Construction of a new 190,000 square foot Aluminum Remelt Facility and 102,000 square foot Aluminum Extrusion Facility, sitting on 70 acres. Along with the buildings there are several car and trailer parking areas, large outdoor concrete pads for storage, concrete water wells for equipment, truck scales and a complete forced main sanitary system. The Remelt Facility is a pre-engineered metal building with a 64 foot ridge and a 50 foot eave height. The building is divided into 5 separate areas (scrap storage, melting area, casting area, sawing area and cooling area). There are 2 casting furnace concrete foundation pits that are 25’ x 30’ x 10’ deep with multiple levels of piers for support. The casting area has a 25’ x 18’ x 48’ deep concrete casting pit with a 48” diameter caisson housing the equipment piston that is 78’ deep. The casting pit walls range from 30” thick to 18” thick with interior walls and sump pits. The sawing area is 40,000 square feet with approximately 70% containing heavy equipment foundations, cable pits and trenches or cast in place rail systems. The scrap storage building has 10’ high concrete walled bunkers to separate and store the scrap with 14” thickened slab runways called “Glama Zones”, named for the tremendously heavy Glama machine that moves and loads the aluminum scrap. There are 8 loading docks and bridge cranes ranging from 5 tons to 30 tons.
The Extrusion Facility is a pre-engineered metal building with 45’ eave height. This clear span building houses extrusion equipment with heavy thickened concrete foundations and cable pits. It has 10 loading docks and bridge cranes ranging from 3 tons to 20 tons.
Client Testimonial
...I must say we’re proud the casting plant as of today is operating 24/7 on schedule...supply chain crisis and pandemic be darned! Some companies are just built different and we’re certainly glad we partnered with KBS.
