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Check out this week's recap of personnel changes within the cold foods industry.

Crown Equipment Corp., New Bremen, Ohio, announced an enhanced relationship with Universal Technical Institute (UTI), Scottsdale, Ariz., to augment and facilitate UTI’s electrical and hydraulic technical training relevant to material handling equipment technology nationwide.

JD Food, a broadline foodservice distributor based in Fresno, Calif., broke ground on its distribution and processing facility expansion.

US Foods, Rosemont, Ill., announced plans to expand its Fife, Wash., distribution center.

Herbold Meckesheim USA installed a rooftop solar energy system to provide electrical power to its 10,000-square-foot Smithfield, R.I., headquarters facility.

Crown Equipment Corp., New Bremen, Ohio, and Momatt, an authorized distributor of Crown lift trucks based in Mexico, expanded their presence with the opening of a new technology demonstration center at Momatt’s Toluca, Mexico, facility.

AdvancePierre Foods opened a customer innovation and research center, a combination of lab space and meeting rooms that brings the R&D food labs and test kitchens to customers.

Pactiv, LLC, Lake Forest, Ill., plans a $4.5 million investment in its Columbus, Ohio, facility, adding at least two new production lines and 65 manufacturing jobs.

Food safety, healthy eating, food waste and big flavors are on the menu for 2016, according to a 2016 trends report released by Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center.

IPM Foods, Beloit, Wis., announced plans to relocate operations to a 150,000-square-foot production hub at East Side Business Park in Janesville, Wis.