Industry Leads for the Week of April 22, 2018
Arizona Red Bull, Ball Corporation and Rauch Fruchtsäfte GmbH & Co OG are planning to construct a beverage canning plant at Woolf Logistics Industrial Campus in Glendale. The project scope includes construction of a 700,000-sq-ft building; and purchase and installation of a compressed air system, stainless steel tanks and piping, conveyors and filling, flow control equipment. Merit Partners Inc. is the project developer. A construction schedule is being developed. Merit Partners Inc., 2555 E. Camelback Rd., Phoenix, 85016. IR#AZ190302.
California Oceanus Power & Water, LLC is considering constructing a pumped storage hydroelectric power plant and a desalination facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base. The Integrated Pumped Hydroelectric Reverse Osmosis Clean Energy System project scope includes design and construction of equipment foundations, a powerhouse, a concrete dam for an upper reservoir, a spillway, tailraces, a desalination plant and a seawater intake structure; purchase and erection of structural steel and brine storage tanks; and purchase and installation of two 75-MW reversible pump-turbine units, two 4,150-yard-long, 3,400-millimeter-diameter steel penstocks. The power plant will have the capacity to generate 150 MW of electric power. The desalination plant will have the capacity to treat 25 million gallons of water per day. A construction schedule will be developed following permit approvals. Oceanus Power & Water, LLC, 900 High St., Palo Alto, 94301. IR#CA190317.
Florida Goodwin Biotechnology, Inc. is planning to expand its biopharmaceutical facility on an adjacent two-acre site in Plantation. The project scope includes design and construction of a 40,000-sq-ft building; and purchase and installation of bioreactors and wet laboratory, air filtration, automated conveying, aseptic fill and finishing, labeling, packaging and storage equipment. A construction schedule has not been developed. Goodwin Biotechnology produces monoclonal antibodies, recombinant proteins, vaccines and biologic drug conjugates for early and late-stage clinical trials. Goodwin Biotechnology, Inc., 1850 NW 69th Ave., Plantation, 33313. IR#FL190311
Massachusetts Zipbox Corp. is planning to establish a cannabis processing facility at the former Greylock Mill in Lee. The project scope includes design and renovation of a 159,000-sq-ft building; and purchase and installation of extraction, mixing, testing, and other processing and packaging equipment. Scheurer Consulting Engineers has been selected to provide consulting engineering services for the project. A construction schedule will be developed following site acquisition expected by April 2019. Zipbox Corp., an affiliate of Golden Tree & Co. Technology Corp. will use the facility to produce high-grade cannabis oil extracts and edibles. Golden Tree & Co. Technology Corp., 17277 Columbus Rd., Adelanto, Calif. 92301. IR#MA190304.
Ohio DuPont is planning to expand its specialty films plant in Circleville. The project scope includes construction of building space and equipment foundations; purchase and erection of structural steel and storage tanks; and purchase and installation of process reactors and polymerization and extrusion equipment. The company expects to select an EPC firm from a shortlist of three for the project in early April 2019. Construction is expected to begin in September 2019. The project will increase the capacity to produce polyimide film and flexible circuit materials for use by the automotive, consumer electronics, telecom and defense industries. The estimated EPC cost is $220 million. DuPont, 800 Dupont Rd., Circleville, 43113. IR#OH190305.
Texas ENF Technology Co. Ltd. is planning to construct a fine chemicals plant on a 25-acre site in Kyle. The project scope includes design and construction of a 125,000-sq-ft building and equipment foundations; purchase and erection of structural steel; and purchase and installation of reactors, process vessels, blending and storage tanks, air and gas compressors. IQS Technologies is the owner’s representative. Construction is expected to begin in mid-2019. South Korea-based ENF will use the plant to produce monomers, polymers and color pastes for the semiconductor industry. The estimated EPC cost is $45 million. ENF Technology Co. Ltd., 14, Tapsil-ro 35 beon-gil Giheung-gu, Yongin 17084, South Korea. IR#TX190337
Virginia Preferred Freezer Services is planning to construct a cold storage facility in Portsmouth. The project scope includes construction of a 200,000-sq-ft building; and purchase and installation of an inventory control system, racking and refrigeration equipment. The facility will have 31,000 pallet positions. Victory Unlimited Construction LLC has been selected to provide design-build services for the project. Construction is expected to begin in August 2019. The estimated EPC cost is $60 million. Preferred Freezer Services, One Main St., Chatham, N.J. 07928. IR#VA190404.
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Virginia The Clorox Company is planning to construct a cat litter manufacturing plant on a 146-acre site in Clear Brook. The project scope includes construction of an estimated 100,000- to 200,000-sq-ft building; and purchase and installation of a compressed air system, and conveying, crushing, screening, blending, drying, dust control, automated filling, packaging and palletizing equipment. Burns & McDonnell has been selected to provide design-build services. Construction is expected to begin in late 2019. The Clorox Co., 1000 Cobb Place Blvd. NW, Kennesaw, Ga. 30144. IR#VA190305.
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