VIV Europe 2026 Preview · Egg Production
Graders that weigh eggs without touching them, aviaries with sensors and data-driven management: Utrecht shows where laying poultry production is headed.
With avian influenza putting pressure on supply and prices, the efficiency and sustainability of the laying farm are under closer scrutiny than ever. VIV Europe 2026 responds with technology.
Grading eggs without touching them
SANOVO presents the VisionAI Detector, a contactless vision-based weighing system: it captures high-resolution images and, using algorithms, weighs the egg in motion without mechanical load cells. The advantage? Less wear, less calibration and a weight grading that the company defines as predictable and explainable, based on a mathematical calculation rather than an opaque neural network.
“Weighing the egg in motion, without touching it and without load cells: grading leaves mechanics behind and enters the age of vision.”
Data and welfare in the laying house
Vencomatic Group brings to Utrecht its latest advances in the Meggsius solutions family for real-time monitoring, which turn farm data into decisions, alongside equipment such as the Bolegg Gallery aviary and the Van Gent nest, with the sustainability of egg production as the central theme.
If the grader already “sees” the egg and the house already “listens” to the hen, the poultry farmer’s role will increasingly be to interpret farm data, aided by technology and artificial intelligence.
Efficient housing and egg handling
VDL Jansen combines efficient, animal-friendly housing—including houses for organic production—with egg handling solutions such as its FlexBelt High Flow belt. Valli contributes aviary and enriched multi-tier systems with integrated egg collection, compliant with European animal welfare regulations; Lubing, its egg transport systems.
Towards more circular production
The underlying message is clear: less wear, less energy, better resource utilisation. Egg production is increasingly viewed as a coordination between systems, rather than a simple sum of disconnected pieces of equipment.
Note: this article is only a small sample of everything that will be on show with an impact on poultry at the fair. With 400 exhibitors at VIV EUROPE 2026 and a further 200 at the co-located feed manufacturing equipment fair, VICTAM, thousands of products and solutions will be on display from 2 to 4 June. For more information, we recommend consulting the official exhibitor catalogue, which lists all companies and their stand numbers.
For more information on the full event programme, the exhibitor list and to pre-register and obtain free accreditation to VIV Europe 2026, visit the official fair website at: europe.viv.net
For more information:
-. Fair VIV EUROPE 2026
-. International events calendar: https://NeXusAvicultura.com/Calendario/
