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Zero measurement: the starting point for reducing our carbon footprint

By 2050 the global population will have grown to 9.8 billion people. Producing enough safe, healthy, and affordable food for this growing population will lead to a 56 percent increase in the global demand for food and an increase of nearly 70 percent for animal-based foods.

Start-up of doctoral research into broiler breeder nutrition and chick quality

At the beginning of March, an extensive chain-transcending doctoral research project was initiated at the De Heus experimental farm in Alphen (The Netherlands) in cooperation with Wageningen University & Research. The objective is to investigate the influence of the broiler breeder nutrition on egg composition and chick quality. With this unique study, De Heus aims to gain greater insight into the relationship between the broiler breeder nutrition and broiler quality. With the results of this study, De Heus wants to contribute to the realisation of excellent chick quality and start-up of the day-old chicks.

De Heus Vietnam announces opening 5th factory

De Heus LLC announces the opening of its 5th factory in Vietnam, located in Vinh Phuc province. Government officials from Vinh Phuc province and the Ambassador of the Netherlands, De Heus' employees, partners, and around 1,400 customers witnessed the official opening today of the 5th De Heus feed factory located at Binh Xuyen Industrial Park. With a total investment of US$30,000,000 and the production capacity of 400,000 tons per year, the factory is expected to follow the success of the Hai Phong factory in Northern Vietnam. This will greatly strengthen De Heus' market position in the region. The Vinh Phuc factory will contribute to the total production capacity of De Heus to 850.000 tons per year.

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Co de Heus informs president China and royal family

Co de Heus informs Chinese President Xi Jinping, his wife and the King and Queen of The Netherlands on the cooperation with WELLHOPE and on the quality system of the Dutch animal feed industry, TRUST FEED. During the two-day state visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping, Co de Heus, chief executive of De Heus Animal Nutrition, had the honour on Sunday 23 March to update the Chinese President and His Majesty King Willem Alexander and Queen Maxima, on TRUST FEED, the quality control system the Dutch feed industry has developed.

Luiz Fernando Stuchi Locilha - Supervisor de Produção

Being responsible for the production team of Apucarana factory, Luiz Fernando Stuchi Locilha is usually in charge of preparing and scheduling the daily production sequence, organising training sessions for the team and monitoring all the processes and activities related to the different departments within the factory.

Standing on the shoulders of Giants

In the countryside around Beuningen, a Dutch town in the province of Gelderland, you’ll find De Heus’ Swine Nutrition Centre ‘De Elsenpas’. A seemingly ordinary modern-day swine farm – one of around 3,600 in the Netherlands. But if you look more closely, the observant viewer will notice the 30+ feed silos huddled to the left of the main building. A hint that something unusual is taking place inside.

Paweł Michalski, head of the quality assurance and production technology department

Paweł describes his professional career as being one with two main parts. The first was the time ‘before De Heus’ when he was a laboratory technician and a recipe specialist in the feed industry. Paweł: “That was a time of intense learning, searching for my own place and opportunities for personal development, which were not so obvious in the previous company. The turning point in my career came when I was contacted by De Heus and subsequently started working as Junior Product Manager in 2018. Thanks to this work, I obtained access to the commercial market and was able to have a real impact on the shape and specificity of products, but also on changes in the whole company. In April 2021, I was appointed head of the quality assurance and production technology department.”

De Heus takes over poultry slaughterhouses Van Miert

Royal De Heus has signed the conditional agreement for the complete acquisition of the poultry slaughter houses from Van Miert Breukelen and Mieki Hunsel recently. With two production sites and a total slaughter capacity of 850,000 chicks per week, Van Miert has a strong market position. With this step, the slaughter capacity in the Netherlands remains guaranteed. The proposed acquisition has yet to be approved by the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM).

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