NEWS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE July 2022 77 United Cooperative announced it will begin construction on a multi-structural manufacturing facility, include feed and grain manufacturing and soybean processing units. United Cooperative’s new feed and grain manufacturing facility planned in Waupun, Wisconsin will have capabilities that include high-speed loading and unloading of ingredients, high-speed roller-grinders, pelleting capability, steam flaking, micro-system, both bagged and bulk texturized calf feed manufacturing, mineral manufacturing, and operations managed by a computerized control system for quality control. “This construction project is essential to our growth initiatives and our promise to our member-owners that they can “Rely on Us” for their agricultural needs,” said David Cramer, President and CEO of United Cooperative. “New Safe Food, Safe Feed regulations require feed manufactures to comply with quality control measures that are not possible with outdated feed mills,” said John Scheuers, United Cooperative Feed Division Vice President. “As a result, United Cooperative’s investment in this new Waupun facility will enable us to meet these new regulations and the ever-changing demands of our members.” “Our goal is to manufacture 23 tons of feed every 15 to 20 minutes, depending on the number of items in the mix,” Scheuers added. This new state-of-the-art feed and grain facility will also be able to take advantage of rail for inbound and outbound needs, thus limiting supply chain issues caused by the trucking industry. United Cooperative to build new feed and grain facility Veramaris announces next phase of business growth Veramaris, a joint venture between DSM and Evonik, announced it will enter the scale up phase of its business. Launched in 2018, Veramaris is the only ASC-MSC certified sustainable algal oil with the highest levels of both EPA & DHA Omega-3 available on the global market, today. The algal oil is an alternative omega-3 source to fish oil and is currently used to achieve animal nutrition in aquaculture, petfood and most recently, in human dietary supplements. In its start-up phase, Veramaris strategically focused on a value chain marketing approach for the aquaculture and petfood sectors, which resulted in significant market growth for sustainable EPA & DHA Omega-3. In this next phase, Veramaris will focus on enhancing operational excellence and further deepening the DSM / Evonik collaboration in the human nutrition supplements and the shrimp markets. Leading the scale-up will become the responsibility of Veramaris’s new leadership team: Gertjan de Koning, Vice President Essential Products, DSM Animal Nutrition & Health, who will assume the role of CEO from October 1, 2022. Already joining the business from August 1, 2022, Holger Kinzel, Vice President Animal Nutrition Asia North, Evonik, who will take on the role of CFO/ COO. The team will be further strengthened with the addition of Florian Butzmann as new Head of Supply Chain Management and Marion Hax leading Business Performance Management.
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