Northern Metal Recycling invested $75 million for a new facility at the Becker Industrial Park in Becker, Minnesota, to handle manifest and unit train shipments of scrap metals.Mark Anthony Brewing in Glendale, Arizona, invested $450 million for a facility that can receive glucose and alcohol to produce White Claw Hard Seltzer.made a “significant investment” and co-located a facility at BNSF’s Logistics Park Kansas City serving warehouse and distribution. Last year “marked the 11th consecutive year that BNSF customers and local economic development organizations have invested more than $1 billion in a calendar year for new or expanded facilities,” BNSF said.Īmong the larger investments were the following: These projects included consumer, agricultural and industrial projects among the “wide variety of commodities” pursuing industrial development. A transload site in Visalia, California, along the San Joaquin Valley Railroad for biodiesel and renewable diesel, and a transload site for feldspar minerals in Oral, South Dakota, along the Rapid City, Pierre & Eastern Railroad.īNSF: Customers invested $1.5 billion in projects in 2021Įarlier this month, BNSF said its customers invested $1.5 billion in projects along BNSF’s network in 2021.These sites will be served by the Toledo, Peoria & Western Railway and the Illinois & Midland Railroad. New wind turbine transload sites have been established in Havana, Illinois, and Remington, Indiana.The plant will be served by the California Northern Railroad. A plant in Williams, California, will produce renewable carbon pellets.A biodegradable plastics facility in Bainbridge, Georgia, that will be served by the Georgia Southwestern Railroad.This is the fourth steel customer to expand business on this line since 2015, G&W said, creating a “steel corridor” along the railway. The facility will receive inbound coils to make pipe. A new steel customer facility in Delta, Ohio, is being built on the Indiana & Ohio Railway.footprint, as well as a catalog of more than 200 transload locations.Īmong the dozens of projects are the following: G&W says it has a database of more than 600 potential industrial complexes, parks and other properties across its U.S. “Going forward, we expect companies to increasingly look to rail transportation to meet Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) targets, and we are prepared to assist them in finding sites and services that help reach those goals,” Peters said in a Wednesday release. “Based on last year’s customer investments, G&W’s freight transportation services continue to be critical to companies’ logistics strategies and the greater supply chain,” said G&W Chief Commercial Officer Mike Peters. Investments presented all major commodity groups, with chemicals and plastics, minerals and stone, and agricultural products leading the investments. Genesee & Wyoming: $1.5 billion in investments across multiple commoditiesĬustomers of short line operator Genesee & Wyoming invested $1.5 billion last year in 69 projects that will utilize proximity to G&W’s network.
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