Salt Lake metal manufacturing facility to be expanded

Reliance Metalcenter is undergoing a substantial expansion to its existing facility in Salt Lake City that will greatly

increase the company’s production capacity. The expansion is being delivered by the design-build team of Layton Construction

and GSBS Architects, with an anticipated completion date in the late summer of 2008. Reliance Metalcenter is a diversified

metals processor and distributor and is a division of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., one of the largest metals service center

companies in the United States. The Salt Lake City division delivers daily throughout Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada and has

been acknowledged for several years as possessing the area’s most complete carbon steel inventory and processing

capabilities. Reliance Metalcenter is equipped with its own fleet of 18 trucks, two leveling lines, four plasma/acetylene

oxygen plate burners, two saws and two shears. For the expansion, Layton Construction will add an additional 60,000 square

feet of floor space to Reliance Metalcenter’s existing 110,000-square-foot facility. The expansion includes a new railroad

spur that will accommodate larger and more cost-effective deliveries and be accessible to additional under-roof storage and

crane capacity. The expansion will also increase Reliance Metalcenter’s output capabilities with the addition of three truck

lanes as well as four bridge cranes that will be used to unload trains and load incoming and outgoing trucks. The addition

will house Reliance Metalcenter’s new technologically advanced panel flat laser-quality leveling line and have high-

definition plasma plate cutting capabilities as well as various other equipment upgrades. Construction of the expansion is a

continuation of the facility’s previous design and will include the use of concrete tilt panels, structural steel columns

and beams, steel joists and metal deck. Additionally, construction work incorporates the use of the new energy code and

additional energy saving systems such as lighting timeouts and sensors.