ACE Exporters, From The Farm To The Table

Chicken Processing; Broilers, Fryers, Pullets, Layers Chicken is consumed at a world wide rate of 137 million chickens per day and in the USA approximately 25 million chickens are processed daily with the majority of poultry processors and growers located in the South Eastern part of the USA.
Poultry processing includes many commodity by- products that are exported to many countries from the East Coast of the USA with 7 major shipping ports that send frozen poultry throughout the world. ACE Exporters specializes in top quality chicken products like Chicken Paws, Chicken Wing Tips, Chicken Legs, Chicken Breast, Chicken Thighs to China, Vietnam, India and many others countries.
We are a direct source supplier from over 200 poultry processors, beef processors, pork processors, seafood processors and grain and vegetable commercial farms located in the Southeastern United States

POULTRY QUALITY CONTROL

Over the years, the poultry industry has evolved from selling mainly whole birds to mostly cut-up portions or further processed products. Additionally, changes in breeding and production have resulted in birds that grow bigger, faster, or produce more eggs for longer. To accommodate the changes, the industry has moved to more automation and increasing the number of birds that can be processed at once.
However, this increase in efficiency and consumer desire for more convenient products (i.e., cut-up, ready-to-eat) comes with its own challenges since it is even more important that birds are more uniform/similar in their size, color, and texture.
This is especially challenging given the rise in meat color, texture, and quality inconsistencies.

Step 3: The poultry meat industry has gone through many changes. It moved from growing dual-purpose birds (meat and egg production) taking ~110 days to reach 1.2 kg 100 years ago, to developing specialized meat breeds that grow to 2.5 kg within ~40 days. It also moved from selling ~80% whole birds to mostly selling cut up and further processed products in the Western world. This necessitated building large, centralized processing plants, capable of processing 15,000 birds per hr on a single line (60 years ago only 2500), that require higher bird uniformity (size, color, texture). Furthermore, consumer demand for convenient products resulted in introducing many cut-up fresh poultry (some companies have 500 SKU) and further processed products (chicken nuggets did not exist 50 years ago). Those developments were possible due to advancements in genetics, nutrition, medicine, and engineering at the farm and processing plant levels.

Poultry Processing Future

To meet these demands, the Southeastern poultry industry built large, dedicated processing plants where line speed is continuously increasing. Today, a single fast broiler processing line can deal with 15,000 birds per hr.
This is a 6-fold increase over line speed 60 years ago [1]. Increasing line speed has not been an easy task, and progress has been as a result of advancements in automation and mechanization of different processes within the plant [2].
Examples are the conversion of the early batch-type scalding and defeathering process into a continuous line. This was later followed by the introduction of automation into the evisceration and later also the cut-up and deboning lines.
These developments have been geared to replace repetitive manual labor as well as increase line speed and efficiency

Poultry Processing Today

With the advansments of modern processing and automation the US Southeastern processors have evolved into a dependable world resourse for poultry frozen products suppling millions of pounds/kilograms of high quality poultry to the China, Vietnam and Malesia markets . ACE Exporters with our direct connections can supply your export needs and special requirements with over 6000 matrix tons available monthly and increasing. Poultry is only the beginning of what ACE Exporters can deliver to our clients.

Turkey Processing Future

Over the course of its history, the turkey industry has evolved from a single-product, holiday-oriented business to a fully integrated industry with a diversified product line that competes with other protein products year-round wold wide. According to USDA, turkey meat production in the United States in 2021 was 5.558 billion pounds. The top turkey-producing states are as follows: Minnesota, North Carolina, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, Virginia, Iowa and California.
In 2021, 216.5 million turkeys were raised on turkey farms across the United States. Turkey farmers and processors play a role in each step of the turkey production process and are dedicated to bringing high-quality food to plates across the globe.

Turkey Processing Today

America’s turkey industry plays an essential role in feeding people around the world now playing a mojor a role in the production, processing and delivery of more than 216 million turkeys each year domesticly and world wide to the Europian, Eastern Baltic, China, Vietnam and Malesia markets . ACE Exporters with our direct farm to table connections can supply your export needs and special requirements with over 1000 matrix tons available monthly and increasing. Quality turkey products is only the beginning of what ACE Exporters can deliver to our clients.