Hytek in the News
Fast Genetics completes largest live pig genetics export to China
Fast Genetics, a leading international swine genetics company based out of Saskatchewan and a wholly owned subsidiary of Hytek Ltd., has completed the largest live pig genetics export to China. 866 great-grand parent Landrace, Large White and Duroc animals originating from Fast Genetics nucleus facilities in Northern Saskatchewan made the flight from Chicago to Chengdu, China aboard a Boeing 747 where twenty six Chinese military trucks awaited their arrival and then transported them off to their new home near Nanchong, China. The pigs were sold to Tianzow Foods, based in Chongqing, China, to populate a new nucleus facility for eventual distribution as part of Tianzow Foods rights to distribute Fast Genetics in China.
Hytek Ltd., a pork production company based in La Broquerie, Manitoba, has a significant equity interest in Chongqing Tianzow Food Holdings Co. Ltd. (Tianzow Foods). Tianzow Foods owns pork production facilities, slaughtering and processing plants, as well as a chain of retail meat stores in China, the largest pork producing country in the world. The strategic vision of the company is to supply safe and consistent pork to the largest market in the world. This export of nucleus animals by Hytek’s subsidiary, Fast Genetics, completes the vertical integration of Tianzow Foods in China.
Hytek Ltd is a leading Canadian fully integrated pork production and processing company that was founded in 1994 and now owns 66,000 sows in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and the United States along with its joint venture in China. Hytek Ltd. is committed to producing a safe, nutritious, and high-quality pork product in an environmentally sustainable manner. Fast Genetics Inc., established in 1982, is a pig genetics company delivering high health, hyper-maternal female lines, and terminal sires selected for growth and carcass composition, backed by a science-based program that delivers premium pig genetics from people you can count on.
For further information contact:
Shannon Meyers – General Manager
Fast Genetics
Saskatoon, SK
smeyers@fastgenetics.com
306-667-1422
