Global Feed Mill project was built from scratch, it went later through many expansions and increasing its production lines. There is also more room to expand the project further as we have potential plans to do more expansions in the future. The total cost of the project is more than 25 million dollars.

Eng. Ibrahim Al-Hazaa Operations Manager Al-Hazaa Investment Group

Global Feed Mill is a leading company in the field of grain storage and animal feed production that was established in 2006 as a subsidiary of Al-Hazaa Investment Group in Al-Zumayla area, south of Amman. It is one of the biggest feed factories in the region that was fully equipped by the Swiss company Bühler. The project was built from scratch, it went later through many expansions and increasing its production lines. There is also more room to expand the project further as we have potential plans to do more expansions in the future. The total cost of the project is more than 25 million dollars.

We decided to build this plant in Jordan because of the big size of the feed market in the country and the growing feed consumption here, almost 3 million tons of feed grains, including corn, soy meal, barley, and bran, of one billion dollars cost, are exchanged in the Jordanian market every year. Two-thirds of this amount are used directly without any processing only simple grinding and mixing while one million ton is processed to produce pelleted feed. Therefore, we believe that Jordan is one of the promising markets in the field of Feed Production that can improve and grow even more.

Global Feed Mill stores and handles grains in modern, well-equipped steel silos with a total storage capacity of 40,000 tons. Our silos are developed to safely and efficiently store the grains, especially the maize and barley, and to maintain the optimum storage conditions. This is achieved through the latest technologies available at our mill that are supplied by our Swiss partner Bühler. We always rely on Bühler to provide all our projects with the latest technologies, most modern machines, and innovative equipment, and this was also the case for Global Feed Mill, as Bühler was the main supplier for this project.

Besides having steel silos that store grains, the Global Feed Mill also operates a factory that has three production lines for the purpose of producing different kinds of high-quality animal feeds, either pelleted or flakes feed. These three production lines enable a fully automatic production of feed with a total production capacity of 480 tons/day for pelleted feed and 240 tons/ day for the compressed corn flakes feed that is used for fattening calves and milking cows. At Global Feed Mill, we have a wide range of products including poultry feed (for laying hens and broiler poultry), cows feed (for fattening and milk cows), in addition to feeds for calves, horses, and sheep. The products are sold in the Jordanian market, and we also export them to neighboring markets in Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Our most famous product is the Compressed Corn Flakes, which is produced using the Swiss technology, Bühler Flaking Mill. The importance of this kind of feed comes from the fact that it is manufactured using maize, which is considered a high source of energy that will improve digestion and, thus, the production efficiency of cattle. Therefore, the compressed corn flakes are mostly used for fattening calves and milking cows. The energy doesn’t only take the form of carbohydrates but also the type of fats. Bühler Flacker technology prevents the maize fat from belly digestion, which makes the fat a critical factor for improving the cattle reproduction, their production of milk, and increasing the rates of meat production in fattening calves. When using the Compressed Corn Flakes produced by the Flacker technology, you will be able to replace 30% of the crushed maize for only 20% of the thick flakes and add 10% filling feed. This will improve your production efficiency and reduce feed costs.

At the Global Feed Mill, we process the best raw materials, all the processes we use to produce feed are fully automatic without any human touch to maintain a high safety level and the best quality possible. This is achieved through the help of the Bühler WinCos automation system that ensures accuracy and quality. The WinCos automation system controls all the operation processes in the mill at increased efficiency.

The company is characterized by manufacturing feeds in the form of high-consistency granules, each of the same nutritional value, in addition to many other advantages. At first, we receive the grains and store them in external silos that are fully equipped to store grain for long periods, our silos are equipped with a state-of-the-art ventilation system that guarantees that the stored grains remain in good conditions, and that controls the temperature inside silos and also prevents the production of the toxic aflatoxin and kills any insects, mold or birds.

Afterward, the grains are sieved and cleaned using special machines for this purpose, at this process any unwanted object is removed making the grains ready to be ground and weighed using very accurate scales. This prepares grains for the next step which is to be mixed in the Bühler Speedmix Batch Mixer, that offers optimal mixing quality at highest hygiene levels, the grains are mixed with specific amounts of additives and medicines depending on the type of the feed we want to produce. The final step is performed by Bühler pelleting dies and roller shells that produce the final pelleted feed product of various sizes using the latest technological and hygienic standards that enable top level of precision and durability. The final product is then packed in 50kg bags or transported in bulk silos directly to cows and poultry farms. All these processes are done using 100% clean energy that is supplied from Al-Hazaa Group’s solar energy plant.

It is Al-Hazaa Investment Group’s policy to keep up with the development processes and the local needs of the Jordanian and neighboring markets; therefore, it works with trusted partners such as Bühler and uses the best technologies available in the industry to ensure the production of the highest quality products. Bühler is not only a supplier; through Bühler, we train our employees and make sure to follow the latest milling trends. Our aim is to serve our customers at a competitive price, and that is achieved through high sustainability and efficiency.

However, and due to the increasing number of diseases among animals, especially among poultry, we face a major challenge, and that is to maintain the high quality and perfect hygiene level of our feed.

Currently, we only produce feed in our mill; however, our future plan is to enter the sector of poultry farming. We have the goal of constantly improving our business in order to satisfy our customers’ needs and provide them with high-quality products. In Jordan there are 30 feed factories, only 10 of them are considered to be of large size, we hope that with our mill we will maintain a large market share in this industry and continuously increase it over time.

Global Feed Mill is part of the Al-Hazaa Investment Group, so it benefits from the other facilities owned by the group, especially from the group’s solar power plant that supplies the mill with clean energy 24hrs which results in reducing production costs and increasing the mill’s competitiveness. Being part of the Al-Hazaa Investment Group has helped the mill to have a good relationship with important grain suppliers like Cargill, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and CHS, which helped in supplying the mill with its needs from high quality grains used in the production of feed. Al-Hazaa Investment Group started operation in Iraq in the early 1940s with only one flour mill to become today one of the leading business groups in the Middle East in the field of grain milling, as the group operates ten wheat flour milling facilities in the Middle East. The group, however, has more investments in other fields such as plastic industry, pasta and noodles production, renewable energy sector, grain storage, and animal feed.