Those committees are:
The Executive Committee, who oversee the operation of and decides policy for the Association.
The Trade and Technical Committees report directly to the Executive Committee through their Chairperson, who are ‘ex officio’ members of the Executive Committee.
Dr Richard Broadbent, Soufflet Bairds Malt Ltd – Chair
Mr Richard Simpson, Simpsons Malt – Vice Chair/Hon Treasurer
Mr Mark Tyldesley, Muntons plc
Mr Neil Banbury, Crisp Malt
Mr Daniel Cant, Diageo Scotland
Mr Charles Tozer, Boortmalt
– Represented Members’ Representative
Mr Sam Hoad, Muntons plc – Technical ‘ex officio’
Mrs Sarah Hynes, Simpsons Malt -Trade ‘ex officio’
Dr Julian South, Secretariat
Ms Tracy Lawton, Secretariat
The Trade Committee is charged with the task of dealing with any issues relating to the industry’s interest in barley, malt and malt exports.
Mrs Sarah Hynes, Simpsons Malt – Chair
Mr Koshir Kassie, Boortmalt – Vice Chair
Mrs Rebecca Gee, Crisp Malt
Mr Aoife Murphy, Diageo Scotland
Mr Stephane Masson, Muntons plc
Mr Adrian Dyter, Soufflet Bairds Malt Ltd
Dr Julian South, Secretariat
Ms Tracy Lawton, Secretariat
The Technical Committee is charged with the wide task of evaluating any changes to legislation, materials supply and production techniques that could impact on UK malt production. It also deals with training & exams, and has been responsible, since its inception in 1981, for the Malting Diploma Examination; recognised across the world as a standard of Malting excellence. View a list of all successful Malting Diploma candidates since its inception in 1981.
Mr Sam Hoad, Muntons plc – Chair
Dr David Griggs, Crisp Malt
Mr Kwanele Mdluli, Boortmalt
Mr Martyn Bailey, Soufflet Bairds Malt Ltd
Ms Ella Hammond, Diageo Scotland
Mr Steven Rowley, Simpsons Malt
Dr Julian South, Secretariat
Mrs Sue Capewell, Secretariat
All these Committees use work groups to address any issues of potential significance to the industry.
UK maltsters have been active in Europe for a long time. In 1964 the MAGB were founder members of a body set up within the European Free Trade Area to trade malt internationally. That organisation became the modern European Maltsters Association, when the UK joined the European Community in 1973. This organisation now called Euromalt is the Association of Malting Associations throughout the EU. Euromalt is run through a secretariat based in Brussels and Officers of the Association are representatives of some of the larger malting countries in the EU. The MAGB have been active participants in all aspects of Euromalt.
The MAGB also has a totally owned subsidiary company, MAGB (CCL) Ltd, set up to help maltsters meet their commitments to the UK Government’s climate change targets, set under the Kyoto agreement. Although malting uses a natural change within the grain, the final stage of kilning requires a significant energy input in the form of heat and fan power. UK maltsters have made a firm commitment to reduce their energy use per tonne to less than that used by them in 2018. The sector is currently on course to meet this target due to significant investments in energy saving technologies and plant upgrades.