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Feature title: Victam International 2011 - A review from Cologne, Germany

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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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