AES Corp. Lands Intel Corp. Contract
HIAWATHA, IA—September 19, 2007—Today, AES Corp., a systems integration and food equipment provider to manufacturers, and Entrepreneurial Development Center (EDC) client, announced it has been awarded a contract with Intel Corporation. Intel has selected AES to perform the systems integration component of a $1 to $1.5 billion Rio Rancho, NM, site rebuild project.
This facility will house the team responsible for building Intel’s Next Generation, 45 Nanometer (nm) Technology. This site is one of only three of its kind in the world and David Garrelts, President and CEO of AES, is pleased to be selected for such a significant contract. “We’ve had a great, long-standing vendor relationship with Intel, and we are very excited about the systems integration work for this world-class assignment,” he stated.
Garrelts says that this project will help fuel the growth of all sides of his business—computer, food and chemical/gas industries. “While it’s different than the work we do for our food and chemical industry clients, we apply many of the same electrical and chemical engineering skills, though with a separate crew. In fact, we already have a crew chief lined up in New Mexico.” Garrelts sees AES hiring several electrical and chemical engineers locally in the next six to nine months as the company leverages this momentum. “Our current customers are only going to see more resources available to them,” adds Garrelts.
Curt Nelson, President and CEO of the EDC, says that Garrelts’ new business with Intel is very deserving. “There couldn’t be a more hard working entrepreneur leading the charge at AES. David has assembled a brilliant team and the impressive win of the Intel project is a great reflection of that.”
AES performed the systems integration, or process of making all of the different software and hardware systems in a facility communicate and function according to spec, within the very same Intel building in New Mexico 12 years ago. That project was in support of Intel’s once groundbreaking 90 nm chip.
This new project is no ordinary undertaking. When complete, it will be a class .1 facility, or 10,000 times cleaner than that of a hospital operating room, says Garrelts. He and his crew will be responsible for the life safety systems (for instance, installing potential chemical leak alarming systems) as well as facility management systems (this includes integrating heating, cooling, waste and water systems into one working system).
AES will commence its work on the Intel New Mexico site on September 24, 2007 and the project’s multiple phases are expected to take 12-18 months.
