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 a...

01 aug 2005

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 fe...

01 aug 2005

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 admini...

01 aug 2005

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...

01 aug 2005

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 ...

01 aug 2005

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. ...

01 aug 2005

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.

01 oct 2004

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.

01 oct 2004

At Victam, which was held in Utrecht, the Netherlands in May, DSL Systems was awarded for their controlling device "Hand Held" as the best innovation in information technology. The system was only described briefly in the Victam special, so let's has...

01 sep 2004

Rice milling is the process of removing the husk and park of the bran in order to produce edible rice from the paddy. This mechanical technique has now been improved by Amandus Kahl to decontaminate cereals from mycotoxins, which usually are found on...

01 aug 2004