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WORLD GRAIN ARCHIVE
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Indocement, the largest publicly
listed company in Indonesia, has
acquired the assets of PT Bogasari
Flour Mills, Indonesia's monopoly
flour miller with a market
share estimated upward of 85%.
Bogasari, which owns the world's
largest wheat flour mill on a single
site, is well known in global milling
circles for its rapid expansion
and its importance as a buyer of
wheat on world markets. Indocement
acquired Bogasari from
Salim Group. PT Bogasari operates
two of the largest wheat flour
mills in terms of daily rated capacity
at 5,500 tonnes and 3,700
tonnes (wheat equivalent).
2002
Swiss flour milling company Minoteries
de Plainpalais SA has announced
the purchase of a 95%
stake in Eberle Bruggmuhle AG,
a milling company based in Goldach
and formerly owned by Ostschweizerischen
Muhlen AG. The
merger, which is retroactive to January,
will operate under the corporate
name of Groupe Minoteries SA
under the direction of general manager
Wolfgang Martz. The merger
results in a total annual flour milling
capacity of 120,000 tonnes (wheat
equivalent) for Groupe Minoteries,
the company said. Groupe Minoteries
officials forecast consolidated
sales turnover of almost $89.7 million
and a market share of about
25%, which would equal that of the
current market leader.
Grainco Australia Ltd. and GrainCorp
Ltd. have formed Bulk Terminals
Australia (BTA), a joint venture
company to operate their respective
Brisbane and Newcastle port facilities.
BTA will operate Grainco
Australia's existing port facilities in
Brisbane, at Fisherman Islands and
Pinkenba and GrainCorp's facilities
at Carrington and Kooragang Island
in Newcastle.
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Charoen Pokphand Food Group
(CFP) is to build a 50,000-tonnesper-annum
feed mill in
Guangxi, in
southern China to
produce feed for local aquaculture
operations. It will comprise a
30,000-tonnes-per-annum shrimp
feed line and a 20,000-tonnes-perannum
fish feed line. CPF projects
net profit of $10 million over five
years, or an average of 9% per
year.
Richard Frasch, president, Cargill
Animal
Nutrition,
Steve
was inducted
as new chairman of the American
Feed Industry Association (AFIA)
at its annual convention in May,
and
Koenig,
Boproducts,
Inc., Fairlawn, Ohio, US, was chosen
chairman-elect. Their one-year
terms will run through May 2003.
Frasch has been president of Cargill
Animal Nutrition since 1998
and has been with the company
since 1978. He manages Cargill's
feed operations worldwide. Koenig
is past AFIA director and former
chairman of AFIA's Nutrition
Council, serving on the council
for nearly 12 years. Koenig joined
Bioproducts (formerly the Animal
Nutrition
Division of Diamond
Shamrock Corp.) in 1980 and held
various managerial posts leading to
his presidency in 1996.
2012
Cargill Agri Purina held a groundbreaking
ceremony for a new feed
mill on June 7 at the Pyungtaek
Dangjin Harbour foreign investment
zone in Korea. The new feed
mill, which was built to serve livestock
industry customers in Korea,
constitutes a $91 million investment.
The new feed mill is expected
to be completed by 2014. With production
capacity of 870,000 tonnes
per year, it will be Cargill's largest
feed mill worldwide. In addition
to state-of-the-art technology, Cargill
said the new feed mill strives
to achieve the highest standards of
food and feed in Korea's animal nutrition
industry.
Beihai,
Salim Group founder Sudono Salim,
also known as Liem Sioe Liong,
died on June 10 in Singapore
at the age of 95 after a long illness,
the Jakarta Globe newspaper reported.
Over a 50-year period,
Liem built one of the most formidable
business groups in the country,
with interests in cement, banking,
property, food products and
automobiles. Among its assets was
Indofood, the world's largest producer
of instant noodles, and First
Pacific, a Hong Kong-based company
that operates in more than 40
countries. PT Bogasari, a subsidiary
of Indofood, is the largest flour
miller in Indonesia and features the
largest flour milling facility in the
world.
Lansing Trade Group LLC, an independent
commodity merchandising
company, and Singapore-based
Olam International Ltd., a global integrated
supply chain manager and
processor of agricultural products
and food ingredients, have agreed
to form a 50-50 joint venture to
originate and merchandise Canadian
grains and oilseeds. The joint
venture will focus on merchandising
Canadian grains and oilseeds
to meet the food and feed demand
in North America as well as international
markets.
Lansing
Olam
Canada is expected to begin operations
in July.
Agrocorp International announced
on June 13 the expansion of its operations
with the creation of Agrocorp
Processing high-speed loading
and cleaning facility in Moose Jaw,
Saskatchewan, Canada. Agrocorp
said the facility
will ultimately
have the capacity to handle 250,000
tonnes of diverse products ranging
from canola to wheat, as well as a
processing capacity of 100 tph and
a loading capacity of 400 tph.
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