Feed & Additive Magazine Issue 34 November 2023

NEWS 90 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE November 2023 HealthTech BioActives (HTBA), one of the global leaders in natural flavonoids and B12 derivatives, showcased its portfolio of animal nutrition solutions at the LPN Congress & Expo 2023, in Miami, FL, October 17-19. Visitors met with HTBA experts and learned how to enhance productivity and species-specific performance outcomes with natural, high-quality feed additives and premixes for animal health and well-being. “The HTBA team was excited to meet with attendees of the 2023 LPN Congress & Expo and discuss how our fully sustainable animal health solutions can help achieve optimal results through every lifecycle stage while also achieving livestock producer cost-in-use goals,” said Mar Serra, Global Head, Animal Nutrition, HTBA. “As a pioneer in citrus flavonoid-based products and world leader in manufacturing Neohesperidin DC (NHDC) for animal nutrition, our customized and nature-led feed additives and premixes are backed by science and geared to species-specific needs. We featured Weanex® intake promoter, an innovative solution that helps ease the transition from lactation to post-weaning while encouraging appetite in piglets.” Read more>> HTBA showcases suite of animal health solutions at 2023 LPN Congress & Expo Bioflytech, one of Europe’s leading companies in the production of industrial insect protein for animal feed, has announced that work is progressing well on the plant it is building in Palas de Rei, in the Spanish autonomous region of Galicia. According to the company’s statement, the rendering and drying plants are being set up, and in the coming weeks the first of the six fattening halls will start operations, each of which will produce 2,000 tonnes of fresh black soldier fly larvae per year, until reaching the maximum production capacity of this first phase, of 12,000 tonnes per year, during 1Q2024. In the coming years, further major investments are planned in this plant in order to reach 100,000 tonnes per year of black soldier fly larvae production. This new, second Bioflytech plant – the other is located in Fuente Álamo, in the Spanish region of Murcia – is equipped with a gas rendering installation designed by the company and unique in the market, a disruptive technology that will make it possible to manufacture tailor-made flours with specific percentages of protein and fats according to the customer’s demands, and which is set to revolutionise the insect protein flour production sector. The Palas de Rei plant will also have a second conventional rendering line, which is currently in the testing phase and is expected to start production this November.Bioflytech was founded in 2012 as a biotechnology company linked to the University of Alicante. Six years later, the company Moira Capital acquired the majority of its capital, and at the end of 2019 moved its operations to Fuente Álamo. Read more>> Bioflytech constructions its second plant for BSF larvae production in Spain

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