Food Engineering Magazine Article: “Tech Update: Cooling and Freezing Equipment”
Today's economy creates hard choices for processors selecting cooling and freezing equipment systems. But solutions exist to decrease energy usage and convert the reject heat of cooling to useful energy to heat water. SSOE Group's Mark Hoffman, senior project manager and business leader of SSOE's food division, is interviewed for Food Engineering's September Tech Update on Cooling and Freezing Equipment. Continue Reading →
Food Engineering Magazine: “2010 Annual Plant Construction Survey”
SSOE Group's Ken Gruenhagen, senior project manager of SSOE's food division, is interviewed for Food Engineering Magazine's 2010 Plant Construction Survey: Enter the Era of Intelligent Asset Management. Continue Reading →
Area Development Magazine Article: “When Is Bargain Commercial Real Estate a Steal?”
SSOE Group's Bob McCain discusses how to tell if you're getting a steal when it comes to commercial real estate purchases and how to tell when bargain prices are too good to be true. Continue Reading →
Food Processing Magazine Article: “2010 Capital Spending Outlook: Pent-Up Demand Causes an Explosion in Projects”
With the recent release of the 2010 Capital Spending Outlook for the food industry, health and safety are a major concern. SSOE Group's Mike Murphy discusses the importance of health and safety when designing a food facility. Continue Reading →
China’s Smaller Cities Make Big Promises
The shift in development from the major Chinese metropolises to smaller emerging cities is a trend with serious implications for global businesses. Until recently, companies planning to develop operations in China honed in only on the areas around Shanghai, Beijing, and Guangzhou. These large Westernized cities, often referred to as Tier 1 cities, offered labor at bargain prices as well as the infrastructure to support development. Both the Chinese and the foreign companies have come to understand each other’s business practices, and that has lowered the hurdles for outside developers. However, the dramatic social and economic changes that have rippled through China in the past few years are now reshaping the landscape for industrial, commercial, and retail facilities development. “Although industrial investment seems close to levels we were seeing before the 2009 recession in China,” says Andrew Kwok, SSOE’s General Manager of Asian Operations,” new foreign investment is experiencing a geographic shift.” Attracted by lower development costs (including land, labor and materials), operating costs, and more aggressive government incentives, some investors are opting to develop in more dispersed regions in China. Corporate giants like Ford, GM, Borg Warner, Coca-Cola, Cummins, Goodyear, and P&G are among them. Continue Reading →
