Tissuemaking and Converting Facility

Key Challenges: Building a Complete Tissue Campus From the Ground Up

A greenfield site means starting with nothing. Before any production building could rise, the project demanded full site preparation: roads, parking, site grading, utilities, rail service, steam production, fresh water supply, fire protection, and site security. Then came the facilities themselves — a substation, pulp storage and pulper building, tissue machine building, parent roll storage, tissue converting building, finished product warehouse, and an effluent treatment plant. Every building had to be designed, constructed, and readied to receive precision tissuemaking equipment, all while meeting an aggressive production timeline. Phase 2 then added a second tissue machine, raising the stakes on an already complex campus.

Solution

CR Meyer served as General Contractor for both phases, self-performing concrete, steel erection, masonry, equipment installation, process piping, and electrical work across the entire campus. The new tissue machine and all associated stock preparation equipment were installed alongside parent roll handling systems, converting equipment, packaging, and palletizing lines. A new finished goods warehouse and administration and maintenance buildings completed the campus, all designed and built under one accountable team.

Keys to Success

Full-campus general contracting: CR Meyer managed civil, structural, mechanical, electrical, and piping scopes under one team, eliminating coordination gaps between trades across a facility of this scale.

Seamless two-phase execution: Phase 1 established the complete greenfield facility; Phase 2 added a second tissue machine without disrupting ongoing production — requiring precise schedule coordination and a trusted owner-contractor relationship.

Self-performance depth: By self-performing six critical trades, CR Meyer maintained quality control and schedule certainty across 835,000 square feet of production and warehousing facilities.