The research project is part of the association’s comprehensive research program encompassing all phases of poultry and egg production and processing.
March 16, 2017
USPOULTRY, Tucker, Ga., and the USPOULTRY Foundation completed a funded research project at the University of Georgia in Athens, Ga., in which the researchers found evidence of a new tool to reduce ammonia emission from broiler litter.
At full capacity, the complex will employ approximately 1,700 people, will require 80 contract growers and will be equipped to process and sell approximately 375 million pounds of dressed poultry meat annually at full production.
March 16, 2017
Sanderson Farms, Inc., Laurel, Miss., announced that sites located in Smith and Wood Counties, Texas, have been tentatively selected for construction of a new feed mill, hatchery, poultry processing plant and wastewater treatment facility.
The International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) 2017 is said to be the world’s largest annual meat, poultry and feed industry event of its kind, and this year, it brought together more than 1,275 exhibitors and more than 7,200 international visitors from 120 countries at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta Jan. 26-28.
The new joint venture, called Cargill Joy Poultry Meats Production, Inc., is said to be the largest of its kind in the Philippines.
October 18, 2016
Jollibee Foods Corp. (JFC), an Asian foodservice company based in the Philippines, and Cargill Philippines, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Cargill Inc., Minnetonka, Minn., broke ground on a new poultry processing facility in Santo Tomas, Batangas, in the Philippines.
C.A.T. is a manufacturer of value-added food solutions, such as injection, margination, weighing, freezing and refrigeration systems and chillers, primarily for the poultry industry.
September 19, 2016
JBT Corp., Chicago, signed a definitive agreement to purchase the assets of Cooling and Applied Technologies (C.A.T.), Inc. for $90 million.
The new 37,500-square-foot building will allow Holly Poultry to separate its processing business from its wholesale commodity business.
August 23, 2016
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.