Animal Feed Additives & Ingredients: Page 152

Feed Additives

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.

Feed Additives

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.

Feed Ingredients

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.

Feed Additives

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.

Feed Ingredients

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.

Feed Additives

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.