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Rank Hovis, the flour milling subsidiary
of Rank Hovis McDougall,
has begun a £2.2 million modernization
program at its mill at
Felixstowe, England. The project
marks the start of phase three of the
company's mill modernization and
development program. Phase two,
completed at the end of 1982, cost
£12.5 million and included major
improvements at a number of mills
throughout the country. Production
capacity at Felixstowe will be
increased by just over 12%, taking
total flour output to 35,000 tonnes
per year.
Takashi Saeki, president of Nisshin
Flour Milling Co., has become
president of the Japan Flour Millers'
Association in succession to Toshiyuki
Yahiro, president of the Nippon
Flour Mills Co.
1993
Satake UK, the subsidiary of Satake
Corp. in Japan, announced
an agreement in principle with the
University of Manchester Institute
of Science and Technology
(UMIST) to establish the Satake
Center, the UK's first academic
center for grain processing. The Satake
Center, which initially will be
funded by grants from Satake totaling
nearly £750,000 over five years,
which will establish post-graduate
teaching and research programs in
flour milling and grain processing
leading to Modular M.Sc and doctorate
degrees. It also will serve as a
center for information and research
as well as a consultancy source for
the world grain processing industry.
Feed-Rite Ltd., a member of the
Agri-Tec Canada consortium, will
build a $2 million feed pre-mix
plant for the Shanghai Poultry and
Egg Corp. The plant will be operational
by December 1993. The mill,
which is the second Feed-Rite has
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sold in China, will produce up to
5,000 tonnes of micro pre-mixes
annually, enough to feed 3 million
hogs a year. Chinese officials have
signed a letter of intent with AgriTec
to buy another five feed mills,
one flour mill and a grain storage
facility, said Carl Nygren, chief executive
officer of Agri-Tec.
2003
Six people are reported to have been
killed and two injured in a flour mill
explosion in east China. The explosion
at Changzhou City's Maidebao
Food Co. razed 350 square meters
of factory floor and smashed windows
in a nearby workers' dormitory.
A previous explosion occurred
at the flour mill in 1998.
Archer Daniels Midland Co. has
named Kevin Hess as vice president
of its European Crushing and Refining
operations. Hess replaces Kevin
Swanson, who now works with
ADM in the United States. Hess,
who will relocate to Hamburg, Germany,
joined ADM in 1985.
Bunge Ltd. has appointed Christopher
White as regional general
manager-Asia and appointed T.K.
Chopra as corporate controller.
White will be responsible for all
of Bunge's Asian operations and
business development. Chopra will
succeed Theodore P. " Terry " Fox
as controller of Bunge. Fox has
been named chief financial officer
of Solae LLC, the soy ingredients
joint venture between Bunge and
DuPont.
Mulino Stucky, a 19th century neoGothic
flour mill and one of Venice's
most important landmarks,
was severely damaged by fire in
April. The building, constructed in
1895 as a flour mill, was being restored
and was to be used as a shopping
mall and congress center on
the tiny island of Della Giudecca,
near Venice in northern Italy. The
blaze appeared to be limited to the
top floor and the wooden roof, firefighters
said.
2013
Olam International announced on
March 13 that it has sold Tarori Rice
Mills Private Ltd., the holding company
for its rice milling assets in India,
to Spanish rice and pasta manufacturer
Ebro Foods for $14.5 million.
The basmati rice mill, located
in Haryana, India, was acquired in
2008 and has a processing capacity
of 18 tonnes of paddy rice per hour.
ConAgra Mills is expanding its Ultragrain
milling capacity to meet
increasing demand for the whole
wheat flour product. Ultragrain currently
is milled in only three locations
- Commerce City, Colorado,
US; Alton, Illinois, US; and San
Juan Puerto Rico - but ConAgra
said it will realign its Alton mill
to " significantly boost Ultragrain
production " and reconfigure its Decatur,
Alabama, US, mill to add Ultragrain
production. The milling expansions
will be completed by July.
Burton M. Joseph, chief executive
officer of the Minneapolis, Minnesota,
US-based I.S. Joseph Company,
Inc., died April 14. Besides
overseeing the company that was
engaged in the grain and feed ingredient
business and was a major
exporter, Joseph was credited with
playing a pivotal early role in 1963
in the initial purchases of US grain
by the USSR. The sales, which set
the stage for the Russian Wheat
Deal in the early 1970s, began
when the Soviet Union was grappling
with four poor harvests in a
five-year period.
Richardson Oilseed Ltd. announced
in March its plan to expand its
canola processing plant in Lethbridge,
Alberta, Canada, more than
doubling processing capacity at the
facility.
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