A Feed Mill for the largest integrated cane sugar project in the world in Sudan.

We developed a totally new process to convert the main byproducts of bagasse and molasses into a nutritious pelletized animal feed, allowing the sugar company to improve margins with added value and to diversify into new product sectors.

Other recent project orders have included:

• A Cocoa and Coffee Drying and Cleaning System to improve quality for exporters based in Guinea.
• Fruit Juice Plants for processing oranges, mango and pineapple into sachet and carton packaged juice in Nigeria.
• A Sorghum Malting Plant – for a substitute to malted barley for a brewery in Nigeria.
• An Organic Fertilizer factory to convert poultry m anure in Oman.
• Grain Drying Systems – shipped far and wide, as far apart as Canada and New Zealand.
• A Sand Grading & Compost Mixing system - to produce landscaping materials for a racecourse and safari park being created out of the desert in Saudi Arabia.

Important contracts for large numbers of individual machines have included:

• Salt Iodizers purchased this year by Unicef to help mother and infant health by reducing iodine deficiency disorders in Iraq.
• Rice Mills for small farmers in Haiti.
• Groundnut Oil Presses and other machines as part of a major EU funded project to rebuild agricultural development following the end of civil war in Sierra Leone.
• Mobile Seed Cleaners providing a means for remote farmers to convert their own grain into seed-corn in Mongolia.
• Wheat Threshers purchased under Japanese aid forhill farmers in Yemen, where these small machines are designed for convenient

Other recent European sales successes include;a factory for producing rabbit feed pellets in Malta and Herb Processing Systems to Spain and Norway.

Through our sister company Alvan Blanch Overseas, a government accredited training provider, we are now offering courses in a wide range of technical skills. This summer we shall be welcoming a delegation of six Libyan students for two months training in manufacturing and project engineering at our factory.

Most of our products are manufactured in our factories at Chelworth, Malmesbury, Wiltshire and Berwick upon Tweed, others are produced for us by carefully selected partner companies from within the UK and elsewhere in the world.

As well as production, key departments involved in our export activities include our project engineering team who design and put together the complete process systems, shipping and administration, our export sales managers responsible for different regions and product

sectors and our service department who often install and commission our equipment in these markets.

To further improve and expand our presence in key markets, we have just established a technical sales support office in the UAE – Alvan Blanch Arabia, which we confidently expect to replicate the success of our West African office.

We are grateful to our suppliers, overseas dealers and associates for their support and in particular to our 60 employees, many of whom have been with the company for all of their working lives, whose skills, energy and dedication are the bedrock of this success.