Formosa-BTR PVC Expansion Project
Formosa-BTR PVC Expansion Project
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Contract Value: Over $5 million
- Contract Type: Lump Sum
- Duration: 6 Months
- Percentage of Labor Self Performed: 98%
Turner Industries safely and successfully completed a PVC expansion project at Formosa in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the facility’s Area 100 PVC Unit and 700 Cooling Tower. Multiple Turner Divisions were utilized during the project including:
- Small Capital Projects Group – general contractor
- Decatur, Alabama Operations – steel, MPS, pipe support shop fabrication
- Port Allen IPS Operations – shop pipe fabrication and paint
- SIPA Group – scaffold, insulation, and touchup paint services onsite
- Turner Specialty Services Group– field testing services (RT & PMI)
- Equipment, Rigging, and Specialized Transportation Division – 30- & 60-ton cranes, trucks, trailers, rigging equipment
project quick facts
- Site Preparation/Excavation: Minimal, closure welds to underground pipe
- Civil: Elevated concrete floor, pump pedestal prepping, etc.
- Structural Steel: Over 50 tons of steel erected on expanded PVC Unit
- Equipment: Over 15 pumps, 2 skids, 4 vessels, 1 tank, misc. screens, filters, hoopers
- Hydro Testing: More than 6000’ of pipe tested
- Painting: Shop and touchup consisting of 4500’
- Insulation: Consisting of cryogel and poly types for piping 4000’ and several equipment units
- Scaffolding: Erected and dismantled 2 truckloads of materials for 5 months in various areas
- Piping: Carbon, stainless 304 & 316, low temp carbon, and jacketed pipe of over 6000’
