Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., announced that its poultry plant in Robards, Ky., will be hiring about 90 additional workers as a result of an $8 million investment.
United States Cold Storage, Voorhees, N.J., completed a 4.1 million-cubic-foot expansion in Wilmington, Ill., further strengthening its Midwest storage and distribution capabilities.
The Airgas FreezeRight IQF cryogenic freezing tunnel is a high-production, low-cost solution to meet increasing individually-quick frozen demands in food processing facilities.
Interstate Warehousing completed the Phase IV expansion at its
Indianapolis (Franklin), Ind., cold storage facility. The Chicago (Joliet), Ill., facility is also undergoing an expansion and will be operational in September.
Canadian meat and bakery foods giant Maple Leaf Foods, Toronto, plans to build new meat processing plants and bakeries -- while it closes other facilities.