- EI hatchery automation equipment facilities Sunner Group to automation transformation

Recently, good news comes from Fujian Sunner Development Co. Ltd that EI high-speed automatic candling and transferring equipment has been formally delivered to Pucheng Sunner. Pucheng Sunner is the integrated 120 million broilers project that Sunner group built in Fujian Pucheng County where plan to build 2 modern hatcheries, 28 parent generation breeding farms and 66 commercial generation farms etc..

As cooperation partners of Sunner Group for many years, EI Electronics has been providing a variety of products and services of hatchery and breeding for Sunner Group. As the only provider of both hatchery and breeding system solutions, EI Electronics not only provides poultry house environment control equipment and feeding and water equipment for Pucheng broiler integration project, but also provides in the hatchery project a full set of multi-stage incubators and hatchery automation equipment. By the end of this month, EI Electronics has completed installation and testing of more than 30 farms, in the hatchery project incubation equipment and chicks treatment equipment were installed and delivered for use and high-speed candling and transferring equipment has been formally delivered in October.

High-speed automatic candling and transferring equipment

Candling and transferring is an important part in hatchery. For a large hatchery factory with 120 million chick annual amount, everyday egg candling and transferring is quite heavy work if automation if incubation process can't be realized. At present, in most domestic hatchery factories, workload and labor intensity is high, so it is very difficult to recruit. Pucheng Sunner hatchery hall is now installed with 60 sets of multi-stage incubator and 18 sets need to be candled and transferred every day. If complete this work manually, 16 people are needed to work every day for more than 12 hours in dark environment. But if let high-speed automatic candling and transferring equipment complete the work, 5 to 7 people can work in light work environment, only takes 5 hours to complete all relevant work. This not only eases hatchery employment problem, reduces the number of workers, reduces workload and labor intensity, but also greatly improves working environment and hatchery production efficiency.

Automatic egg taking unit

Before selecting EI high-speed automatic candling and transferring equipment, vice president of Sunner Group went abroad to investigate hatchery automation equipment. After comprehensive assessment, he concluded: the level of foreign hatchery automation equipment is equal to EI hatchery automation equipment in technology, especially laser egg irradiating eggs unit is same, but the EI hatchery automation equipment has better performance-cost ratio and low maintenance cost. It is the great achievements that EI Electronics made in the hatchery, abundant experience accumulated and the completion of multiple modern hatchery engineering, Sunner Group finally selected EI Electronics to realize the modernization of integrated broiler hatchery in Pucheng.

Candling unit

Elimination of unfertile and dead embryo egg

This set of domestic exclusive and international outstanding high-speed automatic candling and transferring equipment is the latest achievements of independent innovation by EI Electronics. The core system of equipment is automatic candling which adopts world leading laser embryo identifying technology to accurately and reliably identify live embryo eggs, unfertilized eggs and dead embryo eggs, not only will not damage the embryo, but also can effectively avoid cross-infection. It is dispensable automation equipment in modern scale hatchery hall. The equipment consists of 7 modules: automatic tray taking device, automatic elimination device of unfertile and dead embryo egg, automatic transferring device, empty hatcher basket unstacking device, post-transferring hatcher basket stacking device, setter tray automatic cleaning device and hatchery automatic stacking device.

Empty hatcher basket unstacking

In the production field of Pucheng Sunner, workers push setter trolleys full of eggs and hatcher trolleys full of empty baskets respectively in place, then complete set of equipment can run automatically. Tray taking equipment automatically removes egg tray and unloads to the conveyor, unstacking equipment unload empty hatcher tray to transferring conveyor, eggs are identified in the process of high speed automatic classification, live embryo egg, unfertilized eggs and dead embryo egg automatically transferred to hatcher basket or the corresponding conveyor, finally hatcher baskets automatically stack and are pushed to trolley, realizing fully automatic operation in candling and transferring process. Only 10 minutes, egg taking of a full 7560 trolley is automatically finished. According to the calculation, equipment can finish candling and transferring of 45,000 eggs per hour (6 trolleys of 7560 or 3 tunnel setters).

Live embryo transferring

With the development of the poultry industry transforming from traditional mode to modern mode, along with the continuous development of productivity and increased labor cost, automation of domestic large and medium-sized hatchery corporations is inevitable. In addition, people focus more on food safety and modern hatchery are more strict with biological safety, so it is better for workers to direct touch eggs less, which further proves that hatchery automation equipment is an inevitable trend for future large-scale, modern hatchery. EI Electronics takes advantage of professional advantages and maintains the "innovation driven" concept, with basis of "hatcheries and farms engineering", provides the most comprehensive and professional systematic solutions for Sunner Group following projects and more scale breeding enterprises to help them with transformation of automation and modernization.

Hatcher basket stacking