India IB Group expands with Royal Pas Reform

Major hatchery expansion for India’s IB Group

IB Group has chosen Royal Pas Reform as its partner for their multi-location hatchery expansion programme across the Indian sub-continent. These state-of-the-art installations will feature single-stage incubators, fully integrated climatecontrol systems and complete hatchery automation – making them amongst the most modern facilities in India.

IB Group (ABIS Exports India Pvt Ltd) AEPL, which is based in Rajnandgaon, Chattisgarh, believes that adopting a singlestage incubation process – giving superior post-hatch performance, in terms of growth, mortality and feed conversions – is pivotal to producing high-quality broiler chicks.

Mr. Bahadur Ali, Founder & Managing Director of IB Group says: “IBG’s ambition is to play a major role in the future growth of the Indian poultry industry. During the course of 2020 we made a long-term strategic plan with our team, which needed a multiple-location expansion for our hatchery operations. “It was an obvious step for us to go for single-stage, fully automated hatcheries technology. Choosing Royal Pas Reform – the world’s leading single-stage incubation and integrated incubation-project specialist – was therefore the logical choice for us.”

Bouke Hamminga, Royal Pas Reform Director International Sales & Business Development says: “We are delighted that IB Group – a leading technology driven poultry company in India – has chosen to work with us to deliver its ambitious plans. I am sure that, as a global integrated hatchery solutions supplier, we can prove to be a key partner for decades to come.”

Venkitakrishnan Natarajan, country manager India Royal Pas Reform welcomes new CFO to the board

Royal Pas Reform has appointed Marcel Dost as its new chief financial officer. He will lead the company’s global financial activities including accounting and controllership, financial planning and analysis, tax, investor relations and internal audit. Marcel (57) will be based at Royal Pas Reform’s headquarters in Zeddam, The Netherlands. He brings more than 30 years’ experience in business finance to the role. Prior to joining Royal Pas Reform, he spent almost four years at MDo Management & Consultancy in Enschede – in a variety of financial leadership positions, most recently as Interim CFO at Stork Plastics Machinery BV in Hengelo.

Agri Plus starts new greenfield broiler hatchery

Poland-based Agri Plus Sp. z o.o. recently started production at its new greenfield broiler hatchery. Agri Plus is part of Smithfield Foods, which since September 2013, together with the WH Group, creates a company that is the largest pork producer in the world. Agri Plus is engaged in the production of pigs, poultry and feed production.

Royal Pas Reform installed 21 SmartSetPro6 high capacity™ setters, 6 SmartSetPro3 and 24 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, as well as a range of hatchery automation systems, including an egg-setting line, automatic candling and transfer, and a SmartCount™ counting and dosing system and vacuum waste system. In addition, Royal Pas Reform designed, supplied and installed the complete HVAC system.

The hatchery is covered by a preventive maintenance program, delivered by Polish technicians, and a SmartCare™ service program – which now covers all the three of Agri Plus’s sites in Poland. Expert advice is provided by Royal Pas Reform’s Polish incubation consultants.

The facility was already working with 25 year-old Pas Reform incubators and the appointment followed two successful earlier projects with Agri Plus broiler and goose hatcheries in Bielsk Podlaski and Sokolka.

Since 2018, Agri Plus has been developing broiler breeding based on its own model of “Farm Fattening”. It is a safe and stable cooperation offer for Polish breeders.

Kamila Kiczuk, head of all hatchery activities for Agri Plus in Poland, says: “There were several reasons why we chose Royal Pas Reform for our expansion project. Its strong local presence and knowledge, our existing relationship and the results of previous projects were all significant trust factors that contributed to our decision. It is also able to supply spare parts rapidly from its warehouse near Gdansk.

“Also, in previous projects, hatchery automation came from different suppliers. Agri Plus was not pleased with the outcomes, since it could not fully connect all equipment into one central operating computer. Now we can, with the performance efficiency and optimization this gives us.”

Niels Stam, Sales Director Eastern Europe, comments: “We are delighted to extend and deepen our long-lasting relationship with Agri Plus, which is a major European and international poultry producer.

Major production boost for Egypt’s Delta Masr Group with new hatchery

Giza-based Delta Masr Group, one of Egypt’s pioneering agricultural businesses, has chosen Royal Pas Reform’s Smart™ technologies for its all-new hatchery in Alexandria, which will have a capacity of 60 million day-old chicks per year.

Delta Masr Group, founded in 1997 by Mr. Anas Abd Elkhabeer Al Mosalmi, was one of the first companies in Egypt to specialize in broiler poultry farming. Today, the business comprises five distinct sectors – poultry, feed manufacturing, animal production, the agricultural sector, land reclamation, and the grain-trade sector.

Its first hatchery was established in 2001, with a production capacity of 24 million broiler chickens per year. And based on the group’s experience in breeding all available breeds in the Egyptian market, the company has also set up a feed factory under the commercial name Delta Masr Feed Mill, which produces nutritionally balanced feed for all types of poultry.

At the new hatchery, Royal Pas Reform will install 24 SmartSetPro™ 6 setters, 24 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, and the SmartCenterPro™ hatchery management system to ensure precise, consistent process control. Royal Pas Reform will also supply a full range of hatchery automation and climate control equipment.

Mr. Al Mosali says: “The vision behind our expansion is to provide healthy food for local and external consumers with the highest international quality standards. The new hatchery will allow us to meet market needs, ensure supply security and raise the efficiency of the production process. We chose Royal Pas Reform as a supplier of the best-quality solutions.”

Gregory Vanputte, Royal Pas Reform’s Director Sales & Business Development HAS, comments: “We are delighted to have received this major project commission from Delta Masr Group which has one of Egypt’s most progressive poultry businesses. This new hatchery will provide an important springboard for the company’s continued growth.”

Widodo Makmur Unggas chooses Smart™ hatchery technology

Jakarta-based poultry vertical integrator Widodo Makmur Unggas (WMU) has opened its latest broiler breeding farm and hatchery at Tonggor, in the Yogjakarta region of Java, Indonesia, following an inauguration ceremony attended by the region’s Deputy Governor.

With a capacity of 24 million day old chicks (DOC) per year, the new facility is equipped with incubators, hatchery automation and climate control systems from Royal Pas Reform – designed to produce healthy and highly uniform day-old chicks.

The specification includes 12 SmartSetPro™-6 setters with Adaptive Metabolic Feedback (AMF™) and Energy Saving Module (ESM™), 12 SmartHatchPro™-5 hatchers with SmartWatch™ and climate control.

SmartWatch™ is a unique tool for hatch-window control, which creates ideal conditions for chicks to hatch – by optimizing the humidity and CO2 inside the hatcher. It monitors and adjusts the hatching process automatically – from the day of transfer, through to the hatching of the last chicks – eliminating any need for human intervention.

Mr. Ali Mas’adi, WMU’s CEO says: “With these facilities, the purpose of supporting the national food security program as well as contributing to the welfare of the people of Yogyakarta will be achieved.”

WMU is a leading integrated poultry business, with production facilities spread across Java, including commercial broiler farm, commercial layer farm, feed mill and slaughter house divisions which support its main goal in supplying chicken meat.

“Also by supporting farmers and SME’s of Indonesia, we will grow the business bigger,” says Ali.

Royal Pas Reform’s Sales Director, Bas Kanters says: “We are delighted to be working with WMU in Java. It is a progressive business that is making an important contribution to expanding Indonesia’s poultry market and distribution network.”

Getting to the bottom of sex-related first week mortality

By Lenise I. de Souza, Incubation Specialist, Royal Pas Reform

“Why are so many chicks dying in their first week?” I could hear the worry in his voice when I received a call from the manager of a single-stage broiler hatchery in southern Brazil. It was a cold winter (yes, even in this tropical country temperatures can go below 10°C) and he was getting reports of 3-5% of chicks dying in their first week, and in some cases even 10%.

Wanting to get to the bottom of this alarmingly high firstweek mortality, I went to visit the plant, where I learned there was no relationship between setter/hatcher room or breeder flock/line. Stranger still: either males or females were dying, but not both sexes from the same hatch day. Naturally, my first reaction was that something might be going wrong after the chicks had been sexed. Or perhaps transport was the problem? But the manager said they’d looked at these too and could find no correlation.

After tracking & tracing all chick handling procedures after sexing, we realised that the worst cases were when chicks hatched on the Friday but were not delivered until Saturday - so they had stayed overnight at the hatchery. But the records from the chick delivery room showed nothing unusual: temperature and humidity were fine. It was time to take a look inside the chick delivery room. Once again, the record sheet showed normal environment data. But ... when I stood close to the wall where air was entering the room, I could feel the cold on my bare arms. The chicks on that side were huddled together in their boxes. Measuring their rectal temperature (it was 101-102°F) confirmed that they were suffering from hypothermia. The temperature around these boxes, which contained male chicks, was only 19°C.

The female chicks from the same breeder flock had been place in the centre of the room. Their rectal temperature was normal (104-105°F) and the temperature around their box was 25°C. Clearly the two sexes had been placed in very different conditions during the time they were waiting to be put on transport, and this time it was the males that were the unlucky ones.

The sensor to keep the temperature at 25°C was located in the centre of the room. As a delivery room fills up, more and more cooling is needed, and the room was getting too cold where the air was entering. In fact, the cold air was streaming directly into the chick boxes close to the air inlets.

We set up a makeshift trial using cardboard funnels to direct the cool air upwards, avoiding direct air flow over the chicks. A few hours later, when we measured the temperature of the air around the chick boxes near the air entrance, conditions had improved, and this was confirmed by the chicks’ more normal rectal temperatures. The hatchery manager has now devised a more permanent solution: aluminium air conductors have been fitted. And even in winter there have been no more complaints of chicks dying from the cold.

We’ve learned some valuable lessons from this story. It’s important to check the temperature in different parts of the chick delivery room, and chicks must not be exposed to cold draughts. If necessary, direct inlet air upwards away from the chicks so that it warms up first. It’s not worth destroying all the effort that has gone into incubation by careless handling of newly hatched chicks.

Royal Pas Reform appoints new agent for Argentina and Uruguay

Royal Pas Reform is pleased to announce the appointment of Buenos Aires-based AgroScrum S.A. as the company’s representative for Argentina and Uruguay. Led by Chief Executive Gonzalo Begino, AgroScrum will drive the relaunch of Pas Reform in a market that demands highly specialist knowledge about the poultry industry. Gonzalo Begino can be contacted at g.begino@agroscrum.com or on mobile at +54 911 5462 1610 Adriaen Sligcher, sales director Africa, Pas Reform Southern Africa

Ross Africa doubles grandparent hatchery capacity in Zambia

At three successful hatchery managers courses, hosted by Ross Africa at its Chianda broiler hatchery near Lusaka in 2015, 2017 and 2019, Royal Pas Reform and the Academy team enjoyed the company and participation of a host of breeder farm and hatchery managers from across the African continent. Royal Pas Reform would like to thank Ross Breeders Zambia for hosting such fantastic multi-day events and we look forward to future opportunities to repeat the experience!

Seven years after the opening of Ross Africa’s grandparent hatchery in Mazabuka Zambia, which was installed with Royal Pas Reform technologies, the growth in the Southern and Central African poultry sector has justified the investment to double its capacity.

Ross Africa has chosen to work with Royal Pas Reform again for this second-phase project, which will increase hatchery production to up to two-million day-old chicks per week. The expansion will include an additional 6 x SmartSetPro™1 and 3 x SmartSetPro™2 Setters in the expanded facility. This configuration is most suitable for the production of the AB male and CD female lines. In addition, a completely new climate-control system for both the expansion and existing hatchery buildings will be included in the engineering project. The climate-control system will include the SmartView™ monitoring system, which will enable the hatchery staff to monitor both the operating performance of the incubators and the total HVAC system.

To ensure that the eggs entering the hatchery are perfectly orientated on the setter trays, a point-down setting line will be installed. The extended storage life that grandparent eggs need to endure will be improved by the addition of automatic turning frames in the egg storage rooms, as well as a SmartHeat™ incubator for SPIDES treatments.

Colin Lindsay, Managing Director of Ross Zambia, comments: “We were very pleased with the performance of Royal Pas Reform’s first installation of its state-of-the-art technologies at Mazabuka in 2014. So it was a natural choice for us to work with them again, as we develop our enterprise further and continue with our commitment to expansion in the region.”

Henry Arts, marketing director, Royal Pas Reform Kim Stammers, event manager, Royal Pas Reform Jeffrey Kleering van Beerenbergh, online marketing manager, Royal Pas Reform

Meet our parent company – Hydratec Industries

For more than 10 years, Royal Pas Reform has been a proud part of the Hydratec family of companies. We have achieved notable business growth and technological development successes working under our parent company’s umbrella.

Today, we are a world-leading hatchery solutions business and, with Hydratec’s financial strength behind us, we will continue to support our customers with a complete, sustainable and integrated product and service package – where data-driven solutions will give the hatchery evergreater control over managing the incubation process, and consequently profit from the highest number of best-quality chicks.

Profile

Hydratec Industries NV is a listed technology specialist, operating globally with two core activities: Industrial Systems and Plastic Components. It aims to make a sustainable contribution to the demand for food, health and mobility, worldwide – demand that is growing rapidly, due to global population growth and rising prosperity.

The Industrial Systems division, which includes Royal Pas Reform, is responding to growing global demand for food and clean drinking water by supplying systems for the poultry, convenience food and pet food sectors, and for the production of water supply lines for sanitation and clean water.

Company background 2 Core activities

1997 Listed on the stock exchange since 1997 1505 employees

5 companies

Industrial systems Plastic components

Lan Handling Technologies

3 markets

Royal Pas Reform Integrated Hatchery Solutions Rollepaal Pipe Extrusion Technology Helvoet High Precision Plastic Components Timmerije High-Tech Plastic Components

Food Health Mobility

Lan | Handling Technologies Royal Pas Reform | Integrated Hatchery Solutions Rollepaal | Pipe Extrusion Technology

Milestones

Worldwide operations

Hydratec Industries Management Board: Bart Aangenendt, CEO and Everien Slijkhuis, CFO

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Managing eggs and chicks from young breeders

Written by Lotte Hebbink, Incubation Specialist

First week mortality is often higher in chicks from very young breeders (25–30 weeks) than in chicks from older breeders. What causes these chicks to be more vulnerable?

Nutrient availability and fat metabolism

During incubation, the developing embryo utilizes nutrients from the yolk sac, the nutrient composition of which depends on several factors, including the age of the hen.

Younger hens generally lay smaller eggs than older hens, with less yolk in relation to albumen. Furthermore, studies show that the fresh yolk of young breeders has different fatty acid profiles, contains less fat and protein, and contains more water than that of older hens.

During the main part of incubation, the chicken embryo relies for more than 90% on the oxidation of yolk fatty acids to meet its energy demand. Studies show that embryos and chicks from young breeders are less able to mobilize lipids and transfer lipoprotein for energy and have relatively lower yolk absorption. Other studies show that, on embryonic day 20, the villus height, crypt depth, and microvillus height are shorter in the jejunum of embryos from young flocks. Shorter gut villi provide less contact surface to absorb nutrients from the yolk or feed, which could influence the chick’s growth and development, especially during the first few days of life. Adjustments in incubation and farm management

Eggs from young breeders spend less time in the oviduct than those from older hens. Consequently, these embryos are in an earlier developmental stage when the egg is laid, which means that they need a couple of hours longer incubation time. As eggs from young breeders are generally smaller, the egg mass and heat production inside the incubator is also lower. Adjustments to the temperature setpoints might therefore be necessary to maintain the average eggshell temperature of 100°F inside the machine and prevent eggs from becoming too cold during the last part of incubation.

Day-old chicks from young breeders may benefit from extra nutritional support directly after hatching, to reduce first week mortality. In a field study by Royal Pas Reform that included 1.8 million chicks, it was found that providing feed in the SmartStartTM hatcher considerably reduced first week mortality in chicks from flocks aged 25 to 30 weeks.

Farm management also needs to be adapted to chicks from young breeders. For example, the drinking lines should be lowered to prevent chicks having to reach too high for the drinking nipples. Also, as small chicks have relatively more body surface compared to their body mass and therefore lose heat more quickly, a higher brooding temperature is needed to maintain a rectal temperature of 104–105�F. Chicks from young breeders need one to two more days to make the transition from ‘‘semi’’-poikilotherm to homeotherm. Besides providing optimum temperature conditions, additional nutritional support can also help these chicks to make a good start. Advice

For eggs and chicks from very young breeders (25–30 weeks):

– set eggs four hours earlier or pull chicks four hours later to increase the incubation time; – adjust the temperature setpoints to achieve an average eggshell temperature of 100�F; – provide nutritional support directly after hatching; – lower the height of the drinking lines; – increase the brooding temperature to achieve the correct rectal temperature of 104–105�F.

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Pas Reform North America has opened its brand-new, 36,000 sqft (3,345 sqm) sales and support office and warehouse facility in Jacksonville, Florida. America. “It will enable the company to further strengthen its operations in the North American region.”

Fiocruz in Brazil chooses pharma incubators from Pas Reform North America for yellow fever lab renovation

For over a century, the Brazil-based Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, also known as Fiocruz, has been one of the world’s leading scientific centres for research and development in biological sciences. Located in Manguinhos in the heart of Rio de Janeiro, Fiocruz was founded by the famous Brazilian physician and epidemiologist Oswaldo Cruz, and today the institution has a broad range of responsibilities related to the health and wellbeing of the Brazilian population – functioning as a national institute of health and public health policies. It also contributes to projects worldwide for the development of vaccines and medicines against tropical illnesses.

In 2018 Fiocruz approved a development project focusing on improving its yellow fever manufacturing facilities and decided to carry out a full renovation of the whole factory. Looking for the best-quality embryos for virus replication and yellow fever vaccine production, Fiocruz has decided to invest in 8 Phoenix pharma incubators – 4 primary (non-viral) and 4 secondary (viral) setters – from Pas Reform North America.

Preparation and project planning have been completed by Fiocruz and Pas Reform engineering departments in collaboration, and the installation is now scheduled to take place in February 2022.

“We are really happy and enthusiastic to be contributing to public health developments in Brazil,” says Artur Schlick, Director Pas Reform do Brasil, “ and also to be consolidating our reputation as a strong and top-quality player for egg incubation in the pharma industry.”

Yemen’s Abdu Ali Al-Zailai group boosts capacity with Royal Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ hatchery technologies

Yemen-based Abdu Ali Al-Zailai & Co. group of companies has chosen SmartPro™ integrated hatchery solutions from Royal Pas Reform to boost production at its single-stage hatchery – which is currently 30 million day-old chicks per year. The project includes 12x SmartSetPro™ 6 setters with Adaptive Metabolic Feedback (AMF™) and Energy Saving Module (ESM™), and 12x SmartHatchPro™ hatchers with SmartWatch™ and Microban® incorporated in the hatcher baskets. The order also includes hatchery climate control.

Founded in 1995, the group, which is also known as Al-Zailai Corporation for Poultry, is a leading poultry company in Yemen and today accounts for 40% of the country’s poultry market. Headquartered in Al-Hawban, in the governorate of Taiz, the company consists of a number of subsidiaries responsible for the production, processing and marketing of poultry products, and includes breeder farms, broiler and layer farms, a feed mill and a hatchery.

Indonesia’s Cahaya Technology Unggas scales up with Royal Pas Reform’s Smart™ technologies

Cahaya Technology Unggas (CTU), the poultry breeding division of South Korea’s Harim Group in Indonesia, is increasing its hatchery capacity. Targeting a 5% annual production increase in 2021, this development will further strengthen the company’s integrated business in the region.

CTU recently celebrated the first hatch of parent stock and broiler chicks from its new GPS and broiler hatcheries in Pandelang, Banten – supporting customer demand in Banten and parts of Sumatra.

Both hatcheries make full use of Royal Pas Reform’s single-source capabilities. The GPS hatchery project includes SmartSetPro™ setters and SmartHatchPro™ hatchers and a SmartHeat™ unit – for short periods of heat treatment during egg storage.

Each setter is equipped with Royal Pas Reform’s Adaptive Metabolic Feedback (AMF™), which ensures that the incubation environment meets the metabolic needs of each developing embryo. The hatchers are equipped with SmartWatch™, which controls humidity and CO2 levels in the hatcher to optimize the hatch window for every cycle.

The installation also includes hatchery automation and climate control. Royal Pas Reform’s SmartCenterPro™ hatchery management software provides monitoring, control and detailed data analysis at every stage of hatchery operation. With batch-specific track-and-trace capabilities, the system also generates full incubation cycle reports for every batch set.

Pas Reform Academy will provide a hatchery management training programme, as well as on-going monitoring and advice – to tailor the hatchery’s incubation programmes for peak performance.

Bas Kanters, Royal Pas Reform’s Sales Director Asia, says: “We have worked closely with CTU throughout the development process. From sales and commissioning, hatchery planning, project management and installation, to after sales, technical back-up and training services. CTU is an ambitious company and we are proud to be working with it to deliver on its expansion strategy.”

Jason Wang, sales and service manager China, Royal Pas Reform Bas Kanters, sales director Asia, Royal Pas Reform

Ecuador’s Incupasaje chooses SmartPro™ technologies for its new hatchery expansion

Incupasaje Cia. Ltda, one of Ecuador’s leading incubation groups, has chosen to invest in Royal Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ technologies again for its major hatchery expansion project in Cuenca, located in El Oro province, southern Ecuador.

Incupasaje first installed a complete SmartPro™ single-stage incubation system from Royal Pas Reform at Pasaje five years ago. This next phase development will see construction of a completely new, green-field hatchery. It will include SmartPro™ setters, SmartPro™ hatchers, and a climate control system – including buffer tank and chillers.

“We have had a difficult year in Ecuador as a result of the Covid pandemic,” says Jimmy Rios, President and MD of Incupasaje. “We used the time to streamline our operations. Now, we are really able to look forward and take the next step for our company. We see a clear improvement in the market at the moment and feel it is the right time to restore our five-year strategic investment programme. A new hatchery with additional capacity is needed to support our growth ambitions in Ecuador.

“We needed state-of-the-art equipment, but also a preventive maintenance package, with the training that goes with it. Our positive experience working with Royal Pas Reform since 2012 and seeing its product quality, technical skills and after sales support at first-hand, clearly confirmed to us that it is a world-leading, one-stop supplier of integrated hatchery solutions – and this made our decision to work with them again an easy one.”

Ranulfo Ortiz, Royal Pas Reform’s business development manager in Latin America, comments: “We are very excited that we have concluded this project with Incupasaje in Ecuador. Not only will we deliver new machinery with the latest innovations, but we will also provide a SmartCare™ agreement as an integral part of the project. “This will be a five-year collaboration – covering technical training, incubation consultancy and quarterly results discussions via Skype calls. In this way, we will see to it that our partnership delivers the best possible results for Incupasaje. This approach has been proven to substantially contribute towards our global promise to produce the highest numbers of superior chicks at customer level.”

Royal Pas Reform appoints Avepork as its agent for Ecuador

Quito-based Avepork has been appointed as Royal Pas Reform’s representative in Ecuador. The company, headed by Elias Maica, holds in-depth knowledge of the Royal Pas Reform portfolio – having worked with both Smart™ and Smartpro™ equipment in Ecuador for the past 15 years. Avepork can be contacted by email at emaica@avepork.us, or on mobile at +593 99 164 3178

Azerbaijan’s Siyazan Broyler invests in SmartPro™ to double production capacity

Azerbaijan Republic’s largest producer of poultry meat and eggs, Siyazan Broyler OJSC, has appointed Royal Pas Reform to build a large, new integrated hatchery facility which will allow the company to meet its target of boosting production of high-quality chicken from 30,000 tons in 2018 to 60,000 tons of per year.

Siyazan Broyler, founded in 1984 by then national leader Heydar Aliyev, is based in north-eastern Azerbaijan. Today, and as a public company since 2000, it provides the cities of Baku and Sumgait, as well as more than 10 regions of the republic, with high-quality poultry products, including fresh chicken, minnow, ham, fillet, liver and maw. It is the largest meat-oriented poultry company in the entire Caucasus region of Asia Minor. At the new hatchery Royal Pas Reform will install 18 SmartSetPro™ 4 setters, including Energy Saving Module™ (ESM™) and Adaptive Metabolic Feedback™ (AMF™), and 15 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, including SmartWatch™. Hatchery automation will include candling & transfer, chick take-off, sexing and vaccinating carousels, chick counting and dosing, a spray vaccinator, pre-washing and washing.

The project also includes hatchery climate control, including air handling units, air distribution system, process water chiller, buffer tank and pump set, exhaust fan, chick room cooler and heater, and heat exchanger – and the integrated facility will be monitored and controlled by SmartCenterPro™ hatchery management software. Pas Reform Academy will provide staff training.

Siyazan Broyler places food hygiene and safety at the heart of its operations. Its entire production chain is adapted to international food safety management systems and has received HACCP, ISO 22000-2005 and MS 1500-2009 certificates. Halal principles are another priority: the company is certified in accordance with Malaysian MS 1500:2009 Halal standard and has halal-certification from the Caucasian Muslims Office.

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Dutch entrepreneur builds largest poultry integration in Suriname

Suriname-based Gerard van den Bergh began keeping Muscovy ducks in 2011 as a retirement hobby. In 2019, he started his second enterprise – a broiler integration. For this, Gerard invested in SmartPro™ single-stage incubators from Royal Pas Reform. Today, the entrepreneurial Dutchman leads his own integrations in Lelydorp, in the north of the South American country, and is by far the largest duck producer in Suriname and the Caribbean.

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Royal Pas Reform supports Aviagen expansion in Brazil

Over the past two years, Aviagen® America Latina – Brazilian-based subsidiary of Aviagen Group – has undergone a major investment programme to expand and modernize its production farms and hatcheries. As part of this project, Aviagen, distributor of Ross® for Brazil and South America, has chosen Royal Pas Reform technologies for its Nova Ponte hatchery expansion and renovation.

The hatchery, located in the state of Minas Gerais, in the rural area of Uberaba, is dedicated to supplying Aviagen’s customers in the Southeast and Midwest regions of the country with top-quality breeders. Royal Pas Reform is installing 14 SmartSetPro™ setters, 8 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, 1 SmartHeat™ and 5 turning systems for the egg-storage area. When complete, the renewed hatchery will have a production capacity of 8.5 million breeders per year. João Paulo Bernardes, Production Manager at Aviagen, says: “After the success of the GGP/GP hatchery, which we built in partnership with Royal Pas Reform in São Paulo state, we were convinced that Royal Pas Reform would be the best option for the Nova Ponte hatchery renovation. As well as hatchery equipment, we have been supported with highquality service from skilled people at all levels, convincing us that Royal Pas Reform is the best option.”

Artur Schlick, Director of Pas Reform do Brasil, comments: “We at Royal Pas Reform are proud of being Aviagen’s partner for this important expansion project. I am sure that Aviagen customers will be very satisfied with the quality of the chicks that our SmartPro™ technology can deliver.”

João Paulo Bernardes, production manager at Aviagen

Special guest lecture for primary school children in Zeddam, The Netherlands

Pupils from the upper classes of Roncalli Primary School in Zeddam, The Netherlands, were recently treated to a special guest lecture. One of the company’s incubation specialists gave them a glimpse into the fascinating world of the chicken. There were certainly no bone-dry facts about the poultry sector, but an inspiring story about the embryonic development of a chicken and the incubation of eggs in an incubator.