Kerry-Sutherland MeatLab JV: new technology for upstream meat processing

Hong Kong-based 3PL Kerry Logistics has formed a joint-venture with one of Hong Kong’s largest meat shippers, Sutherland, to create MeatLab.

“Hong Kong’s first world-class semi-automated meat processing plant” will open on 18 February and Kerry says it extends its offering upstream in the perishables supply chain.

The MeatLab site features a series of semi-automated production lines in a 30,000sq ft facility with a processing capacity of 1,500 tonnes a month. It employs skin packaging and modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) technologies, which ...