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Plant Expansion

$45,000,000

Complete plant expansion, primary, secondary, finishing, blending, barge loadout, automation and startup.  Western Kentucky.

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Crushing and Conveying

$5,500,000

Primary crushing, conveying, secondary crushing and finishing systems, electrical and controls design, automation and startup.  Western Kentucky.

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Blending and Barge Loading

$5,000,000

Primary, secondary, auxiliary, aggregate, blending, barge loading systems, controls design, automation and startup.  Southern Illinois.

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Crushing and Conveying

$4,500,000

Primary crushing, conveying, secondary crushing and finishing systems, electrical and controls design, automation and startup.  Western Kentucky.

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Lime Plant Automation

$3,500,000

Lime plant system controls design, automation and startup.  Western Kentucky.

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Crushing and Conveying

$2,500,000

Primary crushing, conveying, secondary crushing, finishing, storage systems electrical and controls design, automation and startup.  Included equipment specification and procurement.  Mid-Ohio.

Aggregate

Crushing and Conveying

$1,500,000

Secondary crushing, conveying, storage, truck loadout systems controls design, automation and startup.  Eastern Missouri.

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Portable Crushing and Conveying

$1,500,000

Portable plant crushing, conveying, loadout, electrical and controls design and startup.  Included equipment specification and procurement.  Canada.

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Conveying and Truck Loadout

$1,500,000

Plant conveying and truck loadout system, electrical, controls, automation and startup.  North Arkansas.

Aggregate

Crushing and Conveying

$1,000,000

Tertiary crushing and conveying systems controls design, automation and startup.  Western Kentucky.

Aluminum

Metals Dust Collection System

$1,100,000

Aluminum

Dust Collection System

$1,000,000

Preliminary and detail design to replace a dust collection system at a major aluminum plant.

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Chemical

Groundwater Collection System

$3,000,000

Design of a groundwater collection system (mechanical, electrical and controls) for an existing chemical plant.

Chemical

Reactor Design

$1,750,000

Preliminary and detailed design of reactor processes to produce starter liquid for continuous specialty chemical process.

Chemical

API-650 Liquid Storage Tanks

$1,000,000

Design of several API-650 storage tanks for product liquors and two lime storage bins per ASME code, non-stamped.

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Clay

Cleated Belt Conveyor

$150,000

45-degree corrugated-wall cleated belt conveyor to convey cat litter from grade to the top of silo.

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Coal

Coal Concrete Silos, Reclaim Tunnels

$250,000

Stacking Tubes

$4,000,000

Installed raw coal silos, clean coal silos, blending silos, reclaim tunnels, stacking tubes, and flyash silos for numerous clients.

Coal

Replace Belt on 5 Mile Overland Conveyor

$3,000,000

Plan and coordinate the shutdown and replacement of a 5-mile 72” conveyor.  Project also included adding new office facility with underground elevator, shower facilities, telecommunications hub, and substation.

Coal

Wood Chip and Coal Handling Conveyors

$2,000,000

Wood chip and coal handling conveyors to feed boilerhouse.  One conveyor was overland and two (2) conveyors ran side-by-side through a tubular gallery with a maximum span of 115 feet.

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Coal

Coal and Limestone Conveyors

$800,000

Six (6) – 500 TPH coal and limestone conveyors to convey materials from unloading and reclaim to crushing and screening structures and thence to the boilerhouse.  Maximum convey span was 125 feet long.

Coal

Coal Conveyors

$750,000

Four-1200 TPH coal conveyors to divert product coal from the main storage silo to an alternate silo.  One conveyor bridge span was 165 feet long.

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Fertilizer

Belt Conveyors

$350,000

Basic design and procurement for two (2) belt conveyors conveying chemical fertilizer.  Also added a non-corrodible enclosure over an existing open storage bin for the product.

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Metals

Carbon Solids Handling System

$8,000,000

Preliminary design and budget of equipment for crushing, conveying and treatment of contaminated carbon-based solid product.

Metals

Furnace Control Modernization

$1,600,000

Detail design, control software and start-up to replace obsolete controls on four furnaces.

Metals

Water Storage and Monitoring

$1,000,000

Detail design for electrical installation of a 200,000 gallon elevated storage tank and monitoring of associated cooling system.

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Metals

Belt and Apron Conveyors

$800,000

Four (4) belt conveyors and two (2) apron conveyors to surge feed raw material into a furnace.  Included two (2) new bins and the rework of two (2) existing bins.

Metals

Cleated Belt Conveyor

$400,000

80-foot long, 67-foot tall, z-shaped flexible-wall, cleated belt conveyors to elevate shredded aluminum chips into a furnace.

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Paper

Sodium Hypochlorite Tank

$320,000

Provide engineering and design for installation of a Kynar lined pipe to allow injection of sodium hypochlorite into the existing sludge piping system.  Installation of a new fiberglass storage tank and new metering pump and piping system.

Paper

PH Control Conversion

$275,000

Provide layout, design and construction management for the electrical work, piping and installation of new carbon dioxide tank, refrigeration unit and vaporizer to convert the pH control of the lime softened water in the clarifier to a carbon dioxide controlled system.

Paper

PH Control System

$100,000

PH control system to control pH of a paper chest using acid and caustic.  The pH control was done using injection nozzles on the pump sections.  Essentially a continuous system verses a batch system.

Plastics

PEP and Extruder Installations

$10,000,000

Prepared a preliminary engineering estimate package (PEP) and a +20% estimate for three new extruder lines, a new building extension, a power upgrade, packaging and raw material delivery system upgrades and site services upgrades.  PEP package for AR generation purposes and receiving engineering bids for the detailed design phase of the project

Plastics

New Extrusion Line

$4,800,000

Provided the “preliminary” and “detailed” engineering services for the installation of a new 70mm extruder line to replace an old Baker-Perkins right angle unit.  Work included Civil-Structural-Instrumentation-Electrical-Mechanical to install all new feeders, dust collectors, extruder, receiving vessels, water bath, pelletizer and associated piping.  Demolition of the old unit and associated equipment was also involved.

Plastics

Silo Project

$4,000,000

Polycarbonate resin storage silo, with multiple vacuum and pressure powder transfer systems and a truck loading system.

Plastics

NPI Extrusion System

$3,500,000

Extruder installation complete with powder mixing, feed, extrusion, and packaging.

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Plastics

Transfer Material

$3,000,000

Completed the preliminary design and estimates at a Nylon Compounding facility to transfer materials from railcars to intermediate storage and then from storage to the extruder lines.

Plastics

Transferring Pellets

$3,000,000

Completed the preliminary design and estimates at a Nylon Compounding facility to transfer pellets from the extruders lines to bulk truck and bulk rail loading.  Design included new hoppers, silos, transfer blowers, and a truck/railcar loading structure or system.

Plastics

Turn-Key Vacuum Conveying

$3,000,000

Closed looped vacuum conveying of explosive BPA flake from railcars to silos at a rate greater than 9000 pounds per hour per system.  The BPA is conveyed in an atmosphere of less than 4% oxygen with an inerting gas of nitrogen.  The conveying can be completed by two separate product conveying systems with one common conveying gas header system.  The two separate product conveying systems can be connected to one railcar simultaneously and convey to two separate silos.

Plastics

Weigh Bins

$2,500,000

At a Plastics Compounding facility, completed the detailed design for installing four (4) overhead net weigh bins to accurately weigh product flowing from the line verification bins to boxes on new densifiers located within the load-out conveyors.

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Plastics

Material Feed

$2,000,000

Provided raw material feed capability to five (5) extruders in a Nylon Compounding Plant.  Project included installation of feeder carousels on each line and material handling and dump stations.

Plastics

Recycled Material

$1,400,000

Install equipment to utilize recycled material.  This included box unload bins, a pneumatic blender, two (2) blower, two (2) surge hoppers, support steel, associate piping and electrical controls.

Plastics

Improved Management System

$1,000,000

Provide engineering, design and drafting to provide an improved management system at a Plastics facility to contain storm water contaminated with polyethylene powder and pellets.  Then segregate the powder and pellets from the effluent prior to discharging offsite.  These modifications shall add two (2) new points of powder/pellet segregation before the water reaches a sump.  This shall also provide a means to trap powder and pellets at the storm water out falls and ditches before exiting the site.

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Plastics

Super Sack

$700,000

Design of optical quality polycarbonate super sack packaging system to package 1,760 pounds of pellets into a densified finished product.  System included number seven mirror finished hopper and a slow, gentle dense phase conveying system.  All rooms, hoppers and containers require one-micron filter air to maintain and ultra clean packaging environment.

Plastics

Feed System

$600,000

Addition of a color concentrate and fiberglass strand feed system to an existing 4 ½” single screw extruder.  Design work also included the installation of a multi-feeder controller, master rate controller, extrusion control panel and a side feeder.

Plastics

Storage and Handling System

$500,000

Involved engineering design to install new storage and handling system.  A new 15,000 gallon tank, liquid transfer pump and extruder distribution piping completed the system

Plastics

Nitrogen Inerting System

$450,000

Addition of a nitrogen inerting system and oxygen monitoring system to two existing railcar loading facilities.

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Plastics

Dual Laminate Corzan/FRP Header

$400,000

Replace a chlorine 24” header with a dual laminate Corzan/FRP header.  New header supports for the 300’ system.

Plastics

Extruder Feed System

$300,000

Upgrade of an existing 40mm extruder feed system.  Added fiberglass and effects feeder along with a downstream side feeder.

Plastics

Dust Collection System

$250,000

Design of dust collection system for eight extrusion lines.  A wet centrifugal collector (crotoclone) was designed to collect nuisance dust from feed throat hoppers and feeders.  The project design also included the sizing and routing of the dust collection system ductwork.

Plastics

Multiple Powder Silos

$210,000

Engineering design, start up assistance and programming to add multiple powder silo sources to the existing powder transfer system

Plastics

Injection of Liquid Additive

$150,000

Included the injecting of a liquid additive into the extruder feed throats via the existing catalyst pumps.  Modifications to the existing fourth formulation area included a containment dike, a formulation platform and CVC formulation tank.

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Power

Instrument Air

$1,000,000

Design, engineering and construction supervision to install new instrument/service compressed air system.

Power

Fuel Blending Control System

$375,000

Engineering and design for the installation of a PLC-controlled fuel blending control system including programming and screen configuration.

Power

Coal Dust Suppression System

$350,000

Design, engineering and start-up of coal dust suppression system.

Power

Fuel Handling Conveyor

$300,000

Design and engineering of a fuel handling conveyor.

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Power

Dust Control and Collection

$250,000

Design and construction management to improve emissions by collection of fugitive dust.

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Sand

Sand Delivery System

$500,000

A sand delivery system that starts out with pneumatic conveyors moving foundry sand to a storage hopper in the top of the structure.  After the sand descends through the structure it is heated and mixed with rosins.  From the mixer the mixed batch was transported along a traveling hopper to dump into one of six (6) sand molding machines.

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Utilities

Boilerhouse

$11,600,000

Layout, design and oversee construction for 5,300 square foot boilerhouse expansion for the installation of a 206,000 lbs./hr., gas-fired B & W steam boiler.

Utilities

Air Separation Unit

$10,000,000

Completed electrical design for the installation of an ASU (Air Separation Unit) from the incoming power supply to the individual end users.  Plot plans were redone on scale suitable for power and instrumentation drawings.  Cable tray layouts were done for all instrumentation, control and 480V power cables.  Conduit and cable schedules for all plant cables, including cooling tower and control building.  Elementary and schematic diagrams were done for all motors, lube oil pumps and lube oil heaters.  Preparation of contractor bid package and copying of vendor drawings were also done.

Utilities

Piping System

$150,000

Installation of a piping system and tank to supply softened water.

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Wood Chips

Wood Fines Handling

$750,000

Pneumatic conveyors, surge hopper, screener, vibrating conveyor, and pulverized process for handling wood fines for engineered wood structural panels.

Wood Chips

Belt Conveyors

$550,000

Belt conveyors for bark drying and bark classification systems to transfer flow from an existing process

Wood Chips

Wood Chip Conveyors

$500,000

Two (2) wood chip handling conveyors.  Unique structural designs utilizing curved trusses and supports that had to circumvent a number of different obstacles.

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