Flexicon, Bethlehem, Pa., opened an office in France to provide factory-direct sales and application engineering services to customers in France and surrounding regions.

TerraForm Power, Inc., New York, entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a high-quality, unlevered distributed generation platform with up to 320 megawatt of capacity in the United States from subsidiaries of AltaGas Ltd., Canada, for $720 million.

OPTIMA packaging group GmbH, Germany, opened the doors to a new logistics center, situated in the Solpark industrial park in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany.

hoopo, Los Angeles, announced a $3.5 million funding round from Chartered HighTech JIHTV1 fund, Singapore; TAU Ventures, Israel; and Global IoT Technology Ventures (GiTV), Japan, totaling $5 million from previous rounds from initial investors.

White Knight Fluid Handling Inc., a Kamos, Utah-based subsidiary of Graco Inc., announced plans to acquire Heateflex.

The Greenbrier Cos., Inc., Lake Oswego, Ore., acquired the manufacturing business of American Railcar Industries (ARI), St. Charles, Mo., from ITE Management LP, New York.

GT USA Wilmington, Wilmington, Del., implemented an integrated port operating system (IPOS) to upgrade and optimize the IT system for the future development of the port.

Wakefern Food Corp., Keasbey, N.J., partnered with Takeoff Technologies, Waltham, Mass., to launch a fulfillment center in Clifton, N.J.

Total Quality Logistics (TQL) announced plans to construct a second building on its Cincinnati-based headquarters campus at Ivy Pointe Boulevard in Union Township to accommodate continued growth in the third-party logistics industry.

Matrix Sciences, Mount Prospect, Ill, announced a strategic alliance with TraceGains, Westminster, Colo., to offer integrated solutions that combine TraceGains software with Matrix Sciences’ food safety advisory services, laboratory testing and data analytics.