The new $6.4 million corporate facility will be located in Munster, Ind.

Stellar has hired Frank Freeman, P.E., DBIA, as Senior Mechanical Engineer.

Dodge City, Kan., beef plant gets a new automated order distribution system; Thailand poultry plant gets improvements in food-safety, processing and cold-storage systems.

A new business venture called Full Circle Packing is proposing an $18 million project to construct a new facility in a Frankfurt, N.Y., business park.

Ranking demonstrates firm’s extensive food manufacturing industry experience.

“We’re pleased to add such a high-caliber group of professionals to our growing team,” stated Brian Kappele, Stellar Divisional Vice President.

The publication is a comprehensive guide to best practices in maintaining, modernizing, and designing a temperature-controlled facility.

Stellar doubled the refrigerated space—adding 56,000 square feet and two new temperature zones.

Stellar’s process engineering, design-build, refrigeration, thermal and automation experts will share knowledge and insights gained from their decades of work in the food processing and distribution industry.

Net sales for the first quarter of fiscal 2013 were $595.8 million compared with $517.8 million for the same period a year ago.