Thai Foods Group (TFG), a leading player in the integrated food business with facilities in both Thailand and Vietnam, continues to expand its chicken production operations. In 2018, TFG will raise its daily processing capacity to 600,000 chickens, up from 540,000 in the previous year.

TFG’s Thai Foods Poultry Farm division will invest in a new broiler hatchery in Sa Kaeo province in the east of Thailand, about 200 km from Bangkok and near the Cambodian border.

Pas Reform previously had equipped three other hatchery projects for TFG. For this new hatchery, Pas Reform will install 36 SmartSetPro 6 setters with a 115,200-egg capacity, 36 SmartHatchPro hatchers with a 19,200-egg capacity and the SmartCenterPro hatchery management system to ensure precise, consistent process control. Pas Reform also will supply the full range of hatchery automation, including egg handling, egg candling and transfer and washing and waste handling equipment.

Headquartered in Ayutthaya, 100 km north of Bangkok, TFG was founded in 1987 by chief executive officer Winai Teawsomboonkij, who began operating his first chicken farm with a capacity of 20,000 chickens in the Lopburi province of Thailand. The company developed to become a multi-livestock business that includes a highly effective, vertically integrated poultry supply chain with breeder facilities, hatcheries, feed mills and processing plants.

In 2014, TFG converted to a public company and changed its name to Thai Foods Group Public Co. Ltd.