Taiwan-based electronics manufacturer Foxconn announced that it plans to build a flat panel LCD monitor production facility as large as 20 million sq ft at an undisclosed southeast Wisconsin location.
In a year that has seen many surprising political shifts, the International Monetary Fund’s global outlook, released in October, shows that worldwide economic growth is expected to slow to 3.1% in 2016, then increase to 3.4% next year.
Much has been said about the loss of manufacturing jobs in the U.S., but the jet engine assembly facility design-built for GE Aviation by Brasfield & Gorrie is bringing 250 to 300 new manufacturing jobs to Lafayette, Ind.
From the outside, Stone Brewing Co.’s 220,000-sq-ft manufacturing plant in Richmond might look like a nondescript warehouse, but from the inside, it is clear that the facility is carefully designed to produce 600,000 barrels of beer per year.
The $85-million, 124,920-sq-ft milk processing facility in Fallon, Nev., includes areas for milk receiving, laboratories, silos, wet processing, evaporating, drying, packaging and storage.
The global manufacturing sector continues to offer a wide range of design and construction opportunities, despite varying pressures that range from worldwide declining prices for oil and other commodities to the continued cooling of China’s economy.
In design-building Unilever’s expanded ice cream manufacturing facility adjacent to the company’s existing production facility in Covington, Tenn., contractor Primus Builders and its design arm, Primus Design Services, connected the two buildings via an elevated corridor that’s kept at a temperature of -20°F.