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1984
Cargill Inc. will build a soybean
oil refinery, costing around $15 million, adjacent to its soybean crushing plant in Sioux City, Iowa, U.S.
The refinery will produce hydrogenated edible oil that will be marketed to food processors in the Midwest and on the West Coast.
Construction is nearing completion
on a large-scale silo complex in Iraq.
In 1976, Iraq started a silo construction program to make available sufficient storage capacity for the country's increasing grain production.
Bühler-Miag GmbH, Braunshweig, Federal Republic of Germany, is supplying the mechanical
and electrical equipment for the lot
of six silo plants. Three of the silo
plants are located near Mosul, in the
northwest of the country, namely in
the towns of Sinjar, Shirkat and Talafar. The other silos are located in
the towns of Baquba, Khanakin and
Tuz, northeast of Baghdad.
Originally, the project called for
construction of a total storage capacity of 220,000 tonnes, but, in 1980, it
was amended to affect a capacity of
435,000 tonnes. The complex will be
online by the end of 1984.
All the silo plants are uniform in
design. The tower-shaped machine
house is positioned between the
two-row bin blocks and the bulk
tanks. It houses the elevators, the
intake scales, the cleaning machines
as well as various bins serving different purposes. A building in front
of the machine tower houses intake
and loading stations as well as the
bagging scales.
Daniel Scheltus has join JayBee
Engineering Pty. Ltd., Dandenong, Victoria, Australia, as sales
manager, flour milling. JayBee is a
subsidiary of the Sprout-Waldron
Division of Koppers Company of
Muncy, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Scheltus will help coordinate the

company's marketing of machinery
systems to the milling industry. He
was until recently a salesman and
technical representative for Henry
Simon, based in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. While
at Simon, he had
been involved in
the commissioning of flour mills
in Scotland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Egypt, JaScheltus
pan and the U.S.
Earlier, he had been employed by
Prima Flour Mills, Singapore.

1994
Donald L. Staheli was elected
chairman of the board of directors
of Continental Grain Co. and Paul
J. Fribourg was named president.
Staheli, formerly president, continues as chief executive officer
while Fribourg becomes chief operating officer.
Retiring as chairman emeritus is
Michel Fribourg, father of the new
president and a leader in the company for 52 years. The senior Fribourg will continue as a member of
the group's board of directors. The
company has extensive interests in
the United States and other parts of
the world, including China, in grain
processing and in livestock and
poultry production and processing.
Alabama State Docks recently announced $20 million plan to renovate the Public Grain Elevator at the
Port of Mobile. According to Harold
Hudgeins, Docks' agri-products general manager, a new 40,800-tonne
annex will be built west of the North
facility, and the East facility will be
upgraded to become a stand-alone
shipping and receiving annex. The
oldest West building, built in 1950,
will be closed.
The closing of that facility along
with the other renovations will bring

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the elevator's storage capacity to
3,200 tph. Through a programmable
logic controller's system base, the
entire elevator can be controlled by
two workers at two monitors.

2004
China's two state-owned agricultural trading giants are on the point
of a merger.
Plans are under way for China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs
Import and Export Corp (COFCO) to
take over China National Native Produce and Animal By-Products Import
and Export Co. (China Tuhsu). Although no firm date has been officially announced, it is widely speculated
that the move is imminent.
Analysts say the rationalization
is being made as a step toward improving China's agricultural competiveness after entry into the World
Trade Organization.
The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) and the Grain
Elevator and Processing Society
(GEAPS) have suspended discussions to merge their annual conferences and trade shows.
The two industry groups, which
already have a strategic alliance, for
the past several months had considered combining their two key trade
shows - the GEAPS Exchange
and NGFA's annual Country Elevator/Feed Industry Council meeting.
However, the groups said that scheduling conflicts, centered on different
busy seasons for attendees of the two
events, played a large role in ending
the discussions, at least for now.
Although the two groups will not
conduct a joint trade show, they will
continue co-sponsoring joint seminars focusing on operations, management and technology. The organizations said they also would maintain two joint technical committees
while continuing to jointly produce
training and educational material.

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