After acquiring Crown Bakeries and its Smyrna, GA facility, private equity firm Arbor Investments sought the expertise of Stellar’s Food & Beverage team to design and build an upgraded, state-of-the-art 200,000-square-foot processing facility.

Kappele, who most recently served as president/chief operating officer under CEO Mike Santarone, began his career at Stellar in 1997 as an intern in the company’s Food & Beverage group.

The facility celebrated its grand opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on September 20.

Richard Lovelace has been named executive vice president of Stellar’s Commercial/Military Group, and Kurt Warzynski has been promoted to senior vice president of Stellar’s Food Group.

Stellar is the design-builder for the 179,000-square-foot project, which will expand Dot Foods’ Tennessee operations and create more than 250 new jobs within the first three years.

Stellar has been awarded a design-build construction project for global meat snacks company Jack Link’s Protein Snacks.

Stellar's website has been a food & beverage industry resource for nearly a decade.

Stellar has promoted Mike Davis to senior vice president in Food & Beverage.

Stellar, a fully integrated firm focused on design, engineering, construction and mechanical services worldwide, has promoted six key members of its senior management team.

Stellar, a fully integrated firm focused on design, engineering, construction and mechanical services worldwide, has promoted seven key leaders on its senior management team.