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WORLD GRAIN ARCHIVE

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World Grain hosted a reception at the Grand Hotel in Paris,
France to introduce the magazine
and explain its philosophy and
policies. Guests heard that Sosland Publishing hoped that millers
and grain personnel of every nation would point to World Grain
as their magazine and cite its articles to their staff and associates,
to their governments and to their
suppliers and customers.
It was said that the magazine’s
editorial philosophy espoused the
technical advancement of grain
handling and processing in every country, and that World Grain
would present articles, features and
comment that would instruct and
would be of equal interest to managers in the developed and in the
developing nations.
Guests were welcomed by Charles
Sosland, World Grain’s director of
sales, who was introduced by Jean
Haegel, chairman and chief executive, Grands Moulins de Pantin. Mr.
Haegel paid tribute to the reputation
that he said Sosland Publishing had
already built up by publishing Milling & Baking News, which enjoys
worldwide respect for the quality of
its contents.

A Europe-wide project is under
way to reduce the number of silo
failures. Proposed and coordinated
by the U.K. Building Research
Establishment (BRE), the project
links research by 18 academic and
industrial organizations from nine
European countries. Other groups
involved in silo research have been
invited to join. The budget for the
four-year project is 370,000 Ecus (a
pre-Euro pan European currency).
For satisfactory silo design, it is
vital to be able to predict the stress
in the stored material, geometry
of the ﬂowing solids and the pattern of pressures on the silo wall.
Research on these problems is in
progress throughout the European
Community by chemical, mechanical, structural and geotechnical engineers in industry, research institutes and universities.
Overall coordinator of the consortium is Neil Jarret of BRE’s structural designed division. An information
center at BRE will organize meetings of participants and arrange exchange visits. Research ﬁndings will
be communicated to participants.

A record discharge of grain has
been reported by IMS Ship Management Private, a contractor for
the Shipping Corporation of India.
It said that it discharged 72,000
tonnes of wheat in 12 days at Port
Rozi, off Jamnagar, by using seven portable pneumatic conveyors
bought from Neuero, of West Chicago, U.S., last December.
Takashi Saeki, president of the
Nisshin Flour Milling Company, has
become president of the Japan Flour
Millers’ Association in succession to
Toshiyuki Yahiro, president of Nippon Flour Mills Company.

Etienne Caen of Louis Dreyfus,
Paris, has been appointed overseas
vice-president of the Grain & Feed
Trade Association (GAFTA).
Caen joined Louis Dreyfus in
1948. He currently is assigned to
the general management at Louis
Dreyfus Group with special responsibilities for public relations with
international bodies such as the
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, the Food
and Agriculture Organization and
the International Wheat Council.

2003
The investment by Sydney, Australia-based GrainCorp Ltd. with
Cargill Australia in Allied Mills

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Australia PTY Ltd. is “a key plan in
the strategy of increasing diversiﬁcation and enhancing activity along
the supply chain,” Ron L. Greentree,
chairman of GrainCorp, told the
company’s annual general meeting.
Greentree told shareholders that
the milling business acquired last
October from Goodman Fielder Ltd.
is “a truly national milling company
with solid market share and a range
of quality customers.”
Allied Mills, Greentree said at
the Feb. 28 meeting, represented “a
unique opportunity for GrainCorp to
enter into the ﬂour milling sector as
a major player.” He pointed out that
Allied Mills holds a market share of
more than 35% and processes about
1 million tonnes of grain annually in
13 plants in Australia.
PT Bogasari, the ﬂour milling
arm of Indonesian food giant PT
Indofood Sukses Makmur, has set
up a S$12 million ($6.9 million)
ﬂour blending facility in Singapore.
A Bogasari ofﬁcial in Jakarta said
that the company planned to export
various wheat ﬂours to Singapore in
containers and blend them at the new
facility to produce specialty ﬂours.
The 4,510-square-meter plant in
Tuas, a port and industrial area, can
blend 12 tonnes of specialized ﬂour
per hour. The facility, Bogasari’s
ﬁrst mill outside of Indonesia, also
will house a research and development team to develop new products
to meet speciﬁc client requirements.
The company plans to use Singapore as its main platform to expand into the Asia-Paciﬁc market.
Bogasari enjoys a 70% share of the
Indonesian wheat ﬂour market, and
the company aims to increase contributions from overseas sales to 5%
from the current 2% over the next
ﬁve years.
Bogasari’s revenue in 2002, most
of which was derived from the Indonesian domestic market, reached
about S$868 million ($500 million).

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