Bluewave Marine appoints LinkAsia Partners Pte. Ltd., Singapore, as their exclusive marketing and commercial support partner.
Singapore November 23, 2009:
Bluewave Marine Ingredients, Panama, has appointed LinkAsia Partners Pte. Ltd., Singapore, as their exclusive marketing and commercial support partner for the PerfectDigestTM line of animal feed and petfood products in Asia Pacific.
In concert with Bluewave, LinkAsia Partners will work closely with the region’s customers and channel partners to maximize the return on investment from using PerfectDigest, a unique source of marine based peptides.
Mark Rottmann, COO of Bluewave states, “We are very pleased to be working with an organization led by David. His years of personal experience and knowledge of the feed industry assures we will achieve a clear articulation of the PerfectDigestTM benefits in the complex feed ingredient market in Asia”.
David Saunders, CEO of LinkAsia Partners said, “After seeing some early results from trials with the PerfectDigest, we are very excited to bring this new ingredient technology to the customers in Asia Pacific.” PerfectDigestTM has been shown to increase total poultry growth by more than 4% when only 25g of product is consumed during the first 3-4 weeks of the birds life – and similar results have been seen with weanling pigs.
LinkAsia Partners Pte. Ltd. a private company incorporated in Singapore represents global manufacturers in the feed and food ingredient sector in Asia Pacific. A dedicated regional team with headquarters in Singapore support channel partners and leading food and feed companies to bring evolutionary concepts and products to the market.
For more information contact LinkAsia Partners at www.linkasiapartners.com.
BARC confirms PerfectDigestTM Peptide improves weight gain
Singapore Monday, November 16, 2009:
Following the successful launch of PerfectDigestTM Peptides in South American Poultry applications, Bluewave Marine Ingredients was requested by Asia Pacific clients to provide independent efficacy confirmation prior to embarking on the logistics to import commercial quantities of product.
In order to efficiently support commercialization of its marine based Peptide products, Bluewave has engaged the services of LinkAsia Partners, a Singapore based commercial and marketing support organization, to manage all commercial activities in the AsiaPacific region. As their first formal action, the companies contracted with the Bangkok Animal Research Center (BARC) for the poultry feed tests.
The highly respected and independent BARC test facility completed the controlled tests in an 800 bird matrix. "The tests were designed to confirm the effects of 1% dry matter inclusion in regards to feed conversion, bird growth and carcass composition" indicates David Saunders, CEO of LinkAsia Partners. "We were very impressed with PerfectDigestTM day 10 results which showed nearly 2% FCR improvement and a 3.3% growth improvement." This statistically significant growth rate improvement carried through to the end of the 18 day period, and once all the data is compiled, the full details of the trials results will be published.
The companies will initiate follow up trials to evaluate performance at 2% dry matter inclusion, where the optimal economic benefits have been achieved (5-6% growth improvements) in South American poultry applications. Beyond poultry, the companies will also initiate independent trials on weanling pigs, as FPi has shown to be an economical alternative to Plasma Proteins/Blood Proteins in private tests from Europe & the Americas.
In a world where protein is at a premium and feed costs are now ratcheting back up, Bluewave is pleased to provide a protein based, natural feed ingredient which results in faster growth, less feed consumption, less animal waste and of course a 300% ROI for the integrated poultry growers.
Bluewave Announces "First of a kind" Fish Peptide Isolate Production Plant In Manta, Ecuador.
Bluewave Marine IngredientsTM (www.BluewavePeru.com) is pleased to announce the successful startup of a “first of a kind” Fish Peptide Isolate (FPi) production plant in Manta, Ecuador. The $2MM+ project is a joint venture between Marine Protein S.A.C. of Manta, Ecuador and Bluewave Management, Inc. of Panama. The JV is structured whereby Bluewave will manage IP and control product formulations, process development and sales/marketing of the Fish Peptide/Peptone products, while Marine Protein SAC will operate the plant and manage local logistics / raw material contracts.
The sanitary grade facility began commercial scale production of Peptides this summer with Ecuadorian poultry/aquaculture clients being the first to incorporate PerfectDigestTM FPi into their feed formulas. Inclusion rates of 0.5-1.0% during the first 2-4 weeks of feeding has resulted in Feed Conversion Rate (FCR) improvements of several percentage points for poultry. These results have prompted additional local poultry/shrimp/tilapia feed manufacturers and farm operators to initiate trials to determine efficacy in their own applications as well.
Luis Daqui, the Sr. Nutritionist for AgriPac / Balanfarina Feed company of Guayaquil shares that, "the initial inclusions have shown a catalytic affect of the Fish Peptide by helping the chick's digestive tract to develop and to better convert all the other feed which is consumed. About 50g of dry matter FPi has been enough to improve FCR by several points and finish weights by more than 100g". Balanfarina is now incorporating FPi/FPC into their Poultry & Aqua Feeds with finished product available for export. ldaqui@agripac.com.ecwww.agripac.com.ec
Poultry operations see a reduction in total feed consumed to offset the Peptide inclusion (which is about 6-8 cents per chick) and then above that they are seeing animals reach larger harvest weights in fewer days. In total, the first two applications have averaged about 300% ROI (18 cents/bird) when including the Fish Peptide Isolates. The ease with which FCR improvements were demonstrated by local poultry producers drove the fast adoption rates in that segment, however AquaCulture and Swine benefit similarly.
From Mark Rottmann, COO – "The Bluewave process is unique in that it utilizes patent protected membrane technology and can produce highly purified peptide isolates (with zero fat content) something which no other company is currently doing in the Americas…our plants are producing human grade protein products as well". The Ecuador site is currently capable of producing about 600 tons/year of the Peptide product with plans to double capacity in the near future and Bluewave’s Pisco, Peru plant with 3,000+ tons of capacity is expected to come on line in the first half of 2010. Discussions for JV sites in Asia & Africa are underway as well.
All of the Bluewave plants are based on marine raw materials which qualify as "Sustainable", as such the products can prove critical to AquaCulture companies needing to reduce the use of wild-catch fishmeal in their feed formulas.
Bluewave Marine Ingredients designates EFEV China as authorized distributor for the PerfectDigestTM product line
PUBLICATION DATE: 05/18/2010
SOURCE: Bluewave Marine Ingredients
Singapore, 18 May 2010 - LinkAsia Partners, the commercial partner for Bluewave in the Asia Pacific region today announced that EFEV China has been appointed as the authorized distributor for PerfectDigestTM products in China. Under the agreement, EFEV will distribute and market PerfectDigestTM products across its extensive distribution network in China.
The announcement follows from other successful commercial development activities which have been executed by LinkAsia Partners in the region and is part of the ongoing expansion and investment plan in Asia Pacific for Bluewave's product lines based on peptides from marine sources.
David Saunders, CEO of LinkAsia Partners commented: "EFEV's excellent track record, which includes over ten years experience in the feed industry and its well-trained and professional staff, made them the right choice to grow our business in the region. EFEV provides local technical support, warehousing, and distribution capabilities to support the utilization of specialty feed ingredients like PerfectDigestTM in China's dynamic animal feed industry."
"We are honoured to be appointed the distributor for the PerfectDigestTM peptide product line in China and excited to bring to market a product that provides real solutions for the expanding pig, poultry and aquaculture industry in China." said Hu Hongbin, President of EFEV Group. "The potential of this valuable product can already be seen from the list of customers' requests for PerfectDigestTM as a replacement to traditional plasma proteins.
"The timing of the agreement is important to the marketplace," revealed Mark Rottmann, COO of Bluewave Marine Ingredients. "High fishmeal prices and reliability issues with plasma protein have created a requirement for alternative specialty protein sources like our Fish Peptide Isolate product, which can replace these traditional sources at a lower cost and higher performance".
To meet the demand for Fish Peptides and Nucleotides, Bluewave is continuing an aggressive investment program in manufacturing throughout the world and in conjunction with LinkAsia Partners, the companies are rapidly developing the PerfectDigestTM brand of products through an expanding network of local distribution partners and customers in Asia Pacific.