OSI Group, LLC, Aurora, Ill., joined forces with Canada-based Select Ready Foods to create a new joint venture company named OSI Select Ready Foods.

The National Pork Board, Des Moines, Iowa, made revisions to its Transport Quality Assurance (TQA) program.

Rastelli Foods Group breaks ground on an expansion that will nearly double the size of the current meat processing and manufacturing plant.

Indiana Packers Corp., Delphi, Ind., announced plans to build a pork processing facility in Frankfort, Ind., creating up to 98 new jobs by 2016.

Provisur Technologies, Mokena, Ill., and its Whitewater, Wis., division, Weiler, launched FEED the FORMER (FTF) automated transfer system.

John Morrell Food Group, a Lisle, Ill.-based division of Smithfield Foods, began an exclusive licensing agreement with Nathan's Famous, Inc., Jericho, N.Y., to manufacture and sell branded hot dog, sausage and corned beef products at retail stores nationwide.

Quantum Foods, LLC, Bolingbrook, Ill., received bankruptcy court approval of its entry into a fully-executed asset purchase agreement with Raging Bull Acquisition Company LLC.

Seaboard Foods, Shawnee Mission, Kan., announced plans to expand its Greeley County Ladder Creek hog feeding operations in western Kansas.

Provisur Technologies, Whitewater, Wis., expanded its Weiler brand of food processing equipment with a range of vacuum and non-vacuum mixers.