PINDOS poultry houses operate under the most modern technologically plants and they cover 450.000 m2 and operate according to the European Union standards
Depending on their activities, they are divided into the following categories:
Fully automated, consisting of selected groups of hens, thus ensuring top quality eggs.
Which are scattered all around the prefecture, high in the mountains, at an altitude of over 700 meters above sea level, thus ensuring the unique taste of PINDOS chickens. The yearly production is approximately 25.000.000 chickens.
These poultry farms are scattered all around the prefecture, mainly in the mountains- Chickens are housed in special poultry farm facilities with special openings that provide chickens with free access to the surrounding area. Their diet is 100% vegetarian and is supplemented by grazing. These chickens are certified and controlled by AGROCERT.
During all these years of its operation, PINDOS has been distinguished for the top quality of its products, the strict and everyday control, the respect of nature on the part of poultry farmers, as well as their love of the work they do.
Hatchery is located at village Kosmira (near Ioannina). It was built on 1996 and has capacity of 600.000 eggs/week and annual capacity exceeding 30.000.000 hatching eggs. Food safety management system ISO 22000:2018 is in place and veterinarians and agronomists are supervising and running this plant.
Currently our hatchery is expanding in order to reach an extra 600.000 eggs/week capacity. Modern technology and automation is applied throughout the whole plant.
Hatchery manager is Mr. George Lisgaras agronomist.
Our Setters and Hatching machines are modern and fully automated, made by Dutch company PAS REFORM. Hatchery location provides ideal temperature and humidity conditions guaranteeing very good health of our premium quality day old chicks.
We are accredited for production of both free range and organic day old broiler chicks. Our veterinary department monitors all breeder flocks that supply our hatchery. All chicks come from hatching eggs veterinary examined. Day old chicks are healthy and vaccinated. Our Standard operating procedures and Good hygiene practice are applied and supervised by our vets, leading to high quality broiler day chicks.
The modern factory is in Pedini, where there are systems in place for management, equipment maintenance and quality control. It produces 50 tonnes of feed per hour (24 hours a day), which is delivered directly to producers either in cooperative-owned silo trucks or in bags.
Capacity of 40 tonnes/hour with two production lines of 20 tonnes/hour. The first line was built in 2001, and the second in 2006. Annual production exceeds 130,000 tonnes.
It produces feed for broilers, free-range chickens, cows, sheep/goats and swine. It also produces feed balancers for these types of animal feed. Expander thermal processing is used in feed production. All raw materials and feed are tested daily at the factory's chemical laboratory.
The factory is staffed by veterinarians and agronomists. Agronomist Konstantinos Theocharis is the plant manager.
Some of the important advantages of the factory include:
Its fully automated system, subjected to continuous controls against any malfunction or the possibility of any irregularity in food processing.
The thermal processing to which animal feed is subjected (steam, expander), effectively destroying pathogens (e.g. salmonella) and significantly improving feed digestibility.
The factory management system, which requires detailed records of every material coming in (type, quantity, supplier, vehicle number, time, storage location, etc.) and every type of animal feed going out (type, quantity, delivery vehicle, driver, customer).
The animal feeds produced at the factory are made with 100% plant materials, consisting mainly of grains, non-genetically modified potassium sources, inorganic materials, balanced mixture of vitamins and minerals and non-GM fruit, and amino acids. All raw materials and final products are carefully inspected at all stages by factory staff, which includes an agronomist-animal breeding specialist, mechanical engineer and other specialists.
Controls specifically include:
The poultry slaughterhouse is a state-of-the-art facility with a slaughtering capacity of 8,000 units/hour.
It uses the most modern methods available:
Leading-edge, automated production at all stages of slaughter and carcass processing.
Capability of producing chicken and chicken products with two chilling methods: water chilling and air chilling.
Modern weighing methods use computers and are capable of directly sorting all products by weight.
The state-of-the-art packing equipment (e.g. modified atmosphere packaging machines) ensures the safe and hygienic storage of poultry meat products.
PINDOS has implemented the most modern poultry farming technology available today to produce its ready-cooked products.
The entire production of ready-cooked products relies on automated machinery. Fresh ready-cooked products are packed using modified atmosphere packaging methods (temperatures from -2°C to +2°C), while frozen ready-cooked products are flash-frozen (temperature at -18°C).
Cooling facilities of 4,000 m2 were built in 2006 in the poultry slaughterhouse area to produce and store frozen products.
State-of-the-art cooling facilities for both fresh and frozen products: fresh products are stored at temperatures of -2°C to +2°C, and frozen products at -18°C. The facility can freeze up to 30 tonnes/day and store up to 5,000 tonnes.
The laboratory was established in 1999. Its main scope is to provide daily chemical and microbiological analysis throughout PINDOS integration, from farm to ready to eat chicken products.
More than 50 cutting edge technology analytical instruments are used to provide rapid and reliable results.
Laboratory staff holds graduate and post graduate degrees in Analytical Chemistry, Microbiology, Food Science, Biology, Quality Control and Food Hygiene.
Artificial Intelligence based Chemometrics are combined with Near Infrared Spectroscopy to provide rapid and accurate analytical results. Additionally, this type of tests reduces lab’s environmental footprint, by reducing the use of chemical reagents.
Poultry health is monitored by robotic analytical instruments. These immunological analytical instruments automatically process, analyze and evaluate analytical results. They can also be operated distantly through mobile devices and report results on 24/7 basis.
More than 62 analytical methods (chemical, microbiological, biochemical, immunological and molecular) produce more than 1200 laboratory results/month.
Applied industrial research is an important part of laboratory’s activities. There is very close cooperation with several national and international research institutes and universities towards improvement of products quality.
Self life tests for chilled products, R&D, new products development, training personnel in new technologies are some additional fields that the lab is active on.
Alongside its central chemical-microbiology laboratory, PINDOS also operates a feed mill laboratory to monitor the quality of animal feed.
The laboratory uses cutting-edge technologies (e.g. near-infrared spectroscopy-NIR) to conduct quality controls of grains and animal feed. The high-tech instruments in this laboratory are electronically linked to databases in Germany to enable direct exchange of data and to verify the reliability of results.
The factory is located in Klimatia, near Ioannina, and uses aerobic fermentation to convert chicken manure into natural, organic fertiliser suitable for all crops.
The plant was built in 2004 and has a production capacity of 2,500 tonnes/year. The cooperative plans to expand the factory and double production.
The main products made there are Agrosyn and Agrosyn bio, which are natural, organic fertilisers made from chicken manure.
Agronomist Konstantinos Tzamichas is the plant manager.
The factory processes and inactivates all slaughterhouse by-products and produces poultry meal and animal fat.
The factory is located in Rodotopi, near Ioannina; it was built in 1992 and modernised in 2009. Annual production is 5,000 tonnes of poultry meal and 2,000 tonnes of animal fat.
In 2005, a biomass combustion unit was installed at the plant to produce heat for all of the slaughterhouse facilities.
Agronomist Konstantinos Tzamichas is the plant manager.
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The Ioannina Agricultural Poultry Cooperative PINDOS is a member of the Hellenic-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
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