National Institute of Food Agriculture

Robert M. Stwalley III, clinical associate professor in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University, shows a cooling pad designed to keep hogs cool. IHT Group of Winnipeg, Manitoba, has signed an exclusive license and will manufacture and sell the pads in North America beginning spring 2024. (Photo by Tom Campbell, Purdue Agricultural Communication photo.)

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IHT Group to manufacture, sell hog-cooling technology developed at Purdue

IHT Group, a division of Decisive Dividend Corp. based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, is bringing patented cooling pad technology for hogs to the North American market in spring 2024. The pads are 2-foot-by-4-foot aluminum tread plates on top of copper pipes that circulate water. Read More