Cheddar cheese maker Glanbia Foods named Hubsmith Dairy, Richfield, Idaho, its 2010 Quality Patron of the Year.

Ingredient Masters Inc., a manufacturer of custom dry ingredient batching systems, said Bulk Handling Equipment Co. will represent the company in northern and central Ohio, West Virginia and western Pennsylvania.

John Atanasio was appointed president and CEO of Alfa Laval Inc. He is responsible for leading Alfa Laval in the USA to drive profitable growth in its markets, leveraging the company’s key technologies of heat transfer, separation and fluid handling.

Oystar GmbH announced a restructuring that creates Oystar North America, a $250 million company with 650 employees.

DuPont has entered into an agreement to acquire Danisco, a global enzyme and specialty food ingredients company.

Barry-Wehmiller Design Group is expanding its facility design practice with the acquisition of Delphey-Gerdes Engineering, an architectural and engineering firm serving the food processing and other industries in the western United States.

Theresa Marquez of Organic Valley and Bob Quinn of Kamut International received Organic Trade Association’s Organic Leadership Awards.

GEA Group received an order worth 25 million euros from Milco Industries (Tara) for the construction of a new dairy plant in Netivot, Israel.

Dr. Anne Roulin, Nestlé’s global head of packaging and design, will give the keynote presentation at the 2011 Packaging Conference.

Paul G. Arbuthnot and Sandra A. Arbuthnot of Portland, Ore., donated $860,000 to Oregon State University, Corvallis.