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Premier Pet Nutrition has opened its new premix facility designed to provide absolute safety and assurance for all premixes manufactured by the company.
Enhanced pharmaceutical features expand on its tumble mix system.
According to Ben Helm, commercial manager: "We have invested heavily in the new premix facility to take our pet premix assurance for petfood manufacturers to the next level.
"I don't believe there is a more advanced pet premix facility anywhere in the world that is able to deliver custom pet premixes to the same level of homogeneity, safety and traceability," Helm added. "This means that our petfood clients can have complete confidence in every bag of custom pet premix they add to their petfood production."
Nestle says the company has selected a key market in Poland to lead the expansion of its petfood production operations in central and eastern Europe, where rising incomes have majorly impacted lifestyles.
The petfood maker says it is constructing a CHF93 million (US$98.4 million) new plant and distribution center in the southwestern city of Wroclaw, Poland. Nestle said the area was chosen because of its strategic position in Eastern Europe, and because Poland is the largest petfood market in Central and Eastern Europe with an estimated 13 million pets.
"The investment also supports Nestle Purina's long-term ambition to bolster its position in Europe," the company said.
The new petfood production facility will employ nearly 200 people. Construction will begin at the end of 2013 and is scheduled to be completed and the plant operational by the second half of 2014.
RetailData and Brand View have formed a new partnership called Retail View, a price-monitoring and analytics service.
RetailData, which provides CPGs with a solution to assess accurate pricing data across the country, and Brand View, a provider of real-time price and promotions tracking, have teamed up to provide this fully customizable service with actual price tracking and analysis. The Retail View service can allow price to be managed centrally with reports and analysis available to account manager;ls and analysts instantly.
Vitakraft-Weke owners, the Wührmann family, has sold the producer of petfoods to two new owners.
According to a report, the two new shareholders are an unnamed private investor and petfood manufacturer Deuerer. The Wührmann family will retain a minority shareholding in the company.
Kansas State University's Department of Grain Science and Industry will host a Livestock Feed and Pet Food Safety Research Round Table at the International Grains Program on August 13. The event is geared toward professionals interested in learning about the latest updates in feed safety research and regulations in the livestock feed and petfood industries.
Petfood and livestock feed professionals will be able to review feed safety research, discuss with experts to identify priorities for future feed safety research, view facilities to conduct unique experiments and listen to a keynote speaker describe how multi-party cooperation has resulted in improvements in food safety.
Attendees will play an active role in a strategic planning discussion to help shape the future direction of research in livestock feed and petfood safety at Kansas State University. With the help of the experts in attendance, the department hopes to further its role as an essential player in feed manufacturing research.
Wenger Manufacturing recently launched a new blog on Facebook, wengerpedia.com.
The extrusion processing technology company hopes the platform will educate, inspire and facilitate conversations to advance food and petfood processing around the world. Members will have access to information such as industry news, product developments, processing strategies, market insights, and featured trade shows, conferences and seminars.
