SJohn Bean Technologies Corporation (JBT), Chicago, said it has named Steve Smith vice president and division manager for the JBT FoodTech Food Processing Systems division.
Evaporative cooling and heat transfer equipment supplier Baltimore Aircoil Company (BAC), Jessup, Md., said it promoted Michael Swiderski to president, effective September 26, 2011.
The Packaging Machinery Manufacturers Institute, owner and producer of the PACK EXPO trade shows, said that with more than 26,000 attendees, 1,559 exhibitors and nearly 630,000 net square feet, PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2011 (Las Vegas Convention Center, Sept. 26-28) broke its event records on these and several other counts.
Just days after announcing the purchase of Danfotech, The Middleby Corporation, Elgin, Ill., also said it agreed to buy Germany's Mauer-Atmos GmbH, Reichenau.
Food packaging equipment supplier Pro Mach, Inc., Cincinnati, said it was acquired by The Resolute Fund II, L.P. for an undisclosed amount from Odyssey Investment Partners, LLC.
Nercon, an Oshkosh, Wis., designer, line integrator and manufacturer of packaging and process conveyors and material handling equipment, has joined Rockwell Automation's machine builder program.
PRAB, Inc., Kalamazoo, Mich., said it purchased Triple/S Dynamics, Inc., a Dallas supplier of horizontal motion conveying systems, screening and separation equipment.
A leading supplier of foodservice equipment, The Middleby Corp., Elgin, Ill., said it purchased the food processing equipment of Cozzini Inc., Chicago.