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Cimbria acquires Italian enterprise SEA
THISTED, DENMARK — Cimbria announced in May that it has reached an agreement with the group of owners behind Italian company SEA to acquire 100% of the shares in the company. SEA is a leader in the development and manufacture of sorting equipment for sorting grain, seeds and other industrial products by means of color or resonance. SEA primarily sells its equipment in Europe. With the acquisition of SEA, Cimbria’s range of mechanical sorting equipment will be supplemented by optical color sorting and other electronic solutions, thus completing Cimbria’s product lineup. Such an acquisition is very much in line with Cimbria’s strategy aimed at strengthening the company’s product and market position via organic and acquisitive initiatives. It is the company’s ﬁrst acquisition since Axcel became the majority shareholder at Cimbria in August 2011. In 2011, SEA had a turnover of approximately DKK 70 million ($11.7 million) and a proﬁt ratio of approximately 20%. The company expects to see growth in both sales and earnings this year. SEA has around 35 employees at its factory in Imola in northern Italy. SEA’s technology has applications in several ﬁelds, including the food industry, recycling and seed corn. SEA’s hitherto owners will continue to look after the day-to-day management of the company.

Sefar appoints new account manager
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, U.S. — Sefar announced on April 11 that Jill Peters was appointed as a new account manager within the Inside Sales group, effective April 16. In her new role, Peters will assume a sales and customer support role for Sefar, covering the food accounts across the U.S., and industrial accounts in the West and Midwest. She is a graduate of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) short course in ﬂour milling and has extensive knowledge of sifting, screening and drying processes. Peters joined Sefar in 1999 as an inside sales associate in Sefar’s Kansas City, Missouri, U.S., sales ofﬁce. Several years later, Sefar recognized her growing potential and promoted her to a supervisory role over the Kansas City Inside Sales group. Peters was promoted to territory manager in 2005, to warehouse manager in 2008 and production manager in 2011. Peters will report directly to Gerry Morkisz, inside sales manager.

Intersystems, Adept-Group form partnership
OMAHA, NEBRASKA, U.S. — Intersystems announced on May 11 a partnership with Odessa, Ukraine based Adept-Group. Adept has been named the exclusive local representative to provide turn-key solutions for engineering, construction and installation services of Intersystems material handling equipment for grain storage facilities in Ukraine and Russia. Intersystems designs and manufactures a complete material handling line that includes en-masse and enclosed belt conveyors, bucket elevators, bulk weighers, truck probes, grain samplers, gravity screeners, distributors, micro-ingredient systems and bolted bin systems. Adept-supported grain storage facilities in Ukraine and Russia feature material handling equipment exclusively by Intersystems. This partnership expands each company’s dedication to each other as well as to their mutual clients. Adept has Intersystems-trained service technicians on staff as well as a local inventory of spare parts for Intersystems equipment, making it even easier to conduct business with both companies. This collaboration comes just over a year after the opening of Intersystems’ sales ofﬁce in Kharkov, Ukraine. The ofﬁce serves Ukraine, Russia and the rest of the CIS States. “We continue our commitment to serving the feed and grain industries of the CIS States,” said Randy Stauffer, vice-president of sales and marketing at Intersystems. Stauffer describes the region as a very important market for Intersystems and says that the company is “excited for the opportunities that will be created out of this expanded partnership with Adept.”

Sukup products win AE50 awards
SHEFFIELD, IOWA, U.S. — Three new products from Sukup Manufacturing Co. have won AE50 Awards from the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), the company announced in April. The award-winning products are the Sukup Single Phase Centrifugal Dryer, the Grain Buster and the Safe T Home. The Single Phase Centrifugal Dryer has a power converter that helps increase drying speeds at sites with only single-phase power. The Grain Buster safely breaks up clogs of grain inside of bins, and the Safe T Home is a low-cost shelter that can be used for emergency housing following disasters. The awards were announced in February during the Agricultural
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Equipment and Technology Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. “We’re delighted these products were chosen for AE50 Awards,” said Charles Sukup, president of Sukup Manufacturing Co. The variety of award-winning products “is indicative of the broad scope of our engineers and other employees, who are always looking for ways to improve safety, efﬁciency and proﬁtability in agriculture.” To be eligible for an award, products must have been introduced and made commercially available between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2011. Products or systems nominated must be intended principally for use in the production, processing, research, storage, packaging or transportation of agricultural and food products, and have the potential for broad impact.
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