Eighteen food and beverage facility professionals at Stellar, a design, engineering, construction and mechanical services firm, have achieved LEED accreditation.

San Francisco private equity investor Bay Grove Capital LLC said it purchased Seafreeze Cold Storage, Seattle, for an undisclosed amount from Japan's Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd.

Emerson Power Transmission, St. Louis, said it purchased System Plast S.p.A., a Telgate, Italy-based producer of engineered modular belts and custom conveyor components.

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.