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FEATURE: VICTAM ASIA 2012

cused on feed ingredients, Petfood Forum Asia 2012, Aquafeed Horizons Asia 2012, GRAPAS Asia 2012, Thai Feed Conference 2012 and Bioenergy International — Pellets Update Asia. Aquafeed Horizons Asia presented advances in processing (advances in extrusion) and formulations, mainly focusing on solution to substitute ﬁshmeal in aquafeed. The Aquafeed conference included an extrusion workshop, led by international extrusion consultant Peter Hutchinson, which focused on practical extrusion and diet development for extrusion processing. The practical extrusion portion of the program focused on feed extrusion principals, incorporating screw designs, screw proﬁles, die design, extruder trouble shooting, drying and cooling. Diet development for extrusion processing focused on sourcing locally available material, matching extruder proﬁle to formulation, die design in relation to species and high retention (water stable) diets, optimizing the pellet through extruder settings (cook, minimizing nutritional damage, stability and density) and basic quality control. FIAAP Asia focused on availability, opportunities and quality through nutrition innovations. It included a review of the feed market in Asia Paciﬁc by Eric Brooks, senior analyst, eFeedLink. The Petfood Forum featured presentations on demand trends for the product in Asia. The problem of mycotoxin contamination and possible solutions were addressed. The theme of the GRAPAS conference was guaranteeing food and feed safety through greater use of technology in the control of product quality at each step of the milling process, from raw material collection through processingto-product dispatch. INNOVATION AWARDS During the exhibition, awards were given to the companies displaying the most innovative and economically beneﬁcial equipment, process or service and which send a dossier to apply.
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Bühler’s Kubex Pellet Mill was on display at the Victam Asia 2012 exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand.

Wenger Manufacturing’s Extrusion System for High Capacity Small Diameter Aquafeed Production received the ﬁrst Aquafeed Innovation Award for contributions to the advancement of aquafeed. The award recognizes the creativity and ingenuity of the supply sector in meeting the very specialized needs of the aquafeed manufacturing industry. The award was presented by the publisher of Aquafeed.com, Suzi Dominy. “That aquaculture is the fastest growing livestock sector in the world is largely thanks to the development of feeds for a vast and growing array of species,” Dominy said. “We wanted to recognize the achievements of the supply sector in providing products that help grow and develop the aquaculture feed industry. We have a very worthy winner in Wenger Manufacturing. “Wenger’s new extrusion system, designed speciﬁcally for aquatic feed processing, is a real step forward. Our panel was impressed by the array of new features, and that it can increase production rates by three to ﬁve times for small diameter aquatic feeds — and for shrimp feeds in particular.” Accepting the award on behalf of Wenger Manufacturing, Joe Kearns, aquaculture process engineering manager, said: “It was an honor to actually have an entry for the ﬁrst ever Aquafeed

Innovation Award and it is a greater honor to receive this award on behalf of Wenger Manufacturing. A strong ﬁeld of contenders resulted in Highly Commended Awards in two categories: technology and ingredients and additives. The Highly Commended Award for feed technology recognized Geelen Counterﬂow for its Postconditioner MkII. The new double deck post conditioner for pelleted shrimp feed provides high temperature conditioning after pelleting, before drying and cooling. The Highly Commended Award for feed ingredients and additives was awarded to Dr. Eckel GmbH for its product AntaPhyt Aqua, a customized combination of organic acids with special plant extracts and other components that were specially developed for their palatability and efﬁcacy in aquaculture. The resulting performance boosting product can be incorporated in all kinds of aquafeeds for a wide range of species. The 2012 Victam Award for Milling was won by FOSS in recognition of its inline ﬂour production monitoring solution called ProFoss Flour. It is an inline process analysis solution employing high resolution technology for accurate monitoring of the ﬂour milling process. The ProFoss analyzer is available with dedicated interfaces based on re61

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