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Extrusion short course highlights strengths of global petfood market

If you are new to the petfood industry -- or work in another function besides dry petfood production and need to learn much more on that subject -- one of the best ways by attending the annual Feeds and Petfood Extrusion Short Course at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, USA. The course, just concluding its 22nd edition, offers a nearly week-long immersion into grinding, mixing, extruding, drying, cooling and coating dry petfoods and feeds, combining classroom sessions by industry experts with live demonstrations on machines designed to do all those petfood production steps.

Petfood equipment manufacturer moves to larger India plant

Charles Ross & Son Co., a manufacturer of mixers and other petfood manufacturing equipment, relocated its Ross Process Equipment into a new plant in Pune, India. The new plant is triple the size of the previous facility, said Joe Martorana, vice president of corporate operations.

The new Ross Process Equipment plan is triple the size of its old plant.

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Safety focus: shipping and distribution of petfood products

Keywords like collaboration, cloud computing and responsiveness will dominate the petfood supply chain landscape — is your company prepared? How will you ensure that a worry-free product is always being delivered safely, efficiently and in a timely manner to consumers?

Keywords like collaboration, cloud computing and responsiveness will dominate the petfood supply chain landscape in 2012. Is your company prepared?

Novelli Group builds new petfood production plant in Italy

The Novelli Group of Italy is building a new petfood production plant with the help of consulting group Tebodin CCE. The new plant will produce 15 tons of dog and cat food per hour for the Italian and international petfood markets.

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Perten Instruments IM 9500 NIR grain analyzer

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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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Effects of rendering on meat and bone meal

This study evaluated the effect of two rendering processes applied to meat and bone meal (MBM) production, associated or not with extrusion, by measuring diet apparent total tract digestibility of dogs and cats and true digestibility of amino acids (AA) by cecectomized roosters. Four diets were evaluated: conventional and extruded MBM; high temperature and pressure (HPT; 135C, 3 bar, 20 minutes) and extruded MBM; conventional non-extruded MBM; and HPT non-extruded MBM.

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Odor reduction solutions in petfood production

"Odor reduction is important to stakeholders, which includes people living in the community near your plant," said Tjitze Smit of GrainTec A/S in his 2011 Petfood Forum Europe presentation, "Energy Recovery and Odor Reduction in Petfood Production." An angry mob of townspeople showing up at your facility's door, complaining about how your business stinks, is no way to foster community spirit, much less garner popularity with local consumers.

Finding a smell-solution for your petfood or treat production plant is nothing to turn your nose up at! Dudarev Mikhail, Shutterstock.com

VICTAM, FIAAP Asia to show new petfood equipment in February 2012

Two tradeshows for the petfood industry, FIAAP Asia 2012 and VICTAM Asia 2012, will both be held at the BITEC in Bangkok, Thailand, from February 15-17, 2012. During FIAAP, companies from around the world will display the latest innovations for specialist ingredients and additives used in the formulation and preparation petfoods, aquafeeds and animal feed.

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Rollstock RC-300 rotary chamber machine

Texas A&M to host petfood extrusion short course

A Practical Short Course on Feeds and PetFood Extrusion will be presented January 29 through February 3, 2012, at Texas A&M University by staff, petfood industry representatives and consultants. The program will cover designing new feed mills and selecting conveying, drying, grinding, conditioning and feed mixing equipment.

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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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