Arizona Alliance Metals USA is planning to construct an aluminum smelter in Wenden. The project scope includes construction of building space and equipment foundations; purchase and erection of structural steel; and purchase and installation of a feed hopper, crushers, screens, an X-ray machine, rotary and holding furnaces, a baghouse, a lime injection system, and casting and handling equipment. The facility will be used to process scrap metal into aluminum ingots and T-bars for use in the automotive, aerospace and military industries. The estimated EPC cost is $30 million. Alliance Metals USA, 1111 Kane Concourse, Miami, 33154. IR#AZ190803.
California BlueNalu, Inc. is planning to establish a cell-based seafood pilot plant adjacent to its offices and research and development facility in San Diego. The project scope includes design and build-out of 6,000 sq ft of building space; and purchase and installation of cultivation, incubation, conveying and refrigeration equipment. The estimated EPC cost is $20 million. BlueNalu, Inc., 6197 Cornerstone Court E, San Diego, 92121. IR#CA190809.
Florida CarbonLITE Industries LLC is planning to construct a polyethylene terephthalate recycling plant near Orlando. The project scope includes design and construction of building space and equipment foundations; purchase and erection of structural steel; purchase and installation of a pneumatic conveying system, hoppers, and grinding, densifying, extrusion and crystallization equipment. The plant will have the capacity to produce 70 million to 80 million lb of food-grade pellets per year. Construction is expected to begin in 2021. The estimated EPC cost is $80 million. CarbonLITE Industries LLC, 10250 Constellation Blvd., Los Angeles, Calif., 90067. IR#FL200221.
Florida Bimbo QSR is planning to build a commercial bakery at an unselected site in the southeastern U.S. Sites in Florida, Georgia and Mississippi are among those being considered. Project scope includes design and construction or renovation of building space; purchase and installation of automated conveyors, ingredient storage and dispensing, mixing, blending, baking and freezing equipment. A construction schedule will be developed after site selection, which is expected in the second quarter of 2020. Bimbo QSR, a division of Mexico-based Grupo Bimbo, will use the plant to produce fresh and frozen buns and artisan rolls for restaurant chains. The estimated EPC cost is $18 million. Bimbo QSR, 1801 W. 31st Place, Chicago, 60608. IR#FL200320.
Massachusetts Parallel Products of New England Inc. is planning to construct a transfer station and biosolids drying facility in New Bedford. The project scope includes construction of a 48,900-sq-ft building with tipping floors and seven 70-ft-tall exhaust stacks, and a 30,000-sq-ft biosolids drying building with twelve 400-ft-tall exhaust stacks; laying of track and rail; erection of solar panels; and purchase and installation of waste receiving, handling, sorting and separation equipment. The transfer station will have the capacity to accept 1,500 tons of municipal solid waste and construction and demolition debris per day. The estimated EPC cost is $50 million. Parallel Products of New England Inc., 969 Shawmut Ave., New Bedford, 02746. IR#MA200304.
Minnesota Dairy Farmers of America is planning to upgrade its dairy processing plant in Zumbrota. The project scope includes installation of a cheese and specialty powder dryer. Construction is expected to begin in the third quarter of 2020. The plant produces hard Italian cheese, cheese and dairy powders, liquid creams and condensed whey. The estimated EPC cost is $87.3 million. Dairy Farmers of America, 1405 N. 98th St., Kansas City, Kan., 66111. IR#MN200308.
Missouri Titan Fish Partners, LLC is considering constructing a biofuel plant at the former Blue Valley Municipal Power Generating Plant site in Independence. The project scope includes demolition of buildings and structures; site remediation; construction of building space and equipment foundations; fabrication and erection of storage tanks; and purchase and installation of feedstock receiving and storage equipment, reactors, heat exchangers, columns, vessels, centrifuges and filters. Aemetis, Inc. would operate the plant upon completion. The estimated EPC cost is $150 million. Titan Fish Partners, LLC, 8349 Monticello Rd., Shawnee, Kan., 66227. IR#MO200304.
Ohio Kao USA Inc. is planning to expand its personal care products manufacturing plant in Cincinnati. The project scope includes demolition of the Powell Valves building; design and construction of a building expansion; and purchase and installation of automated conveyors and formulation, blending and filling equipment. Kao uses the plant to produce lotions, soaps and other personal-care products. The estimated EPC cost is $35 million. Kao USA Inc., 2535 Spring Grove Ave., Cincinnati, 45214. IR#OH200306.
Virginia Total Fiber Recovery is planning to establish a recycled pulp production facility in Chesapeake. The project scope includes construction or renovation of building space; purchase and erection of structural steel; and purchase and installation of waste paper unloading, pulping, screening, washing, drying and forming equipment. The facility will have the capacity to process 300,000 tons per year of mixed paper waste to produce recycled pulp. The estimated EPC cost is $49 million. Total Fiber Recovery, 3592 W. Fifth Ave., Eugene, Ore., 97402. IR#VA200301.
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