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Market Trends and Reports
The green effort: Petfood companies support sustainability
Staying sustainable may be a topical trend in the media or a consumer-driven marketing tool according to some, but I applaud petfood companies who go out of their way to make their production and facilities more eco-friendly. Shrinking your carbon footprint also significantly reduces costs-something even the staunchest cynic can't argue with.
Petfood manufacturers should study their processes from an environmental perspective and reduce their negative impact on the Earth.
Nutrition
How to: Save energy with extrusion, drying and cooling equipment
Running an energy-efficient petfood processing line isn't just important for the environment—it's important to your company's bottom line. Alternative cooking processes like pasteurization and direct contact steam injection can help by removing pathogens and sealing in flavor at lower cooking temperatures, while sanitation-obsessed machinery and operator-friendly cooking equipment can make processes run faster and smoother.
Our list of petfood and treat extruders, dryers, coolers and cookers will help manufacturers go 'green' in energy costs and their wallets.
Additive Technologies
American Soybean Association expresses concerns over export market
The American Soybean Association submitted formal comments to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk expressing concerns over the state of both soybean export quantity and value to the EU, saying that the EU’s policies on biotech soybeans, as well as "inaccurate characterization of biodiesel by the Renewable Energy Directive," have contributed to a 70 percent drop in total soybean export quantity and a 44 percent decrease in soybean export value to the EU over the last 14 years. "America’s soybean producers have lost a significant portion of what was a viable and thriving export market," said association President Steve Wellman.
Emission Reduction
American Soybean Association expresses concerns over export market
The American Soybean Association submitted formal comments to U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk expressing concerns over the state of both soybean export quantity and value to the EU, saying that the EU’s policies on biotech soybeans, as well as "inaccurate characterization of biodiesel by the Renewable Energy Directive," have contributed to a 70 percent drop in total soybean export quantity and a 44 percent decrease in soybean export value to the EU over the last 14 years. "America’s soybean producers have lost a significant portion of what was a viable and thriving export market," said association President Steve Wellman.
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Petfood goes green
When our industry looks back at 2009, we might consider it the year of the greening of petfood, at least in the US. This year has seen the opening of several new or retrofitted US facilities-plants and office buildings, for manufacturers and suppliers-designed to be more environmentally friendly.
Survey respondents see energy conservation as a leading source of return on sustainability investment.
Pet Food News
Purina plant uses solar power
Nestlé Purina PetCare officially unveiled and dedicated the company’s new solar-panel array May 14 at the company’s petfood plant in Denver, Colorado, USA, according to an article from the Denver Business Journal.
Additive Technologies
Building on the past, positioned for the future
Feed Management talks to four leaders representing some of the top feed manufacturers in the industry today about the issues that will have the greatest influence on the future of their business.
'Maintaining customer confidence in the safety and overall integrity of our food and feed chain is the single greatest challenge facing our industry today.' Todd Hall, president, Cargill Animal Nutrition
Production
Save energy
In the petfood industry we use massive amounts of energy. With the combination of ever increasing energy costs and public and legislative pressure to reduce energy use, now is the time to increase efforts to measure and minimize energy costs.
Map out your processes before starting detailed measurements or committing money to expensive instrumentation.
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