AB VISTA APPOINTS GLOBAL MARKETING DIRECTOR IN NEW ROLE AS PART OF BUSINESS GROWTH STRATEGY

AB Vista has appointed Raquel Rodrigues in a new Global Marketing Director position as it seeks to maximise international growth opportunities. A marketing professional with more than 25 years’ experience, Rodrigues has served in several large multi-nationals mainly dedicated to the mono-gastric segment, and more recently in ruminants, pet and aquaculture. She also has extensive…


AB VISTA HOSTS FEED INTELLIGENCE CONFERENCE IN DUBAI

AB Vista has organised a Feed Intelligence Conference in Dubai, October 3-4, 2023. The event, hosted by the company’s ASPAC team, brought together diverse leading academic and industry experts to share the latest developments from their key fields, exploring how the findings of this research can be practically applied to commercial situations to deliver improved…


AB VISTA BROADENS GUT-HEALTH PORTFOLIO WITH PRODUCT ACQUISITION

AB Vista has extended its product offering with the acquisition of Progres®, an innovative natural additive from Finnish biosciences company Hankkija. Progres is a patented natural resin acids product that improves gut integrity by reducing inflammation and stimulates tissue recovery with a healing effect. It also beneficially modulates intestinal microbiota, favouring butyrate producers and lactobacilli,…


Know your risk, take control of Mycotoxins

AB Vista has teamed up with Volac to offer dairy farmers a new service to reduce the occurrence and impact of mycotoxins. Mycocheck is a comprehensive service designed specifically for the analysis of mycotoxins in animal feed and bedding material, e.g. straw. The app identifies 12 mycotoxins in forage, grains, straw and livestock feeds. Common…


AB Vista to extend reach across Asia Pacific with Signis

AB Vista is to continue its expansion across the Asia Pacific region with the launch of Signis in three more countries: Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand. Signis – the world’s first ‘stimbiotic’ product – is a feed additive that improves the gut health of poultry and swine and improves animals’ resilience to challenges. It works…


AB Vista supports customers’ sustainability programmes with launch of new emissions reporting service

AB Vista has partnered with its sister company Intellync to offer a new reporting service that allows its customers to gain a quick and thorough insight regarding their carbon emissions, helping them to make decisions to reduce their impact. Using independent reporting, and employing recognised methodologies, the new emissions reporting service focuses on supporting agricultural…


Stimbiotic product Signis’ effectiveness in pig diets recognised in new peer-reviewed research paper

AB Vista has welcomed the publication of a new peer-reviewed research paper; ‘Stimbiotic supplementation improved performance and reduced inflammatory response via stimulating fibre fermenting microbiome in weaner pigs housed in a poor sanitary environment and fed an antibiotic-free low zinc oxide diet’. The study investigated whether the inclusion of a stimbiotic can improve performance, influence…


AB Vista peels back the layers of fibre for animal performance with whitepaper

AB Vista has published a new whitepaper called ‘Peeling Back the Layers of Fibre for Animal Performance’ which discusses several misconceptions held in the industry about the complex topic of dietary fibre. The whitepaper also explores the potential of NSP (Non Starch Polysaccharides) analysis through NIR (Near Infrared) to bring new insights related to fibre…


AB Vista appoints new Managing Director

AB Vista has appointed Juan Ignacio Fernandez as its new Managing Director, replacing Richard Cooper who has retired after 16 years in the role. Richard has been synonymous with the AB Vista brand since its launch in 2005 and has taken the company from a start-up, to becoming a highly respected global player with top…


AB Vista publishes ‘An introduction to Fibre Analysis using NIR’

AB Vista has produced a new reference guide which provides poultry and swine producers with an introduction to the benefits of moving from conventional fibre methods (i.e. crude fibre and NDF) to total dietary fibre analysis using Near Infrared Reflectance (NIR) technology. The guide contains the results of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) analysis of feedstuff samples…


AB Vista and partners present nine swine research papers at ASAS / ADSA Midwest Meeting 2020

AB Vista presented the background, methodologies and findings from nine new studies examining the effects of calcium, phosphorous, phytase, xylanase and xylo-oligosaccharides on swine performance at the ASAS Midwest Section / ADSA Midwest Branch Joint Meeting in Omaha, Nebraska from 2nd to 4th March 2020. The new research has been conducted in conjunction with several…


AB Vista to showcase the first ‘stimbiotic’ product at IPPE 2020

AB Vista will be profiling Signis, the world’s first ‘stimbiotic’ product, at this year’s IPPE exhibition, taking place from January 28th to 30th in Atlanta, USA. Having recently hosted the first International Fibre Summit, AB Vista will be bringing to the show a host of expert insights into the changing role of dietary fibre in…


International Fibre Summit spotlights ‘rising star’ of animal nutrition

Fibre took centre stage in Barcelona last week, as global researchers and industry experts joined the first International Fibre Summit, a three-day event exploring the changing role of dietary fibre in monogastric nutrition. Organised by AB Vista, the event brought together specialists from 16 universities across six continents to share cutting-edge insights into the ways…


New video offers fresh perspectives on mode of action for fibre-degrading enzymes

In a new video, AB Vista’s Research Director Dr Mike Bedford reveals a shift in thinking related to the three hypotheses commonly used to explain the mode of action of fibre-degrading enzymes, which could have a significant influence on the choices nutritionists make regarding enzyme selection. In How we have been wrong on the way…


AB Vista shining light on NIR tools and techniques at NIR 2019 conference

Pioneering solutions to be presented at the international NIR 2019 conference (to be held in Australia from 15th to 20th September) consolidate multiple NIR tools and techniques into a single, streamlined approach – for more accurate results. Two new research papers, to be presented by experts from AB Vista’s specialist NIR division Aunir, serve to…


AB Vista to present opportunity to optimise enzyme matrix strategies at PSA Meeting

The Poultry Science Association’s Annual Meeting will see AB Vista present a wide-ranging suite of abstracts, bringing fresh insights across a number of key topics relating to feed analysis and formulation. The research, to be presented at the meeting from 15th – 18th July in Montreal, Canada, covers NIR analysis and the role of enzymes…


AB Vista to share new dairy performance research at ADSA Annual Meeting

Two new abstracts to be presented by AB Vista at the American Dairy Science Association (ADSA) meeting will reveal unique insights into the effect of in-feed enzymes on a range of dairy herd performance markers, including milk yield, milk fat, dry matter intake and protein responses. The research, to be presented at the event in…


IOWA SWINE DAY TO FEATURE DEAN ROBISON AND TOP TOPICS FOR TODAY’S PORK PRODUCERS

AMES, IOWA (June 4, 2019) – AB Vista joins TechMix and Lynch Livestock in welcoming guest speaker Dr Dean Robison, Dean and Director of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Iowa State University, at this year’s Swine Day barbeque. The eighth annual event, set for June 27th at Iowa State University, has a…


AB Vista to preview new carbon reduction study at ESPN

New research exploring the effect of a targeted enzyme application on reducing the carbon footprint of broiler production is amongst the insights to be presented by AB Vista at the European Symposium on Poultry Nutrition (ESPN), taking place in Poland from June 10th to 13th. It is one of seven abstracts from the company that…


AB Vista expands US ruminant team with appointment of industry expert

Livestock nutrition specialist Dr Cathy Bandyk has joined AB Vista as Ruminant Technical Manager for NAFTA, supporting customers across North America, Mexico and Brazil. Working within the commercial ruminant team, Cathy will provide technical advice and information on AB Vista’s ruminant products – including liquid pre-treatment VistaPre-T and live yeast Vistacell. A three-time Kansas State…


AB Vista and research partners to present new swine research at ASAS / ADSA Midwest Meeting

A suite of new presentations and posters showcasing the effects of calcium, xylanase and xylo-oligosaccharides on swine performance is being presented at the ASAS Midwest Section / ADSA Midwest Branch Joint Meeting in Omaha, USA, from 11th to 13th March. Conducted in conjunction with independent institutes including Newcastle University, the University of Illinois, Iowa State…


A live lens on NIR: AB Vista to run real-time demonstrations at VIV Asia

Visitors to AB Vista’s booth at VIV Asia (13th – 15th March) will have the chance to ‘step inside the world of NIR’, with live demonstrations bringing the process to life – up close and in real time. Taking place in Hall 103, Booth 1820, the activity will cover all aspects of the process –…


AB Vista unveils industry’s first dual action microbiome activator at IPPE

A breakthrough dual action product, designed to accelerate the development of a fibre-degrading microbiome, has been launched by AB Vista at the IPPE Expo in Atlanta, USA. Signis – a unique xylanase and fermentable xylo-oligosaccharide (XOS) combination – accelerates the development of a fibre-degrading microbiome, enabling the fermentation of fibre sources that would otherwise remain…


ADDITION OF XYLO-OLIGOSACCHARIDES TO BROILER DIETS CAN BOOST PERFORMANCE BENEFITS OF XYLANASE

The addition of short-chain xylo-oligosaccharides (XOS) to xylanase-supplemented broiler diets can amplify the enzyme’s impact on performance, according to new research from AB Vista. Building on recent research showing that performance improvements in xylanase-supplemented diets are due in part to the xylanase-mediated release of XOS in the gut, the study investigated the influence of adding…


SUPERDOSING PHYTASE CAN COUNTERACT IMPACT OF AMINO ACID REDUCTIONS IN BROILERS

‘Superdosing’, the practice of using high doses of phytase to target phytate destruction, can serve to recover broiler performance losses associated with reductions in dietary digestible amino acid (dAA) densities. This was the finding of a new research study from Texas A&M University and AB Vista. The study investigated impact on body weight, breast meat…


NEW APPLICATION RATE FOR ECONASE XT IN LAYING HENS AND PIGS FOR FATTENING PUBLISHED

A new EU application rate has been approved for AB Vista’s Econase XT xylanase. Following submission of additional data and a thorough review by EFSA, the European Commission has now published an amended version of the annex, reducing the minimum dosage of Econase XT for laying hens and pigs for fattening. This means that users…


AB VISTA TO SHARE PHYTASE AND XYLANASE RESEARCH AT POULTRY INDIA

A suite of phytase and xylanase trials to be showcased by AB Vista at Poultry India will reveal new mode of action insights – with the company’s technical experts on hand to explain how the results can be translated into improvements across feed strategy design. The research will be presented in Hall 1: F2-F6 from…