NEWS 86 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE October 2023 Agritech company Manna Insect Oy announced Manna MIND Gen2, the world’s first technology that enables converting almost any kind of space, such as a shipping container or a warehouse, into an automatically climate-controlled and -optimized insect farming facility. According to the company's statement, the Manna MIND Gen2 also optimizes power consumption, so an insect farming facility can be run even with solar panels alone, it works on all voltage levels, and enables farming insects profitably anywhere in the world, in any climate or weather conditions. The solution’s 1st generation version is already in use with customers on five continents, and it specializes in managing the climatization of used 20ft sea containers that are refurbished into insect rearing facilities. Manna MIND is a sensor and control unit that manages all equipment within an insect rearing facility to optimize the growth or breeding conditions to be optimal at each stage of the larvae growth cycle, making the facility the perfect environment for both upcycling of biowaste at maximum efficiency. The unit ensures that the larvae to grow as much as possible during the rearing cycle, thus creating more animal feed in the form of insect protein, and better-quality fertilizer as a side product. Manna MIND enables insect farming to be operated as a completely standalone setup even in rural farms, remote islands and fish farms, or can be set up in a factory backyard or supermarket parking lot. Farming of black soldier fly with Manna Insect’s solution requires minimal human input and workload, only approx. 6 hours for the 10-day growth period, which makes the whole insect production process extremely cost-efficient and thus profitable for a farmer. Read more>> Manna Insect Oy introduces Manna MIND Gen2 Nutreco announces that Claudio Cervellati has been named to the newly created Chief Supply Chain Officer (CSCO) role. Cervellati will also become a member of Nutreco’s Management Board. Claudio joined Nutreco in December 2022 from Alvarez and Marsal, a global management consultancy firm, where he was Managing Director. Before Alvarez and Marsal, Claudio held senior leadership roles across a number of corporations and consulting firms in the agrochemical, chemical, paper and construction materials industries where he successfully led operations improvement, business transformations, turnarounds and mergers. In this new role, Claudio will be responsible for the global sustainability, procurement, quality and operations teams, bringing the full Nutreco supply chain together. “I’m delighted that Claudio is taking the helm of this important group of functions within Nutreco,” said CEO Fulco van Lede. “Claudio brings a wealth of operational and supply chain experience to the team, and also to the entire company in his role as Management Board member." Read more>> Nutreco names Claudio Cervellati as Chief Supply Chain Officer Claudio Cervellati
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