Monroe, Michigan Renovation

Location: Monroe, Michigan
Date of Project: September 2009 — November 2009

This particular plant was once used as an assembly plant and was shutdown around November 2008 and sat idle until the start of this project. It was Ford Motor's intent to remove all furnaces, paint booths and assembly equipment from the bottom of the roof truss to the top of the floor. The gutting of all equipment from inside the building gave them 412,500 s.f. clear floor space for the storage older automobile parts and components. All scrap was prepared and recycled as well as all construction debris where legally disposed of at an approved landfill.

Buffalo Stamping Plant

Location: Buffalo, New York
Date of Project: May 2009 — July 2009

Ford Motor installed new presses in the Buffalo Stamping Plant around the beginning of 2009. Once the new presses where in operation they had a few hundred obsolete dies that were of no use to them. Independence removed the dies from the inside storage area's and prepared them into chargeable furnace sizing and sold them to a E.A.F. Recycler and paid Ford Motor a nominal fee to complete the work. All went well with no accidents and/or incidents.

Walton Hills Assembly Plant

Project consisted of gutting and removing equipment from varies areas within the operating floor area of the Walton Hills Assembly Plant and demolition of some miscellaneous structures. Some of the equipment we removed were 12 large presses, all associated dies, 200 racks, the complete high bay storage racks, robots and conveyors. Outdoor structures consisted of a coal silo, coal conveyors, obsolete racks, dies and miscellaneous scrap.