Alabama Lenzing Fibers Inc. is planning to construct a new cellulose-fiber production facility at its plant site in Axis. The project scope includes construction of a building and purchase and installation of pulp-spool receiving and handling equipment, heated pressure vessels, and mixing, filtering, spinning, drying, finishing, mechanical carding and packaging equipment. The new production unit will have the capacity to produce 90,000 tonnes per year of lyocell fibers from dissolving pulp. The estimated EPC cost is $293 million. Lenzing Fibers Inc., 12950 U.S. Highway 43 North, Axis, 36505. IR#AL161205.
Arizona ST Partners LLC, doing business as Almark Foods, is planning to build a 120,000-sq-ft egg-products processing facility on a 17-acre site in Yuma. The project scope includes the purchase and installation of automated conveying, cooking, chilling and peeling equipment, as well as sorting, inspection and packaging systems. Construction is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2017. The estimated EPC cost is $27.5 million. Almark Foods, 2118 Centennial Dr., Gainesville, Ga. 30504. IR#AZ161204.