Friday, February 23, 2018

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By early 2020, Virbac will complete its R&D operations in Asia with two new units. The goal: to support aquaculture and swine production in the region in order to meet the food requirements of tomorrow.

In 2050, the world's population will be approaching 10 billion individuals. Thus, production of animal proteins is a major issue in meeting the planet's food needs. Southeast Asia accounts for no less than 2/3 of worldwide swine production and nearly 70% of worldwide aquaculture production. With two new R&D units that should open in Vietnam at the end of 2018 and in Taiwan in 2020, Virbac is keeping pace with the industrialization of this production.
By the end of 2018, Virbac, who already has an R&D center in Vietnam, will open a research and development unit specializing in aquaculture at the university campus of Nong Lam, in Ho Chi Minh City. This new site's objective is to develop diagnostic solutions, vaccines and immunostimulants to combat key pathologies due to several strains of streptococci or fresh/salt water vibrio species that affect fish and shrimp in Asia. For this, Virbac relies on the university's expertise as a veritable development project incubator. This collaboration should result in the establishment of innovative R&D programs, such as bioremediation for shrimp (decontamination of polluted living environments).
Taiwan: accelerating industrial transposition
With these two new R&D unit projects, whose products will benefit other countries around the world in time, Virbac will strengthen by 2020 its support of swine production and aquaculture.

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