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Mistica Foods, LLC, a newly formed, woman-owned, beef, poultry, pork and lamb processing company, began its full-scale operations.

Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., completed its merger with The Hillshire Brands Co., Chicago.

KanPak China signed a management services agreement with Guangzhou OSI Food Co. Ltd to control and manage the Guangzhou produce plant.

R. J. Corman Railroad Group, LLC (RJC), Nicholasville, Ky., acquired Roadway Worker Training, Inc. (RWT), St. Augustine, Fla.

Alfa Laval Inc., Richmond, Va., announced plans to move manufacturing from Aalborg, Denmark, to Qingdao, China.

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, and producer of the PACK EXPO portfolio of tradeshows, hired Gerardo Barajas as director of EXPO PACK events. Meanwhile, the Refrigerated Foods Association, promoted Megan Levin to executive director.

Refrigerated & Frozen Foods is now accepting nominations for its 2014 Frozen Foods Processor of the Year.

Hidden Villa Ranch, Fullerton, Calif., is committing to add 600,000 birds over the next year for production across the country to avoid shorting on specialty cage-free, free-range, non-GMO, organic and pasture-raised eggs.

HTC Logistics, Inc., a Holland, Mich.-based division of Hutt Trucking, Co., Inc., announced plans to expand its dry and temperature-controlled warehouse and cross dock business.

Kraft Foods, Northfield, Ill., announced plans to make a $100 million investment at its Springfield, Mo., cheese plant.