https://www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/news/2021/02/08/german-shipping-container-maker-buys-large-kenosha.html?cx_testId=40&cx_testVariant=cx_33&cx_artPos=4
Also, did not know they are building a large Haribo plant to make Gummy Bears in Pleasant Prarie. Great stuff those are!!!
Article behind a paywall. Could you review/summarize?
Milwaukee Business Journal - by Sean Ryan Schutz Container Systems Inc. spent $4.5 million on 24 acres of industrial development land in the Midwest Transportation Center business park, according to state records. With a U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, the German company is anticipated to build a significant manufacturing facility on that Kenosha property. Schutz Container declined to comment on the Kenosha purchase. Nothing has been submitted to city of Kenosha officials for review, said Tim Casey, director of city development. “My understanding is they have been looking for some time,” he said. “They want to do some type of a facility here. That’s all I know.” Schutz makes cubic plastic containers supported by a metal cage for shipping fluids for food production, chemicals or other products. Its international headquarters is in Selters, Germany. Its closest U.S. facility is in Plainfield, Indiana.
Schutz Container Systems Inc. spent $4.5 million on 24 acres of industrial development land in the Midwest Transportation Center business park, according to state records. With a U.S. headquarters in New Jersey, the German company is anticipated to build a significant manufacturing facility on that Kenosha property.
Schutz Container declined to comment on the Kenosha purchase.
Nothing has been submitted to city of Kenosha officials for review, said Tim Casey, director of city development.
“My understanding is they have been looking for some time,” he said. “They want to do some type of a facility here. That’s all I know.”
Schutz makes cubic plastic containers supported by a metal cage for shipping fluids for food production, chemicals or other products. Its international headquarters is in Selters, Germany. Its closest U.S. facility is in Plainfield, Indiana.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Oh, please!!!! 1 truck load of steel will make 100 of those things.
Maybe the plastic pellets can come in by rail.
Jeff
It occurs to me that most of the 'steel' would be coming in as heavy-gauge wire, and a case could clearly be made to move it by rail, in covered or uncovered coil cars as the packaged OD format and probably weight could be similar.
I do not know what sort of material is used to make the (very many) structural welds in these things; I presume if filler rod is used it would move by truck, but again the absolute tonnage of welding and fabrication supplies might add up enough to move in periodic container loads 'blocked' with wire (I'm tempted to call them 'wire transfers').
Again as tdmidget points out, the slated production volume of containers is important, to get 'the numbers' required to make rail provision practical. I don't see the result containers being particularly amenable to rail moves, though, even if made in large numbers -- relatively light for cubage, and going to far too many disparate destinations -- someone correct me if that perception is wrong.
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