Synonymous with the Future of Food
With technology at the forefront through research and development, Trouw Nutrition serves as a fundamental part of human nutrition: Animal nutrition
Most people going to the supermarket for grocery shopping don’t know about the production processes behind a chicken breast, an egg, or a pork chop. Few people know that animal nutrition – a rather unknown subject – is the primary means of support for animal protein production, with many decades in development.
Considering there will be 10 billion inhabitants in the world by 2050, we will need to produce 60% more food, it’s essential to do so in a sustainable way, along with better animal farming and welfare practices. A maltreated, malnourished, and sick animal will not produce. And an animal that does not produce is not profitable.
In the history of animal production, few companies have made a legacy for more than 90 years. One of them is Trouw Nutrition, a leader in animal nutrition. From Dutch origin, but global
quality and solutions, Trouw Nutrition is currently present in 105 countries, and run by 8,500 employees around
“Feeding the future” is their mission, displaying a great responsibility as a supplier to the animal protein industry.
WORLD LEADER IN ANIMAL NUTRITION
Based on decades of research and development around the world, Trouw Nutrition delivers solutions able to optimize animal performance and maximize revenue for feed manufacturers and animal protein
Trouw Nutrition’s solutions and services are designed to support customers through all their production challenges with a comprehensive approach to feeding and animal health. The company offers global solutions tailored to local clients’ conditions in a practical, sustainable, and cost-effective way.
HISTORY OF NUTRECO AND TROUW NUTRITION
Trouw Nutrition is the livestock division of Nutreco, focused on poultry, swine, and ruminant nutrition, as well as pets. It is now a privately-owned company acquired along with its parent company in 2015 by SHV.
The long-term vision of Trouw Nutrition is the commitment to contribute to food production through the power of nutrition and collaboration with food and animal protein producers. The company is committed to transform the animal agriculture industry as well as the planet through a better use of resources.
With skilled specialists offering service and expertise throughout Latin America, the central office for Central and South America is located in Guatemala, along with a premix plant and a fully equipped laboratory. Throughout this region, Trouw
Nutrition’s solutions are available in 31countries.
THE SINGULARITY OF TROUW NUTRITION
Trouw Nutrition is unique due to its highly qualified and dedicated staff, always supporting clients through an integrated approach incorporating farm management, health, and nutrition. This is achieved through innovations that can be adapted to the specific needs of each customer, driven by experience, scientific and practical knowledge, besides research & development.
Victor Hugo Aguirre, Commercial Director for Central and South America at Trouw Nutrition, describes the company in three words: technology and animal nutrition. The Guatemalanborn Aguirre, who earned a degree in Agricultural Engineering and a Master’s in Marketing from the Monterrey Institute of Technology
“Trouw Nutrition’s portfolio of solutions and services creates the platform that allows us to provide our main product: technology and expertise”
- Victor Hugo Aguirre, Commercial Director for Central and South America at Trouw Nutrition
and Higher Education, he has 22 years of experience in the animal protein and feed industry within the specific areas of animal nutrition and commercialization. For Aguirre, “Trouw Nutrition’s portfolio of solutions and services creates the platform that allows us to provide our main product: technology and expertise.”
Trouw Nutrition sources from other divisions’ experience in animal production. This provides the know-how to understand the same challenges clients face, which is a unique advantage compared to other companies in the industry.
Facing the state of current world events – logistics problems, high raw material costs, lack of fertilizers and limited resources – Aguirre considers that, today more than ever, clients are willing to listen to what Trouw Nutrition has to offer.
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT
To reach these solutions, Trouw Nutrition carries out more than 70 research studies worldwide each year under two fundamental concepts: sustainability and quality. These concepts guarantee feeding of future generations, do not compromise current resources, and create solutions and processes that guarantee harmless food, apt for human consumption.
The basis is innovation. Just in 2021, more than $36.4 million were invested in R&D, strengthening its leadership in animal nutrition.
In addition to collaborating with more than 100 research institutions worldwide, the company has five research centers, 12 validation farms
around the world, and a laboratory known as Masterlab, a reference lab in Europe. In Guatemala the company also boasts a fully equipped laboratory for sample analysis to identify the specific needs of clients in order to design custom-made programs, services, and nutrition strategies.
THE THREE PILLARS
Trouw Nutrition has first-hand knowledge of the challenges that food producers in Latin America face. That’s why the company has developed solutions and practices that are easy to implement and tailored to the needs of each client, thus maximizing profitability.
Today, Trouw Nutrition bases itself on three pillars of innovation where all R&D efforts are directed.
1. Precision nutrition: aimed at achieving the production and financial
goals of food and animal protein producers. NutriOpt is the digital platform that performs as a hub for all tools and services available. These range from the use of curves for the analysis of raw material and finished food products – based on 45 years of ingredient analysis – to predict nutritional levels of these ingredients and formulate more precise foods, to the use of prediction models for poultry and swine, or for specific feed concepts. An example of these is the Split-Feeding concept, which consists of providing two different feeds to laying hens according to the time of day, adjusting the diet to the nutritional requirements of the laying hen during its daily egg production cycle.
Within precision nutrition, the MaxCare concept brings all this global knowledge together with solutions and services in a customized premix that is adapted to the needs of each
2. Gut Health: brings together various programs such as salmonella control, antibiotic reduction, mineral optimization, and feed safety. The solutions used within the programs are incorporated into raw materials, complete feed or administered in drinking water, supporting grains and feed preservation, as well
as the gastrointestinal tract. In animal production, preserving the animal’s most important organ, the gastrointestinal tract, means maximizing the animal’s genetic potential.
3. Early life nutrition: includes feeds that are provided at the very first stages of an animal’s life to optimize growth and performance throughout their life and production, which include client and adjusted to fit market changes and requirements.
ChickCare, Milkiwean and Sprayfo.
If an animal starts off well, it performs well.
These three pillars include Selko feed additives, Intellibond hydroxy trace minerals, the specialized digital platform that encompasses decades of knowledge NutriOpt, and MaxCare, an application premix, as well as the Mycomaster equipment, able to identify mycotoxins, the toxic fungal
components appearing in grains.
Clients can benefit from all the company’s experience and its capacity to transfer the latest knowledge in animal nutrition through its solutions and services. Trouw Nutrition experts provide follow-up to support clients on their farm, as well as advice on nutritional strategies that make an impact along the production chain.
Finally, the quality of these solutions is guaranteed by the Nutrace system,
a traceability platform that includes ingredient evaluation, control and monitoring, risk management and follow-up starting at the supplying source of the ingredients.
SOCIAL ASPECT
Good animal nutrition is important for society, as it impacts human nutrition, more so with resources becoming increasingly scarce. The decisions made today are about guaranteeing the food supply for tomorrow. Additionally, Trouw Nutrition works within the company on important issues such as gender equality. According to Aguirre, currently, almost 40% of the labor force in Latin America in the administrative, technical and sales departments are
women. It is of great importance that the company takes this very seriously.
Not only in increasing the participation of women, but in selecting the best candidates.
Aguirre also spoke about social projects with the aim of providing opportunities to low-income individuals. In the well-known Dry Corridor in Guatemala, along with
other organizations, Trouw Nutrition developed the Plumas project in a low-income community, empowering women to become producers of a rich and affordable source of protein: eggs.
Sustainability is also another social issue. Trouw Nutrition has just completed installing solar panels at the premix plant in Guatemala. These solar panels produce 100% of
the electricity needed for premix production.
PROJECTIONS FOR THE COMPANY
Today there are challenges that Trouw Nutrition faces with determination. The world’s population continues to grow and that is why its mission remains feeding the future. To help produce 60% more food to feed the world, the company aims to combine strategy and vision, remaining a key driver for technology to improve efficiency and support the continued growth needed from the industry.
