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FEATURE: ASIA PACIFIC FEED EVENT BIGGER THAN EVER

and biofuel production. The proteins
will find their natural way into aquafeed," Auer said. This system, which was
presented for the first time at an exhibition, is already under development in
Europe, and Auer is confident it will find
its industrial place in Asia in the next 12
months, since a lot of very good contacts in aquafeed production were made
by the companies during the show
STORAGE AND HANDLING
Storage and handling solutions were
not forgotten and booths were also well
attended. Miguel Smurawski, area sales
manager for Spain-based company, Prado, explained: "We came back to Victam
Asia after eight years of absence. We are
very conscious of the enormous Asian
market and our return has already proved
itself to be a very good one. We have
made a lot of contacts and taken the decision to create a more organized presence

in the region, with a distributor.
"We hope we will be doing as much as
the 320,000-tonne-capacity silos we built
three years ago for rice storage some
1,000 kilometers north of Bangkok."
The same optimism was found at the
Vigan booth. For Jocelyne Levêque,
sales manager of the Belgian firm specializing in port equipment and ship
loaders/unloaders, Asia is the place to
be, the real place for expansion. The firm
exports nearly 98% of its production.
One of the questions facing international companies is whether its best to
have distributors or their own offices in
Asia. Buhler AG, Uzwil, Switzerland,
announced that it is now building its machines for Asian markets in Asia. Stolz
(now part of De Smet group) also has
a joint venture to produce part of their
machines in Asia. Whatever the strategy,
the general opinion is that you need to
move faster. Even in the ingredients sec-

tor, the ideas are numerous. For example,
Novus announced two agreements to expand in Asia Pacific: one in aquaculture,
with the building of an aqua research
facility in Vietnam's Nong Lam University campus, the other in poultry, with a
joint research agreement with Bombay
Veterinary College.
Victam Asia and FIAPP closed their
doors at 5 p.m. March 7. It is hoped that
the meeting will return in two years, but
the Asian industry must wait for that deWG
cision to be announced.
Yanne Boloh is a freelance journalist based in
France and a writer for Ku'upau Consulting,
a specialist technical and communications
consulting company for the feed industries.
Suzi Fraser Dominy is Ku'upau's principal and
is also president of Aquafeed.com. For more
information, contact FeedHelp@hawaii.rr.com.
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