Americold, Atlanta, and Perdue Foods, Salisbury, Md., announced that the 96,000-square-foot temperature-controlled storage facility expansion underway in Leesport, Pa., will handle products for Perdue’s northeastern U.S. customers.

Hughes Co., a Columbus, Wis.-based manufacturer and international distributor of stainless-steel food processing equipment, was acquired by Blackthorne Partners Ltd., Brookfield, Wis.

Retrotech, Victor, N.Y., expands its footprint in automation solutions by building a large technical facility in Henrietta, N.Y.

West Coast processors will now have improved access to local, rapid response, off-site product inspection and anomaly screening thanks to Thermo Fisher Scientific’s new product contamination facility in Sunnyvale, Calif.

First Solar, Inc., Tempe, Ariz., and GE's power conversion business are utilizing their recently established technology and commercial partnership to develop a more cost-effective and productive utility-scale PV power plant design that combines First Solar's thin-film CdTe modules with GE's new ProSolar 1500 Volt inverter/transformer system.

Chicago-based Echo Global Logistics, Inc., a provider of technology-enabled transportation and supply chain management services, acquired Comcar Logistics, a non-asset-based truckload brokerage based in Jacksonville, Fla.

Baker Commodities, Inc., Vernon, Calif., and Lineage Logistics, Colton, Calif., broke ground on what is said to be the largest-of-its-kind cold storage facility.

The GEA Group issued a multi-million dollar investment in a new vertical packaging technology center in Weert, Netherlands.

Lineage Logistics, Colton, Calif., signed a definitive agreement to purchase Millard Refrigerated Services, a national third-party warehousing and logistics company headquartered in Omaha, Neb.

ARPAC, Schiller Park, Ill., continues on the path of strong and highly focused growth through the acquisition of Lambert Material Handling, a Syracuse, N.Y., manufacturer of conventional palletizers.