“Coquy is the best egg in the world! » By his own admission, it’s a joke. Although! One breath later, Clément Tisserand adds that it is enough to be convinced “to look at its environmental footprint and its freshness”. And as a good “corporate”, the president of the Terre Comtoise cooperative, majority shareholder of PEB-Coquy since 2019 with Dijon Céréales and Bourgogne du Sud (forming the BFC Alliance), supports with force and precision to give some of the ingredients of this recipe winner of the Coquy egg. In any case, a model of its kind in the circular economy.
“Initially, the cereal farmers of the BFC Alliance take the greatest care with the quality of the raw materials making up the feed of the laying hens. The BFC Alliance has also developed a regional GMO-free soy sector, processed in Chalon-sur-Saône (71) and incorporated into our recipes to provide all the nutritional quality necessary for a healthy diet. Our mill in Dannemarie-sur-Crête ensures the manufacture of our recipes known to support the growth of our hens, throughout their laying. »
Objective: 100 million eggs per year
In addition to the six henhouses in Flagey (i.e. 120,000 hens), Coquy works with ten associated breeders in Burgundy-Franche-Comté (i.e. 168,000 hens). Local again and again. Sold under the Coquy, l’oeuf comtois and henhouse comtois brands, Coquy now collects and packages 70 million eggs per year. The long-term objective is to cross the 100 million egg mark! Not by the operation of the Holy Spirit but by relying on the new conditioning center, officially inaugurated Tuesday evening in Flagey. 500 million euros have been invested in this cutting-edge tool: from unloading the pallet by a robot to sorting eggs using four successive pieces of equipment (detection of open, dirty, cracked eggs and weighing) , including marking and boxing with 14 ramps. In this building of more than 3,600 m2 (including the shipping area and administrative offices), the packaging teams keep an eye on things. “An egg only stays here for one day to be delivered the next day to supermarkets and stores in the region. The freshness guarantee is essential! They say that 95 eggs out of 100 make it onto a plate. Downgraded eggs? They go to the breakage and are directed to biscuit factories for example” explains Jérôme Sage, production manager. Even chicken droppings are reused in the form of fertilizer for farmers in BFC Alliance cooperatives via the Gendrey composting center. The circle is complete !
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