North Dakota

Agristo is planning to construct a potato processing facility on a 350-acre site in Grand Forks. The project’s scope includes design and construction of building space as well as the purchase and installation of automated conveyors, stainless steel tanks and piping, and potato receiving and storage, cleaning, peeling, slicing, cutting, mixing, coating, frying, quick freezing and packaging equipment and systems. Construction is expected in 2026. Belgium-based Agristo will use the plant to produce frozen potato products, including fries and hash browns. Agristo, Ridder de Ghellinckstraat 9, Wielsbeke 8710, Belgium. IL#ND250101

Ohio

Givaudan Flavors Corp. is planning to construct a liquid compounding facility on a 25-acre site at Centennial Park in Reading. The project scope includes construction of a 100,000-sq-ft building; and purchase and installation of stainless steel tanks and piping, automated conveyors, and mixing, blending, ingredient dispensing, filling and packaging equipment and systems. Construction is expected to begin in the second or third quarter of 2025. Switzerland-based Givaudan, with North American headquarters in Cincinnati, produces food dyes and fragrances. The company will use the new plant to support a new line of business. Givaudan Flavors Corp., Taste & Wellbeing Division, 1199 Edison Drive, Suite 1-2, Cincinatti 45216. IL#OH241209.

Oklahoma

Comstock Fuels is planning to construct a demonstration-scale renewable fuels refinery at an unselected site in Oklahoma. The project scope includes construction of building space and equipment foundations; purchase and erection of structural steel; and purchase and installation of a lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment system, storage tanks, heat exchangers, process vessels and biomass handling, flow control and loadout equipment and systems. The plant will have the capacity to process 75,000 metric tons of biomass per year to produce sustainable aviation fuel, renewable diesel and other fuels. A construction schedule will be developed following finalization of site selection. Comstock Fuels, P.O. Box 1118, Virginia City, NV 89440. IL#OK241202

Utah

Nucor Towers & Structures, a division of Nucor Corp., is planning to construct a tubular steel structures manufacturing place at Nucor’s campus in Brigham City. Project scope includes construction of building space and equipment foundations; installation of hot-dip galvanizing equipment; and purchase and installation of overhead cranes, chemical storage tanks and automated fabrication, cutting and drilling equipment and systems. Charlotte, N.C.-based Nucor will manage construction. A construction schedule is being developed. The facility will be used for the production of engineered and light duty poles, substation structures and transmission towers for the utility industry. The company is currently constructing similar plants in Decatur, Ala., and Crawfordsville, Ind. Nucor Corp., 1915 Rexford Road, Charlotte, NC 28211. IL#UT250102

Wisconsin

Eli Lilly and Co. is planning to construct a pharmaceutical plant in Bristol, on a site adjacent to the plant it acquired from Nexus Pharmaceuticals in Pleasant Prairie in April 2024. The project scope includes construction of building space; and purchase and installation of guided vehicles, robotics, digital automation, stainless steel piping, fume hoods and wet laboratory, filtration, automated fill-finish, testing, sterilization, syringe assembly, labeling and packaging equipment and systems. Construction is expected to begin in 2025; project completion is expected in 2028. Eli Lilly will use the plant to produce injectable medicines for the treatment of diabetes and obesity. Eli Lilly and Co., Lilly Corporate Center, 893 Delaware St., Indianapolis, IN 46285. IL#WI241201.