February 11, 2014

Cobb's Broederij van Gent upgrades incubation equipment

At the end of December 2013, Broederij van Gent, a Cobb parent stock hatchery located in Veenendaal, the Netherlands has recently upgraded a substantial part of its incubation equipment with the installation of 30 Petersime BioStreamer™ setters already completed.

Moreover, the Eagle Eye™ hatchery monitoring software is also being set up and the floor was renewed and the existing HVAC control system has been replaced with Petersime controllers.

For reasons of flexibility, the incubators are a mix of four, eight and 12 trolley machines as van Gent works with all kinds of batch sizes. Delivery, installation and commissioning were completed by Petersime and its Dutch distributor PEJA Automation within a very short time frame in order to ensure continuous operation.

Broederij Van Gent is a PS breeder hatchery that works exclusively with Cobb Europe. The company has already been working with Petersime equipment for 41 years.

Broederij van Gent was founded in Veenendaal, the Netherlands, as a layer and broiler hatchery. In 1991, the company became a parent stock breeder hatchery for Cobb Europe, with whom the owners enjoy an excellent partnership. The chicks are supplied to Cobb customers across the Europe, Middle East and Africa region and can sometimes go farther afield in support to other Cobb regions worldwide.

Petersime is the world's leading supplier of incubators and hatcheries. Headquartered in Belgium, Petersime has a worldwide network of agents and distributors in over 60 countries.