Animal nutrition and feed additives company Biomin has launched its latest mycotoxin risk management solution Mycofix Plus 5.Z with Zenzyme in selected markets in the Asia-Pacific region. This all-in-one feed additive is a purified enzyme that can degrade zearalenone into non-toxic and estrogen-free metabolites. It was launched after the Fumzyme product was launched a few years ago. That is an enzyme that degrades fumonisins.

Animal nutrition company Royal De Heus has completed the acquisition of Polish compound feed company Golpasz. The annual sales of Golpasz compound feed is close to 500,000 tons, and it can provide a full range of compound feed for a variety of animal categories. The company has 4 modern production bases and 12 workshops.

Barentz International expanded its business in Central and Eastern Europe by acquiring a majority stake in Noack Group. Headquartered in Vienna, Noack is a professional distributor of raw materials for the animal nutrition and feed industries. It also provides a wide range of agricultural products and veterinary diagnostic test systems and instruments for the food and veterinary industries.

The recent acquisition of Maroon Group Barentz, in turn, acquired The Cary Company's raw material and specialty chemical distribution business.

Spanish feed additives company Adiveter has expanded the availability of Salmocid-F to the Southeast Asian market. The product is a mixture of formaldehyde and organic acids, used to control pathogens in feed, and comes in liquid and powder forms.

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, trace mineral company Zinpro decided it was time to adopt a new look and feel. In a press release, the company talked about "a bolder, performance-oriented focus on the future." The company was founded in 1971 and is headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA.

Nutrition Technologies opened the first industrial-scale insect protein factory in Johor, Malaysia. The plant was put into operation in December 2020 and is expanding its production scale. After full operation, the new plant will produce 16,000 tons of insect products each year. By providing fishmeal substitutes, 80,000 tons of waste will be transferred from the landfill each year.

Nutreco announced the launch of its 5-year sustainability strategy roadmap 2025, which includes efforts to reduce antimicrobial resistance and overall reduction of the company's carbon footprint. In addition, it includes broader corporate citizenship goals, including promoting diversity by ensuring that a quarter of leadership positions are held by women.

ABN is part of AB Agri, a British pig and poultry compound animal feed manufacturer, and it intends to build an animal feed factory in the east of England as part of an ongoing investment plan. The company currently operates 11 factories. The new plant will have the capacity to produce 1 million tons of pig and poultry feed per year.

Menon, an American animal feed technology company, shared the results of pig breeding experiments conducted by the American Pig Contract Research Organization. It was found that its functional feed ingredient, MrFeed, can reduce mortality, return to the "healthy" category faster when sick, and the animal's white blood and red blood cell counts are higher, indicating an enhanced immune function. To the company.

German pig farmer Weda also used his knowledge and expertise to build insect larva production plants in Germany and abroad. The main application is the professional knowledge related to the automated liquid feeding system for pig production. Heishui Fly is an insect species that has been successfully reared in the Weda system.

Zoetis, an animal health company, has joined the Sustainability Alliance, focusing on improving the transparency and sustainability of the supply chain of U.S. pork producers. The company will speak out in developing protein-related key performance indicators for TSC's paper index. The Sustainable Development Alliance (TSC) is a global non-profit organization dedicated to transforming the consumer goods industry to provide more sustainable consumer products.

Increxxa is the newest member of Elanco's swine respiratory disease product portfolio and has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States for use by pig producers and veterinarians. Turamycin injection has three specifications: 100ml, 250ml and 500ml.

On March 20, Canadian pig breeding company Genesus shipped a batch of registered purebred Yorkshire, Landrace and Duroc pigs from the United States to China. Zhengbang Group’s cargo is from Chicago O’Hare International Airport to Chengdu in Sichuan Province. The breeder has nuclei in Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States, and is registered for supply in China.

Breeding company Topigs Norsvin has added options for raw yields in its breeding programs for all major sows and end lines, which makes it possible to increase carcass value by selecting the most valuable original breeds with higher yields. CT scan of young boars. These images construct a representation of the original composition of the live boar.

Danish Genetics is developing a genome evaluation platform for the calculation of conventional breeding indexes across breeding programs, the Danish Genetics Evaluation System (DGENES). The company is working with AbacusBio and the Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Center of Aarhus University to carry out this work. The system combines millions of data points from farm records with genomic data in genomic BLUP to generate a breeding index.

Russian customers can now obtain high-index PIC Danish line animals directly from Russia without having to wait for imports from Denmark. These animals come from the Lipetsk region of Russia, where the breeding program has been rapidly improved. This is the result of a strategic partnership between Otrada and PIC in 2020.

Inno, a subsidiary of Big Dutchman, recently installed an air scrubber on its first customer's farm in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, which has sows, piglets, and fattening pigs, as well as a manure processing center. The farm ordered 11 Porcus biological air scrubbers and a CompoTower air scrubber "designed" for Big Dutchman CompoTower, but in this case connected to Chubu Ecotech. All equipment is installed by Fuji Kasei.

Roxell, a Belgian-based livestock equipment company, acquired Holland Heater, a company that designs and manufactures hot air heaters and fans to heat and ventilate farms and greenhouses. Holland Heater's core products include open or closed combustion heaters, gas or oil, circulating fans for livestock farms and greenhouses, and warm water heaters for livestock farms.

Roxell also introduced a closed-fire Siroc Pure space heater, Siroc Hydro water heater and an open-fire Siroc Turbo cannon, thereby expanding its range of convection heaters for poultry and pigs.

Third, Roxell has also expanded its Fidos electronic sow feeding range through Fidos delivery, and is adding smart dispensers to this feeding field.

Weltec Biopower has opened a biogas plant near Turku in southwestern Finland. The area is characterized by livestock farms, so the 250-kilowatt factory runs entirely on liquid fertilizer. The power plant belongs to 3 pig farmers. In this project, the German factory builder cooperated with its long-term Finnish partner Doranova.

The Vietnam online exhibition concept Vietstock E-Market Place will soon be transformed into a broader and more international concept. The online platform relaunched as the Asian Livestock Hub will be hosted by Malaysian Livestock 2021, Vietnam Livestock 2021 and Philippine Livestock, aiming to expand the market and a wider audience. The original Vietstock exhibition is scheduled to be held in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from October 13 to 15, 2021.

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