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Article: Leading Dutch beef processor Weyl adopts Cryovac[R].(PACKAGING)
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- Food Trade Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Weyl Beef Products is one of the leading beef processors in the Netherlands and one of the biggest privately owned meat companies in Europe. Despite difficult conditions prevailing on the European meat market, the company has been growing steadily. With two slaughterhouses and two deboning halls, Weyl slaughters 4,500 heads of cattle per week and delivers fresh and frozen primals and sub-primals to modern retail, foodservice operators and wholesalers, particularly in export markets.
The core business of Weyl is to sell only primals and sub-primals (no carcasses) which are cut and packed to customer specifications (lean, fat, weight, pack types and sizes). Such ...