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10 April 2018

In-ovo vaccination requires good hatchery management
In-ovo vaccination is gaining popularity and is being used in an increasing number of hatcheries. A driving force behind this is the increasing number of vaccines that are suitable for this method, including vector vaccines, which offer early protection...

30 January 2018

Poultry Industry News from United States

Training in the USA: hands-on knowledge sharing in hatchery management
Training is a unique contributor to NatureForm’s rapid growth across the USA and Canada and, earlier this year, a group of 14 hatchery professionals came together to take part in a three-day Hatchery Management Training programme....

17 January 2018

Sanofi Pasteur contracts NatureForm for new flu vaccine facility in Pennsylvania
Sanofi Pasteur, the world’s largest dedicated producer of human vaccines, is to build a state-of-the-art new vaccine production facility with SmartPro™ NF incubation systems at its campus in Swiftwater, Pennsylvania....

360° SmartCare™ in the USA: innovation in service and support
There are, says Pas Reform’s CEO Harm Langen, many ways to innovate. And as the world’s only single-source supplier of fully integrated hatchery solutions, Pas Reform and its US partner NatureForm have taken a wide view, to deliver innovation across...

Smart and integrated: Quebec’s Couvoir Réal Côté looks to the future
Family-owned Couvoir Réal Côté, a well-known and long-standing business in the Canadian hatchery industry, is to expand operations to 400,000 broilers per week for the Quebec market, with a fully integrated new facility that will be built around a...

Cargill Honduras expands with SmartPro™ from Pas Reform
Cargill Honduras, part of family-owned US multi-national Cargill, has announced major plans to expand its broiler production facilities, to grow its single stage hatchery to a capacity of 1,2 million day old broilers per week....

15 January 2018

Miller Poultry contracts NatureForm for new SmartPro™ NF hatchery renovation in Indiana
Miller Poultry, a producer of Amish-grown, antibiotic free poultry, has commissioned a complete renovation of its broiler hatchery in Goshen, Indiana with SmartPro™ NF single stage incubation....

07 January 2018

Miller Poultry contracts NatureForm for new hatchery renovation in Indiana
Miller Poultry, a producer of Amish-grown, antibiotic free poultry, has commissioned a complete renovation of its broiler hatchery in Goshen, Indiana with SmartPro™ NF single stage incubation....

12 April 2017

Urganch Parranda’s New Hatchery Gets Total Solution from Pas Reform
UZBEKISTAN - Uzbekistan’s Urganch Parranda Invest has commissioned a fully integrated hatchery from Pas Reform for its new, state-of-the-art turnkey hatchery project....

10 April 2017

Kazakhstan’s Alel-Agro Fuels Expansion with SmartHatch™
KAZAKHSTAN - JSC Agro Alel, a large and well-established poultry integration in Kazakhstan, has expanded its hatchery operations with the addition of new SmartHatch™ hatchers from Pas Reform. The new hatchers will increase Alel-Agro’s total hatching...

21 February 2017

Pronavicola’s Colombian Hatchery Expansion Continues with SmartPro™
COLOMBIA - 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...

10 February 2017

Seeking Energy-Efficiency in Pre-Conditioning Inlet Air for Setters and Hatchers
GLOBAL - Hatcheries are found in a variety of climates, from the hot, humid tropics of South East Asia to hot, arid zones in the Middle East or the changeable climates of Central Europe or the USA. ...

30 January 2017

Columbia Farms Adopt SmartCare™ in the USA: A 360° Approach to Hatchery Service and Support
US - House of Raeford’s affiliate Columbia Farms is the first of NatureForm and Pas Reform’s customers in the USA to adopt SmartCare™, a new 360° approach to delivering service and support for the hatchery....

19 January 2017

Lean Logic: Driving a New Era of Operations
GLOBAL - In September 2015, Angela Fauls joined the NatureForm team as Manufacturing Operations Manager, with a focus on driving the further development of the Company’s operations performance by using Lean Logic Strategies to increase manufacturing...

13 January 2017

Willmar AG Forte Launches World’s First SmartCount™ Turkey Counter
US - Willmar Poultry Company / AG Forte has successfully developed an innovative new concept for its turkey take-off and processing line, with the installation of the world’s first SmartCount™ turkey counter in collaboration with Pas Reform and NatureForm...

10 January 2017

Natureform Hatchery Technologies Spotlight: Senior Engineering Manager
GLOBAL - Challenged with ever-increasing opportunities for new product development NatureForm Hatchery Technologies has requested Clifford Maycott to assume the role of Senior Engineering Manager....

22 December 2016

SmartPro™ NF: Next Generation Design for the Future-Focused Hatchery
GLOBAL - Building on more than fifty years at the leading edge of single-stage incubation technology, SmartPro™’s modular design makes it possible to meet the specific needs of every egg being incubated, according to its breed, flock, age or storage...

12 December 2016

Pas Reform Launches SmartCare™
GLOBAL - 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....

15 November 2016

Post-Hatch Feeding Made Easy, Practical and Flexible
GLOBAL - A unique partnership between a hatchery expert, biotech start-up and premix company has led to a game changing post-hatch feeding product: SmartStart™....

14 November 2016

ISA Selects SmartPro™ Incubation to Renovate Layer PS Hatchery in France
FRANCE - ISA, the layer division of Hendrix Genetics, has contracted Pas Reform for the renovation of its layer PS hatchery in Lorris, France....

CBH Invests in SmartPro™ Hatchery for Valentine’s Chicken
NIGERIA - Country Bird Holdings (CBH) is investing further in Nigeria’s Valentine’s Chicken, to establish a new SmartPro™ equipped hatchery from Pas Reform. ...

11 November 2016

Organia to Revitalize Tanzania’s Poultry Industry
TANZANIA - Leading Tanzanian poultry and agriculture specialist 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...

09 November 2016

Archer’s Poultry Farm is Building for the Future with New SmartPro™ Hatchery in Canada
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...

08 November 2016

La Nationale to Represent Pas Reform in France and Algeria
GLOBAL - La Nationale, headed by Marie-Josée Adam and based in Briare, France, has been appointed to provide sales, service and distribution for Pas Reform’s customers in France and Algeria....