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Dairy sustainability awards announced
The Innovation Center for United States Dairy announced the winners of the second annual U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards on April 23 at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C. The program recognizes dairy farms and businesses of all sizes for practices that advance the industry's commitment to healthy products, healthy communities and a healthy planet.
Winners of the U.S. Dairy Sustainability Awards met in Washington, D.C.
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The green effort: Petfood companies support sustainability
Staying sustainable may be a topical trend in the media or a consumer-driven marketing tool according to some, but I applaud petfood companies who go out of their way to make their production and facilities more eco-friendly. Shrinking your carbon footprint also significantly reduces costs-something even the staunchest cynic can't argue with.
Petfood manufacturers should study their processes from an environmental perspective and reduce their negative impact on the Earth.
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The manufacturing line: Sustainable packaging systems
PMMI’s “Pet Food Market Assessment 2013” describes a competitive market, where brands are striving to set themselves apart. By and large, however, petfood is generally in traditional formats—60% in multi-walled bags, for example.
Manufacturers should be exploring ways to standardize sustainability in their processing lines to save on cost, time and their carbon footprint.
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Tips to lower pig feed costs
Now is the time to examine how pig feed use is measured and managed on the farm, especially as the current higher grain prices are here to stay. The efficient use of all feed materials is the most important topic of modern pig farm management.
Out of 678 farms in the Netherlands recorded in 2011, no fewer than 164 succeeded in weaning 30 or more piglets per sow per year.
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Tecaliman: working to stop cross-contamination in animal feed
Assessing the level of carryover in a feed production line has been an ongoing challenge for the feed industry, as feed producers have needed a reliable and reproducible method for measuring carryover. Recently, the French feed research center Tecaliman developed such a method, which has been recognized as efficient and has been adopted by European official agencies.
Fabrice Putier, director of Tecaliman. Putier has been very active in Tecaliman’s cross- contamination work.
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Technology update: advances in dry petfood production
Manufacturing the best-quality dry petfoods for dogs and cats not only relies on a nutritionally sound formula, a solid marketing campaign and eye-catching packaging, but it must be produced in a cost-efficient, time-saving and sanitary way. That's why choosing the right extrusion, drying and cooling equipment is so vital.
Baker-Rullman offers rotary dryer systems featuring the company's triple-pass technology. The mobile rotary dryer system can be mounted on a standard 53-foot trailer to accommodate transportation and ease of setup.
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Pig producers monitoring energy usage to save on fuel costs
With fuel prices in danger of rising as rapidly as animal feed costs, pig producers are advised to evaluate energy usage and reduce inputs wherever possible.Before this can be done, pig producers must monitor their systems carefully to discover how much energy they are using, where they are using it and in what form – electricity, oil, gas, lighting, heat or cooling.
Real-time monitoring is essential to ensure ventilation systems are working effectively and using minimum energy.
Additive Technologies
Target: sustainable petfood processing
Petfood companies from giants like Mars Petcare US and Nestlé Purina PetCare to specialists like Canidae Pet Food and Natura Pet Products have been opening or retrofitting exciting eco-friendly facilities to great fanfare over the past few years. But executives from these and other manufacturers would say that making petfood more sustainable usually starts with the basics, including energy-intensive processing.
The amount of energy consumed by a typical extrusion operation makes it an obvious target for reduction.
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Ten innovative petfood packaging products for 2011
The latest petfood packaging materials, machinery and equipment from iPhone apps to baggers, bio-resins and biodegradable paper.
Packaging innovation can be as simple as a new opening or closure for packaging and as advanced as a new way to process sensitive packaging materials, paper and resin.
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Sustainable petfood packaging: much more than a trend
By now, sustainablity should be somewhere near the top of your list of important priorities for your petfood brand. Not only do consumers look for "green" aspects of products on the shelf like ingreident sourcing, environmentally-friendly manufacturing processes and recycled packaging materials, but a ssutainable plan for your company means savings for you. Though some "greening" campaigns may be nothing more than a trend in an adapting market, sustainable packaging isn't going anywhere but everywhere, and fast.
Though some 'greening' campaigns may be nothing more than a trend in an adapting market, sustainable packaging isn't going anywhere but everywhere, and fast.
Animal Feed Manufacturing
Piglet nutrition: New targets for amino acids
Feeding the young pig both adequately and economically has never been an easy task, but the manufacturer of piglet diets is now being asked to take further factors into consideration
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Piglet nutrition: New targets for amino acids
Feeding the young pig both adequately and economically has never been an easy task, but the manufacturer of piglet diets is now being asked to take further factors into consideration
Standardised ileal digestible amino acid values at various piglet weights and levels of dietary metabolisable energy.
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