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Montana Precision Products
A newly formed partnership between GE Aviation and SeaCast Inc. creates the capacity needed to meet increasing demand for product. SeaCast fabricates custom metal products and state-of-the-art titanium castings. GE Aviation invests more than $1 billion annually in jet propulsion programs and is introducing more products than ever before.
Joined as Montana Precision Products, the companies are building small structural casts, ducts, and tubing for General Electric jet engines, including popular models for jet airliners. Finding highly skilled workers along with ready transportation at Montana Connections Business Development Park, GE and SeaCast are boosting their production while boosting the local economy with added jobs.
FedEx’s $8 million shipping transfer center in the Montana Connections Business Development Park was completed in August 2011. The 67-door cross-dock facility is used as a gateway service center for shipments to and from Canada as well as a regional relay facility.
The site was chosen based on the excellent access to both Interstate 15 (north-south) and Interstate 90 (east-west), inexpensive land and great access to a skilled and affordable workforce. The 45,000 square foot building and accompanying site development were made possible in part due to support from the Butte-Silver Bow TID in the form of a $550,000 grant for soil work.
SEACAST
Seacast is a world leader in the production of precious investments casting. To broaden SeaCast’s wide alloy capabilities, the company built a new titanium vacuum melting facility in Montana Connections Business Development Park near Butte, MT.
Its Montana Connections foundry pours production titanium investments castings for industries such as Aerospace, Automotive, Computer Hardware, Industrial Gas Turbines, Industrial Machinery, Marine, Medical, Military/Defense and Pumps.
REC SILICON
As a leading global player in the production of high purity silicon materials, with 25 years of polysilicon manufacturing expertise, REC produces silicon materials at two US-based plants: Moses Lake, Washington and Butte, Montana.
From its location in Montana Connections Business Development Park near Butte, REC produces solar-grade polysilicon, electronic grade polysilicon, and silane gas. These products are raw materials for the international solar and electronic industries. For example, polysilicon and/or silane gas are used in technologies to create MP3 players, flat panel displays, laptops, hybrid electric vehicles, plus ubiquitous solar panels.
SCOULAR GRAIN
From more than 60 locations across North America, over 600 Scoular employees tailor risk-management solutions for their customers by buying, selling, storing, and transporting grain and ingredients for use in feed, food and renewable fuel markets worldwide. Products don’t have much value unless they arrive on time.
Scoular’s strategic location in the Montana Connections Business Development Park is the most northern stop for the UP railroad which built the facility. The Spring and Winter wheat is purchased directly from the grower and trucked to the facility for storage and distribution.
OLD DOMINION
Old Dominion Freight Line, Inc. is a leading, less-than-truckload (“LTL”), union-free motor carrier providing regional, inter-regional and national LTL service and value-added logistics services.
In addition to its core LTL services, the Company offers its customers a broad range of logistics services including expedited transportation and supply chain consulting.
For more than 85 years, Old Dominion has been helping the world keep promises. In 2019, the company was named as one of America’s Best Employers by Forbes Magazine and ranked as the No. 1 National LTL carrier by Mastio & Company as part of the company’s 2019 Value and Loyalty Benchmarking Study.
MURDOCH’S
Murdoch’s Ranch & Home Supply is a modern-day mercantile devoted to three hard-working, honest ideals: carry lots of down-to-earth merchandise, be a place that the whole family loves to visit, and let our gratitude for our customers be evident in every interaction.
The Murdoch’s family of stores is currently located in Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Nebraska, and online. In our stores, you will find quality merchandise, great values, and most importantly, knowledgeable, friendly staff who are there to help.
Not only will you find everything a working ranch needs, but we also cater to the needs of a regular do-it-yourselfer and the outdoor enthusiast. Take a look around: You’ll find everything from hardware and fencing, to animal feed and health products, to toys and tack, plus much, much more.
WAUSAU
Wausau Supply Co., a manufacturer and distributor of building materials, has opened a new distribution facility Butte, Montana. This addition to the company’s supply network addresses the growing demand from Wausau Supply’s customers for wider distribution of its product offerings, including the Diamond Kote Building Products and Waudena product lines, the company announced.
In addition to distributing many of the industry’s top-tier building product brands, Wausau Supply manufactures Diamond Kote, a factory-finished complete siding system built upon LP SmartSide siding. The company also manufactures steel and fiberglass entrance systems through the Waudena product line.
The company completed construction on a new 150,000 square foot facility in Butte, Montana in the first quarter of 2021, which will provide distribution capability throughout Montana, Utah and Idaho. Wausau Supply will operate a total of 18 distribution facilities across the U.S., four of which also serve as manufacturing facilities – enabling the company to service all or part of 32 states.
Port of Montana
The Port’s transload and distribution infrastructure can assist your company with the efficient, safe and secure transfer of freight. The Port has experience transloading commodities including lumber, fertilizer, pipe, automobiles, metal, ore, liquid bulk, asphalt and more.
The Port of Montana enables customers to:
- Transfer products from rail to truck and truck to rail
- Cross docking
- Schedule Just-in-Time delivery
- Pick-and-pack orders
On-site services include:
- Lift capacity up to 86,000 lbs
- Order fulfillment
- Inventory control
- Certified truck scales
- Rail car storage
- Document preparation
- Shipment coordination
- Sampling
With its strategic location and modern infrastructure, the Port of Montana is the region’s premier transloading location.
Empire Building Materials
Constructing a new warehouse and distribution center in Montana Connections. The new facility will have rail access through the Port of Montana to either Union Pacific or Burlington Northern Sante Fe. Empire was established in 1954 and sells to lumberyards and home centers throughout Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, & Washington. Empire Building Materials maintains its corporate headquarters in Bozeman, Montana and has other distribution facilities in Bozeman, Missoula, & Laurel Montana.
Montana Craft Malt
Montana Craft Malt chose Montana Connections because of its centralized location, affordable land and industrial infrastructure. With more than 30 tanks, the 10,000-ton, state-of-the-art malthouse has the capacity to produce a wide range of specialty and exclusive products, as well as the flexibility to create small batches for innovative brewers, distillers and food makers. MCM is rapidly increasing their production capacity in response to the needs of our customers and increasing industry demand.