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🚨 World Pork Expo 2026 Starts Today! 🚨

The IHT Group team is officially ready for an exciting week at World Pork Expo in Des Moines, Iowa!

📍 Visit us at Booth 362

Stop by to explore our innovative heating, cooling, and lighting solutions designed to improve animal welfare, enhance barn performance, and reduce energy costs.

Whether you're looking to improve piglet comfort, reduce heat stress, or optimize your operation, we'd love to connect and discuss how IHT can help.

See you at Booth 362!

🌎🐖 Climate Change Is Creating New Challenges for Swine Health

When we think about climate change, we often think about hotter summers and more extreme weather.

But for swine producers, the impact goes much deeper.

Temperature fluctuations, heat stress, cold stress, and changing weather patterns can weaken immunity, affect gut health, and influence how diseases emerge and spread within a herd.

As environmental conditions change, producers face new challenges in maintaining animal health, welfare, and productivity.

That's why building resilient production systems is more important than ever.

At IHT Group, we believe that creating the right barn environment is one of the most effective ways to support animal health and reduce stress-related disease risks.

From precision heating and cooling technologies to smarter microclimate management, every improvement helps create healthier animals and stronger operations.

✔️ Support immune function
✔️ Reduce environmental stress
✔️ Improve animal comfort
✔️ Build healthier, more resilient herds

The future of swine production depends on our ability to adapt, innovate, and create environments where animals can thrive despite changing conditions.

💬 What do you think is the biggest health challenge facing the swine industry today?

Share your thoughts in the comments.

🐷💡 Sustainability Starts in the Barn

The future of pork production is becoming smarter, greener, and more efficient.

At IHT Group, we’re helping producers reduce energy use and improve animal welfare through innovative barn technology.

🔥 Heating systems that reduce energy consumption
❄️ Cooling solutions that help manage heat stress
💡 LED lighting designed for efficiency and productivity

Because sustainability isn’t just good for the environment; it’s good for business too.

The intelligent barn is here. 🌎

We’re excited to be on site today at Smithfield Pork Forward 2026 in Clinton, North Carolina!
The IHT Group team is here connecting with producers and industry partners, and showcasing how our microclimate solutions, from heating and cooling to lighting, are helping improve animal welfare, performance, and energy efficiency in today’s operations.

If you’re attending, come say hello; we’d love to connect and learn more about your operation!

Some of you may have already noticed something new when visiting IHT Group lately… 👀

We’ve launched a brand new website! It’s faster, easier to navigate, and designed to help you quickly find the equipment, services, and information you need.

While the website may be new, everything that comes with partnering with IHT Group stays the same. The same experienced team, the same dependable equipment, and the same commitment to helping you get the job done right.

If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, take a look and explore what’s new:

�🌐 https://www.ihtgroup.ca

Hog Hearth: A Game Changer for Piglet Survival

Are you ready to boost piglet survival on your farm? 📈 We've got exciting new data from a trial in Chile that proves the difference our Hog Hearth Heat Mats can make!

While conventional heating lamps achieved a 92.36% survival rate, our Hog Hearth system helped piglets thrive with a 96.16% survival rate!

That's a 3.8% improvement! 🙌 Every single piglet makes a difference, and this data shows that providing a consistent, comfortable environment directly impacts their survival.

Give your piglets the best start possible thi

➡️ Learn more about Hog Hearth and our innovative heating solutions! https://www.ihtgroup.ca/divisions/heating

From Guesswork to Certainty: The Next Step in Barn Safety

Downtime in swine production isn’t just inconvenient; it’s costly.

❄️ Piglets under stress grow slower
🌽 Feed efficiency declines
⚙️ Hours are lost troubleshooting instead of managing
But imagine if you had a tool that could:
👉 Monitor heating performance instantly
👉 Give you clear signals—no guesswork, no delays
👉 Reduce downtime and protect productivity

This kind of technology changes how barns are managed, turning stressful guesswork into confident, informed decisions.

👀 It’s not the future. It’s almost here.

Barn downtime costs money, impacts efficiency, animal health, and every producer's peace of mind.

Heating mats are a critical part of keeping piglets safe and thriving. But the challenge has always been the same:

👉 How do you know if they’re truly working, in real time?
👉 How do you catch a problem before it becomes a costly failure?
🔴🟡🟢 Imagine if there were a simple, visual way to know, at a glance, when everything is operating as it should.

We’re introducing something new that will change the way producers monitor heating mats in their barns.

👀 Stay tuned. The future of barn safety and reliability is almost here.

Warm seasonal wishes from everyone at IHT Group.

As the year comes to a close, we want to thank our customers, partners, and followers for your continued trust and support. Your collaboration and confidence in our team drive everything we do, and we are grateful to work alongside you.

We wish you a safe, restful, and joyful holiday season, and we look forward to connecting with you in the new year. Thank you for being part of the IHT Group community.

Thanksgiving is a special time to reflect on the people who help us grow and succeed. To our amazing customers across the United States, thank you for trusting us, choosing us, and being part of our journey from here in Canada.

We hope your holiday is filled with good food, good company, and warm memories.

Happy Thanksgiving to you and your families.