NEWS 14 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2022 A consortium of Dutch poultry chain players is joining forces in a public-private partnership regarding insects as a source of protein in poultry diets. Protix, ForFarmers, PHW Group’s Dutch entity Esbro, Venik and Wageningen Livestock Research will be working closely together during the next two years. Their joint effort is to investigate how insect ingredients from the black soldier fly in poultry feed, affect sustainability, health and welfare parameters of slow-growing broiler chickens. Key Dutch players join forces to evaluate insect-derived feed ingredients Bühler and IMDHER join forces in Mexico Swiss Bühler Group announced the creation of a joint venture with IMDHER S.A. de C.V., a leading player in the animal nutrition market in Mexico, that will drive process efficiency, quality, and sustainability in the feed industry. The new company, called IMDHER Bühler, will offer Bühler’s core machines as well as IMDHER’s expertise to IMDHER’s customers, providing solutions that will help them to improve the capacity and efficiency of their operations. IMDHER brings four decades of experience building plants to produce animal feed, including pet food and aqua. The family-owned business is a turnkey supplier to the Mexican feed market, with 20% market share. Bühler is buying a minority stake of 49% in the joint venture. The new company, IMDHER Bühler, will be managed by IMDHER General Manager, Luis Díaz. IMDHER is one of the best recognized players in the Mexican animal feed market, specialized in the integral design, manufacture, assembly, construction, and start-up of turnkey plants for the production of nutritious feed for animal consumption for various species. The company has built over 100 feed plants in Mexico and has the experience and capacity to carry out works of high complexity while customizing to the specific needs of its customers. Bühler offers process solutions and services to transform a wide range of feed ingredients to safe, healthy, and nutritious animal feeds at the highest yields with animal welfare and feed conversion rate in mind. It brings the technology for efficient and hygienic animal feed processing installations, as well as over 150 years of sound processing expertise, which also allow retrofits and improvements on the installed base. Bühler Group established a joint venture with IMDHER S.A. de C.V., a leading player in the animal nutrition market in Mexico. Bühler is buying a minority stake of 49% in the new company, called IMDHER Bühler. Protix, ForFarmers, PHW Group’s Dutch entity Esbro, Venik and Wageningen Livestock Research joined their forces to investigate how insect-derived feed ingredients would be useful in poultry diets.
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