Mississippi Industrial Manufacturers Open 2005 with More Than $750 Million in Planned Major Capital and Maintenance Expenditures

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). The heavy manufacturing and industrial process industries in Mississippi currently have 103 projects worth about $780 million, scheduled to begin construction in 2005. About 40% of these projects fall into the Industrial Manufacturing Industry, representing $259 million. After the Industrial Manufacturing Industry, comes the Chemical Processing Industry with fifteen projects, worth $139 million and the Power Industry with sixteen projects, representing $120 million.

Click on the image at right to view a breakdown of Mississippi industrial projects by industry. All figures derived from Industrialinfo.com's North American Industrial Database.

One of the larger projects scheduled to begin construction in early 2005 in Mississippi is a $50 million grassroot parcel sorting plant for FedEx Ground Package System, Incorporated (Coraopolis, Pennsylvania), a Subsidiary of Federal Express Corporation (NYSE:FDX) (Memphis, Tennessee). FedEx is building the 350,000 square foot building on 93 acres in Olive Branch, Mississippi. Pickering Incorporated (Memphis, Tennessee) is performing the architectural and engineering for the project. Flintco General Contractors Incorporated (Memphis, Tennessee) is the general contractor on the job, which is scheduled for completion in early 2006.

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