MLBA8: April / May 2009
E-CAT: Building trust on reliability and precision
E-CAT (Egg-Chick Automated Technologies), being in the business of providing hatchery automation solution and based in France, recently introduced an innovative and modern egg transfer line using a combination of patented technologies. E-CAT president, Dr. Ephrem Adjanohoun, shares that developments such as these are some of the company's ways to do its part in helping poultry egg producers to reduce costs and enhance product quality.
The company's background in the hatchery automation industry enables it to provide customers with a full range of turnkey automated systems for eggs, chicks, trays and waste handling, as well as highly specialized IN OVO Injection, Egg Vaccination and Egg Candling systems. Its equipment range is calibrated to different capacities of hatcheries ranging from 10,000 to 120,000 chicks/hour.
The recently launched high-quality equipment include the laser candling with robotic egg remover, the inovo injection machine "EGINJECT" and the egg transfer machine. E-CAT assures that the EGINJECT machine is the most technically advanced injection system available in the market now which showed effective results that have been proven directly on-site in different hatcheries. Among the machine's different advantages are its varabiable multiple-speed injection pattern to preserve the embryo from any injuries, new vaccine savings technologies allowing up to 20 percent savings on vaccine costs, single-needle technology reducing significantly any risk of contamination and preventing egg breakage and its ability to select the volume to be injected at will while other existing equipment can only inject a fixed dose.
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