The 3rd GRAPAS Conference, held in Bangkok during the Victam Exhibition in April earlier this year attracted up to 130 delegates, many of whom are flour and rice milers, during the course of the day and over the three sessions.

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ASIA CONFERENCE
3rd GRAPAS Asia Conference
- Millers learn of farm, fortification
and fish issues
The 3rd GRAPAS Conference, held
in Bangkok during the Victam
Exhibition in April earlier this year
attracted up to 130 delegates, many of
whom are flour and rice milers, during
the course of the day and over the three
sessions.
Hosted particularly for non-feed millers,
and supported by several key company
sponsors, the one-day event presented a
broad range of engaging presentations that
were both informative and educational.
We report on four presentations that
were generic in nature and highlighted some
of the issues the milling industry is dealing
with.
Right from the opening presentation
delivered by Nipond Wongtra-ngan of the
Thai Rice Millers Association on the need
for ‘World Rice Reform’, the conference
heard about the difficulties faced by the Thai
rice farmer due to the sector’s farm support
scheme that had failed to deliver prices
promised for higher yields.
In fact, farmer-backed demonstrations
were ongoing in Bangkok with road block-ages
around the country, to highlight and
express concern over the failure of the
government’s support scheme as the confer-ence
was being held.
Since May, large volumes of stored rice,
too over-priced for the market to take up,
have deteriorated to a point where the
government is now undertaking a program
to process the poorest quality into ethanol.
Back at the conference Dr Laddawan
Kunoot, the former assistant director of the
Rice Department and the director of the
Bureau of Rice Products Development for
the Ministry of Agriculture, (now working
in the private sector), drew attention to the
plight of farmers and outlined the need to
reform rice production and marketing sup-port
mechanisms in order to deliver better
returns to farmers for this basic of foodstuff.
To highlight ways rice farmers could gen-erate
better incomes, the conference heard
Dr Laddawan’s views of the potential of
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producing more organic rice for consumers
who would be prepared to pay more for a
healthier product.
Her approach was to offer the benefits
of ‘brown rice,’ which carried more nutrition
to the consumer than the highly polished
white rice, as a possible solution. She and
her team had identified marketing and brand
short-comings which meant the more nutri-tious
brown rice was not easily identifiable
through its packaging for the consumer to
make informed choices. Price differences
alone often lead consumers choosing the
less nutritious product.
“Organic farmers can make more income
from their rice than traditional rice farmers,”
she says. “And there is more income to
be made from every part of the rice plant
produced.”
She talked of zero waste and also how
farmers could add additional farming options
to their operations by incorporating fish,
fruit, vegetable and even poultry production
onto their farms.
Her organisation’s approach is to encour-age
improved farm management to reduce
the heavy dependency on inputs such as
chemicals and fertilisers and to use more
organic substances in growing rice. She also
talked about the importance of improved
food safety and identified the link between
the farm and the miller as the most critical in
delivering a quality product to the consumer
both in Thailand and abroad.
The adoption of Good Agricultural
Practices and certification of farming and
processing practices would help achieve
greater food safety and provide greater
confidence to consumers who would be
prepared to pay more.
However, she did point out that organic
rice production in Thailand was below one
percent of Thailand’s paddy rice of 38.8 mil-lion
tonnes of production this year – slightly
above last years output with an expected
nine million tonnes going for export (which
would be up by a massive 34
percent over 2013 - source
USDA).
In recent months following
the conference, Thailand’s rice
farmers have been offered soft
loans and cultivation subsidies to
assist them through this year’s
harvest period.
Fortification
Another non-commercial
presentation came from Judith
Smit, the rice fortification
manager at the World Food
Programme who told our con-ference
that rice fortification is
an underutilized intervention
that should be used to address
micronutrient deficiencies. The
objective is to increase levels of
essential micronutrients and to
restore levels of micronutrients
lost during processing by adding
minerals and vitamins to the rice
post-harvest.
Vitamins and mineral deficien-cies
are one of the main causes
of poor health and disability, par-ticularly
in children in developing
countries and impact over two
billion people worldwide.
She told delegates that
there is a strong business case
to address these micronutrient
deficiencies and that fortification
of staple foods was a proven,
cost-effective and sustainable
intervention to increase uptake
in the general population.
“As the staple food for
three billion people, rice has the
potential to fill a clear gap in the
current fortification landscape,”
she said.
Fish and rice
The final speaker of the day
was the general manager of
the International Association
of Seafood Professionals, Roy
Palmer, who explained that
while fishing and fish eating
went back further than rice
production and consumption,
in terms of a staple food source
for humans, today aquaculture
was the fastest growing sec-tor
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that produces protein for
human consumption.
“Eating fish goes back as far
as man can recollect and has
been traded over many thou-sands
of years as cured, smoked
and preserved. However, today consumers
are given incorrect information over many
years and do not know whether or not they
trust retails or the industry that supplies
them.”
He told millers that greater efficiencies in
feeding fish was needed and that millers had
a role to play. He also drew comparisons
According to the FAO, the loss is caused by the following:
 80% due to insects
 10% due to rodents and birds
 10 % due to fungi
between the rice and flour milling sectors
and the development of fish farming.
He said that a developed infrastructure
drives innovation and that both rice milling
and fish feeding required better infrastruc-tures
in order to bring about innovative
developments that would drive production,
food safety and value for money.
sive as the temperature and moisture increase. The consequences
of heating are loss of substance and increased risk of insects and
mildew. A grain cooler avoids the disadvantages of the post-harvest
period of the grain. In cellular respiration, oxygen is absorbed and
carbohydrates are then converted into carbon dioxide, water and
heat. The result is a loss of substance. The grain respiration molecular
formula of the chemical process:
Animals in the storage facility
According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations (FAO), approximately 15 percent of harvest crops
spoil worldwide.
Insects and mites
Various types of insects are encountered in a grain storage facility.
All have in common that their activity depends on the temperature.
Figure 6, shows some species of the most common insects in humid
tropical areas and their optimal life and development conditions.
If insects find optimal temperature and humidity conditions, losses
will occur due to feeding and excrement. Insects and mites multiply
explosively under favorable conditions. At locations where the
insects attack, the respiration of the grain increases and hot spots
develop. In addition, there is the metabolic activity of the pests
themselves, which further promotes heat and humidity. This creates
more favorable conditions for mold and, at very high levels of humid-ity,
even bacterial growth. Losses through insects can be effectively
prevented by cooling the harvested crop to temperatures below 15
°C, at which insects become inactive.
Fungi mycotoxin
Microorganisms such as
fungi and bacteria adhere to
the surface of the grain ker-nel.
The development of fungi
depends on the temperature,
humidity and the grain’s mois-ture
content (Fig. 7). This
development is prevented in
the storage facility by drying
and GRANIFRIGOR™ grain
cooling. Mycotoxins can be
formed by fungi. Mycotoxins
Figure 4: Empirical values for energy consumption for one
cooling process of grain in the tropics
Cooling (K) 20(eg. From 35°C to 15°C)
Region Asia
Climate Zone Tropics
Electricity consumption in (KWh/t) 6-12
Figure 5: Shows the grain heat generation depends on the grain’s temperature and moisture
content. In practice, this can be used to determine the substance loss of the stored grain.

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GFMT magazine once again
sponsored the GRAPAS
Awards for innovation in the
cereal milling industries at the 3rd
GRAPAS Conference Asia 2014 in
Bangkok, Thailand in May.
An interesting selection of prod-ucts
were submitted for judging in
this year’s competition for innovative
developments in milling technology.
“Although each of the products
offered for judging provide benefits
and advantages to one or more milling
processes, most of the entries are the
result of evolutionary improvements
and are not in themselves truly revo-lutionary,”
said the panel of judges this
year.
“In judging we have given weight
to the criteria identified in the entry
categories, in particular the benefits to
the user in terms of safety, cost effec-tiveness
and efficiency,” they add.
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The 2014 winner
The winner this year was ‘hazarmon.com’ pro-duced
by 4B Braime Elevator Components.
This is an evolutionary product that
uses the internet and digital technology to
minimise dust explosions.
“A dust explosion remains one of the
most hazardous risks in the milling and related
grain handling industries. Dust explosions
have been the cause of more injuries and
fatalities than any other cause and thus their
prevention is of paramount importance for
safe and efficient operation of a plant handling
grain or powdered material,” say the judges.
The Hazarmon system takes real time
condition monitoring of equipment faults,
including those which can be a source of
dust explosion ignition, to a new level and
promises to lead to higher standards of safety
and efficiency. The use of ‘cloud’ technology
to store data, provide back-up and ensure off
site security of use is a major advance.
Naming this product the winner they
also granted it ‘highly commended’ status.
Runner-up
Also highly commended was the
Combistoner produced by Buhler
AG of Uzwill, Switzerland.
The cleaning of grain prior to
milling or other food use is a vitally
important function in the grain
processing industries to meet ever
higher standards and certification of
food purity.
The Combistoner takes well
proven concepts to a new level
by providing equipment for higher
(28tonne/hour) and thus more cost
effective, capacities.
The recycled air option reduces
the need for filtration with conse-quent
further savings in energy as
well as providing reduced operating
and capital cost.
Third place
In third place was the Super SHG
Hydrascrew by Morillon SAS of
France and given a ‘commendation’
by the judges.
“This product meets the need for
a means to discharge bulk materials
with poor flow characteristics. These
materials are frequently encountered
in the milling and particularly animal
feed milling, industries.
“The large size of this new
Hydrascrew model suits the trend
towards bin dimensions of ever
greater capacity to provide econo-mies
of scale,” they add.
The hydraulic drive is an unu-sual
and attractive feature since
it is intrinsically safe in a dusty
environment and can provide a high
starting torque which is desirable in
this application.
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by Tom Blacker, from a visit to
Cereals UK
The UK’s Home Grown Cereals Authority
gave an exclusive presentation to
Grain and Feed Milling Technology
about its new steps in the world of
animal feed. Usually researching and
providing essential services in the wheat
and cereals areas, animal feed is a
new sector it is entering into. GFMT’s
Tom Blacker spoke exclusively to Dr
Jos Houdijk, Reader in Animal Nutrition
and Health at Scotland’s Rural College,
about this development.
Processing grain in a feedmill requires
a lot of quantity. Companies such as
Cargill would tell us to come back with
an amount as large as 500 tonnes to process
as a minimum, the man from HGCA told me.
He found a small pilot plant in France,
working with quantities between 100 to 300kg.
“We packed up 12 batches of variety spe-cific
whole seed grains on a ship to Paris and
Bordeaux and they will be processed and sent
back to us,” says Dr Jos Houdijk, Reader in Animal
Nutrition and Health at Scotland’s Rural College.
“We are now in the process of charac-terising
their chemistry and putting them
through [feeding] chickens and pigs for the
research work.
“In the end, what we are trying to achieve
is to say to levy payers that different varieties
of rapeseeds may have a different feeding
value when it comes to the effect on a pig
or chicken.
“It is going to be a long process to
improve the varieties and improve the nutri-tional
qualities, even from a mix of varieties.
Nevertheless, if for arguments sake we sup-pose
that the range of varieties are split by
half: a good side and a bad side, and if the
bad ones can be phased out, quicker than
the good ones, then by definition, it should
go up in quality: this is what we are trying to
achieve,” he added.
HGCA hopes to get the first results out
in the open by the end of 2014.
It will not be in time for drilling seeds
this year but hopefully for next year’s drill-ing.
Growth trials will follow when HGCA
understands the effect of grain variety on
digestible energy and standardized ileal
digestible amino acid levels.
Grower pigs may expect 7.5 percent of
their feed to be formed by these varieties
and older pigs at 10 to 12 percent.
In poultry, the level will be at about five
percent.
This new type of formulation will mean
HGCA can go higher in information and
advice on using rapeseed for two reasons:
first, the information it does have is 10 to
15 years old, the new information will mean
that feed formulations can go higher in the
amounts of these varieties used; second, a
country like Canada is using much higher
levels of rapeseed meals with pigs without
any side effects in production.
Therefore, the potential must be there
for the UK, HGCA extrapolates.
“In Canada they use more current data
than us, in feed formulations based on stand-ardised
ileal digestible amino acids and net
energy levels. Here, we use that on values from
books that do not tell us information about
these varieties, which are the differences.”
The effects on the animals should hope-fully
be better digestibility of proteins from
one variety compared to another. If we know
the digestibility of protein and other minor
assets in the protein it’s better. We can then
recommend using that variety in feed formu-lations.
This also means using lower amounts
of the other varieties in the feed matrix when
comparing varieties with soy, he says.
Benefits will include the feed industry
being more actively able to accordingly
formulate diets to requirements.
“We can make better use of the differ-ences
between varieties. In the past, it was
not possible.
“We will have a lot of data at the end of
this year that will hopefully be published in
papers and on the HGCA website,” he says.
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Grain and Feed Milling Technology is
Global Milling Conference with grapas 2015
Koln, Germany - June 9, 2015
GRAPAS Conference 2015 is
joining with The Global Milling
Conference to host a significant
milling conference for millers in Koln,
Germany on June 9, 2015.
The one-day event will be co-located
with the FIAAP conference and held during
the GRAPAS, FIAAP and Victam Exhibitions.
The Koln Messe Exhibition halls will be called
‘Global Milling Conference with GRAPAS
2015’.
“Combining the two milling conferences
at a Europe venue will allow us to offer a
program that is more encompassing and will
draw on the experiences of an established
milling conference from the Asia sub-conti-nent
that has been developed by GFMT and
CONFERENCE
Assocom India,” says Roger Gilbert, patron
and co-organiser of the event.
“We plan to attract wheat, rice and cereals
millers to this one-day conference by providing
a platform of speakers who you might not nor-mally
find presenting at conferences; experts
in their fields who have a unique insight into
developments around flour, rice and cereal
milling regionally and globally,” he adds.
pleased to be working with nabim
to revive our regular ‘training’
features (which forms the basis of today’s
nabim correspondence courses) which
first appeared in the magazine over 50
years ago and proved extremely popular
throughout the 1960s in the UK milling
industry.
After receiving feedback from our sub-scribers,
and looking at the development
in flour, rice and cereals milling around the
world, the consensus was that the timely
revival of a regular, introductory training
feature each issue would provide both a
platform for the exchange of knowledge and
would be of real practical use in the milling
environment.
In turn, the overarching aim at Grain
and Feed Milling Technology magazine is to
highlight to students the presence of nabim,
a world leading organisation in the training
and certification of mill operatives.
As an organisation, nabim has three
principle functions; to promote the flour
milling industry’s views to the government,
parliamentarians, regulators, the media and
other interested bodies within the UK indus-try;
to improve the understanding of the
operational requirements of the flour mill-ing
sector and to provide information and
advice to its members on a wide range of
subjects affecting flour milling.
Founded in 1878, nabim remains com-mitted
to the development of people
within the flour and milling industry, both
within the UK and around the world. The
organisation remains dedicated to
providing the most up-to-date educa-tion
and training packages. The flour
milling industry is a highly skilled and
challenging industry, with training
and education playing a vital role for
employee development.
Nigel Bennett, secretary of
nabim holds the provision of train-ing
as being pertinent to nabim’s
‘aims and objectives’ describ-ing
their distance-learning pro-gramme
as “the bedrock of mill-ing
training.”
nabim have been at the
forefront of such training for a
century or more. Vital to their
success is a programme that is
‘developed by millers, delivered
by millers, for millers’. GFMT
supports and promotes these
objectives.
nabim’s training pro-gramme
is comprised of
benefit GFMT plans to bring to millers, is a
introductory step to greater awareness of
the importance of continuing education and
training within the milling industry globally.
We have very much enjoyed going back
through our archives in order to take a look
at the correspondence courses. Grain and
Feed Milling Technology looks forward to
bringing together a feature from the past for
the present day reader as part of its cover-age
of this important topic.
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For millers to leave their mills and travel
to Koln, Germany, for a one-day conference
and a three-day exhibition, places demands
on the program, says Mr Gilbert.
“The program has to be presented as
one that millers cannot afford to miss.
Therefore the calibre of speaker and presen-tation
subject are paramount,” he says.
To offset the cost of engaging speakers,
the conference will introduce for the first
time, a registration fee of €75/person for the
full day, or €30 per session. Coffee will be
included between sessions. Those opting for
all three sessions will be offered lunch.
Outline
The one-day conference will take
place from 09:30 on June 9, 2015 in a
conference room alongside Victam. It will
be broken into three two-hour themed
sessions with a coffee and lunch break
in-between. The whole event will be held
in English.
A registration fee of €75/
person will be charged for the
full day. However, delegates can
attend by session for €30/each.
Registration will be online with
delegates registering up until the
day of the conference.
“We are aiming to offer this
one-off conference to 75-100 delegates
only. Space will be limited,” says Mr Gilbert.
The programme will be made up of
three separate sessions which delegates
can dip into and out of, or opt to attend all.
We will favour those who elect to attend
the whole programme in allocating space,”
he adds.
The full programme can be viewed as
it develops and delegates can register to
attend via this link: www.gfmt.co.uk/gra-pas2015.
Session 2: Nutrition
1 Diet – Gluten free?
2) Foodstuffs – A drinking yoghurt
from wheat
3) Fibre – Challenges for human
consumption
4) Flour & Rice Fortification –
Millers fighting malnutrition
Session 3: Markets
1) Harvest reports - Soft and hard
wheat supply & demand
2) The Roller Mill Revolution
3) China – Wheat and cereal
product development in China
4) Dealing with customer
complaints
5) Milling 24/7 – A miller’s
experience
Session 1: Food Safety
1) Regulations – Working toward
great food safety
2) One international standard for
flour & wheat grading
3) Heat treatments
4) Training – The benefits from
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