Intralox LLC, Harahan, La., said it is partnering with Mol Belting Systems, Grand Rapids, Mich., and its ThermoDrive LLC subsidiary.

Fifty years after Robert Reiser & Co. first began to import German-made food processing equipment for resale to North American meat packers and food processors, the company is celebrating its milestone anniversary and still supplying the food industry with a wide variety of food processing and packaging equipment.

Food processing supplies distributor Nelson-Jameson Inc., Marshfield, Wis., said growing local demand prompted it to construct a 32,700-square-foot office and warehouse facility in Turlock, Calif.

United States Cold Storage Inc., Voorhees, N.J., said it expects this July to open a $38 million distribution center in Lebanon, Ind.

PepsiCo's Quaker, Gatorade and Tropicana business units will start shipping product on plastic pooled pallets beginning  April 1.

Inland Cold Storage (ICS), Riverside, Calif., said it opened its sixth facility, a 4.5 million-cubic-foot frozen warehouse at the Port of Stockton in Stockton, Calif.

Hanson Logistics, St. Joseph, Mich., said it expects by this July to complete $2 million in improvements -- the first of a two-phase enhancement project -- at the company's Hartford, Mich., warehouse.

Nelson-Jameson Inc., Marshfield, Wis., said it has become an exclusive distributor of in-plant cleaning chemicals and sanitizers from A&L Laboratories, Minneapolis.

Nelson-Jameson, Marshfield, Wis., and A&L Laboratories, Minneapolis, have joined to offer dairy and food processors sanitation products.

National retailer Wal-Mart Stores approved Hanson Logistics, St. Joseph, Mich., as a third-party consolidator for Wal-Mart suppliers.