The Maple Leaf Foods pork plant in Lethbridge, Alberta is a custom facility designed specifically to serve the Japan market. As with pork plants in Japan, this plant is small and has a strong focus on meat quality. Also, due to our small size, we are able to employ a strong traceability system. We believe Lethbridge pork is the best tasting pork in the Japan market.
Processing
One of the key differences of the Lethbridge plant vs others is ‘hot skinning’.