Meat

2 Sisters Food Group,
2 SFG is becoming one of the largest poultry processors in the UK.	The 2 Sisters Food group has 13 facilities across the UK, one in Holland and one in the US.	2SFG produces chicken pieces and also ready-to-eat products.
Busch UK Ltd installed a new state-of-the-art vacuum system as part of the upgrade at the Forfar plant.	The Forfar plant can process over 250,000 birds per week, supplying two 2SFG plants south of the border.

Charkman Group, Meat Slicing Automation System, Boras
The charkman plant in Boras has had a new slicing and portion loading system implemented.	Automated equipment from ABB has helped increase production at the Boras plant.	The PC-based control system has a graphical interface that can control and integrate eight robots on a packing line.
The ABB robot at the Charkman plant allows precision and consistency when slicing and picking.	Charman's meat products are in preformed moulded plastic trays in packs of 10 to 24 overlapped slices.	AEW Delford's slicing machine can handle a variety of meat products.

Dakota Provisions
The Hutterite turkey growers needed to process their own birds to make a bigger profit.	Processing equipment at the Dakota plant.	The Dakota plant will produce about 30% raw meat in full production.
Part of the equipment to dispose of the offal following evisceration.	Part of the plant will produce ready cooked meat for slicing at deli counters.	A turkey raised in South Dakota.

Danish Crown - Pork Processing Plant, Horsens
Danish Crown's new pork processing plant at Horsens, Denmark, was inaugurated in May 2005.	Pigs are slaughtered and the hides dehaired in the killing lines.	Pigs are kept in a lairage system before being guided into stunning pens for slaughter.
Most employees at the plant work at the processing and cutting stations.	Every processing area has its own database, which allows production to continue in the event of problems with the primary system.	By-products are immediately carried away from working points eliminating the risk of cross-contamination
The new plant is believed to be the largest pork processing facility in the world.	The plant can slaughter 78,000 pigs per week using the highly automated slaughter line.	Evisceration robot (ORION).
Slaughter records for each of the animals are created, beginning with RFID tag scans.

Direct Table Foods Bacon Processing Facility
AEW Delford Systems machines in action with five lines producing quality bacon.	AEW Delford Systems Guardian 1000 checkweighers/metal detectors ensure that all the final packs meet the correct specification.	IBS 2000 high speed bacon slicers, totally waterproof G2200 check weighers and buffer lines which automatically regulate slicer output to ensure consistent packing rates.
APC Slicer, an automatic portion control slicers producing volumes of first class gammon steaks.	Bacon loins are stored at the correct temperature and tempered prior to slicing.	Brine injection and packing area.
Smokehouse.

East Asiatic Company,
EAC, as the subsidiary Plumrose Latinoamericana CA, has a 40% market share in Venezuela.	The EAC operation in Venezuela is fully self-contained, from raising of pigs to slaughter and processing.	The East Asiatic Company produces a range of products under the Plumrose and Oscar Mayer brands.
The expansion of the Venezuelan meat-processing operation will take place in phases over a period of four years and require an investment of around $120m.	Expansion of the facility will increase production from 62,000t in 2007 to around 94,000t per year.

Euro-Baltic Fish Processing Centre Expansion
A view of the fish processing plant prior to the new expansion.	A typical BAADER filleting and processing machine used at the plant.	A view of the fish processing centre's landing area for receiving the herring catches.
Processing equipment inside the centre (fish heading and gutting equipment).	The catch - fresh Baltic herring.	Geographical location of the plant.
A herring - the most popularly processed fish at the plant.

Meadowbrook Farms Pork Processing Facility,
The Meadowbrook Farms pork producer cooperative has completed its first pork processing plant.	An industrial standard control station for use on the pork production floor.	A ham tattoo which is a fail safe in addition to the smart card tracking system for carcasses.
Future plans include expansion of the facility to increase processing capacity, and to produce fully-cooked pork products and products for the European market.	The pork processing plant works on a two-shift system processing some 31,000 hogs per week.

Myronivsky Meat Processing Plant, Kiev
The equipment in the new plant is state-of-the-art.	Organic pork is a large part of the production.	The plant also produces ground beef for the manufacture of ready meals.
The Certified-Angus brand promises good quality beef.	Chicken fillets and Chicken Kievs are also a large part of the production.

New England Seafood Processing Plant,
Inside the processing area showing the hygienically coated polyurethane floor.	Seafood processing underway.	Salmon fillets being transferred for weighing and packaging.
Avery Denisson labelling and packaging equipment.	The dispatch area.	Tuna loin being processed.
Tuna prior to being flown from the Maldives to the New England plant.

Sadex Radiation Processing Centre
The SureBeam process uses a high-energy electron beam to irradiate food.	Fruit and vegetables being prepared for the irradiation process.	A selection of the types of fruit suitable for irradiation.
Delicate papayas are particularly suitable for electron beam food irradiation.	Ground beef ready for sale but not irradiated.	Irradiated ground beef ready to be packaged.
The SureBeam equipment.	E.coli is the bacteria responsible for a number of deaths in meat food poisoning incidents.

Sealord Fish Processing, Caistor
Fish is flown in from Iceland on a very tight turnaround so that the customer gets the freshest fish.	Fish processing bread coating equipment.	Waitrose are increasing their product range due to customer demand for their quality products.
The new plant will increase the output of breaded products for Waitrose.	The facility processes fish of many different kinds from all over the world.

Smithfield Beef Group, Beef Processing Plant, Hooker, Texas County, Oklahoma
The Five Rivers feed yards are a joint venture between Conti and Smithfield.	The plant will process some 5,000 head of cattle per day at full capacity.	Smithfield Beef is some of the best produced in the US.
The Five Rivers feed yards owned by Conti and Smithfield currently have over 800,000 head of cattle.	Five Rivers will be the main supplier to the new facility.

Sopakco Food Processing and Packaging Facility
Sopakco's 200,000ft² food processing and packaging facility is in Mullins, South Carolina, US.	The plant's product range will include gourmet selections such as pesto.	Sopakco is a leading producer of ready meals.

Triumph Foods Inc, Pork Processing Plant, St Joseph, Missouri
The administrative buildings of the 620,000ft² pork processing plant and corporate headquarters.	General contractor for the construction of the new facility, Foley Company, was also responsible for the subcontracting of the process piping and plumbing.	The new plant is able to process and pack over 1,100 pigs per hour when in full production.
Pigs being eviscerated by F-line robots.	The new facility also incorporates a condensation pull-through scalding system which uses 90% less water than other systems.	The dehairing on the line is carried out by a high throughput TARZAN machine.

Wayne Farms Chicken Processing Plant,
Following the completion of two new chicken processing lines at its Decatur plant, Wayne Farms is building a further processing facility on an adjacent site.	Wayne Farms Dutch Quality House chicken products.	Platinum Harvest boneless chicken products.
A Stein coating system helps produce both American breadcrumb and cracker meal coated chicken products.	Stein high capacity fryer.	The DSI 624 chicken portioning machine.
The trimming accuracy of the water jet portioning machine.	The DSI 624 chicken portioning system can be programmed to provide the exact portion size required for a particular product.

West Liberty Foods Meat Processing Plant,
Drag style poultry chiller.	Drag style poultry chiller - graphical representation.	Inside a drag style poultry chiller.
Tumbler for coating and flavouring processed meat.	One of the ten new ITGC refrigerated trucks.	Selection of sliced meats processed at the facility.
West Liberty Food's new plant at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.

West Liberty Foods Meat Processing Plant,
There are now four plants in the West Liberty Family, three of which are in Iowa. This is the first to be built in Utah.	The Tremonton facility will process a range of meat including chicken, turkey, beef and pork, and will also process cheese.	West Liberty is the 56th largest meat processor in the US with sales of $442m in 2006.
West Liberty is the main supplier of meat to Subway in the US.	The plant at Tremonton will process meat but not slaughter.

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