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Viscon Hatchery Automation delivers:a Efficient and hygienic hatchery design

a Lower labor costs

a Reliable production process

a Improved working environment for hatchery personnel

a Easy to operate and maintain equipment

a Improved hatching results and chick welfare

a Optimally cleaned products

a Useful management data

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At Viscon Hatchery Automation we are dedicated to improve our customers profitability by providing cost effective, hygienic andreliable hatchery automation. With in-house R&D, manufacturing and a worldwide network in sales and services, Viscon HatcheryAutomation is the ideal partner to engineer your success. Today and in the future!

A leading company Since specializing in the process of automated hatchery equipment in the late 90’s we rapidly developed to become the biggest producer and specialist in this area of expertise. We have supplied many systems to hatcheries worldwide, from standalone machinery to the world’s largest turnkey projects.

Engineering your successWithin the hatchery of today an efficient and hygienic productionprocess is crucial to ensure profitability and optimal hatching results. Current production volumes, bio-security standards, labour and animal welfare regulations make innovative hatchery automation fundamental to achieve this. From development and ma-nufacturing to implementation and service. Together with the most

hygienic and efficient hatchery lay-out we provide our customers with the right tools for this challenge.

Total supplier for all your needsA full range of equipment from egg reception to chick deliverycan be supplied, adapted to any brand of incubation system, suitable for broiler, layer and breeder hatcheries. Through our years of experience Viscon can also advice you on other aspects when building a new hatchery or modifying an existing hatchery,such as product flow around the hatchery, personnel requirements and waste handling.

Focus on the futureThrough continuous innovation we will keep developing cost effective products that will improve animal welfare, efficiency and hygiene within the hatchery of tomorrow. Our latest innovation, the Vinovo Select Line™, is designed with the higheststandards of bio-security in mind and is equipped with unique features such as heartbeat technology, accurate in ovo vaccination and transfer of eggs with new hygiene enhancing gripper technology.

Hatchery Automation from A to Z

Hatching

Waste processing

IncubationEgg handling

Viscon Hatchery AutomationSecondary Process

Egg transferring Chick processing

Cleaningtransport trays

Cleaningsetter trays

Cleaninghatcher baskets

Waste handling

Cleaningchick boxes

FarmsBreeders

About usViscon Hatchery Automation

Every hatchery aims to fully utilize the hatching potential of the eggs that enter its facility. This can only be achieved when the incoming eggs are held under optimum conditions till the moment they are placed in the incubator. These optimum conditions are created by a proper hygiene level, good storage conditions and delicate handling in the egg room. From the start we design the entire egg room to create an efficientand hygienic workflow. Based on the daily volume, we providegrading and labour saving machinery to quickly, efficiently and carefully process the eggs according to your specific needs. Our high quality washing machines ensure that trays and trolleysare optimally clean, before returning to the breeder farms.

Our product range for egg handling provides solutions for:• Egg grading• Egg transferring from farm to setter trays• Tray transferring from farm to setter trolley• (Un)loading of trolleys• Internal transportation• Waste discharge• Cleaning of trays and trolleys

We design the entire egg room to create an efficient and hygienic workflow.“ ”

Management data

Flock data, storage and setting conditions.

Egg Handling

From the 18th day of the incubation process, eggs are transferredfrom the setter tray to the hatcher basket. The challenge with thisprocedure is to avoid eggs cooling down or being damaged, which have a negative influence on hatchability. Therefore the transferprocess needs to be both quick and gentle. With the currentincrease of daily production volumes, labour costs and bio-securityrisks, reliable automation is essential to do this efficient and safe.

Our product range for egg transferring contains solutions for:• Unloading of setter trolleys• Live Embryo Detection / Traditional egg candling • In ovo vaccination – Vinovo Select Inject™• Egg transferring from setter trays to hatcher baskets• Stacking and loading of hatcher baskets and dollies• Automatic storage for setter trays and trolleys• Internal transportation• Waste discharge• Cleaning trays and trolleys

Management data

Accurate prediction of hatchability for each flock through Live Embryo Detection™. Collected information: percentage of eggs with living embryos, infertile eggs, eggs with early and late dead embryos.

Egg Transferring

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Better protected & healthier birds

The transfer room is the ideal place to collect pre-hatch management data. Our latest innovation the Live Embryo Detection™ accuratelyindicates which eggs contain a living embryo and classifies the non-viable eggs as infertile, early or late dead embryos. These figuresare summarized per flock and can be used to predict hatching numbers and monitor the breeding and incubation performance.

Exactly knowing the content of each egg, also enables selectiveprocessing during in-ovo vaccination, egg transfer and waste discharge. For this reason we have especially developed theVINOVO Select Inject™ in-ovo vaccination machine and theSelect Transfer™ machine. Both machines will only process the eggsthat contain a living embryo. The infertile eggs and eggswith dead embryos (including rotten eggs / “bangers”) remainuntouched in the setter tray and are processed in a separate

waste room. This technology gives you the maximum hygiene levelduring in-ovo vaccination, transfer, hatching and chick processing.

The Vinovo Select Line, which can process up to 70.000 eggs per hour (depending on application), consists of three modules:

Live Embryo Detection™Vinovo Select Inject™Select Transfer™

This technology gives you the maximum hygiene level during in-ovo vaccination, transfer, hatching and chick processing.

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Vinovo Select Line

An efficient, space-saving and hygienic workflow combined with high quality automation.

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When processing day old chicks, many important factors need to be taken in to account to maintain chick quality. The daily production volume and the available time frame, demand in many cases a high throughput. On the other hand delicate chick handling is required to conform with the high standards of animal welfare. Precision andaccuracy during additional operations such as gender sorting,vaccination and counting require special attention as well. Optimal working conditions of employees and collection of production data are a necessity in a modern hatchery.

Our product range for chick processing contains solutions for:• Unloading and de-stacking of hatcher baskets and dollies• Dust/ fluff reduction • Chick separation • Chick conveying, grading and counting• Gender sorting (carousel and linear)• Subcutaneous and spray vaccination equipment • Loading of chick transport trolleys • Humane chick culling

Management Data

Flock production figures, hatch of fertile percentage, average chick weight, employment performance.

Chick processing

With an efficient, space-saving and hygienic workflow combined with high quality automation, you are more capable of controlling these important factors. With automation you reduce the need for hatchery staff and improve chick handling. Ergonomic work positionsand dust reduction systems creates a better work environment for the employees and reduces labour absence. Automated datacollection from workstations and chick counters gives a clearsight of production figures and employer performance.

Each production cycle the product carriers (eg. setter trays, hatcher baskets, etc.) need to be cleaned, dried and stored to be re-used again the following production day. To prevent cross contaminationthe cleaning and drying results needs to be optimal, but also theproducts flow should be hygienic. Energy and water usage are a substantial cost factor in the daily operation of a hatchery in which an efficient cleaning solution can make a difference.

Our hatchery design avoids physical crossing of dirty and cleanproducts by separating pre-soak, washing and clean storage areas. This reduces the risk of cross contamination. High quality industrial washing machines are available in various models with capacitiesranging from 200 to 3.000 products per hour. Efficient heat exchangers and an optimal water re-circulation system gives the best washingresult against the lowest usage of energy and water. We applyproduct specific air re-circulation dryers with water recuperation, whichefficiently dries the products and reduces water usage.

Our product range for cleaning and storage contains solutions for :• Pre-soaking • Cleaning & drying of all hatchery products• Stacking and de-stacking • Automatic storage and supply

Cleaning & Storage

A sustainable, hygienic and cost effective handling of waste.“

”A sustainable, hygienic and cost effective handling of waste is an increasing challenge for a modern hatchery operation. We provide different solutions to discharge, separate and store the different typesof waste for resource recovery or disposal.

Our product range for waste handling contains solutions for :• Collection of infertile eggs• Fluff/ dust reduction• Tray and crate tipping• Humane unhatched embryo and chick culling• Vacuum discharge of debris • Central storage of waste

Management data

Waste volumes, storage information.

Waste Handling

Project approach

ServiceWe’re here to help

24/7 Service helpdesk Large spare-part warehouse Mechanical & software engineering service on site

With our worldwide network of Viscon offices and distributors, we can provide a full and comprehensive service in almost any country in the world, enabling us to react quickly and efficiently where necessary. The service and maintenance department of Viscon offers on site service and can be contacted 24 hours a

day, seven days a week. Possible electrical malfunctions in a production line can also be located or solved from within our company using internet and web cam technology. This way production downtime is reduced to an absolute minimum.

A project approach is elementary at Viscon Hatchery Automation. Directly after the order award the existing customer contact is being extended with a project team on both sides. To ensure both parties,that each party lives up to the expectations, Viscon insists on a clear, agreed upon communication structure and clear recordedrequirements in the form of a detailed functional specification. This creates the opportunity to measure the progress in the project as well. The initial contact with a client will take place with a sales engineer.

This person will remain responsible for the project throughout the entire process and will be the point of contact for the client. This will ensure made agreements will remain clear. On a more detailed level,an experienced project manager will join the team. This projectmanager will take care of the timely engineering of all (parts of )processes and guard the vast high quality which is the standard at Viscon. We can provide you with many references where ourreliable solutions are operating. Our sales engineers can arrange anappointment at your request.

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Viscon GroupWelcomes you!

Since 1927 our company has been involved in automation in the agro/horticultural sector, where we started out in the Flax industry, the soft wire mater al used to produce clothing. This company was established by the great grandfather of the current generation owners, Jan Visser. After the demise in the flax business in 1967, the next Visser generationstarted to buy and sell equipment in the horticultural industryunder the new company name ‘Visser I.T.E.’. As the horticulture industryrapidly grew and diversified, it created a demand for custom mademachinery. The Visser family took this opportunity and started todevelop and manufacture their own machinery and provide custommade automation projects.

Years later, the experience and success in horticulture led to expansionin different Agro & Food related sectors, such as ‘Fresh Produce’, ‘Poultry´ and ‘Food Logistics’, which where named ‘Viscon‘: deductedfrom Visser Construction. In the last two decades the familycompany grew from approximately 40 employees, to over 200 employees active in different sectors all over the world. As for today, several business units, eachdedicated to a specific industry, form the ‘Viscon Group’.

The Visser family DNA can be detected anywhere in the company:entrepreneurship, innovation, high technical standards and creativityhave been the heartbeat of the organisation ever since they starteddesigning and manufacturing themselves. Creating ideas, pouringenthusiasm, designing high end - high quality techniques and aworldwide focus is what the Viscon Group is all about.

The company is now being run by Ton Visser, Els Visser and CEO René de Vos. With Viscon Group we aim to createinnovative solutions for the smartmovement of products in Agro & Food. We invite you to become part of theViscon Experience where we provideexpertise, consultancy and in house

produced equipment for your company.

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Viscon GroupP.O. Box 5103 3295 ZG ‘s-Gravendeel The Netherlands

Visitors address

Mijlweg 18 3295 KH ‘s-Gravendeel The Netherlands

Contact

+ 31 (0) 78 673 98 98 + 31 (0) 78 673 34 34 info@viscon.eu

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+ 31 (0) 78 673 98 98 + 31 (0) 78 673 34 34 sales@viscon.eu

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