Coors’ $200 Million Brewery in Virginia Set to Open First of the Year

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas). The third largest beer brewer in the U.S., Adolph Coors Company (NYSE:RKY) (Golden, Colorado) is in the final phase of a multi-year, $200 million construction project at a packaging facility in Elkton, Virginia. Coors selected the Shenandoah plant, located at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, as the site for the company’s third brewery in a move aimed at future growth and will result in an annual savings of $25 million in shipping cost. Upon startup in the first quarter of 2007, the Elkton brewery will have the ability to brew 6-7 million barrels of beer annually.

Key components of the investment includes two brew lines, fermentation and aging equipment, a new rail spur and several new structures to house controls and related processes.

Jacobs Engineering Group (Greenville, South Carolina) has primary responsibility for engineering, procurement, and construction management.

The 19-year-old packaging facility employs 465 workers and will add ten new workers when the brewery becomes operational. Coors’ other brewery operations are in Golden, Colorado and Memphis, Tennessee.

See related Coors news articles Expansion Brewing at Coors dated October 29, 2001

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