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Interstate Warehousing and Tippmann Group, Fort Wayne, Ind., announced a major expansion project at Interstate Warehousing’s largest cold storage warehouse in Franklin, Ind.

Marin Sun Farms announced that it will be closing its San Francisco headquarters facility at the end of 2014 and consolidating all harvesting, processing and distribution operations to its Petaluma, Calif., facility.

Linde Material Handling North America Corp., Summerville, S.C., changed its corporate name to KION North America Corp., effective Jan. 1, 2015.

Nestlé S.A., Switzerland, announced plans to explore strategic options for the development of its subsidiary Davigel, a leading provider of branded chilled and frozen food products, ice cream and prepared foods.

The specialty foods division of Hormel Foods Corp., Austin, Minn., partnered with the Cancer Nutrition Consortium, West Palm Beach, Fla., to provide cancer patients with nutritional offerings for their specific individual needs during cancer treatment.

Paul Middleton was appointed new chief financial officer of Plug Power, Inc., while Mike Hawkins was named president of DEL Ozone.

Pinnacle Foods Inc., Parsippany, N.J., entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Canada-based Garden Protein International Inc.

Global demand for commercial refrigeration equipment is forecast to increase 4.7% annually through 2018 to $36.5 billion, according to a new study conducted by The Freedonia Group, Inc.

Omnitracs, LLC, Dallas, renamed its FleetRisk Advisors business unit to Omnitracs Analytics to more accurately describe the business unit’s core mission of developing a broad set of analytics offerings.

Lineage Logistics, a Colton, Calif.-based warehousing and logistics company sponsored by Bay Grove Capital LLC, San Francisco, began the expansion of its Tacoma, Wash., cold storage distribution facility.