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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The U.S. Great Lakes market region, which includes Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin, is a hive of industrial activity. The top 10-valued projects that Industrial Info has designated as having a high or medium probability of moving forward as planned (70%-99%) account for nearly $34 billion in spending. The Industrial Manufacturing Industry leads in terms of overall value, accounting for more than $19.5 billion worth of these 10 projects.
The top 10 projects in the Great Lakes region cover a wide array of sectors, ranging from chemicals to air projects. Click here for a full list of detailed project reports.
Click on the image at right for a breakdown by industry of the top 10 active projects in the Great Lakes Region.
Among the highest-valued projects in the region is one that is planned to kick off later this year in Dale, Indiana, about 80 miles west of Louisville, Kentucky: a grassroot fuel conversion facility. The facility plans to use 1.6 million tons per year of coal as feedstock to produce 4.8 million barrels of clean diesel and 2.5 million barrels of naphtha per year. The project owner, Riverview Energy Corporation (Wilmington, Delaware), scored a victory late last year when the Indiana Office of Environmental Adjudication denied a petition by opposition groups seeking to block the proposed plant's air quality permit. The company says the Dale plant will be the first direct coal-hydrogenation refinery in the U.S. When operational, the facility is expected to produce diesel fuel that is 30% cleaner than federal standards. "The plant will have a significantly lower carbon footprint than other technologies, and nothing will go to waste," said Riverview President Greg Merle. "All the plant's products will be marketable--and with stricter federal regulations in auto fuel efficiency and now in global marine shipping, the market is prime for this innovative process that uses the U.S.' vast coal resources in a highly clean process." Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Alternative Fuel Database can click here for a detailed project report.
The Great Lakes region is a hub of U.S. automotive manufacturing activity, and the area is embracing the new technology of electric vehicles. In Lordstown, Ohio, a joint venture of General Motors Corporation (NYSE:GM) (GM) (Detroit, Michigan), which plans to go all-electric by 2035, and LG Chem Limited (Seoul, South Korea), last year kicked off construction of a grassroot battery cell manufacturing plant. The project entails the construction of 16 buildings totaling approximately 3.4 million square feet, including a 2.8 million-square-foot production building. When completed next summer, the facility will have a production capacity of 30 gigawatt-hours per year of batteries. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Industrial Manufacturing Database can click here for the project report.
GM also is at work on a related electric vehicle project near Detroit, Michigan. The company last year launched a retool of its 4.1 million-square-foot assembly factory in Hamtramck by upgrading the facility's paint and body shops, conveyors, and controls and tooling area to enable the conversion of the plant into an all-electric manufacturing facility. The project is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The plant, renamed Factory ZERO, will produce a variety all-electric trucks and SUVs, including the Hummer EV. Battery cells for the vehicles will be manufactured at the Lordstown plant in Ohio. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Fertilizers are big business in countries throughout the world, and in Tuscola, Illinois, Cronus Chemicals LLC (Chicago, Illinois) plans to construct a plant producing 840,000 metric tons per year of ammonia, of which 75% is estimated to be going for the production of urea, which is used in fertilizers, and 25% to the merchant market. ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (USA) Incorporated (Greenwood Village, Colorado) is providing engineering, procurement and construction on the project, which was originally proposed in 2014, but which Cronus says it will break ground later this year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Chemical Processing Database can click here for the project report.
Amazon.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:AMZN) (Seattle, Washington) has expanded rapidly in recent years, and the company's sales were boosted during the COVID-19 pandemic, when more people opted to receive items at home rather than going to brick-and-mortar stores. One of Amazon's largest U.S. projects is planned to wrap up in the coming months in the Great Lakes region: the construction of a grassroot air services hub in Hebron, Kentucky, at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The facility is being built on a 920-acre site and will feature a 3 million-square-foot building featuring a 350,000-square-foot loading dock and more than 100 aircraft parking spaces. When completed, the facility should be able to handle more than 200 aircraft takeoffs and landings per day. Amazon began hiring for the approximately 2,000 jobs the air hub will create earlier this year. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Other projects in the Great Lakes region's top-10 projects include:
The top 10 projects in the Great Lakes region cover a wide array of sectors, ranging from chemicals to air projects. Click here for a full list of detailed project reports.
Click on the image at right for a breakdown by industry of the top 10 active projects in the Great Lakes Region.Among the highest-valued projects in the region is one that is planned to kick off later this year in Dale, Indiana, about 80 miles west of Louisville, Kentucky: a grassroot fuel conversion facility. The facility plans to use 1.6 million tons per year of coal as feedstock to produce 4.8 million barrels of clean diesel and 2.5 million barrels of naphtha per year. The project owner, Riverview Energy Corporation (Wilmington, Delaware), scored a victory late last year when the Indiana Office of Environmental Adjudication denied a petition by opposition groups seeking to block the proposed plant's air quality permit. The company says the Dale plant will be the first direct coal-hydrogenation refinery in the U.S. When operational, the facility is expected to produce diesel fuel that is 30% cleaner than federal standards. "The plant will have a significantly lower carbon footprint than other technologies, and nothing will go to waste," said Riverview President Greg Merle. "All the plant's products will be marketable--and with stricter federal regulations in auto fuel efficiency and now in global marine shipping, the market is prime for this innovative process that uses the U.S.' vast coal resources in a highly clean process." Subscribers to Industrial Info's Global Market Intelligence (GMI) Alternative Fuel Database can click here for a detailed project report.
The Great Lakes region is a hub of U.S. automotive manufacturing activity, and the area is embracing the new technology of electric vehicles. In Lordstown, Ohio, a joint venture of General Motors Corporation (NYSE:GM) (GM) (Detroit, Michigan), which plans to go all-electric by 2035, and LG Chem Limited (Seoul, South Korea), last year kicked off construction of a grassroot battery cell manufacturing plant. The project entails the construction of 16 buildings totaling approximately 3.4 million square feet, including a 2.8 million-square-foot production building. When completed next summer, the facility will have a production capacity of 30 gigawatt-hours per year of batteries. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Industrial Manufacturing Database can click here for the project report.
GM also is at work on a related electric vehicle project near Detroit, Michigan. The company last year launched a retool of its 4.1 million-square-foot assembly factory in Hamtramck by upgrading the facility's paint and body shops, conveyors, and controls and tooling area to enable the conversion of the plant into an all-electric manufacturing facility. The project is expected to be completed by the end of this year. The plant, renamed Factory ZERO, will produce a variety all-electric trucks and SUVs, including the Hummer EV. Battery cells for the vehicles will be manufactured at the Lordstown plant in Ohio. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Fertilizers are big business in countries throughout the world, and in Tuscola, Illinois, Cronus Chemicals LLC (Chicago, Illinois) plans to construct a plant producing 840,000 metric tons per year of ammonia, of which 75% is estimated to be going for the production of urea, which is used in fertilizers, and 25% to the merchant market. ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions (USA) Incorporated (Greenwood Village, Colorado) is providing engineering, procurement and construction on the project, which was originally proposed in 2014, but which Cronus says it will break ground later this year. Subscribers to Industrial Info's Chemical Processing Database can click here for the project report.
Amazon.com Incorporated (NASDAQ:AMZN) (Seattle, Washington) has expanded rapidly in recent years, and the company's sales were boosted during the COVID-19 pandemic, when more people opted to receive items at home rather than going to brick-and-mortar stores. One of Amazon's largest U.S. projects is planned to wrap up in the coming months in the Great Lakes region: the construction of a grassroot air services hub in Hebron, Kentucky, at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. The facility is being built on a 920-acre site and will feature a 3 million-square-foot building featuring a 350,000-square-foot loading dock and more than 100 aircraft parking spaces. When completed, the facility should be able to handle more than 200 aircraft takeoffs and landings per day. Amazon began hiring for the approximately 2,000 jobs the air hub will create earlier this year. For more information, see Industrial Info's project report.
Other projects in the Great Lakes region's top-10 projects include:
- a terminal expansion at the Chicago O'Hare International Airport (see project report).
- a brownfield ethylene plant in Belmont County, Ohio (see project report).
- Foxconn Technology Group's LCD manufacturing plant in Wisconsin (see project report).
- the Chicago Transit Authority's Red Line extension project (see project report).
- a grassroot aluminum rolling mill in Kentucky (see project report).
