June 6, 2016

ADM sees further expansion of soy crush capacity in northwestern Europe 

Agricultural processors Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) is looking at further expanding its soy crushing operations in northwest Europe after it has started operating its new soybean crushing facility in its oilseeds plant in Straubing, Germany.

"The future of crushing beans in Europe looks healthy, and we are looking very closely at where we can best expand crush in Europe," said Jon Turney, general manager, ADM European soybean crush.

"We see scale, due to the marginal cost per metric tonne, as a key for our continued success as a destination soy crusher in order to ensure we are able to compete with origin crushers importing meal into the region. Adding switch capability to our plants allow us to utilise our assets more towards the protein markets when EU oil markets are under pressure", he added.

Straubing's new capability allows the site to crush soybeans sourced from the Danube region in order to market European non-GMO soymeal and oil to customers in Western Europe.

Josef Vielreicher, chairman of the board at Goldsteig, one of the most popular German producers of mozzarella exporting to all European countries, said, "ADM represents an important vendor to us, who can supply our farmers' dairy cows with regional, non-genetically modified soybeanmeal and rapemeal from European origin."

Rene van der Poel, general manager of ADM's Straubing facility, for his part, said: "We are pleased with the product throughput and quality we are seeing at the plant and excited that we are now also able to supply non-GMO soymeal and oil from Danube-grown soybeans to our customers".