Newest Bunge soy plant willbe its eighth Waocs.files.cms-plus.com/inform/1996/07/749.pdf · NEWS Newest Bunge soy plant willbe its eighth When its new soybean pro-cessing and edible

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Newest Bunge soy plant will be its eighth

When its new soybean pro-cessing and edible oil refin-ing facility is completed in

Council Bluffs. Iowa, and an edible oilrefinery is added at Decatur. Alabama,Bunge Corp. will have a lotal of eightsoybean processing plants and six edi-ble oil facilities in operation.

Bunge in mid-May announcedplans to build a processing plant capa-ble of crushing about 1.5 million tonsof soybeans and a refinery to handleover 400,000 tons of vegetable oil ayear in or near Council Bluffs. Bungecurrently operates grain elevators atCouncil Bluffs and at Stella, Nebras-ka. and the company's LauhoffMilling Division operates a dry commill at Crete, Nebraska.

At the same time, Bungeannounced tentative plans to build a400,000-100 edible oil refining adja-cent to its soybean processing plant inDecatur, Alabama. The refinery isexpected to handle soybean oil fromthe Decatur processing plant and fromBunge's other nearby soybean pro-cessing facilities.

Plans for both projects are subject toarranging incentive packages from cor-responding state and local governments.

Bunge currently operates sevensoybean processing plants: in Decatur,Alabama; Emporia, Kansas; Cairo andDanville, Illinois; Marks and Vicks-burg, Mississippi; and Destrehan,Louisiana. The company's four edibleoil facilities are in Bradley, Illinois;Fort Worth, Texas; Chattanooga, Ten-nessee; and Richmond, California.

Unilever sells oil millsin Brazil to CoinbraUnilever has sold its Brazilian Ander-son Clayton oil milling business toCoinbra. the Brazilian subsidiary ofthe Louis Dreyfus Group.

Anderson Clayton in Brazil pro-duces meal and oils for use in mixedfeed and consumer products. It employs750 persons at its four factories in thestates of Sao Paulo, Parana, and RioGrande do SuI. The oil milling opera-

tions, together with various consumerfood products, were originally acquiredby Unilever in 1985.

Louis Dreyfus is a worldwidegroup of companies established in1851 with headquarters in Paris. It isamong the largest merchants of agri-cultural commodities in the world.

Unilever said it was divesting theAnderson Clayton oil milling activi-ties to focus more closely on its con-sumer products interests. Unilever inBrazil produces and markets edibleoils, tomato-based products, cannedvegetables and fruits, mayonnaise,pasta, cheese, detergents, and person-al-care products.

Three oilseed plantsordered for ChinaHLS and Universal Seeds and OilProducts (USOP) have received threeorders for new plants for China.

The first is a crushing and miscellarefining plant for Linyi Huameng EisenOil Co. Ud. in Shandong. The crushingoperation is designed to handle 400metric tons (MT) of soybean flakes aday, while miscella refining can handle60 MT of crude vegetable oil per day.

Meanwhile, Wuhan Eisen-ShaouEdible Oil Co. Ltd. in Wuhan hasordered a crushing plant. The facilitywill be designed to handle 300 MT ofrapeseed or 220 MT of soybean flakesper day.

In addition, HLS and USor willprovide a physical refining plant forYanzhou Eisen Oil Co. Ltd. in Shan-dong. The facility, which will includespecial wet degumming or neutraliz-ing and washing, continuous bleach-ing and continuous deacidificationdeodorization, is designed to handle50 MT of crude vegetable oil per day.

Noncocoa fat approvedfor EC chocolate useThe European Commission (Eq hasagreed that chocolate can contain up

to 5% noncocoa butter vegetable fatprovided the composition is clearlystated on the label.

The proposed directive from thecommission. Europe's administrativebranch of government. now must beapproved by European Union govern-ments. The compromise agreement,reached April 17, will replace the1913 chocolate directive. which stipu-lated thai chocolate must contain onlycocoa buner.

Prompting the recent action wasinconsistent application of that direc-tive among member nations. Joiningthe then-European Community in1973. Great Britain, Ireland, and Den-mark received an exemption whichallowed them to use up to 5%vegetable fat in chocolate. Subse-quently, Austria and Sweden, whichallowed up to 5% vegetable fat inchocolate, and Finland, which allowedup to 10% cocoa butter substitutes,joined the European body.

Name change orderedfor soy 'milk' productsThe European Union (EU) AgricultureCommissioner has told the UnitedKingdom that it cannot continue toallow the name "soya milk" on labels.

The European Commission consid-ers the term misleading and will notchange the 1987 regulation governingthe protection of designations used inmarketing milk and milk products,according to the Spring 1996 issue ofSoyafoods newsletter.

That regulation restricts the use ofthe term "milk" to products obtainedfrom milking cows or other dairy ani-mals.

Mexico sets standardsfor food package labelsMexico has published new standardsfor prepackaged food requiring stan-dard nutritional and commercial infor-mation, according 10 a report in the

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Washington Correspondence. thenewsletter of the National Institute ofOilseed Products.

If the labels on products containsuch information in a language otherthan Spanish. the label will berequired also to display the informa-tion in Spanish in similar type andstyle.

Manufacturers may attach thisinformation after il enters Mexico, butit must occur prior to the point of sale,the report said.

Canada opts for singlefood inspection agencyThe Canadian government hasannounced it will consolidate all fed-erally funded food inspection andquarantine services into a single feder-al food inspection agency under Agri-culture Canada.

The new agency. which will beestablished by early 1997, will com-bine inspection services provided byAgriculture Canada. Health Canada,and Fisheries and Oceans Canada,according to a report in the April 1996issue of The Agbiorech Bulletin pub-lished by Ag-wesr Biotech Inc. Theagency will provide services related tofood safety, economic fraud, trade-related requirements, and animal andplant health programs.

Responsibility for food safety poli-cy, standard setting. risk assessment,analytical testing research, and auditwill remain with Health Canada, how-ever.

Calgene receives patentsfor some fatty acid genesCal gene has been granted twopatents encompassing genes respon-sible for the production of short- andmedium-chain fatty acids incilseeds.

U.S. Patent 5,512.482 covers abroad range of thioesrerase genes.while U.S. Patent 5.510.255 coverscertain synthase genes. Both types arekey in determining the specific com-position of vegetable oils, according

to Calgene. The thioesterase patentexpands the coverage of a U.S. patentissued in 1994 covering a thioesterasegene used to produce of high-Iauratecontent in canola.

Using thioesterase and synthasegenes, Calgene scientists have devel-oped canola plants producing oils richin C8, CIO, C12, and CI4 carbon fattyacids which are not normally pro-duced by canola, soybean. or sunflow-er plants.

The supply of C8 and CIO fauyacids is limited because they normal-ly are available commercially only asa by-product from the processing ofcertain tropical oils. The UnitedStates now uses over 100 millionpounds of medium-chain fauy acidsa year, according to Catgene offi-cials, who project this market couldmore than double when a reliablesource and expanded supply areestablished.

• Awards for Prominent Studies:"Study on Properties of ReversedMicelles of Surfactants and Applica-tion as Micro Reaction Products." byKijiro Konno of Science University ofTokyo, and "Study on Oxidative Dete-rioration of Oils and Oil Foods andTheir Evaluation Methods:' by Ken-shiro Fujimoto

• Award for Progress of Studies:"Structural Identification of theArchaebacterial Lipid," by AkihikoSugai of Knasato University

• Award for Industrial Technology:"Study on Industrialization of High-Purity Homogeneous PolyethyleneAlkyl Ether," by Yuhjin Tabata andTomoji Murata at Nihon SurfactantKogyo K.K.

JOCS' Kanro District Section helda one-day seminar on "MolecularRecognition and Development ofRelated Studies" on Feb. 26, 1996, inTokyo. Fifty-two persons participatedin the seminar.

The titles and speakers were:"Chemistry of Organized MolecularSystems Recognizing Ions andMolecules," by Yoshiaki Kobuke ofShizuoka University; "Metal IonRecognition: Analytical Method andApplication," by Toshio Takahashi ofLion Corp.; "Modification ofPolysaccharide by UsingAmphophilic Metal Complexes," byShuichi Osanai of Keio University;and "Control on Folding Long-ChainDNA," by Ken-ichi Yoshikawa ofNagoya University.

Keizo Ogino to headJapan Oil ChemistsKeizo Ogino of the Science Universityof Tokyo has been elected president ofthe Japan Oil Chemists' Society(JOCS) for 1996.

Elected as vice presidents duringthe Tokyo meeting were Tadasi Satoof Nippon Oil and Fats Co.; TohruSato, honorary professor at HokkaidoUniversity; Toshitake Tamura ofNihon University; Ken-ichi Tomita ofShiseido Co.: and Kenji Matushima ofKinki University.

Also at the meeting, two honorarymembers presented plenary lectures.Hiroshi Sakurai of Nara Institute ofScience and Technology presented alecture on "Technical Innovation forthe Coming 21 st Century," whileAkira Mori, a counselor for Lion Cor-poration, spoke on "Research andDevelopment in Companies:'

The following awards also werepresented at the meeting:

• Awards for Contribution: SaburoKomori. professor emeritus ut OsakaUniversuy and former prestdenr ofJOCS, and Hirozo Noboi. fanner con-sultant for Kokyu Alkohol Kogyo Co.and vice president of JOCS

JUPAC to move officeto the United StatesThe International Union of Pure andApplied Chemistry (IUPAC), theworldwide standards organization forchemists, has announced plans tomove its headquarters during 1997from the United Kingdom toResearch Triangle Park, North Caroli-0> •

IUPAC. which first resided inPuris. France. and Basel. Switzerland.has been based in Oxford, UnitedKingdom, for the past 28 years.

The IUPAC secretariat is made upof nine staff members but recruits

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hundreds of working chemists for its33 commissions that develop interna-tional standards, according to a reportin the May 10, 1996, issue ofScience.

tional aspects of fats and oils.Meanwhile, JOPA has petitioned

Japan's agency concerning fire safe-ty to exclude fats and oils from thenational Fire Prevention Act. Inother countries, oils and fats withflash points as high as 300-320°Care exempted [rom regulations gov-erning dangerous materials. InJapan, however. oils and fats areconsidered dangerous materialsbecause the Fire Prevention Actdefines them in accordance withtheir flash points.

Itoh Ham Co., for instance, hasreceived permission from the Min-istry of Health and Welfare to label asausage product as a "special healthfood" by using edible fiber andreducing fat content by 35%. Theproduct is sold commercially underthe name "Healthy Balance Life PortWinner." The company also hasintroduced sausage containing calci-urn.

Meanwhile, Nihon Ham Co. ismarketing low-fat sausage which con-tains soybean globulin.

JOPA publishes bookleton oils and fats nutritionThe Japan Oil Processors' Association(JOPA) has published an information-al booklet concerning the nutritionalaspects of fats and oils geared for con-sumers.

Prompting the booklet's creationwere consumer fears concerning spe-cial polyunsaturated fatty acids result-ing from news media reports. JOPAalso has published an internationalcompendium of reports on the nutri-

Japan's 'functional' foodsto include new sausagesMajor bam producers in Japan haveentered the functional foods market.

Names in the newsISF President Augustine S. Ong hasaccepted a position as chief operatingofficer/director for the Country

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Heights Education Division, CountryHeights Holdings Bhd. in Malaysia.The organization will be creating an"academic township" close to the newinternational airport being built nearKuala Lumpur.

AOCS member Phil McKinney hasbeen named general manager forAgrotcch's production facility inSherman. Texas. Agrorech producesfauy acids and liquid fertilizers fromvegetable oil soepstock. McKinneypreviously had been with Kraft FoodsIngredients and Ag Processing.

AOCS member tnmok Lee has beenappointed head of research on oil pro-cessing at Archer Daniels MidlandCo. in Decatur, Illinois. Lee receivedhis bachelor's degree 31 Yonsei Uni-versity in his native Korea, thenreceived his master's and doctoratedegrees from Iowa State University,the latter in food science and technol-ogy. He also spent three and a hairyears in a postdoctoral assignment atIowa State.

Jeff Johnson has been named Sea-Lac marketing manager for ZapataProtein Inc. Johnson will be chargeof sales and marketing for the com-pany Sea-Lac brand fish meal,designed for use in the dairy and beefindustries.

Pat Burchett, most recently salesengineer for Anderson InternationalCorp., has been named director ofsales and marketing for CantrellInternational Corp.

AOCS member Ranjit Kadan, afood scientist with the U.S. Depart-ment of Agriculture in New Orleans,has been awarded the 1996 Awardfor Excellence in Technology

Transfer from the Federal Laborato-ry Consortium. He was recognizedfor developing coffee milk beverageswithout using additives to stabilizethe milk. National Fruit Flavor Co.based in New Orleans now marketsthis product both locally and on thewest coast under the name CaffeFantastico. Kadan also has developedskim milk beverages with fruit andother flavors as well as a french fry-type product from rice.

Business briefsMexico's commerce agency has pub-lished new norms for products rangingfrom seafoods to auto parts, accordingto a report in The Journal of Com-merce. The norms were published onApril 17, 1996, in Diorio Ojicia/,Mexico's federal register.

Chile agreed to join the Mercosurtrading block as an associate member,effective June 25, according to areport in the MaylJune 1996 issue ofLatin Trade. Full members of Mereo-sur are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay,and Uruguay. The report noted thatChile will not be a full memberbecause its uniform 11% tariffs areincompatible with Mercosur's variableexternal tariffs.

Philip Morris' Brazilian affiliate hassigned a preliminary agreement toacquire the controlling interest inIndustrias de Chocolate LUCht SA, aBrazilian chocolate manufacturer.Philip Morris already owned 40% ofLacta's shares before the agreement.

Acquisition Corp, As a result of themerger, Praxair now owns all CBIcommon stock: it previously owned94%.

Hi Roller Conveyors, manufacturerof enclosed belt conveyors for oilseedand grain handling (and other bulk-handling equipment for processingindustries), has relocated to a manu-facturing facility in Sioux Falls, SouthDakota. The new facility will allowexpansion of the research and devel-opment department. The firm previ-ously was situated in Hartford. SouthDakota. The firm's new address is:5100 W. 12th St., Sioux Falls, SD57107-0514 (phone: 605-332-3200:fax: 605-332-1 107).

ErrataThe drawings on pages 474, 475, and479 accompanying the soap bars arti-cles in the May 1996 issue ofINFORM should have been attributedto Luis Spitz, author of the chapterdealing with soap bar finishing linesin the new AOCS Press book Soapsand Detergents: A Theoretical andPractical Review, for which he alsoserved as editor. The title of the bookwas listed incorrectly in an article atthe end of the section on soap bars.

Soybeans' share of world oilseed pro-duction and world oilseed trade wereinadvertently reversed in the ninthparagraph of the Economics andWorld Trade article that appeared onpages 538-540 in the May 1996 issueof INFORM. The sentence shouldhave read, "Soybeans will hold theirown and continue to account for about70% of world trade and 50% of worldproduction (Figure 2)." •

Praxatr Inc. has completed its acqui-sition of CBI Industries Inc. bymerging CBI Industries with PX

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