TECHNOLOGY FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE March 2025 89 With three production facilities in The Netherlands, we can guarantee an outstanding and high-quality standard of all our equipment. OME is associated in the Triott Group (owned by the Ottevanger family). Together with all sister companies (PTN, IVS, Almex, TSC and Inteqnion) OME has all the knowledge and skills available, to realise complete turnkey projects in the animal feed industry. But also, for premix and concentrate plants, fish feed and pet food plants, we can offer complete solutions. We know that for companies, each completed project is a tangible symbol of success. Ottevanger has recently successfully completed a very important feed milling project in the UK. What does the completion of this project mean to you? With realising the I'Anson Feed Mill in Thirsk (Dalton New Bridge), we built the latest completely new compound feed mill in the United Kingdom. The last complete mills built in the U.K. were Fane Valley in Omagh (Northern Ireland), in 2009, and Pyes Franklin (nowadays Carrs Billington) in Lancaster in 1996. Also realised by Ottevanger Milling Engineers. No need to say that those three mills are excellent references for us. Especially the new I'Anson mill recently gave us a lot of exposure and a very good publicity. What can you tell us about the details of this project, which is defined as a hi-tech facility? What distinguishes this facility from others, its technological infrastructure, production capacity, types of feed produced, etc.? The new I'Anson Feed Mill is a state-of-the-art feed mill which enables I'Anson to continue to meet the growing demand for existing customers and increase its export business. The project was a best practice team effort, with all Triott sister companies, local certified contractors, and local suppliers. OME has initially installed two production lines, one for ruminant feed, one for poultry feed, each with a capacity of 15 tons per hour. We have designed the project in such a way that capacity easily can be doubled, by having another two lines included. But also a future second intake section as well as two extra bulk outloading bays. In this way the feed mill eventually can achieve a total capacity of 60 tons per hour. We know that this plant is the largest investment in the 125-year history of I'Anson Brothers. Why did I'Anson trust Ottevanger with such an important project? The signing of the contract in 2021 marked a special occasion, as the fourth generation of entrepreneurs from both I'Anson Brothers as Ottevanger Milling Engineers came together to close the deal. It was quite a journey to come to this point; Chris I'Anson first contacted OME already back in 2013 to start initial discussions. "A carefully considered choice," says Chris I'Anson. "Together we visited several factories in the UK which OME had designed and built, and we were very impressed with the quality of the design and equipment." When I'Anson consistently found the same high quality at OME plants in Europe, it only reinforced this confidence. Also very important for I’Anson was the sole point of contact concept. This means only one contact who can be addressed and is responsible for the entire project. Rob Hinten, Chris I'Anson and Erik Ottevanger (from left to right) at the new greenfield site in Dalton New Bridge, Yorkshire, UK.
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