Poland NaturAgra adopts Smart™ technologies for combined duck and geese hatchery

Poland’s NaturAgra adopts Smart™ technologies for combined duck and geese hatchery

Royal Pas Reform has completed the installation of a new combined duck and geese hatchery – the first of its kind in Europe – for Warsaw-based waterfowl processing specialist, NaturAgra.

NaturAgra – part of one of Poland’s leading poultry groups, Grupa Drosed, which is wholly owned by one of Europe’s largest fresh poultry producers, French-owned LDC France – wanted to have the newest hatchery with highest standards on the market. In phase one of this greenfield hatchery project, Royal Pas Reform installed 16 SmartSetPro™ 4 setters, 24 SmartSetPro™ 2 setters, and 28 SmartHatchPro™ automated hatchers. The specification included a SmartCare™ contract for ongoing incubation advice. The installation of this equipment and the climate control system and project management was by Jarmax, Royal Pas Reform’s trade agent in Poland.

From February 2022, the goose-hatching season will start – with the full annual capacity of 1.5 millon goslings achieved by the summer. Duckling hatches are due to begin at the same time, with an eventual production target of 12 million ducklings per year.

Sustainability and animal welfare were a central focus in the project’s design. Important factors included a closed vacuum-waste system and sustainable HVAC operation, with heat recovery and energy saving options.

In the duck hatchery, NaturAgra has adopted the welfare friendly SmartCount™ duck counting system, which includes take-off and spray vaccination capability. In addition, the hatchery features new technology in the form of an egg-washing machine, which removes the cuticle from the duck eggs, to achieve better hatchability. Roldrob chose this after reference visits to Royal Pas Reform’s duck customers, ‘Duck-To farm’ in the Netherlands and ‘Bangkok Ranch’ in Thailand.

Adam Sojka, CEO of Drosed, comments: “I am very confident that we have made the right decision in going with Royal Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ single stage technology. These incubators will help us to deliver excellent quality ducklings and goslings.”

Niels Stam, Sales Director Eastern Europe, says: “We are delighted that NaturAgra chose Royal Pas Reform in the light of very strong competition from sector specialists. It demonstrates that the attraction of our solutions, service and focus on innovation is as strong in the waterfowl sector as it is in the poultry sector. We look forward to working closely with the team at NaturAgra in the future and also to building our reputation in this increasingly important market, worldwide.”

New state-of-the-art hatchery for Bingo in Bosnia

Bingo, Bosnia’s largest supermarket chain, has launched a new, state-of-the-art layer hatchery near the northeastern town of Kalesija.

The installation by Royal Pas Reform, in cooperation with Mrs. Biljana Tomic from its long-term Balkan agent, Iradia, features SmartPro™ single-stage incubation. This includes 12 SmartSetPro™ setters, 8 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, hatchery automation and HVAC. Bingo aims to produce 2.4 million laying hens per year.

With its headquarters in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bingo Export-Import Tuzla d.o.o. aims to become a leader in table egg production. In addition, Bingo also exports its products to the countries of Central European Free Trade Agreement (CEFTA) and now plans to start exports to the EU as well.

Irfan Hasanovic, the hatchery manager of Bingo says: “Our mission is to preserve our reputation as the most modern center for egg production in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Using single-stage incubation from Royal Pas Reform greatly contributes in terms of hatchability and chick quality, and we are receiving very positive feedback from our customers.”

Niels Stam, Royal Pas Reform’s Sales Director for Eastern Europe comments: “Royal Pas Reform is delighted to have won this contract. We look forward to continuing to work with Bingo to help its team achieve its plans for further growth and development.”

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Belgrankorm launches new advanced hatchery facility

LLC Belgrankorm is part of parent company BezrkBelgrankorm, a large and diversified agri-business established in 1998, which has more than 40 divisions. Located in the Belgorod and Novgorod regions of Russia, its main activities are the production of poultry, pork, beef, milk, grain and animal feed.

LLC Belgrankorm has become the first poultry company in Russia to adopt Royal Pas Reform’s SmartCare™ package– providing five-years’ preventative maintenance and hatchery support.

The new hatchery, at v. Zavidovka, Yakovlevskiy district, Belgorod, was opened in Q1 2020 after both reconstruction of old and construction of new facilities. It is equipped with advanced Smart™ integrated hatchery solutions from Royal Pas Reform. The estimated capacity of the new hatchery is 42 million eggs per year, and as a result the capacity of the entire facility has increased to 92,5 million eggs per year.

Royal Pas Reform supplied, installed and commissioned a range of its single-stage incubation technologies. This includes 20 SmartPro™ 6 setters, 28 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers and the SmartCenterPro™ hatchery management software.

SmartCenterPro™’s track and trace module will record every moment of the hatching eggs and day-old chicks – from the origin of the eggs, to the receipt of chicks at customers’ farms. This includes cycle reports from every hatch, which incorporate individual day-old chick weight estimation and uniformity scoring for each batch produced.

“Agroindustrial holding Belgrankorm is a future-focused company,” said director for eggs production, Andrey Nepokrytov. “This program takes us up to another level. With optimized, efficient and uninterrupted performance in every area of the hatchery we will achieve our goal of producing the highest number of best-quality chicks.” In 2020 Belgrankorm plans to produce more than 160 million hatching eggs for production over 315,000 tonnes of live weight poultry meat.

“We keep pace with new trends,” says Mikhail Vyacheslavovich Yakushev, general director of LLC Belgrankorm. “We focus on the quality and uniformity of chickens and pay great attention to achieving the highest standards of hygiene and biological safety throughout the hatchery.”

Wim Schaafsma, Pas Reform Russia’s General Director, commented: “We are delighted to work with Belgrankorm again to deliver its advanced integrated hatchery facility at v.Zavidovka. It is a technology led, forward looking company, As the first in Russia to adopt our SmartCare™ package, it now leads the way in harnessing the operational benefits of advanced hatchery care and support.”

Thailand’s Panus Poultry export-driven expansion

Thailand-based poultry specialist Panus Poultry Co. has installed Royal Pas Reform SmartSetPro™ setters and SmartHatchPro™ hatchers at a major hatchery expansion, located 110km from Bangkok in Phanat Nikhom. Driven by a significant increase in demand for its internationalquality products from Europe and Japan, the hatchery will eventually produce 2.4 million day-old chicks per week.

Panus Poultry, which was established in 1997, is a fully integrated poultry company and includes breeder farms, hatcheries, broiler farms, primary processing and further processing plants. A subsidiary of PNP Group, in 2018 Japanese meat processor NH Foods, also known as Nipponham, acquired a 30% stake in Panus Poultry to boost its exports to Japan.

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Sahara Conservation Fund saves rare North African ostrich

Pas Reform North America has partnered with the Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) – an international non-profit organization, dedicated to conserving wildlife in the Sahara Desert – to help save the threatened North African rednecked ostrich.

With the exception of a few small savannah populations, the North African red-necked ostrich has completely disappeared from its once vast Sahelo-Saharan range. Pas Reform North America is supporting SCF’s efforts to recover this distinctive, but less known, sub-species of ostrich through the North African Ostrich Recovery Project.

SCF has recently completed the commissioning of Niger’s first solar-powered field hatchery, which is custom engineered to restore and repopulate the ostrich in the wild.

“The survival of the North African red-necked ostrich depends upon this project,” explains John Newby, SCF Fund Director. “Nigeriens who have been caring for the last five breeding pairs of these ostriches reached out to us about how we could help.”

Four shipping containers have been converted into a sustainable camp and architects and engineers for the North African Ostrich Recovery Project created a hatchery – which includes Pas Reform incubators, an incubation lab, office and solar power plant. The hatchery was fabricated in San Francisco and shipped to Africa for reassembly. Now fully operational, it is equipped to run sustainably – with only minimal water supply from a well one mile away. The first birds are expected to start laying at the end of April. John Newby said: “Through this partnership with Pas Reform North America, we hope to safeguard the future of these unique, flightless birds.”

Steve Warren, CEO of Pas Reform North America says: “We are delighted to support this important conservation project and play a part in helping to ensure the survival of this perilously threatened species.”

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Agricola Ariztia further expands in Chile

Chile’s Agricola Ariztia has started a new phase of hatchery expansions and renovations at two of its five hatcheries. At the Malvilla hatchery, the company’s largest, Ariztia is renovating and expanding with Smartpro™ NF, on the 54-egg tray produced by Pas Reform North America. Its hatchery in Arica, in northern Chile, will expand with Royal Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ series on the 150-egg tray.

Don Manuel Ariztia, founder of Melipilla-based Agricola Ariztia, comments: “We have been working in a very professional way with the Pas Reform team – whether they have come from Europe, or the USA. In both cases, they have helped us greatly with advice based on their in-depth knowledge of incubation.

“We have seen very good results, both with the SmartPro™ NF and the SmartPro™ series. The SmartPro™ NF option suited us very well when that came to market. It meant that we could incorporate Pas Reform’s incubation technology, while at the same time staying with the 54-egg flat. It made the change over seamless and very simple for us to achieve.”

Steve Warren, President of Pas Reform North America, says: ”The SmartPro™NF series has shown great results here at home in the USA. Leading groups like Wayne and Pilgrims are now operating with SmartPro™ NF. We are happy to have made now serious steps internationally as well. This year we have concluded projects in Thailand and we are now extremely happy to have expanded further with Agricola Ariztia in Chile.”

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