GRAPAS Conference- February 15, 2012

2nd ONE-DAY RICE/GRAIN MILLING CONFERENCE
February 15, 2012 - 09:30-16:30
The BITEC - Meeting Room 222-223 (2nd Floor), Bangkok, Thailand (Get to the BITEC on-time and easily by Skytrain)

You will not be alone ...

... when you attend the 2nd one-day GRAPAS Conference Asia in Bangkok on February 15, 1012.

Members of the Thai Rice Millers Association and the Marketing Organisation for Thai Farmers, along with specialists from the Thai Ministry of Agriculture, will be attending. Their VIP representatives will be presenting developments and insights into rice milling. The program will complement them with a number of industry representatives who will look at specific aspects of rice and cereal milling.

The Conference is being held in Bangkok's impressive BITEC (meeting room 222-223 on the second floor). Join colleagues from all over Asia and beyond at an event that should not be missed if your a miller at either the Victam Asia or GRAPAS Exhibitions.

Conference Theme

"Guaranteeing food and feed safety through greater use of technology in the control of product quality at each step of the milling process, from raw material collection-through processing-to-product dispatch."

Delegates are being sponsored! The Conference will be in English and translated simultaneously into Thai

Perendale Publishers Limited (PPL) is pleased to be patron of this event for Asian milling industry representatives. PPL's Grain & Feed Milling Technology magazine (the event's Media Partner) is also proud to announce that it will once again be sponsoring the GRAPA Milling Award 2012 at Victam Asia.

I look forward to seeing you at the GRAPAS Conference on February 15, 2012.

Your sincerely
Roger Gilbert
Perendale Publishers Ltd
+44-1242 267700

GRAPAS CONFERENCE PROGRAM

09:30
Delegate badge pick-up

10:00-10:20
Welcome
Mr Roger Gilbert
Publisher, Grain and Feed Milling Technology magazine, UK

Opening Remarks
Mr Kamolvis Kaewfaek
President, The Marketing Organisation for Thai Farmers, Thailand

10:20-10:40
Keynote Address:
'The Importance of Food Safety and Quality Control in Rice Handling, Milling and Processing in Thailand'

Speaker:
Niphond Wongtra-ngang
Adviser to the Immediate-past Deputy Prime Minister, Former Director of Marketing for Farmers and Public Warehouse Organisation and Former Chairman of Thai Rice Millers Association

10:40-11:00
Coffee (provided)

11:00-12:30
Session 1:
Transportation-Storage-Preservation

Conference Morning Chairman:
Mr Kamolvis Kaewfaek and Mr Roger Gilbert

11:00-11:30
'Thailand Rice: Value Creation for Food Safety and Food Security'

Speaker: Dr Laddawan Kunnoot
Assistant Director General of Rice Department and
Director of Bureau of Rice Products Development, Rice Department, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperative, Thailand

11:30-12:00
'New Processes for Grain and Feed Production'

Speaker:
Mr Luo
General Manager - Feed Technology Department
Zheng Chang (ZCME), China

12:00-12:30
'New Buhler business unit Grain Logistics - Your grain is our passion'

Speaker:
Lukas Armatys
Head of Segment Collection Points, Bühler GmbH Grain Logistics, Germany

12:30-14:00
Lunch break (not included)

13:30
Delegate badge pick-up

14:00-15:00
Session 2:
Rice & Grain Processing

Conference Afternoon Chairmen:
Dr Laddawan Kunnoot and Mr Roger Gilbert

14:00-14:30
'Elevator Bucket Maintenance in the Mill'

Speaker:
Mario Rodriguez
International Sales, TAPCO Inc, USA

14:30-15:00
'Hydrothermal Treatment of Feed, Oilseeds and the Production of Parboiled Rice'

Speaker:
Dennis Peukert
Area Manager - Asia-Pacific/Australasia, Amandus Kahl GmbH & Co KG, Germany

15:00-15:30
Coffee (provided)

15:30-17:00
Session 3:
Handling-Packaging-Weighing

15:30-16:00
'Reliable and Through Clean-up of Silos using Vibrating Floors - Applications in Grain, Animal Feed, Rice Milling and Fishmeal Industries'

Speaker:
Jean-Claude Poncet
Vibrafloor, France

16:00-16:30
Closing presentation

Speaker:
Chanchai Rukthanannond
Chairman - Thai Rice Millers Association

16:30
Closing remarks
by Mr Roger Gilbert

For the second time GRAPAS will host a milling conference focused on rice, flour, cereals, oilseeds and grain processing for Asia.

GRAPAS is the exhibition co-hosted and co-located by Victam International to run alongside its Victam Asia Exhibition in Bangkok, Thailand (from February 15-17, 2012) at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC). Perendale Publishers Limited - the publishers of the International Milling Directory and the long-standing Grain and Feed Milling Technology magazine - is proud to be chosen as patron of this conference for 2012.

Keeping firmly in mind the need to provide information and new ideas in a timely and efficient way, the 2012 GRAPAS Conference will be held on one day - the opening day of the Exhibition - February 15, 2012 in two parts; a morning and an afternoon program. The Conference will be in English with simultaneous translation into/from Thai. Morning and afternoon coffee and refreshements will be provided (but not lunch). Please visit the Conference website to register. There is a small participation fee. An early bird discount was offered for delegates registering online prior to November 30, 2011.

NOTE: Conference delegates will receive a copy of the International Milling Directory, in English, free of charge (valued at UK�85).