With its headquarters located in Armagh City (Northern Ireland) the farmer owned Co-operative is now one of Ireland’s most progressive agri-food businesses, with interests in red meats, porridge oats and breakfast cereal, feed compounding, agricultural supplies and renewable energy, operating across Europe.

Fane Valley Co-operative was formed in 1903, and over 100 years later still remains 100% farmer owned by 1800 shareholders. The feed mill produces 160,00 tonnes of which is approximately 55 per cent ruminant, 30 per cent poultry feed and 15 per cent pig feed.

A number of contractors were approached by Fane Valley to lead the mill building project and eventually whittled down to two, of which Ottevanger of Holland was finally selected based on the impressiveness of the plants they had built, their approach and the fact that they were specialists in feed projects. On-site for 13 months, the project was completed on budget and ahead of schedule.

Ottevanger Milling Engineers built for AVEVE Aalter a new bulkoutloading station with 60 silos with a content of 35 m3 each. Outloading is provided with; 5 movable weighers, 1 movable and weighing PM6000 mixer, 7 movable hoppers, 6 double contrasets and 2 single contrasets. Bulkoutloading is provided with dedicated conveying lines and mixing line for medicated feed.

The AVEVE Group is the market leader in agricultural and horticultural supplies in Belgium. It also operates the largest garden centre chain of the country. AVEVE is among the 100 major companies in Belgium. AVEVE itself operates 50 companies in Belgium and abroad.

AVEVE Animal Nutrition applies a highly developed and strict HACCP-based quality scheme. The Aalter and Merksem production facilities are GMP-certified according to the Belgian model. AVEVE Animal Nutrition supplies feeds which meet the strictest specifications of various quality labels e.g. IKM, Meritus and Certus. At the AVEVE Test Station in Poppel, new feeds are submitted to practical tests. The ‘Feed & Food Quality’ lab (FFQ) controls incoming raw materials and outgoing products.

Within the framework of environmental conservation, AVEVE Animal Nutrition also provides nutrient-low feeds as well as manure management and processing solutions and advice on environment-friendly stalls and animal welfare.

Fakieh Poultry Farms Co. from Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) is one of the largest integrated poultry producers in the Middle East. In addition to its own hatcheries, farms and slaughterhouses, the company also has its own feed factory.

Ottevanger Milling Engineers is building a complete compound feed plant in Chonburi province for SA Beang 111 Co. The plant will have a capacity of 15 tonnes an hour for layer feeds, and the possibility to produce pellet feeds.

The largest Russian research and production enterprise for premixes and protein-vitamin-mineral concentrates for all kinds of farm animals. In December 2015 Ottevanger Milling Engineers delivered the second premix plant in the special economic zone Terbuny (Russia).

Miratorg is one of the leading meat producers and suppliers on the Russian market. The Miratorg holding includes three feed plants in the Belgorod region and one plant in the Bryansk region. These plants put out a total of over 0.5 million tons of feed, enough to cover the needs of Miratorg.