Spotlight on …
Feed Production Machinery, Pelleting & Extruding
CFE GROUP
The past quarter of a century has seen many changes in the agricultural landscape of these islands. Brexit, Global Warming and Covid 19 have all contributed to disruption in this market setting but
the Agri industry has demonstrated its resilience and has continued to power ahead in this changing environment. Our value creation strategy at CFE Group is focusing on our core business, where we serve our current market positions in the compound feed industry. In maintenance, we refurbish pellet mills, flakers and grinders
at our Haydock facility and our team of eight engineers, across the UK and Ireland, concentrates on contract maintenance for customer equipment. We are maintenance and service specialists, competent, highly experienced, and fully up to date with the technology and operating systems of the different brands of manufacturing equipment supplied to the feed and bio-mass markets. We are also growing our
market share by increasing the footprint of CPM in the compound feed business. In the past year, we have sold 16 new pellet mills in the UK and Ireland (all CPM79 series). We have a strong pipeline for the next two years, where we plan to continue this growth. CPM’s Double Pelleting system is by far the preferred production practice for ruminant feed. While expanders and high friction conditioners can give customers the edge for specific formulations, Double Pelleting is the best processing system for Irish and UK ruminant formulations. It gives best quality, highest throughput and is an operator friendly system. It’s important to match horsepower as closely as possible on the top and primary presses and the working width of dies must be in the range of 20%, i.e. the primary press being no more than 20% more open than the pre-pellet machine. Direct drive motors on a Double Pelleting stand reduce the installed motors from 4 to 2 and direct drives give more energy efficiency and torque required to keep the press running across a range of formulations. CFE’s Cost per Tonne (CPT) is an inclusive service for maintenance,
pelleting consumable supply and engineering support, that offers feed compounders an insurance policy, guaranteed supply chain and working partnership. The CPT is a 3-year contract that cost matches against
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tonnes produced and invoices issued monthly; eliminating the peaks and troughs that can impact feed milling. The customer advises CFE of its tonnage on the final day of each month and the invoice is based on the actual tonnage figure. We are proud to continue working alongside our compound feed partners as we all strive to grow and support our most important indigenous industry.
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DATASTOR SYSTEMS LIMITED INTEGRATED CONTROL SOLUTIONS Datastor Systems has worked in partnership with an array of industry leading independent, co-operative and corporate producers for 40 years and has gained significant experience within the Animal, Aqua and Pet Food market place.
Our press and extrusion controllers, based on the latest hardware
platform; they automatically adjust to ensure compliance with recipe inclusion targets, strict temperature control, maximise throughput (recently installed system gave 15% throughput increase with no reduction in Pellet quality) and can include quality testing feedback. Ensuring your product integrity, quality, temperature, throughput and energy consumption are treated within closed loop controls, as each may have an impact on the other.
Some key-standard features include: Automatic roller and knife adjustment.
Roller slippage detection, mitigating time consuming blockages. Real time graphical representation of energy consumption. With
additional elements actual energy consumption per batch can be produced.
As solution providers, our aim is to listen to existing and
prospective clients’ requirements and expectations, working together to formulate a cost-effective solution whilst delivering a quality focused product in a timely manner.
Please visit our website at
www.datastorsystems.com Datastor Systems Limited, Manchester Road, Congleton, Cheshire CW12 2HT
Tel +44 (0) 1260 277025 Fax +44 (0) 1260 270334 mail:
sales@datastorsystems.com
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