World Grain - October 2017 - BF - 2

BestFlours No. 17 / 2017

Leading topic of the symposium
Dear Reader,
The millers of the world are one big
family - that became very clear yet
again at the Global Miller's Symposium.
This was the ﬁfth time we had invited
the industry to Hamburg, and the response was overwhelming. We were
able to welcome over 350 guests - from
all the continents, from a diversity of
specialist ﬁelds, from different sectors
of the economy and research.
What united us was a common goal:
we want to take an active part in
shaping the future of the milling,
baking and pasta industries.
Flour is life. The fundamental importance of cereals was brought home
to us time and again during the symposium. If we are to supply a world
population of nearly ten billion with
food produced from wheat in the year
2050, we have to set the course now:
in the ﬁelds of breeding and cultivation,
infrastructure, milling, ﬂour treatment,
further processing ... the "to do" list
grew longer and longer in the course
of the two-day lecture series. And
something else emerged clearly at the
same time: only if we all pull together
will we be able to solve the problems
facing us.
As a reminder of an event that brought
the Milling Family another step closer
together, you are now reading our
latest newsletter. I hope you will enjoy
looking back and re-living some of the
highlights of the symposium.
Yours very sincerely,

Lennart Kutschinski

Dr. Lutz Popper

Meeting global
challenges together
They have become legendary: the
Mühlenchemie Symposiums. This
was the ﬁfth time the global market
leader in the standardization, processing and fortiﬁcation of ﬂour had
issued an invitation to Hamburg to
experience an event in a class of its
own. Mühlenchemie fascinated over
350 guests from 54 countries with
35 excellent specialist lectures and
a superb supporting programme.
An inspiring information marathon
"The future is made here, together".
It was with these words that Mühlenchemie's managing director Lennart
Kutschinski summarized the central
theme of the symposium in his welcome
address: only through dialogue and a
mutual exchange of knowledge and experience will we be able to meet the
challenges ahead of the industry.
The Global Miller's Symposium, held for
the first time in cooperation with the
ICC (International Association for Cereal
Science and Technology), offered a
perfect forum for such an international
transfer of knowledge. For two days,
distinguished scientists, practitioners and
representatives of public institutions
presented the latest information from
their specialist fields. The spectrum of
topics was wide, ranging from aspects
of grain breeding and climate change
through innovations in laboratory analysis,
flour fortification and process technology
to trends in baking and nutrition.

What is exotic about wheat? What is
meant by the word "floursophy". Will a
new El Niño affect the harvest? Why have
the Danes suddenly taken to wholemeal
bread? The eminent speakers succeeded
in presenting a multifaceted picture of
the different factors that influence a
miller's working environment.
A new key player in the wheat trade:
the Black Sea region
Vito Martielli, Analyst Grains & Oilseeds,
Rabobank, opened the information sessions with a comprehensive analysis of
shifts in the markets of the cereal trade.
According to his forecast, there will be
a massive increase in wheat imports to

Vito Martielli, Analyst Grains & Oilseeds, Rabobank

Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia,
in particular. On the producing side, the
significance of the states bordering on
the Black Sea was increasing, he said.
Countries like Russia, Kazakhstan and the
Ukraine and also Romania and Bulgaria
have come onto the scene as important
partners in the cereal trade, not least
because of cheap freight rates and a
weak currency.
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