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International Milling Directory touches down in IDMA

Ataturk International Airport: the Istanbul Expo Center, which hosts IDMA 2013, is next door

Ataturk International Airport: the Istanbul Expo Center is next door (credit: Ercan Karakas, Wikimedia Commons)

The International Milling Directory (IMD) has set up camp in Istanbul, Turkey for the 5th International Flour, Semolina, Rice, Corn, Bulghur, Feed Milling Machinery & Pulse, Pasta, Biscuit Technologies Exhibition (or IDMA 2013 for short).

Representatives from all over the milling industry have gathered with thousands of agriculture professionals to make this one of the highlights of 2013′s milling calendar. The IMD, together with sister publication Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazine, will be presenting its wares to industry representatives from 120 countries for the full four days of the show.

If you’re at IDMA, or soon will be, Directory co-ordinator Tom Blacker will be ready to provide information and answer your questions. Why not visit him at the Perendale booth (hall 11, stand A-19)?

Enewsletter column: March 2013

The International Milling Directory (IMD) has had a rather a lot of attention recently. We made waves in Louisville with a successful event. Regular and new members were drawn towards our hundreds of copies of the IMD – the 6 boxes we shipped over were snapped up within 2 days, leaving latecomers on the final day with not a lot of availability!

VIV Asia took place in Bangkok in early March. A great honour of the opening reception was a mention for International Milling Directories’ owner and publisher Perendale and Roger Gilbert was a boon for us all back in the office. When we found out the feedback and invitation to chair more CropTech-FeedTech conferences at more VIV events around the world was relayed back, we were all proud of this opportunity in thought leadership. The next event in this series Roger is attending will be in the Netherlands.

The next event draws closer all the time and our build up, tools and ambitions for IDMA in Turkey are very high. This is a bi-annual event in Istanbul will take place over four days and we decided to ship 10 boxes of the IMD to this exciting event. Our large presence will be part of marketing the IMD to returning and new Turkish members and they will be able to see and ask for information about participation in the new edition. On that topic, we are expecting to redesign and improve the functionality of the IMD this year which makes it the leading publication in handbooks for the international milling community.

New companies in the IMD this month: Kay International (India), Aciklar Un Sanayi (Turkey), Jiangsu Myande Food Machinery Co. Ltd. (China) and Dan Corn (Denmark).

I hope that renewal or registration of your company is something you are thinking about. It can be done very quickly and simply at www.internationalmilling.com.

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IMD welcomes back its GEAPSers

Braving the snowy weather on the east coast, the International Milling Directory team has returned from its travels having made a big impression Stateside.

IMD co-ordinator Tom Blacker is not willing to go as far as to compare the trip’s success to The Beatles’s first American tour, but with hundreds of directories distributed and solid feedback from GEAPS exhibitors, he’s confident that next year’s edition will be the best one yet.

Tom was knocked for six by the number of IMD customers repeating their orders for listings and increasing their advertising prominence in the print and online editions. Have you got in touch with us about IMD 2013/4 yet? Visit our website now to update your listing, or register your company today!

IMD and the rest of the global milling industry have left GEAPS's 2013 Exchange behind

IMD and the rest of the global milling industry have left GEAPS’s 2013 Exchange behind

GEAPS is over for another year

GEAPS members gathered at Louisville's Expo Hall for the Annual Meeting and General Session

GEAPS members gathered for the Annual Meeting and General Session

International Milling Directory representatives are heading back across the Atlantic Ocean after the GEAPS Exchange 2013 ended on Tuesday. Exhibitors are catching planes and displays are being torn down.

Some GEAPS exhibitions were truly extraordinary

Some GEAPS exhibitions were truly extraordinary

The last day saw the usual mix of educational sessions and time for exhibition attendees to visit the stands and catch up with each other, and the late afternoon was given over to GEAPS’s Annual Meeting.

The 84th annual technical expo has been a success, with 2,372 visitors and a record-breaking number of exhibitors. We’re expecting our own delegates to be back any minute now, so watch this space for our own IMD co-ordinator Tom Blacker’s opinions of the show, its attractions and its attendees.

IMD enters GEAPS’s final day

The GEAPS expo in Louisville, Kentucky attracts grain technology people from all over the world

The GEAPS expo attracts grain technology people from all over the world

Representatives from the International Milling Directory have been literally rushed off their feet in the last few days, covering every square inch of the Expo Hall at Louisville, Kentucky. From what this blogger (like Miss Moneypenny, still in rainy old England) can tell, IMD Co-ordinator Tom Blacker has made it his mission to meet personally all 2,800 visitors to GEAPS, and make his sales pitch to each of its 600 booths.

At GEAPS today? Have a rep in your company who is? Ask them to get down to Booth L6 (it’s near the entrance) and talk to Tom or Roger Gilbert (our proprietor) about the IMD. There’ll be copies of this year’s directory to browse through on-stand. Enlist your company in the 22nd International Milling Directory for as little as $20!

At 2013's GEAPS Expo, the engineers of tomorrow are giving the engineers of today the usual courtesies

The engineers of tomorrow giving today’s engineers the usual courtesies

Introducing WAM Engineering UK

WAM Engineering UK is the International Milling Directory‘s newest listing. Since 1987, WAM UK has been responsible for distributing and servicing WAM Group products to the United Kingdom and Ireland from its base in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.

WAM began in Italy in 1969, and from its one-man workshop manufacturing screw conveyors, it’s grown into a world leader and key innovator in bulk material handling. The WAM Group prides itself on its commitment to research and development. WAM’s own laboratory, one of the largest in Italy for powder and grain research, was founded in 1987 and closely cooperates with institutes and universities to drive innovation in milling technology. Naturally, this also drives its always-expanding product range.

WAM UK's office, warehouse and workshop in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

WAM UK’s office, warehouse and workshop in Tewkesbury

Cereals 2013 offers arable opportunities

The International Milling Directory (IMD) is happy to say that it will be at Cereals 2013, the UK’s leading show for agricultural technology.

 

The International Milling Directory's publisher Perendale Publishers was present at Cereals 2012

IMD’s publisher Perendale was present at Cereals 2012

On 12th-13th June 26,000 visitors and 490 exhibitors will descend on Boothby Graffoe, near Lincoln, for business-to-business (b2b) opportunities, crop plots and live demonstrations, including ones in the natural habitat of the Syngenta Sprays and Sprayers Arena. With over 64 hectares of stands, visitors are sure to get a comprehensive rundown of the arable industry.

Hot topics on this year’s agenda include recovering from the awful weather hitting the UK in the last few months, driving business efficiencies and adapting to the challenges of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform.

Charles Blessley, Case IH‘s UK and Ireland marketing manager, expects it to be a good exhibition for machinery manufacturers.

“Cereals attracts progressive large-scale farmers and operators, so it provides the ideal venue to showcase our range of technically advanced machinery. Since last year’s event we have introduced a number of exciting new products which will be on display at Cereals 2013.”

Marketing manager at New Holland, Richard Spencer, believes Cereals 2013 is an “ideal platform” to discuss business with customers.

“The event attracts the key decision-makers in the arable sector. Cereals offers a great opportunity for visitors to talk through the options, and our technical staff look forward to showing what we can offer.”

MPE Chicago’s grinding technology is a blend of innovation and precision

The International Milling Directory (IMD) is always interested in its clients’ technology. Modern Process Equipment has over fifty years of experience in precision coffee grinding, and its machinery is industry-leading.

As anyone who’s brewed a cup of coffee can tell you, flavour extraction is a tricky art to get right.

Brewing with capsules, pods and pads has become a significant business in recent years, and with this change in delivery comes a change in grinding. A traditional brew takes four minutes for flavour to be extracted from the coffee particles. With a coffee pod it takes 20 seconds.

To extract flavour this quickly requires incredible precision in manufacturing. Too coarse, the particles are too large and 20 seconds will produce a weak, tea-like brew. Too fine and you get the opposite problem, a bitter and unpleasant taste.

Grinding these beans is like walking a tightrope: the key to success is in balance and control. Walking in a straight line is not particularly difficult, but doing so on a rope 40 feet off the ground needs all a specialist’s skill and precision. MPE grinders provide the proper balance between coarse and fine coffee particles, while achieving the right density for the perfect single cup brew.

With the MPE family of capsule grinders, users can actively monitor and adjust roll position, temperature, density and output rate, all in real time. The superior technology of MPE grinders provides the precision needed to walk the tightrope, every morning.

Modern Process Equipment Chicago's range of coffee grinding machinery for capsules, pods and pads

MPE Chicago’s range of capsule coffee grinding machinery

 

About MPE: Modern Process Equipment Corporation (MPE) is the world’s leading manufacturer of precision particle reduction equipment. MPE has been supplying its customers with superior particle size reduction solutions for over fifty years, earning the reputation as the place to go to improve product yields and reduce the generation of unwanted fines. MPE aspires to design and manufacture the most modern, innovative and highest quality equipment with the most responsive, practical and timely service possible. For more information about MPE’s complete line of equipment, contact Modern Process Equipment Corporation at 3125 South Kolin Avenue, Chicago, IL 60623, call 773-254-3929 or visit www.mpechicago.com

Covering IPPE for the International Milling Directory

It is in fair Atlanta where we lay our scene today…Day 1 of the International Poultry and Processing Exhibition (IPPE) is here!

Day 1 is here– visit the International Milling Directory (IMD) at stand 1700 in Hall A2!

IPPE, Atlanta, GA, USA

IPPE 2013

Do visit Perendale Publishers for the up-to-date information and contact details for 2013/14 IMD media kits today:- stand 1700 in Hall A2.

Here in the UK office, we are enjoying the recent photos shared from AgWired:

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Introducing Parantez

We welcome a recent addition to the International Milling Directory – Parantez. The International Milling Directory has been aiming to re-register this company for the new edition and we are glad to broaden the relationship between us and the IDMA show in Turkey. The International Milling Directory does feature IDMA in the inside front cover of the 2012/13 edition. If this is a reminder, we hope to see you at IDMA, Instanbul Expo Center on 4-7 April 2013! Some background information is written below.

The exhibition Company PARANTEZ, founded in 2000 in Turkey, is committed to providing professional services in the sector of exhibitions, conferences, publishing and tourism.

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IDMA

In order to announce the latest developments and changes in the milling sector, The Parantez Group developed an exposition project, held their first meeting in 2005 “International Flour, Semolina, Rice, Corn, Bulghur, Feed Milling Machinery & Pulse, Pasta, Biscuit Technologies Exhibition” in Istanbul.

Today the exhibition is well-known as IDMA and is one of the most important platform for location of meetings, negotiations, exchange of opinions and suggestions of the best representatives of the sector. Participation in the exhibition allows to establish new business contacts, get information about the market and new technologies, to explore business competitors, to provide new products and develop a pricing policy.

The company constantly improves the quality of services and efficiency of the organization, makes every effort to attract more association members and partners. The company always strives to apply best practices and methods of the world.

Find the new Parantez fair listing online at: http://www.internationalmilling.com/company_3371.html.