New Energy Works in collaboration with the McMinnville Economic Development Partnership, Representative Lucetta Elmer, and Mayor Remy Drabkin hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for our new 20,000 square foot production facility in McMinnville Oregon on Thursday, December 21st.
With this new facility, employee-owned New Energy Works will be expanding our McMinnville operations adding new cutting edge CNC equipment, offices, and production space to our existing campus, which will increase our capabilities and service offerings, resulting in regional growth and expanded employment opportunities in the McMinnville community.
“We live in timber country, so it was natural for us to build our new facility of wood: timbers, walls, even the insulation! This new sustainably built facility will help our team better serve our clients nationwide as well as benefit the local McMinnville community,” said Jonathan Orpin, New Energy Works Founder & CEO, “By increasing our production capacity and service offerings with new state of the art European CNC equipment and production space we will be able to grow our footprint in the region and offer expanded employment opportunities in the years to come.”
The new structure will be based on similar heavy timber manufacturing facilities found in Europe, and will be built as responsibly as possible using sustainable building materials including structural glulam timbers from American Laminators (with lumber responsibly sourced from Yakama Forest Products), carbon sequestering concrete from Solid Carbon, domestically manufactured wood-fiber insulation from TimberHP, net zero carbon rebar from Cascade Steel, and sustainable & reclaimed wood from Pioneer Millworks.
