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Canada-based Smartcool Systems Inc. entered into an agreement to absorb its distributor SmartACR, Salem, Mass.

Flexible Material Handling, Suwanee, Ga., and Best Conveyors, LLC, Jonesboro, Ark., united and re-branded as FMH Conveyors.

Joel Grade was named executive vice president and chief financial officer of Sysco Corp., following Chris Kreidler's decision to leave the company.

Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., broke ground on a new $12 million bacon slicing plant at its Cudahy, Wis., facility.

Plastipak Packaging, Inc., a Plymouth, Mich.-based manufacturer of rigid plastic packaging, signed a definitive purchase agreement to acquire the APPE packaging division of La Seda de Barcelona Group.

Daily’s Premium Meats, a Missoula, Mont.-based division of Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods, announced plans to construct a new pork processing plant in St. Joseph, Mo.

Hutt Logistics, a Holland, Mich.-based trucking, logistics and warehousing company, announced a new Hudsonville, Mich., warehouse that will add 67,000 square feet of cold food storage to the West Michigan market.

Choptank Transport, a nationwide third-party logistics provider, announced the third expansion to its Preston, Md., headquarters in eight years.

GNP Co., St. Cloud, Minn., started the first phase of a 2-phase expansion plan for its Cold Spring and St. Cloud, Minn., area operations.

Hannibal Industries, Los Angeles, announced plans to expand into Houston, Texas, with a new manufacturing facility.