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Werner Speer has been in the feed industry for over 55 years. He worked and collected knowledge and experience in a couple of big and well-known companies from Austria and abroad. He was always interested in the feeding concepts , recipe optimization and improvements in the feeding. Another interesting point for him was sustainability and animal health. That was the reason why he connected with Prof. Halama from the Boku university in Vienna. Prof. Halama was investigating the effects of clay minerals in animal feeding. He was achieving interesting results, but the inclusion rate was minimum 3% -5% of clay minerals, but this high percentage of ash lowers the energy in the formula too much! So Mr Speer was looking for solutions to minimize the inclusion rates by adding other natural ingredients and he found a way of physical processing, which enhanced the effectiveness of the additives and enabled him to reduce the inclusion rate step by step to 0,2%, which made the usage feasible! The effects surpassed the results with pure clay minerals by far and many trials showed that Mr Speer was able to achieve by far better results, even he decreased the inclusion rate dramatically.