Flexi’Fodder
Calculate nutritional values for forage
Feed formulation
A strategic lever for addressing new challenges
Feed manufacturers face multiple, sometimes conflicting challenges. They must balance economic competitiveness and zootechnical performance along with growing demands for sustainability, animal welfare, and food safety. The quality of raw materials, nutritional innovation, and cost control are at the heart of these challenges. Against this backdrop, formulation becomes a strategic lever for feed millers.
Our expertise in Formulation to reconcile performance and competitiveness
Services offered
- Utilize control plan analyses to accurately characterize raw materials and verify feed compliance
- Provide a comprehensive and accurate formulation matrix for strong livestock performance and perfectly optimized formulas
- Offer nutrition and formulation consulting to help feed manufacturerdefine constraints tailored to the local context and optimized for the lowest possible cost
- Optimize and deliver formulations when in‑house formulation capabilities are not available
- Streamline the interface between formulation and other company functions to ensure feed compliance and reduce costs across the entire supply chain.
Benefits
Ensure performance and optimize costs
To achieve the expected performance in livestock farming, Mixscience’s formulation expertise relies on two essential pillars: in-depth knowledge of raw materials and additives, captured into a precise formulation matrix, and continuous adjustment of parameters based on the data collected and the animals’ needs.
Beyond this expertise, Mixscience also supports nutritionists in developing their skills through close monitoring and targeted training.
Mixscience also helps structure internal processes. Coordination between formulation, procurement, quality control, supply chains, and the factory is enhanced, which in turn ensures the reliability of the information used and the compliance of animal feed.
Finally, formulation becomes a competitive advantage: better use of internal and external data, adjustment of formulation constraints, reduction of unnecessary safety margins, and optimization of available raw materials… With Mixscience’s formulation expertise, performance and cost control go hand in hand.
Why Mixscience?
Integrated formulation expertise
A comprehensive and innovative formulation matrix
Our formulation matrix incorporates robust predictive equations derived from regularly updated in vitro (Mixscience Research Center) and in vivo (Innolab) trials. The Mixscience database contains over 18,000 raw materials and more than 2,000 nutrients—including many specialized ones—to meet animal needs with accuracy and precision and to address societal challenges.
Extensive skills supporting feed manufacturers
We support our partners with a team of experienced and versatile formulators, as well as direct and back-office technical support from engineers specializing in specific animal species, R&D teams, and data scientists.
A unique and proven approach to overseeing formulation
Drawing on the experience gained across more than 40 Avril plants, Mixscience has developed a unique organizational model. This is evidenced by the “Feed Meetings,” the “-€1 Methodology,” and the optimization of formulation interfaces.
Digital solutions designed to boost performance
Our digital tools facilitate data management, secure processes, and enhance the formulator’s expertise: Flexi’Lab and Flexi’Farm for analysis management, Flexi’Val and Flexi’Fodder for optimizing raw materials and forages, and Flexi’Feed for simplified formula optimization.
More than 20 formulation experts support our partner feed manufacturers
(12 providing direct support, 8 overseeing matrix development)
