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Today after only 4.5 months since announcing the restart of our smelter, we put power to the first line testing all the controls. Tomorrow morning we will energize the line and start smelting aluminum. To bring a plant back from being closed to now getting ready to make aluminum is amazing. It is still a long way to go to get all three pot lines up and producing metal but it will be a blessing when we are finally there and stable.
JRD77VET
11-27-2017, 8:11pm
:cool1: :USA: :hurray:
Black94lt1
11-27-2017, 8:23pm
Congratulations!!! In a different way I can relate, it took a small group of us (12) over a year to shut down a 2 million square foot research facility, and after only a little over a year being down, it took us over 3 years to bring it back
Feel good story of the day right here.
How many jobs will be added to run this plant? Any idea on ancillary jobs added with suppliers and distributors?
mrvette
11-28-2017, 2:44am
Congratulations!!! In a different way I can relate, it took a small group of us (12) over a year to shut down a 2 million square foot research facility, and after only a little over a year being down, it took us over 3 years to bring it back
Research facility?? into WHAT?? sounds krazy large ......:waiting:
Black94lt1
11-28-2017, 3:23am
Research facility?? into WHAT?? sounds krazy large ......:waiting:
Former pharmaceutical research, now academic medical research. Yes it’s large, 30 interconnected buildings including food service, power plant, wet labs, administration, conference center, etc. supporting over 3000 people
04 commemorative
11-28-2017, 8:01am
:seasix:
mrvette
11-28-2017, 8:39am
Former pharmaceutical research, now academic medical research. Yes it’s large, 30 interconnected buildings including food service, power plant, wet labs, administration, conference center, etc. supporting over 3000 people
DAMN man sounds like NIH for the Feds in Bethesda Md.....I suppose you heard of it, maybe even been there.....but WHAT organization fielded a setup THAT size?? big company?? university/ state .gov ?? overseas operation/German??Brit?? maybe Howard Hughes Medical??
I got older as a kid and my kid's mom employed at NIH, witch is why I so curious....
Black94lt1
11-28-2017, 1:46pm
DAMN man sounds like NIH for the Feds in Bethesda Md.....I suppose you heard of it, maybe even been there.....but WHAT organization fielded a setup THAT size?? big company?? university/ state .gov ?? overseas operation/German??Brit?? maybe Howard Hughes Medical??
I got older as a kid and my kid's mom employed at NIH, witch is why I so curious....
I probably shouldn't say the company name but it is well known especially if you know of the "little blue pill" :D :leaving:
99 pewtercoupe
11-28-2017, 3:16pm
Today after only 4.5 months since announcing the restart of our smelter, we put power to the first line testing all the controls. Tomorrow morning we will energize the line and start smelting aluminum. To bring a plant back from being closed to now getting ready to make aluminum is amazing. It is still a long way to go to get all three pot lines up and producing metal but it will be a blessing when we are finally there and stable.
Congrats. I have been only marginally involved in restarting two green sand foundries and have seen how much can be involved in this type of undertaking
I probably shouldn't say the company name but it is well known especially if you know of the "little blue pill" :D :leaving:
The only little blue pill I know/require is Aleve.
Cybercowboy
11-28-2017, 3:23pm
I probably shouldn't say the company name but it is well known especially if you know of the "little blue pill" :D :leaving:
Ah, I know that company well. My sister used to work for them. She made all the Retin-A concentrate that they ever used, at least for a good number of years. She moved from a chemist to running their drug trials in North America and later pretty much the entire northern hemisphere. Headquarters used to be in Groton CT, that wasn't where you did that job was it? :island14:
Black94lt1
11-28-2017, 3:55pm
Ah, I know that company well. My sister used to work for them. She made all the Retin-A concentrate that they ever used, at least for a good number of years. She moved from a chemist to running their drug trials in North America and later pretty much the entire northern hemisphere. Headquarters used to be in Groton CT, that wasn't where you did that job was it? :island14:
Nope, I went to Groton and New London many times though. I was part of one of the companies they acquired around 2000, our research headquarters prior to that was in Ann Arbor MI, now owned by a large Big 10 university :D
Black94lt1
11-28-2017, 3:56pm
The only little blue pill I know/require is Aleve.
Think with your other head :D lol
Milton Fox
11-28-2017, 5:41pm
Think with your other head :D lol
https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/thumbnails/image/2016/11/02/10/avatar.jpg
mrvette
11-28-2017, 5:41pm
Think with your other head :D lol
Yeh, the one that give me a headache so bad I had to quit it.....
:sadangel::sadangel:
Black94lt1
11-28-2017, 6:23pm
Yeh, the one that give me a headache so bad I had to quit it.....
:sadangel::sadangel:
:yesnod:
Feel good story of the day right here.
How many jobs will be added to run this plant? Any idea on ancillary jobs added with suppliers and distributors?
I believe the number is 340 jobs both hourly and salary. Ancillary jobs, bunches. I know the county sighed a relief knowing the tax base was increasing.
Another milestone today. We put power to the Pot Line and started the smelting process. We started with eight pots and as I left this evening we were cutting in four more pots.
Right now we are pumping about 130,000 amps through the one line. When all three lines are up and running we should be consuming about 300 MW of power. Makes our power plant happy having a stable load.
Black94lt1
11-28-2017, 9:58pm
When all three lines are up and running we should be consuming about 300 MW of power.
:wow: Damn that’s impressive!
Many years ago I worked for a small municipal power plant and our average generation rate was 8MW! :lol:
mrvette
11-29-2017, 6:46am
Another milestone today. We put power to the Pot Line and started the smelting process. We started with eight pots and as I left this evening we were cutting in four more pots.
Right now we are pumping about 130,000 amps through the one line. When all three lines are up and running we should be consuming about 300 MW of power. Makes our power plant happy having a stable load.
Hey Elon, put THAT in your truck and smoke it.....:lol:
VatorMan
11-29-2017, 9:51am
Another milestone today. We put power to the Pot Line and started the smelting process. We started with eight pots and as I left this evening we were cutting in four more pots.
Right now we are pumping about 130,000 amps through the one line. When all three lines are up and running we should be consuming about 300 MW of power. Makes our power plant happy having a stable load.
DAMN !!! Plus it's all inductive so you get hit with a power factor correction charge.
DAMN !!! Plus it's all inductive so you get hit with a power factor correction charge.
Not really. We own the power plant and by bringing the smelter on it actually makes the plant profitable. I think the last number had an impact of around 230K a day with the pot lines running.
It will be nice to get the plant stable and things on an even keel. Running from forest fire to forest fire while we are bringing the plant up. Being shut down for 18 months with nothing running we have had a bunch of piping burst, coolers burst and just equipment which did not want to cooperate on start up. The plant was in the process of being stripped of a lot of parts when it was put on hold. Most of our programs for the PLC's and PLC's themselves were removed. Had to rebuild a lot of electrical items to get the plant running again.
We beat our goal of getting the first line up by 6 weeks.
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