Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Established:

Square Feet:

Cattle Processed Daily:

lbs. of beef produced daily:

People employed (hourly and management):

Number of shifts per day? (including clean up):
1976

315,000 square feet

1800-2000 head/day

1.3-1.5 million lbs.

1540 hourly, 360 clerical and management

Better Beef plant - 1 Kill Shift, 2 Fab Shifts, 1 Sanitation Shift; Watson plant - 2 Processing Shifts, 1 Sanitation Shift; Dorr Foods plant - 1 Processing Shift, 1 Sanitation Shift.
Noteworthy equipment, facilities or interventions?
Better Beef plant - Slice and Save program, Moisture Enhanced program, Case Ready Offals and Beef Products and Producer of Stews and Roast Beef; Watson plant - KPAC machine for ground beef chubs, state-of-the-art freezer tunnel, state-of-the-art packaging equipment and technology; Dorr Foods - state-of-the-art sausage manufacturing equipment.

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