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1984
Conversion of the Thomas grain
terminal at Tilbury, England to
include export facilities has now
reached the end of phase two. The
work, for Mardorf Peach, the grain
buying arm of Allied Mills, part of
Associated British Foods, was again
carried out by Redler Conveyors.
In phase two, Redler had to
convert dockside facilities. One of
two quayside marine towers had
one of the jibs supporting a suction
unloader removed and replaced
with a jib fitted with a Redler chain
conveyor. On the jetty, an existing
chain conveyor will feed a new
Redler chain converyor of 120
meters in length with 1,000 tonnes
of grain per hour.
Rank Hovis McDougall PLC,
Windsor, England, will launch next
year a major multi-million-pound
modernization program designed to
keep the company in the forefront
of modern milling technology.
The program will be initiated at
the company's mill in Manchester,
England. Incorporating the latest
in sophisticated computer control
systems, two new British-made
plants will be housed in the shell of
the existing building, which is on
Trafford Park.
One of the two new units will
specialize in the milling of whole
meal flour, which is the most
dynamic sector of the brown flours
market. The whole meal plant will
produce four tonnes an hour while
the other, which will mill white
flours, has an hourly capacity of
10 tonnes.
Manchester will be Rank Hovis'
second mill with a plant equipped
specifically for the production
of brown flour. Its first was at
Southhampton where whole meal
and other brown flours are milled.
This part of the modernization
project is predicated on the belief

that the market for brown flours
will continue to increase in the
foreseeable future.
The Manchester mill serves
bakers in the north and Midlands.

1994
Cereal Industries Limited has
announced the full integration of
Mardorf Peach & Co. Ltd. into two
other companies within the Cereal
Industries Group.
Mardorf Peach's trading activities
in wheat gluten, small seeds and
third-country wheat have been
assumed by Allied Mills Ltd.
Allied Grain is responsible
for European trading, including
Thamesgrain Elevators, Weston
Shipping Agency and Mardorf
Peach N.V., a Dutch commodity
trading subsidiary.
Ralph H. Richard, Cereal
Industries chairman, said the change
would enable the company to better
meet the needs of today's market.
"Improvements in information
technology and communications,
coupled with changing trading
patterns,
have
created
the
opportunity for Cereal Industries
to rationalize its structure,"
Richard said.
Cereal Industries, a wholly
owned subsidiary of U.K.-based
Associated British Foods PLC,
has an annual turnover of more
than £1 billion. Cereal Industries'
principal companies are Allied
Grain, Allied Mills, Westinmill
Foods and Fishers Group and
Yorkshire Country Feeds.

2004
Avian Influenza is rampaging
across Asia, creating havoc in the
poultry industry and seriously
jeopardizing the jobs of tens of
thousands of people in the region.
Millions of birds have been
destroyed and exports banned.

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The poultry feed industry has
been severely affected by the loss in
its market, and since feed requires
maize and other cereals, the knockon-effect in agriculture is expected
to be huge.
Thailand is by far the biggest

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casualty. Shares in the country's
largest poultry producer, feed
manufacturer
and
exporter,
Charoen Pokphand, plummeted
15% in January.
"Bird flu remains a serious public
and animal health threat and continues
to spread," the United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
said. The eruption of new infection
cases in Thailand, China and Vietnam
shows that the disease is far from
under control.
"The movement of people,
animals, goods and equipment in
affected areas should be urgently
restricted. Contaminated feed should
be destroyed," the FAO advised.
Archer Daniels Midland Co.
(ADM) and Marubeni have
established a joint agreement to
seek new business development in
specialty grains and oilseeds for the
Japanese market.
ADM will be responsible for
exporting specialty grains and
oilseeds from the U.S. to Marubeni,
which will then market the products
in Japan.
"ADM and Marubeni have
enjoyed a long relationship in
the field of conventional and
specialty grains and oilseeds,"
said Lew Batchhelder, ADM
senior
vice-president
grain
and transportation.

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