The current malaise on the stock market will probably lead to more acquisitions, says Nutreco's board chairman Wout Dekker.

Japan's Higashimaru Joint Stock Co. on February 23 inaugurated a mill to produce fish and shrimp feed in the Mekong Delta province of Tien Giang, Vietnam.

Novus International, Inc. has opened a new animal feed input plant in China. The new facility, located in the Ma Lu Jiading district, a suburb of Shanghai, China will bring Novus closer to Chinese based customers while expanding overall production capacity.

Danisco is opening up two new separate manufacturing units for functional systems and for enzymes to serve South-Asian customers.

Alltech has announced the opening of its first office in New Zealand. The new office, based in Auckland will provide sales and service support to the growing number of partners and customers in the country.

Skretting has officially opened its new fish feed plant near Bodrum, Turkey. The first production line is scheduled to be in action by May 2009. Subsequent building phases will expand the plant to three lines with a total capacity of 100,000 tonnes.