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

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).

Register Now! The Theme of Conference –
Guaranteeing food and feed safety through greater use of technology in the control of raw material and product quality at each step of the milling process, from raw material collection/reception-through processing-to-product dispatch.

GRAPAS Asia 2012 would like to thank its sponsors who include: ZCME, China; Tapco, USA; Buhler Group, Switzerland;' Amandus Khal, Germany; Vibrafloor, France; Marketing Organisation for Thai Farmers; Thai Rice Millers Association and the Ministry of Agriculture, Thailand.