Deseret Morning News, Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Utah Industrial Depot sells 50 acres

Carlisle SynTec to construct a roofing materials facility

Deseret Morning News

The Utah Industrial Depot in Tooele County has secured its biggest deal ever, selling 50 acres to a Pennsylvania-based roofing system manufacturer.

The depot sold the land to Carlisle SynTec Inc. as the site for a thermoplastic roofing manufacturing and storage facility. The transaction amount was not disclosed.

"We are very pleased that Carlisle selected Utah Industrial Depot from among several sites in several states, following a year-long bid process," said Steve Brown, UID's managing director. "The Carlisle SynTec contract marks the largest transaction completed at Utah Industrial Depot to date and brings valuable employment and financial resources to Utah's economy."

SynTec is a business segment of Carlisle Cos. Inc., which said last summer it would build the plant in Tooele. SynTec, which has manufacturing facilities in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Mississippi, said in January that construction on the new plant will begin this fall.

The new manufacturing and storage facility will make Sure-Weld TPO single-ply roofing membranes and accessories. Nearly 10 billion square feet of Carlisle roofing membrane has been installed worldwide.

In a prepared statement, Ron Head, Carlisle Thermoplastics' marketing manager, said the company reviewed "numerous" Western sites for the facility. Tooele is a central location to many of the company's major markets and has "excellent transportation facilities, including highway and rail access, and close proximity to Salt Lake City and its airport facilities," he said.

"Other important factors that contributed to Carlisle's decision include the availability of a quality, educated work force and the willingness of Tooele City and Utah Industrial Depot officials to work with Carlisle to facilitate our needs," Head said.

Mark Smith, the depot's director of marketing and its Carlisle project manager, cited the help and support from Tooele city, county and RDA officials, the Tooele community, the Utah Department of Community and Economic Development and PacifiCorp. The utility built a substation to help provide electric power for the new plant.

SynTec in January named David Ulery as the Tooele plant's manager. He has been with Carlisle since 1987 as an industrial engineer and has served in a variety of plant-operations responsibilities.