According to a press announcement, Kraus-Anderson Construction Co. has started construction on a $117 million, 309,733-square-foot battery recycling plant in Tampa, Fla., for EnviroFocus Technologies, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gopher Resource Corp., Eagan, Minn.
The facility, which will recycle 50,000 lead acid batteries a day, will be built to meet Gold LEED standards under the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. The recycling plant, on a 22-acre site, is one of 13 such facilities in the United States.
EnviroFocus disassembles, recycles and processes lead from lead-acid batteries and other lead-bearing material. Most of the reclaimed and refined lead is used in new automotive and industrial batteries.
Phase one of the construction, totaling 237,433 square feet, includes a 163,363 square-foot industrial lead production facility; 71,466-square-foot industrial warehouse; and 30,629-square foot shipping and receiving facility, which will house crushers, a water treatment plant, and smelters that melt lead into ingots and pelletizers.
The site also will include a utility building, fire pump house and 26,525-square-foot hygiene building. Phase two of the construction will include a 72,300-square-foot warehouse and is expected to be completed in 2012.
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