How your team work out new solutions or make improvements for the feed manufacturing industry?
In Famsun, almost one-third of our employees work for R&D. They are the best talents from different professional fields with great knowledge, experience and wisdom, and innovative skills and motivation for success. With a stand of R&D Institutes in Asia, Europe and America, our R&D team works around the clock in the development of existing products and solutions plus exploiting new terrain and unlock new business fields on the basis of markets analysis, customer needs evaluation and feasibility assessment.
No individual or business can develop on its own. Famsun develops products and solutions through collaboration. Most of our solutions are developed by collaborating with feed producers and applied in their operations. We develop new processing technologies and innovations to help our customers overcome obstacles in their productions, create new solutions to support their new business strategies, and help them bring their innovative products onto the market.
Famsun also have formed dozens of partnerships with industrial partners, universities, research institutes and academics in the past decades. It has included China National R&D Centre for Feed Equipment and Technology, International Technology Committee (TC) of Feed Machinery and the ISO/TC293 Secretariat (Feed machinery) in its Sci-Tech Park since the modern manufacturing and innovation facility was opened in 2013. We will continue to bring all stakeholders in global farm-to-food supply chain together to promote collaborative innovations and create a win-win future for the agri-food industry.
What technology do you think will change the future of feed industry?
As always, Famsun is continuously taking our technical advantages to make improvements in our solutions in order to help feed producers address future challenges and develop sustainably. We have noticed that, the feed sector of today is less efficient and remains less digitised compared to other industries. We have invested a lots to incorporate the latest modern techniques such as automation, sensing and digital tech of big data, blockchain, IoT, AI, etc, into our machines and processing solutions recent years, with the aim of boosting feed mill operational efficiency by increasing capacity, reducing energy consumption and waste, and improving safety in production as well.
From animal nutrition and health to feed ingredient origination, feed formulating, and from feed production, feed testing and traceability to logistics, feed industry has a wide supply chain span. Any technical improvement or innovation at these links is possible to change the feed future. We find some emerging techniques on the chain and start to invest in some of them, for example: insect meal, algae and other alternative ingredients. Insect tech can produce feed-use insect meal and insect oil from food waste in a much quicker compositing process with less land and water. Same as insect farming, commercial algae production can provide sustainable feedstock of proteins and oils for feed manufacturing while absorb million tons of carbon dioxide and treating wastewater as well.
New and innovative technologies that changing the way we produce meat have also come out of the horizon and will bring disruptions to the feed industry. Plant-based meat that making meat entirely out of plant ingredients without farming animals can shorten the production chain from plant to meat. Elsewhere, by growing meat from cells in labs instead of from a whole animal, cell-based meat tech becomes possible to create high-quality cuts of meat using fewer resources and with less environmental impact.
As an agri-tech company, Famsun is excited about new technologies and is starting to involve in some of these research fields. Our R&D efforts in these new fields will provide more options to complement the existing agri-food production system and help players in this chain grow business in a more sustainable way.
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