Canada-based Clearwater Seafoods and Glaciar Pesquera S.A., Argentina, added a newly designed, state-of-the-art factory vessel to their Argentine scallop fleet, replacing and retiring one of the two existing vessels.

Coveris Holdings S.A., a Chicago-based packaging and coatings solutions company, acquired Elldex Packaging Solutions, a New Zealand-based full-service flexible packaging company.

Andrew Dougherty was promoted to vice president of member services for PMMI.

Omnitracs, LLC, a provider of fleet management solutions for transportation and logistics companies, opened its new headquarters in Dallas, Texas.

Audax Group, Boston, acquired TPC Wire & Cable Corp. from Chicago-based private equity group Pfingsten Partners.

Thanks to its new facility, TOMRA Sorting Solutions is now able to test the performance of its sorting machines for all individually quick-frozen (IQF) products in a true-to-life environment.

The global solar panels market is expected to tread along an exceedingly strong growth path to reach a total value of $180.7 billion by 2021.

There has been a sea change, with increasing numbers of consumers seeking more transparency from the food and beverage industry and shunning artificial ingredients.

Hormel Foods Corp., Austin, Minn., entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Applegate Farms, LLC, the Bridgewater, N.J.-based owner of the Applegate brand and producer of natural and organic value-added prepared meats.

Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., and Kansas City Sausage, LLC, Kansas City, Mo., announced construction of a $44.8 million, 90,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art sausage plant in Sampson County, N.C.