In the River Plate region at least it is more than just the chilling plant
(maily beef of course, but the term is valid for pork also)

2. industry Establecimiento donde se prepara la carne vacuna para su comercialización Los mayores frigoríficos de exportación de carne en Sudamérica se encuentran en el Río de la Plata.

U.S. pork packing plant boom may boost hog prices | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/.../u-s-pork-packing-plant-boom-may-...
Jul 18, 2016 - CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. pork industry could be heading for higher hog prices as processing plants come on line at an unprecedented ...
Pork Packing Renaissance? - Farm Credit Services of America
https://www.fcsamerica.com/media-center/common.../pork-packi...
Oct 27, 2016 - ... the new Seaboard Triumph plant would match Triumph's plant in St. Joseph, Mo., built a decade ago and the last major pork packing plant to ...
Meet the Gutsiest Guy in the Pig Business | Successful Farming
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Apr 23, 2018 - The company will open a new pork packing plant near Eagle Grove, Iowa, later this year. SF: What is your mood right now? BP: I'm not happy.

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Gorina es una empresa líder en la Industria Frigorífica Argentina. Cuenta con una moderna planta industrial con infraestructura de avanzada que le ha permitido posicionarse como un proveedor confiable de productos cárnicos del mercado internacional.

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From a 1910 newspaper report:

AMERICAN MEAT PACKERS IN ARGENTINA.
The New York Journal of Commerce recently published a rumour
concerning the erection by the Swift interests of a new plant under their
own name at Zarate, Argentina, near the great "freezing works" of
the Smithfield and Argentine Company.

In those days meat from Argentina was frozen for export