


Johns River, and we look forward to continuing our partnership with Greenfield to ensure the responsible stewardship of this Superfund site,” said Jay Bachmann, Vice President and General Manager of CertainTeed Gypsum Product Group. “We are deeply grateful to the City of Jacksonville for their support of our new logistics facility on the St. The new dock will support CertainTeed’s nearby wallboard plant in Palatka and strengthen the company’s supply chain throughout the southeastern United States.ĬertainTeed’s construction of the logistics facility and its other improvements will be supported by $3.4 Million in property tax incentives approved last night by Jacksonville City Council. Cleanup activities will be performed under EPA oversight in consultation with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The remainder of the remedy will be implemented by Greenfield.

Greenfield and CertainTeed will be coordinating portions of the cleanup that are required for the CertainTeed facility for an estimated total cost of $70 million. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the State of Florida. The Kerr-McGee Chemical Corp Site has been unused since 1978 and was formerly used to manufacture fertilizer and formulate pesticides.Ĭonstruction is expected to begin in 2022 after the final remedial design is approved by the U.S. Johns River.ĬertainTeed’s construction of a terminal dock operation and other improvements will be integrated with the environmental remediation being managed by Greenfield Environmental Multistate Trust (Greenfield), the environmental response trustee that assumed responsibility in 2011 for the site located at 1611 Talleyrand Avenue. MALVERN, Pa.-( BUSINESS WIRE)-Saint-Gobain, through its building products subsidiary CertainTeed LLC, today announced the company intends to build a new gypsum logistics facility that will be integrated into the remediation of a vacant Superfund site in Jacksonville, Florida, along the St.
