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Olymel to expand Quebec sausage plant, shutter two sites

By Geralyn Wichers June 10, 2025
Meat processor Olymel will expand its sausage production facility in Trois-Rivières and will shut down two other Quebec locations the company announced Tuesday.

Pascal Houle, Chief Executive Officer of Sollio Cooperative Group, at Sollio’s 103nd Annual General Meeting. (CNW Group/Sollio Groupe Coopératif)
News

Olymel parent company posts profit in ‘pivotal’ year

Sollio Cooperative Group says recovery plan working after losses, closures

By Geralyn Wichers February 28, 2025
Olymel parent company Sollio Cooperative Group says 2024 was one of its best years in decades as the company recovers from a period of losses and closures.

Blair Cressman is director of Ontario Pork's sales division.
Livestock, News

Push for more hog processing intensifies after Quebec closures

Shipping more hogs to the U.S. instead of Quebec means more truck disease risk

By John Greig July 10, 2024
Reduced hog processing in Quebec has forced the redirection of thousands of Ontario hogs to U.S. and Manitoba processing plants. The change has increased shipping costs for Ontario producers and […] Read more

(Sollio Co-operative Group video screengrab via YouTube)
News

Olymel to close Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu poultry, pork plant

Meat packer announced improving financial outlook this year after losses, consolidation

By Geralyn Wichers April 30, 2024
Olymel's poultry and pork processing facility at Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec, will be shuttered this summer, the company announced earlier this month.

Pascal Houle, Chief Executive Officer of Sollio Cooperative Group at its 2024 annual general meeting. (CNW Group/Sollio Cooperative Group)
Livestock

Olymel parent company posts profit after plant closures

The company closed plants in Ontario, Quebec, and slowed production in the west in 2023

By Geralyn Wichers March 4, 2024
Sollio Cooperative Group, parent company of meat processor Olymel, says it’s back in the black after a period of losses led to closures and cut-backs.


File photo of signage outside Maple Leaf Foods’ Lagimodiere Boulevard plant in Winnipeg. (Dave Bedard photo)
Markets

Maple Leaf combines plant, meat protein divisions

Meat sales struggle in fourth quarter, plant sales drop

By Geralyn Wichers February 29, 2024
Maple Leaf will merge its plant and meat protein divisions and plans to expand in the U.S. market, the company said in February. 

(Sollio Co-operative Group video screengrab via YouTube)
Livestock

Olymel to consolidate Ontario, Quebec further-processing

Chicken plant at Paris, Ont., and pork plant at Princeville, Que. to close

By Dave Bedard September 14, 2023
Pork and poultry packer Olymel is preparing to permanently shut two further-processing facilities and shift their work to other plants in a new round of consolidation. Olymel, the meat packing […] Read more

Olymel’s Drummondville, Que. bacon plant.(Drumco.ca)
Livestock, Markets

Olymel bacon plant deal a ‘signal,’ union says

Deal ends three-week strike at Drummondville

By Dave Bedard June 21, 2023
Unionized workers at Olymel’s bacon processing plant at Drummondville, Que. have voted to accept a four-year deal, ending a three-week strike and serving as a “signal” to employers in the […] Read more


Olymel plans to permanently shutter its Vallee-Jonction plant (above) at the end of the year.
Livestock, News

Olymel plant closure affects Ontario pork producers

Ontario Pork pushes for increased provincial processing capacity

By Diana Martin June 5, 2023
The closure of another Ontario-accessible hog processing plant is raising concerns in the province’s pig sector. Olymel, the protein arm of Sollio Co-operative, on April 14 announced the Vallee-Jonction, Que., […] Read more

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Livestock, Markets

Olymel to idle multiple Prairie hog barns

Packer cites 'continued financial losses' in sector

By Dave Bedard May 27, 2023
Pork packer Olymel is preparing to dial back its hog production in Western Canada by shuttering six of its sow units in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Olymel, the agrifood arm of […] Read more

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