April 27, 2012

Cherkizovo launches poultry breeding facility at Bryansk cluster

The opening of the first line of a poultry breeding facility at its Bryansk cluster has been announced by OJSC Cherkizovo Group.

Cherkizovo has launched the first line of the breeding facility Pervomaiskaya in the Bryansk region. The new line is part of the poultry capacity increase project first announced in 2010.

The first line of the poultry breeding facility consists of 28 bird houses, with a combined capacity of almost one million broilers. The bird houses contain equipment manufactured by the Belgian company ROXELL, a provider of automated feeding and watering systems.

The Bryansk capacity increase project has also led to the construction of 11 additional bird houses at the existing poultry breeding facilities; two lines of Rosha breeding facility for 52 bird houses; incubation facility with an annual capacity of 43 million eggs.