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Released August 13, 2020 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The COVID-19 pandemic does not care that businesses want to reopen and Americans want to go back to day-to-day activities, and its resurgence in the past two months has forced entire industries to suspend plans for growth, sometimes indefinitely. Industrial Info is tracking more than $3 billion worth of projects across the U.S. that have been placed on hold since the beginning of June due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with states in the Southeast, Southwest and Mid-Atlantic regions accounting for nearly half of the associated investment value.
Click on the image at right for a graph detailing U.S. projects placed on hold since the beginning of June, by market region.
Texas is among the states to see one of the worst summer COVID-19 surges, recently exceeding 500,000 confirmed cases. But even as the governor and other state officials pressure Texans to wear masks and practice social distancing, one of the Lone Star State's biggest industries is seeing high-value projects placed on hold: the Chemical Processing Industry, which has driven much of the past decade's industrial boom along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Oxiteno USA LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ultra Group (São Paulo, Brazil), recently froze its plans to expand a surfactants plant in Pasadena, Texas, as the company conceded it would be too much for its current capital budget. Oxiteno still plans to expand the 174,000-metric-ton-per-year surfactants-production facility, but it remains unclear how much production will be boosted. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Various sectors within the Metals & Minerals Industry are seeing projects placed on hold throughout the eastern and southern U.S., including James Hardie Industries plc's (Dublin, Ireland) construction of a cement products plant in Prattville, Alabama. The facility, which was designed to produce up to 600 million square feet per year of fiber cement siding for homes and businesses, began construction in the spring of 2018 and was set to wrap up toward the end of this year; there is currently no certain completion date. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
West Virginia has faced its share of economic struggles as the coal-fired power market has continued its steep decline, and Arq Group Limited's (London, England) recent decision to halt early-phase progress on a proposed waste coal-to-powder processing plant, possibly in Gary, West Virginia, only adds to the woes. The company was evaluating locations for a 1 million-ton-per-year coal-preparation plant to pulverize, crush and clean coal refuse and waste from nearby mines, and convert it into purified hydrocarbon fuel, which would be blended with crude or fuels for use by refineries and other customers. As the company already is prioritizing other projects when the pandemic eases, it is not known when, or if, the project will be revived. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
California also is among the states that have seen a sharp increase in confirmed cases over the summer, and the pandemic is frustrating one of the Golden State's most significant long-term goals: The reduction, if not elimination, of fossil fuel-sourced energy in favor of renewable sources. One of the state's more gradually paced proposals is the repowering of the Grayson Power Plant in Glendale, where the city planned to dismantle and demolish all but one of the existing units and replace them with a combination of combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas turbine generation units.
Developers were still seeking permits for the repowering project early this summer, when it was placed on hold. It is not yet known when the project will be revived. For more information, see Industrial Info's project reports on the repowering and unit demolitions.
Despite the skyrocketing demand for medical services, some hospitals and other care facilities are seeing delays in site-specific projects, such as power stations. Partners HealthCare International (Boston, Massachusetts) recently placed the construction of a combined heat and power plant for Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, on hold. The teaching hospital would have been supplied with 2.4 megawatts (MW) from the plant, which had been set to begin construction in May. Its new start date is unknown. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, six offices in North America and 12 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn. For more information on our coverage, send inquiries to info@industrialinfo.com or visit us online at http://www.industrialinfo.com/.
Click on the image at right for a graph detailing U.S. projects placed on hold since the beginning of June, by market region.Texas is among the states to see one of the worst summer COVID-19 surges, recently exceeding 500,000 confirmed cases. But even as the governor and other state officials pressure Texans to wear masks and practice social distancing, one of the Lone Star State's biggest industries is seeing high-value projects placed on hold: the Chemical Processing Industry, which has driven much of the past decade's industrial boom along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Oxiteno USA LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ultra Group (São Paulo, Brazil), recently froze its plans to expand a surfactants plant in Pasadena, Texas, as the company conceded it would be too much for its current capital budget. Oxiteno still plans to expand the 174,000-metric-ton-per-year surfactants-production facility, but it remains unclear how much production will be boosted. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Various sectors within the Metals & Minerals Industry are seeing projects placed on hold throughout the eastern and southern U.S., including James Hardie Industries plc's (Dublin, Ireland) construction of a cement products plant in Prattville, Alabama. The facility, which was designed to produce up to 600 million square feet per year of fiber cement siding for homes and businesses, began construction in the spring of 2018 and was set to wrap up toward the end of this year; there is currently no certain completion date. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
West Virginia has faced its share of economic struggles as the coal-fired power market has continued its steep decline, and Arq Group Limited's (London, England) recent decision to halt early-phase progress on a proposed waste coal-to-powder processing plant, possibly in Gary, West Virginia, only adds to the woes. The company was evaluating locations for a 1 million-ton-per-year coal-preparation plant to pulverize, crush and clean coal refuse and waste from nearby mines, and convert it into purified hydrocarbon fuel, which would be blended with crude or fuels for use by refineries and other customers. As the company already is prioritizing other projects when the pandemic eases, it is not known when, or if, the project will be revived. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
California also is among the states that have seen a sharp increase in confirmed cases over the summer, and the pandemic is frustrating one of the Golden State's most significant long-term goals: The reduction, if not elimination, of fossil fuel-sourced energy in favor of renewable sources. One of the state's more gradually paced proposals is the repowering of the Grayson Power Plant in Glendale, where the city planned to dismantle and demolish all but one of the existing units and replace them with a combination of combined-cycle and simple-cycle gas turbine generation units.
Developers were still seeking permits for the repowering project early this summer, when it was placed on hold. It is not yet known when the project will be revived. For more information, see Industrial Info's project reports on the repowering and unit demolitions.
Despite the skyrocketing demand for medical services, some hospitals and other care facilities are seeing delays in site-specific projects, such as power stations. Partners HealthCare International (Boston, Massachusetts) recently placed the construction of a combined heat and power plant for Newton-Wellesley Hospital in Newton, Massachusetts, on hold. The teaching hospital would have been supplied with 2.4 megawatts (MW) from the plant, which had been set to begin construction in May. Its new start date is unknown. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR), with global headquarters in Sugar Land, Texas, six offices in North America and 12 international offices, is the leading provider of global market intelligence specializing in the industrial process, heavy manufacturing and energy markets. Industrial Info's quality-assurance philosophy, the Living Forward Reporting Principle, provides up-to-the-minute intelligence on what's happening now, while constantly keeping track of future opportunities. Follow IIR on: Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn. For more information on our coverage, send inquiries to info@industrialinfo.com or visit us online at http://www.industrialinfo.com/.
