Meat processors will enjoy greater versatility with NuTEC’s 720 all-hydraulic, multi-outlet forming machine.

GENMAC’s Model 2601CS Chunker is designed to chunk frozen, tempered, or firm products in preparation for further processing.

Pork and turkey processing giant Hormel Foods Corp., Austin, Minn., said it recognized several food industry suppliers with its "Hormel No. 1 Award."

Cargill Pork, Wichita, Kan., said it paid approximately $33 million to buy a 21,500-acre hog production site near Dalhart, Texas, from Premium Standard Farms LLC, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.

Foodservice distributor Jake’s Finer Foods, Houston, said it expects by April  to purchase certain assets of Gourmet Ranch.

Chicken, beef and pork processing giant Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark.,  said it became the first major food company to become a full member of the IMAGE program.

Poultry, beef and pork processing giant Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., said the company entrepreneurial former Chairman and CEO Donald J. Tyson, died today, Thursday, January 6, 2011.

Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Toronto, said will sell a Burlington, Ont., pork processing facility to an affiliate of Sun Capital Partners Inc.

JBS USA, Greeley, Colo., has been talking to Pekin, Ill., city officials about building a pork processing facility in that central Illinois town.