Workers cement walls as construction continues on a new warehouse and fabrication facility at Southern Fluid Power on Friday, May 13, 2016, in Chattanooga, Tenn.* Project: Southern Fluidpower expansion.
* Location: 4816 Bonny Oaks Dr.
* President: Donny Davidson.
* Investment: $300,000.
* Contractor: Sexton Construction.
* Architect: Method Architecture.
* Work: A hydraulic fabrication shop, roughly 4,000 square feet in size, is being added and will be used for fabricating industrial hydraulic systems and prototyping mobile hydraulic equipment.
* Quote: "It gives us a place to bring vehicles here and try to make the hydraulic systems ... more efficient. It's big for us." - Donny Davidson
* Schedule: Plans are for the expansion to be ready in mid-June.
* About the company: Started in 1961 and headquartered in Chattanooga, the company also has offices in Nashville, Clarksville, Tenn., and Cookeville, Tenn. It provides hydraulic systems to plants and mobile equipment such as trucks and excavators. Company sales are expected to come in at about $17 million this year.
- Compiled by Deputy Business Editor Mike Pare at mpare@timesfreepress.com or 423-757-6318.