In Vejle, Denmark, Buhler expanded the Lantmännen Group’s existing facility into one of Europe’s largest and most up-to-date flour mills. The new Lantmännen mill will be the first large-scale flour mill to be completely automated on the basis of the new Buhler WinCoS.r2automation system. Read more >

Engineering and Consultancy agency TebodinCCE recently organised a workshop on “strategic considerations in the animal feed industry”. One of the subjects that passed in review was on financial feasibility studies and scenario analysis of large projects. The following article discusses the main... Read more >

Launched 10 years ago by Radar automation, the Operra software is a decision-support system for purchasing, supply planning and raw material costs. Sanders Bretagne of Groupe Glon was one of the first users of this software, which is well now known all over Europe. Philippe Caldier went to... Read more >

Known for its dairy products, US based Land O' Lakes, a food and agricultural cooperative in the Fortune 500, also sells feed to the pork industry. To increase its business with large pork producers, Land O' Lakes sought to create an integrated feed management system for these customers,... Read more >

South Korea is one of the countries that are at the forefront of the latest technologies in feed manufacturing. In 2002 the Belgian automation company Adifo received an automation order from the Korean group JE IL Feed to update their complete administrative system. Read more >

Software employing the linear programming technique has been used in feed manufacturing for over 30 years. It has offered the benefits of containing recipe cost whilst meeting the technical requirements of the products. As technical knowledge, market conditions and legislative requirements... Read more >

A simple switchboard often can no longer control complex situations. Products and customer demands have become increasingly complicated and products need more and more specifications that follow all kinds of quality rules and legislation. This means that systems have to be integrated. There are... Read more >

Feed manufacturing is a really simple process: purchase raw materials, grind, mix, pellet if necessary and a compound feed is created. Sell the product against a higher price than the combined price of the total ingredients and the business is done. Today however, this process is unthinkable... Read more >

Feed mills are running with very little down time, so spares and replacement parts must be quickly and easily available. CFE uses the vigour of a rugby player and the precision of a golfer to refurbish dies and rolls and to please their customers. Read more >

Cargill Animal Nutrition has opened a new 144,000-tonne capacity feed manufacturing facility. The mill is divided into two production units that are strictly separated to avoid cross contamination of sensitive feed ingredients. Read more >