Viskase Companies forces hot dogs, sausages, and salami to shape up and ship out. The company is one of the world's leading producers of non-edible cellulose casings used to manufacture sausage and hot dogs. Viskase's casings are sold under brand names such as NOJAX (skinless hot dogs have "no jackets"), VISFLEX, and VISMAX. The company also produces SEALFLEX SILVER heat-shrinkable plastic bags for the meat poultry, and cheese industries. In the non-food arena, Viskase makes MEMBRA-CEL for use in dialysis. Viskase has production facilities in Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, Poland, and the US. Billionaire and corporate raider Carl Icahn owns about 72% of Viskase.

Each waking day, Agropur cooperative responds to the call of some 3,533 dairy farmers who rely on this organization, which they jointly own, to enhance the fruit of their labour. 2,7 billion litres of milk are processed annually in 27 plants spread throughout Canada, the United States and Argentina. Generating sales close to 3,1 billion, the resulting products grace the tables of thousands of consumers from coast to coast. But before these products reach their tables, 5,225 employees and many contract agents assigned to milk collection and distribution combine their efforts and expertise to ensure that the final product meets all expectations. For more than 70 years, Agropur cooperative has been fine-tuning its art to continually better its know-how and its tasty offerings to consumers.

Atkins has pushed beef off its plate in favor of a protein shake. Atkins Nutritionals, which once touted the meat-heavy Atkins diet, makes nutritional bars and shakes. The number of products offered by the company is down from the more than 300 items it made at the height of the low-carbohydrate diet craze. Atkins no longer offers strictly low-carb dieting advice, but instead focuses on nutrition. As with other weight-loss companies, Atkins offers memberships and diet plans. Its Web site has an online support group called the Community Forum. The company's branded food products are sold in retail outlets worldwide.

Crystal Catering is a dynamic full service catering company in Southern California. Crystal handle both large and small events, formal or family style. Crystal mission is to provide customers with lasting and fond memories for their special events through Crystal quality services. The experience of Crystal Catering manager's span more than twenty years in the food service industry. Crystal serve social, military, institutional, and corporate markets. Crystal Catering has managed catering functions attended by Presidents of the United States and Governors of numerous states including California. Some functions have had as many as 5000 people while others have been intimate settings for two! Crystal Catering maintains a high level of customer satisfaction because crystal listen to your needs and provide you with helpful suggestions to assist you in developing a menu, decorating the venue, and providing the most appropriate services for your special event.

Maison Burtin is really into bubbles. The French champagne maker (one of the largest in the world) produces its tantilizing tingly beverages from grapes grown in France's Champagne region. The company's bubbly is available under such brands names as Champagne Lanson, Noble Cuve Brut Rose, Black Label Brut, Ivory Label Demi-Sec, and Gold Label Brut Mill sim. Burtin has been making champagne since 1760. The vintner is part of France's Boizel Chanoine Champagne group.

Premier Tech Industrial Equipment Group (PT IEG) was born in 1989 to satisfy a need for automation at Tourbières Premier (now Premier Horticulture, PT IEG’s sister company). PT IEG started out as the company’s engineering department, manufacturing equipment to support internal technological needs. But PT IEG quickly decided to sell its equipment outside the company and became an international leader in the design, manufacturing, and marketing of state-of-the-art industrial equipment. Mostly involved in the organic industry at the beginning of the 1990s, PT IEG quickly expanded its activities towards non-organic markets through both its extensive IR&D programs and the acquisition of Chronos Richardson Systems. By adding this 125-year-old German company to its team, PT IEG paved the way for major growth in the food, chemical, and mineral industries while complementing its product lines with new packaging technologies. With its wide range of products and innovative solutions tailored to customers’ individual needs, PT IEG is now an international leader in the field of Industrial Flexible Packaging (IFP) equipment.

Southstream Seafoods, Inc. was founded in 1989. Southstream Seafoods sells frosty fish fillets. Southstream Seafoods company produces and markets frozen seafood products to food service and retail customers throughout the US. It sells its products, including cod, pollock, and haddock fillets, as well as snow crab and scallops, under the Frostmark brand name. Southstream Seafoods has importing and wholesaling operations.

International Dehydrated Foods was founded in 1982 and is owned by the Darr family. International Dehydrated Foods, also known as IDF, makes meat and poultry ingredients for the food-manufacturing and foodservice industries in the US and in 30 other countries worldwide. International Dehydrated Foods company's products include chicken-, turkey-, and meat-derived ingredients, including frozen and shelf-stable chicken broths; shelf-stable chicken fat; and liquid poultry fats. It also makes spray-dried dehydrated products such as powdered turkey, chicken, beef, and pork broths, powdered chicken and beef fats, and powdered cooked chicken, turkey, and beef. Its sister company, American Dehydrated Foods, manufactures animal-feed ingredients.

Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative walks the beat for the sugar beet. Minn-Dak serves sugar beet growers in the Red River Valley of Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota. Located in Wahpeton, North Dakota, the co-op processes the sugar beets into sugar and products such as molasses and beet pulp pellets (used in animal feed); the products are then marketed through agents worldwide. The co-op's Minn-Dak Yeast segment produces fresh bakers' yeast. Minn-Dak Farmers Cooperative is owned by its farmer/members, a group of some 480 sugar beet growers.

Sunwest Fruit grows and ships about 3 million cartons of fresh produce per year, including hundreds of varieties of oranges, peaches, plums, and nectarines, to retailers all over the world under the Ripe 'N Ready brand. Sunwest Fruit company controls all aspects of production including farming (9,000 acres), picking, packing, and shipping. It has been owned and operated since 1988 by the Britz family, including company president, Martin Britz. In addition to thousands of acres of cropland, the family also owns several packinghouses, a fertilizer company, and a cotton gin.

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