Sanderson Farms, Inc., Laurel, Miss., announced that a site located in St. Pauls and Robeson County, N.C., was selected for construction of a new hatchery, poultry processing plant and wastewater treatment facility.
Ozark Mountain Poultry continues to expand in Arkansas by building a new feed mill in Magness, Ark., and purchasing the building next door to its Batesville, Ark., facility.
IPPE 2015 broke records with an estimated 30,000 poultry, meat and feed industry leader attendees from all over the world, in addition to 1,288 exhibitors and more than 490,000 net square feet of exhibit space.
The International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) is the world's largest annual poultry, meat and feed industry event of its kind, and this year, it’s expected to bring together more than 1,100 exhibitors, over 25,000 attendees and feature more than 5,456 international visitors from over 124 countries at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta Jan. 27-29.
Pilgrim's Pride Corp., Greeley, Colo., announced plans to make a proposal to acquire The Hillshire Brands Co., Chicago, for $45 per share in cash, in a transaction valued at $6.4 billion.
Americold, Atlanta, and Perdue Foods, Salisbury, Md., announced that the 96,000-square-foot temperature-controlled storage facility expansion underway in Leesport, Pa., will handle products for Perdue’s northeastern U.S. customers.
This poultry processor wanted the highest coefficient of performance (COP) possible and a technology solution with low annual operating and maintenance costs.