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Local News - Local News - July 30, 2010
Lydig nabs big Moses Lake job
Contractor to erect first phase of carbon fiber plant

By Kim Crompton
Of the Journal of Business

A project signboard, a Lydig construction trailer, three flags, and some construction equipment mark the development site.
A project signboard, a Lydig construction trailer, three flags, and some construction equipment mark the development site.
—Staff photo by Paul Read
Lydig Construction Inc., of Spokane, has won the contract to build the first phase a plant at Moses Lake, Wash., that will produce carbon fiber for use in making materials for components of a BMW car, called the Megacity Vehicle, that's to be released in 2013. The joint venture that plans to develop the plant says it expects its total investment in that initial phase will be about $100 million.

BMW claims the "revolutionary" electric car that will utilize fiber made at the plant w...


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