INTERVIEW 36 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE February 2021 and ACTIPRO for feed and pet food applications. The high functional animal proteins of VEPRO offer strong solutions for the meat processing industry by improving the quality of meat products, giving a natural meat colour and providing a firmer structure. With our ACTIPRO brand, we supply the animal feed and pet food market with our functional and highly digestible animal proteins. It’s the intention of the VEOS Group to be globally known as the reference for functional animal proteins. How much of your brand ACTIPRO, which produces animal proteins for the feed industry, represents the service and production network of VEOS Group? What is ACTIPRO’s place in VEOS Group? The ACTIPRO brand represents the most significant part of our business, because we are producing our feed and pet food grade products in all our plants. Thanks to this global production network, we can offer our customers a high reliability of supply. Certainly in times of uncertainty like COVID-19 and geopolitical tensions, the reliability of supply has proved to be very important. Let’s talk about the production side a little bit. As ACTIPRO, which protein types do you produce for which feed types / animal groups? What can you say about the shares of these groups in your production? Our ACTIPRO blood products and egg powder are generally used as functional and highly digestible animal proteins in pet food and feed for different species like fish, shrimp, pigs, poultry, ruminants and mink. All our proteins are highly digestible thanks to the gentle spray drying technology. During spray drying, the proteins are dried for a short period of time at moderate temperature which keeps the proteins unharmed and retains their bio-availability. For instance blood Recycled valuable animal proteins have a much lower carbon footprint than vegetable proteins that are grown specifically for animal feed. There are also fewer concerns about indirect land use change, particularly the effect of soy production on tropical rainforests. The pressure on wild fisheries will also reduce by using animal proteins instead of fish meal.
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