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Local News - Local News - August 27, 2010
Barr-Tech eyes plant's next phase
Work on power-producing digester to begin soon

By Kim Crompton
Of the Journal of Business

General Manager Larry Condon says Barr-Tech LLC expects to spend $5 million on the digester part of its facility.
General Manager Larry Condon says Barr-Tech LLC expects to spend $5 million on the digester part of its facility.
—Staff photo by Kim Crompton
Barr-Tech LLC, of Spokane, has invested $9 million to develop and open the composting portion of a planned $14 million organic-processing facility located 22 miles southwest of Spokane, and says it's poised to begin work on the power-producing second phase of the project.

That part of the project, it believes, will turn the facility into a national demonstration model for zero-waste processing and green power production. Until a couple of weeks ago, though, it was putting that phase...


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