GLENCORE AGRICULTURE UK GROWS ANIMAL FEED BUSINESS WITH
MERCURY COMMODITIES ACQUISITION Glencore Agriculture UK has completed the full asset acquisition of one of the country’s leading animal feed product suppliers, Mercury Commodities. The Dorset-based Mercury Commodities had been acting as a sole agent for the soya-bean product supplies of Glencore Agriculture for the past 18-months. Now, the company’s complete assets of employees and expertise, along with its international deep-water terminal and storage facilities on the Isle of Portland, have become an integral part of the UKs fastest growing feed supply business. Glencore Agriculture UK Managing Director, James Maw,
highlighted the complementary acquisition meant the company now offered a full range of animal feed ingredients. It would serve to support UK livestock farmers through its cost-effective source of high-quality feed products for feed manufacturing businesses, along with benefitting arable growers supplying into the domestic market through its grain marketing operation. “Glencore Agriculture is unique in being able to offer customers full traceability and
secure supply chain management on a global business scale,” he said. “We offer the security of dealing with a well-established and financially secure international business, whilst also offering reliable local contacts and unrivalled experience of the animal feed product industry within the expanding UK operation.”
With the first wholly
owned portside facilities for Glencore Agriculture UK, the Portland site will give the company an exciting new platform for the import of animal feeds from Glencore Agriculture’s global crop processing facilities. “We are looking to
further invest and extend the site’s capacity and capabi l i ty, alongside working with expanding
the import arrangements at Teesport and other ports - to fulfil the major livestock areas of the UK and supply an increasing nationwide customer base,” reported Mr Maw. He added that the existing 50,000 tonnes of modern storage and handling facilities
at Portland also offered a highly responsive export route for arable farmers in the south of England, to take advantage of any trade opportunities for milling wheat or spring barley, for example.
Existing Mercury Commodities trading arrangements will continue until later this month,
when all new business contracts and operations will switch to the Glencore Agriculture UK umbrella. Mercury Commodities’ Directors, Frank Nickel and Will Watt, will respectively become Head of Animal Feed Products and Head of Feed Product Marketing for Glencore Agriculture UK. Commenting on the development, Frank Nickel, said: “We are incredibly excited to
become part of the Glencore Agriculture business. It gives us the expanded product portfolio and the financial backing to grow the feed business and to enhance the service for our customers.” James Maw reported that, at the same time as integrating the employees of Mercury
Commodities, Glencore Agriculture UK is expanding and taking on additional traders to service the growing grain and feed product business. “This represents the next phase in the development
of Glencore Agriculture UK’s commitment to support the entire farming sector,” he said. “With uncertainty over the future of export opportunities and international markets, we
can seek to connect and enhance domestic consumption for arable grain, oilseeds and protein crops, to supply a productive and viable livestock sector. The move will secure and fulfil UK demand, as well as to exploit any export opportunity to improve returns for UK farmers.”
STRATEGIC COLLABORATION BE TWE EN TWO L EADING A Q U A C U L T U R E
F E E D
PRODUCERS The outlook for aquaculture, the fastest- growing sector in the feed industry, is strong. Yet, challenges loom as aquaculture producers find themselves dealing with pressures on all sides. They face a limited supply of fish oil from overfished oceans. Meanwhile, increasing consumer demand for more sustainable seafood is causing ripples in the supply chain. It is at this pivotal tipping point where
a new collaboration is seeking to provide sustainable aquaculture nutrition solutions. Coppens International, an innovative
Dutch aquatic feed and nutrition company that joined Alltech in 2016, will be collaborating with Guabi, a leading fish feed producer in Brazil. Guabi, a 43-year veteran in the animal feed business, entered into a strategic partnership with Alltech earlier this year, and now Alltech is linking the two leading aquaculture feed producers from opposite sides of the ocean together to accelerate solutions for the aquaculture industry. “The opportunities between Coppens,
Guabi and Alltech are exciting,” said Paulo Rigolin, strategic director for Alltech. “You have leaders in two different regions — Latin America and Europe — combining technology and expertise from more than 20 years of working in aquaculture. This strength is underpinned by Alltech, a leader in numerous agricultural sectors, including aquaculture.” Guabi and Coppens have already
begun discussing new opportunities, and it is expected that algae technology will be a significant focus. Guabi has a particular expertise in
extruded feeds and unique solutions for a wide variety of aquaculture species, from shrimp to native South America freshwater fish. In addition to a range of feeds incorporating Alltech’s sustainable alternatives to fish oil and inorganic trace minerals, Coppens specialises in nutrition for recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) and recently announced a major $1 million expansion of their research centre in the Netherlands. “The new Coppens Research Centre
will enable us to do more relevant studies and, more importantly, work with more species than previously whilst also providing a training centre for our staff around the world and customers alike,” said Anno Galema, managing director for Coppens. Coppens and Guabi will share information
on formulations, manufacturing techniques, and raw material and ingredient utilisation.
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