Petersime, a designer and manufacturer of incubators and hatcheries, has purchased 22,000m² of additional land in a newly developed industrial area next to the current Petersime site for expansion.

Petersime has outgrown its current office and production facilities in Olsene, Belgium, after four consecutive years of sales growth and rising market share. Thus the expansion is meant to keep pace with the company's rapid expansion in output.

The company will also be using the opportunity to improve its efficiency and capacity in production and logistics, as well as increase customer satisfaction.

The expansion project will include a new production hall of over 4,000m² and two new logistics zones with a total of eight loading docks positioned to load up to eight trucks and/or containers simultaneously.

Incubators will be shipped exclusively from the first zone (five docking stations), while the second zone (three docks) will be used to hold and ship hatchery air handling systems and specialised hatchery equipment.

The total investment programme will run over a period of 18 months.

Construction is set to begin in October 2009. The new facilities are expected to be fully operational by mid-2011.