As part of efforts to improve the overall performance of its prepared foods business, Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., announced plans to discontinue operations at two plants.
What’s notable this year is the overwhelming number of mentions related to compostable packaging, according to a trends report released by the Foodservice Packaging Institute.
Tippmann Innovation (Ti), Fort Wayne, Ind., partnered with Midwest Poultry Services, Mentone, Ind., to design and build an innovative facility for egg cooling, dry storage and processing.
ConAgra Foods, Inc., Omaha, Neb., announced plans to pursue the separation of the company into two independent public companies—one comprising its robust consumer portfolio of Marie Callender’s, Hunt’s, RO*TEL, Reddi-wip, Slim Jim, PAM, Chef Boyardee, Orville Redenbacher’s, P.F. Chang’s and Healthy Choice brands and the other comprising its foodservice portfolio of frozen potato products.
Lineage Logistics, a Colton, Calif.-based warehousing and logistics company sponsored by Bay Grove Capital LLC, San Francisco, began expanding its Tacoma, Wash., cold storage distribution facility.
Hyster Co., Greenville, N.C., announced that Papé Material Handling, a division of The Papé Group, Eugene, Ore., expanded its territory coverage with the acquisition of Johnson Lift, a division of Johnson Machinery Co.
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