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SUPPLIER NEWS

New director joins AGI
WINNIPEG, MANITO BA, CANADA - Anne de GreefSafft has been named a director of Ag Growth International
Inc.
"Anne is a global executive with extensive P& L , marketing, sales and operations leadership experience," said Tim
Close, resident and chief e ecutive officer of G . " nne s
extensive and relevant experience will be a great asset to AGI,
and we are excited to add Anne to the AGI team."
De Greef-Safft is currently a strategic consultant with
Windjammer Capital Investors, a middle-market private equity firm, and she serves as a member of the board of directors
of two of ind ammer s ortfolio com anies.
Prior to Windjammer, De Greef-Safft was group president
of Stande nternational s Food Service ui ment business,

with nine operations and 2,000 employees across the United
States, Mexico and Europe. She spent 12 years at Danaher
Corp., learning and applying the Danaher Business System,
and holding four successive positions as president of operating companies in the United States, Europe and Australia.
Before joining Danaher, she held various technical and
marketing and sales management positions for manufacturing
companies in the United States and Europe.
e Greef-Safft received a master s degree in business administration from Babson College in Massachusetts and
her BSEE and MSEE degrees from the Catholic University
of L ouvain ( K U L euven) in Belgium. Currently residing in
South Carolina, she was born in Brussels, Belgium, and is uent in nglish, utch, French and German.

Ocrim blog shares story of company
CR EMO NA, ITAL Y - O ne year after starting AL -L ATI,
O crim said it aims for the blog to be an information center
for projects and events related to the company as well as a
constructive source for the whole milling sector.
The blog was started to tell the story of O crim in real time.

The O crim team said it wants to make its customers feel the
most important part of its business.
The Italy-based company noted that the English version is
available at www.ai-lati.eu and the Italian version is available
at www.ai-lati.it.

Safe-Grain, Maxi-Tronic offer iPhone access to software
L O V EL AND, O H IO , U.S. - Safe-Grain, Inc. and MaxiTronic, Inc. have introduced iPhone access to their grain temperature and haz ard monitoring line of software products.
Available for users of SafeTrack, MaxiTrack, R adarTrack
and MaxiScan 24 systems, the free access to data from the
user s facilities does not re uire a subscri tion.
nstead, a eb Cli on the user s i hone i ad Mac will rovide continuous near real-time viewing, allowing users who
Satake subsidiaries in Australia merge
H IR O SH IMA, J APAN - Satake Corp. announced the merger of two ustralian subsidiaries enny s ngineering and
Welding Pty. ( DEW) and Satake Australia Pty. ( SAU).
he merger began on an. .
is now a enny s Silo
division of SAU and continues designing and manufacturing
of grain silos and grain handling e ui ment under the enny s
brand. DEW joined Satake Group in J une 2015, when SAU
acquired 100% of its ownership. The acquisition provided a
multi-faceted benefit to both com anies, giving
access
to a new global and expanded domestic sales network with
focus on Southeast sia and the acific region. he deal gave
Satake Group access to world-class bulk handling and storage
equipment, further enhancing its capabilities as the leading
supplier of rice and grain handling solutions in the world.
"We spent a successful four years since the acquisition in
integrating the technologies and culture of the two companies
in order to bring ourselves into a higher level of expertise in
what we specializ e in, grain handling and processing, without sacrificing any of the elements that made both com anies
successful over several generations," said K enji Y amashita,
resident and chief e ecutive officer of S .
ith the enny s Silo division, S
will now further enhance its business to all areas in the grain processing industry.
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have configured their SafeGrain or Ma i ronic software a plications and controllers to remotely monitor the system.
he new i hone eb Cli s access e ands the com any s
offering, which includes free Android apps already available
on the Google Play store.
To easily set up mobile access to your Safe-Grain and MaxiTronic monitoring applications, browse to www.safegrain.
com or www.maxitronic.com.

"Satake Australia will take full advantage of the synergies
of Satake Grou as a whole," amashita said. "From grain
processing equipment to grain handling and storage, we are
providing total solutions to our existing and potential customers business needs."
Kenji Yamashita, president and chief executive officer of Satake Australia
Pty. (SAU). Photo courtesy of SAU.

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