VICTAM launches Latin America event – Registration open
Registration open for the complete event for animal feed technology and nutrition in Latin America
The Victam Corporation is pleased to announce that the visitor registration is now open for the first Victam LatAm 2023 event taking place on 3-5 October in Expo Center Norte, São Paulo, Brazil. This upcoming event for all segments of the animal feed production is co-located with two dedicated events for flour processing and handling events, GRAPAS and GEAPS.
This ultimate event will feature a wide range of exhibitors showcasing the latest innovations and services in the industry. Visitors will also have the opportunity to attend a variety of informative seminars and presentations by industry experts. The Victam Corporation is committed to providing both exhibitors and visitors with the highest quality of experience possible, and are therefore confident that this event will be of excellent value to all those attending.
“The importance of the LATAM Region for our business and our wish to be as close to the market as possible, this makes our decision to participate in Victam LATAM an obvious one.”
Exhibitor quote Global MarCom Manager at ANDRITZ Feed & Biofuel
“Stimulating sectorial development, promoting business and exchanging information are among the purposes of ABPA. It is in this sense that the entity supports Victam LatAm 2023, an important initiative that comes in line with events that promote the production value chain, with business opportunities and technical improvement”.
President ABPA (Brazilian Association for Animal Proteins)
PURPOSE EVENT
The purpose of the event is to fill the gap in the Latin American market convening prominent professionals to exchange ideas on the latest developments in animal feed and foster collaboration and networking opportunities among professionals in the field.
FACTS AND FIGURES
The Victam Corporation is proud to have already sold more than 7.000 m2 gross exhibition space. Since September, when the event was launched together with their Founding companies Andritz, CPM, Famsun, Wenger and Zheng Chang, over 150 companies, like AGI, Evonik, Fenchem, Ferraz, Geelen and Kahl, already confirmed their participation. 50% of the exhibitors are from abroad, what will give a good overview of national and international developments. The foregoing is a testament to the growing interest and expected turnout.
SUPORTING ASSOCIATIONS AND PARTNERS
The Victam Corporation managed to secure partnerships with important Brazilian associations, such as ABIAM, ABIEC, ABPA, ABRA, EMBRAPA and Peixes BR and international partners, such as: GMP+, Misset, Perendale, RTRS, University of Wageningen and WPSA.
CLEAR FOCUS CONFERENCE PROGRAM
With the support of the well-connected network of Victam Corporation in feed technology and animal feed processing along with the strong network of GEAPS in grain handling, an interesting conference program with seminars,workshops and round table sessions will be organized. These conferences serve as a platform to gather key knowledge for your business. The fact that strong Brazilian and Argentinian associations use the platform to host their conference is an important tool to attract visitors from Brazil and surrounding countries Topics will include aquafeed, animal nutrition, feed technology, grain handling, packaging, petfood, grain handling, and sustainable soy production. In addition, several exhibitors will take the opportunity to organize a technical seminar.
THIRD INTERNATIONAL FEED TECHNOLOGY CONGRESS (IFTC)
As a matter of fact, Wageningen University supported by the VICTAM Foundation will host the 3rd International Feed Technology Congress in parallel to the event. On behalf of the scientific, advisory and organization committee of the Congress, students, professors, researchers and professionals from the industry are invited to participate. The aim is that IFTC 2023 will bring together people from research institutions and from industry to exchange knowledge and expertise, to share technical and scientific developments in the fields of animal feed technology and to discuss the latest results. The clear focus is to provide a vehicle to enhance cooperation between industry and research institutions and to allow creation of innovative projects and collaborations.
The congress will see thematic presentations by international keynote speakers from Brazil, Chile and Uruguay as well as oral and poster presentations.
Themes of the congress
1 Issues related to animal nutrition and feed technology in Europe
2 Recent developments in pig and poultry nutrition
3 Major challenges for the South American dairy cattle industry
4 Mycotoxin control and feed safety in South America: state of the art
‘’For us, organizing the scientific feed technology conference in parallel to the Vitam LatAm event, is a way to expand our horizons and get new insights and to learn from each other. We are very happy that we can use the Victam Events to organize our conferences”.
Professor Animal Nutrition, Wageningen University
ABOUT VICTAM
The VICTAM events, held in Utrecht, Istanbul, Bangkok and now in Sao Paulo, are the worlds’ largest and leading international exhibitions and conferences for the animal feed, pet food and aqua feed industries. It is also home to GRAPAS, the event for grain, rice and flour milling technology. The Victam events are owned by Victam Foundation, which is a Dutch non for profit organization dated from 1964. The Foundation’s objective is to provide financial support for innovative projects to non-profit applicants, such as institutes, universities and colleges. Besides this the providing of individual scholarships. The Foundation strives for positive contributions to the technological development of industrial sectors in the grinding of grains and other raw materials in the broadest sense of the word and in the production of animal feed and foodstuffs for humans. In 1965 the first Victam exhibition was organized in Utrecht, the Netherlands. The first event in Bangkok, Thailand was launched in 1994, and in Istanbul, Turkey in 2021.
The Victam Corporation is confident that the co-location in São Paulo with GEAPS will hit the first milestone in this win-win cooperation.
More information and registration for professional buyers and visitors is now LIVE on the official website www.victamlatam.com.