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Quality Technology Calsporin supply unaffected by Japan disaster

Quality Technology International Inc., the North American distributor of direct-fed microbial Calsporin has released a statement assuring North American clients that there are no concerns about providing continuous supplies of Calsporin to the poultry and animal markets. "We have, at a minimum, a six-month supply of Calsporin in the United States," said Troy Lohrmann, QTI vice president.

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Kemin doubles production capacity with expansion to India facility

Kemin has doubled the company’s production capacity and added new technologies to its manufacturing portfolio through an expansion to its manufacturing facility in Gummidipoondi, India. The new facility will manufacture KemTRACE Organic Trace Minerals for poultry, dairy and aqua, as well as provide additional blending capacity and new research and quality assurance facilities.

Pancosma opens new Thailand office

Following the March 2010 launch of a new Russian office, Pancosma has opened a facility in Thailand that will be the base of an enlarged sales and marketing organization serving all Thai territories. "For more than 20 years, Pancosma has been working locally with a Thai distributor, Nuevotec," said Asia and Oceania Sales Manager Kim Son Doan.

AB Vista names Agricover distributor in Romania

AB Vista has named Agricover Group as its new distributor in Romania. Bucharest-based Agricover will distribute AB Vista’s entire range of new generation yeasts, enzymes and micro-ingredients across the whole of the company's Eastern European market.

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DLA Group, Raisio sign feed ingredient procurement agreement

An agreement to work together on feed ingredient procurement has been signed by two of the largest grain product organizations in Scandinavia, Denmark's DLA Group and Finland's Raisio. DLA coordinates wholesale trading activities for 31 cooperative and privately owned raw materials companies in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the Baltic States, while Raisio is Finland's largest industrial grain processor, operating also in the UK, Sweden, Poland, Russia, Ukraine and Baltic countries.

Evonik Industries expanding North American lysine operation

Evonik Industries has begun expansion of its North American lysine operation, which will be realized in two steps during 2011. The first phase of the expansion at its Blair, Neb., production facility has begun, with the basic engineering for a second phase expansion already approved by the company's board of management.

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Feedtech-Croptech Asia in Bangkok to highlight alternative feed ingredients

The Feedtech-Croptech Asia 2011 Conference, held March 9 by VNU in association with WATT, during VIV Asia in Bangkok, will focus on future trends in animal feeds. With grain prices soaring, the discussion will include the potential for using alternative ingredients to manage feed costs.

Maryland state legislature introduces bill to ban arsenic from chicken feed

Maryland Sen. Paul G. Pinsky and delegate Tom Hucker have introduced a bill into the state legislature that would ban arsenic-based drugs commonly used in the feed of commercial poultry operations. Arsenic is found in chicken feed in the form of roxarsone, which is added to control coccidiosis and promote growth.

Danisco Animal Nutrition Axtra XAP

Danisco Animal Nutrition (part of IFF)

Danisco Animal Nutrition offers Axtra XAP, a multi-enzyme feed additive for broilers. Axtra XAP is optimized to maximize nutrient availability in today's more complex corn-based broiler diets, according to the company.

Kemin expands into veterinary market

Kemin Industries Inc. has expanded into the veterinary market with the launch of a new division, Kemin Vet Innovations, set to provide products, solutions and services for the veterinary community serving the livestock, poultry, equine and companion animal markets worldwide. The division will be led by Andrew Yersin, former director of research and development for Kemin AgriFoods North America.

Lallemand Animal Nutrition Bactocell probiotic bacteria

Lallemand Animal Nutrition

Lallemand Animal Nutrition offers Bactocell, a probiotic bacteria for use as a zootechnical additive in feed for laying hens. According to the company, Bactocell can increase laying rate by 2 percent, increase egg mass and shell resistance, result in a bigger yolk with a lower occurrence of blood spots and decrease cholesterol in egg yolk.

Kemin Sal CURB feed additive

Kemin Industries

KeminSal CURB, a formaldehyde-based anti-microbial feed additive, can be used as acomponent of a program to reduce salmonella infection of the food chain.

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