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Released May 21, 2024 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--While Montana may be better known for its big sky than its industrial activity, the state is nevertheless home to some high-dollar project spending, coming in at nearly $1 billion. While a power generation project tops the list of biggest industrial projects underway in the state, several remediation and cleanup projects at former smelters and mines make the Metals & Minerals Industry the state's highest spender.
Although a large windfarm was completed in the state late last year, it's not only renewable forms of power generation that are making their way into Montana. A natural gas-fired project in the state is being constructed specifically to help balance the intermittent nature of renewable generation with easily stopped and started fossil generation. NorthWestern Corporation (NASDAQ:NWE) (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is installing 18 natural gas-fired reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) that can ramp up quickly with multiple stops and starts daily as needed. The RICE at the Yellowstone County Generating Station near Laurel will be able to provide up to 175 megawatts (MW) of power when needed. Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Burns & McDonnell Incorporated (Kansas City, Missouri) began work on the project in 2022 and is expected to wrap up this summer. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for more details.
The U.S. Department of the Interior is helping ensure that hydropower maintain its role Montana's power mix through the refurbishment of the 18-MW Unit 2 at the Canyon Ferry Hydropower Station in Helena. EPC contractor ANDRITZ Hydro Corporation (Charlotte, North Carolina) began the refurbishment earlier this year and is expected to be completed by the start of 2025. The project will improve efficiency and extend the plant's service life through refurbishing the draft tubes and head covers, as well as a generator rewind. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the project report.
There are no less than five remediation projects at former metals and minerals sites that are underway in Montana, some with Superfund status. These are located at former copper smelters, a lead smelter and a coal mine. The former lead smelter, located in East Helena, began operating in 1881 and shut its doors in 2001, depositing heavy metals, arsenic and other hazardous chemicals into the soil, surface water and groundwater while it operated. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the sources of the contamination included the smelter stack, fugitive emissions from the plant and direct surface water discharges. Cleanup of the site has been ongoing since 2012, and the remainder of the work is expected to be completed toward the end of this year.
Over the course of the cleanup, contractor Metallica Commodities Corporation LLC (White Plains, New York) will send about 2 million tons of slag by rail to Washington state, where it will be shipped to a South Korean company to extract residual metals and use the remainder to create cement. The site's contaminated soils will be covered to protect groundwater. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Metals & Minerals Project Database can click here for the project report.
Remediation of a former copper smelter site, located near Anaconda and closed since 1980, has been ongoing for four years and entails the cleanup of contaminated soil, the consolidation of waste materials and the placement of engineered covers over waste-management areas. The project is expected to wrap up in 2028. Subscribers can click here for more information.
After the Power and Metals & Minerals sectors, the Pharmaceutical-Biotech Industry rounds out the list of the state's top three spenders. Among this industry's projects underway in Montana is the Montana Department of Livestock's construction of a grassroot veterinary diagnostic laboratory at a site on the Montana State University campus in Bozeman. General contractor Swank Enterprises Incorporated (Kalispell, Montana) is constructing an approximately 55,000-square-foot building equipped for the testing of animal diseases, including brucellosis, chronic wasting disease and other contagious and non-contagious diseases. Construction kicked off toward the end of last year and is expected to wrap up in 2025. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Pharmaceutical-Biotech Project Database can click here to learn more about the project.
The Food & Beverage Industry also features in the state's project activity. Montana Specialty Mills LLC (Great Falls, Montana) is expanding its oilseed-crushing facility in Great Falls through additional building construction and equipment additions that will increase the facility's processing capabilities from 50 tons per day to 150 tons per day. Construction kicked off in early 2023 and is expected to be completed by the end of this year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Food & Beverage Project Database can learn more by viewing the project report.
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Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) platform helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 trillion (USD).
Although a large windfarm was completed in the state late last year, it's not only renewable forms of power generation that are making their way into Montana. A natural gas-fired project in the state is being constructed specifically to help balance the intermittent nature of renewable generation with easily stopped and started fossil generation. NorthWestern Corporation (NASDAQ:NWE) (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) is installing 18 natural gas-fired reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICE) that can ramp up quickly with multiple stops and starts daily as needed. The RICE at the Yellowstone County Generating Station near Laurel will be able to provide up to 175 megawatts (MW) of power when needed. Engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor Burns & McDonnell Incorporated (Kansas City, Missouri) began work on the project in 2022 and is expected to wrap up this summer. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for more details.
The U.S. Department of the Interior is helping ensure that hydropower maintain its role Montana's power mix through the refurbishment of the 18-MW Unit 2 at the Canyon Ferry Hydropower Station in Helena. EPC contractor ANDRITZ Hydro Corporation (Charlotte, North Carolina) began the refurbishment earlier this year and is expected to be completed by the start of 2025. The project will improve efficiency and extend the plant's service life through refurbishing the draft tubes and head covers, as well as a generator rewind. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the project report.
There are no less than five remediation projects at former metals and minerals sites that are underway in Montana, some with Superfund status. These are located at former copper smelters, a lead smelter and a coal mine. The former lead smelter, located in East Helena, began operating in 1881 and shut its doors in 2001, depositing heavy metals, arsenic and other hazardous chemicals into the soil, surface water and groundwater while it operated. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the sources of the contamination included the smelter stack, fugitive emissions from the plant and direct surface water discharges. Cleanup of the site has been ongoing since 2012, and the remainder of the work is expected to be completed toward the end of this year.
Over the course of the cleanup, contractor Metallica Commodities Corporation LLC (White Plains, New York) will send about 2 million tons of slag by rail to Washington state, where it will be shipped to a South Korean company to extract residual metals and use the remainder to create cement. The site's contaminated soils will be covered to protect groundwater. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Metals & Minerals Project Database can click here for the project report.
Remediation of a former copper smelter site, located near Anaconda and closed since 1980, has been ongoing for four years and entails the cleanup of contaminated soil, the consolidation of waste materials and the placement of engineered covers over waste-management areas. The project is expected to wrap up in 2028. Subscribers can click here for more information.
After the Power and Metals & Minerals sectors, the Pharmaceutical-Biotech Industry rounds out the list of the state's top three spenders. Among this industry's projects underway in Montana is the Montana Department of Livestock's construction of a grassroot veterinary diagnostic laboratory at a site on the Montana State University campus in Bozeman. General contractor Swank Enterprises Incorporated (Kalispell, Montana) is constructing an approximately 55,000-square-foot building equipped for the testing of animal diseases, including brucellosis, chronic wasting disease and other contagious and non-contagious diseases. Construction kicked off toward the end of last year and is expected to wrap up in 2025. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Pharmaceutical-Biotech Project Database can click here to learn more about the project.
The Food & Beverage Industry also features in the state's project activity. Montana Specialty Mills LLC (Great Falls, Montana) is expanding its oilseed-crushing facility in Great Falls through additional building construction and equipment additions that will increase the facility's processing capabilities from 50 tons per day to 150 tons per day. Construction kicked off in early 2023 and is expected to be completed by the end of this year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Food & Beverage Project Database can learn more by viewing the project report.
Subscribers to Industrial Info's GMI Database can click here to view reports for all of the projects discussed in this article and click here for the related plant profiles.
Industrial Info Resources (IIR) is the leading provider of industrial market intelligence. Since 1983, IIR has provided comprehensive research, news and analysis on the industrial process, manufacturing and energy related industries. IIR's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) platform helps companies identify and pursue trends across multiple markets with access to real, qualified and validated plant and project opportunities. Across the world, IIR is tracking over 200,000 current and future projects worth $17.8 trillion (USD).
