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Modules loaded onto barge at Cianbro facility in Brewer
Wednesday, February 2, 2012
Crews at Cianbro’s Eastern
Manufacturing Facility in Brewer are preparing to deliver the latest
shipment of Maine-produced electrical rooms to Long Harbour,
Newfoundland, on behalf of an international mining company that is
establishing a nickel processing plant in that region, Cianbro
announced Wednesday.
Loading of the modules onto a barge at
the Cianbro bulkhead in Brewer is currently under way, with the
journey down the Penobscot River and up the East Coast scheduled to
get started in the next week or so, depending on weather and
operational considerations, Cianbro spokesman Alan Grover said.
Six electrical room modules are
scheduled to be loaded on the ocean-going barge now positioned at
the bulkhead.
This marks the second of five barge
shipments that Cianbro will send off before the project wraps up
later this year, Grover said. The first barge set sail in April of
2010 with one module, which is the cornerstone of electrical
operations at the new plant.
The six modules on the voyage will
include motor control centers and switchgear for plant operations,
as well as internal lighting, power distribution and climate
control, Grover said.
The modules weigh 150 tons to 450 tons
each, depending upon individual characteristics, and have a
footprint that covers roughly 25 feet wide by about 60 to 125 feet
in length.
Module height ranges from 25 to 50
feet, depending upon the number of stories. Two-story modules are 50
feet in height. Some of the future modules that Cianbro will produce
for the project will be three stories tall. A total of 22 electrical
rooms will be built and delivered by Cianbro as part of the
contract, Grover said.
“Our client is very happy with the
quality of the modules,” Cianbro Constructors Vice President &
General Manager Joe Cote said. “I am very proud of the team here at
the Eastern Manufacturing Facility. Not only have we delivered a
high-quality work product, but we have done so very safely. We have
had no recordable injuries and no lost-time injuries in more than
two years.”
A copyright article by
Ryan
McLaughlin
of the Bangor Daily
News Staff, posted
Feb. 01, 2012, at 6:14 p.m.
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