Russian WEDA Feeding Unit in Operation - Expansion investment already scheduled

The Russian pig meat branch is increasingly starting to build up their own production capacities. No surprise because the demand in the country can hardly be covered any more by the import of annually 1 Mio. t of import meat. After Russia’s then President, Vladimir Putin, had already visited a WEDA unit in 2007, more and more Russian investors have shown an interest in modern pig management unit technology from Lutten.

WEDA Dammann & Westerkamp GmbH are living up to their reputation as total providers for automatized feeding units also in Russia. An ultra-modern production plant in Adigea, Southern Russia which recently went into operation is equipped with the entire WEDA technology: from climate control technology to house equipment, from liquid manure treatment to feeding technology – everything was completely designed and project-planned in Lutten (Lower Saxony).

Inside 17 buildings of the unit, 2,500 sows, 10,000 piglets and 20,000 fattening pigs can be accommodated. The unit has 9 piglet divisions with one feed silo per division as well as 18 fattening divisions with 17 silos. 2 divisions are designed for the accommodation of animals in need of intensive care. The piglets and fattening pigs are fed by means of the XtraFeeder. One of these more than 700 installed dry feeding automats (total volume per automat = 100 litres) is able to feed 50 animals in 2 pens at the same time and can provide them with high-energy feedstuffs at their feeding places.

For the 2,500 sows a standard dry feeding system is employed. The computer controlled feeding system allows an aimed provision of individual delivery points. Advantage: the system only requires very little space and combines – depending on requirements – various kinds of dry feed which are fed in via independent circuits. The acquisition and delivery of about 75 t of feed per day have to be logistically planned as several lorries have to call at the feeding unit.

All installations as well as the complete climate control and ventilation technology are also manufactured by WEDA. By means of this technology, the indoor climate is efficiently controlled and fresh air inside the animal house divisions as well as an economical demand of water of about 140 cubic metres of water is provided. High-grade steel gas canons combust the gas and thus generate the warmth inside the house. The climate control system of the house is controlled via inlet air flaps so that the warmth is not lost. Depending on requirements, optional fresh air is introduced or the warmth is kept up. Waste air is disposed by individual suction via 140 chimney system.

„It is mainly the trust into WEDA technology and the engineering skills before and during the planning phase which have convinced us”, underlines the investor. Here, the specialists have particularly well solved the hard demands which had resulted by the continental conditions for the climate control system. Furthermore, the investors pay great attention to a continuous control technology as this is positively influencing the returns. “A determining factor was the fact that the complete technology is all from one source“, says the operator.
Feedback from further investors shows that the total providers, WEDA, have meanwhile become a permanent fixture within the Russian market in this domain. Here, an important role is played by the cost-effectiveness, by the positive service which already starts with the first ground-breaking, as well as by the fulfilment of hygiene standards due to a sophisticated passage management.

Company Profile
For more than 70 years, WEDA’s name stands for innovation and reliability. Originally founded as an enterprise for the manufacture of wood gas generators, Dammann & Westerkamp GmbH (WEDA) have meanwhile become global market leaders in the domain of liquid feeding with more than 130 members of staff at their headquarters at Lutten. The WEDA company owns locations in almost 50 countries on all continents.
In their function as full providers in the field of modern pig managements, WEDA – besides the domains of feeding technology and house equipment – also attend upon the segments of ventilation technology and liquid manure treatment. WEDA possess more than two dozens of patents.
In 1996 – as the first enterprise of the branch – WEDA received the certification according to the international quality standards, DIN EN ISO 9000 ff. In 2001, the companies of WEDA and of Erich Stallkamp ESTA GmbH founded the WELtec BioPower GmbH enterprise.

Carsten Bergstedt
WEDA Dammann & Westerkamp GmbH
Am Bahnhof 10
D-49424 Lutten
Phone: +49 (0)4441-8705-65
c.bergstedt@weda.de
www.weda.de

This release was published on openPR.