AMEC–Zachry Alliance Winning Major Grassroot Cement Manufacturing Plant Construction Coast-to-Coast

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). What started as an alliance in 2003 has now developed into a major force in meeting the requirements for grassroot cement plant engineering and construction in North America. The AMEC-Zachry partnership actually began several years prior to 2003, as AMEC Industrial and Infrastructure (Tucker, Georgia), a division of AMEC (LSE:AMEC) (London, England), coupled its engineering expertise with Zachry Construction Company’s (San Antonio, Texas) construction expertise successfully engineering and constructing a number of cement plant expansion projects for Ash Grove Cement, Phoenix Cement, and Titan Cement. The companies made the alliance official in March of 2003.

Developing the partnership in leaner times has positioned the AMEC-Zachry alliance to take advantage of today’s boom in cement manufacturing capacity expansion in the U.S. Recently, the alliance received two major contracts for engineering, procurement, and construction of major cement plant projects with combined investment value of $500 million, one in California and one in Florida.

Late last year, the alliance, operating as Oro Grande Contractors, mobilized in Oro Grande, California, to begin construction on TXI’s long-planned $350 million modernization project. For details see June 14, 2006 news article - TXI and Oro Grande Contractors Progress $350 Million Cement Plant Modernization in California

The newest project for the alliance is an expansion of the Brooksville, Florida cement plant for Rinker Materials Corporation. Zachry is scheduled to mobilize on-site the week of July 24, 2006. Construction of the $150 million expansion, which consists of adding a new pyroprocessing line, will begin shortly. FL Smidth (Bethlehem, Pennsylvania) has been awarded a $64 million contract to supply the new production line. Bid documents for installation and specialty construction subcontracts will be released through Zachry. When completed in 2008, the new production line will increase the plant’s cement manufacturing capacity up to 2 million tons per year from its current rate of 800,000 tons per year. Like the TXI project, Rinker's Brooksville expansion has been in the works since the 90's. Industrial Info has been tracking this project since 1995 when original owner Florida Crushed Stone began studying an expansion at the the site. Rinker subsequently purchased the operation.

The AMEC-Zachry alliance is not limited to cement projects, with active projects in numerous industries including power and LNG.

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