The Organising Committee of WPC 2008 gratefully acknowledges the support of the following sponsors.

Ruby

Boxmeer, the Netherlands

www.spah.com
www.intervet.com

Schering-Plough Animal Health is recognized throughout the world as the leader in poultry intestinal health. Its expanding line of vaccines includes the poultry industry’s first Clostridium perfringens type A toxoid vaccine. This innovative new product is administered to healthy pullets for the protection of progeny chicks against necrotic enteritis caused by the alpha toxin produced by Clostridium perfringens types A and C. It’s an excellent complement to the company’s intestinal health product line, which includes the PARACOX® and COCCIVAC® line of coccidiosis vaccines. These products let poultry companies stimulate natural immunity and successfully raise birds with no antibiotics — without compromising flock health, welfare, performance or profits. 
Schering-Plough’s newest partner in animal health, Intervet, is the world’s leading manufacturer of veterinary vaccines. Intervet is also a leader in research and is dedicated to the development, production and marketing of innovative, high-quality animal-health products and feed additives.  Its top poultry products include INNOVAX® ND-SB vaccine for Newcastle disease and Marek’s disease, Nobilis® IB vaccine for infectious bronchitis, Nobilis® ND vaccine for Newcastle disease, Nobilis® Gumboro vaccine against infectious bursal disease, and Nobilis® Salenvac® T vaccine for Salmonella.

Throughout its history, Schering-Plough has focused on discovering and developing innovative new therapies in the human prescription, animal health and consumer health customer segments. The combination with Intervet and its parent company, Organon, strengthens the company’s portfolio in human and animal health while creating a science-driven organization with the resources needed to make significant investments in research and development. 

Together with Intervet, Schering-Plough Animal Health now has offices in more than 50 countries and markets its products in over 120 countries. It also has 28 Animal Health manufacturing sites and 22 Research & Development sites around the world.

Diamond

Danisco Animal Nutrition is a leading global supplier of enzymes (Avizyme, Porzyme, Grindazym, Phyzyme XP) and betaine (Betafin) to improve the nutrition of poultry, pig and some aquaculture species.

A range of products with a wealth of benefits:

- Lower feed costs
- More uniform pigs and birds
- Higher quality end products
- Contributing to food safety
- Proven value in antibiotic growth promoter free nutrition
- Improved environment

Danisco Animal Nutrition’s core competencies include the ability to combine animal nutrition knowledge and application development to deliver value-adding solutions to the poultry, pig and aquaculture feed industries. Operating through a distributor network in over 60 countries, and with regional sales offices located throughout the world, Danisco’s technical team offers specialist and country specific nutritional support and advice based upon extensive feed industry and animal nutrition experience.

Danisco Animal Nutrition is committed to sustainability, satisfying the needs of customers now and in the future. As leaders in delivering excellent value from enzymes and betaine, the main focus is to provide proven solutions that satisfy customer needs throughout the food chain - producing safe, high quality, affordable food, whilst helping to protect the environment.

Stork Food Systems: a world of innovation

Chicken nuggets, hamburgers, tasty drumsticks … all well-known, everyday products. Not quite so ‘everyday’, however, is the world behind this food. A world that consists of very advanced equipment, a world of product development and innovation. This is the world in which Stork Food Systems develops, designs, produces, supplies and maintains trend-setting equipment and innovative solutions for food production.

Innovation takes centre stage at Stork Food Systems. At the head office in the Netherlands there are many engineers and technologists, each of whom contributes in their own way to the development of new machines. These people use Stork’s in-depth knowledge of the customer’s production process, the market and the food preparation process to come up with successful solutions. The starting point is that the Stork machines provide the customer with added value – and so they do!

With its equipment Stork covers poultry processing in its entirety from the supply of live birds up to and including deboning equipment. Next to that, Stork offers further processing systems to process meat, potato and fish products into convenience food and meal component items. Innovative solutions have made Stork Food Systems a market leader in the poultry processing market. We believe in taking processing further … Stork knows-how.

Emerald

Degussa is now Evonik.

Evonik Industries is the new creative leader in specialty chemicals. Our essential solutions are based on 160 years of knowledge. Customers in more than 100 countries count on Evonik experts to think outside the box and deliver industry-leading performance.

Evonik Industries is the only company in the world to produce and market all four important amino acids for animal nutrition: DL-Methionine, Biolysâ (L-Lysine), L-Threonine and L-Tryptophan. The Health & Nutrition Business Unit delivers its innovative services and feed additives worldwide, and contributes to customers’ profitability while enabling healthy and environmentally friendly animal nutrition.

       Founded in 1961, Kemin Industries Inc.  provides health and nutritional solutions to the Agrifoods, Food Ingredients, Pet Food,  Human Health and Pharmaceutical Industries. Kemin operates in more than 60 countries with manufacturing facilities in Belgium, Brazil, China ,India, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand and the United States.

        The Agrifoods businesses of Kemin focus on Total Nutrition® to help its customers achieve a highly effective, consistent system of profitable animal production. Rather than all out production at minimum cost, success in the future will instead be measured by achieving  satisfactory balance between production enhancement and managing disease; ensuring food quality and safety; minimizing the impact of production on the environment; and achieving consumer satisfaction. Finding and maintaining the critical balance between all these  considerations is the basis for Total Nutrition®.

Welcome Reception Sponsor

Sapphire

The Australian Chicken Meat Federation (ACMF) is the peak coordinating body for Australia’s chicken meat industry, representing both growers and processors. Its members are the five State Chicken Meat Councils (NSW, VIC, QLD, SA, WA), the Australian Chicken Grower’s Council and the Australian Poultry Industries Association. It aims to promote and protect the interests of the chicken meat industry; conduct and support research on behalf of the industry; represent the industry on appropriate committees, boards and commissions and liaise with the government on behalf of the industry, as the industry representative body recognised by the Australian government.

The Australian Egg Corporation Limited is a producer owned company which integrates marketing, research and development and policy services for the benefit of all stakeholders. AECL represents approximately 400 commercial egg producers who distribute a range of products to the local market. This highly nutritious food is an Australian grown product.

The Australian Government through the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forest, DAFF initiated, and supported the development of the Australian Animal Welfare Strategy (AAWS). The goals, objectives and activities of the Strategy, which was implemented in 2006, are based on science, national and international benchmarks, and social and economic considerations.
The AAWS covers the humane treatment of all sentient animals including:
- Livestock and production animals -
- Animals used for work, sport, recreation or display -
- Companion animals -
- Animals in the wild -
- Aquatic animals -
- Animals used in research and training -

The Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation is an Australian government funding organisation that supports R&D for new and emerging industries in conjunction with these industries and research organisations. In the New Animal Products Program the Corporation has over the last 15 years co-funded R&D in reproduction, nutrition, genetics and management of the emu and ostrich. This research has been undertaken mainly with universities such as the University of Western Australia and state government such as in South Australia.

Aviagen – Growing to Meet your Needs.

Aviagen is the world’s largest poultry breeding company, developing pedigree lines for the production of commercial broilers and turkeys under the Arbor Acres, L.I.R., Ross, B.U.T. and Nicholas brand names.  Parallel breeding programmes and supply bases on four continents support Aviagen’s global distributor network serving more than 250 customers in 85 countries.

Biochem GmbH is a German producer and supplier of safe, EU-registered and efficient feed additives and of Dietary Feed Supplements. Biochem recognizes market pressures, demands as producer & consumer and supports the individual needs and benefits of our customers globally. Feed Safety for Food Safety ®.

orld’s leading supplier of vitamins, carotenoids , enzymes and eubiotics to the feed industry, with a comprehensive range of branded product forms enabling efficient feed and food production. Headquartered in Switzerland, the company is present in 200 countries, with more than 6000 skilled employees, 11 large production sites and nearly 40 premix plants which makes DSM the world’s number one feed premixer.
DSM adds value to the food chain through the provision of innovative solutions based on safe, quality, traceable and reliable food and feed ingredients, benefiting our customers, consumers, the environment and animal welfare.

Fancom; Top conditions through complete control

For years Fancom has invested in innovative solutions for the intensive animal husbandry sector. Fancom is renowned for its systems for climate control, feed automation and biometrics. Fancom’s strength is the combination of these three specialisms using datamanagement, with the emphasis on efficiency and user-friendliness.  Our systems virtually always lead to improving profitability, animal welfare and emission levels.

Fort Dodge Animal Health is a leading manufacturer and distributor of poultry vaccines and committed partner to the global poultry industry. Fort Dodge is making a difference through innovative research and product development that address current and emerging poultry health needs. Innovations include novel vaccines for avian influenza, Salmonella & E. coli.

Golden Cockerel markets and distributes fresh poultry and pet food products throughout Queensland, Australia and overseas. We believe customers must be provided with products and service of the highest quality with a consistency unmatched by our competitors. Golden Cockerel’s success is based on the positive contribution of stakeholders and ongoing commitment to continuous improvement

Huvepharma is a fast-growing pharmaceutical company with a focus on developing, manufacturing and marketing human and animal health products. These pillars are the basis of the company’s name, HUVEPHARMA: HUman and VEterinary PHARMAceuticals. We place emphasis on the creation and marketing of products for animals and humans. The company manufactures and markets anticoccidials, veterinary products, feed and food enzymes and active pharmaceuticals ingredients (API’s). More information is available on our website: www.huvepharma.com

For over 70 years, Hy-Line International has focused on developing superior genetic stock for the domestic and international egg industries.  The company is the world’s oldest and largest poultry genetics company in the production of egg-laying chickens. Contact Hy-Line to learn how the Hy-Line W-36 and W-98 white egg layers and the Hy-Line Brown can help increase your profits. www.hyline.com

SALMET develops, produces and supplies laying-hen and pullet growing systems. SALMET manufactures top quality in its own highly specialized factories, offers innovative ideas, fine-tuned technological solutions and testifies constantly all systems in its own poultry plants. You can rely on the know-how and technology of SALMET’s sales and service personnel who can advise you properly and make your facilities successful.

Taylor & Francis, founded in the City of London in 1798, is the oldest commercial journals publisher in the world, and one of the leading global academic publishers. Publishing over 900 peer-reviewed research journals and around 1,800 new books each year: our backlist is in excess of 20,000 specialist titles.

Visy Board is a leading supplier of corrugated packaging to the poultry industry in Australia, and can provide a range of innovative cartons either in hand erected or machine erected designs. Carton erecting machinery is also available through Visy Automation. Visy has lithographic, preprint and post print capabilities and can supply Retail Ready packaging for supermarkets.

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