N.Z.-Danish joint venture

Press, 26 April 1979, Page 2

N.Z.-Danish joint venture

PA Wellmgtor Newly developed high energy feedstuffs for cattle and other livestock will b( produced in Denmark by t New Zealand-Danish joint venture company, Dalsup.

The equal partners are Dalgety New Zealand, Ltd, and Superfos A/S, of Denmark. Superfos A/S is Denmark’s largest agricultural company, and is also one of the biggest Danish international industrial enterprises. It produces high-grade fertilisers, industrial chemicals, and stockfeeds, and also has significant fishing interests. Production of the stockfeed, which is of prime significance in countries which depend on feed concentrates in dairying, will begin later

this year in a factory being milt at the site of a Super:os fertiliser plant in Norresmdby, Denmark. The product will be available initially n Denmark, and sold through traditional farm suppliers. The technology employed was developed by two Dalgety’s researchers from a discovery by the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, which was sub-licensed to Dalgety’s for development. “Trial results in nine countries show that the new product increases both milk yield and butterfat at lower cost to farmers in the Northern Hemisphere,” said Mr P. Jakobsen, the managing director of the joint company. Mr D. C. MacDougal, the managing director of Dal-

gety’s said that the joint company was also licensed to treat and convert inedible meatworks and poultry industry offals into high-energy stockfeed for pigs, poultry, and other animals. “These are areas of particular interest to New Zealand. Trials are underway in Australia, Britain, and in Sweden, where the stockfeed is also in trial use for mink farming,” he said. Mr MacDougal said that the development would introduce New Zealand technology directly into the world’s largest market. “A contract for the commercial production and sale of polyunsaturated cheese, also produced under the C.5.1.R.0. system, is being negotiated with a large dairy-

produce distributor in Britain,” he said. “All the new products have either patent protection or protection pending for discoveries made in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States and for which Dalgety’s has sole international rights outside the United States and South America.”

Mr MacDougal said that it was hoped the new Dalsup organisation would progressively introduce the full range of stockfeeds into E.E.C, countries and Scandanavia.