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Canada-based pork and poultry processor Olymel said today (31 May) it is working with local and Chinese food safety chiefs to discover how a consignment of pork containing residue of ractopamine was shipped to the Asian country, where the food additive is banned.

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Canadian pork and poultry processor Olymel has moved to expand its hog processing operations with the acquisition of hog producer Pinnacle Farms near Strathmore, Alberta, for an undisclosed sum.

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Canadian pork and poultry processor Olymel is investing CAD3m (US$2.27m) to expand pork production at its processing facility in Vallée-Jonction in Quebec, a site that primarily manufactures products to serve the Japanese market. 

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Canadian pork group Olymel has announced a further round of investment – in the expansion and modernisation of its pork processing facility in St-Henri-de-Lévis in Quebec's South Shore district.

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Canadian pork groups Olymel and Groupe Robitaille have announced plans to invest CAD80m (US$61m) to expand their jointly-owned Aliments Lucyporc hog slaughtering, butchering and processing facility in Yamachiche, Quebec.

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Canadian pork and poultry processor Olymel is to end ham deboning operations at its plant in Saint-Hyacinthe, south-western Quebec, by September 2017 with the loss of 340 jobs.

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Canadian pork and poultry processor Olymel is to invest more than CAD25m (US$19.5m) to expand its hog slaughterhouse and butchering facility at St-Esprit in the Lanaudiere region of central Quebec.

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Canadian pork and poultry processor Olymel is acquiring all the assets of Quebec sausage company La Fernandiere for an undisclosed sum.

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Canadian poultry processor Olymel has announced a US$10m investment into expanding its poultry site in St-Damase.

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Canadian meat processor Olymel is spending over C$10m (US$9m) on expanding a poultry plant in Quebec.

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Canadian poultry groups Olymel and Westco have started construction on a C$40m (US$40.8m) poultry slaughtering and cutting plant.

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Canadian poultry group Olymel is to restructure its processing and packaging operations with the loss of 183 jobs.