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HP Hood, Lynnfield, Mass., invested $84.6 million to increase ultra-high temperature production capacity at its Frederick County, Md., operation.

Effective June 1, ARPAC Food Group, Schiller Park, Ill., officially changed its name to Point Five Packaging, LLC.

Pinnacle Foods, Kroger, Americold and others experience internal moves, as long-time leaders announce their retirement.

Cargill plans to invest about $30 million to increase unloading speeds, storage and shipping capacity and add railroad service at its grain elevator southwest of Holdrege, Neb.

Dole Food Company, Inc., Westlake Village, Calif., approved updating the company’s owned vessel fleet with the acquisition of three new specialty built refrigerated container ships for its U.S. West Coast operations.

Grace Grissom, founder of Mrs. Grissom’s Salads and founding member of the Refrigerated Foods Association, Arlington, Va., passed away May 26 at her home following a short illness.

Alfa Laval, Inc., Richmond, Va., acquired Niagara Blower Co., a Buffalo, N.Y.-based manufacturer of energy-efficient niche heat transfer solutions.

Coregistics, an Atlanta-based packaging-centric supply chain services company, acquired substantially all of the assets of Cano Packaging Corp., a Chicago-area company that specializes in primary contract packaging services for food and confectionery manufacturers.

Cove Point Holdings, LLC, a New York-based privately-held company, purchased the Clysar division of Bemis Co., Inc.

Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., and Hong Kong-based Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. entered into a definitive merger agreement that values Smithfield at approximately $7.1 billion.