Optimizing design-build delivery
Daily meetings, phased bids and staggered work shifts enabled the team to meet LANXESS’ grand opening deadline.
Client
LANXESS
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina
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LANXESS advances production with fast-track delivery
LANXESS needed a U.S.-based compounding plant to serve the fast-growing high-tech plastics market, but the project faced a fixed 11-month deadline and strict architectural constraints. To meet these demands, LANXESS partnered with CDM Smith to design and build a modern facility through a highly coordinated engineer-procure-construct approach.
Adapting to evolving process design
Engineers modified the facility to vendor specifications, ensuring the plant matched equipment and operational needs.
Balancing cost and performance
Design refinements lowered construction costs, protected system reliability and ensured production efficiency.
Expanding capacity with precision
CDM Smith added structural systems, utilities and controls to support a second extrusion line, doubling product output.
With the plant built safely, on time and within budget, LANXESS gained a strategic foothold near U.S. automotive manufacturers and rapidly expanded production with a second extrusion line. The engineer-procure-construct approach kept construction aligned with evolving process details and maintained full operational continuity. “It was critical to build this plant as quickly as possible. Design-build allowed us to meet our objectives—budget, schedule, capacity and plant operations and reliability,” said Bryan Hug, LANXESS facility manager.
Client
LANXESS
Location
Gastonia, North Carolina