UAE food and beverage group, Agthia, has signed a deal with Abu Dhabi Ports to expand its flour and feed facilities as the feed side currently faces challenging market conditions.
Special Edition: Feed Industry Consolidation Review
We caught up with Christopher Nolan, managing director, global deals origination at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, who recently spoke at Alltech’s One conference, to hear about his views on amalgamation of the global feed sector.
Feed additive innovation at Evonik has been earmarked as one of six R&D pillars that will contribute over €1 billion (bn) in additional sales by the year 2025 for the group.
Two UN bodies have initiated a global call to solicit data in order to help them provide scientific advice to guide the development of appropriate Codex standards or guidelines on pathogenic E.coli.
Irish company on the asset trail in North America and the Middle East
Northern Ireland headquartered, Devenish Nutrition, has just been recognized, through a UK award scheme, for its achievement in the areas of innovation and international trade.
Danish company, UniBio, has sold the entire production from its future methane gas to feed protein production facilities to Danish animal feed manufacturer, Vestjyllands Andel.
A global forum has initiated a call to action to the wider industry, the Protein Challenge 2040, to accelerate development of alternatives to soy and fishmeal.
Biomin’s 2015 survey shows deoxynivalenol (DON) is the most prevalent mycotoxin for all regions except South America and Middle East, where fumonisins (FUM) pose the bigger threat to livestock production.
Poultry gut health was firmly on Cargill’s agenda when we caught up with the company at IPPE last week to get the low down on its additives and research pipeline.
The move from Chinese state-owned food and feed giant, Cofco, to acquire 100% of Noble Agri, the agriculture arm of the Noble Group, shows the market in international trading is shifting, says an analyst.
US agribusiness giant, Cargill, in a continued drive to expand its animal nutrition business, has acquired UK feed and food formulation technology provider, Format International.
Young scientists working in the field of feed probiotics, with a focus on subjects such as nutrition, microbiology or immunity, are the target of the latest Jules Tournut Probiotics Prize.
We ran a reader survey earlier this year to find out what the major headaches are for the feed sector - a majority of respondents reported the Russian sanctions as detrimental for business.
Feed manufacturers will benefit from cheaper folic acid (vitamin B9) prices in Q4 as prices in China plunged 37.5% in August, said market intelligence firm CCM.
Hens raised in conditions generating heat stress may lay better eggs if their diet includes supplemental phytase, even if diet quality is poor, says a group of Iranian researchers.
French botanicals group, Nor Feed, has recognized an Indian researcher for his work in plant extracts in the first edition of its Veterinarian Nor-Feed Award, which includes a €5,000 prize.
There could be a weakness in inorganic feed phosphate (IFP) prices when an additional 250,000 tons capacity from a Middle Eastern player comes on stream in early 2017, said an analyst.
Competitive grain sourcing, lower poultry imports and feed production efficiency have helped generate a profit hike of 35% for the animal feed and flour division of United Arab Emirates (UAE) food group, Agthia, for the first quarter of this year.