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Released December 20, 2023 | SUGAR LAND
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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--Perhaps it should come as no surprise that one of the single largest industrial projects presently under construction in Idaho involves potatoes, helping propel the Food & Beverage Industry into the state's top spending category. But Idaho also is home to a variety of other industrial projects, ranging from solar farms to data centers. Industrial Info is tracking more than $1.3 billion worth of projects under construction in the state.
The potato project in the spotlight comes from Lamb Weston Holdings Incorporated (NYSE:LW) (Eagle, Idaho), one of the world's largest producers of frozen potato products. The company is expanding its frozen french fry facility in American Falls, in the heart of Idaho's potato country, and the resulting new demand from the plant is expected to lead to 12,000 additional acres of potato crop in Idaho, according to news media.
The project kicked off earlier this year and is being built in stages. The first stage, which is complete, involved increasing efficiency at the plant with the addition of a new chop-and-formed line to complement existing french fry production. The second and third stages, which are underway and expected to be completed around the same time in mid-2024, include the addition of a new french fry line and a new 275,000-square-foot cold storage facility that can store about 50 million pounds of frozen fries. The projects will increase the plant's production by about 40%, resulting in about 350 million pounds of french fry production per year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Food & Beverage Project Database can click here for more details on the project.
But not all of Idaho's food and beverage projects involve potatoes. Many, in fact, revolve around the state's strong dairy industry. One example is a grassroot milk processing plant in Burley. Suntado LLC (Burley) is developing a 190,000-square-foot milk and cream production and packaging facility that will use 800,000 to 1 million pounds per day of milk when up and running. The facility will produce products, including shelf-stable and fresh dairy products, and also will serve as a co-packager for other companies' products, such as nutrition products and alternative beverages. The facility will feature six production lines and is expected to kick off operations next spring. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the project report.
After the Food & Beverage Industry, the state's Industrial Manufacturing Industry is the highest spender, with top projects coming in from well-known companies such as Amazon.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:AMZN) (Seattle, Washington) and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Incorporated (NASDAQ:META) (Menlo Park, California).
Meta is building a grassroot data center in Kuna, on the southwestern outskirts of Boise. The first phase of the project is nearing completion and a second phase, the first of three additional phases of construction, will kick off in 2024. Phase I includes the construction of two buildings: a 60,600-square-foot administrative building and a 415,000-square-foot data center building. The complete project, including all four phases of construction, is expected to result in 960,000 square feet of buildings and about $800 million in total spending. Subscribers can click here for related reports.
Amazon's project, known as Project Dove, also is nearing completion and expected to be completed early next year. The 1 million-square-foot facility will serve the sorting and distribution needs of the Boise area. The facility will feature 98 loading docks and an additional 390 trailer-parking stalls. Subscribers can click here to learn more.
Rounding out Idaho's top three industrial spenders is the Power Industry, which features projects for solar power, hydropower, and transmission and distribution. One of these projects will help power Meta's new data center. Construction of the Pleasant Valley solar farm, being developed by rPlus Energies (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Matrix Renewables (Madrid, Spain) in Ada County (the same county as Meta's data center), kicked off a few months ago. The project initially was solely an rPlus Energies project until the company sold a controlling interest in it to Spain's Matrix Renewables in August.
Before that transaction, rPlus had signed a power purchase agreement with Meta for the facility's output, which will go into the same grid that supplies the Kuna data center. When completed, the plant will be the largest solar farm in Idaho Power's (Boise) service territory. The facility will use ground-mounted panels on a single-axis tracking system to provide nameplate generation of 200 megawatts (MW). The project is expected to begin providing power in 2025. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for the full report.
Subscribers to Industrial Info's GMI Database can click here to view reports on all of the projects discussed in this article and click here to see 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) 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).
The potato project in the spotlight comes from Lamb Weston Holdings Incorporated (NYSE:LW) (Eagle, Idaho), one of the world's largest producers of frozen potato products. The company is expanding its frozen french fry facility in American Falls, in the heart of Idaho's potato country, and the resulting new demand from the plant is expected to lead to 12,000 additional acres of potato crop in Idaho, according to news media.
The project kicked off earlier this year and is being built in stages. The first stage, which is complete, involved increasing efficiency at the plant with the addition of a new chop-and-formed line to complement existing french fry production. The second and third stages, which are underway and expected to be completed around the same time in mid-2024, include the addition of a new french fry line and a new 275,000-square-foot cold storage facility that can store about 50 million pounds of frozen fries. The projects will increase the plant's production by about 40%, resulting in about 350 million pounds of french fry production per year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Food & Beverage Project Database can click here for more details on the project.
But not all of Idaho's food and beverage projects involve potatoes. Many, in fact, revolve around the state's strong dairy industry. One example is a grassroot milk processing plant in Burley. Suntado LLC (Burley) is developing a 190,000-square-foot milk and cream production and packaging facility that will use 800,000 to 1 million pounds per day of milk when up and running. The facility will produce products, including shelf-stable and fresh dairy products, and also will serve as a co-packager for other companies' products, such as nutrition products and alternative beverages. The facility will feature six production lines and is expected to kick off operations next spring. Subscribers can learn more by viewing the project report.
After the Food & Beverage Industry, the state's Industrial Manufacturing Industry is the highest spender, with top projects coming in from well-known companies such as Amazon.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:AMZN) (Seattle, Washington) and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Incorporated (NASDAQ:META) (Menlo Park, California).
Meta is building a grassroot data center in Kuna, on the southwestern outskirts of Boise. The first phase of the project is nearing completion and a second phase, the first of three additional phases of construction, will kick off in 2024. Phase I includes the construction of two buildings: a 60,600-square-foot administrative building and a 415,000-square-foot data center building. The complete project, including all four phases of construction, is expected to result in 960,000 square feet of buildings and about $800 million in total spending. Subscribers can click here for related reports.
Amazon's project, known as Project Dove, also is nearing completion and expected to be completed early next year. The 1 million-square-foot facility will serve the sorting and distribution needs of the Boise area. The facility will feature 98 loading docks and an additional 390 trailer-parking stalls. Subscribers can click here to learn more.
Rounding out Idaho's top three industrial spenders is the Power Industry, which features projects for solar power, hydropower, and transmission and distribution. One of these projects will help power Meta's new data center. Construction of the Pleasant Valley solar farm, being developed by rPlus Energies (Salt Lake City, Utah) and Matrix Renewables (Madrid, Spain) in Ada County (the same county as Meta's data center), kicked off a few months ago. The project initially was solely an rPlus Energies project until the company sold a controlling interest in it to Spain's Matrix Renewables in August.
Before that transaction, rPlus had signed a power purchase agreement with Meta for the facility's output, which will go into the same grid that supplies the Kuna data center. When completed, the plant will be the largest solar farm in Idaho Power's (Boise) service territory. The facility will use ground-mounted panels on a single-axis tracking system to provide nameplate generation of 200 megawatts (MW). The project is expected to begin providing power in 2025. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Power Project Database can click here for the full report.
Subscribers to Industrial Info's GMI Database can click here to view reports on all of the projects discussed in this article and click here to see 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) 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).
