Industry News

TTM Technologies will expand its Chippewa Falls, Wis., operations with the construction of a $10- million, 44,000-sf factory area. TTM, a manufacturer of circuit boards, could expand its production capacity up to 85 percent with the new facility.

The University of Florida will fund the renovation of one of two buildings purchased as the home for the Center of Excellence for Regenerative Health Biotechnology with a $2 million grant from the U.S. Economic Development Commission. The center, sited in the Progress Corporate Park in Alachua, Fla., will focus on the transformation of laboratory discoveries into medicines suitable for clinical trials.   

N.C. State University will construct the 122,000-sf Randall B. Terry Jr. Companion Animal Veterinary Medical Center on the College of Veterinary Medicine’s Raleigh campus. Slated for completion in 2009, the $35-million veterinary teaching hospital will offer veterinary diagnostics and therapeutics.

Clark University has selected Consigli Construction of Milford to build a $15-million, 50,000-sf science building on its Worcester, Mass., campus.

Arizona Public Service Co. (APS) has created the Eager Biomass Project, a new power plant in eastern Arizona that will run on wood chips produced from forested trees. Producing enough electricity for 3,000 homes and businesses, APS will get green credits to apply to the Arizona Environmental Portfolio Standard which will require APS to generate 1.1 percent of its power through renewable resources by 2007. The biomass technology employed by the Eager, Ariz., plant converts vegetation waste such as forest and agricultural byproducts into clean fuel to power generators.