Hope & Sesame, the world's only producer of plant-based organic sesamemilks, has announced the launch of its line of protein-backed, nondairy products.

Gray Construction chairman Jim Gray has been recognized as a founding father of the Design-Build Institute of America.

Rockwell Automation has announced new industrial control products to include CIP Security.

The Kraft Heinz Co. has announced plans to sell its Canadian natural cheese business to Italian company Parmalat for approximately $1.23 billion. The agreement includes the sale of natural cheese brands Cracker Barrel, P’tit Quebec and aMOOza! in the Canadian market.

Frito-Lay has announced a recall of select half-ounce bags of Smartfood Delight Sea Salt Flavored popcorn because they were inadvertently filled with cheese flavored tortilla chips that contain undeclared milk ingredients.

Stefan Hoppe was named president and executive director of the OPC Foundation after being nominated by its former director, Thomas J. Burke, who resigned during the last Board of Directors meeting. Hoppe was elected by the board in the same meeting.

The International Weighing Technology Initiative met for the first time on October 16th to focus on setting a standardized communication interface for weighing instruments. To date, there hasn’t been a real focus on standardizing the digitization of the weighing industry.

Community Coffee has announced a partnership with Blue Ridge Global for supply chain planning solutions to align its distribution with expected demand.

Leading French dairy cooperative Maitres Laitiers du Cotentin (MLC) has deployed a combination of Quantum Corporation’s DXi deduplication appliances and Veeam software to meet the challenges of skyrocketing data growth and malware threats.