ExPress® Soybean Meal
DECADES OF EXTRUSION EXPERIENCE TO CREATE THE ULTIMATE PROTEIN MEAL
Research backed, chemical-free ExPress® soybean meal has proven to strengthen operations and improve overall animal performance. ExPress® soybean meal is a nutrient dense feed ingredient that enhances productivity & profit for producers of meat, milk & eggs.
ExPress® System
Extrusion
As soybeans make their way through the high-shear extruder barrel, they are exposed to elevated temperature, pressure, and shear in a high temperature, short cook time process, which denatures the anti-nutritional factors and ruptures oil cell walls.
As extruded full-fat soy exits the extruder barrel, pressure and steam are released. The extruded full-fat soy is then conveyed into the oil press.
Pressing
Passing through the cage length, oil is mechanically pressed away from the meal fraction. Crude soy oil is pumped from the press into a decanter to separate solids from the soy oil. The press cake is conveyed into the cooler by a cut and fold conveyor reducing particle size as it conveys.
In the cooler, the press cake tumbles through a counterflow airstream to reduce temperature with exhausted air exiting through the cyclone. Cooled press cake exits the cooler and is conveyed to the hammer mill, which reduces the cake to the desired particle size. The milled product ExPress® soy meal is ready to be used, packaged or stored.
ExPress® Soybean Meal
With deactivated trypsin inhibitors & decreased urease activity, intake is improved with a higher protein availability and enhanced digestibility.
When raw soybeans are processed through an extruder using the proprietary ‘High-Temp, Short Cook Time’ (HTST) technology, anti-nutrients are effectively deactivated. This decreases the feed conversion ratio and provides all necessary amino acids, possessing higher nutritional value than traditional solvent soybean meal. Once exiting the extruder barrel, the full-fat soybean meal can be used as a protein source or can be pressed into ExPress® soy meal. Vital, naturally-preserved, nutrients contribute to decreased feed intake.
ExPress® Soy Oil
Performance Benefits
ExPress® soybean oil is a valuable commodity with a variety of uses post-extraction. Pressing extruded full-fat soybean meal enables an efficient, solvent-free and steam-free mechanical extraction of the oil. Resulting in a nutrient dense soybean meal, rich in highly digestible amino acids and in metabolizable energy, together with high-quality crude soybean oil.
The ExPress® System is suitable for use with high oil-bearing seeds (rapeseed, sunflower, etc) provided pre-pressing is utilized as a part of a Press-ExPress® System solution.
Shelf-Life & Rancidity
Due to the naturally occurring preservatives in the oil, when proper levels of cook are achieved in the extrusion process, the oil can be stored up to 12 months and improves fry life.
Contact us if you are interested in processing your own oil or purchase oil through one of our ExPress® certified customers.
