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F: Victam 2011
Victam 2011 brought with ita lot of changes: A change
of frequency – being held
once every three years to
every four years (as the previous one
had been held on 2007); a change of
localisation from - Utrecht (in The
Netherlands) to Cologne, Germany;
a change in its appeal - as Fiapp (an
exhibition for ingredient and additive
manufacturers) and Grapas (an exhi-
bition for flour, pasta and rice milling
and general grain processing for food-
stuffs) became co-located exhibition
following the success of an expanded
show at Victam Asia.
But the fundamentals were still there:
international feed industry, new technology
and innovation, meeting with conferences.
Paradigm change takeing place
With a more convenient localisation to
express their growth, the Victam, GRAPAS
and FIAPP 2011 shows had been a great
success both for exhibitors or visitors.
Easy-to-reach by train, air and car, easy-
to-park, easy-to-lodge in a city which offer-
ing enough rooms to accommodate any
number of visitors and finally, on local tram
lines to accommodate everyone.
The change from Utrecht in The
Netherlands to Cologne in Germany seems
to have been well accepted by visitors. Theonly exception to a smooth transfer were
some technical issues with regard to the
lack of signage to conferences rooms, which
the exposition park missed providing.
Exhibitors are still evaluating their expe-
riences and expressing their views to the
organisation so, over the next few months,
more details will be available regarding the
success of the change and decisions to be
taken with regard to the next European
show.
Belying the change in location there is
a real paradigm change taking place within
our indusries: Western Europe is no more
the centre of the feed universe, North
Africa and Eastern Europe emergence are
emerging as strong realities. Without over-
looking the development of Middle East
and Asia – showing up as either established
visitors or exhibitors.
The number of Chinese exhibitors has
grown remarkably and they are looking for
business in Europe and Africa, and not just
within the Asian region: Victam Bangkok
2012 - to be held next February - is much
more dedicated to be representative of the
region. At Victam International in Cologne
more than 17 Chineses exhibitors and four
other Asian firms exhibited.
Even if connected, our industry had
seen this direction in growth for Victam
International as early as the 1990s. Nowit is much more evident, as it had been
clear at the beginning of 2008 in Bangkok
during Victam Asia, that a more central
European venue for Victam International
was necesary.
Big machines – big displaysFirst impressions of the show were that
this was the real thing! With real and big
machines on display. Visitors wanted to see
and to touch and even smell the real thing.
The immediate impression was about
size: big, big machinery which begs the
question, does the feed industry really give
any thought to energy cost? Of course not
you would think, but just look at Stolz and
its work about optimisation of the drying
process in connection with the French
technical center Tecaliman.
There were innovation looking at what
might seems minor details as to the reparti-
tion of particle size reduction through
grinding, as the easiest change of spare
parts, through to the cleaning concepts now
included on many machines.
Another field that appeared to be a
common thread throughout the show was
on-line control, either to control humidity/
moisture or protein content. If we can easily
see the interest in those control measures
and the automatic regulation of the process
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parameters for dealing with moisture, weare still waiting to see how we might use
on-line protein control to regulate the
process.
Pelleting technology to be used in the
production of bioenergy was also evident
at the show.
Bioenergy and pelletingThe biomass part of the exhibition
is completely connected with the feed
technology and visitors began showing an
interest in this technology as early as 2007
during the previous Victam International in
Utrecht.
Some 40 millions tonnes of pellets might
be produced in Europe by the bioenergy
industry by 2020: this market might over-
take the investment in feed equipment if it
fullfills its promise and reaches this target,
expressed during the European Biomasse
Association conference Aebiom. It had been
held on May 5, 2011. It should come at no
surprise that some of the main exhibitors
and sponsored for this event are strong
players in the feed sector – to name a few
they include, Andritz, CPM, Kahl, Latgran,
Poyry, VDB and Vapo.
The estimation for world output of
bioenergy pellets by 2015 is a massive
23.5 million tonnes. Europe is expected to
produce 10 million tonnes of that - less than
the half of world output. However, aas earlyas 2008, European bioenergy pellet produc-
tion reached 6.3 tonnes - which mean that
already Europe was accounting for more
than half of total production of 11.8 million
tonnes at that time.
The fastest growth might well occur
in North America where output was just
2.9 million tonnes in 2008 with an esti-
mated target of 7.7 million tonnes by 2015.
Production is partly assured on machines
from previously feed or other operations
would need. But in 2010, over capacity had
been significant throughout the world, from
one-third in Germany to more than double
in USA. So investments in this sector will
need to wait a little for the new year to
come.
The feed-related co-located shows
FIAPP, the feed ingredients and feed
additives show, didn’t seem as important
regarding the number of exhibitors taking
space, but are going their road. The EPA
press conference about probiotics is point-
ing this fact.
At the end of the 1980s, the first
European conference which launched the
debate between probiotics and antibiotics,
for example, had already taken place at
Huhn and Shwein (the previous name for
Eurotier) in Germany. Maybe this press
meeting signaled the real installation of
additives and ingredients as a part of thisglobal show?
As visitors to Victam International are
mostly technologists, they might be more
interested in the technical constraints or
advantages of one ingredient over another,
but the show must drive buyers to develop
this part of Victam.
Despite this consideration, the confer-
ences gave some driving force to FIAPP.
For example the seaweed products
of Ocean Harvest showed its interest in
aquafeed as a substitute of premixes with
its range of minerals and vitamins (apart for
B group vitamins which might
be found on yeast products).
GRAPAS, the grain (GRA)
and pasta (PAS) show tar-
geted flour milling, gain and
rice processing as well as pasta and noodle
production industries. These industries are
using some of the same technologies that
are used in the feed sector and it is quite
clear there is sound synergies here.
Seminars
Pellets for bioenergy Around 100 participants attended
this event: It proved a great success
for Aebiom (the European Biomass
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specifications used by fishmeal producers
and purchasers.
As explained Joseph P Kearns from
Wenger, the developing trend in aquafeed
plants is to ensure feed safety throughout
the production process. A strategic path
to accomplish this would be to assess
and design the facility with attention to
raw materials and their storage, plant
equipment design, processing or operating
procedure, final product efficacy and the
overall culture of day-to-day operation of
the plant.
As Urs Wuest from Buhler said, the
changing requirement in the aquafeed
industry translate into a demand for spe-
cific technical requirement such as extru-
sion technology.
Ingredients and additivesEufetech, the European Feed Technology
Center, and Linx Conferences proposed a
conference focusing on feed safety and
formulation advances.
Eufetech brings together animal feed
manufacturers, academia and research-
ers from: Bemefa (Belgium), FEFAC and
FEFANA (UE), Cesfac (Spain), Tecaliman
(France), Wageningen (The Netherlands),
Ghent University (Belgium), FINSV(Serbia), Isan (Italy), University of
Nottingham (UK).
Since 1995, the EU has required feed
manufacturers to estimate the mixing and
cross contamination risk on their plants.
The pressure from this regulation has
continuously grown and the last Directive
(08/09) limited the carryover from three
to one percent for coccidiostics, depend-
ing on whether or not it is target feeds.
In this context, Tecaliman had devel-
oped, beginning 20 years ago, rules to
evaluate mixing capability of a mixer and
cross contamination levels in plants. The
technical centre promotes a method using
external micro-tracer which became rec-
ognize as a reference in Europe.
The quality of new raw material as
distillers dried grain depend of the proc-
ess on the plant as Kip Karges of Poet
Nutrition showed. Ilvo from Belgium had
evaluated the nutritional value of wheat
DDGS for ruminants and pig.
During the conference, a wide range
of other topics had been presented, form
GMP+ to enzymes as additives for upgrad-
ing the nutritive value of poultry diets con-
taining sunflower meal and the potential of
organic trace minerals to improve animal
health and reduce environmental impact of
animal production systems.
ticated price regulation tools are becom-
ing available, a sign that the market is
becoming a worldwide commodity. With
the market growth, raw material diver-
sification will become crucial: the use
of new raw materials such as straw and
hay (which poses questions about com-
petition with feed), corn cobs, sunflower
husks, peanut shells and other biomass
offers a realistic opportunity for future
diversification. The general pattern is the
same as with feed: not to allow spoilage
or waste of any resource.
Finally, biomass quality is perceived
as essential in achieving successful mar-
ket development. The ENplus quality
certification is developing: 60 percent
of Germany and 90 percent of Austria
production capacities are expected to be
certified at the end of 2011.
Aquafeed Organised by
Linx Conferences
in association
with Nofima, the
Norwan Research
Institute, and spon-
sored by Buhler,
Aquafeed Horizonwas attended by
more than 100
participants look-
ing for the latest
d e v e l o p m e n t s
in aquatic feed
production.
For example,
handling, storage
and transport of feeds lead to attrition
of pellets.
Undersized particles represent loss and
poor utilisation of feed resources.
Thus, feed with high physical pellet qual-
ity is in demand. However, physical proper-
ties affect the nutritional value of feeds.
Research shows that feed intake appears to
be the main factor when evaluating pellet
quality, but several other factors such as
pellet durability, nutrient digestibility and fat
belching must be taken into consideration
when searching for the most economical
and sustainable pellet quality.
Hardness and durability combined with
low, medium or high water and steam
input in the extrusion process show differ-
ent impacts on feed intake and fish growth.
Those data can be used by the industry
to better understand and correct the
observed variance in extrusion properties,
pellet quality and to improve the product
Association) which had been held on the
last day of the show.
It focused on the market and on the
opportunity for the pelleting technology.
It shows some advantages: energy den-
sity, logistics, lower investments in plants …
the pellet demand might reach 229TWh in
2020, 68 percent solid biomass, 50 percent
pellets.
For Jean-Marc Jossart (of Aeobiom), the
demand for pellets will reach 42 million
tonnes worldwide by then. Sweden with
its two million tonnes (500Kt of import) of
wood pellets and Germany (at 1.6 million
tonnes or nearly self-sufficient) have been
the major European markets in 2009.
The globalization of the pellet sector
opens up worldwide supply with the trans-
port and logistical implication of the pellet
transfer from regions with high biomass
potential to high consumption regions.
Price index and more and more sophis-
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F: Victam 2011
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