06 May

Interview Cor Van de Ven

Content available in: العربية (Arabic)“Continuous innovation is key”  Almost 40 years ago, Cor and his wife Han van de Ven […]

Interview Cor Van de Ven

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العربية (Arabic)

“Continuous innovation is key” 

Almost 40 years ago, Cor and his wife Han van de Ven founded Vencomatic. Together with an ambitious team, they developed their company into an innovative global supplier in poultry house design and automation systems. Gradually Cor is stepping back now, with the new generation in command. Continuous innovation remains key, he emphasizes. “That’s in the DNA of our company”. 

Cor van de Ven is a self-made man. From history not so much in poultry housing and automation systems however. The founder and owner of the Vencomatic Group of companies from The Netherlands is a mechanical engineer instead, yet almost 40 years in the poultry business now. 

I am still involved in our company, but to a limited extent”, says Cor. “I am 68 years old now and my 5 children alongside a professional team are managing the company. My task is primarily coaching young staff, which I much enjoy.

Cor first started observing the flocks of the farmer and registered his findings by using a video camera. Based on his observations he started thinking about an automated nest. 

“In 1983 this was the very start of Vencomatic”, he says. On the basis of a traditional wooden laying nest, he built a




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