Jenkins Brick Selects Moody, Alabama, for New Manufacturing Plant

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Jenkins Brick Company (Montgomery, Alabama) has settled on a 160-acre plot of land on Highway 78, just outside Moody, Saint Clair County, Alabama, near Cook Springs, for building its new 453,600 square foot brick manufacturing plant. The estimated $43 million plant is scheduled begin operations by summer 2006. The company, which has not yet selected a design/build contractor for the project, hopes to break ground in mid-summer 2005, with actual building construction beginning in July.

The company is presently awaiting air permitting. The plant will use landfill gas from a nearby landfill for energy. In January 1999, Jenkins Brick switched its fuel supply from natural gas to landfill gas at its Montgomery production facility, one zone at a time, on each side of its first kiln, in order to help the city comply with the New Source Performance Standards of the Clean Air Act. It took one week to convert the entire kiln. Since that time, the company has continued to burn landfill gas. For that effort, Jenkins Brick was awarded the Governor's Conservation Achievement Air Conservationist Award in 1999.

The design/build contractor will be selected from a short list soon. There are three major companies that have the capability to perform turn-key jobs for building brick plants, Harrop Industries Incorporated (Columbus, Ohio), Ceric Incorporated (Paris, France), and Haendle GmbH Maschinin- und Anlagenbau (Muehlacker, Germany), so these companies would most likely be the candidates for the short list.

Jenkins Brick has three operational plants, all in Alabama: a brick manufacturing plant and a stone products plant in Montgomery, and a brick manufacturing plant in Coosada. The company also operates distribution yards in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.

Jenkins Brick, founded in the late 1880's by Mike Jenkins in Wetumpka, Alabama, (and later moved headquarters to Montgomery in 1903, when the first Montgomery plant was built), is among a dwindling number of American-owned and operated brick manufacturing companies. The company is now under the leadership of the fourth and fifth generations of the Jenkins family, Mike Jenkins IV and Mike Jenkins V.

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