Grants and Contributions

The project aims to expand and modernize the New Market Meat Packers facility to meet growing demand for halal-certified red meat by upgrading refrigeration and adding automated processing, enhancing food safety, efficiency, and reliability for Canadian and international markets.

This project aims to expand halal and kosher beef production for Canadian and international markets by completing essential building upgrades, acquiring traceability software and hardware, and purchasing equipment to meet the growing demand for kosher and halal products, thereby ensuring compliance, efficiency, and market growth.

This project aims to increase the productivity and halal/kosher capacity of Viandes Lafrance through targeted investments: specialized production line equipment to optimize productivity, fixed and mobile refrigeration, an ERP system (inventory, margins, traceability), production, and operations, as well as processing units (cutting/trim rooms) to optimize yield, compliance, and sustainability.

This project aims to implement a four-stage process to recover more meat products from beef carcasses and improve packaging for halal products for retailers.

The project aims to expand and modernize the New Market Meat Packers facility to meet growing demand for halal-certified red meat by upgrading refrigeration and adding automated processing, enhancing food safety, efficiency, and reliability for Canadian and international markets.

This project aims to modernize the Jacques Forget Ltée meat processing facility and processes to meet halal and kosher certification requirements. Improvements include improved control of slaughter practices, enhanced staff training and oversight, and redesigned animal handling layouts to reduce animal stress and ensure their ethical treatment. New equipment and automation acquisitions will increase production efficiency, reduce errors, and improve food safety by lowering contamination risk. Together, these upgrades will strengthen credibility with religious certification authorities, and support access to growing their kosher and halal markets.

This project aims to modernize the facility to ensure precise, consistent adherence to halal and kosher requirements by improving slaughter processes with staff training, and monitoring, upgraded equipment and handling systems to reduce animal stress, enhance ethical treatment to deliver high-quality halal and kosher certified products.

This project aims to increase the efficiency and productivity of the applicant's halal-certified beef supply chain by investing in post-slaughter meat preparation and packaging technology to deliver halal-certified beef products in convenient formats sought by retail and food service customers for the benefit of Muslim consumers in Canada and abroad.

This project aims to expand halal and kosher beef production for Canadian and international markets by completing essential building upgrades, acquiring traceability software and hardware, and purchasing equipment to meet the growing demand for kosher and halal products, thereby ensuring compliance, efficiency, and market growth.

This project aims to introduce traditional halal slaughter techniques which will significantly boost production capacity, and enable them to become one of the most efficient traditional halal slaughter operations in Canada while improving animal welfare prior to slaughter through enhanced stunning methods.