Giroux's Poultry Farm located in Chazy, NY close to the border with Quebec, Canada. The company is a third-generation family-owned enterprise with egg production and apple orchards as their main businesses.
Egg production is derived from over two million hens and the facility operates two packing plants equipped with Moba Omnia and Sanovo OptiGrader installations respectively.
In 2018 Giroux Farms introduced Ovotrack technology to print labels for outer containers conforming to the carton imprints with plant ID, Julian and best before dates. In the plant equipped with the Sanovo OptiGrader, eight button boxes and label printers are installed on sixteen packing lanes. The Ovotrack system is connected to the Hitachi carton printers so that the labels on cartons and cases depict the same information. The Moba Omnia grader operates with twenty-two lan
es and the Ovotrack responds automatically to any change in product as regulated by the Moba Omnia MMI Software.
George Caswell, egg operations manager, noted that "applying Ovotrack technology it is necessary to only print labels that are needed as they are required". The Ovo-track system prevents over-printing and avoids errors since the printers communicate with the graders.
Giroux is evaluating adding Ovo0track scan portals on the case conveyor and to introduce the Ovotrack dispatch system connected to an Aeros ERP system. This will facilitate control of inventory and finished product contributing to enhanced traceability.