NFI, Cherry Hill, N.J., broke ground on a facility for packaging provider, Quality Packaging Specialists International, LLC (QPSI) in Florence Crossings, N.J.

Transportation Insight, Hickory, N.C., announced plans to rebrand its transactional division as BirdDog Logistics.

Kent Corp., a family-owned food products and animal feed manufacturer based in Muscatine, Iowa, and its subsidiary Kent Precision Foods Group (KPFG), St. Louis, Mo., acquired PouchTec Industries, LLC, a flexible packaging supplier based Foley, Minn.

API Group, Canada, acquired the Osgood, Ind., paperboard lamination facilities and business from Hazen Paper Co., a paper converter based in Holyoke, Mass.

Athena Private Equity S.A., Milan, and IMI Fondi Chiusi SGR, Italy, completed the sale of Centroplast Group, a European-based provider of flexible packaging to the food industry, to SAICA, a Spanish operator in recycled paper and cardboard.

Sample6, Cambridge, Mass., initiated a multi-center collaborative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Nutrition (CFSAN), Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) and Winchester Engineering Analytical Center (WEAC) to test Sample6’s bacteriophage-powered, state-of-the-art, in-shift Listeria pathogen testing detection system.

PortFresh Logistics, Savannah, Ga., announced plans to build a 100,000-square-foot cold treatment facility dedicated to perishable cargoes imported through the Port of Savannah.