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Aviagen invests $20 million in innovative Wagga Wagga quarantine facility
IN keeping with a com- mitment to rigorous bio- security to ensure the health and welfare of its birds, Aviagen has built a leading-edge quarantine farm in NSW, Australia.
The investment totaled $A20 million.
The new 3500sq m farm is known as the Wagga Wagga Import Quarantine Facility.
Animal health and im- port regulations in Aus- tralia and New Zealand are among the toughest in the world, and Wagga Wagga is the only poultry quarantine facility within Australia that fully com- plies with government re- quirements.
It will hold about 12,000 great grandparent birds, with a fresh import arriv- ing every 20 weeks.
The official grand open- ing took place on March 27, officiated by Greg Conkey, Wagga Wagga’s mayor and the State Mem- ber of Parliament Dr Joe McGirr.
A lso present were Aviagen employees and customers, the building
contractor, media repre- sentatives and members of the surrounding commu- nity who had observed the construction during the prior 18 months.
During the event, tours were led by operations manager Wayne Miller who managed this in- tense construction project and farm manager Roy Sutherland.
Wagga Wagga received its first import of eggs on May 17 and begins opera- tion in June.
With a presence in Aus- tralia for 30 years, Avia- gen currently supplies all major poultry producers with broiler breeding stock and is committed to their success.
This new operation will help these customers reap the advantages in per- formance, feed efficiency, health and welfare offered by Ross birds.
Promoting the highest health standards
The Wagga Wagga quar- antine facility follows the strictest biosecurity, re- ceiving quality imported eggs and then incubating
them, hatching them and growing them to about 10 weeks of age.
The chickens are tested by the Australian Depart- ment of Agriculture and Water Resources to con- firm they are healthy and disease free before they are transferred to Aviagen breeder farms.
The farm is then disin- fected and prepared for the next quarantine cycle.
Wagga Wagga is con- structed with state-of- the-art features to ensure the greatest level of bio- security available today.
It is a fully sealed, climate-controlled and high-efficiency particu- late air-filtered structure cocooned in a protective outer building.
“Aviagen’s vision is to help feed the world’s communities with a high- quality source of protein,” Mr Miller said.
“The new innovative quarantine facility will al- low us to continue to im- port our high-generation breeding stock into Aus- tralia, and thus pass on the high value of our birds
to customers for years to come.”
About Aviagen
Aviagen is a global poul- try breeding company that develops pedigree lines for the production of com- mercial broiler chickens under the Arbor Acres, In- dian River and Ross brand names.
The Rowan Range and Specialty Males are spe- cialty breeding stock from Aviagen that offer greater flexibility for customers to meet specific or niche market requirements.
The company is based in Huntsville, Alabama, US with a number of wholly owned operations across the United Kingdom, Eu- rope, Turkey, Latin Amer- ica, India, Australia, New Zealand and the US, and joint ventures in Asia.
Aviagen employs more than 4600 people and has a distribution network serving customers in more than 100 countries.
For further information, please visit aviagen.com
Grinder pumps make sense
TSURUMI grinder pumps offer cost sav- ings over conventional effluent pumps because they reduce the size of the solids passed using a ‘grinder’ process.
Though this is not a radical new technology, the new Tsurumi grind- ers offer users significant advantages.
Aussie Pumps product manager Neil Bennett said, “Those features translate into real ben- efits for applications as diverse as livestock waste, food processing and even small packaged sewage stations.”
Tsurumi, the world leader in submersible pumps, has developed its MG series of grinder pumps for efficient effluent handling.
The pumps grind efflu- ent passing through into small pieces.
This ensures the waste- water passes through the pump, allowing the use of narrow discharge pipes.
Tsurumi’s breakthrough grinder design enables ef- fluent to be transferred through cost-effective 1.5” and 2” pipes, and at high pressures.
This means the pumps deliver higher heads for moving wastewater great- er distances.
Grinding the solids smaller also means the waste breaks down faster and more efficiently.
Tsurumi opted to use high-chromium iron for
the grinder mechanism over stainless steel for its abrasion resistance.
Users report the new MG series pumps outlast other grinder pumps.
The three-phase, two- pole, cast iron pumps are available with 32mm and 50mm discharge ports.
The 50mm pump has a maximum head of 35m (50psi) and a capacity of up to 320l/pm.
Tsurumi developed spe- cial high-torque, two-pole motors for these pumps that can start up even when the pump chamber is filled with solids-laden liquid.
Aussie Pumps’ Bob Massiah said, “It’s that extra torque incorporated in the special motor wind- ings that makes the dif- ference.”
Tsurumi’s MG series can be mounted on guide rails.
This makes it simple to remove the pumps for maintenance and service without draining the pit.
An adaptor plate is available to enable swap out of other brands with- out the need to replace the existing guide rails or duckfoot elbows.
Like all Tsurumi sub- mersible pumps, the MG series include features that extend the life and enhance reliability of the pump.
Significant design de- tails make a big differ- ence.
They include an anti- wicking cable entry that prevents water from enter- ing the motor if the power lead is damaged or the end of the cable is accidentally submerged.
A silicon-carbide seal is standard on all models.
All seal surfaces are submerged in an oil chamber, away from the pumped liquid.
This ensures lubrication and protects against in- gress of foreign materials.
The oil bath features a patented Oil Lifter that increases mechanical seal longevity.
The lifter ensures both
the upper and lower seals are lubricated and cooled, even if the oil level in the chamber is low.
“Tsurumi is the only company we know of that will offer a three-year warranty on submersible sewage pumps,” Bennett said.
Further information on the complete range of Tsu- rumi submersible pumps is available on the Aus- sie Pumps website (aussie pumps.com.au) or by con- tacting Tsurumi product manager Neil Bennett on 02 8865 3500.
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