Articles Tagged with ''meat processing''

Ajinomoto Co., Tokyo, Japan, said its Ajinomoto Frozen Foods USA business will increase its Portland, Ore., plant capacity by 20 percent.

The Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle reported that Rochester retailer Wegmans Food Markets opened a $36 million Culinary Innovation Center expansion at its meat shipping and receiving facility in Chili, N.Y.

Meat processing giant Smithfield Foods Inc., Smithfield, Va., announced a reorganization and six plant closings to "improve operating efficiencies and increase utilization" within its pork group.

Stellar, a Jacksonville, Fla., design, engineering, construction and mechanical services firm, said it expects by August to build a $11 million refrigerated distribution center for Southern Cold Storage.

Sara Lee Corp., Downers Grove, Ill.,  will exit the kosher meat business and close its kosher hot dog plant in Chicago on or before Jan. 30, 2009.

Needing to cut costs, chicken processing giant Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Pittsburg, Texas, said it will eliminate approximately 355 salaried and salaried non-exempt positions across the company.

Hormel Foods Corp. broke ground on a new $89 million production facility in Dubuque, Iowa.

Stellar, a Jacksonville, Fla., design, engineering and construction firm, said it finished building a 130,000-sq.-ft. meat processing plant in Seminole, Okla., for Sigma Alimentos SA de C.V.

Brazil's Marfrig Frigorificos e Comercio de Alimentos S.A., Sao Paulo, said it expects by this fall to purchase six Latin American and European food businesses from OSI Group, Aurora, Ill.

Cargill Value Added Meats (CVAM), Wichita, Kan., said it purchased certain assets of Willow Brook Foods, a Springfield, Mo., competitor involved in both meat and turkey processing.