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1989
The Feed Corp. of X in Tai City of
China has contracted Ibberson International, Inc., Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S., to build a modular
feed mill in
.
The $2 million feed mill will
have capacity to produce 10
tonnes of animal feed per hour,
with pelleting and grain storage included. The mill will serve
Shandong Province.
The project will be shipped to
China in June with start-up and
commissioning scheduled for early fall.

1999
In an expansion of its European
food operations, Archer Daniels
Midland Co. (ADM) will enter the
U.K. flour milling business through
the acquisition of four wheat flour
mills from Tomkins PLC, London.
Tomkins, the parent of the
Rank Hovis milling operation,
announced March
that it had
reached agreement for the sale of
the four British mills to ADM. The
mills were among six that Tomkins
acquired in March
from Kerry Group PLC, Dublin, Ireland, for
£ 7 million.
O n the basis of a six-day grind,
the four mills being acquired by
ADM have a combined daily
flour milling capacity of about
25,000 cwts.
ADM Milling is North America's
largest flour milling company, operating
mills in the United States
and Canada.

exports have been revealed for the
first time, that country in the
7
crop season shipped
,
tonnes in wheat equivalent, or 15.2
million cwts in terms of flour. China s flour exports were up sharply
from
,
tonnes in
7
and 7 ,
tonnes in
.
oseph MacArthur Rank,
, the
last member of his family to hold
office in one of ritain s largest
flour milling and baking companies,
died in March.
He served for a number of years
as chairman of what was Rank Hovis McDougall (RHM) prior to its
acquisition several years ago by
Tomkins PLC.
Rank was president of the National Association of British and
Irish Millers during its centennial
year. As a scion of one of Britain's
most illustrious milling families, he
was highly regarded in the industry.
Rank retired as chairman of RHM
in
but continued as president
until
.

2009
Richard C. Siemer, president of
Siemer Milling Co., announced
March
that the company is expanding daily capacity at its Hopkinsville, Kentucky, U.S., mill.
When the project is completed,
daily capacity at the facility will
be ,
cwts, up from its current
11,000 cwts.
Siemer Milling first began operating at Hopkinsville in
.
riginally a 7,
cwt mill, capac-

China has emerged as the world's
second largest flour exporter, shipping
more flour to foreign markets than the United States in the
7
crop season, according to
a recent Grain Market Report of the
International Grains Council.
In the case of China, where flour
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ity was expanded to 11,000 cwts in
2005.
Siemer said the existing building
does not have adequate space for
additional capacity, and the new
unit, to be called the C mill, will
be installed in a newly constructed building.
"We have been running this mill
at capacity, and we have other opportunities for flour business as
well," Siemer said. "We see some
of our customers expanding. Given
the volume of business we are doing
and future prospects, this expansion
represents a good opportunity."
President of the Russian Federation
Dmitriy Medvedev signed a decree
on March 20 about the opening of a
joint-stock company called United
Grain Company, his media department said.
The main priorities of the company will be to increase purchasing and selling volumes of grains
on the domestic market, grain export volumes, modernization and
construction of new elevators and
port capacities.
Todd Andrews and Halley Silver
have been named to news positions
at King Arthur Flour. Andrews has
joined the company as sales manager for the Western region.
An experienced baker and former owner/ operator of Loafers O ld
World Bakery and Coffee House
in Bingen, Washington, U.S.,
Andrews will be responsible for
working with bakery customers
from Denver to the West Coast.
Prior to joining King Arthur, he
was a bakery consultant for Artisan
Baking Resources and a WP/ Kemper equipment salesperson.
Silver was promoted to director
of e-commerce. She most recently
was web marketing project manager and has helped King Arthur
grow its website: www.kingarthurflour. com.

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