Plants

The re industrialization of the country is well underway and most people are not aware of just what is happening. Factories are going up across the nation with little or no knowledge by the public. In a small Pennsylvania town on the Ohio border Shell Penn Petrochemical Company is building a new facility. It will convert natural gas into usable chemicals to build plastics. It's a $14 billion dollar project started in 2015 by moving millions of cubic yards of dirt, building new bridges, a new rail line and relocating a highway. 5,000 employees are working on construction and the site will have four processing units to make polyethelene. A natural gas power plant will be built just to supply electricity to the chemical plants. A new gas pipeline will be constructed to bring in gas from the fields 100 miles away, a 900 foot cooling tower, a rail system with over 3,000 freight cars, and numerous loading facilities for both trains and trucks, a water treatment plant, an office building, a new laboratory and an innovation center are all part of the project. When finished it will provide 600 full time jobs to run the operation. These will be mostly blue collar jobs where employees will be trained on the job, where the pay and benefits will be top notch. Operations began in November of 2022 and the plant is producing one million tons of plastic pellets each year. This is just one example of what is going on all across America and will continue well into the future.