Aliphos offers inorganic feed phosphates known globally for their high quality. Aliphos® Dical+ is Aliphos’ NEW product available for the Brazilian market. Aliphos® Dical+ offers the highest phosphorus digestibility/availability in poultry amongst all dicalcium phosphates on the market: 82%! . Aliphos® Dical+ is more pure, micro-crystalized, improving physical properties which enables easier handling and creates less dust.
Who is Aliphos?
Aliphos is the feed ingredients division of Ecophos, a company developing processes and selling technology licenses for the phosphates industry. Aliphos is the largest producer of inorganic feed phosphates in Europe. Phosphates are produced in three plants located in the Netherlands, France and Bulgaria. As part of its growing strategy Aliphos will also build two other factories in Egypt and in India. Thanks to these developments, Aliphos will, by 2020, produce 1 million tons of inorganic feed phosphates. You can count on Aliphos to be the most global player in the feed phosphate business producing in 3 different continents!
The particularity of Aliphos is its strong knowledge of feed phosphates and its innovative spirit. Aliphos has been producing phosphates for nearly a century and is continuously improving its products in order to fulfill the needs of its customers. Today, Aliphos offers customers around the world the largest range of high quality feed phosphates:
- Dihydrate dicalcium phosphate: Aliphos® Dical+
- Anhydrous dicalcium phosphate: Aliphos® DCP, Windmill® Dicalphos
- Monocalcium phosphate: Aliphos® Monocal
- Monodicalcium phosphate: Aliphos® Modical
- Magnesium phosphate: Windmill® Magnumphos
- Monoammonium phosphate: Windmill® Aquaphos
- Special formulas on request of customers
New and innovative production process
Thanks to the technology developed by Ecophos, the mother company of Aliphos, the new factories will run with a unique production process. This new technology consists in producing highly digestible phosphates from a variety of raw material sources. The plants have been specifically designed to offer full flexibility in terms of raw material usage allowing Aliphos to take advantage of the best market conditions. The technology developed by Ecophos allows the plant to use alternative sources of phosphorus rock which cannot be used in classical phosphate production processes. Moreover, this unique Ecophos technology is more sustainable than the traditional process as we can use rock grade currently considered as lost. And at the same time the process creates also less waste. Flexibility in the choice of raw materials and sustainability will be the keys to our success in becoming the most global feed phosphate player in the world!
Aliphos® Dical+ our unique product
The innovative production process of Ecophos results in a unique product: Aliphos® Dical+. It’s a pure, micro-crystalline, free flowing and dust-free phosphate. The Ecophos technology gives the additional advantage of improving the physical characteristics of the end product and facilitating the handling for our customers.
Aliphos® Dical+ is a dihydrate dicalcium phosphate. Dihydrate means 2 molecules of water inside the phosphate, but it also means a highly pure and digestible product. Chemical purity is a key factor of Aliphos® Dical+. Less dissolved impurities such as heavy metals, fluorine, iron and aluminum, remain in the phosphate compared to other traditional process. It results in a really pure crystalline dicalcium phosphate. Purity is closely correlated with bioavailability of phosphorus. In the traditional process the more contaminated are the raw material, the more indigestible elements the feed phosphate will contain. This is not the case with Ecophos technology.
Several digestibility trials with Aliphos® Dical+ on poultry in Wageningen University, The Netherlands, have clearly demonstrated this. The result obtained is 82% phosphorus digestibility (dp) - far above published values for DCP and even in line with the digestibility of MCP. It goes without saying that feed phosphates with a high dP content bring economic advantages, because their price per unit of dP is cheaper. Products with a high dP content also take up less space in a feed formulation, creating room for other feed ingredients. Furthermore, the use of a feed phosphate with a high dP content brings major ecological benefits. Less phosphorus is excreted by the animals into the environment, reducing the risk of possible eutrophication of water resources. How high is the digestibility, how less of phosphorus is excreted, how more is positively transformed by the animal, how high is the economic benefit!
