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GEAPS leaders
reflect on successful
Exchange 2015
Exchange 2015 was a huge success, said Matt
Kerrigan, Bunge North America, GEAPS
International president. It was our second
largest conference with 3,215 attendees from
31 countries. We had 35 hours of educational
programming presented by 55 speakers and
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handling operations in the areas of safety, health, environmental
responsibility, efficiency or excellence in stored-grain quality
management.
GEAPS Lifetime member George Kornstad received the award
for his dedication to the grain industry in the U.S. and overseas.
He started his career at the Continental Grain Company in 1966,
and was an elevator superintendent at OSHAs first inspection
of an elevator. In 1993, he accepted a position with the Citizens
Network for foreign Affairs and spent four years living in
Moscow. During that time, he built small grain storage units
at 57 sites in Russia and Ukraine. He then went to work on a
state-of-the-art export unloading elevator in the Mediterranean
Sea in Alexandria, Egypt. After retiring in 2003 and returning to
the U.S., Kornstad continued his global service to the industry
by teaching proper grain storage practices for U.S. AID-funded
companies in Russia, Bulgaria, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and
Afghanistan.
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