At Eurotier 2004 in Hanover, Germany, the Big Dutchman group will be presenting two new developments for air cleaning.

Health problems, dirty pens, poor technical performance and high energy and veterinary costs. These can all be due to incorrect climate control. Often it is related to the wrong installation and/or programming.

Working with a ventilation engineer

There is a considerable challenge involved in housing pigs in a hot climate and achieving a competitive level of production. Experience of intensive production systems, however, has revealed some specific design preferences.

The artificial environments we create have a great impact on production performance and the health status for both the pig and workers. Control systems have to assess the thermal environment beyond air temperature while more research is necessary to evaluate the effect of multiple air components.

Motto for the celebrations surrounding Vostermans Companies of Venlo fifty-year existence.

A climate control concept combining the advantages of natural and mechanical ventilation had been tested at the Sterksel experimental station in the Netherlands. Considerable energy savings have been achieved.

Providing an optimal thermal environment for pigs is important for their welfare and production performance. A major Australian study funded by the Pig Research and Development Corporation (PRDC) has indicated that piggery building air temperatures on many farms are either too hot in summer or too cold in winter¹. Daily fluctuations in temperature also tend to be well above recommended levels. As part of the PRDC funded research project, experiments and case studies were conducted in Que...

Infertility problems in sows has resulted in a short supply of pigs in South Australia in the lead up to Christmas. This has caused record high live-weight prices of AUD$3.20 (€2.49) per kilogramme.

It started as a provider of fans and control boxes for pig and poultry houses. Today, Fancom is a market leader in climate control technology in those sectors. This year at VIV it will make a major move by changing from box seller to solution provider.