Bird Control for Food Industry

In most plants, yes. We schedule work zone by zone - usually during shutdown windows, weekly maintenance days or the night shift - and sheet off the area below so no dust or fixings reach the line. High-risk zones such as filling halls and packing rooms are handled during planned cleaning breaks.

As a rough benchmark, a 20,000 sq ft roof void is typically netted in three to five working days without touching output.

There is no single best method - it depends on the zone.

• Exclusion first: bird netting seals roof voids, truck bays and open sheds so birds physically cannot get in.
• Then perch denial: ledges, beams, trays and signage get spikes or shock track.
• Then open areas: yards, silo tops and effluent zones where netting is impractical are covered by automated laser deterrents.

A working programme almost always combines two or three of these. Anyone who recommends one product for the whole plant without surveying it has not looked at your building.

Yes. We do not use poisons, adhesives, gels or trapping. Every method we install is non-lethal and non-toxic - netting excludes, spikes and shock track deny perching, lasers move birds on. Nothing we install can leach, drip or shed into product.

All fixings are captive and either stainless or food-grade coated, and each installed component is logged so it can be counted during a foreign-body investigation.

We clear before we seal. Nests, eggs, droppings and contaminated insulation are removed under controlled conditions by technicians in PPE, the surface is disinfected, and only then does exclusion go up.

Sealing a building with birds still inside is the most common mistake we get called in to correct. It traps the problem, and a few weeks later you have a carcass and a beetle infestation instead of a bird.

Every site gets a survey report with marked-up drawings, a bird pressure map, the installation scope with materials and warranties, and dated service records with before-and-after photographs.

Clients on our AMC also receive periodic inspection reports and trend data - which is usually what auditors are really checking: whether bird activity is being monitored, not just cleaned up after.

Our UV-stabilised HDPE netting is rated for 8 to 10 years outdoors, and longer inside covered roof voids where it is out of the sun.

What actually decides its life, though, is the perimeter - cable, turnbuckles and anchors. Where we install stainless hardware and inspect it annually, plants routinely get a decade of service. Cheap nets fail at the edge, not in the middle.

Dairies and milk chilling centres, spice and masala units, edible oil refineries, flour and rice mills, bakeries and confectionery, ready-to-eat and frozen food plants, cold storages, beverage bottling lines, poultry and meat processing, agro-export houses and FMCG packaging units.

Bitco has been in Integrated Pest Management since 1972, and food plants have been our core work throughout.