Nidera Handelscompagnie B.V.

The Nidera Group is a services and solutions provider in the international agriculture and energy markets. Nidera Handelscompagnie B.V. was established in 1920 in Rotterdam, it is a privately held company and currently employs over 3000 people in 22 countries.

The company has strong traditional roots in origination, marketing and trading of agricultural commodities and in agribusiness. Other related activities include the operation of blending and storage facilities, trucks and railcars, elevators, processing plants, vegetable oils refining and bottling. In South-America Nidera is also engaged in the R&D of agronomic seeds and in the handling of a wide range of agricultural inputs.

The traditional Origination, Marketing and Trading activities are divided into the following product groups:
Grains: (durum) wheat, corn, sorghum, feed, (malting) barley, oats and rye.
Oilseeds: soybean, sunflower seed, rapeseed and their oil and meal byproducts, mid-protein feeds, specialty oils crude and refined.
Vegetable oils: edible oils (groundnut, corn and refined vegetable oils), crude edible oils (soybean, sunflower seed, rapeseed, coconut and palm oil) and castor oil derivatives.
Oilseed meals: copra meal, palm meal, soybean meal and sunflower seed meal.
Rice: products of various types and qualities, to selected markets in West Africa and the Caribbean.
Ocean freight: full scope trading to support the group's physical business and generate additional cargo in other products.

Agribusiness activities include:
Seeds: research, breeding and development of hybrid and varietal seeds like corn, soybean, wheat, sorghum, sunflower and canola.
Crop nutrition: fertilizer distribution and farm service centers.
Crop protection: production and distribution of herbicides, insecticide and fungicides.
Origination and processing: grain and oilseeds storage, conditioning and export. Manufacture of crude and refined vegetable oil, and their animal feed byproducts. Rice procurement and processing.

Nidera Energy

The emergence of bio-energy is without doubt one of the most important developments in the agricultural markets in recent years, with strong effects on price, volatility, trade flows and supply-demand equations. There has been tremendous growth in biodiesel, bio-ethanol and biomass-to-power plant capacity, and a strong incremental demand for a range of products previously predominantly sold into the food and the feed industry.

Through Nidera’s activities in bio-energy, and our traditional experience in the sourcing, trading and risk management of agro-commodities, Nidera is in the unique position to bridge the gap and unite feed, food and fuels markets, and offer a multitude of services to the bio-energy industry, including full supply chain management services. Nidera became active in biofuels on 2006, green power in 2007 and formally established an Energy Business Unit in 2008.

The main product groups of Nidera Energy are:
Biofuels: Biodiesel and ethanol supply, shipping and trading. Supply of feedstock material to producers.
Biomass: Supply of liquid and solid biomass products to producers of renewable energy. See below.
Green Power: Nidera is a partner for small-to-medium scale power producers by offering marketing as well as risk management services (hedging in- and output), assistance with operational activities such as grid access activities, portfolio management, access to power exchanges and OTC markets.
Carbon: CDM/JI projects and EUA trading

Nidera’s Biomass Group

Nidera actively supplies biomass products for co-firing to power producers in Europe. As Nidera has been trading products suitable for biomass for many years, Nidera has long-term and well-established relationships with clients in the origin, and good logistical experience. Therefore Nidera can offer long-term security of supply of Biomass to customers.

Biomass comes in both liquid form and solid form. Our product range includes:
· Wood pellets, woodchips and bark in various qualities
· Palm kernel expellers (PKE) and palm kernel shells (PKS)
· Palm oil and palm fatty acid distillate (PFAD)
· Olive cake and olive meal
· Agri-waste products such as sunflowerseedhusk-pellets, bagasse-pellets, ricehusk-pellets, Peanut-pellets, and so on

Nidera’s biomass group will achieve long term objectives via developing strengths in the origination, asset management and market development areas, by extending business activities into engaged partnerships, asset investments, and third party sales.

Nidera want to be a key player/partner in realizing the European CO2-Emission reduction targets: 20 % in 2020, increased to 30 % if a new climate treaty (post Kyoto) is reached, meaning 21 % reduction EU-ETS participants compared to 2005.

Contact details:

Peter - Paul (P.J.W.G.) Schouwenberg
Manager Biomass

Nidera Handelscompagnie B.V.
Willemsplein 492
3016 DR Rotterdam

P.O. Box
Postbus 676
3000 AR Rotterdam
Phone: +31 6 83165188
Fax: +31 10 4130338
Email: pschouwenberg@nidera.nl

www.nidera.com

www.niderabioenergy.com