PACKERS/PROCESSORS

• Carl Buddig & Company   http//www.buddig.com
  Carl Buddig & Company brings you the finest lunchmeats you can find, and it shows every time you take a bite. Of course, we have Original Carl Buddig in nine delicious flavors and several convenient sizes. And now there's new Deli Cuts with six great flavors and our ZIP-PAK® Slider(tm) to keep your lunchmeat fresher longer. For great taste, variety and convenience, nothing beats the distinctive flavor of Carl Buddig, producers of fine sliced meat products for over 60 years.
  Contact Info: 1-888-633-5684
  
  

• Farmland Foods, Inc. www.farmlandfoods.com
  
  
• Fred Usinger, Inc. www.usinger.com
  
  
• Glier's Meats, Inc. www.goetta.com
  
  
• Hormel Foods Corporation www.hormel.com and www.spamgift.com
  Hard-to-Find Items Hormel Foods Corporation markets and distributes a wide range of products including fresh meats, shelf-stable prepared foods, and many ethnic items. The hormel.com Web site offers an online store for many hard-to-find shelf-stable items. It also features an online catalog for SPAM® clothing and gifts at www.spamgift.com.
  Contact info: Hormel Consumer Response, 1-800-523-4635
  
  
• Huisken Meats www.huiskenmeats.com
  Huisken Meats provides a full line of premium quality meat snacks and frozen hamburger patties. Its meat snacks are marketed under the Trail's Best & Happy Trails brands. The frozen patties are marketed under the Huisken and RG's brands.
  Contact info: Greg Ruf, (605) 335-8780
  
  
• Koegel Meats, Inc. www.koegelmeats.com
  
  
• Maverick Ranch Association www.mavranch.com
  Maverick Ranch Specialty Meats
  Maverick Ranch Association specializes in lite, lean and natural red meats. Some of its beef and buffalo is approved by the American Heart Association and Heart Smart programs. Its beef is served daily at the U.S. Olympic training centers. It also provides fully cooked items such as chili and pot roast.
  Contact info: Susan Mears, (303)-294-0146
  
  
• Norbest, Inc. www.norbest.com
  Norbest Gift Certificates
  Norbest, Inc. provides an on-line catalog for gift certificates for Norbest turkeys. This is an ideal gift for employees, customers, or friends. Pricing and other details are available in the on-line catalog. Orders can be placed and information can be requested on-line, by fax, e-mail, telephone, or postal mail.
  Contact info: Paul Reed, 1-800-453-5327
  
  
• Old Wisconsin Sausage www.oldwisconsin.com
  If you're looking for better flavor naturally, Old Wisconsin is the place to turn. Our pre-cooked sausages are smoked slowly over a real hardwood fire and great for grilling. And if you're in the mood for a snack, we've got just the thing. Our snacks go through the same slow smoking process as our sausages and come in a great variety. So whether you want snack sticks, bites or slices, you know you'll get that famous Old Wisconsin flavor every time. Old Wisconsin Sausage produces a full line of premium cooked and semi-dried sausage products.
  Contact Info: 1-800-558-7840
  
  

• Omaha Steaks, Inc. www.omahasteaks.com
  Omaha Steaks gives the consumer the chance to enjoy dining at home at anytime. Omaha Steaks offers lucious steaks, premium poultry, succulent seafood, veal, pork, lamb, appetizers and desserts. Call 1-800-228-9055 for a free catalog.
  Contact info: Stephanie Healy, (402)597-8102
  
  

• Sugardale Foods www.sugardale.com
  Sugardale's Private Selection
  Sugardale's Private Collection offers the finest in gourmet meats and delicacies expressly packaged for corporate incentive and business gift giving programs. The Sugardale commitment to strict quality, attention to detail, and plenty of loving care make our hams, turkeys, steaks and other specialty foods gifts to remember. Visit our Private Collection web site to view the many high quality products that can be ordered for friends, family, and co-workers.
  Contact info: Debbie Rupert, 1-800-860-HAMS (4267)

SUPPLIERS:

• Blentech Corporation www.blentech.com
  Blentech Corporation manufactures industrial further processing equipment for batch cooking, vacuum massaging, stir frying and continuous cooking. Its blending cookers cook ground meat, thick slurries and products with heavy particulates. It is a specialist in the cryogenic chilling of whole muscle products for forming and cold process marinating.
  Contact info: Darrell Horn, (707) 523-5949
  
  

• Colussi Ermes s.r.l  www.colussiermes.com
  Colussi Ermes is market leader for the production of washing machines for the food industry.Thanks to an ongoing research, all Colussi washing machines can satisfy a variety of demands and the specific needs of the customers and ensure high performance as well as excellent wash and sanitization results.Tunnel washers as well as cabin washers of different size and shape perform the wash, the drying and the sanitization of a wide range of equipment, such as containers, trucks, vats, moulds and special equipment used in the food processing industry.
  Contact info: Andrea Colussi (858) 689-8658

• CVP Systems, Inc. cvpsystems.com
  CVP Systems, Inc. produces modified atmosphere packaging machinery, and packaging films and bags. It also produces vacuum packaging machinery, lidded tray packaging equipment and UV meat sterilization equipment. Other products of CVP Systems, Inc. include automated ground beef production lines and counter ready meat operations.
  Contact info: Robert Goss, (630) 852-1190
  
  
• Dewied International, Inc. www.dewied.com
  Sausage Stuff
  Dewied International, Inc. provides supplies and equipment for the home/hobby sausage maker. It allows you to make your own sausage at home and know it is wholesome.
  Contact info: Hank Bundle, 1-800-805-9805
  
  

• FOODesign Machinery & Systems, Inc. www.foodesign.com
  FOODesign designs and manufactures commercial and industrial cooking/baking equipment, Cryo-Jet(r) cooling units, coating/seasoning equipment, food grade bulk/package handling conveyors and specialty cooking equipment.  The cooking/baking equipment includes Air Jet impingement ovens, Dura-Cook meat and poultry cookers, Immerso-Cook continuous fryers and other specialty cooking equipment for roasting and branding products.  Quik-Coat coating equipment includes coating drums, conveyors, dry ingredient dispensers, liquid and slurry applicators. 
  Contact Info:  Daniel Luna, 503-685-5030

• Hantover, Inc. www.hantover.com
  1,000's of Supply Solutions
  Hantover, Inc., carries name brand and generic supply solutions including a complete selection of industrial PPE, medical and first aid supplies, clean-up and maintenance supplies, materials handling equipment, cutlery and sharpening tools, scales and thermometers, and meat processing supplies and equipment.
  Contact info: Bruce Jardon, 1-800-821-2227
  
  
  

• Unitherm Food Systems, Inc. -  www.unithermfoodsystems.com
  
  

• VOLTA Belting Technology - www.voltabelting.com is the world leader in the production of homogeneous conveyor belting for the food industry. With over 30 years of experience, VOLTA provides product development and customer service second to none. VOLTA conveyor belting is produced from the highest quality proprietary materials that have been tested and certified by the USDA. These materials give our belts high resistance to cuts and abrasion, resistance to hydrolysis as well as oils and chemicals. VOLTA Belting tools produce welded joints that have no cracks or crevices and that exhibit the full strength of the belt.

  VOLTA ‘s new SuperDrive^TM brings all of this and more to your conveyor application. The belt was developed to provide a hygienic positive-drive conveyor belt. VOLTA’s proprietary materials give the belt a smooth, cut resistant surface  with no place for bacteria to reside and grow . The combination makes the belt the ideal conveyor belt for carrying and working with food products. The belt requires no pretensioning and still provides high carrying capacity while eliminating slippage. The teeth on the belt provide a guide to eliminate off-tracking of the belt.

  For more information contact us at: sales@voltabelting.com
  

• WATT Country Store  www.wattcountrystore.com
  The Watt Country Store, is the number one source for Products related to poultry and meat, animal feed and the petfood markets.  We carry a growing selection of Books for the country enthusiast as well as the professional. The Watt Country Store is operated by WATT Publishing Co., an internationally known publisher of agriculture business magazines since 1917.
  Contact info: Denise Slager, 815-734-5675