Pas Reform Times 2016 by Royal Pas Reform

House of Raeford

USA House of Raeford Farms celebrating new state-of-the-art hatchery > p. 38

Aviagen

France Pas Reform and NatureForm bring the future into focus > p. 18

Pas Reform Times Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

Integrated hatchery solutions Moy Park

United Kingdom Moy Park chooses SmartPro™ for Ashbourne expansion > p. 5

Centaco

Al-Watania

Thailand Smart growth for Centaco in Thailand > p. 22

Saudi Arabia Flagship expansion in the Middle East > p. 9

Super-connecting incubation, automation, climate control and service To introduce this ‘extraordinary edition’ of Pas Reform Times, I was asked to reflect on what has been a dynamic and fast moving year - and my first as the company’s CEO. Under Bart Aangenendt’s leadership, Pas Reform achieved global recognition as an innovator and market leader in single-stage incubation, climate control and - with the acquisition of Lan | Abar - advanced hatchery automation systems (HAS). When Bart handed me the reins, the challenge was to build on those achievements - and over the past 12 months, I have explored our vision for the future with our customers. For me, each of these meetings has reinforced the importance of our strategy: to support our customers with truly integrated hatchery solutions. Global demand for poultry and eggs continues to rise, driving sector growth and dramatic increases in the size of commercial hatcheries. To maintain the high levels of efficiency, cost-effectiveness and accountability being demanded of them, these large-scale facilities require fully integrated, connected process control. With a focus on our customers’ futures - SmartPro™ incubation is now combined with advanced climate control and a complete range of hatchery automation systems.

All are connected by SmartCenterPro™, for unrivalled access to data at every level of hatchery operations. Pas Reform is now the world’s only single-source supplier of fully integrated hatchery solutions. However in the end, our job is not only to supply fully integrated equipment and technology solutions, but also to ensure that this equipment continuously delivers the best results for our customers: the highest numbers of best quality chicks. To achieve this, we have introduced SmartCare™ - a menu of 21 services from which our customers can tailor exactly the support they need, to maintain optimised performance. Specialist and technical support can be delivered both remotely and locally. And with international expansion remaining central to our strategy for growth, our partnership with NatureForm continues to go from strength to strength, delivering exciting new projects across the USA. We have also appointed new representatives in several countries, including China, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Poland, Myanmar, Japan, Algeria, Australia and France. Last but by no means least, new product development has continued with the expansion of our SmartPro™ incubator

range. Based on NatureForm’s design for the USA, the introduction of SmartPro™ NF means we can now accommodate any tray size, which has been well received in the USA and in many other countries around the globe. In my first year as CEO, I have found a culture of openness and teamwork, nurtured and shared by colleagues and customers alike to make things happen. In this issue of Pas Reform Times, you will find that reflected in stories from our customers and insights from the Academy, as well as news of our latest product developments and introductions to new staff and representatives that I hope you will find both informative and inspirational. Until next time! Harm Langen CEO

Pas Reform on a global scale Pas Reform is the world’s only single-source supplier of integrated hatchery solutions: a subsidiary of Hydratec Industries NV, with a turnover in 2016 of around € 160,000,000

Company background

97+ years in incubation, of which

50+

Three companies: – Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies – NatureForm Hatchery Technologies – Lan | Abar Handling Technologies

200+ colleagues

years in

single-stage

Milestones & Innovations 1919 Gerrit Pas develops incubation system

2008 Pas Reform do Brasil opens

1950 First machine exports

2010 SmartPro™ incubation technologies launched

1960 First single stage incubator launched

2011 Offices opened in India, Indonesia and Malaysia

1984 Ownership Ten Cate Group (Hydratec)

2012 Pas Reform acquires Lan | Abar Handling Technologies

2001 Academy drives new product development

2013 Introduction SmartCount™ and opening New logistics centre

2004 Smart™ incubation technologies launched

2014 Joint Venture with NatureForm Hatchery Technologies

2005 Start of Pas Reform Russia

2015 Launch SmartCenterPro™

2006 Introduction SmartCenter™

2016 Introduction SmartPro™ NF Series and SmartCare™ service and support

Global presence

Zeddam & Doetinchem (NL) Jacksonville (USA) Rio Claro (BR) R&D Academy Production Distribution

Brazil, China, India, Indonesia,

Customer support on

Exports to more than one

Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands,

all continents

hundred countries

Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa Thailand and USA

1000+ single stage hatcheries

Pas Reform Times Super-connecting incubation, automation, climate control and service 1 Pas Reform on a global scale 2 SmartCenterPro™ Informed decision-making in the modern hatchery 4 Senior appointment for Pas Reform’s Hatchery Automation (HAS) Division 4 Moy Park, United Kingdom 5 Volovskiy Broiler, Russia 5 SmartCare™ A 360° approach to service and support 6 Pas Reform appoints new service and sales manager 6 Reducing the hatchery’s energy costs for effective management 8 Pas Reform appoints new are service manager for Western Europe 8 Al-Watania, Kingdom of Saudia Arabia 9 Making powerful connections 10 ISA, France 12 Organia, Tanzania 12 La Nationale to represent Pas Reform in France and Algeria 12

Feeding the world

The real value of point down setting 13 Danhatch, Poland 14 Arbor Acres, Algeria 14 Training collaboration provides platform for knowledge sharing in Indonesia 14 Sneha Farms, India 15 Ariztía, Chili 15

10 Billion day old chicks per year hatched in Pas Reform single stage incubators

Rusgrain Ufa Holding, Russia 16 Pas Reform celebrates 10 years in Russia 16

Strategy for smart growth

Pronavicola, Colombia 17 Oktyabrskaya, Russia 17

From ‘machine

Aviagen, France 18 NatureForm appoints new regional sales manager 18

manufacturer’ to supplier of integrated

SmartPro™ NF Series 19

hatchery solutions

Integrated Hatchery Solutions 20 Centaco, Thailand 22 JAPFA, Indonesia 23 Floreni, Moldavia, 23 Incubation in hot, humid climates 24 The biology behind egg turning 25 Pas Reform hosts annual meeting of Belgian & Dutch Hatcheries and Breeders 25 Kysylzhar-Kus, Kazakhstan 26 Imkon, Uzbekistan 26

Academy

Products

Proan, Mexico 27 Managing CO2 in the setter 28 Pas Reform appoints new representative for China 28 Archer’s Poultry, Canada 29 Pre-storage incubation and SPIDES: New procedures in hatching egg storage 30 Moyer’s Chicks, USA 31 Amuse, Japan 32 Chang Jhen Corporation appointed to represent Pas Reform in Taiwan 32

Martin ‘Tiny’ Barten,

Research into the impact of

Twelve Hatchery

Integrated, data-enabled hatchery

Marleen Boerjan, Gerd de Lange,

the incubation process on embryo

Management Training

solutions: egg handling, setting,

Santad Denstaporn, Terry Doss,

development, in close co-operation

Programmes per year

candling & transfer, hatching, chick

Maciej Kola´ nczyk, Lenise Inácio

with leading universities

handling, washing & waste handling

de Souza

Fortune, Taiwan 33 Uvesa, Spain 34 Valentine’s Chicken, Nigeria 35 Aviagen, Brazil 36 JDA, Poland 37

Markets

Broiler

House of Raeford Farms, USA 38

Layer Turkey Goose Duck Game bird Vaccine

SmartCenterPro™ Informed decision-making in the modern hatchery Food safety, sustainability and animal welfare have become strategic, business critical factors in the poultry value chain. Increasing consumer awareness of the origin and safety of food means that today’s retailers and fast food chains demand complete traceability from their suppliers, especially when choosing fresh produce, meat and poultry products. Meeting this demand is shaping the future for modern hatcheries.

“SmartCenterPro™ has been developed in consultation with our customers and partners, to deliver detailed hatchery monitoring, management, analysis and reporting. From the origin of the hatching eggs at the breeder farm, to the receipt of the day old chicks by the customer’s farm, SmartCenterPro™ makes short work of charting, refining and reporting on every event in the hatchery journey.” For further, detailed information about SmartCenterPro™,

SmartCenterPro™ is the first hatchery software to fully enable data gathering from every process in the hatchery. Incubation, climate control and hatchery automation systems can all be seamlessly connected: a web-based, ‘Internet of Things’ approach, says Pas Reform’s CEO Harm Langen, capable of the most comprehensive data capture from every layer of hatchery operations.

full-colour, fully illustrated

brochure by emailing info@

pasreform.com or download the brochure in pdf format directly from Pas Reform online at www.pasreform.com

Senior appointment for Pas

As Director Sales & Business

directly with hatchery

hatchery industry, Gregory

Prior to his appointment with

“Gregory is joining Pas Reform

(HAS) Division

play a key role in the company’s

South America and Northern

poultry farms in Egypt and

the past 15 years in a number of

Harm, “as our customer base

Reform’s Hatchery Automation

Gregory Vanputte has joined

Pas Reform, with responsibility for driving growth and

development for the company’s Hatchery Automation Systems (HAS) division.

please request your own free,

Development HAS, Vanputte will strategic development, from ‘machine manufacturer’ to

globally recognised supplier of fully integrated hatchery solutions.

Based at Pas Reform’s head office in Zeddam, in The

Netherlands, Gregory will work

customers in Western Europe, Africa, while also providing

consultancy and support for the company’s HAS customers and sales and technical teams, in

other regions around the world. With more than 30 years’

extensive experience in the

began his career working on Tanzania, before joining his

family’s business to develop a

new agency representing Breuil Automation. The new agency

was very successful and Gregory soon joined Breuil full time, remaining in total with the

company for 15 years, many of them in Brazil.

Pas Reform, Gregory has spent senior sales roles with

ChickMaster. His comprehensive understanding of the hatchery

industry and strong commercial

and technical expertise will, says

at a very significant time,” says continues to expand

internationally - and especially in the area of fully integrated, turnkey hatchery solutions.

Pas Reform CEO Harm Langen,

“That includes hatchery

its customers.

track record in this area, Gregory

greatly benefit Pas Reform and

automation - and with a proven

Moy Park chooses SmartPro™ for Ashbourne expansion

Volovskiy Broiler will advance poultry production in Tula

Leading UK poultry company Moy Park Ltd., part of Brazil’s JBS Group, has once again selected Pas Reform’s Smart hatchery technologies for an expansion project that will bring the total capacity of its Ashbourne hatchery in Derbyshire (UK) to approx.1.2 million day old chicks per week.

Smart connectivity Three main program tiers provide rapid access to SmartCenterPro™’s complete information system: Hatchery Overview – Continuously monitor incubators, hatchery automation and climate control systems – Fine-tune settings for optimum incubation conditions at all times Hatchery Management – Manage key functions from track & trace, alarm management and maintenance to breed specific incubation programming Hatchery Analysis – Chart every process and event in day to day operations – Produce real time management reports for batch-specific analysis and decision-making

The new installation incorporates SmartSetPro™ 6 setters, SmartHatchPro™ hatchers and a complete HVAC system, including new air handling units, water chillers and boilers.

Volovskiy Broiler is commissioning SmartPro™ single-stage

SmartPro™’s modular, single-stage design and the adoption of Pas Reform’s space-saving 162 setter tray allows incubation conditions to be fully optimized to specific profiles for each batch of eggs set, maximizing chick uniformity while at the same time enabling a large hatching capacity of more than 2.7 million eggs to be achieved in a small footprint.

Volovskiy Broiler’s poultry and meat products will be sold

Pas Reform’s innovative SmartCenterPro™ hatchery information software will be fully integrated into the Ashbourne operation, to deliver monitoring, control and detailed data analysis at every level of the hatchery’s operations, with batch-specific Track and Trace capabilities and the automatic generation of full incubation cycle reports for every batch set.

local people”, he said, “As a modern and progressive

incubation from Pas Reform Russia, for the development of a new, state-of-the-art hatchery in the Volovo region of Tula.

throughout Volovo, with distribution extending to

neighboring regions through a network of branded sales outlets.

Mr. Vladimir Gruzdev, the Region’s Governor, shared his

enthusiasm for Volovskiy Broiler’s plans when he visited the site in July. “This new facility will create 900 new jobs for

company, I hope that Volovskiy’s commitment to quality and growth will serve to encourage other companies in Tula, to upgrade their production facilities with an eye on the future.”

Alan Huston, Moy Park Breeders and Hatcheries general manager says: “Moy Park’s continuing investment in modern technologies is an essential component of our commitment to delivering fresh, locally farmed poultry and poultry products of the highest quality – and to maintaining the highest standards in animal welfare. “We started working with Pas Reform’s incubation technologies in 1988 – and while we looked very carefully at the options available to us for this expansion, Pas Reform remains a strong, innovative and committed partner for us, as we lay the foundations for continuing growth in the future.” Pas Reform’s product and sales director, Erwin Prinzen, concludes: “Moy Park is committed to integrity and quality throughout its operations. We are delighted to have been chosen once again for this important expansion project and look forward to supporting the company’s ambitions for future growth.”

has the right blend of skills

“I am looking forward to

Pas Reform’s HAS team.”

the team, to build on Pas

and experience to help lead

Gregory comments:

“Pas Reform’s innovative

position in the industry has

working closely with Harm and Reform’s success in delivering sustainable, integrated solutions.”

created an exciting opportunity

Gregory can be contacted by

next wave of data-enabled

vanputte@pasreform.com,

to be involved in forming the

hatchery automation solutions for the hatchery sector.

email at:

or mobile at +32 485 407 077

SmartCare™ Planning services

SmartCare™ Project services

SmartCare™ Lifetime services

1 Building design support

2 Layout design & specifications

7 Project management

8 Detail engineering

13 Helpdesk support

14 SmartCenterPro™ hardware & software support

3 Manpower planning

4 Return on investment (ROI) calculations

9 Installation & supervision

10 Operator & technical training

15 Recommended spare parts

16 Remote analysis & advice

5 Financial advice

6 Energy consumption advice

11 Start-up support

12 Hatchery management training

17 Periodic inspections

18 Update training

19 Preventive maintenance

20 Incubation consultancy

21 Upgrades

For further, detailed information about SmartCare™ please request your own free, full-colour, fully

illustrated brochure by emailing info@pasreform.com or download the brochure in pdf format directly from Pas Reform online at www.pasreform.com

Pas Reform appoints new

service and sales manager Pas Reform has appointed

Sander Jansen to the position of

service and sales manager, a key new role with responsibility for

further expanding Pas Reform’s international customer service capabilities.

As a pivotal function in the

company’s strategic plans,

Sander (41) will optimise service

With more than 15 years’

Pas Reform”, he says, “With a

Building on Pas Reform’s

technical and commercial

customer service around the

and sales support processes. existing international

reputation, his brief is to further strengthen the company’s

service capabilities by extending existing services and expanding Pas Reform’s global services

network. He will also lead the

proactive development of new service concepts.

international experience in environments, Sander was

business unit manager at ICT

specialist company Axians and previously sales manager at

MPS Meat Processing Systems, prior to joining Pas Reform. He studied Electrical Engineering

and holds an MBA and an MSc

in Control Systems Engineering. “I am delighted to be joining

first-class reputation for

world, working closely and proactively with hatchery

customers is fundamental to

the Company’s strategic plans for continuing international expansion.

“It is a privilege to have the

opportunity to further develop the service delivery aspect of those relationships.”

SmartCare™ A 360° approach to service and support As a future-focused business that serves the hatchery sector worldwide, Pas Reform has built its reputation as an innovator in single stage incubation technologies. And in recent years, by adding a full range of climate control and hatchery automation systems to our portfolio, we are now the world’s only single-source supplier of fully integrated hatchery solutions Such advanced, integrated solutions require more diverse technical skills and highly responsive service and support options. We have therefore developed SmartCare™, to deliver an assurance of efficient, uninterrupted performance at every level of hatchery operations. CEO Harm Langen says: “SmartCare is a 360° approach, through which we share our knowledge, people, expertise and experience at every stage of planning, building and commissioning - and far beyond. “It’s designed to support all the key life stages of any hatchery project, to optimize performance in every area of the facility, for the highest numbers of best quality chicks.”

Supporting three key ‘life stages’ of a hatchery project Pas Reform’s SmartCare™ incorporates three key pillars of service provision, to support three key ‘life stages’ of a hatchery project: the planning, project and lifetime stages. Customers can choose from any of the options available in each pillar, to create a customized package that specifically meets their own, particular service and support needs.

SmartCare™ Planning services Building or modifying a hatchery requires expertise across varied disciplines, from design and layout, engineering and specification, to developing accurate calculations for the hatchery’s ideal design, manpower and energy needs and ROI. All these skills are required not only to configure and set up the hatchery successfully, but also to project its future needs - and returns. With six service options, SmartCare™ Planning services support the hatchery’s crucial planning phase. Based on many years’ knowledge and experience, Pas Reform’s specialist team helps define a solution that meets the specific needs and circumstances of the individual hatchery, providing a compelling, confident business case for Boards, banks and investors.

SmartCare™ Project services With the planning phase completed, different skills, disciplines and timelines need to be aligned to deliver the vision of an extended, refurbished or brand new hatchery. In this pillar, six project management, engineering and training services have been created to help steer the project smoothly through construction - on time and on budget right through to startup and the delivery of the first hatch.

Lifetime Services packages are tailored to the individual hatchery and can help to: – Effectively operate and maintain a major hatchery investment – Provide training for hatchery personnel – Fully optimize the performance of hatchery equipment – Ensure that essential parts are always in stock for preventive maintenance – Minimize total costs per day-old chick – Minimize risk in the hatchery

Tailored service and support to meet your needs SmartCare™ services have grown out of the experience of working with more than 1,000 hatcheries around the world. Designed to complement the full, integrated range of incubation, climate control and hatchery automation solutions, SmartCare™ has been created to help maintain an efficient, smooth-running hatchery, for the highest numbers of best quality day old chicks. Within its Planning, Project and Lifetime pillars, there are 21 service categories to choose from, to create a unique suite of support, tailored specifically to the individual hatchery’s needs today and in the future.

SmartCare™ Lifetime services With every hatchery solution from Pas Reform, customers have the option to set up a Lifetime Service Agreement, structured to ensure optimal performance and accuracy for every hatch cycle. With these Agreements in place, Pas Reform proactively provides preventive service and parts, software upgrades and improvements, as well as postinstallation training and direct access to the support and expertise of Pas Reform Academy.

CEO Harm Langen concludes:

reflects the importance of that

Sander can be contacted by

the foundation of Pas Reform’s

considerable management

com or mobile at +31 646 888

“Exceptional customer service is international growth and

reputation - and as we make the strategic transition from machine

manufacturer to supplier of fully integrated hatchery solutions, that demand for service

excellence remains central to

our promise to our customers. “The creation of this new role

promise - and Sander’s

experience together with his

knowledge and experience in

email at s.jansen@pasreform. 896.

implementing and managing

integrated service solutions is an excellent fit, both for our ambitions and for meeting those of our customers.”

Reducing the hatchery’s energy costs for effective management by Sander Koster, Project Engineer, Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies In multi stage incubation, heat is transferred from old eggs to the younger eggs, which demands less additional heating and cooling capacity by the incubator. This may seem like a good way to save energy, but in fact, the incubator is having to run full fan speeds 24/7, 365 days a year, to deliver a constant airflow even when machines are not fully loaded. Conversely, when employing single stage incubation, savings are realised by exchanging energy at hatchery level instead of inside the incubator. After a few days’ incubation, the embryos collectively produce increasing levels of metabolic heat and require cooling to maintain optimal embryonic temperature. A chiller for cooling water produces heat, which is dissipated by fans and lost to the outside environment. Using a heat pump instead of a chiller enables the heat produced to be recycled for pre-heating incoming air, or heating water in a buffer tank for washing and cleaning. As 1 m3 of water contains 3,500 times more energy than 1 m3 of air per degree Kelvin, it is more efficient to regain energy from water – and therefore less cost-effective to invest in a cross-flow heat exchanger that takes heat out of used air from the setters.

With single stage incubation, incubator motors only run when the machine is loaded. While maximum airflow is required to transfer heat to and away from the eggs at the beginning and end of the incubation cycle, energy can be saved by installing frequency drivers on the motors, because fan speed can safely be reduced during the days in between. The single stage incubator uses pre-conditioned air for ventilation, which can require considerable energy depending on external climate conditions. With an automatically controlled air valve or damper based on CO2 and RH levels inside the incubator, the amount of fresh air intake required is optimized to provide only what is needed.

Geographical location combined with climate conditions will have a major influence on the building and the amount of energy needed. With the wrong construction materials and/ or insulation, it can be expensive to maintain the correct conditions inside the hatchery.

Using pressure controllers for the various rooms in the hatchery also minimizes the amount of air needed, providing the doors to adjacent rooms are always closed – or ideally, automatic doors are installed.

In the Incubator: – Install frequency controllers on the fan motors to reduce fan speed when possible. – Install CO2/Humidity controlled valve regulation to limit ventilation to what is needed.

For example: Heating 20,000 m3 /h from -24°C up to 24°C costs 378kW. Heating 17,500 m3 /h from -24°C up to 19°C costs 296kW. Result: 22% saving on heating power. Further energy savings can be achieved by using multiple set points in the Air Handling Units rather than fixed set points year round. For example, instead of maintaining a constant 24°C in the setter room throughout the year, allowing temperature variance between 23°C in the morning up to 27°C at the peak of the day during the summer, and maintaining temperatures at the lower end of specifications during the winter, will have beneficial effects.

Advice

In the hatchery: – Use pressure sensors for room ventilation. – Keep doors closed to minimize loss of ‘expensive’ air. – Calculate whether investing in a heat pump is more costeffective than using a chiller. – Use multiple temperature set points within specification during the year. – Check the efficiency of hatchery insulation.

Pas Reform appoints new area

Formerly an international

for Kodak Pathe in France.

With a First Class Electrotechnical

Europe

ChickMaster, Mohamed’s

be responsible for the further

prestigious Conservatoire National

service manager for Western

As part of its continuing

programme of international expansion, Pas Reform has appointed Mohamed Ait

Lachgar, 45, as international

service manager for Western Europe.

Ultimately, energy saving begins with a greater awareness of the energy we are using. With care and innovation in the process solutions we choose, we can deliver substantial energy savings – and greatly reduced energy bills!

project manager with

experience in the poultry

sector spans 16 years, with

a basis in technical product

development and support for

electromechanical systems and automation. Prior to working for ChickMaster, Mohamed

worked as a service manager

In his new role, Mohamed will development of Pas Reform’s

service delivery and activities for customers throughout Western Europe, working with a team of

Master’s Degree from the

des Arts et Métiers (C.N.A.M.)

in Paris, Mohamed is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

international sales managers,

Mohamed can be contacted by

managers to support long-term

mohamed@pasreform.com

service engineers and office customer relations.

email at:

or mobile at +33 684 245 920

Sheikh Sulaiman

Bin Abdulaziz Al-Rajhi, Chairman Al-Watania

Flagship expansion in the Middle East: Saudi giant Al-Watania selects Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ for new hatchery Al Watania Poultry, the largest poultry producer in the Middle East, has commissioned Pas Reform to supply SmartPro™ single stage incubation, climate control and hatchery automation systems for a state-of-the-art new turnkey hatchery development at Buraydah, Qassim Province, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Following an extensive tendering process, Sheikh Sulaiman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Rajhi congratulated Pas Reform on winning the flagship contract to develop the 100 Mio day old chick hatchery. The new hatchery is to be fully operational mid-2016 and forms a pivotal project in Al Watania’s ambitious plans to increase annual broiler production from 850,000 to 1.1 million broilers a day.

New infographic shows the real value

of Pas Reform’s Energy Saving Module™. Download from Pas Reform online at www.pasreform.com

The fully integrated and automated facility will include 54 SmartSetPro™-6 setters and 72 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, incorporating Advanced Adaptive Metabolic Feedback (AMF™), Energy Saving Module (ESM™) and SmartWatch™ for fully optimised chick uniformity and Pas Reform’s SmartCount™, which uses advanced vision technology to count, separate and box the day old chicks.

The new installation will be fully automated, from transferring 150,000 eggs per hour into setter trolleys, to candling, handling, stacking and destacking, vaccination, waste handling and the washing of boxes and trays, to support the highest levels of efficiency and biosecurity. Pas Reform Academy will also deliver a programme of hatchery management training for Al Watania’s personnel. Regional sales director for the Middle East, Mr Asad Yaseen, joined Pas Reform at the end of 2013. He says: “Al Watania represents the very highest standards for poultry production in the Middle East. They are exact in their requirements and have a very clear vision of the future. “Pas Reform’s reputation for quality and innovation, together with our genuine ability to project manage for delivery in a 12 month timeframe have been critical factors in winning this project. It will be a privilege to play a part in Al Watania’s plans for the future.” Michael Kampschöer, Pas Reform’s sales director concludes: “The Middle East is an area of huge significance strategically for Pas Reform and a project of this importance represents a major step forward for our company in this region.”

An extensive, fully integrated climate control system will include air handling, distribution and humidification, together with the heating and cooling capacity to deliver substantial energy savings in every area of the hatchery’s operation.

Asad Yaseen, sales director Middle-East Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

Michaël Kampschöer, sales director Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

Incubation

Automation

Egg handling

Candling and transfer Setting

Hatching

Chick handling

Making powerful connections incubation, automation and climate control in one network Incubation

Monitor and control incubation settings

Automation

Climate reports charted in easy-to-read graphs

Import egg candling data

Monitor and control chick counting

Climate control

Process cooling

Air handling

Climate control

Chilled water system control

Air handling unit control system

Informed decisionmaking in the modern hatchery

Ron Jöerissen,

Director Production ISA

Organia to revitalize Tanzania’s poultry industry

ISA selects Pas Reform to renovate layer PS hatchery in France ISA, the layer division of Hendrix Genetics, has contracted Pas Reform for the renovation of its layer PS hatchery in Lorris, France. The hatchery, which supplies day old grandparent and parent stock to ISA’s customers and distributors worldwide, is to be refurbished with SmartPro™ single-stage incubation and a state-of-the-art climate control system, designed specifically for the ISA hatchery. The installation will incorporate SmartSetPro™ setters and SmartHatchPro™ hatchers. A custom-designed climate control system will filter and pre-condition fresh air for supply to the new setters and hatchers - and includes the total refurbishment of climate conditioning in the chick take-off area.

Refurbishment of the Lorris hatchery will start towards the end of 2016 and is expected to take eight months to complete. “This is a challenging project in a hatchery that will remain fully operational while work is underway,” explains project manager Wim Hazenkamp, “However we have undertaken similar projects with great success in recent years - and we are confident that in partnership with Hollander Techniek, we will together deliver a truly state-ofthe-art hatchery for ISA.”

Organia has chosen Pas Reform as its partner, for an ambitious economic regeneration project that will

redevelop a once important regional production centre into the country’s leading supplier of day-old chicks.

Founded as part of an international aid project in 1963, the

Kibaha Education Center, west of Dar es Salaam, was forced

to close five years ago following a serious poultry epidemic. Formerly the site of Tanzania’s leading poultry operation,

Kibaha was a major local employer, supplying chicks to local families, farmers and businesses and producing 1.5 million day-old chicks per year.

Its shut down caused a great deal of local hardship, but

Organia’s plans will see Kibaha grow in phases over the next five years, to have a 16 per cent share of Tanzania’s poultry

market with the production of 16 million chicks per year by 2021.

First phase investment has included a complete overhaul

of the existing operation, with new breeder and broiler sites, a feed mill, processing and a new hatchery, designed by Pas Reform.

Gregory Vanputte, Pas Reform’s sales director, concludes: “It is a pleasure to be working with ISA once again. On completion, this new state-of-the-art hatchery will produce day old chicks of the highest quality, to meet ISA’s rigorous demands for its customers and distributors worldwide.”

The project is being undertaken in collaboration with Apeldoorn-based Hollander Techniek, who will install the hatchery’s plumbing and electrical systems. Mr. Ron Jöerissen, ISA Worldwide’s production director, says, “We worked with Pas Reform and Hollander Techniek in partnership at our Boxmeer hatchery. It was a combination that served us well, which is why we have chosen to work with these partners once again for this new project in France.”

For detailed information about ISA Boxmeer please request your own free, full-colour, fully illustrated case study brochure by

emailing info@pasreform.com or download the brochure in pdf format directly from

Pas Reform online at www.pasreform.com

La Nationale to represent

Pas Reform in France and Algeria La Nationale, headed by Marie-

Josée Adam and based in Briare, France, has been appointed

to provide sales, service and

La Nationale for many years.

Marie- Josée can be contacted

Marie-Josée Adam on board.

adam.mj@la-nationale.com

He says, “It’s great to have

She has valuable expertise in

incubation that will benefit our customers and our business.

distribution for Pas Reform’s

“With this news and Mohamed

Gregory Vanputte, Pas Reform’s

manage after sales and service

customers in France and Algeria. director of sales and business

Leading Tanzanian poultry and agriculture specialist

development (HAS) worked with

Ait Lachgar’s appointment to

in Western Europe, we have a very strong team for these regions.”

by email at:

or phone at+33 238 371 200

The real value of point down setting Manual setting

97.0%

Automatic setting

99.7%

2.7% 2.7% x 0.2% x 52 million = 280,800 extra day old chicks per year A hatchery loses 0.2 percent of saleable chicks

for every 1 percent of fertile eggs placed small end up in the setter tray (Bauer et al, 1990)

Hatchery capacity 1 million chicks per week

Further reading: ‘The effects of setting eggs small end up’ (Pas Reform Academy, article 14)

Adriaen Sligcher

Pas Reform Southern Africa

Jankees Sligcher

Pas Reform Southern Africa

DanHatch Poland on track to hit hatchery targets with Pas Reform DanHatch Poland is on track to meet production targets of 115 mio day-old-chicks each year by 2016, since expanding its hatchery operations with advanced SmartPro™ single stage incubation technologies from Pas Reform. The company, formerly Hama Plus until January this year, has commissioned four generations of Pas Reform incubators since its formation in 1998. Through a regular program of upgrades over the years, every generation of machine is still fully operational, compatible and optimised by Pas Reform’s recent innovation, the SmartCenterPro™ hatchery information system. With SmartCenterPro™, effectively an ‘Internet of Things’ approach for the hatcheries, every device or system at every level of DanHatch Poland’s extensive hatchery operations can be seamlessly connected and data enabled. Using advanced, web-based technologies, this produces the most detailed monitoring, management, analysis and batch reporting for every hatch cycle, with comprehensive Track and Trace capabilities despite minimal data entry.

“With that central principle, we have been and remain committed to innovation, in technologies and processes, that support both our own and our customers’ ambitions, while also enabling us to meet the demands and challenges that come with growth.” Pas Reform’s product and sales director Erwin Prinzen has worked closely with Hama Plus, then DanHatch, over the past 3 years. He says: “In its 18th Anniversary year, DanHatch Poland will realise more than 500 per cent growth, from 20 million to 115 million day old chicks per year. “Pas Reform was committed to supporting Hama Plus as it built its leading position in Poland. We remain equally dedicated to our partnership in the future, as DanHatch further extends the Company’s influence and profile across Europe.

Arbor Acres doubles capacity with state-of-the-art hatchery in Algeria

This is an ambitious project. DanHatch is committed to achieving market leadership through quality at every level of its operations - and Pas Reform looks forward to contributing to the company’s continuing growth in Poland.”

Combined with the significant savings being realized through innovative energy-saving features in the hatchery’s incubation, ventilation and heat recovery systems, and the high level technical collaboration between DanHatch Poland and Pas Reform Academy, the long-standing partnership between the two companies is, says the company’s Co-Founder and Member of the Supervisory Board Marek Kryzysztoszek, a powerful alliance.

Arbor Acres Algerie, part of the leading Algerian agri-services company GK Group, is doubling hatching capacity to meet

increased demand for its Arbor Acres day-old broiler breeder chicks. Using Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ incubation

technologies, the newly expanded hatchery will have the

capacity to produce close to four million day-old female and male breeders per year.

“We have always believed in building the business on a foundation of absolute quality. It is a reflection of our understanding and respect for our customers.

Located near Thlemcen in north-western Algeria, Arbor Acres Algerie’s hatchery was first commissioned four years ago using Pas Reform’s single-stage incubation technologies, climate control and hatchery automation systems. The

expansion, due to be completed in the first half of 2017, will

include Pas Reform’s advanced, web-based SmartCenterPro™ hatchery information technology to provide fully integrated control, monitoring, analysis and reporting for every level of hatchery operations.

Mr. Jaroslaw Piankowski Representative Poland Jarmax

Ul. Dr.L.Heykego 24

83-400, Koscierzyna, Poland jarmaxled@icloud.com

Phone + 486 039 57229

Training collaboration provides

In partnership with FTI members

in Indonesia

Van Eck Industrial Hygiene and

platform for knowledge sharing

As part of its collaboration with FoodTechIndonesia (‘FTI’), the

Pas Reform Academy has worked with partners once again to

deliver the latest in a series of breeder and hatchery

management training programs

for poultry industry professionals.

ISA (part of Hendrix Genetics),

Larive, the practical, interactive

4-day training program in Bogor, West Java attracted more than 35 participants from over 15

different breeding companies across the country.

Smart and energyconscious: Sneha Farms commissions further hatchery expansion

India’s market-leading Sneha Farms Pvt Lt is to further

increase the capacity of its commercial broiler operations, with an energy-conscious expansion to its hatchery in

Hyderabad. The expansion will bring a further six SmartSet™ setters and six SmartHatch™ hatchers online, with Pas

Reform’s ESM™ (Energy Saving Module™) in the setters to

reduce energy consumption, as annual capacity increases to a total of 13 million set eggs.

Sneha Farms is also introducing Pas Reform’s SmartTray™ 162 to achieve greater capacity, uniform airflow and an

optimised environment for the growing embryos during incubation.

As a major success story in India, Sneha Farms has earned a reputation for innovation and quality, with the poultry

major’s integrated activities today including broiler breeding, hatching eggs, commercial broiler, quality feed production, further processing and a market leading retail brand.

With quality of paramount importance at every level of its

operations, Sneha Farms is committed to implementing new technologies and upgrading systems to meet and exceed

the most rigorous of standards. The Company first started working with Pas Reform in 2010, when the Hyderabad

hatchery was launched as a prestigious new project in South India. Director Mr. Varun Reddy Dendi says: “We believe in

building healthy relationships, and with continuing growth, this project presents the right opportunity for us now to

expand our operations using the latest technologies from Pas Reform.”

Mr. N. Venkitakrishnan, Pas Reform’s Sales Director in India,

concludes: “Mr. Varun Reddy Dendi leads a dedicated team of knowledge-rich people who believe in the importance of

uniform chick quality and the positive effects this creates throughout the entire vertical integration. Pas Reform is

delighted to be continuing its partnership with Sneha Farms.”

Chile’s Ariztía chooses SmartPro™ NF incubation to expand its largest hatchery Chile’s family-run Ariztía is expanding its largest broiler hatchery at Malvilla, near San Antonio, with SmartPro™ NF series incubators from Pas Reform. As a leading international food business, Ariztía exports poultry and poultry meat products to more than 20 countries worldwide. The company is now eight years into a programme to upgrade four hatcheries with single-stage incubation technologies from Pas Reform. The latest hatchery upgrade follows the expansion of a turkey hatchery in Tremolen, another broiler hatchery in Arica and the complete renovation of Ariztía’s Cobb GP hatchery at Lagunillas, also with Smart™ incubation from Pas Reform. The Malvilla hatchery has always used a 54-egg tray for the incubation process which, due to fixed racks in the incubators, has been a labour-intensive, multi-stage process. With the installation of Pas Reform’s SmartSetPro™ NF series 24 trolley setters and SmartHatchPro™ NF series hatchers, more efficient, single-stage incubation will, says Rolando Vera, head of hatcheries at Ariztia, be introduced without any need to replace the trays:

“This is the first step in renovating our entire Malvilla hatchery into a single-stage operation,” he says. “Where we have already introduced single-stage incubation at our other hatcheries, we have seen a marked improvement in hatchability and in the quality of the day-old chicks. We are confident that the Malvilla renovation will also deliver increased efficiencies and the improvements that we are looking for.” In this first stage at Malvilla, Pas Reform will install six SmartSetPro™ NF 24 trolley setters, each with a capacity of 124,416 hatching eggs and 11 SmartHatchPro™ 6 hatchers, with individual capacities of 31,104. Company owner and president Don Manuel Ariztía concludes: “We have worked very satisfactorily with Pas Reform over the past eight years and we have seen improvements in our incubation systems. “The fact that they can also deliver their SmartPro™ incubation technology on the 54-egg tray system that we use already in Malvilla is a real advantage for us.”

Dr Marleen Boerjan, Pas Reform’s

management, practical aspects

Bas Kanters, Pas Reform’s sales

that they also greatly value the

sessions and key insights into

chicks, achieving uniformity on

objective of this program is to

creates, to share experiences

Director R&D, delivered practical the impact of the latest research into embryology on hatching egg quality and storage,

optimising incubation, troubleshooting and fine-tuning hatchery performance.

Senior Poultry Specialist Gerd de Lange led discussions on

hatchery hygiene and breeder

of incubating for high quality

the breeder farm, hatching egg hygiene and hatchery climate

control and ventilation, with ISA sales manager Willie Blokvoort

presenting on chick quality, from the pulling of newly hatched

chicks to housing and optimal brooding.

director for Asia, says: “The

share knowledge that will assist

Indonesian poultry professionals in practical ways, to build

strong businesses and achieve

opportunity that this training and insights with other

professionals from across their industry.”

sustainable growth.

“While we are sharing the most up-to-date knowledge with

hatcheries and breeder farm

operators, participants tell us

Stanislav Olegovich Nasimov,

CEO LLC Rusgrain Ufa Holding

Russia’s Rusgrain Ufa Holding signs to SmartPro™ for new Turbaslinkie hatchery LLC Rusgrain Ufa Holding, one of Russia’s leaders in agricultural goods and processing, has signed a Contract with Pas Reform Russia to supply and install its new Turbaslinkie Broiler hatchery with SmartPro™ single stage incubation technologies. Located in Blagoveshchensk district, in the Republic of Bashkortostan, the new hatchery will produce 42 million eggs annually. Turbaslinkie’s incubation suite will incorporate the most advanced Adaptive Metabolic Feedback™ (AMF™) module, to create incubation environments that are finetuned to the needs of the growing embryos; ESM™ (Energy Saving Module™) to reduce energy consumption and SmartWatch™, to monitor and regulate the hatching process. Pas Reform will also equip the hatchery with hatchery automation, ventilation and climate control. Rusgrain’s poultry and eggs division is vertically integrated to deliver full cycle product manufacturing, including chicken eggs, broiler meat, byproducts, sausage products, compound feeds, flour and cereals. Product sales are managed by the Group’s trading company, Rusgrain, which owns a distribution network of wholesale and retail channels across Russia.

Pas Reform celebrates 10 years in Russia

A decade ago, Pas Reform Russia opened its doors for business in Belgorod for the first time

As part of the Dutch hatchery technology company’s

commitment to global

expansion and close market co-operation.

With production certified to ISO and HACCP standards, maintaining rigorous standards of hygiene and bio-security were important factors in the Company’s decision to work with Pas Reform Russia. Commenting on the new contract, CEO Nasimov Olegovich said: “ With a focus on quality and hygiene throughout our integrated operations, Pas Reform’s use of food-safe anodized aluminum, microbial technologies and highly durable,materials in the structure of their equipment was a key factor in our ultimate decision. “In addition to the quality and technological advancement of SmartPro™, we are also impressed by the scope of the service that Pas Reform can provide, with full design and project management for this green-field project, as well as ongoing technical support from Pas Reform Academy.”

Today, with more than 2.5 billion

leadership of managing director

multitude of small-scale

using Pas Reform’s Smart™

director Anna Kolygina, Pas

to ten years ago,” says Schaafsma.

eggs being incubated each year single stage incubation

technologies, Pas Reform Russia has achieved more than 50 per

cent market share in Russia and

the C.I.S. through the realisation of more than 100 hatchery projects across the region.

With a dedicated team of 18

working under the visionary

Wim Schaafsma and commercial Reform Russia has set a

benchmark in the production of highly uniform, robust day old chicks, for a modern poultry

production chain that values

food safety, sustainability and animal welfare.

“Nowadays the Russian poultry sector is very different to the

producers that we were talking

“Today, this is a highly organised and professional sector,

dominated by large, forward-

facing integrations that have all but replaced imports to meet

domestic demand – and who are now targeting export

opportunities for continuing growth.”

With quality of great importance at every level of its operations, Rusgrain Holding Ufa is committed to implementing new technologies and upgrading systems to meet and exceed the most rigorous of standards. Wim Schaafsma, general director Pas Reform Russia, concludes: “We are delighted to have won this Contract. Rusgrain Holding Ufa is a strong, progressive organisation, committed to the adoption of new technologies and industry-leading standards. “We look forward to supporting the realization of their ambitious plans for the future.”

Pronavicola’s Colombian hatchery expansion continues

Russia’s Agrofirma “Oktyabrskaya” confirms SmartPro™ for latest expansion

Agrofirma “Oktyabrskaya” is extending its poultry

operations for the third time in succession, with the

construction of a new SmartPro™ single-stage hatchery that will create 100 new jobs and produce 45 million eggs annually.

The new hatchery, which will be located in the Republic of Mordovia, in Russia’s Lyambirskiy District, will include 10

SmartSetPro™ 6 and 18 SmartSetPro™ 4 setters, all equipped with Adaptive Metabolic Feedback (AMF™), to actively manage the environment in the setters for uniform embryonic development.

The contract also includes Hatchery Automation Systems

from Pas Reform, with a points-down precision egg setting

line and Pas Reform’s innovative, SmartCount™ system, that

Columbian poultry group Pronavicola has completed the second phase of its major hatchery upgrade and expansion programme in Buga, western Colombia, with the installation of new, state-of-the-art SmartPro™ single stage hatchery technologies and a SmartCenterPro™ automated hatchery information system from Pas Reform. The project includes the installation of six additional SmartSetPro™ setters and six SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, as the hatchery targets a total weekly capacity of 800,000 day-old broiler chicks per week. A new climate control (HVAC) system provides fine control of environmental conditions in the chick handling and storage areas - and the upgrade also includes Pas Reform’s advanced, web-based SmartCenterPro™ hatchery information system, to monitor, control, analyse and report on every level of hatchery operations for each hatch cycle.

For Mario Zapatta, the company’s project manager, SmartCenterPro™ offers significant operational benefits to his hatchery management team: ”The ability to have Pas Reform’s incubation and technical specialists online and “present” in the hatchery with us, helping with advice on incubation programmes and machine maintenance, is a great asset that has come with this hatchery management platform,” he says. “We look forward to benefiting from more software applications in the months to come, as the hatchery upgrade becomes fully operational.”

uses vision-technology to gently count, vaccinate and analyze the day-old chicks.

Hatchery owner Mr. Andin is leading the company’s

development. With a deep understanding of changes and

advancements in the poultry sector, Agrofirma Oktyabrskaya has, he says, earned its reputation as a modern enterprise by using the latest technologies to achieve the highest standards in production.

“Oktyabrskaya is among Russia’s top suppliers of high

quality poultry meat and products,” he says. “With such a commitment to quality, we were rigorous in choosing a

partner who would not only provide reliability, sustainability and innovative technologies in our new hatchery - but one

that would also support us at every stage of the project and its development.”

Pronavicola, the first hatchery in Colombia to adopt singlestage incubation technologies, has earned a reputation for innovation through technology in the country’s poultry sector since it was founded in 1982.

Pas Reform Russia mirrors the

Pas Reform Academy’s hatchery

concludes Schaafsma. “We’ve

Dutch parent, with the supply of

programmes have, as Schaafsma

we look forward to playing a

operational capabilities of its

innovative Smart™ incubators, hatchery automation and climate control systems;

experienced project planning,

management and installation teams; technical support, a

catalogue of around 1,000 spare parts stocked locally and

logistics throughout the region.

management training

predicted in 2005, remained

pivotal in building relationships for the long-term.

“Robust hatchery innovation, uniform chick quality,

made a commitment, and

key role in supporting future

developments in the Russian poultry sector for decades to come.”

outstanding technical support and open collaboration have supported our customers’

ambitions here for ten years,”

Dina V. Timofeyeva Pas Reform Russia

Nadezhda V. Sopova Pas Reform Russia

Louis du Boberil, hatchery manager Aviagen France

Pas Reform and NatureForm bring the future into focus for Aviagen France Aviagen has awarded the contract for the renovation and expansion of its Ross PM3 and Ross 308 GP hatchery in France to Pas Reform. Working in partnership with US-based sister company NatureForm Hatchery Technologies, Pas Reform has combined 132 egg flat setter tray compatibility with the most advanced SmartPro™ hatchery technologies, to engineer a state-of-the-art solution for Aviagen France that sets a benchmark in terms of environmental impact, animal welfare and sustainability. The Ross PM3 remains an enduring favourite in France - and as Aviagen’s Ross brand celebrates 60 years at the forefront of poultry breeding and genetics, the Grandparent stock hatchery at Champtocé sur Loire will, says hatchery manager Louis du Boberil, become a centerpiece in the company’s plans: a model for increasing production, saving energy and operating at peak efficiency and biosecurity, while at the same time increasing hatching capacity by 50 per cent, to more than 6.5 million broiler breeders per year when it becomes fully operational in the second half of 2016.

Designed for optimum performance, Pas Reform’s web-based SmartCenterPro™ hatchery information system will register precise incubation climate data from NatureForm’s Smart™ NF-12 setters and Pas Reform’s SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, seamlessly integrating and optimizing the entire incubation cycle, while enabling personnel to monitor and adjust incubation climates both on and offsite via PCs, Smartphones, tablets or their home internet connections, if necessary. Energy efficiency and optimum bio-security are key features of the 3,500 m2 hatchery complex. A range of energy-saving features include advanced heat recovery systems, ESM™ Energy Saving Modules on every incubator and regulated controls for every pump, air handling unit and exhaust fan, to align energy usage to real-time productivity. Atmospheric pressure-control in every room maximizes bio-security throughout the hatchery’s strictly one-way product flow. Pas Reform’s Wim Hazekamp led the team responsible for the project. He says: “The requirement to retain 132 egg flat trays for Aviagen France’s GP hatchery redevelopment created a relevant opportunity for Pas Reform to work with our US partners at NatureForm on this project. The result is a highly integrated, precision-engineered, sustainable hatchery environment, purpose-designed to deliver Aviagen France’s plans for the future.”

NatureForm appoints new regional sales manager

With a string of major new

account wins in recent months, NatureForm Hatchery

Technologies is expanding its management team with the

appointment of Robert Bowen as regional sales manager for

Wim Hazekamp, project manager

Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

the Western US.

Louis du Boberil concludes: “Having completed the first incubation cycles, we are now finetuning to fully implement all the new systems - and based on what we have seen so far, we expect significantly reduced heating and energy costs, enhanced bio-security and improved product flow and processing within our first year of operation. “This is an exciting and important project for Aviagen France and a centerpiece in fulfilling Group ambitions for the future.”

For further, detailed information about Aviagen France please request your own free, full-

colour, fully illustrated case

study brochure by emailing info@pasreform.com or

download the brochure in pdf

format directly from Pas Reform online at www.pasreform.com

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The full SmartPro™ NF incubation system

SmartPro™ NF incubation technologies have been

SmartPro™’s modular design makes it possible to

SmartHatchPro™ NF (Hatcher), combined with the

facing the modern hatchery: genetic progress,

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incubated, according to its breed, flock, age or

storage profile. And now, with the introduction of the NF series, SmartPro™ can accommodate a

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the system by combining powerful hatchery HVAC and hatchery automation - all in one,

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seamlessly integrated software module.

Speaking about his appoint

sales management positions

uniformity and post hatch performance.

management software in the industry, completes

both in sales and as a hatchery customer to his new role. In

developed to conquer the three key challenges

ment, Robert says: “I am

NatureForm in what is a very

dynamic period of expansion for the business.

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industry faces and I have

Welcoming Robert to the

Robert Bowen can be contacted

NatureForm’s equipment

Warren concludes: “Robert’s

rbowen@natureform.com and

enormous confidence in

solutions to boost hatch results and improve chick quality. This

plus having access to Pas Reform Academy training for hatchery

customers here in the US makes this a very exciting career move for me.”

business, NatureForm CEO Steve focus on building robust, lasting customer relationships comes

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understanding. We are very

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Smart growth for Centaco in Thailand

Centaco Group, one of Thailand’s leading independent agri-business enterprises, will expand its fully integrated operation with a new hatchery from Pas Reform. Equipped with Pas Reform’s most advanced SmartPro™ single stage incubators, SmartCenter™ hatchery information system and hatchery automation systems (HAS), the new hatchery joins a roster of 12 wholly owned subsidiaries across a range of operations, from grandparent stock breeding, farming and a feed mill, to the manufacturing of animal health products, poultry processing and the manufacture of cooked foods. The SmartSetPro™ setters will incorporate Adaptive Metabolic Feedback™ (AMF™), to fine-tune incubation environments to the needs of growing embryos and Energy Saving Modules™ (ESM™) to reduce energy consumption.

The SmartHatchPro™ hatchers will be equipped with SmartWatch™, to monitor and adjust the hatching process automatically, from transfer through to the hatch of the last chicks in each cycle, with SmartCenter™ hatchery information software to monitor and record every event during the incubation process. Pas Reform will also provide hatchery management training for Centaco personnel, with ongoing service and technical support from Pas Reform Academy.

Mr Hophaisarn says: “Centaco is an impressive company, with more than 3,000 employees who hold strong values and an absolute commitment to quality throughout its operations. “Pas Reform is delighted to have won this contract and we look forward to working with the Centaco team to achieve its continuing plans for growth and further development in the future.”

Established in 1969 as a breeder farm supplying local producers, Centaco has grown steadily for more than 30 years, with a dedicated focus on quality and food safety to serve both domestic and international markets. The company maintains tight controls in every area of operations and has developed its own research facility and a range of naturally-based animal health products, to reduce the use of antibiotics. Mr Somnuk Hophaisarn from Goodspeed International, Pas Reform’s representative in Thailand and Bas Kanters, sales director, both worked closely with Centaco to plan the new hatchery.

Dr. Marleen Boerjan

Santad Dentstaporn

Martin ‘Tiny’ Barten

Lenise Inácio de Souza

SJSC Floreni on a Smart track for a million chicks a month

JAPFA extends hatchery network in Indonesia PT Japfa Comfeed is to further expand its extensive hatchery network in Indonesia with a new facility at Kronjo, Tangerang in West Java. The new hatchery will be equipped with SmartPro™ single stage incubation. With 12 SmartSetPro™ setters, 12 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers and a full climate control system, the new hatchery will incorporate Adaptive Metabolic Feedback™ (AMF™) to fine-tune incubation environments to the needs of growing embryos and Energy Saving Modules™ (ESM™) to reduce energy consumption.

“The Indonesian Government has set targets to increase the consumption of chicken to 15 kg per capita by 2018, which provides good opportunities for production growth,” he says, “Our adoption of Pas Reform’s advanced SmartPro™ single-stage incubation, together with our focus on biosecurity and food safety, puts Japfa in an excellent position to deliver premium quality broilers that have had an excellent start, with high uniformity throughout the integration to achieve a superior retail product.”

Leading Moldavian poultry producer JSC Floreni will produce a record million chicks each month at its newly updated hatchery complex, with the commissioning of next-

generation Smart™ single stage incubation technologies from Pas Reform.

The new installation, which includes nine SmartSetPro™

setters, each with a capacity of 82,944 hatching eggs, will, says company owner Mr Vladimir Saulschi, enable the

scaling up of production to 12 million chicks a year and 1,200 t of poultry meat each month.

Originally founded in 1972 as the ‘Kishinev Poultry Farm’, JSC Floreni was the result of privatization and restructuring in 2000, with production from its two sites at Floreni and Tintareni. In 2010, with a change in its majority

shareholding, came the opportunity to overhaul operations with substantial investment to create new broiler-rearing facilities, the modernization of its slaughterhouse and

improvements in the quality of products being sold under the JSC Floreni trademark.

Today, the company is a leading producer of chicken and

poultry meat products for the Moldavian market. Wholly-

owned logistics have extended its branded retail operations to consumers throughout Moldova and into the Republic’s capital, Chisinau.

Choosing Pas Reform to partner the company’s ambitious plans for modernization and expansion was, says Mr

A SmartCenter™ hatchery information system will monitor and record every incubation cycle and Pas Reform will also provide hatchery management training, with ongoing service and technical support.

Saulschi, a logical decision. “As the region’s absolute leader in the supply of incubation technologies, Pas Reform was the obvious and logical choice for us,” he says. “Our plans

are progressive and focused on quality at every stage of our operations. Smart incubation, climate control and hatchery

As one of the largest agri-food businesses in Indonesia, Japfa’s Poultry Division is one of the most vertically integrated operations in the country. With ambitions to make new inroads into value added and consumer branded foods, food safety is, says Japfa’s Head of Hatchery West Area Mr. Akhyar, an important concern for this market-leading company.

automation are making a very real contribution to our

growth, improving hatching results and chick livability, while at the same time reducing our production costs.

“I would say that for us, this was a Smart decision on every level.”

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Incubation in hot, humid climates

By Gerd de Lange, Senior Poultry Specialist, Pas Reform Academy Successful incubation in hot, humid climates poses a number of challenges for the hatchery, one of which is achieving sufficient weight loss at transfer to deliver high hatchability and optimal chick quality. Take for example a moderately hot and humid climate of 30°C with 75%RH. With these properties, air at sea level contains approx. 20g H2O/kg air. If we assume a setter climate of 37.5°C and, with the aim of achieving optimal weight loss from fresh egg weight at transfer of 12%, we choose a set point of 50% RH, the air in the setter will contain approx. 21g H2O/kg. If the setter’s air valves are closed, evaporating water from the eggs will increase both the absolute (gH2O/kg air) and relative (RH%) humidity of air in the setter. This limits evaporation from the eggs, making it impossible to achieve 12% weight loss. By ventilating the incubator with fresh air, evaporating water from the eggs can leave the incubator via the outlet, while maintaining an optimal incubation climate. However, if we stay with the above example, each kilogram of air entering the incubator can extract only 21g – 20g = 1 gram of water. This means that a lot of ventilation, starting early in incubation, is needed to allow the hatching eggs to lose sufficient weight. Adopting a non-linear weight loss profile that starts incubation with high RH% (by sealing the setter for several days), then compensating for low weight loss by applying a low RH% (ie. less than 45%) during the second half of incubation, is not feasible in hot, humid conditions. Such low levels of RH% can simply not be achieved, even when air valves are 100% open. This is because when RH% set point inside the setter is, for example, 45%RH, the inlet air (30°C / 75%RH=20g H2O/kg) already contains more water (37.5 °C/ 45 %RH = approx. 18g H20/kg.). In this scenario, a linear weight loss profile based on a constant RH% of approx. 50% is much easier to achieve.

It is possible, at least partially, to overcome these challenges and minimize the need for high ventilation rates early in incubation, by optimizing the temperature and relative humidity of inlet air using an Air Handling Unit. Outside air of 30°C / 75%RH can be climatized to, for example, 25°C / 60%RH, which significantly reduces the water content of the air from 20g H2O/kg to approx. 12g H2O/kg. Again using the above example, each kilogram of air entering the incubator now has the capacity to extract 21 – 12 = 9 gram of water. There is a downside to treating hot, humid outside air in this way. It requires energy, both for the cooling needed for dehumidification and also to subsequently re-heat the air to a recommended inlet temperature of 25°C (+/- 2 °C). This energy cost will increase the cost price of the day-old-chick – but it does give the hatchery manager an additional tool with which to better control hatchability and chick quality in a challenging, hot and humid climate.

Fig. a After 24 hours of incubation

Advice – Aim for a linear rather than a non-linear weight loss profile in hot, humid climates, to prevent insufficient weight loss that will inevitably arise from failing to achieve the low %RH set points required during the last days of incubation using a NLWL-profile. – Pre-condition hot, humid outside air to the inlet specifications recommended by your incubator supplier, to reduce its moisture content. – Perform a cost-benefit analysis within these specifications, to establish the most advantageous combination of temperature, relative humidity and energy usage to achieve the highest hatchability and optimum chick quality.

Fig. b After 48 hours of incubation

Fig. c Day 6 of incubation

The biology behind egg turning by Dr Marleen Boerjan, Director R&D, Pas Reform Academy In addition to climate parameters such as air composition and temperature, turning is an important third parameter that needs to be controlled during incubation. In commercial incubators, hatching eggs are placed in setter trays with the air cell up and turned regularly through angles of 90° or 45° on either side of eggs’ long axis. Historically, arguments for the need to turn eggs frequently were (1) poor temperature distribution in the albumen and yolk and/or (2) the risk of the embryo and extra-embryonic membranes adhering to the inner shell membrane. From recent research, however, we now understand that turning hatching eggs during incubation is essential for the development of extra-embryonic membranes, including the amnion and the chorion- allantois respectively. Simultaneously, extra-embryonic compartments are filled with sub-embryonic fluid, amniotic and allantoic fluids. Both membranes and fluids are essential for the optimum growth and development of the embryo (reviewed by Deeming 2002 in: Avian Incubation behaviour, environment and evolution); Baggott et al., 2002).

development keeps pace with the development of the extraembryonic tissues, so that when the day 12 embryo starts to grow, the yolk lipids are prepared for uptake by blood veins grown into a well developed yolk sac. If development of the yolk sac membranes and vascularisation lags behind that of the embryo, embryonic growth is limited. Lipids transported by the blood vessels from the yolk need a well developed yolk sac to be metabolized.

are not turned during days 4-7, nutrient uptake is affected, which delays hatching time and produces increased variability in chick viability. We may confidently conclude therefore, that turning eggs is as important as climate parameters RH and temperature in incubation, not only for optimising embryo quality, but also in order to achieve a narrow hatch window.

Turning is therefore essential during days 0-7, when the early extra-embryonic yolk sac membrane (area vasculosa and vitelline membrane) and sub-embryonic fluid are being formed. Soon after incubation is initiated, extra-embryonic membranes develop from the outer area opaca of the blastoderm, as recognized by a clear ring of membranes on the yolk (fig a). As incubation continues, blood vessels develop to form the area vasculosa (blood ring), which occurs simultaneously with the accumulation of sub-embryonic fluid (fig b, c). The volume of sub-embryonic fluid reaches its peak at day 6 of incubation. In the following days of embryonic development, the sub-embryonic fluid is transported to the amniotic cavity and the developing yolk sac.

– Recognise the importance of turning during the first week of incubation as being essential for achieving optimum embryonic growth. – If by break out more than 75% of embryos are found dead in a similar stage of development, turning failure during the first 10 days of incubation is probably the cause. – Turning failure may result in higher numbers of malposition II (head in small end), especially in eggs from older flocks. – Increased spread of hatch and the presence of unexpectedly small embryos may also suggest a failure of turning during the first week of incubation.

Advice

The formation of extra-embryonic membranes and compartments is fundamental for the transfer of nutrients from the albumen and yolk and, last but not least, from the shell to the developing embryo. It is essential that embryonic

If turning fails during the period of sub-embryonic and blood ring formation, the area vasculosa remains small and the total volume of sub-embryonic fluid is decreased. Consequently, failure to turn the egg has a serious and negative impact on the growth of the embryo. If embryos

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Hosted by Pas Reform at the

Following the meeting, Pas

healthy day old chicks in

address environmental concerns,

companies and hatcheries has

Hatcheries and Breeders

Center in Doetinchem (NL),

outlined Pas Reform’s recently

on the sector increase.

governance for food safety and

Harm Langen, “This is where

meeting of Belgian & Dutch

Members of hatcheries and breeding companies from

Belgium and The Netherlands

have held a general meeting in The Netherlands, with a focus

on sustainability in the poultry sector.

company’s Global Distribution representatives from more than 50 breeding companies and

hatcheries, including Aviagen, Cobb, Hubbard, Lohmann and

Hendrix Genetics attended the day, which also included a tour

of the state-of-the-art training and distribution center.

Reform’s CEO Harm Langen launched SmartGrowth™

growing numbers, as demands

programme, which will, he said,

Bouke Hamminga, Pas Reform’s

world with smart, integrated,

development director, closed the

support customers around the

sustainable hatchery solutions that consistently achieve the highest percentage hatch of

fertiles - and deliver uniform,

international sales and business afternoon with a detailed

perspective on ‘the sustainable

hatchery’, as needing a complete range of solutions, not only to

but also to provide robust

public health, animal health and welfare, as well as innovation in new technologies to drive

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Smart redevelopment for Kazakhstan’s Kysylzhar-Kus

Imkon adopts Smart AMF™ for new Uzbekistan hatchery

Following new investment and a repurposing of facilities

Uzbekistan’s Imkon Group will boost its plans for expansion

Kysylzhar-Kus in the Pavlodar region is on track to meet 70

from Pas Reform.

from egg to broiler meat production, Khazakhstan’s

per cent of local demand for broiler meat in its first phase of operations, with a recently commissioned Smart hatchery from Pas Reform delivering strong performance.

The new hatchery includes SmartSetPro™ setters, each with a capacity of 57,600 hatching eggs, SmartHatchPro™

hatchers and a complete HVAC system to combat the high cost of energy in the Northern region of Kazakhstan.

The new facility, which also incorporates nine broiler houses, a slaughterhouse, feed mill and plant for meat and bone meal production, is served by its own boiler and water supply and has created employment for 130 people.

Talking about its production, general director Nikolai

Rudenko says: “The first phase will produce 4,000t of

poultry meat per year, which provides for 70 per cent of local market demand.

“Further, phase two expansion will double capacity to

8,000t, which will fully meet the needs of local consumers.”

and further development with a new SmartPro™ hatchery

Originally founded in 2007 by a visionary young

entrepreneur who dreamed of making poultry meat widely available, Imkon has grown over the past eight years to

incorporate four companies: Imkon Premix, the Imkon Sut Fayz feedmill, Ohangarron Nasilli Parranda parent stock farm and a hatchery, Imkon Broiler.

With the capacity for hatching 7.8 million eggs in 2008, the original parent farm and hatchery were conceived to

overcome difficulties in importing hatching eggs, at a time when the country’s poultry sector was just emerging.

By 2014, following successive expansion programmes, the hatchery was, says company director Eldor Usmanov,

hatching 12 million eggs each year and running at full

capacity. “The hatchery and parent farms were combined to create a single company, Ohangarron Nasilli Parranda, with

a programme of building for new farms,” he says. “Our feed

and premix production not only covered our own needs, but

also provided a source of high quality, well-balanced feed for the local market.

The hatchery’s first chicks were from Ross breed hatching

“However despite having updated our hatchery climate

Mr Rudenko concludes: “To perform strongly on the market,

specialists – and we were struggling to realise good, large

eggs, supplied by Karagandinskaya PF.

we opted for Smart™ incubation technologies from Pas

Reform to give our new broiler operations the best start.

systems several times, we lacked poultry incubation hatches of high-quality chicks.”

“We are delighted both with the hatchery installation and

Uzbekistan’s climate is characterised by high temperature

Reform’s project team throughout the whole project.”

challenges – and at the beginning of this year, the company

with the dedicated support that we have received from Pas In addition to installing and commissioning Kysylzhar-Kus’ new incubation and HVAC systems, Pas Reform Russia has

combined with low humidity, which created significant decided to invest in a new hatchery.

provided project engineering services and will continue to

“After a thorough evaluation of every hatchery supplier from

support from Pas Reform Academy.

Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ incubation system could deliver the

support the hatchery with regular field visits and technical

China to the EU,” says Mr. Usmanov, “we agreed that only advances that we were looking for to realise our plans.” Imkon’s new hatchery complex is due for completion in

February 2017, with Pas Reform providing full site planning and project management services, as well as ongoing

technical support from Pas Reform Academy specialists.

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Proan gets supersized with Smart in Latin America Massive investment in an integrated hatchery solution from Pas Reform is putting leading Latin American hatchery Proan (Proteína Animal, S.A. de C.V.) firmly on the map as one of the largest single-stage incubation layer hatcheries in the world. With the capacity to produce 600,000 day old female layers per week, the new facility - located in Mexico - will be the largest layer hatchery in Latin America and fully operational by the second quarter of 2017. The contract comprises 36 SmartSet™ 115 setters with a capacity of 115,200 eggs each and 36 SmartHatch™ hatchers. Pas Reform’s project team has designed the entire hatchery layout and provided detailed plans for hot- and cold-water plumbing and drainage systems and the hatchery’s complete ventilation system. Installation will include Pas Reform’s fully automated transfer and candling equipment, sexing and vaccination carousels, chick counters, tippers and a vacuum waste disposal system. The decision to work with Pas Reform came after a careful and rigid comparison of hatchery equipment manufacturers and suppliers, says Proan CEO Mr. Manuel Romo. “We wanted a fully integrated approach to the development of our new hatchery project,” he said, “and our preference was to work with a single industry partner.

“We found that Pas Reform not only delivered a complete solution in their state-of-the-art setters, hatchers and ventilation systems, but they could also offer a full range of hatchery automation and climate control equipment, with the project management capabilities to fully support the new development.” Proan’s intention, continues Romo, is to develop the most highly automated hatchery, a goal he says his company will certainly achieve with the completion of the new project. The hatchery, which is intended to supply all of Proan’s needs for day old pullets, will be listed as one of the world’s largest layer hatcheries, with the capacity to produce six hatches of 100,000 layer pullets every week.

Proan’s hatchery project is, says Ortiz, one of the most comprehensive projects ever contracted to Pas Reform in Latin America – and one that will serve as an important showcase operation for the entire region. Pas Reform’s CEO Mr. Harm Langen, concludes: “Working with partners of this calibre is central to our strategy for growth going forward. A project of this magnitude enables us to deploy our full range of products, technologies and services. “Proan’s new hatchery will, we believe, make an impression not only on the Latin American market, but quite conceivably throughout the western hemisphere.”

“This is virtually a turnkey project,” explains Ranulfo Ortiz, Pas Reform’s business development manager in Latin America. “The only part of the project to be sub-contracted is the physical construction of the hatchery building. All design, planning and the installation of hatchery systems and equipment will be fulfilled by a multi-disciplined project team from Pas Reform, including engineers that specialise in autocad drawing, ventilation and hatchery automation and overall project management specialists. “At the end of the build and installation phases, we will remain onsite with Proan’s hatchery personnel, to deliver onsite training while programming and refining the hatchery’s systems to accommodate a highly ambitious hatch plan.”

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Managing CO2 in the setter By Gerd de Lange, Senior Poultry Specialist, Pas Reform Academy Fresh, dry air contains approx. 78% nitrogen (N2), 21% oxygen (O2) and 0.04% carbon dioxide (CO2). Yet while oxygen is a prerequisite for life - and essential for successful incubation we rarely monitor oxygen levels inside setters and hatchers, or measure O2 as a parameter for adjusting the supply of fresh air by ventilation. On the contrary, CO2 – the by-product of embryo metabolism - is commonly monitored and measured to provide profiles for adjusting ventilation during incubation. Just after laying, the albumen of an egg contains a considerable amount of CO2, mostly present as bicarbonate. Since egg shell is porous and the concentration of CO2 in the environment is much lower, CO2 diffuses out of the egg. This results in an increase in the pH of the albumen as well as its liquefaction, both of which are needed to prepare the egg for incubation. As this process of passive CO2 diffusion from the egg continues during storage and in the first days of incubation, the concentration of CO2 inside the fully sealed setter will gradually increase. The fresher the egg, the faster the increase and the higher the accumulated level of CO2.

Pas Reform appoints new representative for China

As part of its international

expansion programme, Pas

Reform has appointed Mr. Tan Kee Chai (KC Tan) of Tianjin

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The fact that no fresh air enters the setter during the first 10 days of incubation may be beneficial for temperature uniformity, depending on the type of incubator. However, it is not only the concentration of CO2 (in a non-ventilated setter) that increases. This also applies to relative humidity, resulting in a reduced rate of egg weight loss during the first 10 days, which has to be compensated for during the last part of the setter period by imposing an extremely low relative humidity set point. The risk of such unnaturally low relative humidity during the final days in the setter is that water will evaporate from embryonic tissues, which by that time are found directly under the shell surface. After day 10–12, embryo metabolism increases exponentially and the need for O2 - and thus the production of CO2 increases. It is commonly accepted that in this period, the ventilation rate of the setter should gradually increase.

Mr Tan, who has a BSc degree

poultry industry have proven to

sector has made a very positive

educated in Malaysia and

business development.

is a genuine opportunity to

in Animal Husbandry, was subsequently worked for

be a great asset to his company’s

impact”, he says, “I believe there develop significant market share

European equipment companies

With a population of 1.35 billion,

own company in China in 2005.

experiencing rapid growth and

“As an innovative, results-

burgeoning market for Pas

single stage incubation system,

in Taiwan, before forming his

Co. Ltd, to represent its interests

Fluent in both English and

growing poultry sector.

and extensive experience in the

in China’s dynamic and rapidly

Since the embryo’s metabolism and therefore its demand for O2 during the first 10 days of incubation is very low, the gradual increase of CO2 to >1% does not hamper the embryo’s metabolic development. A study by Bruggeman et al. (2006) showed that, due to several buffering mechanisms, broiler embryos can tolerate a gradual increase to 1.5% CO2 at day 4 of incubation, maintained until day 10. A study of white layers by Hongbin Han et al. (2011), however, showed negative results when applying 2% vs. 0.03-0.05% during the first 4 days, which suggests a greater sensitivity to CO2.

Chinese, Mr Tan’s language skills equipment sector of China’s

China’s poultry sector is Tan believes there is a

Reform’s Smart hatchery

technologies. “Pas Reform’s clear commitment to China’s poultry

here.”

orientated and highly efficient

Smart incubation technologies

are central to the complete and integrated hatchery solutions

Over-ventilating, which may result in over-active humidifiers in an attempt to keep relative humidity at set point, is unnecessary. The ventilation rate in this period can be finetuned safely to a maximum CO2 level of 0.4%. Advice – Ensure that air in the clean air plenum of the setter (and hatcher) contain max. 0.09% CO2. – Check and replace the filters in the Air Handling Unit regularly. – Avoid or minimize the recirculation of ‘used’ air. – Ensure CO2-sensors in the setter (and hatcher) are calibrated correctly for the hatchery’s altitude. If calibrated for sea level, use a correction factor or a different set point. – Remember that sealing the setter during the first days of incubation not only increases CO2-level, but also RH%. – Start to ventilate the setter gradually, preferably no later than on the third day of incubation. Fine-tune ventilation >day 10–12 on a fixed max. CO2-concentration.

Archer’s Poultry Farm is building for the future with new hatchery in Canada Archers Poultry, based in Brighton Ontario, is celebrating its 70th anniversary by building a new, integrated SmartPro™ layer hatchery with NatureForm HVAC system, to produce top quality Lohman day-old layer pullets for Ontario’s poultry farmers. The family business, which is run today by the thirdgeneration of Archers, chose to work with Pas Reform to achieve its ambition of creating Ontario’s leading hatchery, both in terms of efficiency and also to ensure maximum bio-security and traceability for its chicks. The new hatchery, which is being built in nearby Milton Ontario, is equipped with 10 SmartSetPro™-6 setters and 4 SmartSetPro™-3 setters – a configuration designed to accommodate flexibility in the delivery of day-old pullets. Six SmartHatchPro™ hatchers are located in each of two separate hatch rooms. The hatchery also features an integrated HVAC (Climate Control) system, based on a design from NatureForm, Pas Reform’s partner in North America.

package that is now available

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Equipment Co. Ltd.

from Pas Reform. This combined management teams and

hatchery management training programmes from Pas Reform

Academy provide what is, in my opinion, an unrivalled platform for that growth.”

The whole operation will be monitored and controlled by Pas Reform’s SmartCenterPro™ hatchery information system. The web-based software will capture data from every segment of hatchery operations ¬– incubation, climate control and hatchery automation systems – to chart, refine and report on every event, from the origin of the hatching eggs, to the receipt of chicks at the customers’ farms. “The building has been designed to optimise work flow efficiencies and bio-security,” says Stuart Archer, president of Archer’s Farms. “Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ hatchers and setters have been developed with maximum bio-security in mind. Moreover, SmartCenterPro™ software is a powerful tool that enables us to deliver full traceability.

Archer’s Poultry focuses on Lohmann LSL-LITE and BROWNLITE birds. “Our goal has always remained the same,” concludes Mr Archer, “to provide the best birds, great advice and excellent products that contribute to growth and success for our customers.” The hatchery is scheduled to be operational by the end of 2016, with its first delivery of day old pullets starting in 2017.

“We have been able to get the best of both worlds,” Stuart Archer explains, “by combining state-of-the-art setters and hatchers, both of which feature the latest incubation technologies, with a robust HVAC system that is designed to North American design principles.”

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Luis Dulanto Martínez Representative Peru

Oscar Buenano Avila Representative Peru

Pre-storage incubation and SPIDES : New procedures in hatching egg storage Marleen Boerjan, director R&D, Pas Reform Academy It is common practice for hatching eggs to be stored for several days before starting incubation. If temperature (18-20°C; 64.5-70 °F) and humidity (75%) in storage rooms are controlled properly, eggs can be stored for one week without significantly reducing hatchability or chick quality. Longer periods of storage however do affect the vitality of the embryo, causing increased early and late embryonic mortality, a delay in hatch and reduced chick quality (Fasenko, 2007; Dymond, 2013). To overcome this, new approaches to egg storage management are being trialled among hatchery managers. In the 1950s and -60s, Kosin (1956) and Coleman and Siegel (1966) showed that hatchabilities increased when eggs were incubated for short periods before being stored. At the turn of the century, Fasenko (Fasenko et al., 2001; Fasenko et al. 2007) showed that after six hours of pre-storage incubation, chicken embryos reach the more storage resistant hypoblast stage of embryonic development. The subsequent introduction of 3-6 hours’ pre-storage incubation in layer hen hatcheries has shown that eggs stored for more than 11 days produce 3-7% more females (Lohmann Tierzucht, Hatchery Management Guide).

Mohammad Al-Khawaja Representative Jordan

In the broiler industry, embryonic temperature stimulation during pre-storage incubation has been adapted still further to deliver multiple periods of stimulation. Dymond and colleagues (2013) have shown that three-to-four ‘Short Periods of Incubation During Egg Storage’ – or ‘SPIDES’ - of 21 days increased hatchabilities and reduced hatching time when compared to the hatchabilities and hatching times of eggs stored for similar periods of 21 days (controls). SPIDES has been introduced by Aviagen and is advised in the breeding company’s ‘HOW TO no. 9: “Improve hatchability by using Short Periods of Incubation During Egg Storage (SPIDES)’. When practicing SPIDES, eggs are transferred from the storage room to a pre-warmed or running incubator and cooled again to storage temperature as soon as eggshell temperature reaches a maximum of 32°C (90°F). The time needed to reach 32°C (90°F) varies with incubator type, but is typically after 3-6 hours incubation at 37.8-38 °C (100.0-100.4 °F). To prevent embryos from developing beyond the storage resistant stage, care must be taken that, during the complete or multiple SPIDES treatments, the cumulative time that eggshell temperature rises above 32°C (90°F) does not exceed 12 hours. (See HOW TO no. 9 for more details)

Nouman Kaid Hadwan

Representative Yemen Republic

Conclusions One treatment of pre-storage incubation or multiple treatments/SPIDES (Short Periods of Incubation During Egg Storage) has been shown to improve hatchability and chick quality if eggs are stored for seven days or more. The interval between incubation treatments is typically 5-6 days. Prestorage incubation and SPIDES change storage management at the hatchery significantly but this may be compensated for economically by restored hatchabilities. SPIDES management protocols need to be designed specifically for the management practices and equipment of individual hatcheries.

For further, detailed information about incubation during egg storage please

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Lukas Sederevicius

Representative Baltic States

Ivan Moyer,

President Moyer’s Chicks and Duane Freed,

CEO Moyer’s Chicks

Hatchery expansion delivers major boost for Moyer’s Chicks – Pas Reform’s oldest US customer Pas Reform has completed a major hatchery upgrade and expansion project for its oldest customer in the USA, Pennsylvania-based Moyer’s Chicks. The company’s investment will significantly increase its production capacity to meet rapidly growing demand from customers in both North Eastern USA and Canada. Guidelines for designing a hatchery specific SPIDES protocol – Calculate a cost benefit analysis to establish whether SPIDES management is profitable. – Prevent an increase in hatch windows by pre-warming and cooling eggs uniformly in the incubator. – Carry out small-scale trials to establish optimum timing and length of incubation treatments during storage for your specific hatchery and egg types. – Start SPIDES only when all eggs are pre-warmed to 25°C. – Perform SPIDES treatment only when eggs are placed on setter trays to assure uniform egg temperature during incubation. SPIDES on paper trays is impossible. – Cool eggs in the incubator as soon as eggshell temperature reaches 32 °C (90 °F) and before putting the eggs back into the storage room.

Basem Mahmoud Ramadan Mohamed Technical service engineer Egypt

Family-run Moyer’s Chicks, a Pas Reform customer since 1989, has installed nine new SmartSetPro™-6 setters, to expand weekly hatching capacity by 330,000 day-old broilers. In addition, as a central component of the upgrade, the company has also installed Pas Reform’s SmartCenterPro™ hatchery information system, to provide end-to-end realtime monitoring, control and reporting capability, which will enhance workflow efficiencies, quality control and traceability. “Our new SmartCenterPro™ software gives us the opportunity to get frequent updates of the operating software,” says Ivan Moyer, owner of Moyer’s Chicks. “It also means that Pas Reform/NatureForm technical personnel can carry out these updates and trouble shoot in our hatchery from a remote location. “The first results, in terms of hatchability and chick quality, have really added to the capabilities of this hatchery,” says Ivan. “Using single-stage incubation has improved the quality of our day-old-chicks, greatly contributing to the results we are having from the hatchery and to the very positive feedback we have received from our customers here.”

Laurynas Sederevicius

Representative Baltic States

Pas Reform’s regional sales manager Robert Bowen comments: “With a relationship going back more than 25 years, Moyer’s Chicks is Pas Reform’s oldest customer in the USA and we are delighted to see the company being so successful and expanding their markets.” Moyer’s Chicks has come a very long way since being founded by Ernest K Moyer in a cornfield 70 years ago. By 2001, the company was hatching 16 million chicks per year. Always a progressive company, Moyer’s Chicks was an early member of the National Poultry Improvement Plan and is today a member of the American Pastured Poultry Association. Recent years have, says Ivan Moyers, seen an increase in customers from the sustainable agriculture movement, who are providing their consumers with poultry products from free-ranging, naturally grown flocks. “We have always been very positive about Pas Reform equipment,” he says, “and about their readiness to enter the North American market. Now that we see the collaboration with NatureForm taking shape, we also value the opportunities that this partnership opens up in terms of technological collaboration.”

Borys Marchenko

Representative Ukraine

Japan’s Amuse Inc. brings the future into focus with Smart technologies from Pas Reform

Amuse Inc. has commissioned Pas Reform’s SmartPro™ single-stage incubation technologies for its brand new 5mio layer hatchery near Myakazi, on the island of Kyushu, in Japan. With a total capacity of 12mio hatching eggs per year, the new facility, the first ‘Smart™ Hatchery’ to be commissioned in Japan, will incorporate eight SmartSetPro™ 4 setters, eight SmartSetPro™ 2 setters and 12 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers. The hatchery will be equipped with Adaptive Metabolic Feedback™ (AMF™), to automatically adjust incubation programmes to the time-sensitive needs of the growing layer chick embryos, and Energy Saving Modules™ (ESM™) to reduce the hatchery’s energy consumption. Amuse Inc.’s new hatchery will also be the first in Japan to commission Pas Reform’s advanced SmartCenterPro™ hatchery information system: a web-based ‘Internet of Things’ approach to monitoring, managing and capturing data at every level of operations, from incubation and climate control to hatchery automation systems. Pas Reform is further supporting the development of the new hatchery with engineering and technical services, including the installation of ventilation systems. The project is, says Henk Markhorst, Pas Reform’s commercial director in Asia, the realisation of a long-term plan that has passed from father to sons. “Through generations of the Akagi family,” he says, “there has always been great care and precision in planning and creating a business of quality and substance, one step at a time. “Having met Mr Norimoto and Yasuo Akagi some years ago, the commitment that they made to building a single-stage hatchery with Pas Reform is now being realised – and we look forward to responding with the same level of commitment to the success of the Amuse layer hatchery.”

Henk Markhorst, sales

Chang Jhen Corporation

The Taiwanese company,

Technologies

Reform in Taiwan

40 year heritage in the country’s

director, Pas Reform Hatchery

appointed to represent Pas

Pas Reform’s international

expansion strategy continues in Asia, with news that the company has appointed

Chang Jhen Corporation as its representative in Taiwan.

originally Si-Fu Enterprise, has a poultry industry and, with a pioneering and progressive outlook, has worked with

industry partners and customers since the ‘90’s to drive up

standards for greater efficiency, uniformity and consistency in poultry production.

Fortune Taiwan makes Smart investment for the future of Taiwan’s poultry industry Fortune Taiwan, a distributor of Lohmann and Ross breeds, is embarking on a major development phase that will consolidate its position as a leading innovator and pioneer in Taiwan’s poultry sector. Backed by founder and President, Mr Chuang An-Hung, the company is investing in SmartPro™ single-stage incubation from Pas Reform, to support the expansion of its GPS and PS hatcheries.

“We are excited to be starting the next phase of our development with Pas Reform. As a company that can support our people not only with the latest innovations but also with training and specialist knowledge, we believe we can build a great partnership.”

With plans to set the first hatching eggs in September this year, the new installation includes 21 SmartSetPro™ setters with corresponding SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, to deliver 25,000 broiler parentstock chicks and 50,000 commercial layer chicks at the company’s hatcheries each week.

Dr.Tan, sales director of Pas Reform Asia, concludes, “The experience and bold leadership of Fortune Taiwan’s senior team have created and grown a thriving and successful business, founded on quality at every level of their operations.

Pas Reform’s single source, ‘total solution’ for Fortune Taiwan also includes ventilation and climate control, with hatchery automation systems such as candling, transfer and setter trays as well as hatcher basket washing systems.

“It is a privilege to work on this project, which will be the first for Pas Reform in Taiwan and an outstanding debut for our new agent here, Chang Jhen Corporation, which has supported its development from the start. Together, we look forward to supporting Fortune Taiwan’s ambitions for their own future as well as that of Taiwan’s growing poultry industry.”

Fortune Taiwan Director, Mr Sutthi Chuang, noted the rapid changes that have been occurring in Taiwan’s poultry industry in recent years, as he commented on the new partnership: “Driving innovation and standards for commercial poultry production in Taiwan is a firm focus for

Chang Jhen Corporation also

poultry housing and equipment

after-sales support and access

“They are committed to

house equipment suppliers, as

improvements in farming

work closely with our customers

in Taiwan’s poultry industry and

represents a number of poultry well as cooperating with C-Lines of France for the building of

from overseas, to support methods and skills levels.

to Pas Reform Academy, we will here to achieve both.”

improving standards and skills we look forward to supporting their continuing growth in the

pre-fabricated poultry houses.

“Raising standards and

Pas Reform’s CEO Harm Langen

General manager Mr Norman

go hand in hand. Our aim is to

team to Pas Reform’s growing

Chang Jhen Corporation can

are delighted to welcome Chang

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Chen is driving expansion for Chang Jhen and is, he says, committed to introducing professional standards of

supporting skills development support development in both

these key areas in Taiwan - and with Pas Reform single-stage

incubation technologies, strong

us, but also as a model of information and knowledge exchange, to support and protect the long-term future of poultry in Taiwan.

has welcomed Mr Chen and his international family, saying, “We Jhen Corporation as our new representative in Taiwan.

years to come.”

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Spain’s Uvesa adopts Smart innovations Uvesa is Spain’s second largest broiler integration: a progressive company, with a commitment to quality from farm to table that has delivered sustained growth for more than 50 years. With direct control of the whole production chain, the business delivers poultry and meat products to retail, wholesale and catering customers, both in Spain and abroad. Located in the Agrifood City of Tudela, in the Navarra region, Uvesa’s new 6,500 sq.m. hatchery has a capacity of 1.1 million day-old chicks per week and was designed and equipped to deliver total process control for maximum hatchability and the best chick quality.

Total hatchery solution: an integrated, data-rich environment

Egg handling

Chick handling

Comprehensive automation in the egg handling area includes Pas Reform’s tray transfer system for the simultaneous transfer of 34 setter trays from farm- to setter trolley and an egg setting system that places hatching eggs point down onto setter trays, to maximize hatchability and day old chick uniformity.

An automatic separator delivers hatched chicks, without remnants of shell, to the next stage of processing. A double SmartCount™ counting and boxing system, incorporating Pas Reform’s innovative Vision Technology, counts and boxes chicks after inline sexing. Before transfer to the dispatch area, boxes are automatically stacked.

Incubation

Climate control

With 25 SmartSetPro™ setters, the use of 17 high setter trolleys, each containing 34 space saving honeycomb SmartTray™162’s, ensures that productivity is maximised by delivering the highest allocation of hatching eggs per m2 .

As part of this project, Pas Reform designed and installed a bespoke HVAC (climate control) system, including a hatchery-specific heat recovery system and air supply plenums for the uniform and optimal conditioning of air supplied to both setters and hatchers. The systems maximise efficiencies and reduce costs, while maintaining bio security throughout the facility and creating an optimised environment for producing high quality day old chicks.

Each SmartSetPro™ setter incorporates four key features: modular incubator design, Vortex™-based airflow principle, Adaptive Metabolic Feedback (AMF™) and Energy Saving Module (ESM™).

Uvesa’s greenfield broiler hatchery is an important and strategic installation that demonstrates Pas Reform’s comprehensive ability to deliver total hatchery solutions. With the full integration of SmartPro™ single stage incubation, climate control (HVAC) and hatchery automation systems, this data-rich hatchery environment showcases every aspect of Pas Reform’s capability in a truly futurefocused business committed to quality and growth.

The hatchery includes 24 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, which by their modular design allows batches of eggs from varying flock ages to be hatched according to their own, very specific embryonic requirements and assuring a reduced hatch window. Each hatcher incorporates SurroundCooling™, a system of cooling circuits integrated into the smooth, anodized aluminium walls of the hatcher. Hatcher baskets incorporate Microban® antimicrobial technology.

Behind every aspect of the hatchery operations, advanced SmartCenterPro™ Hatchery Information technology integrates the control of incubation, HVAC and automation systems to a single user interface, recording key data and generating batch reports to assist the hatchery manager in the full optimization of hatchery performance.

Candling and transfer

Washing and waste handling High pressure washing machines ensure the thorough cleaning of all trolleys, trays, baskets and boxes between hatch cycles and vacuum waste systems are used for the clean, hygienic and efficient collection and removal of waste from multiple locations in the hatchery.

For further, detailed information about Grupo Uvesa please request your own free, full-colour, fully illustrated case

A complete candling and transfer line has been incorporated for the automatic candling of hatching eggs and the removal of infertile eggs. The line includes automatic unloading, stacking and de-stacking, with an in-ovo vaccination unit to vaccinate the eggs in the process.

study brochure by emailing

info@pasreform.com or download the

brochure in pdf format directly from Pas Reform online at www.pasreform.com

Erwin Prinzen

product and sales director, Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

Kenny Tan

Representative Malaysia

CBH invests in SmartPro™ hatchery for Valentine’s Chicken

Country Bird Holdings (CBH) is investing further in Nigeria’s “While we did look initially at working with separate suppliers for

“This enables us to make well-informed decisions for the future

found that Pas Reform was very able to combine them all and truly

management and maintenance schedules.

incubation, hatchery automation and climate control systems, we deliver a complete, integrated hatchery solution for Uvesa.”

“We see many advantages to working with a single supplier for all

systems. Aside from streamlining development by working with just one engineering team during the construction of the project, we are able to integrate incubation data with climate control data and

hatchery automation data through SmartCenterPro’s™ hatchery information software.”

refinement and development of incubation programming, hatchery

“With a full package of service, including training and ongoing

access to Pas Reform Academy, this is a fully integrated hatchery

solution, designed specifically to support Uvesa’s hatchery team and business goals for the future.” Rodrigo Garcia

Hatchery Manager, Uvesa

Valentine’s Chicken, to establish a new SmartPro™ equipped hatchery from Pas Reform. The new facility will bring the

company’s total weekly setting capacity up to 345,600 eggs. Following CBH’s success with Pas Reform’s equipment and services in their Ross Zambia hatcheries, the Valentine’s Chicken complex will incorporate nine SmartSetPro™6

setters and nine SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, as well as a full HVAC climate control system.

In an effort to increase commercial farming in Nigeria, the local Government of Kwara State invited a group of

expatriate Zimbabwean farmers to start up a commercial farming project in 2005. Out of this project, Valentines Chicken Ltd was established in 2009 - and in 2015 the

principal shareholders sold a majority stake in the business to Country Bird Holdings.

With a senior team that has huge experience in the

poultry industry, CBH has brought new perspective and

vision to the company. This investment puts Valentine’s Chicken on track to become one of the largest poultry producers in Nigeria.

Palitha Balasuriya

Representative Sri Lanka

Natarajan Venkitakrishnan, country manager India Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

Bas Kanters, sales director

Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

Aviagen launches new state of the art SmartPro™ GP hatchery in Brazil

Aviagen America Latina, part of the EW Group, a key player in broiler genetics worldwide, has celebrated the inauguration of its new SmartPro™ single stage GP broiler breeder hatchery, supplied by Pas Reform do Brasil. Located in Santa Cruz das Palmeiras, in Brazil’s São Paulo state, the green field hatchery development has been designed to produce around 1.3 million female GP chicks per year, with a focus on the production of Ross 308 AP (AP 95) breeders that have, says Ivan Lauandos, president of Aviagen America Latina, delivered excellent field performance in South America. The new hatchery is equipped with Pas Reform’s most advanced single stage incubation technologies, including nine SmartSetPro™-1 and nine SmartSetPro™-2 setters and a system for delivering short periods of heat stimulation during storage, to increase hatchability. The setters are equipped with Adaptive Metabolic Feedback™ (AMF™), a unique functionality that adapts the incubator environment specifically to the metabolic needs of the embryos, to create a natural and optimised environment for the birds’ development and Energy Saving Modules™ (ESM™) to deliver

substantial energy cost savings and greater sustainability in the hatchery’s operation. SmartTray™ 162 setter trays, with their space saving honeycomb design, maximise the free movement of air to distribute heat and humidity uniformly during incubation. Eight SmartHatchPro™ hatchers are equipped with SmartWatch™, to deliver fine control for a reduced hatch window and each hatcher incorporates Pas Reform’s exclusive SurroundingCooling™ system. The project also includes an autonomous HVAC system, equipped with inlet filters with bacterial protection to generate additional biosecurity. Aviagen and Pas Reform worked together to design the 4,000 m2 hatchery for optimized efficiency and sustainability, with the provision to expand the hatchery’s capacity with a further six SmartSetPro™1 and six SmartSetPro™2 setters plus two additional SmartHatchPro™ hatchers when required.

With ambitions to support expansion for the supply of high quality day old chicks for the South American market, the new hatchery has, says project leader Anselmo Micheletti, been strategically located to support national distribution, as well as being close to the Campinas International Airport for export development, in line with Aviagen’s global expansion strategy. “The development of this project has been a fully cooperative venture with Aviagen, to create a truly state of art hatchery that focuses on quality, sustainability and energy efficiency as cornerstones of Aviagen’s continued growth in South America and beyond,” says Artur Schlick, operations director Pas Reform do Brasil. “It has been a privilege to work on a project of this stature and we look forward to continuing to support Aviagen’s ambitious plans for the future.”

Artur Schlick

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director operations,

200+ of our people are our

greatest asset, working in 100

countries worldwide, to help our customers achieve their

ambitions by delivering fully

integrated hatchery solutions.

Poland’s JDA gets future-ready with new Smart hatchery Poland’s fast-growing JDA hatchery is extending operations with a new commission for incubation, climate control and hatchery automation systems from Pas Reform. This latest expansion project will bring the hatchery’s total capacity to more than 45 million day old chicks per year.

SmartWatch™ enabled SmartHatchPro™ hatchers continually monitor the hatching environment, adjusting the climate in response to the specific requirements of each batch of eggs and effectively narrowing the hatch window without any need for human intervention until the new chicks are pulled.

Situated in the Pomeranian district of Suchy Dab, near Gdansk, JDA first started working with Pas Reform in 2008. With a new, young team, the Company took full advantage of the training and technical support provided by Pas Reform Academy and, says hatchery director Wojciech Szwarc has continued to work closely with specialists from the company to optimize chick quality and develop its own hatching egg production programme.

JDA Hatchery’s new hatchery automation systems will integrate sharp-ends down precision into the egg setting line and the vision-technology enabled SmartCount™ system into chick handling, to gently count, vaccinate and analyse the day old chicks. Pas Reform’s advanced hatchery information system, SmartCenterPro™ will monitor, manage and capture data at every level of operations, ‘super-connecting’ incubation, climate control and hatchery automation for the most detailed reporting on every hatch cycle.

In this latest expansion, JDA has again collaborated with Pas Reform, to design its new state-of-the-art hatchery from the ground up. Fully equipped with SmartPro™ single stage incubation, the new hatchery incorporates SmartSetPro™ setters, with Adaptive Metabolic Feedback™ (AMF™) and Energy Saving Modules (ESM™) to actively manage the incubation environment for uniform embryonic development in the setters and reduce the hatchery’s energy consumption.

Hatchery director Wojciech Szwarc

“Growing demand for our product is a direct result of the quality of our day old chicks - and with Smart technologies behind us, we are very excited about the future.” Pas Reform’s product and sales director Erwin Prinzen, has worked closely with JDA. He says: “JDA’s new hatchery showcases Pas Reform’s capabilities throughout the hatchery, greatly complemented by collaboration with our team at Jarmax here in Poland, whose support ensures that we stay close to our customers throughout the installation phase and that our customer’s service and support are fully backed by the fast, ready supply of spare parts from locally held stock.”

Innovative heat recovery and climate control systems have been devised specifically for JDA’s operations, to deliver substantial energy cost savings - and Pas Reform Academy’s technical team will continue to provide online support services, training and regular field visits. Hatchery director Wojciech Szwarc says of the project: “With Pas Reform’s support, we have created a strongly motivated, well-trained team and a very successful, highly innovative operation.

House of Raeford Farms celebrates new state-of-th House of Raeford Farms recently celebrated the grand opening of its new, state-of-the-art chicken hatchery with a ribbon cutting ceremony. The new 63,000-square-foot facility features advanced technology designed for optimum production efficiency, and is fully automated to allow for the highest levels of biosecurity, quality control and operational analytics. This level of control produces a very tight hatch window, and provides assurance of consistently healthy chicks. “It has been a pleasure to partner with NatureForm and Pas Reform to bring this new hatchery to life. After seeing firsthand the quality and consistency of the new chicks produced using this new technology, we had no doubt that this was the best route to innovating incubation for our company,” said Bob Johnson, House of Raeford president and CEO. “House of Raeford Farms is deeply committed to our communities, to our growers and to producing the highest quality products. Quality starts with healthy chicks. This advanced operation provides yet another layer of quality assurance.” Temperature, static pressure, and humidity are centrally controlled throughout the building to keep eggs and embryos in perfect condition.

hatchery automation,” said Bouke Hamminga, director of sales and business development for Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies. “We are proud of the final product, a one-of-akind U.S. hatchery, created as a result of this collaborative new venture.” House of Raeford currently works with more than 85 contract growers to produce more than 40 million chickens each year. The new facility, is expected to produce more than one million birds per week. “We greatly appreciate House of Raeford’s $16 million investment to construct and operate one of the most technologically advanced hatcheries in North America right here in Aiken County,” said Will Williams, president and CEO of the Economic Development Partnership in Aiken, Edgefield and Saluda counties.

“This collaboration with House of Raeford is a perfect example on how to jointly execute a state of-the-art hatchery with all the latest that a hatchery can hold in terms of single stage incubation, advanced climate control and

Bouke Hamminga, director sales and business

development, Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

Jan-Peter Eil, project manager

Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies

Steve Warren, president

NatureForm Hatchery Technologies

Scott Conley, global sales

NatureForm Hatchery Technologies

L-R:

– Will Williams, President & CEO of Economic Development

Partnership of Aiken, Edgefield & Saluda Counties, SC;

– Honorable Ronnie Young,

Chairman, Aiken County Council;

– Harm Langen, CEO, Pas Reform Hatchery Technologies;

– Steve Warren, President,

NatureForm Hatchery Technologies;

– Bob Johnson, President & CEO, House of Raeford Farms, Inc.;

– David Rush, Complex Manager,

W. Columbia Complex, House of Raeford Farms, Inc.;

– Danny Sanders, Live Production

Manager, W. Columbia Complex, House of Raeford Farms, Inc.;

– Bouke Hamminga, Director of Sales & Business Development, Pas

Reform Hatchery Technologies;

– Gayle Sharpe, Hatchery Manager, W. Columbia Complex, House of Raeford Farms, Inc.;

– Jim Mabe, Complex Manager,

W. Columbia Complex, House of Raeford Farms, Inc.

e-art hatchery

Zafer Bozdogan

Representative Turkey

Sake Yalcin

Representative Turkey

Ilia Marinov

Representative Bulgaria

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