We had the honor of receiving the 2nd prize of the "Ivan Tolpe Award" 2022 thanks to our ValuTRAC solution, which combines the technique of V-scraping (TRAC) with the manufacture of liquid fertilizer from urine of pigs. This distinction is awarded to companies offering an innovative technique that contributes to the treatment of slurry in a more sustainable and more economical way.

The Cooperl teams thus had the opportunity to present the ValuTRAC solution at the international ManuREsource conference held in Holland. His goal ? Allow the exchange of experiences between regions on policy measures taken to deal with manure surpluses, in terms of management and treatment solutions.

The first phase of renovation work on the rail freight line between Vitré and Gérard in France has just been completed.

The french State, the Brittany Region, Vitré Communauté, Cooperl and SNCF Réseau are together committed to the sustainability of this line. It allows the delivery of our agricultural raw materials to our main livestock feed manufacturing plant.

In 2021, we transported by rail freight 36% of our raw materials out of all our volumes of raw material purchases for animal feed. The renovation of this line is fully in line with our decarbonization objective since the train represents nine times less carbon emissions than the truck.

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Our cooperative has just acquired two new dry curing sites in France by taking over from the Aoste group the company Calixte, which has the very beautiful dry sausage site in Vernoux-en-Vivarais (07), and the company Isturaï, which has the dry ham site in Monein (64) in the Bayonne region.

This external growth responds to our desire to continue our development in the dry market in France, one of the few growing markets.

This project opens up new perspectives for our cooperative. We welcome the 97 new employees... or "degemer mat", as we say in Brittany !

This Friday, November 19, our teams had the pleasure of receiving the visit of Julien Denormandie, French Minister of Agriculture and Food, at the premises of Cooperl Viandes in Lamballe in Brittany.

He traveled in the region on the subjects of the end of castration and the modernization of french slaughterhouses.

After a rich exchange where the upmarket, decarbonization and segmentation projects carried out by our cooperative Cooperl were presented, the french Minister was able to visit the Lamballe slaughterhouse in Brittany.

He was particularly interested in our teams of “human noses”, an essential link in the implementation of the cessation of live castration of piglets, initiated in 2008 at Cooperl. Today, 84% of our members no longer castrate their male piglets.

Our cooperative has just received the second trophy of the “Ivan Tolpe Award” thanks to our ValuTRAC solution, which combines the V-scraping technique (TRAC) with the production of liquid fertilizer from pig urine.

The Flemish Coordination Center for Manure Management (VCM - Belgium) thus rewards innovative and promising techniques in the treatment of effluents.

Through our ValuTRAC innovation, our challenge is to find a solution capable of upgrading nitrogen from urine into liquid fertilizer.

Our ValuTRAC process works in three steps:

Step 1: preparation

Step 2: volatilization

Step 3: air washer

After a 100% digital year in 2020, the Space tradeshow reopened its doors to the public and professionals for 3 face-to-face days supplemented by a digital day for this 35th edition.

For this long-awaited great comeback, the tradeshow has met its challenge and is doing very well ... with just over 1,100 exhibitors, including 320 international, and more than 74,000 visitors.

A real living space, the Cooperl stand extended over more than 200 m².

This year, it was structured around major axes such as our Porc Bien-Etre (PBE) specifications, environmental certifications and the promotion of crops.

A reception point about the training "Compagnons Cooperl" was set up to meet people interested in the process.

As every year, the Innov'Space awards ceremony were eagerly awaited ... On the Cooperl side, two candidates were pre-selected: Calipro and Vereijken. This distinction rewards the latest innovations in the animal production sector. For this edition, 35 winners were pre-selected.

During the presentation of the trophies, special mentions were awarded by the jury in order to underline a high degree of ingenuity or innovation. This year, 5 winners were able to proudly display the "3 stars'' trophy on their stand, including Calipro for its flexible and modular building concept AGILITRAC and Vereijken France for its “Nid Nanny” concept, for ultimate comfort for piglets in free-range maternity . Congratulations to the teams!