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Trouw Nutrition Geke Naaktgeboren- Stoffels, PhD, has joined Nutreco as global director of quality at Trouw Nutri- tion, effective immediately. In her new role, she will drive the development, im- provement and ongoing management of the company’s programmes, policies and strategies. She will become a member of the company’s leadership team.


DanBred Danish pig breeding company DanBred welcomed Carsten Rasmussen as new regional manager for East- ern Europe. He has an MSc in agriculture, pig production and housing, and has held various similar positions in the swine business.


Agrimprove From 8 November, veteri- narian Luis Azevedo has joined the Royal Agrifirm Group as global Agrim- prove director. He will also be a new member of the executive leadership team.


Biochem Dr Sven Keller has recently joined German animal nu- trition company Biochem. He will support the company’s business partners and the Central European sales team and take over the technical management for all species, production segments and applications.


Norel Norel has appointed Luca Pandolfini as the new commercial director for Eu- rope. He graduated in agri- culture science from ITAS Cesana and trained in mar- keting and sales. Further- more, he has extensive ex- perience as an export manager in different agro-veterinary companies.


Delacon Delacon appointed Michael Fischer as COO. He will report directly to CEO Markus Dedl and oversees Oper- ations, Finance, Organisational Development, as well as Administration.


40 ▶ PIG PROGRESS | Volume 37, No. 10, 2021 Webinar on piglets and weaning


The health of piglets and how to get them through weaning without using antibiotics or zinc oxide were the topics of a recent Pig Progress webinar. The we- binar, held on 28 October, is now availa- ble for viewing on demand. Professor Jürgen Zentek (pictured left), attached to the Free University Ber- lin, Germany, set the scene for the web- inar, touching on the imminent ban on therapeutic use of zinc oxide in the pig industry in 2022 in the EU. He said, “Liv- ing without zinc oxide is a new chal- lenge, not only for pigs, but also for pig nutritionists and veterinarians.” He discussed various alternatives that pig professionals could opt for when searching for alternative feed formula- tions. He pointed to gross composition, protein, dietary fibre and zootechnical feed additives being of major interest. The next speaker was Vincent Bégos (right), from CCPA Group in France. He explained that his company has devised


various pillars to support producers to “demedicate with confidence” and ex- plained each of the pillars. He touched on piglet feed formulation, then he zoomed in on feed solutions and thirdly he mentioned zootechnical support. The third speaker was Niels Poulsen (second left), from Phileo by Lesaffre. He zoomed in on the use of yeast solutions. Poulsen discussed Actisaf Sc47 for im- proving the microbial population from the moment of birth to benefit piglet health, growth performance and effi- ciency. He said, “We should focus on re- building a healthy intestine that can give maximum performance in later stages.”


Webinar on zinc oxide alternatives


Zinc oxide and the search for alterna- tives was also the theme of a webinar held a few days later. Organised by Pig Progress’ sister title All About Feed in co- operation with Swiss feed additives company Pancosma, the webinar fur- ther explored the theme in detail. This webinar, held 2 November, is also avail- able to view on-demand. The first speaker was professor emerita Hanne Damgaard Poulsen, Aarhus University, Denmark (pictured in the mid- dle). The topic of her presentation was “Dietary zinc in weanling piglets – physi- ological demand, challenges and solu- tions”. She talked about how the physio- logical zinc demand is high in young fast-growing animals and touched on some stressors to note during the wean- ing period such as nutritional changes, management, environment, feed, etc. – all important aspects to consider. Richard Sygall, DVM (pictured top


right) is Pancosma’s customer technical services director EMEA. He discussed “Synergistic effects of feed additives to support performance of piglets in medi- cal zinc oxide free diets” in a joint pres- entation with his colleague Sebastien Constantin (bottom right), who is the company’s business development man- ager for the Bioactives range. Jointly they looked at (recapping) the effects of zinc oxide and spoke about a strategy to de- velop alternatives for it, targeting multi- ple pathways for a solution, and looked at active molecules chosen and the mode of action. Constantin gave detail about a tri- al around these highlighted topics.


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