March 2017 | Business View Caribbean

94 95 www.ancoeaglin.com Manufacturing high quality process equipment for fish, animal by-products industry, and protein recycling industry, since 1902. Our systems produce valuable proteins and oils, while reducing energy needs, improving yields and overall sustainably for the meat industry. Areas of Expertise n DOA Processing n Feather Processing n Offal (Bones, Carcasses) n Blood ANCO Processing Technologies n Raw Material Dewatering and Handling Systems n Continuous Cookers and Hydrolyzers n Batch Cookers and Hydrolyzers n Fat Extraction (High Pressure Screw Press) n Odor Control n Wastewater Treatment ANCO-EAGLIN Inc., A World Leader in Batch and Continuous Rendering Systems it opened this past year), hotels, educational in- stitutions serving Belizean food, and convenience stores. Using a fleet of 28 refrigerated trucks and a boat, QPP delivers daily to all locations country- wide ensuring that its products are always fresh. Ironically, over time, the success of factory chick- en farming in Belize fostered competition for the original company and, today, Barkman admits that there are other players in the industry. “There are other competitors and the competition has gotten fierce,” he says. “I have 55 percent of the market share; the rest is between four other companies.” QPP has 378 employees who slaughter and pro- cess about 30,000 birds a day from a stock of over a million. Quality Poultry Products Raymond Barkman, General Manager Factory chickens are hatched out of incuba- tors and brooded under a heat lamp or other controlled temperature arrangement. They are fed an optimum diet of scientifically formulated rations and, with few exceptions, fed as much as they are willing to eat. The diet that QPP farmers feed their stocks comes from grain that is both grown and milled locally. That means that all of the company’s poultry (it also pro- cesses all the turkeys that Belize consumes) can be raised free of colorants, preservatives, hor- mones, and GMO -grains. “We are way ahead of the rest of CARICOM because we have the land mass and we can grow everything we need,”