Articles Tagged with ''pork''

Provisur Technologies, Inc., Chicago, acquired select assets of both AMFE B.V., the Netherlands, and BFD (Better Food Development) Corp., Englewood, Colo.

HyLife, Canada, invested up to $125 million to modernize and expand its integrated pork production and processing system at its flagship pork processing facility in Neepawa, Manitoba, Canada.

Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc., a Lexington, Neb.-based wholly owned subsidiary of Tyson Foods, Inc., is investing $27 million to expand the production capacity of its case-ready beef and pork plant in Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Texas Tech University’s International Center for Food Industry Excellence (ICFIE), Lubbock, Texas, was selected as a National Surveillance Lab for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System (NARMS) Retail Meat Surveillance Program through a competitive federal grant process.

U.S. red meat exports posted solid results in July, with volumes for both U.S. beef and pork trending higher than a year ago, according to statistics released by USDA and compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation.

Holly Poultry, Baltimore, Md., tapped Merritt Construction Services, the Baltimore, Md., construction arm of Merritt Properties, to build a ground-up, USDA poultry processing facility in Baltimore, Md.

Olymel and Groupe Robitaille, both based in Canada, announced plans to invest $80 million in the Yamachiche, Quebec, pork processing plant.

Canada-based Olymel management announced plans to cease pork butt boning operations at its St-Hyacinthe, Canada, plant.

Moon Ridge Foods, a farm-to-plate pork processor based in Pleasant Hope, Mo., installed next generation equipment and technology into its 110,000-square-foot Pleasant Hope facility, that come August, will process about 600,000 hogs annually.

Prestage Foods, Clinton, N.C., announced plans to build a new state-of-the-art pork processing facility in Eagle Grove, Iowa.