Operating Divisions

Sunrise Farms has a primary focus on processing and distribution of quality poultry and other fine protein products. In 1983 the humble beginning of one small processing facility in the city of Surrey, a suburb of Vancouver, British Columbia has now grown to serve a wide range of customers, both domestically and internationally. Today with over 1,300 employees, our Canadian family owned and operated businesses produce quality food products from 6 different processing plants located in B.C., Alberta and Ontario.

Sunrise Farms has always maintained world class quality and efficiency through the implementation of the latest in high tech processing equipment including Air Chill technology in its primary poultry processing plants. Sunrise Farms has always run under a vertical integration model that contributes to the lowest cost in production and an ability to consistently ensure higher quality products.

From our Hatcheries to our "Ready to Eat" state of the art cooking facilities we service customers in the Retail, Food Service and industrial marketplace.

We invite you to read on about our many capabilities and services offered from one of our operating companies, If you are in need of a product that is not on our list please inquire as we take pride in working with our R&D department to find a solution that will take care of all your needs.

Hatcheries

With two modern Egg Hatching facilities in B.C. and Alberta , our hatcheries supply chicks to all of the family run farms that ship back to Sunrise Farms. Attention to detail by our hatchery management staff ensures only the healthiest quality chicks are delivered to our family run farms.

Family Farms

In addition to our many valued contracted family run farms Sunrise started operating our own farms in 1985. This allows us to balance our customer needs by raising any specialty sized birds we need as well as we continue to change farms over to accommodate growth of our antibiotic free programs. We are proud of our thirteen family run farming locations in British Columbia and Alberta.

Primary Processing

Commencing in 1983, our primary processing operations include our original facility located in British Columbia and two operations in Alberta. Our Surrey B.C. Broiler processing plant is the largest single primary processing plant in Western Canada. Our Lethbridge, Alberta primary plant is a state of the art processing facility which opened in the fall of 2005. In addition to our Broiler Processing we have a turkey processing facility in Taber, Alberta. Our Primary facilities have the capability to cut up, debone , portion control and package our poultry products into the most advance counter ready formats. Sunrise Farms has always maintained world class quality and efficiency through the implementation of the latest in high tech processing equipment including the latest Air Chill technology in its primary poultry processing plants.

Further Processing

With 2 locations in British Columbia and 1 facility in Ontario, our further processing units are capable of producing fully cooked (ready to eat), par fried (ready to heat) and individually frozen poultry parts. Our Facilities in Cloverdale B.C. and Waterloo, Ontario both have the capability to make quality ground beef, chicken or turkey burgers.

In Abbotsford B.C., our 140,000 sq ft state of the art further processing and cooking facility features four full functioning production lines. Top of the line CFS & Koppens dual zone thermal fueled ovens featuring "Oven Roasted" cooking technology allows us to prepare fully cooked products to suit all of our customers' unique and innovative needs.

Our Waterloo, Ontario location features over 50,000 sq.ft. of production and storage with four manufacturing lines. Our Ontario unit has the ability to produce a wide range of Batter and Breaded products on a range of protein, cheeses, seafood and vegetable substrates with a total capacity to run up to 60,000kg/day of finished goods.

All of our Plants are federally inspected & HACCP certified.

Sales, Logistics & Product Development

At Sunrise Farms we pride ourselves on being a top service provider to our Customers. With a Western office in Surrey B.C. and an office in Cambridge, Ontario our team across the country is fully equipped to manage any Sales , Logistics or Product Development opportunities presented to us. In the past couple of years Sunrise has made a significant investment into Ontario. This includes the growth of our Management team and expansion into Eastern Canada to better serve our customers on a national level. From 5 cases to 5000, we have the infrastructure to serve you in a professional and courteous manner that has made Sunrise Farms into one of Canada's Top Poultry companies.