Industry executives will find this year''s FIAAP Asia, Victam Asia & Grapas Asia, taking place in Bangkok on March 3-5, to be 17% bigger than before.

The combined event boasts of bigger exhibition stands with more to see, touch discuss and learn.

Henk van de Bunt, Victam''s General Manager said all three shows are fully sold out so there are more exhibitors with a greater range of products being exhibited. At the FIAAP show, there will be ingredients and additives used within animal feeds, aquafeed and petfood on show. Visitors to FIAAP will see major international companies at the show, for instance Addcon, Adifo, Kemin, Kemira, Orffa, Vitamex and many more.

This year''s Victam has far more equipment on the show floor, including pellet mills, extruders, hammer mills, coolers and mixers among many others. Visitors will see major companies like Buhler, CPM, Wenger, Triumph, Muyang, Zhengchang, Andritz, Schmidt Seeger etc. These and other companies have increased the size of their stands so as to show more of their feed processing technology and systems.

Victam will also have an area for the expanding industry of Biomass, where many companies will exhibit their equipment that can pelletise organic matter into biomass pellets for use as an alternative energy source. Companies such as Satake and Charoen Pokphand will also exhibit new technology.

The new GRAPAS is a specialist show for the grain industry. Participating in this show are companies specialising in the technology for rice and flour milling, industrial noodle production, breakfast cereal and extruded snack manufacture and grain storage, preservation, transportation and processing. Exhibiting companies will include Buhler, Ocrim, F.H. Schule, Kemin, Zhenchang, Muyang, Extru-Tech and many more.

Many companies supplying dryers, magnets, conveyor belts, silos, bucket elevators, quality control systems, formulation programmes and many more will also be present.