Decatur Dairy and members of the Decatur Swiss Cheese Cooperative officially broke ground August 16th on their new 50-50 venture, Decatur Cheese Plant, LLC. With Decatur Cheese Plant, LLC owning the building and the land, Decatur Dairy will handle the marketing and will own the equipment in the facility, while the co-op members now have an agreement for milk from their farms to go to this plant. This food & dairy project consists of a new cooler, warm room, dry storage, and a packaging room addition. A total of 27,000 square feet, the addition will nearly double their current facility. Constructed out of precast exterior walls and masonry interior bearing walls, the addition will help expand their operation to produce more of their havarti, muenster, and specialty swiss cheese.

After a recent cream room addition and a remodel of 3 silos, Klondike Cheese Company has again selected Kraemer Brothers to construct its latest addition. This 16,500 square foot project consists of a single story, dry storage and shipping office addition to the existing Klondike Cheese plant. This addition will also have an exterior knock-out panel, which can be used for expanding onto the building in the future. Using a 550 ton crane, telescopic boom lifts, and our unmatched expertise, Kraemer Brothers’ crews installed the exterior precast concrete walls with precision, enclosing the structure for interior concrete floor pours, once the underground MEPs are installed. When completed, this addition will grow Klondike Cheese’s facility to over 241,000 square feet! 

The new Public Safety Facility in Siren, WI hosted its groundbreaking ceremony on June 8th. This project encompasses a large addition and partial remodel to the current Burnett County Government Center. A total of 68,000 square feet, this facility will feature 92 beds, a drive-through sally port, sheriff, deputy, and detective offices, an expanded dispatch center, and security upgrades. The addition is constructed of precast concrete panels around the jail portion and 3 shades of decorative concrete brick around the office area, seamlessly matching the existing facility. Greatly benefiting the sheriffs, county administration, and jail support staff, this building will keep the essential services all under one roof.

After months of pouring footings and foundations at Promega’s distribution and logistics facility, the Kepler Center Expansion is starting to take shape with structural steel under way, along with the mezzanine and metal roof decking. The Kepler Center, originally finished in Fall of 2015, was designed and built for future expansion. On the heels of recent major growth, Promega finalized their expansion plans, which resulted in a 196,500 square foot expansion to the existing 126,500 square foot building.  Once complete, the project will total nearly 323,000 square feet or nearly 7.5 acres of floor space! The new expansion includes additional Vertical Lift Modules (VLM’s), a large freezer farm room, and an enormous warehouse space for fixed and mobile high bay racking systems.  This expansion will allow Promega to continue with their growing product lines of kit assembling, packaging, and shipping internationally and domestically.