Duda Farm Fresh Foods, Oviedo, Fla., is expanding its Oxnard, Calif., cooling and fresh-cut facility, allowing the company to double fresh-cut celery production.

Fresh packaging company StePac L.A. Ltd., Tefen, Israel, has unveiled a sustainability strategy with four pillars.

Wish Farms, Plant City, Fla., has a smartphone app that brings new labels on its berry packs to life with augmented reality.

Oxnard, Calif.-based Mission Produce is focusing on its partnership with Hazel Technologies Inc., and its Avolast shelf-life extension product at the Produce Marketing Association’s Fresh Summit expo.

Sicar Farms has opened its new Mission, Texas, facility, with cooler capacity of 85,000 square feet, 21 loading docks, and office space.

Indoor grower BrightFarms, Irvington, N.Y., is using blockchain technology to trace its products.

iTradeNetwork, which recently announced plans to offer its services free to select growers and shippers to advance traceability efforts in the industry, has scheduled a web seminar to discuss its plans.

A company that makes mesh using resins from sugarcane is promoting its use as a sustainable option for produce packaging.

The Center for Produce Safety will embark on another campaign in the next year to raise funds for the group’s food safety research efforts.

Philadelphia-based AgroFresh Solutions’ FreshCloud Predictive Screening system has added capabilities to help Honeycrisp apple growers.

The Center for Produce Safety has chosen 11 new research projects to fund, granting $2.7 million to research including listeria’s tolerance to sanitizers and disinfecting packinghouse washwater.

Indoor farming company Fifth Season plans to open a 60,000-square-foot vertical farm in Braddock, Pa., a former steel town near Pittsburgh.

The Food and Drug Administration has new guidelines to help companies develop and implement a written recall plan.

With an eye on shelf life and its contribution to food waste, flexible packaging company Belmark has partnered with PerfoTec to match the needs of produce with the packaging its shipped in.

iTradeNetwork has plans to offer 2,000 perishable food and beverage companies free use of its iTracefresh traceability suite, in what it calls an important leap to industry-wide traceability.

Agriculture biotech company Phytelligence has reportedly shut down following a legal battle with Washington State University and the Cosmic Crisp apple variety.

Hugh Forrest, chief programming officer of South by Southwest, is set to deliver a keynote during United Fresh’s BrandStorm 2020 in Austin, Texas.

Flavor Tree Fruit Co. has changed out some equipment at its arils facility, increasing automation and making the process less dependent on manual labor.

Ultimation Industries LLC has been named one of the 2019 Metro Detroit’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For.

Stewart and Lynda Resnick, whose companies include Halos marketer The Wonderful Co., are pledging $750 million to Caltech, for sustainability research.