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Bühler promotes food safety with dialogue, innovations
UZWIL, SWITZERLAND — Another Bühler Food Safety Dialogue was well received by more than 30 U.S. food engineering and food safety professionals, Bühler said on May 3. Following a technology brieﬁng and a panel discussion, the participants were invited to the grand opening of the new food grade Bühler Food Innovation Center. Since 2010, Bühler has been actively facilitating a transparent exchange within the “Low Moisture Food Industry” to establish priorities for innovation and collaboration, fueled by enthusiastic support from customers. “Our customers’ contributions to the Bühler Food Safety Initiative are overwhelming and give us a deep-felt duty to continue fulﬁlling that role,” said René Steiner, president of Bühler North America. The dialogue was chaired by Bühler’s Chief Technology Ofﬁcer Ian Roberts, who made Bühler’s commitment to food safety clear. “As an industry leader, Bühler has a responsibility to contribute to Consumer Safety; or simply put, we must help our customers sleep well at night,” Roberts said. Bühler’s Open Innovation Board’s new member, Stefan Töpﬂ, shared his view on relevant Inactivation Technologies, now and in the future. Following the talk, Bühler opened up the doors of its ﬁrst U.S.based, food-grade Food Innovation Center in Plymouth, Minnesota, U.S. Here it exhibited a ﬁrst result of the Food Safety Dialogue: the co-created AeroDry conveyor dryer, based on interviews and active feedback from customers who offered valuable insight during the development process. The AeroDry conveyor dryer meets today’s food safety demands with its enhanced sanitary design. This investment allows Bühler to offer process trials to their customers on a complete extrusion line including raw material handling, extrusion, drying, grinding, and bulk packaging.

Bühler opens new factory in Brazil
JOINVILLE, BRAZIL — Bühler opened a new factory in Joinville, Brazil in April. The employees of Bühler Joinville and their families celebrated the event in the presence of Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Calvin Grieder. The new factory includes a 12,000-square-meter production site for initially 100,000 production hours per year and new ofﬁces of 2,000 square meters. The new factory mainly focuses on the manufacturing of specialty equipment for grain processing and dryers. The factory will support Bühler’s growth in Brazil and in the whole South American market.

Phillips named president of Maxi-Lift
DALLAS, TEXAS, U.S. — Vic Sahm, chairman of Maxi-Lift, Inc., announced on June 1 the appointment of Paul Phillips as president of Maxi-Lift. Phillips will report directly to Beaude Sahm, chief executive ofﬁcer of Maxi-Lift and Southwest Agri-Plastics. Phillips started his career with Maxi-Lift after receiving his BBA from West Texas A&M in 1992. He completed his MBA from the University of Texas in 1996. Paul furthered his studies at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and most recently studied at Harvard Business School, completing the Key Executives Program. In 2011, Phillips was distinguished with the AFIA (American Feed Industry Association) Member of the Year award for his devotion and hard work with the association. Within AFIA, Phillips currently serves on the board of directors and executive committee and served as past chairperson for the Equipment Manufacturers Committee. From 2009 to 2011, he served on the IFEEDER Board of Trustees as a charter member. He is an active member of GEAPS, NIBA, PTDA, EMC and CEMA. Sahm said Phillips has been a driving force, projecting Maxi-Lift to become one of the largest plastic elevator bucket manufacturers in the world. He noted that Phillips accomplished this objective by assembling a superb marketing team, backed by staff specialized in customer Phillips service and a manufacturing facility that maintains the highest quality standards served by the latest and most efﬁcient injection molding machines available. “In my 42 years at Maxi-Lift, I have never seen anyone who has done so much to make it happen as Paul,” Sahm said. “More importantly — Paul is a really nice guy.”

Intersystems, Behlen equipment installed at Ukraine facilities
MEZHLES’YE, UKRAINE — Argrodar-Bar, Ltd. in July 2011 opened a new inland grain storage facility in Mezhles’ye, Ukraine, purchasing grain handling equipment from Intersystems, Omaha, Nebraska, U.S. Intersystems equipment was also installed at Krolevetskiy Elevator, Ltd.’s facility in Krolevets, Ukraine, which began operating in December 2011. Each facility has a storage capacity of 55,000 tonnes, the silos
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measure 22 meters in diameter, 14 meters at the eave and 20 meters in total height. Behlen installed M7 hopper tanks at both grain storage complexes. Intersystems grain handling equipment installed at the Mezhles’ye and Krolevets facilities include en-mass conveyors and bucket elevators with a rated capacity of 100 tph, and truck probes. The contractor for the projects was Adept-Group.
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