Indeed, the number one of Chinese farms, Wenshi with 270.000 sows, is now using IMV swine frozen semen technologies in order to better control the quality of semen doses.
Using fresh semen doses is hard in China. Semen quality is not guaranty if doses are used more than 2-3 days after collection and after more than a 50 kilometers distance from collection site, because of temperature variation and transportation conditions (big stress impact on semen). With frozen semen, Wenshi is now able to provide doses of quality with a much longer expiry date all around China!

In June, IMV USA exhibited at the 2010 World Pork Expo in Des Moines, USA.
In total, more than 20,000 producers and 400 exhibitors celebrated the pork industry’s return to profitability during World Pork Expo.

In Beijing during the CAHE EXPO, IMV introduced the new Gedis Filling Machine developed to strengthen the Safe Production approach. The machine fills up to 360 Gedis filled per hour in a clean, safe and easy-to-use environment thanks to a double peristaltic pumps system manually activated.

Two seminars were organized with the French Economic Mission. Held in Chengdu and in Wuhan, these seminars organized in partnership with six other French companies drawn close to 100 Chinese attendees.

In May, IMV Technologies and all its employees received an award, « the 2010 Ambition Award », in the international category for France Western Region.
The sponsors behind the annual awward were ‘La Tribune’, ‘BFM radio’ and ‘Bank Palatine’.
This is a great reward to the efforts of IMV Technologies to grow internationally, and an industry acknowledgement to its employees who daily, manage to offer their clients products and services of the higest quality.

The new headquarters of IMV India were officially inaugurated by J.-P. Raturi, his team and 12 distributors from the subcontinent. After the initial ribbon cutting ceremony, Gilles de Robert broke a coconut in half on the doorstep of the new headquarters before lighting a candle according to Indian custom for such events. All present enjoyed their tour of the facility and many are convinced that it will help further develop IMV India. The day went on with meeting between distributors, J.-P. Raturi and Gilles de Robert.

IMV comforts its position as a leader in the reproductive “bio tech” field.
“Pig, Poultry and Dairy Focus Asia” organized in Thailand every other year has three main events drawing a crowd of specialists from across Asia. The events showcase the newest technological achievements. 

Go through the article by Misha Savic and Benoit Bouvier  entitled “The importance of semen analysis in a boar semen laboratory” published in the March edition of International Pig Topics (volume 25 Number 2, 2010). A historical approach that shows the use of photometers ACCUREAD, ACCUCELL, CASA systems and flow cytometry (EasyCyte) has been presented.

Through the combined efforts of our local partner, IVP and of the whole team of IMV Technologies South America, Brazil Foods, the main Brazilian players in the Food Processing industry has  just equipped its new AI center with IMV cutting edge technology. Brazil Foods made the choice of Innovation and Productivity by adopting the GTB system: the GTB bags, a GTB 1000 to automatically fill, seal and identify the bags, and the Collectis. Through this cutting hedge combination, Brazil Foods betters its position in a competitive market.