VersaCold Logistics, Vancouver, B.C., and Atlas Cold Storage, Toronto, officially merged and will operate under the named VersaCold Logistics Services.

Stellar, Jacksonville, Fla., said it will provide full design-build services for Keystone Foods' new 185,000-square-foot chicken processing facility in Gadsden, Ala.

Burris Logistics, Milford, Del., said it opened a 9.6 million-cubic-foot refrigerated and frozen food distribution center in Rocky Hill, Conn.

United States Cold Storage, Voorhees, N.J., expects by April to open a temperature-controlled distribution center in Wilmington, Ill.

Stellar, Jacksonville, Fla., said it expects by next fall to complete a 225,000-square-foot frozen entree plant for H.J. Heinz Co. in Florence, S.C.

Automated material handling system supplier SSI Schaefer Noell, Giebelstadt, Germany, said it agreed to purchase global logistics software supplier Salomon Automation GmbH, Friesach be Graz.

Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) announced that it has opened a new cocoa processing plant in Hazleton, Pa.

EBS Ink-Jet Systeme GmbH, a German manufacturer and supplier of a broad range of industrial ink-jet systems and consumables, has signed a strategic partnership with EBS Ink-Jet Systems USA Inc.

Design, engineering and construction services supplier Stellar, Jacksonville, Fla., said it completed a 260,000-square-foot expansion in Tulare, Calif., for United States Cold Storage (USCS).