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Business Unit Feed & Biomass

For livestock, fishes, and pets.

With its global experience and presence, the Group is capable of offering plant and equipment for all the process stages from processing of the raw materials to production of high-grade formulated feeds and vegetable oils. Buhler equipment produces top quality while ensuring economical use of the raw materials and energy. Low operating costs allow customers to gain a crucial competitive edge in the marketplace. And more, for the Group maintains partnership-based relationships with customers, who expect an integral range of products and services beyond the mere design and supply of feed production plants or oil mills. Customized service packs, maintenance contracts, repairs, and training opportunities ensure that local plants are always operated with maximum economy and that they make products of high quality.

Feed production.
Formulated feeds produced on Buhler plant and equipment meet the most stringent sanitation standards, for only “safe feed” will ultimately allow also “safe food” to be produced. The plants are based on a modular design and can be customized so as to satisfy the individual needs of our customers as well as a vast variety of feed requirements for livestock and other animals – from dairy cows and poultry to pets, fishes, and crustaceans.

Oilseed processing.
Buhler offers an extensive and innovative range of products and services also for processing oilseeds and other oil-containing vegetable raw materials. For all areas related to oil extraction and byproducts processing, with the exception of the expeller and extraction systems. In the production of table-grade vegetable oils, the Group sets its focus on gentle processing of the raw materials and a maximum product yield in order to preserve the natural properties and characteristics of the products processed.

Biomass.
Wood and other biomass raw materials are becoming increasingly important in ensuring global energy supplies. Wood chips, sawdust, straw, and other vegetable raw materials are reduced in Buhler plants, separated from foreign matter, and shaped in pellet mills into high-grade and uniform pellets for heat and power generation. Also wood residues left over after the production of furniture, paper, or parquet flooring can be transformed into wood pellets.

Livestock.

Complete feed production plants and stand-alone machines for making livestock feeds in a capacity range starting at 8 metric tons per hour.

Aqua Feed

Fish feed for pros – Buhler extruders allow adjustment of the ideal density, sinking rate, size, water absorption rate and water stability of feeds.

Premixes.

Complete plants and stand-alone machines for producing homogeneous and contamination-free premixes in line with the specified formulations for the entire feed manufacturing industry.

Pet Food.

The extrusion process allows high-grade and safe petfoods to be produced. Buhler offers patented solutions for dry feeds such as multicolored products and reward tidbits or semi-moist products.

Soy oil.

Preparation of soybeans by cleaning, (hot) hulling, cracking, and flaking prior to extraction. Hulls are ground for further use.

Oil from soft seeds.

Sunflower seeds, rapeseeds, palm kernels, peanuts, corn/maize germs, copra, and cottonseed:
Processes and plants for soft-seed-specific preparation prior to the expeller process and/or extraction: front-end hulling, and tail-end hulling.

Extraction meals.

Preparation of the meals obtained in the extraction process for further uses.