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Bühler's Industrial Milling Business
Unit appoints new head
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Stefan Birrer, head of Bühler's Industrial Milling Business Unit. Photo
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Swiss Institute of Feed Technology awards 17 diplomas
UZWIL, SWITZERLAND - The Swiss Institute of Feed Technology (SFT) announced on Nov. 2 that 17 students from 13 countries
were recently awarded diplomas. SFT also announced that Director Ernst Nef is retiring early and handing over responsibilities to
Daniel Müller.
From a total of 20 male and one female participants who had started the 33rd diploma course of the SFT in spring, 17 successfully
completed their training as feed production engineers. The road to
success was not easy. It led the students "up a steep and arduous
path," as the institute's director Ernst Nef said at the diploma awarding ceremony. Nef said he was very happy to see the ninth woman
in the SFT's history successfully complete the course, Aina-Elin
Karlsen (Ewos AS).
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course received a diploma recognizing them as a feed production enJLQHHURUDFRQ¿UPDWLRQRIFRXUVHDWWHQGDQFHIURP1HILQWKH+RWHO
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back to school.
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class for his outstanding average grade of 5.53 out of 6, by handing
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Karlsen by four-hundredth points, who ranked second and third,
respectively.
Nef completed the SFT diploma course in 1992. Two years later,
he became SFT director, holding a total of 20 diploma courses to date
together with his lecturer colleagues.
The 2015 feed production engineer diploma course was based for
the third time on the new concept. The course starts in the spring with
a 15-week preparatory correspondence course. This is followed by
a four-week intensive course in Uzwil, Switzerland. In autumn, the
second block is then held with a preparatory correspondence course
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The Swiss Institute of Feed Technology recently awarded 17 diplomas.
Photo courtesy of SFT.
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In the two preparatory courses, students had to work through 21
subject areas. During the two intensive courses, they had to pass a
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block are the two oral examinations in the core subjects in front of
a panel of experts. The new concept reduces the students' absence
from their jobs
The 34th specialist course in feed manufacturing technology will
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