The Brazilian JBS has voluntarily recalled 2,900 tonnes of ground beef and other raw products from the US market due to contamination suspects. 57 people in 16 states have been reported of being affected by contaminated meat products sold under the company’s brands. According to JBS, the company is working closely with the US Department of...

Viktoria agrocompany, a subsidiary of LNZ Group, is in the second stage of the construction of a grain elevator in the Sumy region of Ukraine. The area of the elevator facilities will reach 12 hectares. One-time storage capacity of the elevator will be 77,000 tonnes. The grain silos will be equipped with a multi-level temperature control system to...

JBS has just invested R$ 45 million ($ 12.1 million) to double production capacity of two meat processing plants in Minas Gerais (Ituiutaba and Iturama). JBS seeks to meet the growing demand in China with this investment. Of the total investment, the Ituiutaba plant received R$ 27 million ($ 7.3 million) and the Iturama plant received R$ 18...

Miratorg Zapad, a subsidiary of the Miratorg agroholding, increased the production of semi-finished and ready-made meals up to 37,000 tonnes within 9 months of 2018. The output rose by 12% compared to the same period of 2017. By the end of the year, the company plans to deliver 51,000 tonnes of products to the market. Miratorg’s total investment...

The Agroliga group of companies opened a new oil extraction plant in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. The eco-friendly plant has a full processing cycle, including seed reception, storage, preliminary preparation, complete cleaning and subsequent packaging of the end products. The initial processing capacity is 110,000 tonnes of sunflower per year...

The strategy of Marfrig Global Foods, a company controlled by the Brazilian Marcos Molina, is to become exclusively focused on the processing of bovine meat. At the beginning of 2018 Marfrig sold Keystone Foods, its American subsidiary of chicken-based processed foods, to Tyson Foods for $ 2,400 million. Marfrig also acquired National Beef in...