October 12, 2010

Spanish multigenic porcine semen producer buys Copaga's facilities

Semen Cardona, Spain's leading production multigenetic porcine semen doses for artificial insemination, has purchased the facilities that the Copaga cooperative had in the central of Catalonia.

The facilities were leased to multinational Ingafood, a leader industry of the Netherland's pig sector. The transaction includes the absorption of the Copaga client portfolio and an important part from Ingafood.

Thus, Semen Cardona consolidates its weight within the national market of the artificial porcine insemination and, in turn, reinforces its international power. The firm will use the Lacetània centre, with a potential capacity for 100 males, exclusively for export.

With the Lacetània centre incorporation, the Spanish cooperative now manages six farms involved in the extraction, production and marketing of pig semen multigenetic, four of them in the Barcelona area and 2 in the province of Lleida.

Currently, it produces doses of semen from a dozen genetic pig, with 100 different references.