Category Archives: USA

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 TOTE Tank

TOTE Tank

TOTE Tank

The International Milling Directory is pleased to welcome TOTE Tank as a listed member for the first time. See their website homepage here: www.totetank.com.

Register or update your company’s listing for the International Milling Directory now!

Go to the International Milling Directory listing for TOTE Tank here: http://www.internationalmilling.com/company_3989.html

TOTE Tank hail from Fairhope, Alabama and we hope to fulfill their effort for registering. We are impressed by their website and as their International Milling Directory company synopsis states:

TOTE Tanks offers IBC’S (Intermediate Bulk Containers), Portable stainless steel TOTE tanks, Liquid Storage TOTE Tanks, IBC Chemical TOTE tanks, Food Products TOTE tanks, pharmaceutical TOTE tanks, paint products TOTE tanks, IBC liquid and many more. Why put up with the dangerous, expensive, and environmentally taboo drums and barrels? Why put up with tanks you cannot trust nor up for the job? Why trust your most important cargo to a company you can’t trust? Well, you don’t have to because you have the only name you need to know. The Original TOTE Tank

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:

http://flic.kr/s/aHsjDMq7nZ

GEAPS Exchange – Cross-posting from GFMT

Today there is a new effort at Perendale to create synergy and integration between the different publications. We are trying this by including the International Milling Directory (IMD) in Grain & Feed Milling Technology‘s (GFMT) blog and plan to increase this into a column in the magazine issues. There has been a gap in some IMD and GFMT’s members and readers being aware of the other publication and we are aiming to feature the work and good features of both as they do have such similarities; they also have different purposes and benefits to participating.

I invite you to go to the GFMT blog and read my new column focusing on my participation at GEAPS on behalf of Perendale, a media partner and exhibitor at this industry event:

Today we have a guest blog post from Tom Blacker from Perendale Publishers. Tom has taken on the challenge of coordinating the International Milling Directory (IMD) for 2013/14. Although he’s fairly new to the company, Tom has fully immersed himself in all thing IMD and the next edition is shaping up to be bigger and better than ever.

So, over to Tom…

IMD

Grain & Feed Milling Technology and the International Milling Directory (IMD) are normally separated by the different purposes and also by the building’s walls here at the Perendale offices. As it will be myself coordinating the new 2013/14 directory for publication and print later this year, it is good to welcome you in to 2013 with a renewed focus for the IMD too.  Foremost on the horizon is my first conferencing for the International Milling Directory at GEAPS Exchange in Louisville, Kentucky, USA in just over four weeks. IMD will be at the Perendale exhibition stand and will be distributing copies of the current edition to attendees and participants.The GEAPS show is for the grain handling, elevator and processing industries and is a very long running conference. I am going to be a new face but aim to be able to attract the same levels of productivity as the old hands who have been before. Many of the IMD’s member companies and organisations will be present, especially from the US market. Large and smaller companies are exhibiting and the single hall plan means all will be easy to reach.

I am personally excited about the opportunity to interact and promote the IMD as well as Grain & Feed Milling Technology to this conference. Falling in February, after IPPE, will hopefully give a refreshingly compact approach to a US conference. Around 500 stands have been booked in total for GEAPS Exchange so far. Do come and check out the IMD and myself at the Perendale Publishers’ stand next to the main hall’s entrance doors. Ivan Marquetti, Perendale Publishers’ Latin America manager, is due to join me for GEAPS Exchange so I also look forward to working together with him at this event. Don’t forget, you can access the IMD online here.

[Source http://gfmt.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/guest-blog-tom-blacker-from.html].

Special Nutrients in IPPE Atlanta 2013

The International Milling Directory is excited to be part of Perendale, media partners and exhibitors at IPPE, Atlanta on Tuesday 29 – Thursday 31 January 2013. Colleagues of ours will be present at Booth 1700 in Hall A so do meet them there.

One press release seen today online interests many of the IMD‘s member businesses – the risk of mycotoxins in animal feed:–

IPPE, Atlanta, GA, USA

IPPE 2013

Special Nutrients, Inc., produces and markets Additives for animal feeding, will attend the International Poultry Exhibition- integrated by the International Poultry Expo (IPE), International Feed Expo (IFE) and American Meat Institute’s International Meat Expo (IME), in Atlanta the week of January 28 – February 1, 2013.

Fernando Tamames III, Manuel Contreras, Eddie Ruiz de Pellón, Andy Nicolau and Douglas Zaviezo, will represent Special Nutrients, Inc. with its own booth 1423 Hall A, promoting its new mycotoxins additives: MYCOAD and MYCOAD AZ.

IPPE is the perfect opportunity for Special Nutrients, as all its distributors from all around the globe will be joining the event.  As usual, the enterprise will greet them with the Annual Special Nutrients Cocktail party on Wednesday January 30th, where they will launch their new website: www.specialnutrients.com.

[Source: Engormix 16.01.13 - <http://en.engormix.com/MA-mycotoxins/news/usa-special-nutrients-ipe-t18176/p0.htm>].

VIV Asia 2013

The International Milling Directory is proud to be a media partner of VIV Asia, Bangkok as part of the other titles from our owners Perendale Publishers Ltd. One company exhibiting products and their company’s services are ABCA. This is a mainly Chinese-based company who are launching in Asia at this conference. If you are attending VIV Asia 2013, please come to find us at the Perendale Publishers Ltd. stand: Hall 105, stand number B051. It takes place on 13-15 March at BITEC, Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre, 88 Bangna-trad Road, Bangna, Prakanong, Bangkok 10260, Thailand. A recent press release from ABCA is below.

 

ABCA logo

ABCA

Taking advantage of the upcoming VIV Asia 2013, ABCA, a division of AB Agri Ltd, the Agricultural Group of Associated British Foods
plc. (ABF), is delighted to officially announce its launch in Asia with a range of nutritional solutions for the feed and livestock industry. Visit booth K028 for a chance to win a Premier Atlas Ingredients Matrix, your essential guide to feed formulation.

As the region’s leading trade show for the Feed to Meat industry, VIV Asia with over 28,000 visitors from over 101 countries in 2011 of which more than 90% came from Asia, offers an ideal platform for ABCA to launch its yeast-based feed additives to the regional and international feed and livestock industry.

Taking advantage of well established technology within ABF’s food business divisions, ABCA works closely with AB Mauri, the world’s second largest yeast producer and Ohly, the global leader in yeast extraction technology to develop and design applications for a range of effective and innovative animal feed solutions, each produced to food quality standards across Asia and the world.

ABCA will introduce four innovative, functional products during the trade show:

  • AB MOS – Solution for gut health with high levels of MOS and β-glucan, derived from selected baker yeast strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
  • AB Zorba – Cost effective programme for mycotoxin risk management with a   combination of yeast products and aluminosilicates in a balanced ratio.
  • AB Yestex – Ensure animals have a good start with enhanced early nutrition. This is a premium yeast extract rich in highly digestible amino acids, nucleotides, vitamin B complex and other beneficial yeast cell constituents.
  • AB Tor-Sel - A new generation of high potency Selenium yeast obtained from a proprietary strain of Torula yeast produced in Australia.

Speaking about ABCA’s participation in VIV Asia 2013, Mr James Charteris-Hough, ABCA Managing Director, said, “ABCA is new to most people in Asia and while the business seeks to be recognised as a quality supplier of products and services, provided in a highly ethical way, we are not looking to become a mega marketing organisation. We hope we can build a high reputation within the industry in Asia and help deliver long-term benefits through a personable approach to business. Please drop by our booth, we would be delighted to meet people in person.”

For more information, please visit ABCA booth at #K028, Hall 106 or log on to www.abcpasia.com

VIV Asia ABCA

ABCA

Planning the International Milling Directory 2013/14

IMD 2013/14

The draft IMD 2013/14 Marketing Solutions

Hello all International Milling Directory members, users and readers of this blog.

The planning has already started for the publication of The International Milling Directory 2013/14. There are some exciting new developments and ambitions, lots of leg work, old-fashioned elbow grease and modern online platforms. We are hoping to stick to set targets in this edition to ensure our listed members have confidence and trust in this business tool. Industry products and services, equipment guides, international organisations and the A-Z of suppliers are to be updated and revised.

It is free to list your company details and up to 2 categories in the International Milling Directory and low costs thereafter. Update or add your details now at internationalmilling.com to avoid missing out!