Industrial Resources Inc., Completes 80,000 Square Foot Cold Storage in Dutch Harbor, Alaska
Wed, Nov 18, 2009

Skagit Valley Company Employs Local Residents Throughout the Country

Dutch Harbor, Alaska — Industrial Resources, Inc., has completed construction of Kloosterboer’s 80,000 square foot cold storage facility in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, “Industrial Resources was ideal for building this facility because of their extensive experience and their proven ability to get work competed on time and budget in remote locations with less than ideal weather conditions,” said. Steve Abernathy, general manager of Kloosterboer’s Dutch Harbor facility.

Dutch Harbor, a small town in the remote Aleutian Islands, has no local access to lumber, hardware, steel or pipe so every component had to be pre-planned and ordered far in advance of needed delivery. Putting the facility together was like an international jigsaw puzzle because components came from around the world. IRI assembled all the components including steel from Asia, lumber from the U.S., a freezer unit that came as a kit and specially designed interlocking wall panels that came from different parts of Europe. IRI also encouraged a neighboring Skagit County company, Skagit Readymix, to send a mobile batch plant and three mixer trucks to Dutch Harbor to supply the high strength concrete for this and a number of other projects on the island. Construction began on the building in March 2009 and was completed in six months despite severe spring storms and unusually cold weather. The 80,000 square foot building is 50 feet tall maintains a consistent -20ºC and can hold 20,000 tons of product all types of Alaska fish products, primarily Pollock.

Industrial Resources sent 41 employees from Skagit County to Alaska for this job. Skagit Readymix sent an additional four employees. The job brought a payroll of more than $1.28 million back into the area.

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