Four Winns Awards Contractor for $11 Million Expansion in Michigan

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Four Winns Incorporated (Cadillac, Michigan) has awarded The Christman Company (Traverse City, Michigan) the Design/Build contract for their $11 Million expansion in Cadillac, Michigan (PEC 18001762, Plant 1517170).

Located in Wexford County near the plant's current facility at 925 Frisbie Street, construction on the over 125,000 square foot building is expected to begin in May 2004 with completion slated for fall 2004. New equipment processes will also be added and the expansion is expected to create at least 100 jobs. The new facility will manufacture fiberglass recreational boats.

Four Winns Incorporated, founded in 1962 in Cadillac, Michigan as Saf-T-Mate Boat Company, is a manufacturer of fiberglass boats. The company is one of the largest employees in Wexford County with more than 700 employees. In 2001, Genmar Corporation, the largest marine producer in the world, purchased Four Winns. Genmar, with approximately 6,000 employees and 12 manufacturing centers in the United States and Canada, is the world's largest builder of recreational boats and the industry's technological leader with the development of VEC and VEC Shield Technology, the Roplene process, the Genmar FirstMate customer care service and the Genmar Integrated Vessel System.