dilemma between the marketing urge
to sell more and responsible production. The future will
likely be about producing not just where it is cheaper as it
has been in the previous decades, but producing where it is
the most sustainable to do so.
It is both the responsibility of the consumers as of the
producers to shape the future. To meet all the needs in
terms of volumes and at the same time adapt to produce
in new environmental conditions, consumers will need
proper education and information so that they can
consume more responsibly. They will enjoy food better.
In parallel to consumer evolution, producers will have to
say stop if something is not sustainable and not produce
it anymore. Not all desires can be fulfilled. That is part
of responsibility. Producers and consumers will have
to accept that markets play a sustainability role as they
regulate price. What is rare or expensive to produce must
remain pricier. Covering nutritional needs must remain
affordable, but not all foods have to be dirt-cheap and their
real value must certainly be appreciated more properly.
Christophe Pelletier is a food and agriculture strategist
and futurist from Canada. He works internationally. He
has published two books on feeding the worlds growing
population. His blog is called The Food Futurist.
Milling News
Lesaffre invest in third drying tower

at Biospringer site in Strasbourg
esaffre continue to diversify in the field of animal

nutrition, health and wellbeing. On April 23, 2015,
Antoine Baule, Lesaffres Chief Executive Officer,
Edouard Gestat, Bio Springer Europe, Middle East and
Africa General Manager, and Frdrique Clusel, Phileos
General Manager, inaugurated a new yeast parietal fractions
drying tower at the Bio Springer site in Strasbourg. With
the adjoining conditioning workshop, this new industrial
machinery represents a 7 million investment. The site
will now be able to supply Phileo, Lesaffres business unit
specialising in animal nutrition, health and wellbeing, with
close to 4,000 tons of yeast parietal fractions each year.
Lesaffre is a key global player in the field of yeast and
bread-making solutions, and is also active on a variety of
markets, thanks to our additional business lines: taste and
pleasure in food, health and wellbeing, and biotechnologies.
In early 2014, the company announced its intention of
raising the shares of those activities contributions to 30
percent of total group turnover in the space of five years.
The investments made at the Bio Springer site in Strasbourg
are a very concrete illustration of this desire, as well as an
indication of the resources that the group is prepared to
devote to its fulfillment.
The Bio Springer plant in Strasbourg, which celebrated its
twentieth anniversary last year, has been able to adapt and
increase its production capacity in line with the markets
increasing demand. Because the two drying towers could
not handle any more yeast extracts to dry, Lesaffre decided
to invest in a third tower, more specifically designed
for dry parietal fractions of yeasts. This resulted in 7

million being invested in industrial equipment, including
a drying tower and an attached line that packages 25 kg
bags. The tower was activated in November 2014, and the
conditioning line in February 2015.
Did you know?
Phileo has conducted numerous studies to prove the

benefits of Safmannan, a premium parietal fraction rich
in active compounds (mannans and beta-glucans), in
improving the health of many animal species (dairy cows,
pigs, poultry and aquaculture species).
Adding Safmannan to feed gives animals natural
protection against the risk of disease by trapping certain
pathogen and toxin bacteria that are responsible for disease
and by reinforcing their natural defenses.
Bio Springers Strasbourg plant ramps up its production
capacity specialising in the production of yeast extracts,
BioSpringers factory in Strasbourg spans 30,000 m2 and
employs some 50 team members. Its geographic proximity
to the Sil Fala plant (a Lesaffre subsidiary) gives us control
over the entire yeast production cycle at our Strasbourg site.
Sil Fala manufactures the yeast cream, which is then
transmitted to the Bio Springer site just a few yards away,
through dedicated pipes. The Bio Springer factory produces
yeast extracts and recovers the resulting parietal fractions,
all of which is dried and packaged on site. The new drying
tower will be able to produce roughly 500 kg of yeast parietal
fractions per hour, or approximately 4,000 tons each year.
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Travelling to find new opportunities

by Chris Jackson, Export Manager UK TAG
Having said in
my last column
that part of my
job is to find new
opportunities
for our industry,
I have been
travelling again
and have just
returned from China and Indonesia.
Let me tell you a little about Indonesia
first, a land of opportunity.
Here is a country with a population of
250,000,000 people who are largely
Muslim of whom it is now reckoned
that 84,000,000 fall in to the middle and
upper classes with disposable incomes,
more people than the UK the population,
and with a move from rural to urban are
looking for food quality and safety.
Their agriculture industry ranges from
subsistence farming to large scale and for
their development they look generally
towards Australia and the USA, they
do not realise that the UK has a highly
developed agricultural industry with
world class research and development that
could significantly help their industries
development.
Their major needs are to develop a cattle
and dairy industry to cut their reliance on
imports, this very much includes feed and
milling along with animal health. Having
developed production their need is for
high-end slaughter, packing, marketing
technology along with co operative
marketing for the small-scale farmers. The
Government is keen to help achieve these
targets and with most SE Asian countries
now importing food they would like to
develop a significant export industry
Along with cattle they are also looking for
sheep and goats
Rice and Maize production predominate
along with a significant vegetable and
flower industries.
Also In Bali and Batam there are
significant pig industries, the latter based
solely on the export market of Singapore
because of the demand for pig meat the
local Government of East Nusa is wanting
to develop an industry to supply exports, a

turn key opportunity.
Because of the island nature of the
country, logistics remain problematical
but the Government is making significant
improvements with world-class airports
and handling facilities, docks roads and
electrical supplies.
So here is a country with natural resources
that can be developed in an eco friendly
way with opportunities for sales, joint
ventures, franchises and direct investment
with a Government committed to
increasing agricultural outputs.
This year UKTAG will take a delegation to
the forthcoming Indo Livestock event to be
held in Surabaya at the end of July where
we will be able to make presentations to
their industry leaders and visit projects and
developments I think this is an exciting
opportunity and I do hope that our readers
will be able to join us at this event.
China remains a primary market for our
sector and with its importance, the UK
now has an Agricultural Councillor based
in our Embassy, very good news for our
industry with this appointment our industry
can look forward to swift and successful
resolutions to any trade difficulties.
The purpose of my visit at this time
was to have a stand for our livestock
industry at the China Animal Husbandry
Exhibition, held this year in Chongqing.
This event gets bigger every year and
moves to a different city for each edition.
It is interesting to see how over the past
decade, the country has made significant
steps for livestock improvement with
substantial Government subsidy. They now
have extremely good breeding industries
but there is still a need for animal feed,
health and technology for production and
food safety. For the UK we will be present
next at the Swine Expo in Xiamen in
September.
Before my next column I will have
been to World Pork Expo and Livestock
Philippines so look forward to having more
good cover for you.
To keep up to date you can follow us on
twitter @AgrictecExports
Novus International, a global

leader in animal nutrition,
announces its support as a Platinum
Sponsor for the 25th Annual
International Food and Agribusiness
Management Association (IFAMA)
World Conference held this year
in St. Paul, Minnesota. The fourday event features a student case
competition, symposium and world
forum focused on global food
security. An international audience
of students, academics and industry
leaders will gather June 14 -17,
2015, at the St Paul River Centre for
the conference.
Alapalas goal: exporting to 100

countries - Alapala, one of the
worlds top 3 companies of
its sector, exports to several
countries all around the world. The
companys exporting operations
started in 1980 and it has sold
products to over 85 countries
since then; Alapala exported to 55
countries in 2014, 5 of which are
new markets.
Selis launched the Novitious with

a grand event recently at IDMA.
The machine continually angles the
rolls as part of DAPS (Dynamic
Angular Positioning System).
Selis are already receiving a lot
of demand for this machine. With
parents pending and CE certified
for the European Union, there is
a great deal of excitement about
the innovative Novitious roller
mill in the industry. The Eskiehir
company say this new machines
system is solving a big problem for
millers worldwide. The machine
has been fully tested and comes
with a high level of quality,
engineering and luxury that is new
to the market. Inside, there is no
need for cambered rolls because
of the angular positioning of the
straight, smooth rolls, with tested
benefits of a higher yield, longer
lasting components and lower
energy consumption.
The industrys most

authoritative resource
on feed production
INDUSTRY GROWTH
hen grouped into regions, Africa and Latin

America saw the greatest growth in 2014.
Asia Pacific, Europe, North America and the
Middle East all showed a slight incline.
Several individual countries can be highlighted as
bright spots of growth and development. Among them
were Turkey, Indonesia, Romania, Tunisia and Bolivia,
all
of which experienced their second consecutive year of
significant increase in feed production.
Top 10 Countries
Country
Total
Mil
Tons
Pig
Calf
Lay
Broil
China
183
85
0.2
24
41
18
0.4
USA
173
21
19
21
20
55
8.5
Brazil
66
14
31
Mexico
31
0.2
11
0.2
0.9
0.5
India
29
11
Spain
29
14
0.2
0.4
.2
0.5
0.2
0
Dairy Beef
Turkey Aqua Pets
Horse
Russia
26
10
0.6
0.5
Japan
24
0.3
Germany
24
10
0.3
0.9
0.3
France
22
0.4
1.3
0.1
1.1
0.3
Ruminant Highlights
2014 feed tonnage: 195.63 million metric tons

0.02% increase
Ruminant feed production makes up 20% of the total
livestock feed production globally
Europe is the leading ruminant feed producer; North
America is #2
Ruminant feed production was UP in Africa, Asia, and
Latin America; Down in Europe, North America, and the
Middle East
Top Ruminant issues in 2014: Antibiotic free
Latin America Highlights
3,914 feed mills

4.0% increase (This increase makes it the 2nd fastest growing
region this year.)
A few countries were UP Bolivia, Venezuela, Argentina
Poultry is by far the leading species in Latin America (77
million metric tons)
Ruminant #2 (27 million metric tons)
Latin America produces 8 million metric tons of Aqua feed
Points of Interest
All species were UP in AFRICA, despite the fact
that this region had the HIGHEST prices on raw
ingredients for feed.
Africa was the only region to see an increase in
production for all species.
Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and North
America all saw an increase in the number of
feed mills. North America had the biggest jump,
adding 1,054 mills in the year. The Middle East
saw a decrease in the number of feed mills.
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The IGP Institute educates feed manufacturing professionals

from around the world on how to apply classroom expertise
back to their businesses. Continuing with that purpose, the
IGP Institute is offering a feed manufacturing course on July
7-10, 2015, for professionals interested in expanding their
knowledge of the feed industry.
Feed manufacturing course

to be held at Kansas State
Universitys IGP Institute
Participants come to this course to learn the new trends in feed
manufacturing and to strengthen their knowledge on the important
concepts that make the feed production process more efficient,
says Carlos Campabadal, IGP Institutes feed manufacturing and
grain quality specialist and course coordinator.
This four-day course will focus on grain storage, particle size
reduction, extrusion, animal nutrition, pelleting and advances
in feed technology. The course will also include hands-on
workshops at the O.H. Kruse Feed Technology Centre and a tour
of Kansas State Universitys dairy facilities.
The course will be most beneficial to mill owners, managers,
supervisors, merchandisers, equipment manufacturers, and
maintenance personnel and managers of livestock, poultry and
agriculture facilities.
Former course participant, Christian Bueno, research
and development specialist from Ecuador says he finds the

experiences that the instructors have extremely beneficial.
The instructors have a lot of insight of not only the usual stuff
they have insights of something new, something that is not
usually found in these type of courses, Bueno says.
This is just one example of the trainings offered through IGP
Institute. In addition to feed manufacturing and grain quality
management, IGP offers courses in the areas of grain marketing
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PRODUCT FOCUS
JUNE 2015
In every edition of Milling and Grain,
we take a look at the products that will
be saving you time and money in the
milling process.
PACK 50 is ITALPACKs medium capacity

packing machine
solution. Simple,
strong, efficient.
Capacity can reach
up to 42 bags per
minute.
Automatic packing
machine for readymade, block-bottom
bags production for
sizes from 500g (42
bags per minute) to
2,500g (20 bags per
minute)
There is also an Inkjet
date printer and an
optional installation
of second volumetric
doser.
www.italpack.net
Omas - Leonardo
Revolutionary, thanks to the cylinder traction system with
direct traction torque motors, through which each milling
cylinder can be given the rotation desired, perfectly
controlled and optimised. In this way, the technologist can set
the machine precisely, based on milling requirements.
Unique, thanks to the OPS (Omas Pressure System) pressure
measuring system which enables the user to manage the
peripheral speed of the two milling cylinders, feeder roller
rotation speed and correct supply of power to main motors in
the best possible way, only using the energy
needed.
Extraordinary, Leonardo is really small
in size, saving considerable
space in the plant; and is
much quieter than other similar
machines on the market. Last
of all, it is simple to install and
reduces ordinary maintenance
costs to a minimum.
AS SEEN AT Ipack Ima

2015 in Milan
www.omas-srl.com
Gericke Elbow Type GB

This elbow considerably reduces degradation of conveyed
material and avoids formation of angel hair through its patented
deflection chamber which reduces turbulence and friction.
Replace your worn and product damaging bends with the
Gericke elbow type GB. Its longer life saves you maintenance
cost and time. The direction of conveyed material is changed
without impact on either the elbow wall or a mass of
compacted material.
A slowly rotating, self renewing ball of material suspended
in air deflects the stream of conveyed materials smoothly
without severe elbow wear or particle damage and without
additional energy.
For the pneumatic conveying of
granules, grains, grits, sand and
powder
For the conveying of slurries and
suspensions
Resists abrasion
Avoids product attrition
www.gericke.net
Perten - Falling Number 1000

instrument
The Falling Number 1000 is an automatic dual
sample analysis system designed for simple
operation. The system includes functions for
automatic water level control, automatic start
and automatic stop at operator set FN target.
It also includes functions for registration
of sample ID, calculation of moisture
corrected sample weight, mean value
calculation, moisture corrected results,
altitude correction and calculation of
blends and malt addition. The user can
also select the optional Fungal Falling
Number method. With its 5.7 touch screen,
operation is simple and intuitive including
local language options. The FN 1000 has USB
and Ethernet ports for printer and bar code
reader and results can be readily copied to a
memory stick or sent for external collection in
e.g. a central LIMS system.
www.perten.com
FOCUS
SPECIAL FOCUS
Ipack Ima is a triennial celebration of all processing and
packaging products for the cereal and pasta industries. Here for
the Special Focus, is one rather interesting product with a range
of applications and innovations from Pavan in Italy. Taking
centre-stage on the Pavan stand at Ipack-Ima, the Granosichter
is introduced by Pavan and Golfetto themselves.
The separator of pre-cleaning and cleaning Granosichter is
composed of a central oscillating body with a net sieving area
of 24 square metres. Inside, a set of frames ensures an excellent
cleaning and separation from impurities.
Application - The machine is used for Precleaning and

Cleaning of cereals, ensures the intensive separation of them
from impurities such as straw, vetch, sand; designed different
versions for an optimum cleaning, even for high hourly
capacities of production.
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Granosichter GS 24
Advantages:
Prolonged sieving treatment and a sifting surface
considerably greater than the conventional separators.
Possibility of eliminating extraneous seeds in dimensions
different from those of the product.
Simplification of the cleaning diagram.
Facilitated maintenance by a single door.
Composed of a central oscillating body, containing groups of
frames, which are fixed pneumatically.
The product enters to the loading group that is arranged by an

oscillating movement, is distributed over the entire width of the
machine, at the same time an air flow detaches the lighter parts from
the cereal reducing the impurities in the entrance of the sifting frames.
The product is distributed uniformly on the lifting frame groups.
At their bottom, the screenings are separated and collected
from the sand, while the cereal goes through a separator tarar of
decanted dust, which is collected and separated from the clean
air in the upper decanter group. A connection of decanted air
from dust to an external filter is provided.
The flywheel is extractable to perform easy maintenance; it is
also possible to adjust the intensity of oscillation through the
displacement of the mass in the flywheel itself.
www.golfettosangati.com
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with
Thursday June 11, 2015
Visit the GRAPAS International Exhibition

at the Cologne Exhibition Halls from
June 9-11, 2015 and wrap up your
visit by attending the one-day Global
Milling with GRAPAS Conference on
Thursday, June 11 in the Rheinsaal 4 & 6
meeting rooms at the exhibition halls.
For just 75, you can hear eleven
leading experts in their elds speak
on a variety of subjects guaranteed
to inspire, inform and amuse anyone
involved in anything related to the
milling industry.
13:00 - 13:30
10:00-10:30
1.2
Food safety in the milling industry: certication of

primary production the way ahead?
Dr Friedrich Luedeke is Senior Expert in Training at GlobalGAP.
He will be speaking on Food safety in the milling industry:
certication of primary production the way ahead?
At farm level the scene is set for Food Safety and product
quality in the milling industry within the EU, but what
about reality? And what about the rest of the world?
Certication at farm level is today the normal procedure
in the Fruit and Vegetable sector. For more than 10 years
GLOBALG.A.P. has been providing the Standards for the
implementation of Good Agricultural Practice around
the globe. This also includes Combinable Crops.
Reducing the risk via certied suppliers - the way
ahead.
2.1
Optimising the health benets of wheat products

by exploiting variation in grain composition and
processing conditions
Wheat is a major dietary source of essential nutrients, bre and
potentially healthy phytochemicals. The signicant variation in
contents and compositions of these components among samples
of wheat may be determined by genetics or environment.
They may also be modulated during processing. It should be
possible to produce healthier wheat products by exploiting
these effects. Professor Shewry will review the evidence
that differences in wheat type, milling and fermentation
affect the content of bioactive components and
health benets of wheat. He will then present a
proposal for a new European research programme
to provide denitive information on the
relationship between these parameters and
health benets measured in human dietary
intervention trials.
For more information at to register visit:
bit.ly/grapas
15:30-16:00
3.1
REGISTER
Improving the quality and attributes of rice

and our milling by-products
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Dr Mian N Riaz is Director of the Food Protein R&D Centre and

Head of the Extrusion Technology Program Graduate Faculty,
Nutrition and Food Science Department at Texas A&M
University.
Dr Riaz will be speaking on Improving the quality and
attributes of rice and our milling by-product.
The talk will provide an outline on stabilising rice bran
using extrusion technology; pre-cooking starch with
different levels of cooking for the food industries; using
broken rice and converting it to a value-added
pre-cooked rice with extrusion; pre-cooked pasta;
stabilizing wheat bran and improving its avor for
food uses; cooking wheat germ to make germ
nuts; and converting rice and wheat hulls to
kitty litter.
2015 Conference
PROGRAM

Rheinsaal 4 & 6, Kln Messe Kln, Germany
bread waste - A national success story from

Preventing
Turkey
10:00-12:00
SESSION 1:
Food Safety & Quality Control

Chair/Co-chair:
Roger Gilbert
& Dr Simon Penson
by Professor Dr M. Hikmet Boyacioglu, Chairman of

Food Engineering Department, Department of Food
Engineering, Okan University, Istanbul, Turkey
safety in the milling industry: certication of primary
Food
production the way ahead?
by Dr Friedrich Luedeke, GlobalGAP, Germany
stones to rollers - The Roller Flour Milling Revolution in
From
the UK and Europe
by Rob Shorland-Ball BA FMA CertE, Roller Milling historian
and author, Self-employed museums and heritage
consultant, United Kingdom
the health benets of wheat products by

Optimising
exploiting variation in grain composition and processing
13:00-15:00
SESSION 2:
Nutrition & Milling Technology

Chair/Co-chair:
Professor Dr M. Hikmet Boyacioglu
& Roger Gilbert
conditions
by Dr Peter Shewry, Distinguished Research Fellow,
Department of Plant Biology and Crop Science,
Rothamsted Research Centre, and Professor of Crops and
Health, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development,
University of Reading, UK
one step ahead in processing grains into soughtStaying

after food products
by Alexander Schnelle, Buhler, Switzerland
colourimetric assays for the analysis of alphaNovel
amylase activity in ground wheat samples
by Dr Claudio Cornaggia, Senior R&D Organic Chemist,
Megazyme International, Ireland
works for our and rice: New evidence of
Fortication
health impact
by Sarah Zimmerman, Communications Coordinator,
Food Fortication Initiative, USA
15:00-17:00
SESSION 3:
Trends & Developments
Chair/Co-chair:
Dr Peter Shewry
& Roger Gilbert
the quality and attributes of rice and our

Improving
milling by-products
by Dr Mian N. Riaz, Director, Food Protein R& D Center,
Texas A&M University, USA
to manage the safety and quality of our
Technologies
by Dr Simon Penson, Head of Primary Production and
Processing, Campden-BRI, Chipping Campden, United
Kingdom
Overview of Innovation and Biotech Wheat
An
by Rutger Koekoek, Marketing Specialist, US Wheat
Association, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
17:00-17:15
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and close
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Not all feed

enzymes
are created equal
Key factors to consider when
selecting the ideal enzyme for
poultry production
by Gaurav Shah, Business Development

Manager, BRI
ne of the largest problems facing

poultry producers is the rising cost of
feed, which can account for up to 70
percent of total production expenses.
Enzyme feed additives, which improve
digestibility and release of nutrients to
the bird, allow producers to manage feed
costs while optimizing performance and
return on investment (ROI).
Why Use Feed Enzymes?
Feed enzymes provide an array of nutritional, economic and

environmental benefits for animal producers.
Nutritional Benefits: Enzymes increase the availability of
nutrients to the animal. Enzymes make proteins, carbohydrates
and minerals easier for the animal to digest, helping to promote
cell growth, physiological balance and tissue maintenance.
Enzymes also improve feed digestion by breaking down
components in feed not easily digested by the animals
endogenous enzymes. Finally, enzyme supplementation can
be used to naturally enhance feed digestion in young animals,
which have relatively low levels of enzyme production.
Economic Benefits: By optimising the release of energy sources
to the animal, enzymes allow producers to manage changing costs
of animal feed ingredients. Enzymes can also reduce the effects
of variable feed ingredients by enhancing the animals ability to
obtain nutrients from feedstuffs. Additionally, feed enzymes allow
producers to improve animal performance and growth.
Environmental Benefits: When animal feed is supplemented
with enzymes, less nitrogen, ammonia and phosphorous are
released into the environment. Exogenous enzymes, which are
derived from naturally occurring substances, have low toxicity,
making them safe for animals, people and the environment.
Classes of Enzymes Used in Poultry Production
There are three main classes of enzymes used in poultry

production: phytases, carbohydrases and proteases.
Phytases break down phytate, a substrate that contains
phosphorus, which is an essential nutrient for growth, cell
maintenance and tissue repair. For example, corn, a major

component of a typical poultry diet, contains significant amounts
of phytate. Adding phytase to poultry feed allows the animal to
use more of the phosphorus within the feed.
Carbohydrases break down fibre to improve the digestibility
of carbohydrates in feed, thus increasing the amount of nutrients
an animal can use for energy and growth. The primary types of
carbohydrases used in animal nutrition include xylanase, which
breaks down arabinoxylans; beta-glucanase, which breaks down
glucans; and beta-mannanase, which breaks down beta-mannans.
Although chickens naturally produce enzymes that aid in the
digestion of carbohydrates, they do not produce enzymes needed
to break down the fibre within feed.
Proteases break down complex proteins into shorter proteins,
called peptides, and amino acids, which are the building blocks
of protein. They are also capable of breaking apart proteins that
bind starch within feed ingredients, thus making more of the
energy found in starch available to the animal.
Selecting a Feed Enzyme Product
Selecting a feed enzyme additive from the multitude of

products available on the market today can be challenging. We
have identified eight key factors to consider when comparing
feed enzymes to help you select the best ones for your operation.
Do you want to reduce feed cost or improve performance?
This is one of the most important questions a nutritionist or
decision-maker should ask when considering enzyme options.
Based on your enzyme-use strategy (diet reformulation or
on-top application), you can calculate your potential return
on investment (ROI). On average, the use of an enzyme feed
additive in poultry diets should provide two to five times
ROI, depending on feed prices, formulation, quality and the
performance parameter being measured.
Reformulation
Use the matrix value information provided by the enzyme

manufacturer and least-cost formulation software to calculate
potential feed cost savings.
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What is the pH activity profile of the enzyme?

Nutrient absorption takes place in the hindgut, where pH ranges
from neutral to alkaline. Ideally, an enzyme should survive at the
low pH ranges but be most active around the neutral pH the
range at which the majority of digestion occurs. A suboptimal
pH activity profile may be compensated by higher dosing
(adding more enzyme), which also increases inclusion costs. It
is important to note that an enzymes activity can be reduced or
eliminated if its structure is altered. When selecting an enzyme,
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Is the enzyme product thermostable enough to withstand

pelleting under your feed mill conditions?
If you plan to mix the enzyme in your feed before pelleting, it
is important to select an enzyme product that is thermostable and
capable of withstanding the high temperatures inherent in the
pelleting process. Pelleting conditions, including temperature,
conditioning time, how fast the pellets are cooled, dye size and
other factors, have an impact on whether or not the enzyme
survives the pelleting process. Enzymes achieve thermostability
either intrinsically or through coating. Coated products may take
longer to break down and dissolve in the animals gut, allowing
less reaction time with feed. Intrinsically thermostable enzymes
are specifically developed to withstand high temperatures without
coating and therefore be more effective.
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Is there a proven mechanism of action for the type of enzyme

being considered?
Each class of enzyme under consideration should have a
clear and scientifically proven mechanism of action in poultry
nutrition. For example, xylanases are known to work by reducing
digesta viscosity, leading to improved access of nutrients by the
endogenous enzymes and freeing encapsulated nutrients trapped
in the grain cell wall.
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Does the enzyme improve the digestibility of your specific feed

formulation?
It is important to select the class and type of enzyme that works
well with the feed ingredients being used. This can be broken
down into two parts:
a. Class (es) of enzymes: The type of feed ingredients impacts
the type and amounts of substrates present in the feed. In
general, the majority of commercial poultry diets have
substrates for phytases, proteases and xylanases, while
the need for other enzymes like beta-mannanases, betaglucanases and others may depend on the specific feed
formulation.
b. Enzyme types (within each enzyme class): Certain types of
enzymes within each class work better with certain types and
amounts of substrates. For example, certain types of xylanases
work better than others in low-fibre diets such as corn-soy.
Whether your feed formulations contain wheat, corn, soybean
meal or other ingredients, it is important to select enzymes
optimised for those specific diets. Reviewing the results of
animal feeding trials and speaking with trusted experts will
provide more insight.
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To calculate the value of performance improvement from on-top

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be sure to ask if it will withstand your pelleting process as well

as the acidic conditions within the animals gut without losing
effectiveness.
Are the enzyme(s) compatible with other enzymes you are
using?
Supplementing animal diets with a phytase, a protease and a
xylanase is becoming more common. Each type of enzyme acts
upon different substrates and has a specific impact on nutrient
release. Manufacturers of enzymes typically claim a matrix value
for their products. It is important to select an enzyme whose
individual effect is additive when used with other enzymes and to
adjust the matrix to maximise animal performance and ROI.
Under what quality standards is the enzyme produced?
Given that enzymes are produced using microbial fermentation,
it is very important to work with an experienced manufacturer
with proven quality control. While the use of GMP (Good
Manufacturing Process) standards provide good general quality
control, the European Feed Additives and Premixtures Quality
System (FAMI-QS) is the only certification specific to the
manufacture of specialty feed ingredients for use in animal
nutrition. FAMI-QS certification includes requirements in the
areas of quality and feed safety, management systems, traceability
and product regulatory compliance. Most suppliers guarantee a
certain minimum enzyme activity that can be verified by standard
analytical methods.
Does the enzyme product contain other enzymes or side
activities?
Certain enzyme products in the marketplace include side
activities of other enzymes. While having other enzymes in
the product may seem attractive, paying for enzymes that do
not provide proven value may reduce the products ROI. When
evaluating an enzyme blend product, it is important to consider
whether all of the enzymes are necessary. This can be determined
by the following:
Which enzymes in the product have a clear, scientifically
backed mechanism of action?
Which enzymes in the product have guaranteed activity levels?
What do the activity numbers (dosage) mean in terms of
incremental performance improvement in the animal?
Is there enough substrate in the feed for additional enzymes in
the product?
Does the animal have its own endogenous version of the same
enzyme?
Not all enzymes are created equal. There are a wide range
of enzyme feed additive products on the market, and a lot of
information to digest. Taking the time to research various options
upfront will increase your chances of success in improving
animal nutrition, performance and feed costs.
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About the author
Gaurav is a biotechnologist with extensive experience in the

feed enzymes space. He helps BRIs customers and network
of distributors apply enzyme solutions to reduce feed costs.
Gaurav earned his Bachelors degree in Biotechnology
Engineering from Mumbai University (India) and Masters
degree in Microbial Biotechnology from North Carolina
State University (USA).
About BRI
Founded in 1999, BRI is a global biotechnology company

specialising in the research, development and manufacture
of high-performance enzyme feed additives that help poultry
and swine producers optimise animal nutrition. BRI products
are effective tools for managing rising feed costs and feed
ingredient quality variations in a way that is safe for animals,
humans and the environment. The company has earned a
reputation as a team of trusted enzyme experts who utilise their
scientific expertise to create innovative products that solve
nutritional and sustainability challenges facing meat producers
around the world.
The company recently celebrated its 15th year of innovation
animal nutrition, attributing its success to the growing demand
for its market-leading protease enzyme (Versazyme), the launch
of a new enzyme feed additive (XylamaxTM) and expansion
into new markets through a network of strategic partners in high
growth markets, including South Asia and Latin America
Product Portfolio
The BRI product portfolio was launched with the protease

enzyme feed additive Versazyme, which delivers optimum
protein digestibility and feed cost management. Valkerase is
a keratinase processing enzyme developed to improve feather
processing and the quality of feather meal as a sustainable
source of digestible proteins and peptides.
In 2014, BRI introduced two new products, Xylamax
and XylaQuick. Xylamax is a high-performance xylanase
enzyme scientifically proven to help producers economically
deliver more high value protein in a safe and sustainable way.
XylaQuick is a companion qualitative in-feed colorimetric kit
for on-site testing.
Research
BRI continues to strengthen its position as an industry leader

in the research and development of innovative biotechnology
solutions for animal nutrition.
The company recently published new research showcasing the
efficacy of xylanase enzymes in boosting feed digestibility and
uptake in poultry fed corn-soy diets.
BRI also presented findings from previous research studies at
the International Poultry Science Forum (IPSF) earlier this year.
In addition, the company was granted new patents for the use of
its protease enzyme in sorghum diets for poultry.
Quality
BRI is GMP and FAMI-QS certified for its US manufacturing

facility.
As a company, we like to talk about our progress in terms
of three Ps People, Products and Processes. Our people
have worked tirelessly this past year to meet the challenges of
a high-growth environment, making great strides individually
and as a team. We continue to leverage our scientific expertise
to develop and launch new high-performance products. As our
processes continue to improve, weve seen our revenue increase
at a compounded annual growth rate in excess of 20 percent, and
production levels are expected to more than double from 20122015. Giles Shih, CEO, BRI
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Delacon participates in EU
research project
he livestock sector, policy-makers

and scientists more and more consider
climate change and rising meat
consumption as good reasons to take a
closer look not only at the economic but
also at the ecological sustainability in
livestock production. Within the frame
of the 'ECO-FCE' project, Delacon and
16 other industry partners, research
organisations and universities are conducting research on
optimising feed efficiency and reducing the ecological footprint
of monogastrics. The project has started in February 2013, takes
48 months and is funded by the European Commission with six
million Euros. Initial results were discussed in February.
A better understanding of the interactions between animal
genetics and other factors such as the attributes of feed help in
developing strategies to improve feed conversion efficiency in
pigs and broilers whilst also reducing their ecological footprint.
This is the basis of the whole-systems approach of the ECOFCE project. The consortium of the multidisciplinary project
comprises 17 industry partners, research organisations and
universities with specialist expertise in the areas of monogastric
nutrition, genetics, meta-genomics and statistical modeling,
product quality, animal production and animal health and welfare.
Delacon, the global pioneer and leader phytogenic feed
additives with headquarters in Austria, is one of the five industry
partners.
"The ECO-FCE project has similar objectives as Delacon:
better feed utilisation, improved animal health and increased
profitability coupled with food safety and emission reduction",
says Delacon's Head of Research and Development Dr Karola
Wendler and continues:
"The ECO-FCE project allows us to investigate relationships
between animal genetics, the housing systems, the attributes of
feed and feed additives as well as the realisation of extensive
experiments and the discussion of the results within a very

dedicated high-quality consortium. This is a great chance for us.
Emission measurement on high-tech level
Within the frame of the project, Delacon examines the

efficiency of phytogenic (100 percent plant-derived) feed
additives in optimising feed efficiency and reducing harmful
environmental emissions such as ammonia. In several
experiments with pigs and broilers various botanical raw
materials are tested. The best strategies of the entire project, e.g.
for feed formulation and feed additives are then combined, and
in further experiments, feed efficiency as well as emissions are
re-evaluated. The emission measurement with many repetitions
are done at the emission sections at Delacon's research farm in
the Czech Republic (Performing Nature Research Centre), which
is, in this regard, unique in Europe.
Potential for more efficient and ecologically-friendly pig

and poultry production
In February, the project partners have discussed promising

initial results at the University of Veterinary Medicine in Vienna,
which is the Austrian research partner of the ECO-FCE project.
One of the last parts of the project will be to develop several tools
for the pig and poultry industries including the ECO-FCE 'hub'
with tailored information, an ecological calculator and genomic
models.
As a result of this project, Delacon hopes for new knowledge
about phytogenic substances, which are then used for developing
new products. In addition, the knowledge and know-how
garnered in this project will be included in Delacon's Feed Tech
Service for customers.
Improving feed conversion efficiency and reducing ecological
footprint of monogastrics of pigs and broilers are the key
objectives of the ECO-FCE project. Delacon is one of the five
industry partners.
Think Rice - Think Thailand
Thailand Rice Convention 2015

by Roger Gilbert, Milling and Grain
hink Rice - Think Thailand - That was

the challenge delivered to the 500-plus
delegates, including importers and
buyers, attending the 7th Thailand Rice
Convention in Bangkok, from May
19-21, 2015.
It was a challenge for many of the
speakers as well, who had to address
several industry sectors represented by
attendees ranging from farmers and farm organisations, to rice
millers and manufacturers, and to traders and importers, and none
more so than Prime Minister H.E. General Prayut Chan-o-cha
who officially opened the Convention.
Organised by Thailands Department of Foreign Affairs and
Ministry of Commerce, participants came from over 40 countries.
Celebrated contribution
However, immediately in front of the conference hall was an

exhibition area called The Kingdom of Rice featuring the work
of Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirinthorn and
celebrating the contribution she has made to farmers, and rice
farming in particular and the industry, on her 60th birthday.
It showed off model villages, giving an insight into the
uniqueness of farming life in various regions across Thailand.
It was obvious from these displays that Thai rice production
remains traditional and adhering to inherited wisdom passed
down through the ages throughout Thailand.
Complementing these traditional exhibits were displays
showing off the various rice varieties produced in Thailand,
highlighting winning crops and displaying the many different
products produced today for both local and export markets. A
product now finding a place in the market is rice bran oil.
The overriding impression

given to foreign visitors was
the connection being forged
between modern food products
with improved nutrition and traditional farming methods. The
full day conference was followed on day two with a visit to the
industrys DNA testing laboratory and a tour of a rice research
station and rice mill (which MAG will be reporting on in our next
edition).
Thailands new Prime Minister H.E. General Prayut Chano-cha, now completing his first year in his new role, opened
the convention with a wide-ranging presentation that offered
something to all sectors gathered. Despite his military
background, General Prayut Chan-o-cha has a firm understanding
of the importance of rice production to farmers and to the
economy of his country. His messages were clear and direct: that
the Thai rice industry had to accept there was an internal market
price for rice; that his countrys rice farming industry had to work
with other neighbouring rice industries to gain better returns
from the market through co-ordinated growing and marketing
strategies. He said government policies alone could not deliver
higher prices to farmers as had been attempted in the recent past.
However, he spoke of ways to support rice farmers in becoming
more efficient, lowering production costs through the adoption
of research and development, capitalising on organic production,
adopting regional production zones for certain rice varieties and
re-focusing on nutritionally-improved rice varieties such as black,
purple and coloured rice.
The rice debate
The first order of business as the Convention got down to

work was to debate Thailands rice industry outlook for 2015-
F
16. The panel was made up of the Director General of the
Rice Department Chanpithya Shimphalee from the Ministry of
Agriculture and Cooperatives, Honorary President of the Thai
Rice Exporters Association Vichal Sriprasert and the President of
the Thai Rice Mills Association Manat Kitprasert.
The government is attempting to manage the stocks of rice that
accumulated under the previous governments rice production
support policies. With anywhere from eight million to 18 million
tonnes remaining unsold from previous years (no one seemed
to know precisely how much rice was in storage and currently
overhanging the market), the government has to avoid strategies
that will depress prices further to farmers.
Popular policies setting higher prices - meaning that Thai rice
could not be sold overseas - were not right. The industry had
two bosses - the farmers who sell half their surplus production
overseas and traders who are free to buy from India, Vietnam or
others.
When they could sell, farmers sold to the government which
spent trillions to buy up 34 million tonnes when only about 10
million tonnes could be exported, said the panel in the debate.
Three to four years later we still have 18 million tonnes in
store, according to records.
The debaters also agreed that while the Prime Minister would
like to help rice farmers, there was no opportunity to provide
incentives to produce, due to a very low world price of some
8000 Baht per tonne of paddy rice, less than the price of 10
years ago. The price of rice had reached 12,000 Baht per tonne
in some years, but todays prices were bringing misery to both
farmers and millers, they said.
Drought was another factor impacting rice production and
leading to the cancellation of off-season rice growing. It was
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agreed that several industries, such as the oil and the fracking
industries, the iron ore industry through to the iPad, had suffered
price downturns in recent months and years while freight had
gone up. It was unrealistic not to expect commodity prices such
as those for rice to also be impacted. The world market has
shrunk. With no demand, prices do not go up!
There was general discussion about the markets. The role of
China in the marketplace and the fact the industry should wait
and see what China might do with regard to purchases and its
five-million-tonne quota. Traditionally, when China buys the
price goes up, so lets observe and study what China does.
The Director General of the Rice Department Chanpithya
Shimphalee from the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives
said Thailand is the golden land with tens of thousands of rice
varieties.
Rice development has been undertaken over hundreds of
years, and today Thailand has more than 25 rice research
centres working on improving varieties. He saw an opportunity
to develop a premium segment for an organic-low GI rice, a
mid-segment rice that met Good Agricultural Practices with
certification and a third segment of GAP-quality rice that met
the required food safety and selling standards required by

international buyers.
What inspires confidence in Thailands farmers is their
professionalism, the fact that they have been growing rice for
hundreds of years and today have the capacity to grow rice to the
standards required, he added.
As pointed out by President of the Thai Rice Mills Association
Manat Kitprasert later in the debate, the government has
undertaken to divert the stored excess rice into biofuel
production, removing it from the market, which is helping
stabilise the sector. He also said the volume of rice in storage was
much less than 18 million tonnes.
He said millers were facing smaller production levels to mill,
down by 30-plus percent, and that international buyers should not
leave it long before making their purchases: If you dont buy
today, when are you going to buy? Half of what was for sale has
already gone, he added.
Mr Manat Kitprasert went on to say that millers were
becoming small scale exporters, especially where organic rice
was concerned. He noted a younger generation of millers were
coming into the market, producing more specialist rice products.
Honorary President of the Thai Rice Exporters Association

Vichal Sriprasert says his association has been involved in
exporting rice for over 100 years. He pointed to per ha yields
and noted that production ranged from nine tonnes per ha at
the high end to just one tonne per ha at the low end. Egypt and
Australia were at the high end while Angola was at the low
end. He also quoted costs per ha in US$ to produce rice, with
Thailand having some of the highest costs at around US$270/
ha. He said one solution being adopted in the USA was to
produce a hybrid rice strain that had lower cost of production.
He suggested that having a vast array of varieties might be
a weak point for Thailand and that possibly focusing on a
limited number of strains is what is needed for export at lower
production costs.
As a final comment, Director General Chanpithya Shimphalee
said that Thai rice farmers had to reduce the cost of production
and that the cost of seed was one area that offered substantial
savings and a way to increase competitiveness.
Notes
Paddy rice is the second most harvested crop globally in terms

of tonnes produced. At 749 million tonnes, it is only exceeded
by corn yields at 1018 million tonnes. Wheat, interestingly
enough, is marginally behind rice at 716 million tonnes.
There are many conflicting data on global rice production,
but FAOStat data, released in 2014 and showing production
based on the 2012 outcome, shows China with 204 million
tonnes of production, India with 153 million tonnes, Indonesia
with 70 million tonnes, Vietnam with 44 million tonnes and
Thailand with 38 million tonnes.
Acknowledgement: Milling and Grain would like to thank
Thailands Department of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of
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Enzymatic improvement
of the quality of pasta and noodles
by Lutz Popper, Sabine Clauen and Martina Mollenhauer, Mhlenchemie

GmbH & Co KG, Germany
he limited availability of durum wheat

and its relatively high price induce
the search for alternatives that help to
save costs while maintaining quality.
The addition of vital wheat gluten
is a viable but expensive method,
and the application of hydrocolloids
such as guar gum is limited to certain
applications, e.g. instant noodle flour.
The improving effect of specific emulsifiers and the recently
discovered beneficial action of certain enzymes will be the
subject of this article.
The properties of pasta and noodle dough differ greatly from
those of yeast leavened dough, particularly concerning the lack of
gas bubbles that are not desirable in pasta and noodle processing
but have to be stabilised and entrapped in bread dough and the
like. Instead of dough elasticity, plasticity is preferred, and staling
is hardly an issue. Nevertheless, some properties seem to be
useful in both applications, for instance protein stability.
In the case of bread, this is a useful trait for volume yield, while
in pasta and noodles, good gluten improves cooking tolerance
and the eating properties. There are also parallels between the
processes in respect of starch: in bread making, emulsifiers such
as monoglycerides are used to retard the staling of bread through
interaction with starch. In pasta and noodles, the same emulsifier
improves cooking stability and reduces cooking losses, because it
retards the gelatinisation and thus solubilisation of starch.
Some enzymes familiar from the field of baking have shown
themselves to be useful in pasta and noodle applications too.
While hemicellulases can reduce the viscosity of the dough and
thus the water addition rate (saving money in the production
of dry noodles), some carboxyl esterases have turned out to be
very efficient in improving and modifying pasta and noodles.
They not only improve the cooking tolerance but also activate the
flours own bleaching system, lipoxygenase, resulting in brighter
Figure 1: Firmness of cooked pasta made from hard wheat flour

as affected by carboxyl esterase (Pastazym Plus) Control: Pasta
from HRW flour without added enzymes
Figure 2: Stickiness of cooked pasta made from hard wheat flour

as affected by carboxyl esterase (Pastazym Plus)
Control: Pasta from HRW flour without added enzymes
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and less speckled end products. If yellow pasta and noodles
are preferred, these enzymes create a brighter background for
colouring agents such as carotene or curcuma.
Materials and methods
HRW wheat flour

Protein: 11.7 percent d.b., wet gluten: 26.8 percent, Falling
number: 486 s
Durum wheat semolina
Protein: 13.1 percent d.b., wet gluten: 27.1 percent, Falling
number: > 1,000 s
Preparation of the spaghetti
1,000 g of HRW flour or durum semolina (provenience

unknown) were premixed with water (15 C) in a Hobart
laboratory mixer at slow speed for five minutes and then kneaded
for 10 minutes in a Sela machine type TR-75W at atmospheric
pressure to form a crumbly dough. The dough was then pressed
through a Teflon dice to form spaghetti with a diameter of 1.9 mm
+/- 0.2 mm. The spaghetti was dried in a climate chamber (Binder
KBF 240) at 35 C and 60 percent relative humidity for 24 hours.
The noodles were prepared for testing by cooking 100 grams in
one litre of boiling water (0.5 percent salt) for eight minutes. The
cooking water was recovered for further testing. The noodles
were cooled down by rinsing with one litre of cold water (10C)
for five seconds.
Textural evaluation
Firmness and the stickiness of the spaghetti were tested with the
texture analyser TA XT2, equipped with a Light Knife Blade,
according to AACC method 66-50.
Determination of cooking loss
The cooking water was allowed to cool to room temperature

and then stirred with a whisk to form a uniform suspension. 10
ml of this was pipetted into conical tubes (Fisherbrand, capacity
10 ml) and closed with a lid. The tubes were centrifuged at four
C for 15 min at 4,590 min-1 (4,546 g; Heraeus Multifuge 3SR+,
Thermo Scientific). After centrifugation the samples were kept
for 24 h at 5.3 C.
Results and discussion
Improvement of the texture

A major advantage of durum wheat flour pasta as compared
to hard and soft wheat flour is the superior cooking tolerance
and the uniform, firm texture of the cooked product. Carboxyl
esterase is able to increase the firmness of hard wheat noodles
significantly. In previous trials, pasta from soft (German) wheat
even achieved the firmness of durum pasta (data not shown).
In the trials presented, the effect was not as strong, but still the
enzyme reduced the difference in firmness between durum and
hard wheat pasta by more than 50 percent (Figure 1).
Carboxyl esterase splits fatty acids from the glycerol backbone
of the glycerides, phospho- and glycolipids of the wheat flour.
The resulting molecules are known to have a stronger interaction
with starch, resulting in a higher gelatinisation temperature.
It is also described in the literature that lipids in general and
lyso-lipids in particular associate with proteins during the
preparation of (bread) dough. This results in an improvement of
protein coherence, providing better volume yields in baking. If
similar effects occurred during the preparation of pasta dough in
spite of its low moisture content, it would strengthen the pasta
texture even further. Our results shown in Figure one confirm
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Durum
Control
100
200
300
Dosage Pastazym Plus - ppm (flour base)
Figure 3: Effect of carboxyl esterase (Pastazym Plus) on cooking losses from hard wheat pasta (starch leakage into cooking water)
The reduced stickiness of cooked pasta (Figure two) can also

be explained by the rise in the starch gelatinisation temperature
caused by carboxyl esterase. The reduction of starch leakage
(Figure three) probably adds to this effect because both effects
reduce the amount of free gelatinised starch in the cooking water,
which would otherwise increase the amount of sticky starch on
the surface of the noodles.
(control) resulted in a much higher sedimentation volume. The

reduction of the sediments decreased with increasing amounts of
the carboxyl esterase Pastazym Plus. We assume three possible
reasons for the reduced cooking losses:
Strengthening of the dough structure through delaying the
gelatinisation point;
Additional cross-linking of the dough components through
lipoxygenase-induced reactions, and
Stronger lipid - flour interaction.
These effects seem to improve the binding of starch and protein
to the noodle structure, thus reducing the leakage.
Reduction of cooking losses
Optimisation of grist costs
the possible strengthening effect of carboxyl esterases in pasta

processing too.
Reduction of stickiness
Not surprisingly, durum wheat pasta showed the lowest

cooking losses as determined by centrifugation of the cooking
water (leftmost tube in Figure 3), whereas untreated HRW flour
Figure four: Cost advantage achieved by using Pastazym Plus

(200 ppm) in pasta. Calculation based on data from April 2015.
As we have experienced in the recent past, the prices for wheat

are sometimes subject to extreme fluctuations. When the price
for high quality hard wheat differs substantially from that for
less strong wheat, additives and in particular enzymes can help
to lower the cost of a flour mix for pasta and noodles because
they make it possible to reduce the use of expensive flour and use
weaker flour instead, e.g. soft instead of hard wheat flour or hard
wheat flour instead of durum semolina (Figure four).
Care has to be taken not to adjust only the rheological data or
the processing properties or the quality of the end product, but
to obtain a total performance close to that of the superior wheat
flour in order to avoid problems at any stage of production and
marketing.
Outlook: improvement of pasta made from durum

wheat?
Durum semolina is the best raw material for high quality pasta
production and cannot be improved. Or can it? According to the
data collected by Marchylo et al. (2004), the cooking score of
durum wheat pasta correlates strongly with the protein content
of the durum wheat (Figure five). But from the same data it
can also be derived that there is substantial fluctuation in pasta
quality, in particular in pasta made from high-protein durum
wheat. So we believe that even durum wheat flour leaves room
for improvement, since improvers can be used to achieve a more
consistent end product quality. Trials with various durum wheat
qualities will have to be performed in the future.
References
Figure 5: Impact of durum wheat protein content on pasta
quality (modif. from Marchylo et al., 2004)
B. A. Marchylo and J. E. Dexter, and L. J. Malcolmson, 2004.

Improving the texture of pasta. In: Texture in food - Volume 2:
Solid foods
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Photo 1: Heat treatment with

electrical heaters
HEAT TREATMENT:
precision fumigation with benefits
by Vasilis Sotiroudas, Food Scientist, Heat Treatment specialist, Agrospecom, Greece
Use of Methyl Bromide (MeBr) has been banned in

most developed countries since 2007. From January
1, 2015, it is not available anywhere as a fumigant
for flourmills and other industries. Several fumigation
alternatives have been tried around the world with
heat treatment being one of them. But how good

are these compared to good old MeBr? Can such
alternatives be used for precise fumigation, i.e. a
tightly controlled and monitored fumigation process?
ethyl Bromide has been

a good fumigant, but
not excellent since the
main disadvantage of gas
fumigants is that they need
airtight buildings. And in
the real world, very few
buildings are made airtight
or can become airtight with
proper sealing work. The majority of buildings will never hold
the gas, especially on a windy day or when there are significant
temperature differences between day and night.
The heat advantage
Heat treatment has been practiced worldwide for a few years

and is by now deemed a very effective replacement of MeBr
for structural fumigation. Insects die at temperatures above
50oC because the proteins in their bodies coagulate, their salt
equilibrium becomes damaged and they dry out. All insect stages
are affected and no resistance to heat has been observed in the lab
or in the field.
Electricity, gas, petrol and steam can be used to generate heat
for insect extermination. In our work, we have found out that
each type of heater has its plusses and minuses. Electrical heaters
(Photo one) are easy to use, easy to handle and efficient; but they
cannot be used to treat an empty concrete silo (you need a gas
heater for that, with a long ductwork). Gas heaters (Photo two)
need to be placed outside the building, so for high buildings you
may need to lift heaters by crane to the top floor. In most of the
cases, the use of special air ducts through available shafts enables
us to treat several floors and sections of a mill at the same time
(Photo three).
In comparing recycling of air (electrical heaters placed inside
the building) with introduction of new air (gas heaters placed
outside), we found out that the increase of pressure in the latter
case helps the hot air to enter cracks and crevices. In practice, the
merits of electrical and gas heaters can be combined, using both
types to treat large mills with speed and efficiency.
No sealing required
A main operational advantage of heat is that it does not need

any sealing at all. In fact, when new hot air is introduced in a
building we need to leave a top floor window partly open to avoid
the increase of internal pressure.
Heat treatment is fast
Proper cleaning of the mill area to be treated is needed, but

since no sealing is required preparation time is minimal. With
the right equipment, an experienced team will need slightly more
than 24 hours to treat a building. In Diagram one, temperatures
are plotted from various sensors inside a mill during a heat
treatment; as can be seen, lethal temperature levels are reached in
F
Photo 2: Heat treatment
of a mill using gas heaters
externally
Diagram 1: Lethal temperatures are reached in about 12 hours
requires a safety zone around each building under treatment,

needs several hours of aeration and a professional gas inspection
before workers can enter.
Precision monitoring
less than 12 hours. If these levels are maintained for about 12 to

16 hours, complete extermination of all insect stages (including
larvae and eggs) is guaranteed with high statistical probability.
Downtime for the mill is really short, especially since an area of a
large mill may be under treatment while an adjacent isolated area
remains operational.
Safety
Heat is totally safe for people and the environment. Workers can
work next door to a heat-treated area, or can even enter for a short
time an area during heat treatment. By contrast, gas fumigation
With all gas fumigants from Methyl Bromide to Profume

you need several sampling points to measure concentration
precisely. You may have two, three, or even 10 sampling points
per floor if you are really well organised. With heat, you may
have for instance 10 temperature sensors per floor, but you can
also enter the building during the treatment and use an infrared
thermometer to check literally thousand points per floor. This
means unparalleled precision!
Our team is performing a large number of heat treatments each
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A heat treatment with good equipment and an experienced team
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Bhler secures
rice processing
contracts in
excess of USD
100 million across
South East Asia
Capitalising on the increasing demand for rice
in South East Asia, the Bhler Group, a leader in
rice processing and optical sorting solutions has
reaffirmed its position as the first choice technology
partner for rice processing and reprocessing across
South East Asia with orders in excess of USD 100
million. The contracts, secured over the past two

years, have an emphasis on food safety, hygienic
production, energy efficiency and sustainability.
hlers renewed strategic focus across

South East Asia marks a significant
24 months in the companys
continuing expansion in rice
processing as well as consolidating
its global position as processing
technology partner of choice in all
of the worlds most important rice
producing markets. The company has
been awarded major contracts by the largest rice processors and
reprocessors across Thailand, Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam,
Philippines, Malaysia and Myanmar including Merry Rice,
Crystal Rice, Siam Parboiled, TPS Group, Capital Rice, La
Suerte, Phung Hoang, Kilang Beras Pek Choo Keok Sdn. Bhd,
Yoma Sun and Nine Seas - to increase the cost effectiveness and
environmental efficiency of its rice processing lines. The total
investment in rice processing plants and related equipment for
these projects alone is set to exceed USD 80 million.
Working with rice processors and reprocessors in the region,
Bhler offers and develops new market optimised rice processing
solutions that add value for its customers through improved yield,
performance and efficiency. It also looks to increase awareness
of food-safe rice mills to ensure hygienic and safe food for
consumers.
Over the past two years, Bhler has experienced significant
growth in the region, where over USD 100 million worth of
business was conducted, with particular success gained in
Thailand. This marked a record period, partly thanks to a smaller
number of larger contracts, including the companys largest ever
contract for rice processing for Merry Rice, globally valued at
over USD 40 million. The contract, for sixty-two of Bhlers
Sortex S UltraVision machines, and fifty-two high capacity

UltraPoly polishers will result in the worlds largest rice mill,
capable of sorting over ten thousand tonnes of rice per day.
Among contracts already confirmed are the first complete rice
mill in Vietnam for Phung Hoang, capable of processing 400
tonnes a day. A complete paddy processing plant in Malaysia for
Kilang Beras Pek Choo Keok Sdn. Bhd and two complete paddy
processing plants in Myanmar for Nine Seas and Yoma Sun.
Crystal Rice in Cambodia has also started production and Siam
Parboiled in Thailand is in the advanced stages of installation.
Speaking about its success in South East Asia, Mark Ledson,
Managing Director of Bhler Thailand, commented:
Over the past two years weve consciously changed the way
we do business across South East Asia. Weve dedicated time to
listen to our customers needs and demonstrate our ability to offer
a truly complete engineered solution that is supported by our
commitment to Service Excellence.
Significant product launches in 2014 have also helped grow
Bhlers reach across South East Asia including the new Sortex
S UltraVision optical sorting machine widely regarded as the
most technologically advanced, intelligent optical sorter available
for rice today.
Speaking about the launch, Mark Ledson added: The response
to the Sortex S UltraVision has been incredibly positive, many
of our customers have confirmed the Sortex S UltraVision as
taking optical sorting to the next level and sets us apart from the
competition as a global leader in this market. We understand the
enormous pressure rice millers are under to process rice in the
Left - Mr Vichai Sriprasert (Riceland) and right - Dr Ye Aung

(Bhler)- signing contract for six Sortex S UltraVision optical
sorters at the International Rice Congress
most sustainable way, maximising yield and improving quality

and food safety standards. We believe high capacity processing is
the future, if the industry is to match growing demand.
In addition to the launch of the Sortex S UltraVision optical
sorting machine, Bhler teams across South East Asia have also
been actively promoting Food Safety as a key concept. With
both consumer and customer interest in food safety on the rise,
particularly with budding exporters, Bhler is in a prime position
to offer end-to-end solutions that guarantee hygienic performance
and food safety, including process engineering solutions for
rice, solutions for pre-cleaning, silos, drying, rice milling and
automated bagging.
Moving forward, Bhler will continue to extend its reach
and presence in the region by completing existing projects and

securing new ones. It has developed a fully-fledged factory in
Vietnam and has built an accessory workshop in Indonesia. All
this demonstrates Bhlers commitment to its customers across
the region. It is also actively building its channels for single
machine sales and is establishing country focused technology
teams in most of the countries in South East Asia. Developing
markets such as Cambodia and Myanmar will also present new
opportunities to deliver smaller capacity rice mills, demonstrating
Bhlers ability to cater to the complete spectrum of rice mills
across the region.
Commenting on the strategic focus for South East Asia, Rustom
Mistry, Director, Head of Rice Processing in Asia, commented:
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At the signing ceremony from left to right: Harsinto Huang, Syambiri Lioe and
Joko Mogoginta of the Tiga Pilar Sejahtera (TPS) Group and Dieter Voegtli, Tomas
Soleman, Rustom Mistry of the Bhler Group
In the past 24 months we have won large rice milling

projects in Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Malaysia, Indonesia,
Philippines and Vietnam. Looking ahead to the next two years,
we will be looking to drive our market share across regions in
South East Asia and enhance our Sales and Service structure
(including distribution channels) along with developing new midmarket rice processing solutions to give our customers value for
money and continue to build the Bhler rice brand image.
By developing and strengthening our technology expertise and
service excellence in each country we are better prepared to serve
our customers locally and further demonstrate our commitment to
the local community and wider industry.
Bhler will continue to lead the market in the supply of rice
processing equipment and mill installations to the Thai and South
East Asian rice markets.
This builds on its recent heavy investment in innovative high
capacity rice processing infrastructure, expansion of local sales
and service channels, provision of energy efficient processing
technologies and its strategic partnerships with the leading rice
processors and reprocessors in the region, including Merry Rice,
TPS Group, Capital Rice, La Suerte, Phung Hoang, Kilang Beras
Pek Choo Keok Sdn. Bhd and Nine Seas.
Highlighting Bhlers recent wins in South East Asia
Bhlers string of contract wins across South East Asia, valued

in excess of USD 100 million, further emphasises its success and
position as the first choice technology partner for rice processing
and reprocessing.
1 Thailand
In Thailand, a portion of Bhlers growth came as the result of
the companys largest ever contract for rice processing globally
for Merry Rice. In addition, confirmed contracts included a
pre-cleaning and dryer complex for Capital Rice; various milling
machines for Siam Indica; a complete paddy to rice mill for
Sirichokchai and seven of Bhlers Sortex S UltraVision
machines for Riceland. The team also confirmed sales with Siam
Parboiled, 4G Contracting and Bright Lights representing a
total investment of over USD 52 million. Siam Parboileds new
Rice mill was won in late 2013 and is in the advanced stages of
installation.
2 Cambodia
In Cambodia, the first turnkey project won by Buhler in SEA
was secured in late 2012 for a complete paddy processing plant
capable of processing 2000 tonnes per day. The plant is now in
production.
3 Indonesia
Following Bhlers recent high value agreement to supply the
TPS Group, with two, 17 tonnes per hour rice reprocessing lines,
a number of installations have been secured, including a contract
with PB. Mulyo for the first Indonesian installation of Bhlers
Sortex S UltraVision machine. Further contracts have also been
noted across the region driving investment to over USD seven
million with further installations currently in discussion.
4 Vietnam
New contracts in Vietnam include the first complete paddy
mill project capable of processing over 400 tonnes per day. The
contract with Phung Hoang, comprises paddy intake, drying, silos
and complete rice processing plant featuring Bhlers Sortex S
UltraVision machines. The HAACP certified food safe mill
also includes a complete sorting, blending and packing station
comprising state of the art technology. In addition, contracts with
Thanh Hung Enterprises, Thung Thanh Company and Tri Van
Phu represented a total investment of over USD seven million.
5 Philippines
Orders are continuously being received for milling and sorting
and an investment by one of the largest rice processors saw
Bhler install a complete paddy processing plant capable of
processing over 500 tonnes a day.
6 Malaysia
In 2014, a complete paddy processing plant in Malaysia for
Kilang Beras Pek Choo Keok Sdn. Bhd was confirmed and is
currently in the final installation stages.
7 Myanmar
Two complete paddy processing plants have recently been
installed in Myanmar for Nine Seas and Yoma Sun representing
an investment of over USD two million.
STORAGE
Key factors in bin usage

by Kirk Nelson, Director of Marketing and Sales, Behlen Mfg. Co.
In the second of a four part series, Milling and Grain

take a closer look at the essential elements of bin
maintenance.
The way you carry out the initial filling of a bin can
have long-term effects over the rest of its life. And any
accidents during the process could severely shorten
yours. Preparation and initial execution are thus critical.
verything must be in place - before

you even think about putting anything
inside the bin, the bin itself must
be completely finished. Absolutely
everything must be securely in place.
First, the bin itself must be properly
anchored to its foundation, with all
bolts where they should be and properly
tightened.
Guards and shields exist for a reason, and its not to annoy you.
Its to save your life. So put them where they should be. Stick
safety decals in the right places too, making sure theyre legible.
If people cant read them, theres absolutely no point.
You dont know when youre going to need to access any part
of the structure, so all ladders, handrails, platforms, stair and
steps need to be securely in place right from the start. And again:
With all bolts where they should be and properly tightened.
Function and access are vital
It is also vital to be sure everything is working properly and

prepared for any eventuality that might occur when filling the bin
for the first time. The unloading equipment and unload gates must
function correctly and they must be closed.
The working areas surrounding the bin need to be clean and
clear of clutter.
Electrical performance must be checked and lockouts
installed (if needed) on equipment. Any temperature cables
must be fastened to the floor according to the manufacturers
recommendations to prevent displacement during filling.
And it may sound obvious, but make certain that everyone is
out of the bin before filling it.
Plan for the worst
Whatever you do, know exactly who or where to call for

immediate help in case of an emergency or injury. And make sure
theyll be available and able to reach you quickly.
Be patient
On larger bins, filling in several stages may be required by the

manufacturer to prevent uneven settlement. Many manufacturers
require, or at least suggest, stage loading to prevent excessive
uneven differential settlement during the initial fill. Behlen Mfg.
Co. recommends that for the first stage the grain bin be filled
to 1/3 of eave height. It will then take 10 days for the desired
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consolidation to occur. For the second stage it is recommended
that the grain bin be filled to 2/3 of eave height. It would then
take another 10 days for consolidation. Only then can the final
1/3 be filled. So be patient and take it slowly.
Subsequent filling
Unloading the bin
To maintain uniform loads on the sidewalls, grain must be

unloaded from the centre of the bin. The centre sump must be
opened first. Intermediate sump(s) must not be used until all grain
is completely emptied through the centre sump. Failure to heed
this practice could damage the structure of the bin.
Never, ever simultaneously fill and discharge the bin.
Simultaneous filling and unloading results in grain behaving
more like a fluid than granular material. Increased fluidic
behaviour of grain can cause increased sidewall loads. Service
life of the bin can be drastically reduced and risk of structural
failure, economic loss and personnel injury will increase by
simultaneously loading and unloading.
Do not empty the bin through a sidewall door or cut a hole in
the bin sidewall. This will cause uneven load distribution and
excessive down pressure that may, again, result in bin failure.
It is vital to ensure that there are adequate vents installed on the
bin to prevent a vacuum from forming in the upper portion of the
bin during unloading. The pressures on the roof caused by such a
vacuum could damage or cause structural failure to the grain bin
roof.
Never vacuum out of the sidewall door unless all grain has been
emptied, by gravity, through the centre sump first, followed by
intermediate sump(s).
Sweeping the bin
When inside the grain bin, performing cleaning or maintenance,
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When it comes to subsequent filling of the bin (ie, filling after

the first operational use), the checklist is almost as long. The
initial installation preparations have now been replaced by a still
fairly extensive list of tasks required for maintenance.
The bin must be cleaned between fillings. All kinds of problems
can result if it is not. The unloading equipment needs to be
checked to ensure it is functioning correctly, and all intermediate
gates must be closed. If there is a power sweep auger, it should
be placed over the intermediate sumps. And dont forget those
temperature cables (if youre using them): It is essential to
attach them to the floor as specified by the manufacturers
recommendations.
As before, make certain that everyone is out of the bin before
filling it. Common sense? Sure. But its amazing how often
even highly intelligent people will forget to check some of the
most basic things. Which is, of course, precisely why we need
checklists.
Shut the sidewall door(s) properly, making sure the inner
door panels are closed, sealed and latched. Then fill the bin
only through the centre, and dont allow the grain to be pushed
horizontally to one side of the bin.
Overfilled bins can, and do, fail. So make sure you know the
maximum capacity of yours, and dont try sneaking in just a bit
more. Use spout/chute lengths to prevent overfilling.
Continue to fill the bin to the desired level, and not beyond the
roof eave-level.
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perform lock out and tag out procedures to disengage power to all
unloading equipment power and to prevent reenergising. Never
enter a bin when unloading equipment is operating, as you may
become entangled in the sweep or the unloading auger! Failure to
heed this warning may result in serious personal injury or death!
Checklist for sweeping the bin:
Be certain that no bridged grain or vertical crusting is evident.
Start to sweep the bin after all grain has flowed by gravity
through centre and intermediate sumps.
If you have a multiple-pass sweep auger, lock out the inner
sweep system before adding the outer sweep section.
Have another person present.
If the sweep auger fails to operate, call the sweep auger
manufacturer.
Return the sweep to original position over intermediate sump
gates.
Ventilation
Grain bin roofs are not designed to withstand excessive air

pressure differentials. General ventilation recommendations are
1 ft2 (0.093 m2) of vent area for every 1000 cfm (28.3 m3/min).
Consult the bin manufacturer for the maximum recommended
Everything must be in place before you even think about putting

anything inside the bin, the bin itself
must be completely finished
operate simultaneously with the positive air fans at the base of

the bin. They need to be wired so that negative air fans start a
few seconds after the positive air fan. This is done so the air has
enough time to be pushed through the grain to replace the air that
leaves through the roof. Failure to do this could result in roof
failure.
Bins with side draw systems
Side discharge is only permitted in bins specifically

manufactured for a side-draw flume system. This system must
be installed to the manufacturers specifications. No corrugated
steel bin should be unloaded through the sidewall without the
installation of a side-draw system and the permission of the
manufacturer. A side-draw should never be added to existing bins
without first consulting the manufacturer.
Side-draw systems have interior baffles to channel grain from
the top storage to the discharge chute. This is because grain flows
off the top of the grain surface when withdrawn from below.
The use of a flume system should be reviewed with a
geotechnical or foundation engineer. Geotechnical investigations
or past experience may indicate significant foundation level soil
variations or a site propensity toward differential settlement,
under which conditions side-draw usage may be prohibited
or severely restricted. Installation of a flume system may also
require installation of additional wind rings and larger-diametre
anchor bolts. Installation of multiple systems requires the
approval of the bin manufacturer.
Furthermore, a side-draw system should not be the only
discharge system available. Such systems are not intended to
be used as continuous fill/empty systems. A standard centre
discharge and conveyor must be installed.
Refilling after side-draw system use
pressure differential in the roof area. Be alert to the possibility

of frost build-up on air passage screens, to a point of complete
blockage. This may occur when high relative humidity, high grain
temperatures, or high grain moisture levels are combined with
freezing or near-freezing temperatures. Running fan(s) during
these conditions can create frost build-up and airflow blockage
causing the roof to dome. Precautionary measures must be taken
to prevent this condition.
Do not pile grain against the roof. Grain piled too high will
block the roof vents. Blockage of the roof vents will restrict the
effective vent area and can virtually eliminate it. The area above
the surface of the grain must allow for free movement of air to the
vents. Be aware of the possibility that the screens of the roof vent
may collect moisture and freeze shut. This can happen when high
relative humidity, high grain temperatures, or high grain moisture
levels are combined with freezing or near-freezing temperatures.
Do not run the fan(s) during these conditions. It could create frost
build-up and airflow blockage, causing the roof to dome.
If negative air roof fans are used in the roof vents, they must
Grain cannot be completely emptied using a side-draw. Before

the bin can be refilled after being even partially unloaded with
a side-draw system, the grain needs to be leveled or completely
emptied through the centre sump. It is important that the sidewall
pressure is equal before refilling. Behlen Mfg. Co. recommends
unloading the grain through the centre sump until the grain
reaches equal wall heights so that an inverted cone is formed in
the remaining grain. Formation of such an inverted cone will help
evenly distribute the lateral forces on the bin sidewalls. Once this
inverted cone is achieved and the sidewall pressures are equal, it
is safe to refill the bin through the centre peak ring.
It is important to note that the design of baffles can be used only
with a side-draw system. Intermediate sumps located near the
side-draw flumes cannot be used as the primary outlet. Unloading
must be done correctly through the side-draw, centre sump, and
then the intermediate sumps. Never use the intermediate sumps
until all grain has flowed by gravity through the centre sump.
Unloading through the intermediate sump initially will cause
uneven load distribution that may cause bin failure.
Before a grain bin can be refilled, the bin should be completely
emptied. Total clean-out of the bin prevents the build-up of
compacted grain, which cannot be emptied by gravity flow. Also,
be certain no grain is matted to the sidewall. If matting occurs,
remove the mouldy grain with a wire brush and repaint.
Behlen Mfg. Co. is a leading international manufacturer of
grain storage systems. These structures are used worldwide in
a multitude of locations storing a wide variety of grain. Behlen
bins range in size from a few thousand bushels to over 1, 500,00
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AGI announces completion

of Westeel acquisition
Financial highlights
g Growth International Inc. (AGI) (TSX: AFN)

is pleased to announce that the previously disclosed
arrangement to acquire the Westeel division of
Vicwest Inc. (TSX: VIC) was completed on May 20, 2015.
Headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Westeel is Canadas
leading provider of grain storage solutions offering a
wide range of on-farm and commercial products for the
agricultural industry.
The strategic acquisition of Canadas leading brand in
grain storage further establishes AGI as a global leader in
grain handling and storage solutions, said Gary Anderson,
AGIs Chief Executive Officer.
AGI and Westeel share a deep commitment to product
quality and customer service and combined we create a
Canadian-based global agricultural leader with a long
history of serving the needs of our customers. Westeels
complementary product offering expands our growth
platform within North America and around the world
and we look forward with enthusiasm to bringing this
outstanding company into the AGI family.
AGI places the highest value on the contributions of its
employees and we look forward to meeting and welcoming
all of the people at Westeel, said Tim Close, President
of AGI. We are very excited to get to work on growing
Westeel along with AGI and realising upon the enormous
potential of the combination of these great companies.
The aggregate purchase price for Westeel was

US $221.5 million. The purchase price includes
net cash on closing of approximately US $13
million and a redundant manufacturing plant with
an estimated market value of US $4 million.
The acquisition was financed through the
issuance of 1,112,050 subscription receipts at
US $46.55 per receipt for gross proceeds of
US $51.75 million, the issuance of US $51.75 million of
extendible convertible unsecured subordinated debentures,
and long-term debt. With the completion of the Westeel
acquisition, the subscription receipts have been exchanged
for 1,112,050 common shares and the maturity date of the
debentures has been extended to December 31, 2019.
Pro forma 2014 revenue of the combined companies is
over $600 million. The combination of Westeel with AGI
results in a more geographically balanced revenue profile
with a pro forma 2014 geographic breakdown as follows:
Canada 44 percent (AGI standalone 26 percent).
US 39 percent (AGI standalone 55 percent).
International 17 percent (AGI standalone 19 percent).
Westeel generated adjusted EBITDA of approximately
US $20 million in 2014. The estimated adjusted EBITDA
reflects earnings of the Westeel business (before any costs
associated with Vicwests corporate support functions
that were not transferred to AGI as part of the Westeel
acquisition) less incremental corporate support costs AGI
estimates will be required post-closing. For the year ended
December 31, 2014, AGI generated adjusted EBITDA of
US $78 million, resulting in pro forma adjusted EBITDA
for the period of US $98 million.
Management believes the acquisition of Westeel provides
significant SG&A, sales and manufacturing synergies with
estimated near-term synergies of US $5 million per annum.
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Storage project
Westeel Bins completed by FWS in the first of four CWB sites
Westeel is pleased to announce its strategic alliance with
the FWS Group of Companies whereby it will provide
Westeel Centurion bins and Westeel Catwalk systems for
four different CWB (formerly the Canadian Wheat Board)
locations. FWS was contracted by CWB to construct four
new grain terminals in the provinces of Manitoba and
Saskatchewan in Canada.
The first of the four projects for CWB completed by FWS is
in Bloom, Manitoba where two Westeel Centurion grain bins
measuring 24 metres (78 feet) in diameter and 28 metres (91
feet) in height have been constructed with a 48-metre long
(157 feet) Westeel Catwalk. The two bins include Westeels
patented commercial roof and a total capacity of 609,140
bushels. The Catwalk system boasts a dual walkway, bar
grating floor, and a conveyor path measuring 0.70 metres (27
12 inches) in width.
We have a long-standing relationship with Westeel and
appreciate the precise manufacturing and quality engineering
that goes into their products, said Rori Bouchard, Senior
Project Manager with the FWS Group of Companies.
FWS and CWB are industry leaders in agriculture and its
a great opportunity for Westeel to partner with them and
showcase the high quality manufacturing and construction
capabilities we have here in the Canadian prairies said
Denis Ttrault, Business Manager, North America with
Westeel.
The other three sites are in Colonsay, Saskatchewan; Pasqua,
Saskatchewan; and St Adolphe, Manitoba.
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CEREALS 2015
New conference format

packed with technical advice
revamped conference
programme at Cereals 2015
will provide growers with key
information on some of the
hottest topics in the arable sector
while allowing them more time
to explore the event.
Recognising that many
visitors are pressed for time,
the technical seminars have a new format. Each session will
consist of an intensive 20-minute presentation from a leading
expert followed by a 10-minute question and answer session.
Cereals event director Jon Day says:
The condensed seminars will last no more than 30 minutes
each but will be packed with advice, while giving growers a
chance to put their own questions to the experts.
The new format will allow visitors to pick up as much
information as before from the seminars but in a shorter time,
so they can spend more of their day visiting the trade stands,
crop plots and working demonstrations.
Topics to be covered include the Yield Enhancement
Networks role in maximising yield potential; the loss of
active ingredients; no-till establishment and the role of data in
agriculture to enhance performance and increase returns.
Visitors can also hear about blackgrass control; the role of
cover crops; preserving soil organic matter and effective OSR
pest management.
The talks will be interspersed with sessions hosted by
The Arable Conference at Cereals, partnered by The
Oxford Farming Conference. Three debates headlined by
industry-leading farmers, scientists, policymakers and
environmentalists take place over the two days, with plenty of
opportunity for the audience to have their say.
Subject matter includes GM and the potential of novel and
non-food crops; where resistant varieties will come from (and
whether the sector can rely on the Recommended List) and the
role of precision farming in achieving yield potential.
Al Brooks, 2016 Oxford Farming Conference chairman,
says:
The line-up of panelists and speakers is outstanding, as is
the range of topics being covered.
We have speakers from around the world joining the panel
sessions; and with GM and the reliability of the Recommended
Lists being debated, were certain to create some animated
discussion something we never shy away from at the Oxford
Farming Conference.
Calibre to unveil three new technologies at Cereals
At this years Cereals Event, Calibre the experts in Grain testing

equipment will introduce three new Innovations designed to make
the assessment of Grain Quality a simpler and faster task. The
new technologies test for the key properties in Grain: Protein,
Moisture, Mycotoxins and Falling Number. The equipment will
enable Farmers, Grain Stores and Traders to identify quality crops
rapidly aiding precision farming and retaining premiums throughout
the grain chain. Be the first to see our official UK launch with live
demonstrations on how testing has become easier and faster on
Calibre stand 1027.
Intelligent dryer control system optimises grain drying
Allmet is helping its customers to reduce drying costs and increase

drying capacity thanks to the launch of the Intelligent Dryer Control
(IDC) System.
This latest technical advance brought to the UK market is the
result of Allmets alliance with Tornum AB, a strategic business
partnership formed at the end of last year that has seen the two
companies share expertise and resources to focus on product
research and development.
The IDC, is long-awaited in the grain market and will benefit
customers by minimising over drying, maximising obtainable
product quality, weight and prices and providing total process
control. Allmet will be showcasing the IDC at Cereals in Boothby
Graffoe on June 10-11, 2015.
Allmet Director, Charles White explained:
Drying grain precisely is a complex process that you want to get
right to maximise the best possible price. When you use manual
methods you run the risk of not reaching the desired moisture
content levels, or over drying. The IDC takes the guess work out
of this by maintaining the average outgoing moisture content of the
grain, despite large variations in incoming moisture content.
To illustrate the benefits of the IDC - overstepping the mark by
drying to 13 percent instead of 14 can typically add up to 20 percent
to your energy bill, give you an additional 1 percent loss in weight
and reduce your dryers capacity by up to 16 percent.
Fellow Allmet Director, James White added:
The IDC optimizes the drying process by using intelligent
software that adapts to conditions. Theres no need for manual
adjustments you have total control over the drying process and can
change the grain type and drying recipe where ever you are, at the
touch a button either from a PC or a tablet.
Available in four different standard kits, the system consists of
moisture sensors and a control unit with a user-friendly interface.
The first sensor is positioned in one of the upper drying sections and
measures incoming moisture. The second is placed in the cooling
zone, close to the dryer outlet. Using information about incoming
and outgoing moisture content, the control unit sets the speed of
the dryer discharge to obtain the desired moisture content out of the
dryer - regardless of outside climatic conditions.
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Perrys Latest Release in time for Cereals
Perry of Oakley Ltd is the UKs most experienced manufacturer

of grain and bulk materials drying and handling equipment. With
products ranging from aspirator pre cleaners to conveyors and grain
driers Perry of Oakley Ltd have the handling or drying solution to
suit your needs.
The latest product to be added to the Perry of Oakley range is the
industrial curved combination conveyor. With four casing heights
and widths available, this conveyor is capable of capacities from 60
tones per hour to 350 tones per hour; it is also available in angles up
to 60 in 10 or 15 increments.
The industrial curved combination conveyor has been designed
with heavy duty in mind. It is made from heavy-duty galvanised
steel and has an all bolted and riveted construction. It also has a
forged steel chain and heavy-duty plastic flights; this means the
conveyor is suitable for handling all types of cereals and pulses in
agricultural and commercial applications.
This conveyor is ideally suited to feeding a bucket elevator when
avoiding having pits in concrete.
The inlet options available for this conveyor include both
mechanical receptions and trench intake hoppers.
Principal sponsor HSBC will hold a series of open forums
on its stand, including a question and answer session with
DEFRA minister George Eustice on Wednesday and a
prominent MP on Thursday, both of whom will be joined by
NFU president Meurig Raymond.
The first day will also include a session with Jack Bobo,
senior adviser for agricultural policy, US Department of State,
a world authority on biosciences and GM technology.
The Question and Answer session is open to anyone who
would like to listen to and join in some lively debate, says
Allan Wilkinson, head of food and agriculture at HSBC.
We look forward to welcoming the minister and Meurig

Raymond to our official opening and Q&A forum on
Wednesday morning.
There is plenty to talk about, including setting the scene
for what the newly formed government sees as its priorities,
TIFF and the trade gap, as well as wider matters like the
governments response to bovine TB.
Recently introduced Cereals initiatives that proved popular
in 2014 return to this years event. The CPD trail offers the
biggest choice of points yet, reflecting the wide range of
technical excellence on show.
A total of 12 exhibitors are offering BASIS points and eight
are offering NRoSO points. BASIS members can claim six
CPD points per day two for attending the event and four
from the exhibitor knowledge trail. NRoSO members can
claim six points for the whole event two points for visiting
and a further four from the trail.
The Inspire Pavilion, sponsored by De Lacy Executive,
Massey Ferguson and McDonalds, highlights the wealth
of career opportunities for young people in farming and
associated industries.
It offers a packed schedule of activities, including
inspirational stories from young people already working in the
fast-moving, progressive world of modern agriculture.
A key discussion point at Cereals will be the winning
machines in the International Machinery Manufacturers
Awards, a scheme launched last year to recognise machines
that deliver exceptional innovation, effectiveness and value.
There are four categories covering cultivations, harvest
machinery, sprayers and tractors. Winners and runners up will
be announced on the first day of Cereals and the machinery
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Cereals 2015 Conference program

Arable Conference At Cereals
Arable conference marquee (stand 830)
Wednesday 10 June
Session details
Chairman/Speakers
11.00
GM and the potential of novel and non-food crops; UK

and international perspectives.
Chairman: Al Brooks (OFC 2016 chairman and farmer)

Speakers:
Jack Bobo, senior adviser for agricultural policy,USDA
Prof Johnathan Napier, Rothamsted Research
Mark Buckingham, Europa Bio
Paul Temple, farmer
14.30
Where will all the resistant varieties come from? Can

we rely on the Recommended List?
Chairman: Dr Tina Barsby (CEO NIAB and OFC director)

Speakers:
Dr Susannah Bolton, HGCA
Dr Richard Summers, former BSPB chairman
Geoff Hall, Monsanto
Andy Barr, farmer & NFU Combinable Crops Board
Whats the role of precision farming in achieving yield

potential?
David White: farmer and director of RTK Farming
Thursday 11 June
11.00
Chairman: Martin Davies, Farmland Investment and OFC director

Speakers: Steve Keyworth, Ursula Agriculture / Michael Horsch, Horsch Machinery / Clive Blacker: Precision Decisions
Technical seminars
Arable conference marquee (stand 830)
Wednesday 10 June
Session details
Chairman/Speakers
10.15
Where is Yield Enhancement Network in maximising

yield potential, and what can growers start
implementing now?
Chairman: Robert Lasseter, OFC council member

Speaker: Prof Roger Sylvester-Bradley, head of crop performance, ADAS
12.30
Losing our active ingredients where are we and what

can we do?
Chairman: Robert Lasseter, OFC Director

Speaker: Bill Clark, commercial technical director, NIAB
13.30
All no-till is it practical and best for soil, farmer and

bottom-line?
Chairman: Jane Craigie, British Guild of Agricultural Journalists

Speaker: Tom Sewell, farmer & Nuffield Scholar
15.45
The role of data in agriculture to enhance performance

and increase returns
Chairman: Jane Craigie, British Guild of Agricultural Journalists

Speaker: Nick Tapp, head of client advisory at Craigmore Farming
10.15
A different blackgrass control approach on my farm
Chairman: Andrew Brown, farmer

Speaker: Ian Matts, farmer, Brixworth Farming
12.30
Cover crops whats best, why use them and how to

manage them
Chairman: Andrew Brown, farmer

Speaker: Mark Hemmant, technical manager, Agrovista
13.30
Soil organic matter improving yield

through management of soil organisms
Chairman: David Turner, principal at David Turner & Co

Speaker: Jackie Stroud, Rothamsted Research
14.30
Oilseed rape effective pest management

for high performance and yield
Chairman: Millie Fyfe, RABI regional manager and OFC associate director
Speaker: Caroline Nicholls, research and knowledge transfer manager, HGCA
Thursday 11 June
HSBC open forums (stand 825)

Wednesday 10 June
09.30
Official opening & Q&A forum
DEFRA minister George Eustice and Meurig Raymond, NFU president
11.00
New government, new CAP reform where now for

UK Agriculture?
Mark Berrisford-Smith, head of economics, HSBC and Guy Smith, NFU vice-president
13.00
Can agriculture save the planet before it destroys it?
Jack Bobo, senior advisor for agricultural policy, US Dept of State
15.00
Winning the world cup
Q&A with Richard Hill MBE, a member of Englands World Cup winning team in
2003
09.30
Q&A forum
Prominent Member of Parliament and Meurig Raymond, NFU president
11.00
New government, new CAP reform where now for

UK Agriculture?
Mark Berrisford-Smith, head of economics, HSBC and Guy Smith, NFU vice-president
14.00
Winning the world cup
Q&A with Richard Hill MBE, a member of Englands World Cup winning team in
2003.
Thursday 11 June
Programme correct at time of printing.
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Other familiar Cereals features return, including:
Crop plots an opportunity to see the latest varieties and
agronomy in the flesh across 5.5ha of plots.
Machinery most leading manufacturers will be represented,
offering the perfect shop window for new kit.
Working demonstrations cultivations, drills and guidance
systems being put through their paces.
Sprays and Sprayers innovations and application technology
plus over 50 of the latest sprayers in action in Syngentas Sprays
and Sprayers arena.

Renewables showcasing the wide range of opportunities
available from renewable energy, renewable fuels and other nonfood crops.
Post-harvest technology the place to re-assess drying and
storage needs to maintain crops in the best condition.
Business area expert information from rural consultants, banks,
and the IT sector to help drive business profitability.
Cereals 2015 takes place on Wednesday 10th and Thursday 11th
June, at Boothby Graffoe, Lincolnshire.
Ryetec Smart version mobile drier
Ryetec will launch at Cereals their new Smart version mobile drier
from Agrex, Italys leading manufacturers of Grain processing,
milling and drying equipment. Based on the successful and proven
PRT range of mobile driers, the Smart version provides the user
with a fully automated system whereby a target moisture content is
given to the machine, which then fills, dries to the required moisture
content, cools, and empties completely automatically. All this can
be monitored at any point by the famer/operator with a special
Agrex app on his smartphone which indicates the stage of operation, statistics of
performance and any faults. This gives the operator the freedom to leave the yard
and continue with other jobs whilst the drier gets on with its work or even to monitor
the machine if operating during the night with checks being made remotely on the
machine and the drying progress.
All Agrex driers benefit from the revolutionary external recirculating/loading auger,
this system offers the unique benefit of allowing the recirculating speed of the drier
to be increased as the grain dries unlike conventional systems where the recirculating
speed of the grain is only adjustable when the hopper is empty which means the
speed is limited by input moisture (the wetter, the slower).
Agrex driers can be speeded up as the grain dries vastly reducing drying time,
allowing for a more even heating of the grain (and avoiding hot spots) and therefore
saving fuel and speeding output. The new Smart system also controls this function
automatically speeding up recirculation speed as the grain dries.
Alltech Crop Science to feature at Cereals 2015
Alltech Crop Science, a division of Alltech, a privately-held

natural animal health and nutrition company, will be exhibiting at
this years Cereals 2015. Alltech Crop Science will be joining more
than 25,000 farmers, agronomists and industry suppliers at Cereals
2015, the leading technical event for the arable industry hosted
annually in the UK. Alltech Crop Science will showcase naturalbased products and solutions that it provides to the industry which
tackle the agronomic and horticultural challenges facing producers
across the globe. Alltech Crop Science aims to seamlessly bridge
the gap between science and sustainability, naturally, providing
solutions to address issues facing the production of citrus to silage
and everything in between.
Since 1994 Alltech Crop Science have conducted research on 69
crops in 29 countries to form the scientific basis for our products
and have a strong regional presence in Europe, North America,
Latin America, the Middle-East, Africa and Asia. Our global brand
portfolio addresses each stage of crop development, providing plants
with precision nutrition and offering growers biological solutions
that enhance traditional programmes.
In 2014, the United Kingdom saw an increase in planted areas and
yield in comparison to 2013 due to improved weather conditions.
Yields have been aided by good crop establishment and adequate
moisture through spring and summer. However, it is important to
note that it is not just good weather that plays an important role
in crop production. Soil life plays a major role in many natural
processes that determine nutrient and water availability for
agricultural productivity.
A healthy agribiome is the foundation to any crop reaching its full
natural genetic potential. Alltechs unique technology is designed to
revitalise soil and increase beneficial soil microbes which assist in
the breakdown of residual crop material, improve the availability of
nutrients and enhance root growth. By providing a balanced source
of essential nutrients in the soil and improving the root system
it bridges the gap between crop potential and performance, thus

yielding a superior harvest without damaging the environment.
The Alltech Crop Science research programme is built on
improving productivity in the soil and the plant itself, said Robert
Walker global general manager, Alltech Crop Science. We must
focus on nutrient efficiency and end product quality as market
demand rises, all while identifying the environmental challenges.
The Alltech Crop Science team are eager for the opportunity to meet
the farmers, agronomists and growers who will visit Cereal 2015.
The team are serious about all things soil and arable, we would not
miss this event or the opportunities it presents.
Amid the ever changing environment, providing your crop with
a catalyst for growth at a precise time can make all the difference.
Equipping crops with a framework of essential nutrients they require
to sustain themselves is a complex balancing act that requires more
than traditional fertiliser programmes. Through Alltechs global
performance range of biostimulants and plant activators crops
become more robust and resilient. Healthier plants are higher in
sugars and production is uniform in size and colour which improves
marketable yield.
Recent evidence has shown that we need to be more careful in
planning going forward, focus must be placed on an integrated,
non-chemical, pest management control system. We must go back
to basics and focus on the genetic basis of the crop for example
farming, rotation, sowing date and crop establishment methods. We
need to have a broad strategy. Planning is essential and we need to
focus on a sustainable solution whereby we can continue to produce
food profitably, efficiently and safely, in an environmentally friendly
way, continued Walker.
To find out more information on how to improve performance
and production naturally visit the Alltech Crop Science at stand 322
during Cereals 2015. Here you can you can speak with members of
our global team on optimising your arable crops, in both yield and
quality, using natural, residue free solutions.
Industry profile
Delacon:
Trust in the power of nature
ounded and grown as an Austrian family business, Delacon has been the pioneer and global leader in phytogenic feed
additives for more than 27 years. The worlds most trusted provider of phytogenic solutions for livestock production,
Delacon, offers a product portfolio that caters for swine, poultry and ruminants.
The vision of company founder Helmut Dedl to replace antibiotic growth promoters by phytogenic feed additives and
thus to ensure sustainable, profitable life production and food safety, still applies to current CEO Markus Dedl as a guideline of
corporate strategy.
The companys headquarters and modern production facility is based in Steyregg, Austria. From there, Delacons products are
exported to more than 50 countries worldwide. Delacon has a global team of 120 employees at 16 offices and cooperates with 50
distribution partners around the world. The team continues to grow from strength to strength with recent appointments in North
America and the growth of the team in Austria.
Since the inception of the company in 1988, Delacon have exemplified a key commitment to their core values of sustainability,
innovation and excellence. This has also been officially confirmed by the European Food Safety Authority who awarded the
company the highest classification, the gold standard, in feed additive registration: the EU registration as zootechnical feed
additive.
In addition to that, Delacons success has been recognised by various institutions - with the STEP award (2013), the Pegasus
Gold trophy for export success (2012), the Austrias Leading Companies award (2012), the Austrian Export award (2009) to
name the most recent.
Commitment to Sustainability
Delacon raise awareness of the importance of forests and trees
On March 21, 2015, the International Day of Forests took

place. This day was initiated to provide a platform to raise
awareness of the importance of all types of forests and
solitary trees. To mark the occasion, Delacon staff members
Martin Brtel and Susanne Reisinger visited the Baan Lankha
Community Forest in Thailand, where the company joined
the Plant A Tree Today Foundation (PATT) and planted over
500 native trees in 2014.
With our tree planting activity, we would like to make a
visible sign that environmental action and climate change is
in the hands of everyone. It is everybodys own responsibility
to take a share in making this world a better place, and this
activity is a reminder to think about this topic every day,
explains Delacons CEO Markus Dedl. All trees that were
planted on that day are native, partly indigenous and thus,
highly beneficial to the local community who takes care of
the maintenance on-site.
So far, the survival rate of the plots planted in 2014 is more
than 90 percent and the community replanted trees to replace
the ones that did not survive from the previous dry season.
Martin Brtel from Delacon

inspecting the site with locals
We trust in the power of nature and its processes.

Continuously studying and releasing natures
massive potential is what makes us the global
leader in phytogenic feed additives
Trees with orange rope at the site have been
ordained by monks. The trees are protected
and safe from poachers and logging
explained Sudrat (Sue) Sangkum of PATT
About the Ratchaburi project
The central aim of the Ratchaburi project of

the PATT Foundation is to reforest unproductive
land or areas that have suffered illegal logging
or deforestation within the Ratchaburi province.
Furthermore, it is essential that local communities
maintain a connection with the forest and see a benefit
in preserving such a resource for future generations.
A successful way of achieving both, habitat
restoration and improving community connection and
management of forests, is through the establishment
of community forests such as the Baan Lankha
Community Forest. Delacons CEO Markus Dedl
states:
What we like about this project of the PATT
Foundation, is that it not only creates awareness
for better environmental practices and takes action
against climate change by implementing tree planting
projects, but also educates and supports the social
community in the areas where they work.
The Delacon-PATT Tree planting project site is
located in Yanghak Sub-district, Pak-Tor District,
Ratchaburi Province.
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CASE STUDY
Innovation in the milling

industry at Walk Mill
Modern screener in old water mill
produces high quality flour
by Henry Alamzad, President, Kason
Corporation
f visitors from centuries past returned to a familiar

footpath by the River Gowry in northern England,
they might be shocked by changes that have taken
place, but there would be one comforting sight, the
old mill with its large water wheel. Powered by a
stream diverted from the river, the wheel works
through gears to grind wheat into flour for making
bread.
Inside the mill the wheat is ground between two
flat, 135 cm diametre millstones, a method employed for hundreds
of years. However, our time traveller would likely be puzzled
by some of the equipment, in particular an electrically driven
centrifugal screener. The Centri-Sifter centrifugal sifter, as it is
called, was supplied by Kason Corporation (Millburn, New Jersey,
USA) and recovers
the mills two basic
products: white and
whole meal flours.
There has been a
water mill at the site
since the 13th century,
but the present building,
Walk Mill, is no older
than the screener,
despite its aged
appearance. Rebuilt as
a replica of an earlier
mill, the new facility
started up in 2008.
The last mill on the
site ceased production
in 1915 and only the
footprint of the building
was left, says Ben Jones, a partner in the family-owned business,

who is in charge of mill operations. We dug the foundations
to find the footprint of the building and we also had a lot of
photographs of the old mill. From the footprint and the pictures we
were able to construct a building that is exactly like the old mill on
the outside.
Wheat is at hand
Located on the fertile Cheshire plain, close to the historic city of

Chester, Walk Mill is surrounded by roughly 405 hectares of wheat
fields that were acquired by the Jones family some years ago. We
have always been farmers, says Ben Jones, and after we bought
this land we decided to rebuild the mill.
Wheat is harvested from the fields, dried to reduce the moisture
content and cleaned to remove chaff. It is then taken to the mill in a
sealed trailer and loaded into a hopper on the first floor. The hopper
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has a capacity of 2000 kg, which is enough to meet the mills needs
for four to six days, depending on the rotation speed of the water
wheel.
From the floor hopper, the wheat is moved by an auger conveyor
to a smaller feed or transit hopper of 50 kg capacity, located above
the millstones. The grains fall from the bottom of the feed hopper
to the millstones, where they are ground into flour.
Walk Mill uses two burr stones, made of hard, dense French
granite. The stones are positioned horizontally, one above the other.
The lower stone, called a bedder, is fixed, while the upper one (the
runner stone) rotates. Wheat from the hopper falls into a hole in the
centre of the upper stone and gradually moves to the periphery of
the stones via shallow grooves in the stones. The tiny gap between
the stones is adjusted to produce white or whole meal flour, the

latter being coarser because it contains bran.
Both the stone rotation and the feed rate from the hopper are
governed and synchronised by a shaft that is geared to the water
wheel. The bottom end of the shaft is attached to the runner stone
and carries the weight of the stone as well as rotates it.
An old damsel controls the flow
Grain trickles from the hopper along a vibrating wooden trough,

called a shoe. A forged metal device, called a damsel that is
attached to the upper end of the shaft, imparts the vibration. The
damsel, incidentally, was retrieved from the earlier mill.
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If the water flow increases, the feeding and milling operations

increase at the same rate. Jones adds that a shaft rotation rate of
about 40 rpm yields the best quality of flour. The relatively slow,
gentle and cool process avoids overheating of the flour, he says,
and preserves all the good parts of the grain: protein, oils, vitamins,
sugars, starches and bran.
As the flour leaves the periphery of the millstones, it is swept
by a blade attached to the upper stone and falls into a 12.5 kg
transit hopper. An auger transfers the product to a spout that
feeds the Centri-Sifter screener, which separates the desired
flour from the rest of the material. The model GOB-SS machine
has a sifting area of 1103 square centimetres. It is driven by
a 1.5 kW motor and can process up to 700 kg per hour, well
beyond the mills capacity of 80 kg per hour.

The screener is a compact centrifugal machine, with a cylindrical
sifting chamber that contains a cylindrical screen of nylon mesh.
Flour is fed pneumatically into a vertical feed inlet at one end of
the unit, and then redirected by a feed screw into the chamber,
which is oriented horizontally.
Centrifugal force makes for efficient separation
Rotating helical paddles within the chamber continuously propel

the flour against the screen and the centrifugal force accelerates the
particles through the screen openings. The rotating paddles, which
make no contact with the screen, also break up soft, agglomerated
material. The separated flour is directed to a chute, from which it
drops directly into a 25 kg sack for shipping. When the sack is full
the auger is stopped until a new sack is in place.
Walk Mill uses two screen sizes: 38 mesh (500 m) for white
flour and 12 mesh (1500 m) for the coarser whole meal flour.
Typically we produce white flour for four days, because we sell
more of it, and wheat flour for one day, says Jones.
In the case of the finer, white flour the product passes through the
screen for bagging, as explained above. Coarser, waste material is
retained by the screen and moves along the chamber to the far end,
where it is recovered through a second discharge spout. In the case
of bran, fine waste material is ejected through the screen, while the
bran is retained and collected from the second outlet. All the waste
is bagged and used for feeding pigs.
The company found the centrifugal sifter through an Internet
search and bought it after seeing a demonstration at Kasons facility
in Stoke-on-Trent. The screener achieves a very good separation,
with no wasted product, and the quality of the flour is excellent, says
Caroline Jones, Bens daughter, whose principal responsibilities are
baking and running the company tearoom for visitors (her mother
handles the accounts and her brother farms the land).
The machine is very easy to operate and there is no problem
with screen clogging, she says. We occasionally dust it down, but
basically it cleans itself
Walk Mill serves two markets. The 25 kg sacks are shipped to
upscale restaurants and hotels that make their own bread. For the
retail market, flour is delivered in 1.5 kg bags that are filled by
hand from the larger sacks.
In addition to white and wholemeal flour, Walk Mill sells two
other types of flour: malted flour, which is white flour plus malt
flakes and malt extract, and self-raising flour (white flour plus
baking powder) for making cakes. Malted flour is packaged for
both wholesale and retail sale and self-raising flour is sold only
retail.
MARKETS OUTLOOK
Another giant grain crop on the way?
by John Buckley
After a record
three-year boom in
production, world
soya crops had
been expected to
decline in the coming
2015/16 season as
farmers reduced area
and yields deflated
from the past years
unusually high levels.
However, the USDAs
first take on the new
crop balance now
suggests otherwise,
pitching the world
crop at 317m tonnes
level with the past
seasons record
output.
FUNDAMENTALS have tipped further in favour of the grain and feed consumer since our
April review as an ever loosening new crop supply outlook promises an extended period of cost
restraint. Until recently, the popular view among analysts had been for an inevitable decline in
crop yields from last years above normal levels and, in several key supplier countries, some
cutback in sowings in response to this seasons grain surpluses and low prices. But it was also
assumed the massive stocks carried over from the current season of plenty would cushion the
forward market against the crop decline so no reason for any drastic price increases.
In late May, it looks more bearish than that, however, thanks to a relatively mild winter, ideal
growing conditions in most of Western Europe, improving weather in the US and the CIS
countries, better spring planting conditions across North America, much bigger than expected
maize and soyabean crops being harvested down in South America etc etc.
Yes, wheat and maize crops may still be down a bit from last years record levels but only by
about 7.5m and 6m tonnes respectively, according to the US Agriculture Departments first
official WASDE* forecasts.
The global maize crop figure is the more surprising of the two, since several analysts were
talking, just two months ago, of a decline for this grain of 40m to 50m tonnes, based on smaller
crops expected in the USA, West Europe, South America and the former Soviet Union. However,
USDA is now looking for a US decline of only about 15m tonnes, South America down by
perhaps 2.5m, Europe 5m or so and the CIS less than 2m. Also, partly offsetting these, is a
forecast 12m tonne-plus crop increase for China, the worlds second largest corn producer and
consumer.
If the USDA is right (and there is a world of weather to get through before the main northern
hemisphere corn harvests actually start, from September onward) the global maize supply will
actually be about 19m tonnes larger next season than this when carryover stocks of 192.5m are
added onto the smaller crop. The world, then, may still be relatively awash with corn supplies
this time next year.
Global maize consumption, in turn, is expected to jump by about 13m tonnes next season due to
gains in China (+4m), Brazil (+2m, the US (+1.6m) and a host of moderate/smaller consuming
countries boosting their feed consumption of this now relatively cheap grain.
Even with these increases, however, maize demand will not outstrip the slightly smaller world
crop, leaving ending stocks by September 2016 at an almost identical level to this years with
stock/use ratio at a comfortable 19%.
Chances of actually reaching the 990m tonne
world corn crop are currently favoured by
several factors in the big five producing centres.
In the USA, the crop is piling in ahead of
schedule, favoured by recent plentiful rains and
may even beat the USDA planted area forecast.
Even the recent talk of an El Nino climate
event which can be a big problem for some
Asian crops in terms of a dry summers - has a
more positive effect on the Americas, tending
to promise moister, heat-wavefree conditions.
So USDAs 346m tonne US crop forecast might
even prove the low end of possibilities.
European maize area is also expected to fall
somewhat after last years record harvest but
crops here have so far been going in under
mostly favourable conditions. Output might
drop by about 5m tonnes but carry-in stocks are
larger than last years and, if consumption here gets to the 78.5m
tonnes forecast by the USDA, there should be no difficulty in
sourcing the required extra 4m tonnes or so of imports.
Concerns had been expressed about the CIS countries cutting
back on spring crop planting including maize because of
credit problems abnd inflating input costs resulting from their
chronically weak currencies in the wake of the hostilities between
Russia and Ukraine, western sanctions against Russia and the
collapse of the latters oil export revenue caused by falling crude
oil prices. In the event, neither country appears to be dropping
maize acreage much, Russia possibly even planting more. CIS
maize yields may fall if less inputs are used but so far, the USDA
is expecting the two big regional maize producer/exporters to still
turn out about 38m tonnes just 2m less than last year.
South American maize crops while technically included in the
2014/15 global balance do have a big impact on the calendar
year supply and 2015/16 season dynamics, being still in the midst
or tail end of their harvests as we go to press. USDA has actually
raised its estimate for the two big regional suppliers Brazil and
Argentina by about 3.5m tonnes in total although some local
analysts think this continues to under-rate Brazils contribution
by as much as a further 4m tonnes. Either way, Brazils slower
than expected export campaign (disrupted by transport and port
worker strikes) is leaving it, for the second year running, with far
larger than usual carryover stocks to bring into 2015/16 about
17-18m tonnes. The early outlook for the next Latin American
crop is again for ample supplies. USDA sees Brazil cutting back
on maize sowings a bit in response to farm credit issues and
lower prices (although its weak currency has to a large extent

protected farmers by bringing in more valuable dollars). However,
along with the large carry-over stock, it should have no difficulty
meeting its foreign customers import needs. USDA even has it
raising exports by 2.5m tonnes in 2015/16 (whether or not yet
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more stocks might be added to its supply balance if its 2014/15

crop forecast is eventually raised by the aforesaid 4m tonnes).
Finally, there is Chinas ever growing maize crop which always,
somehow, seems to pace its consumption growth, enabling it to
minimize dependence on imports. These are far cheaper than the
maize China produces at home and its feed makers do from time to
time take advantage of that. However, despite its possible long-term
potential as a mega importer China shows no sign yet of fulfilling
the forecasts made a few years back that it would need 10m to 20m
tonnes off the world market to meet its burgeoning feed needs.
Also, what maize imports it is making seem to be switching to
Ukrainian suppliers under long-term supply pacts. Although the US
has enjoyed some windfall sorghum export trade to the PRC,the
Beijing authorities seem to be trying to clamp down on this too.
Apart from China, growth in world corn demand in recent years
has been mainly centred on Brazil, Argentina, Europe (especially
in big crop years like the last one), Mexico and the big Asian
feed importers. In the US itself, the corn ethanol bandwagon has
slowed while feed demand is starting to recover from the damage
done by high corn costs two or three years back although a birdflu outbreak is currently causing concern about demand from the
maize-rich poultry-feed sector.
Summing up, the world that used to depend so heavily on US
maize exports now has quite a choice of alternative, usually
cheaper, suppliers. Barring a summer weather upset in the US or
Europe (East or West) this summer, there is nothing really bullish
on the horizon for maize prices. Futures portray gently rising
forward prices, ranging up to 10% over the current deliveries
for July 2016 but it would not be surprising to see the actual
price similar to even lower than it is now - based on the current
supply/demand outlook. Even the USDA is projecting stable
average US farm prices of corn for the coming season ($3.553.85/bu or about $140-152/tonne).
Among the other coarse grains, the USDAs new season outlook
also expects a similar barley crop to the past seasons as smaller
EU and CIS crops are largely offset by larger production in
Turkey, Morocco and Australia. For a second year, production
will slightly lag consumption but the resulting stock drawdown
will not create a tight market. Amid the abundance of corn and
wheat supply, barley prices cant get too far out of line without
risking losing custom. Sorghum output is seen rising slightly,
staying just ahead of forecast consumption. In total, coarse grain
stocks are seen staying at high levels for a third consecutive year.
Weather jitters stall wheat price dip

Halfway through the period under review, wheat prices seemed to
be in free fall again, weighed down by rising world crop estimates
and some periods of lackluster import demand. The bellwether
CBOT market by early May was trading $4.60/bu ($169/t) - a
loss of about 15% over the previous months value. This was also
just under the five-year lows this market traded last September.
Europes own wheat futures market was meanwhile faring little
better, the nearby months trading down to the low 160s/tonne
almost 18% below their mid-March highs, if just over their
September 2014 lows.
However, in the space of a few weeks, the picture has been
transformed again into one of relative strength. Chicago was
recently back up to the $5.20s and Europe nudging 180.
The main catalyst has been a series of weather threats reminding
the trade that the vaunted big world what crop for 2015/16 is still
some way off harvest (some of it in the southern hemisphere not
yet even sown).
In the US, the main concern has been a period of excessive
wet weather threatening to damage quality and possibly reduce
volume too, for the key hard red winter breadwheat crop, now
approaching or ready for harvest. Although US winter what
crops are in considerably better condition than at this time
last year, they remain below the long term average rating after
prolonged droughts and periods of frost exposure. Although the
usually high quality US spring wheat crop was being planted
early this year, that too was coming under a threat of frost and
dryness in the more northerly states where these classes of wheat
are mainly grown. Canadas mainly spring-sown crop was
also said to b at similar risk of dry, freezing weather stressing
vulnerable newly emerged plants. Whether much damage was
actually done is unlikely to be fully proved until these crops are
more fully developed/harvested. Our guess at this stage is that US
total wheat output wont be far off the USDAs latest forecast for
a slight gain on the year. Given adequate carry-in stocks from last
year and persistent low demand for US wheat from the worlds
buyers (it has now been overtaken by the EU as top supplier)
that would be a more than sufficient supply. The same applies to
Canada, currently expected to produce something close to last
years 29m tonnes, which was one of its largest crops ever.
Other weather issues cited during late May included dryness in
eastern Australia, much of Russia and parts of Ukraine. India
has lost a few million tonnes of wheat to rain, hail and floods
in some areas and, rather than exporting to an ample-supplied
world market, has been starting to import some higher grade
wheat to make up for quality losses. The broader media publicity
given to the strengthening odds on a disruptive El Nino climate
event have also caused some excitement, despite its mostly
low correlation with wheat crop performance in the northern
hemisphere where the crop is mainly sown.
As in North America, there is a fair chance that none of these
regions will suffer major losses but it has made for more sellers
caution not least among the US markets highly exposed fund
community who recently built a record short (sold) position on
the CBOT exchange, betting on continual wheat price falls. Their
scramble to cover these as the market began to bounce back
certainly enhanced that move considerably but, when things have
died down (assuming weather normalizing) its quite likely that
prices will retreat again.
Another reason for this assumption is Russias recent return as a

major export seller. In the past month it has felt confident enough
about its own crop prospects and the large stocks it is carrying
into the new sason to drop its controversial export tax (imposed
when exports seemed to be draining internal supplies too quickly
at a time of crop uncertainty). Russia has already stepped in to
sell new crop wheat at cheap prices to Asia customers and will
doubtless soon be competing hard for the markets most contested
with other suppliers around the Middle East/North Africa
(MENA) region.
EU and other exporters are already concerned that, along with
cheap Ukrainian offers, this will push down the price at which
they can expect to trade overseas and, in turn, what producers will
get for wheat on the domestic EU markets.
World wheat consumption is not expected to grow much in
2015/16, according to the USDA forecasts less than 0.2%
after this seasons 1.7% and the previous years 3.6%, as booms
in European and Chinese demand taper off. That suggests
world stocks will increase again from an already large 201m to
over 203m tonnes - a 28%-plus stocks/use ratio that is hardly
constructive for wheat bulls. CBOT wheat futures do show price
premiums going forward of 8-10% but the EU futures market is
pressed to offer more than about 3% (spring 2017, rising to 6%

into the following year.
Europes own what crop is expectd to drop by about 6m tonnes
this year which, even with consumption at a relatively buoyant
123.5m and exports again at the heady 30m-tonne-plus level
will leave the Union with large seasonal ending stocks in
mid-2016. Provided crops perform as advertised, none of this
supports significantly higher raw material costs going forward.
However, with returns from growing wheat remaining low in
comparison with production costs, farmers in many countries
may justifiably continue to grumble about whether its worth
growing the crop.
PROTEINS where will all the soya go?

After a record three-year boom in production, world soya crops
had been expected to decline in the coming 2015/16 season as
farmers reduced area and yields deflated from the past years
unusually high levels. However, the USDAs first take on the new
crop balance now suggests otherwise, pitching the world crop at
317m tonnes level with the past seasons record output. Even
that may under-estimate the eventual out-turn if the USDA, as
many private US analysts suggest, is under-sating US planted
acres at 84.6m. Some of these other estimates ar 1m or more acres
higher still. Moreover, the USDA is looking for a fall in average
US yields to 46bu/acre from last years record 47.8bu. A month
or two back that seemed a reasonable suggestion. But the US
crop has been sown far earlier than usual and is currently in better
condition than at this time last year. With no immediate weather
threat (even the dreaded El Nino phenomenon can actually be
quite beneficial to US crops in terms of preventing droughts and
heatwaves), its quite possible that the US will have an above
trend yield again and a crop not far off last years record 108m
tonnes.
Moreover, Latin American soya crop forecasts for the 2014/15
season (still finishing harvests as we go to press) are still rising.
For the two main suppliers, Brazil and Argentina, some local
observers have these as much as 3m to 4m tonnes over the
USDAs total 153m tonnes. Even without that extra supply, these
two producers are expected to finish the 2014/15 season with
record high stocks of about 57m tonnes. This buildup resulted
not only from their record large crops but from farmers holding
back supplies as a hedge against inflation and collapsing local
currencies. Both Brazil and Argentina have also been beset with
labour problems affecting transport to ports, loading onto ships
and crushing at port mills to supply soya meal export markets.
The threat to export execution has dissuaded some foreign
customers from getting as committed as they might to Latin
American soya purchases until these problems are sorted out,
diverting more late season demand to US suppliers.
While that has helped the US enjoy a bumper period of
soyabean exports (and crush for meal exports) the largest
supplier will still have about 9.5m tonnes of soyabeans on hand
at the end of its own season in September against just 2.5m last
year. Going into 2015/16 season, then, the world will have about
85.5m tonnes (maybe more, if Lat-Am crops are revised up).
Thats quite a supply cushion against any weather upsets to the
2015/16 crops.
One surprise in the USDAs new crop forecasts is the even bigger
(new record) harvest it expects for Brazil (in early 2016) despite
a lengthy period of economic stress during which crop finance
was expected to b a prim casualty. This is currently seen at 97m
tonnes versus this years 94.5m. Although Argentine output is
expected to retreat a little, world supplies new production plus
stocks - will be about 20m tonnes bigger than last years already
massive 380m. The bounty goes on as, based on the USDAs
crush forecast for 2015/16 (266m tonnes), global soyabean
carryover stocks (into 2017/18) will expand yet again to 96m
equal to a normal whole years production from the US or Brazil.
Global demand for soya meal is seen growing next season by
about 5% or 10-11m tonne, led by China (+3m) and Europe
(+1m). Clearly the raw material supply is there to cater for far
larger growth than this.
Soya meal accounts for just over two thirds of all global oilmeal
supply and its also the leading high-protein, quality benchmark so where it leads, other sectors of this market will have to follow.
For feed consumers this is a useful equation in a year of
stagnating production of other major oilmeal sources as it will
keep prices under control across the sector. The second largest
oilmeal source, rapeseed, for example, is expected to see its
crop dip by about 5% due to cutbacks in Canada and Europe,
albeit, at about 68m tonnes still one of the largest crops ever.
Sunflowerseed output next season is seen stable at the past
years slightly lower level, cottonseed declines by about 6%
while groundnut meal increases by about 4.5% - though most
of the latter two meals are consumed mainly in the Asian
countries of origin. While soya will be called upon to supply
just about all the (10m tonnes) growth in global oilmeal demand
in 2015/16, it could clearly do that several times over on current
supplies. While the futures markets have small discounts on
forward soya meal prices it seems likely that these under-state
the extent to which costs could decline under this rich supply
scenario.
KEY FACTORS AHEAD - WHEAT
The size of Russias crop as low as 53m or as much 58m?
Either way it has large carryover stocks too and a reputation to
patch up as a reliable supplier. That should keep it in the van of
competitive sellers including Ukraine, helping to keep global
imports but there should be no lack of supplies at competitive

prices.
Competition for coarse grain custom will continued between
large maize, wheat and adequate barley supplies, helping to
contain feed costs.
US ethanol use of maize (40% of the countrys consumption)
has perked up recently as grain costs fell but probable longerterm weakness in crude oil markets should eventually rein this
trend in.
China continues to curb import more sorghum and barley as
well as growing ever larger domestic maize crops, gainsaying
forecasts that it would soak up world maize surpluses.
OILMEALS/PROTEINS
Huge soyabean crop surpluses across the Americas continue
to offer potential for cheaper global oilmeal costs as 2015
progresses.
Will lower costs and ample supplies of inputs encourage
more demand than expected for these products in countries
developing livestock production systems China, India,
Indonesia etc? Developed consumers like the USA may also
use more as high meat prices boost profitability. There is plenty
of room to meet bigger demand without tightening supplies or
raising prices.
Soya meal will continue raise its already dominant share of the
protein market, demanding price restraint across the sector.
and EU wheat prices down.

Will mostly favourable weather to date and higher crop ratings
presage a bigger than expected EU wheat crop this summer?
Dry sunny weather in the run-up to harvest will also be needed
to ensure milling quality but at this stage again buttressed by
high carryover stocks - it looks promising for consumers.
Is global wheat consumption growth under-rated by USDA
as some analysts suggest? The problem with this argument
is the often bigger swing factor how much wheat gets
substituted by maize in the feed industry, in turn dependent on
maize output. And what will happen to ethanol use of wheat in
Europe under the low oil-price scenario?
World stocks of wheat carried into 2015/16 continue to offer
a thick cushion against any crop weather problems in the
months ahead.
The further drop in wheat values close to or, for some farmers
below, cost of production remains an issue that may affect
future sowing plans.
COARSE GRAINS
Will the US maize crop forecast be revised up if current ideal
growing weather continues? Either way, hefty stocks should
keep this market amply supplied in tyee season ahead.
Ukrainian maize output will likely fall this year but remain
large in comparison with the previous decade, maintaining its
role as a cheap exporter to markets including the EU.
Along with ample maize supplies from Latin America, this
should maintain the more competitive global export market for
maize seen in recent years another restraint on prices.
A forecast smaller EU maize crop this summer may need more
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Industry events
2015
n 02-04 June
Grain & Feed Asia

Indonesia
http://www.grainandfeedasia.com
n 09-11 June
FIAAP, VICTAM & GRAPAS INTERNATIONAL

Koelnmesse, Cologne, Germany
www.victam.com
Milling and Grain event:

GRAPAS/Global Milling Conference
http://www.gfmt.co.uk/grapas15
n 09 June
IGC 2015 Grains Conference

Grosvenor House Hotel. London, UK
http://www.igc.int/en/conference/confhome.aspx
IGC
he IGC Grains Conference, one of the longestrunning and well established events on the
grains and oilseed calendar, will take place
in London at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London,
England on 9th June 2015. The conference, now
in its 24th year, will bring together traders, policy
makers, business leaders and government officials
from across the globe under the theme Building on
success, responding to challenges.
Providing a fantastic opportunity to network and
build relationships with some of the worlds most
prominent grains and oilseed professionals, the
agenda also features a pre-conference welcome
reception on the previous evening.
The main programme is split into five distinct
sessions, where panels of top industry experts will
examine the current challenges facing the global
grains economy through an assessment of supply
and demand fundamentals, futures markets and
environmental issues.
Confirmed speakers include Tim Andriesen,
Managing Director CME Group, Lu Jing Bo, Vice
Administrator State Administration of Grain, China
and Stefan Vogel, Head of Agri Commodity Markets
Research Rabobank.
www.igc.int/en/conference/programme.aspx
n 11-13 June
VIV Turkey 2015

Istanbul Expo Center, Turkey
http://vivturkey.com
n 24 June
Livestock Philippines 2015 Expo

Manila, Philippines
http://www.livestockphilippines.com
n 27 June
Whole Grains Summit 2015

Oregon, USA
http://wholegrainsummit2015.com
n 29-31 July
Indo Livestock 2015 Expo & Forum - Indonesia

Surabaya, Indonesia
http://www.indolivestock.com
n 18 August
GLOBALG.A.P. TOUR 2015 - Chile

Puerto Varas, Chile
http://www.tour2015.org
n 09-11 September
#FutureFortified
Arusha, Tanzania
http://www.gainhealth.org
n 21-23 September
Livestock Asia 2015

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
http://www.livestockasia.com
n 08-10 October
ILDEX Indonesia 2015

Jakarta, Indonesia
http://www.vnuexhibitionsap.com/
n 27-29 October
Animal Farming Ukraine - Kiev

Kiev, Ukraime
http://en.animalfarming.com.ua
n 31 October - 03 November
26th Annual IAOM MEA Conference and Expo 2015

Dubai, UAE
http://www.iaom-mea.com
IAOM MEA
oin in Dubai this year for our26th Annual

District Conference & Expo on 31-October
through 3-November, 2015.Dubai is a
cosmopolitan oasis, a futuristic cityscape that towers
over the Arabian Desert. This is a city of superlatives,
home to the worlds largest dancing fountain; tallest
building (Burj Khalifa); only 7-star hotel (the Burj
al-Arab); largest artificial islands (the Palm Islands);
and largest natural flower garden (the Miracle
Garden). Rent a dune buggy for a desert adventure,
bargain at the open-air market, or cheer on your
favorite humped hoofer at the Camel Race Track.
Registration information will be available
at www.iaom-mea.com, including details of
available accommodation and optional tours. For
advertisement and sponsorship opportunities, please
contact Meriem Karoui, conference manager.
info@iaom-mea.com
n 04-05 November
66th JTIC 2015
Paris, France
http://www.jtic.eu
n 17-19 November
Pneumatic Conveying of Bulk Solids - UK

Kent, United Kingdom
http://www.bulksolids.com
PREVIEW
East Afripack
2016 to be held
in Nairobi
he second edition of East Afripack will be held in

Ipack-Ima Spa, in Joint venture with: PMMI, The Association
Nairobi (Kenya) from October 12 14, 2016. This
for Packaging and Processing Technologies.
processing, packaging and converting exhibition has
In partnership with: UNIDO (United Nations Industrial
been recognised as an important contribution to the emerging
Development Organisation), EAC (East African Community)
economies in sub-Saharan East Africa. East Afripack was
and the Ministry of Industrialization and Enterprise
added to the list of key exhibitions promoting the Italian
Development of Kenya.
manufacturing and industrial sector on foreign
markets
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developed by the Ministry for
Economic Development.
Organised by Ipack-Ima Spa
in joint venture with PMMI, the
Association for Packaging and
Processing Technologies in the
USA and in partnership with
UNIDO, EAC and the Ministry
of Industrialisation and Enterprise
Development of Kenya, East
Afripack 2016 will receive the
support provided by the Italian
Government in its Extraordinary
Plan 2015- 2017 developed to
increase the competitiveness
of Italian exhibitions which are
ranked fifth on the international
ranking. The plan will fund specific
actions identified as strategic for
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the development of SMEs in new
markets.
East Afripack 2016, which comes
back to the Kenyatta International
Conference Center (KICC), Nairobi,
is rooted in the success obtained by
the exhibitions debut in 2014 and
the significant rebooking requests
Feed Ingredients
Feed Production Machinery
Flour Milling Technology
Nutrition
Ancillary Equipment
Storage & Handling Systems
received from over 50 percent of the
Additives
Formulation
Quality Control
136 international exhibitors.
In line with its commitment to
Specialist conferences:
For further information please contact:
The FIAAP Conference 2015
Victam International BV
contribute to technology upgrade
Petfood Forum Europe 2015
PO Box 197, 3860 AD Nijkerk, The Netherlands
and to focus the importance of
The IFF Feed Conference 2015
T: ++31 (0)33 246 4404
packaging as a strategic springboard
Aquafeed Horizons International 2015
F: ++31 (0)33 246 4706 E: expo@victam.com
Global Milling Conference with
for the technological upgrade and
Free online visitor registration is available
GRAPAS INTERNATIONAL 2015
increased competitiveness of local
from 1st January 2015 at:
Biomass & Biomass Pelleting 2015
www.fiaap.com
SMEs, the East Afripack brand will
GMP+ International 2015
www.victam.com
organize once again a scientific
www.grapas.eu
conference that will take place in
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emphasising on development
priorities of the East Africa region.
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50th
anniversary for
It is not often these days to hear about an

exhibition organiser celebrating 50 years
of holding shows. But this is exactly what
will happen in June this year when the
doors of Koelnmesse in Cologne open on
the 9th June.
he first Victam was held way back in 1965 at the

Jaarbeurs Exhibition Centre in Utrecht, which is in
the Netherlands. This first show mainly consisted
of Dutch exhibitors and the visitors were principally from
the Benelux region. Exhibitors and visitors were impressed
with the show and it was decided to repeat it regularly. Over
the years the show grew and grew, as did its success and
its reputation spread and spread and eventually it became a
truly international exhibition for the animal feed industry.
The Board of Victam recognised the enormous potential
of Asia and ran a pilot show in 1991 in Bangkok, Thailand.
In fact it was held in a car park of a hotel, as there were no
purpose built exhibition venues in Bangkok then. Victam
Asia was born.
Both shows continued to prosper and in 2011, Victam
International moved to the ultra modern and efficient
exhibition venue in Cologne Koelnmesse. The venue is
very flexible, modern and offers excellent facilities and
amenities for visitors, conference delegates and exhibitors.
It was also at this event that FIAAP, a feed ingredient show
and conference and GRAPAS, a flour milling and grain
processing show and conference were successfully added to
complement the core Victam show.
It was in 2012 it was decided to move Victam Asia from
its home in the Queen Sirikit National Convention Centre
in downtown Bangkok to the newly constructed purpose
built exhibition and conference centre known as BITEC
(Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre). FIAAP
and GRAPAS events were also now included in the Asian
show. The move to BITEC was prompted by a number of
important factors, these included modern purpose built
facilities, larger exhibition halls, good transportation
(important in Bangkok) and the ability to cater for the
expanding number of visitors who were coming from both
Thailand and increasingly from all over South and South
East Asia.
The next Asian event to be organised by Victam is in 2016
and this will also be their 25th Anniversary of organising
events in Asia.
Victam Internationals General Manager told Milling and
Grain:
Bhler to present various

innovations at VICTAMGRAPAS
he Bhler technology group will again be

prominently represented at the combined trade
fair Victam-Grapas from June 9 - 11, 2015 at the
large exhibition ground in Cologne. Victam is the worlds
largest trade fair for animal feed (livestock, pets, fishes)
and biomass pelleting, while Grapas is an exhibition for
grain milling and grain processing.
The Bhler business areas of Grain Milling and Feed will
be presenting various new developments and innovations
in hall six at the joint booth D041/E041 covering several
hundred square metres. As a world premier the Bhler
millwrights will be showcasing the new roller mill Antares
Plus. The further development of the successful Antares
model ensures a constant, optimal milling result while
reducing energy consumption at the same time because of
its integrated measurement and regulation of particle size
distribution.
Bhler is also presenting its new impact machine,
Matador, which destroys insect eggs in flour and semolina
at a mortality rate of 99.5 percent. Bhlers sorting
competence is proven by the colour sorter in the series
Sortex A with its sophisticated and multifaceted sorting
functions.
In addition, Bhler is exhibiting a new impact bran
finisher in Cologne. The machine separates the adhering
flour particles reliably from the bran and significantly
increases flour yield thanks to an optimised number of
beaters and peripheral speed. The beltless direct drive
reduces energy consumption by up to 30 percent.
Finally, three new online measuring systems can be
seen at the Bhler booth: The Online PSM for continuous
particle size measurement, the NIR Multi Online
Analyzer for determining moisture, protein, ash and starch
damage and a measurement sensor for color and speck
measurement during running operation.
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2015 is a milestone for Victam, half a century of
serving the international feed industry is an achievement
of which I am especially proud, as is my staff. It is fitting
that in this special year that our international event has
grown yet again; we now have 270 exhibitors from all
over the world that will be displaying an amazing range of
products and services.
Of course now the profile of the show has expanded,
Victam for instance is no longer profiling just feed
processing and production technology, it now
encompasses biomass pellet production. And now we have
the FIAAP exhibition and conference, which looks at, feed
ingredients and additives whilst our other new show and
conference GRAPAS profiles flour and rice milling and
grain processing.
The synergy of these industry profiles is the key to the
continued success of the events.
Besides these specialist systems there will also be a
very wide range of auxiliary equipment that are used
throughout a mill silos, conveyors, PCs and programs,
elevators, bagging, etc.
All of this and more will be on show at these exhibitions.
Visitors to the shows will be able to see, touch, and handle
much of what is on display. You will be able to sit down
VICTAM Conference
schedule
with experts from companies who have designed and

engineered the technology and ingredients. You will be
able to get a better understanding of how they can assist
your production line and save you money! You can sit
down and have serious discussions.
If you are looking to update your mill, want to look
for alternative ingredients, maybe a totally new mill,
whatever. Come and see. You will not be disappointed.
Visitor registration:
Our on-line visitor registration system is an easy system

to use, visitors need only to go to one of the following
websites www.fiaap.com, www.victam.com or www.
grapas.eu and click on the visitor registration button and
follow the simple instructions. These instructions will also
be in a number of languages. To assist in the registration
process and to receive your entrance badge pre-registered
visitors are requested to proceed to the desks marked preregistered. Those who have not pre-registered should
complete an on-site visitor registration form which will be
found in the visitor reception area and when completed the
form should be taken to the On site registration desks
for processing.
Please note there is no charge for entry into the
exhibitions for industry related visitors if you pre-register.
On-site registration will cost 40 per ticket. Any ticket
will enable entrance to all three shows.
You can learn even more by attending the series of
technical conferences that will be going on during the
shows.
Tuesday June 9, 2015:

The FIAAP Conference
Aquafeed Horizons 2015
Biomass and biomass pelleting

Wednesday June 10, 2015:
Petfood Forum Europe
- Feed Safety Assurance certificate Organised by GMP+
International.
A one-day conference for our, rice and cereal millers.
Thursday June 11, 2015:

- The IFF Feed Manufacturing Conference
- Global Milling Conference with GRAPAS International
2015
Covering:
Flour and Rice Milling Technology
Storage and Handling Systems
Quality Control
Industry tours:
- Victam International will organise a number of different
activities for visitors attending the FIAAP, VICTAM and
GRAPAS exhibitions.
FIAAP and VICTAM:
- In honour of the 50th anniversary Victam International
BV, in co-operation with Vitelia Feeds and the Feed
Design Lab, will organise a feed industry tour on Monday
June 8th and Friday June 12th, 2015 to the Vitelia Feed
Mill and the Feed Design Lab, both in the Netherlands.
Visitors wishing to join the free tour should enquire at the
Victam Information Stand within the exhibition.
Three two-hour sessions:

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IPACK-IMA 2015
Key Facts and figures:
2,0000 exhibitors from 54 countries
160,000 square metres of exhibition space on
11 pavillions
500 delegates from 53 countries
More than 100 events, conferences, seminars
and workshops
pack-Ima is among the most attractive

international exhibitions for suppliers of
technology and materials for processing and
packaging. It was held between May 19-23
2015 at Fieramilano, Milan, Italy. Ipack-Ima is
a large system exhibition showcasing the very
top solutions in food and non-food sectors for
industry professionals; in particular it is world
renowned for its display of dry pasta technology.
A rich programme of meetings, conventions and seminars
flanked the global event for the duration of the five exhibition
days: these events all had a common keyword, sustainability.
More than 40 events took place, focusing on the main issues
and trends of each business community.
Designing a Resilient Future: Food, Technology, and
Sustainable Development was the central theme of Ipack-Ima
and was developed in concordance with Feed the planet.
Energy for life (the theme of the Expo 2015) - through
an international convention scheduled on May 20th 2015
and organised in partnership with UNIDO and the UN Food
Agencies. The main issue under discussion was sustainability,
the leitmotiv of all side events to the 2015 shows, and the
conference aimed to enhance the possible evolution of food
technologies in the future.
Mr Michele Darderi and Mr Claudio Zavatta from Pavan

group in conversation with Olivia Holden (Milling and Grain
Magazine)
REVIEW
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REVIEW
Guests gathered in abundance at the special event held by Ocrim on May

21 at Ipack-Ima. It has been an incredibly special year for the company
who have marked a 70th anniversary. The celebrations commenced with
Mr Sergio Antolini and Mr Alberto Antolini discussing the origins of
Ocrim and their proud affiliation with the city of Cremona - the historic
setting of the companys headquarters.
Following this, the Vice Mayor of Cremona, Maura Ruggeri joined
the Antolini family on stage affirming that there is a deep link between
Cremona and Ocrim. Ocrim machinery is being exported all over the
world she said, and with it, a prestigious image of Cremona.
A video was played showcasing ballet dancers performing in
Cremonas Cathedral Square. In Cremona, many of those not even
working at the company are aware of Ocrims presence due to the unique
way in which the Antolini family involve the residents of Cremona in
cultural and educational events. A true passion for milling art exuded
from both the Antolini family and members of Ocrim.
Next, a second surprise ensued. The new born Superior Time RMI-S
range of roller mill machines was unveiled to the audience. One in white,
and one in black, the machines evoked 1950s design elements. It was
aptly described as a post-modern machine, as cutting edge as possible.
A great deal of intrigue was shared amongst audience members who
gathered around the machines.
The new design is certainly a testament to the Italian brand whose
combination of tradition with a futuristic attitude is a winning formula.
What caught our eye was the retro design fused with innovative
technology we were given a live demonstration of how control and
operational recording can be carried out via a tablet app!
The final surprise was renowned chef, Mr Davide Oldani who prepared
a special dish in honour of Ocrim. He was chosen due to his approach
to cooking art, respecting tradition, whilst remaining open to the avantgarde.perendale IDL 15 1-2 hal cetak.pdf 1 2/23/15 5:11 PM
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The Ocrim Stand
Mr Davide Oldani who prepared a

special dish in honour of Ocrim
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The Bhler stand
REVIEW
Food Safety: the greatest challenge for the food industry

Batrice Conde-Petit, (food safety officer, Bhler) explained
at the Bhler press conference how food is increasingly being
processed industrially around the world. Consumers are
changing their consumption habits, are cooking less frequently,
and are increasingly delegating food safety assurances to food
processors.
The conference highlighted how Bhler equipment, such as
the Sortex is the cornerstone of processing safe food. Ms Conde
further highlighted building links with research institutions
and partners, ensures safe food and effective, sustainable value
chains. Also addressed at the conference was the rising global
demand for gluten free food. Bhler, demonstrated the results
of gluten free pasta as a result of their Polymatik pasta press to
guests. Former Miss Switzerland took part in the daily Bhler
show which illuminated how many of us come into contact with
the company everyday without realising.
17th Annual Practical Short Course on
Food Extrusion: Cereals,

Protein, & Other Ingredients
August 16-21, 2015
o discussion and live equipment demonstrations
following lectures on four major types of extruders
o 30+ lectures over a wide
variety of food industry
topics
o one-on-one interaction with
qualified industry experts
o at the internationally
recognized Food Protein
Hands-On Experience
R&D Center on the campus
of Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas
o various shaping dies, flavoring & seasoning,
ingredient functionality, high protein, whole grain,
nutrition, recipe formulation, and MUCH MORE!
For more information, visit

http://foodprotein.tamu.edu/extrusion
or contact
Dr. Mian N. Riaz
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Andritz
+45 72 160300
Bhler AG
www.andritz.com
+41 71 955 11 11
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will find suppliers of products and services
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+44 1242 267700 - tomb@perendale.co.uk
www.buhlergroup.com
Insta-Pro International
+1 515 254 1260
Satake
www.insta-pro.com
+81 82 420 8560

www.satake-group.com
Wenger Manufacturing
+1 785-284-2133
Computer software
Adifo NV
+32 50 303 211
Analysis
www.wenger.com
Feed processing
www.adifo.com
Mechanika Nawrocki
R-Biopharm
Cultura Technologies Ltd
+48 52 303 40 20
+44 141 945 2924
+44 1257 231011
www.granulatory.com/en
www.r-biopharm.com
www.culturatech.com
Romer Labs
Format International Ltd
Ottevanger
+43 2272 6153310
+44 1483 726081
+31 79 593 22 21
www.romerlabs.com
www.formatinternational.com
www.ottevanger.com
Amino acids
Coolers & driers
Wynveen
Evonik
Consergra s.l
+31 26 47 90 699
+49 618 1596785
+34 938 772207
www.wynveen.com
www.evonik.com
www.consergra.com
Bag closing
FrigorTec GmbH
Flour
Rank Hovis
Fischbein SA
+49 7520 91482-0
+32 2 555 11 70
www.frigortec.com
www.fischbein.com/eastern
Geelen Counterflow
Cetec Industrie
+31 475 592315
+33 5 53 02 85 00
www.geelencounterflow.com
Cargotec Sweden Bulk Handling
www.cetec.net
Famsun (Muyang)
AB
+86 514 87848880
+46 42 85802
www.muyang.com
www.cargotec.com
Bakery improvers
Mhlenchemie GmbH & Co KG
+49 4102 202 001
Elevator buckets
Alapala
Bin dischargers
+90 212 465 60 40
Denis
www.alapala.com
+33 2 37 97 66 11
STIF
www.denis.fr
+33 2 41 72 16 80
Bulk storage
www.stifnet.com
+44 1494 428000

www.rankhovis.com
Grain handling systems
Cimbria A/S
+45 96 17 90 00
www.cimbria.com
Hammermills
Bhler AG
+41 71 955 11 11
www.buhlergroup.com
Tapco Inc
Bentall Rowlands
+1 314 739 9191
Dinnissen BV
www.bentallrowlands.com
www.tapcoinc.com
+31 77 467 3555
Chief Industries UK Ltd
VAV
+44 1724 282828
+31 71 4023701
+44 1621 868944
www.vav.nl
www.chief.co.uk
Croston Engineering
Elevator & Conveyor Components
+44 1829 741119
4B Braime
www.croston-engineering.co.uk
+44 113 246 1800
Silo Construction Engineers

+32 51723128
www.go4b.com
Enzymes
www.dinnissen.nl
Genc Degirmen
+90 332 444 0894
www.gencdegirmen.com.tr
Van Aarsen International
+31 475 579 444
www.aarsen.com
Yemtar Feed Mill Machines
www.sce.be
AB Vista
+90 532 5265627
Silos Cordoba
+44 1672 517 650
www.yemtar.com
+34 957 325 165
www.abvista.com
www.siloscordoba.com
JEFO
+86 21 64188282
TSC Silos
+1 450 799 2000
www.zhengchang.com
+31 543 473979
www.jefo.com
www.tsc-silos.com
Westeel
Equipment for sale
+1 204 233 7133

www.westeel.com
Certification
GMP+ International
Laboratory equipment
Bastak
ExtruTech Inc
+90 312 395 67 87
+1 785 284 2153
www.bastak.com.tr
www.extru-techinc.com
Brabender
+49 203 7788 0
Extruders
www.brabender.com
+31703074120
Almex
www.gmpplus.org
+31 575 572666

www.almex.nl
Zheng Chang
CHOPIN Technologies
+33 14 1475045
www.chopin.fr
Doescher & Doescher GmbH
Palletisers
Silos
+49 4087976770
Cetec Industrie
www.doescher.com
Global Industries, Incorporated
+33 5 53 02 85 00
+1 308 384 9320
Hydronix
www.cetec.net
www.globalindinc.com
+44 1483 468900
Ehcolo A/S
www.hydronix.com
+45 75 398411
Obial
+90 382 2662120
www.ehcolo.com
Level measurement
www.obial.com.tr
PAYPER, S.A.
BinMaster Level Controls
+34 973 21 60 40
MYSILO
+1 402 434 9102
www.payper.com
+90 382 266 2245
www.binmaster.com
www.mysilo.com
Pelleting aids
FineTek Co., Ltd
Borregaard LignoTech
Symaga
+886 2226 96789
+47 69 11 80 00
+34 91 726 43 04
www.fine-tek.com
www.lignotechfeed.com
www.symaga.com
Loading/un-loading equipment
Pest control
Tornum AB
Neuero Industrietechnik
Rentokil Pest Control
+46 512 29100
+49 5422 95030
+44 0800 917 1987
www.tornum.com
www.neuero.de
www.rentokil.co.uk
Vigan Engineering
Pipe systems
+32 67 89 50 41
Bhler AG
+41 71 955 11 11
www.buhlergroup.com
Agromatic
Jacob Sohne
www.vigan.com
Mill design & installation
Temperature monitoring
+41 55 2562100
+49 571 9580
www.agromatic.com
www.jacob-pipesystems.eu
Dol Sensors
Used around
all industrial
Process
control
sectors.
+45 721 755 55

www.dol-sensors.com
Mechanika Nawrocki
Fr. Jacob Shne GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Tel. + 49 (0) 571 95580 | www. jacob-pipesystems.eu
Visit us! www.pipe-systems.eu+48
52 303 40 20
Golfetto Sangati
Training
Bhler AG
+39 0422 476 700
Suffolk Automation
www.golfettosangati.com
+41 71 955 11 11
+44 1473 829188
www.buhlergroup.com
www.suffolk-automation.co.uk
Gazel Degirmen Makinalari

+90 364 2549630
www.gazelmakina.com
IAOM
Rolls
+1 913 338 3377

Leonhard Breitenbach
www.iaom.info
IMAS - Milleral
+49 271 3758 0
Kansas State University
+90 332 2390141
www.breitenbach.de
+1 785 532 6161
O&J Hjtryk
www.grains.k-state.edu
Mechanika Nawrocki
+45 7514 2255
nabim
+48 52 303 40 20
www.oj-hojtryk.dk
+44 2074 932521
www.milleral.com
www.nabim.org.uk
Roller mills
Oryem
Unormak
Ocrim
+90 332 239 1314
+90 332 2391016
+39 0372 4011
www.oryem.com.tr
www.unormak.com.tr
www.ocrim.com
Ugur Makina
Satake
+90 (364) 235 00 26
+81 82 420 8560

www.satake-group.com
NIR systems
www.ugurmakina.com
Roll fluting
+34 965564075
+49 6227 732668

www.nir-online.de
Thermo Fisher Scientific
www.balaguer-rolls.com
Safety equipment
+1 9786 421132
Rembe
www.thermoscientific.com
+49 2961 740 50

www.rembe.com
Packaging
Cetec Industrie
Second hand equipment
+33 5 53 02 85 00
www.cetec.net
Mondi Group
+43 1 79013 4917
www.mondigroup.com
Peter Marsh Group
+44 151 9221971
www.petermarsh.co.uk
+1 785 825 7177

vortex@vortexvalves.com
www.vortexvalves.com
Fundiciones Balaguer, S.A.
NIR Online
Valves
Rota Val Ltd

+44 1249 651138
www.rotaval.co.uk
Vibratory equipment
Mogensen
Raw
Materials
Handling
+44 1476 566301
www.mogensen.co.uk
Sanderson Weatherall
Vibrafloor
+44 161 259 7054
+33 3 85 44 06 78
www.sw.co.uk
www.vibrafloor.com
Weighing equipment
Sifters
Filip GmbH
Parkerfarm Weighing Systems
+49 5241 29330
+44 1246 456729
www.filip-gmbh.com
www.parkerfarm.com
Genc Degirmen
+90 332 444 0894
www.gencdegirmen.com.tr
Yeast products
Leiber GmbH
+49 5461 93030
www.leibergmbh.de
the interview
Claudio Zavatta
The Pavan Group are among the worldwide leaders, in the design and engineering of technologies
and integrated product lines for cereal-based food. Operating in the food industry as global suppliers of
industrial solutions, from the handling of raw materials to the final packaging, the group operates through
eight prestigious brands: Golfetto Sangati, Pavan, Mapimpianti, Montoni, Toresani, Foodmac, Stiavelli, Dizma
and Pizeta, all leading Italian brands in the food processing industry. Mr Claudio Zavatta commenced
his career with the Pavan Group in 1983. As CEO of Golfetto Sangati, he explains how people and an
innovative approach remain at the very core of the companys success.
Can you tell us a little bit about yourself and your

background in the milling industry?
My educational background is in mechanical engineering

in Padova University. In 1983, I entered Pavan and was
placed in charge of the snack division. In 1995, in addition I
took the responsibility of Toresani-Foodmac, companies that
operate in fresh and filled pasta technology. In 2005, a big
re-organisation of the group integrated of all the technical
divisions (pasta, snack and fresh and filled pasta), including
engineering, manufacturing, installation and aftersales
service. Until 2010, I was the technical manager of the group.
In 2010 the group entered in milling industry through the
purchase of the GBS Group, that become Golfetto Sangati
and I was nominated CEO of this company
What are the origins of Golfetto Sangati and how has

the company grown?
Both Pavan, and Golfetto have their roots firmly in Italy,

commencing life as family run companies. Pavan was set up
in 1946, and Golfetto in 1926.
Golfetto was originally founded in Padua and specialised
in the engineering of cereal manufacturing plants. It was
followed by Sangatis Foundation, in 1929, a company that
in just a few years became a renowned name in the milling
industry.
Golfetto Sangatis story is comprised of an intertwined
history of mergers with three separate companies (Golfetto,
Sangati, and Berga S.p.A) becoming GBS S.p.A. In 2010,
Pavan acquired the assets of GBS, giving birth to Golfetto
Sangati (part of the Pavan Group).
As you can see, it is particularly common in the North East
of Italy that companies grow horizontally, putting together
shared knowledge and strength. The integration and fusion
of family companies is a winning policy.
Where are your main markets and which areas do you

predict future growth?
We are currently experiencing our biggest area of growth in
the North of Africa, particularly in Algeria and Morocco. The
growth that we are experiencing will probably mean that
Pavan will have an office in Algeria in the not too distant
future. Specifically, Golfetto has an international reach with
three global sites; we are based in Treviso in the north of Italy,
also in the south of Italy and in Bejing. Of course, China is a
big market for everybody. India is an important market for
us, as is Peru in South America and, of course, Italy. But from
a general point of view, I must say that even in the countries
where we have big business during these last years, our sales
organisation spans all over the world.
What makes Pavan unique in the marketplace of

today?
The key point of the Pavan groups success can be

attributed to our flexibility and innovation. Our international
point of view and presence all over the world has helped us
to grow from strength to strength. In 2014, 95 percent of our
total sales were exported, and 75 percent of our total sales
were exported out of the EU.
With regards to our milling business, we are selling a service
and an end product that comes from our machines, starting
from the raw materials (grains, cereals). I firmly believe we
do not only sell machines; we sell processes. We are geared
towards solutions and efficiency and place a great emphasis
on our Research and Development department, not only at
Golfetto Sangati, but also at Pavan. Whatever a customer
needs to improve their margins, we will deliver a complete
service. We design everything to give more than just the
standard options.
Furthermore, people are part of the story of a company and
having the right people helps to create success. Moreover, I
believe, even if we have success we cannot relax. We must
remember that tomorrow, something may change this is
why we must always be prepared and have the mindset of
innovators.
Your company slogan is technology to feed a

growing world. What are your unique, personal
views regarding the link between sustainability and
technology?
We are in an industry that is constantly changing. Even as

the world changes, our ability to move and see what others
are doing is increasing. Everybody can see what others
are doing, including the end consumer. People can easily
acquire knowledge, and at the same time they desire it.
With regards to the need to feed a growing population, if we
look at somewhere like China, the population there are now
eating in a completely different way to how they used to eat
20 years or so ago.
It is our role to help make and sell products that will help
satisfy these increasing needs and tastes, this in turn
contributes to providing secure and stable food. Even if
the world population does not grow in the way that it is
predicted, increasing globalisation means that we must be
prepared to produce the types of food demanded in these
areas.
We must remember
that tomorrow,
something may
change this is why
we must always
be prepared and
have the mindset of
innovators
PEOPLE THE INDUSTRY FACES

Gary Huddleston joins AFIA as feed manufacturing
safety and environmental affairs manager
he American Feed Industry Association is excited to announce Gary Huddleston as its new
manager of feed manufacturing safety and environmental affairs from May 1, 2015.
With 30 years of service in manufacturing, Mr Huddleston will manage AFIAs efforts

surrounding regulatory issues involving the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the
Gary Huddleston US Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Transportation. Huddleston, who will
report to Dr Henry Turlington, AFIA director of quality and manufacturing regulatory affairs, will also
be tasked with the development and coordination of AFIA education and training programs.
Mr Huddlestons extensive experience in feed manufacturing will complement AFIAs feed safety certification programs
and trainings by providing an outlook on how feed safety affects the producer and the consumer first hand, said Mr
Turlington.
Mr Huddleston is a previous employee of Southern States Cooperative, Inc, which he joined in 1984 post graduation from
Tennessee Technological University, where he received a bachelors degree in agribusiness and economics. Mr Huddleston
performed numerous roles while at Southern States - from sales to manufacturing - and since 1998 has worked as the plant
manager of the Southern States Park City, Kentucky location. Under Mr Huddlestons guidance, the Park City plant was
recognised as AFIAs Feed Mill of the Year in 2007 and 2014.
Coceral elects Jaana Kleinschmit as President
aana Kleinschmit, member of the management board of ADM Hamburg Aktiengesellschaft,

General Manager of Germany GmbH and representing the German grain trade association (VdG
- Verein der Getreidehndler der Hamburger Brse e.V.), was elected President of Coceral by the
General Assembly that met on May 22, 2015 in Antwerp.
Jaana Kleinschmit
Succeeding Paul Della Tolla, Jaana will serve a two-year term until 2017. After being elected, Jaana
said she will strive to reinvigorate the commitment of members and to reinforce the cohesion of
national associations towards Coceral.
We live in a time when there are many opportunities for a thriving agricultural sector that also faces
challenging constraints coming from EU policies. Coceral will unite its membership to ensure that innovation and better
regulation become the real guiding principles of EU policies, especially for agriculture. We need liberalised markets for
agricultural trade that also meet increasing demands from consumers for healthy diets at affordable prices.
Jaana looks forward to working with the newly elected Presidium to bring fresh energy and ideas to Coceral.
Cargotec appoints Michel van Roozendaal

to head MacGregor business area
ichel van Roozendaal (M.Sc. Aerospace Engineering; MBA INSEAD, Fontainebleau; b.

1963) has been appointed President of the MacGregor business area. He will be a member
of Cargotecs Executive Board and report to President and CEO Mika Vehvilinen.
Michel van Roozendaal joins from Ingersoll-Rand where he has been heading the
Thermo King Global Marine, Rail and Bus businesses. Prior to this he has held global general
Michel van
management roles with companies such as United Technologies, Danaher, JCI and Honeywell. With
Roozendaal
over 25 years in technology businesses with exposure to product development, manufacturing and
sales, van Roozendaal has been responsible for delivering integrated solutions to customers in a
variety of different fields.
I am delighted to welcome Michel to Cargotec. We have initiated several development programmes to raise the MacGregor
business to a higher level and with Michels experience I am confident we will succeed. Despite the short-term challenges
in MacGregors markets we have a strong brand and competences to build on, says Cargotecs President and CEO Mika
Vehvilinen.
I am truly excited to be joining MacGregor, a clear leader in its industry. The marine sector is undergoing constant change
but is a sector that will continue to benefit from increased globalisation and growth in trade, says Michel van Roozendaal.
Michel van Roozendaal will start in his new role during August 2015.
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