November 21, 2007
Evonik publishes AMINONewsTM - 2nd Edition 2007
press release
The Feed Additives Business Unit of Evonik Industries, Essen, has now published the second edition in 2007 of its customer magazine AMINONewsTM for the compound feed industry.
The contribution of Dr. Andreas Lemme: ''How to adjust dietary amino acids to energy in broiler diets?'' addresses one of the timely issues raised today, due to the high cost of energy components in feed.
The other two articles are:
- "Marker selection for feed mix uniformity evaluation", by Don Poole
- "The characteristics of methionine - hydroxy analogue calcium salt (MHA-CA) as a methionine source for the feed industry", by Dr. Michael Binder
- "Amino acid composition of wheat distillers dried grains with solubles", by Dr. Vincent Hess
Featuring as "Research Highlights", the magazine also reports on current developments and latest scientific publications on amino acids for animal nutrition.
Evonik Industries is the only company in the world to produce and market all four important amino acids for animal nutrition: DL-Methionine, Biolysa (L-Lysine), L-Threonine and L-Tryptophan. In over 100 countries of the world the Feed Additives Business Unit delivers innovative services and products, and contributes to customers' profitability while enabling healthy and environmentally friendly animal nutrition.
Evonik Industries is the creative industrial group which operates in three promising business areas: Chemicals, Energy and Real Estate. Evonik is a global leader in specialty chemicals, an expert in power generation from hard coal and renewable energies, and one of the largest private residential real estate companies in Germany. Our strengths are creativity, specialization, continuous self-renewal, and reliability.
Evonik is active in over 100 countries around the world. In fiscal 2006 around 43,000 employees generated sales of 14.8 billion euros and operating profit (EBIT) of over 1.2 billion euros. Evonik plans to enter the capital markets in the first half of 2008.
