June 16, 2020

 

Trouw Nutrition partners with University of Alberta to drive animal nutrition innovation

 

Trouw Nutrition has announced this month a new strategic partnership with University of Alberta (UoA), one of Canada's top teaching and research universities.

 

Trouw Nutrition will work collaboratively with scientists of the Faculty of Agricultural, Nutritional and Environmental Sciences (ALES) to enable the acceleration of key research and development activities using University of Alberta facilities. ALES is recognised for its strength in nutrition research across animals and humans.

 

The Trouw-UoA partnership is built on strong, long-standing relationships between the University of Alberta researchers and Trouw Nutrition, the latter said. The agreement will create opportunities to deepen existing collaborations as well as exploring new research and innovation opportunities in animal nutrition.

 

Coen Smits, R&D director of Trouw Nutrition, said: "The collaboration with the University of Alberta fits in our strategy to develop a global network with scientific centers of excellence in specific areas of animal nutrition, animal health and livestock precision farming."

 

"Trouw Nutrition will benefit from this partnership by gaining new skills and knowledge in current and new field of scientific areas, and by strengthening our research with well-known academia from University of Alberta," said Marjan Beerthuis, manager of grants and contracts at Trouw Nutrition Innovation.

 

Stanford Blade, dean of the Faculty of Agricultural Life and Environmental Sciences at the University of Alberta, said: "We are very pleased by the establishment of this important agreement. Our faculty is acknowledged for its leading work that brings together production agriculture, food, nutrition and health. This exciting partnership between Trouw Nutrition and our faculty will use the company's global presence and deep knowledge of animal nutrition to engage University of Alberta researchers and students. Trouw Nutrition's reputation of bringing innovative solutions to their customers aligns with our faculty's expertise and capacity to turn science into solutions. I am confident that this collaboration between Trouw Nutrition and the University of Alberta will ensure that we contribute to solving global problems together."

 

According to Trouw Nutrition, the university's ALES has unique research facilities and the availability of large numbers of calves, which could be very useful to further strengthen Trouw Nutritions' LifeStart programme and explore lifetime production.

 

The Discovery team of Trouw Nutrition R&D, led by Theo van Kempen, has been carefully selecting collaboration opportunities whilst visiting UoA last year and proposed a selection of scientists to Trouw Nutrition R&D managers.

Currently, Trouw Nutrition researchers are connected to these identified UoA scientists. Funding applications are drafted which will enable research in a new environment and even reduce research costs.

 

- Trouw Nutrition