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Thursday, March 10, 2022
Going back to basics with vitamin A in animal nutrition
Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that was discovered in 1913. Vitamin A is essential for normal growth and development in animals. Vitamin A stabilises the cell membrane, stimulates the synthesis of certain ...
Monday, December 13, 2021
Lockdown in Shangyu district, Zhejiang threatens vitamin A, E production
Starting December 11 1300 hr, Shangyu district, Shaoxing city, Zhejiang province has closed all entrances and exits. Due to the aggravation of the Covid pandemic, China tightened controls in Shaoxing among other places.
Monday, August 23, 2021
Vitamin E prices moved higher marginally on the back of tight availability
Vitamin A and vitamin E production is expected to be affected due to the supply falls of alcoholates resulting from a fire at BASF's Ludwigshafen plant in Germany.
Thursday, July 1, 2021
DSM explains the relationship of vitamin D and estrogen in egg-laying hens
The sufficiency of vitamin D or a lack of it affects the reproductive functions of layer chickens. Studies indicated that feeding vitamin D, preferably in the form of 25(OH)D3, to egg-laying hens either maintain or increase the level of est ...
Friday, February 26, 2021
DSM ROVIMIX® A1000, your reliable vitamin A source
We all know vitamins are essential for the health of our farm animals but do you also know that of all vitamins, vitamin A may well be the most challenging to produce?
Tuesday, January 5, 2021
China vitamin B2 market weakens amid plentiful supply
With production volumes high as a new producer competed for market shares, vitamin B2 market was under pressure. Moreover, traders and producers who were tight on cash eagerly cut prices in a bid to close deals.
Friday, November 20, 2020
DSM opens 7th Chinese premix plant, launches Vitamins Academy
Royal DSM officially opened on November 18 a new Animal Nutrition & Health premix plant in Baishazhou Industrial Park, Hengyang city. The site is DSM's second premix plant in Hunan province and the seventh of its kind in China. The opening ...
Friday, October 30, 2020
DSM updates on vitamin E production
Royal DSM announced on October 29 a maintenance shutdown of its vitamin E plant in Sisseln, Switzerland during parts of January/February 2021. This planned maintenance work, originally scheduled for August 2020, has been deferred to the lat ...
Wednesday, August 26, 2020
China vitamin B12 market shows signs of strengthening (week ended Aug 24, 2020)
Vitamin B12 producers stood for as profit margins were thin at current price levels. Prices showed signs of recovering while supplies tightened.
Tuesday, May 26, 2020
Vitamin C supplement can reduce poultry heat stress
Using a vitamin and electrolyte supplement, such as Vitamic C, can increase body weight, improve energy levels and help alleviate the effects of heat stress in poultry, Farmer's Weekly reported.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Feed Vitamin Evaluation System (FVE)
As the function of vitamins is increasingly found, people have become accustomed to using vitamins to produce feed additives. However, as more and more vitamin premix feed formulations are designed and produced, it has been found that durin ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Oily fish good source of vitamin D during pandemic
Oily fish such as mackerel and herring should come in handy for many people who are kept indoors for much of the day and are not getting enough vitamin D from sunshine exposure amid the current COVID-19 lockdowns.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
China Vitamin K3 prices surge 40%in five weeks (week ended Mar 16, 2020)
Vitamin K3 prices continued to rise for the consecutive fifth week, accumulating a rise of 40% over this period. With the costs of raw ingredients staying strong, producers lifted prices in order to sustain profit margins.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
China vitamin B1 supply rises as one producer resumes operation (week ended Mar 16, 2020)
Supplies of vitamin B1 increased as the producer in Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic, resume operation, albeit with limited production. Consequently, prices softened further from near-historic high levels.
Monday, March 9, 2020
China vitamin A prices soar on supply shortages (week ended Mar 9, 2020)
Vitamin A prices rose sharply of late as output of local producers remained limited while supplies from a global producer decreased. In some regions, prices surged almost 50% as sellers who have stocks took the opportunity to maximise retur ...

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