Guadalajara-based Alipec has commissioned Pas Reform to deliver its new state-of-the-art hatchery. The SmartPro™ modular, single stage incubation systems will give Alipec a production capacity of 400,000 day old chicks each week.

Alipec, which is owned by the Delgado family, is renowned for the delivery of high quality broilers to their clients in the region of Jalisco. When completed, their new broiler hatchery will be one of the most modern in Mexico.

Pas Reform will supply 6 SmartSetPro™-4 setters, each with a capacity of 82,944 hatching eggs and 4 SmartHatchPro™ hatchers, each holding up 20,736 eggs. The new hatchery will be climate-controlled, including air-handling units using the 100% fresh air concept to assure optimum bio-security. The installation will also include semi-automatic transfer, candling, sexing, counting and waste disposal systems.

The new hatchery will have online connectivity through the SmartCenterPro™ hatchery management system, which will enable Pas Reform to provide...