Guilford Mills, Inc.
New Dying and Finishing Facility
Tampico, Mexico
Sutton-Kennerly & Associates was the prime designer of a new 400,000 square foot dying and finishing plant for a major textiles company.  Teamed with a construction management firm on this fast-track project in Tampico, Mexico, SKA provided project management, structural, civil and mechanical/electrical engineering services to Guilford Mills on this project.  Mechanical/electrical engineering services included design and construction administration for a new boiler room, compressor room, process hot water system, tenter frame cooling system, process water storage tank and pumps, process ventilation and exhaust systems, and air conditioning for support facilities.

Since the early 1970's, Sutton-Kennerly & Associates has provided engineering services to Guilford Mills, Inc., one of the world's largest textile companies and supplier of fabrics for automobiles and apparel.  SKA's expertise in industrial, structural and mechanical/electrical/plumbing engineering has aided GM in maintaining their manufacturing and warehouse facilities over the 30+ years of our steady relationship.  SKA has worked with Guilford Mills on hundreds of projects at GM facilities throughout North Carolina and elsewhere in the U.S., involving renovation/repair and troubleshooting as well as design of new plants or additions to existing facilities.

Planters Peanut, Inc./Nabisco
Suffolk, Virginia
SKA was the prime designer for this new peanut processing plant in Suffolk, Virginia and provided plant layout, process assistance, civil, structural, plumbing, mechanical, electrical, fire protection, security and process designs.  The main facility consisted of a one-story structure with a partial second story and attached one story administrative offices and employee services department.  The main facility was comprised of 180,000 square feet on the ground floor and 71,000 square feet on the second floor, and mezzanine totaling 26,500 square feet.  The facility was designed to facilitate the complete processing of raw product(s) to packaged goods including a major receiving and shipping area for the product distribution to customers.  The roof structure was comprised of precast double tees and precast girders while the second floor manufacturing area was a cast-in-place skip joist, post-tensioned concrete system.  Exterior walls consisted of insulated sandwich-type precast concrete panels.  The entire production and distribution facility is supported on a precast/prestressed concrete pile system.

AMP/Tyco Electronics
North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia

• Renovation of an existing 200,000 square foot warehouse distribution center for offices and manufacturing for wire/cable marketing operations.  This project included design of a central utilities plant with chilled water system, hot water system, compressed air system and process cooling water system.
• Renovation of an existing 120,000 square foot warehouse for offices and manufacturing for molding, stamping and assembly operations.  This project included design of a central process utilities plant including chilled water, compressed air, and process cooling water system.
• Design of a new 195,000 square foot manufacturing and storage facility for the production and distribution of coated wire, plus accessory office facility.
• Design of a new 86,000 square foot manufacturing facility for the production of computer wire terminal and associated accessory office.
• Design of utilities and process piping for installation of metal plating lines at various locations.

Lorillard Tobacco Company South West Corner Warehouse
Greensboro, North Carolina
SKA was the prime designer for the structural design of a state-of-the-art high-bay warehouse for the storage and distribution of cigarette products.  The structural steel warehouse is 63,000 square foot, humidity controlled, high bay, with a superflat floor and insulated wall panel construction.  SKA also provided engineering services for the roof design for a modified bitumen built-up roof system.

Multitrade Group
Hurt, Virginia
The power plant designed and constructed for Multitrade Limited Partnership in Hurt, Virginia consisted of three 250,000 PPH wood fired boilers designed for 1500 psig, 950B steam generation, two 45 megawatt, triple extraction turbine generators, two electrostatic precipitators, and auxiliaries normally associated with a state-of-the-art power plant of this type.  This small, independent power producer was designed to deliver 76 megawatts of electricity to the Virginia Power Company grid.  SKA prepared specifications for major mechanical equipment exclusive of boilers, wood fired stokers, the wood handling system, the ash handling system, electrostatic precipitators, turbine-generator, and combustion controls, SKA prepared drawings for arrangement of equipment and systems, details, sections, elevations, and piping/breeching and instrumentation drawings. Sutton-Kennerly & Associates was also responsible for approval of shop drawings and construction administration assistance.

Appleton Paper Company
West Carrolton, Ohio
The Appleton Paper Plant in West Carrolton, Ohio had grown with rushed additions over many years.  SKA traced out all piping systems, including 600 psig steam, 159 psig steam, 50 psig steam, condensate, condenser water, plant water, and compressed air.  Much of the piping was removed, and new piping provided in a manner conducive to good design. This project involved replacing a 7-megawatt double extraction condensing turbine-generator with a similar 10-megawatt unit, and redesigning (cleaning-up piping systems throughout the aged power plant and an adjacent production plant. The Owner specified the turbine-generator, and SKA provided specifications and drawings for mechanical, electrical, controls, and instrumentation, and structural modifications, including a pipe bridge between the power plant and a production building approximately 40 feet across a major driveway.

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