Barton Solvents Begins Construction on Chemical Storage Facility

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Barton Solvents Incorporated (Des Moines, Iowa) recently began construction on a chemical storage facility in El Dorado, Kansas. Upon completion, the facility will consist of a warehouse, loading docks, office space, and a tank farm with approximately 40 storage tanks.

Mechanical Systems Incorporated (Wichita, Kansas) provided the engineering services, while Dondlinger and Sons Construction Company (Wichita) is acting as the general contractor. This roughly $10 million dollar facility is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2011.

Barton Solvents is a wholesale distributor of such items as industrial chemicals, oils, surfactants and plasticizers, with facilities covering Kansas, Iowa and Wisconsin.

Industrial Info, as part of its North American Project Database, is currently tracking 17 active Chemical Processing Industry projects in Kansas with a total investment value (TIV) of about $70 million. The majority of the projects are maintenance turnarounds, although they have a fairly low TIV, averaging out to only $1.5 million each. Future capital spending planned for the state totals nearly $52 million, with the largest single project planned by Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers LLC (Coffeyville, Kansas). This estimated $30 million project, which would expand their urea ammonia nitrate plant at the Coffeyville site, is expected to begin construction during the first quarter of 2013. This project has been in the planning phase for several years and has been postponed as market conditions change.

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