- Building Manufacturing's Future
HEADNOTE New plant construction has nearly disappeared domestically as U.S. companies expand elsewhere. SINCE 1980, U.S. MANUFACTURING employment has declined from 21% of total U.S. employment to 11%. That's 10 percentage points during 25 years. Yet boosters of the future of U.S. manufacturing often claim this statistic is misleading. Their ......
- Building on success: new plant construction, facility
expansions/renovations are being fueled by growing demand for further
value-added meat and poultry products, as well as more sanitary
facilities.
Even though the meat and poultry industries continue consolidating, insiders say that new plant construction and plant expansion/renovation projects continue percolating! This activity is due, in large part, to increasing demand for further value-added meat and poultry products. This increasing demand, in turn, results in the need for new plants, ......
- Gancom to open new plant
Gancom's new Highspire-area plant is expected to be a catalyst, both for the company and the area around it. The 107,000-square-foot plant, under construction on eight acres along the Susquehanna River in Lower Swatara Township, will handle high-volume printing and bulk mailing services. It will combine three separate plants that ......
- Constructing dreams
You're contemplating a new building or you're interested in remodeling your existing facility. Because you're going to be investing thousands or millions of dollars, you want your contractor to do the job right, you want to work with people you can trust, and you want to establish a relationship with ......
- Guide to plant design and
construction.
There are only a few companies in the world that can offer a complete turnkey contracting service for glass plant construction. This guide describes the services offered by some of these companies, including some details of recent contracts(*). Chovet Engineering Immeuble Britannia - Tour A, 20 Boulevard Eugene Deruelle, 69432 ......
- Prairie Horizon Begins Construction on KS Ethanol
Plant.
The Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) recently announced that Prairie Horizon Agri-Energy, LLC has begun construction on an ethanol plant near Phillipsburg, KS. According to RFA, the plant will process aproximately 15 million bushels of grain sorghum and corn into 40 million gallons of ethanol and approximately 125,000 tons of distillers ......
- An analysis of contract cost phasing on engineering
and construction projects.
The (capital-intensive) oil, gas, and petrochemical industry forms one of the world's largest areas of economic activity. Engineering and construction projects for new manufacturing facilities are an essential part of the business process of owners (operators) in the industry. Generally, these projects are large and complex with technology/engineering aspects playing ......