Addoha’s new facility, featuring advanced single-stage incubation, automation and climate-control systems, is operational since August 2025. The hatchery is equipped with an egg setting line, a fumigation set for egg disinfection, 72 x SmartSetPro™ 6 setters (including AMF™ and ESM™), an egg candling and transfer line, 72 x SmartHatchPro™ hatchers (including SmartWatch™) and 24 SmartStore™ chick storage systems.
It also features a chick take-off line, a chick sexing and vaccination line, a chick counting and boxing line, washing machines and a waste collection and storage system. It is further fitted with heat exchangers, booster sets, egg room coolers, air handling units, air distribution system, ventilation systems, and process water chillers.
Unrivalled monitoring, management, analysis and reporting
All the hatchery’s systems are connected by SmartCenterPro™ software – which enables data gathering from every process in the hatchery, for unrivalled monitoring, management, analysis and reporting.
Addoha Hatchery is part of Addoha Poultry Company (APC), producer of 100% Halal meat products and based in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The parent company first entered the poultry business in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province in 1989, becoming Addoha Poultry Company in 2008. In early 2025, Brazil-headquartered BRF, one of the world’s largest food companies, acquired a 26% stake in Addoha to enter Saudi Arabia’s Halal chicken production market.
Ensuring a sustainable supply of high-quality halal poultry
Commenting the expansion plans, the CEO of APC, Eng. Abdullah S. Alhumaidan, says: “As a leading Saudi company in the field of poultry, we have been committed since our inception to provide our clients with the highest quality products. We are excited to strengthen our market presence and shape the future of the poultry industry in Saudi Arabia and beyond. The doubling of Addoha's production capacity by 2030 also aligns with ‘Saudi Vision 2030’ goals of economic diversification and ensuring a sustainable supply of high-quality halal poultry.”
Commenting on Addoha Hatchery’s strategy for the state-of-the-art specification for the new facility, Engineering Director, Abdulaziz Alhumaidan, says: “The fully integrated hatchery we have commissioned from Royal Pas Reform is designed to provide the highest standards of energy saving, biosecurity and animal welfare and ensures the highest number of best-quality chicks.”
Gregory Vanputte, Royal Pas Reform’s Sales director comments: “We are delighted to be chosen by Addoha Hatchery as the company accelerates its growth over the next five years. We wish them great success with their ambitious expansion plans.”