American Rice $110 Million Freeport Facilities Expansion Well Underway

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas) -- American Rice Incorporated (ARI) (Freeport, Texas), a subsidiary of the international food company and publicly owned Grupo SOS (Madrid, Spain), has started expansion of a rice mill in Freeport, which will add production and warehouse capacities, as well as allow the company to venture into new businesses beyond rice milling.

The expansion represents a two-phase project estimated at approximately $110 million. The first-phase constitutes an investment of $40 million, which could be completed next year, involves the construction of an instant rice plant, an olive oil plant and an automated warehouse for storage of finished goods. Phase-two, valued at $70 million and also scheduled to be completed by the end of 2008, is the construction of a cooking-baking facility. The expansion project is estimated to generate at least 300 new jobs, which will be added to the 350 people that the company currently employs.

Texas Gulf Engineering, Limited Liability Company (Lake Jackson, Texas) was retained by ARI as general contractor for the expansion. Further information about these projects, including tentative schedule and key contacts, can be found in the Industrial Info’ s online database.

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