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Bühler creates Consumer Foods segment
UZWIL, SWITZERLAND - Bühler created a new Consumer
Foods segment to address the global food market, effective Jan. 1.
It combines the current chocolate, nuts, bakery and coffee
business with the newly acquired Haas Group business to supSRUWFXVWRPHUVWKURXJKVLPSOL¿HGLQWHUIDFHVLQWHJUDWHGVROXtions, innovation and services.
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lead the new segment and joins Bühler's executive board.
Creation of a new business segment is a milestone in
Bühler's over 150-year history, it said. In the recent past, the
company has operated two businesses: Advanced Materials
and Grains & Food.
Triggered by the acquisition of the Haas Group, Bühler is
aligning its setup and forming a new business truly focused on
consumer foods and confectionery with integrated solutions to
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customers and position ourselves as a clear leader in the
growing consumer foods market," said Stefan Scheiber, CEO
of Bühler.
Since its acquisition in January, Haas has operated as a
separate Bühler business. The integration showed remarkable
results in a very short time, Bühler said.
Bühler and Haas already serve many key customers together, work jointly on customer projects, and are in discussion with numerous interested partners. The new organization,
which combines all consumer foods related technologies and
solutions in one segment, is the logical next step to serve customers from one single point of origin.
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knowledge as well as research and development to the needs
of our customers in that sector," Wacker said.

Alapala completes turnkey projects in Africa, Europe
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Alapala recently completed turnkey
projects in Europe and Africa. With a heavy focus in developed
countries, this was Alapala's second facility in Belgium within
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In Africa, the maize mill project has a production capacity
of 300 tonnes per day. The company plans to deliver more
reference projects in the Africa region in 2019.
"Our company will continue to invest in Africa in the future,
in order to face the challenges of lack of nutrition and food
quality challenges in Africa," said Görkem Alapala, CEO.
Alapala also completed a turnkey maize mill project in Africa and plans to
do more work in that region in 2019. Photo courtesy of Alapala.

Chinese delegation visits Sukup
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Binzhou, China, visited Sukup Manufacturing Co. and other
locations in Iowa to learn about ethanol production.
Along with Sukup, the group visited Golden Grain Energy
in Mason City and a farm near Dougherty. The group also
posed for a photo with Governor Kim Reynolds and Lt.
Governor Adam Gregg, who were at Sukup Manufacturing
on Dec. 13, 2018, for a meeting of the Governor's Empower
Rural Iowa Initiative.
China plans to include 10% ethanol in all fuel sold nationwide by the year 2020.
"We have tremendous resources and knowledge of ethanol
production in North Iowa, which the Chinese delegation acknowledges and hopes to gain from," said Steve Sukup, chief
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a major demand for ethanol in the near future, and we hope
their visit was productive and will help them understand how
to meet that demand."
The visit concluded with a formal signing ceremony at the
World Food Prize Hall of Laureates for a memorandum of understanding, which Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig
attended to witness and provide remarks.
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Chinese government officials concluded their visit to Iowa with a formal
signing ceremony. Photo courtesy of Sukup.
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