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2 • NEWS<br />
Aust<strong>in</strong> Industrial<br />
lands <strong>new</strong> contract<br />
<strong>in</strong> New Mexico<br />
Aust<strong>in</strong> Industrial recently<br />
transitioned about 50 <strong>new</strong><br />
employee-owners at two Holly-<br />
Frontier sites where the company<br />
will provide ma<strong>in</strong>tenance services.<br />
HollyFrontier is an <strong>in</strong>dependent<br />
energy company <strong>in</strong>volved with<br />
crude oil ref<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g and wholesale<br />
market<strong>in</strong>g of ref<strong>in</strong>ed petroleum<br />
products.<br />
With headquarters <strong>in</strong> Dallas,<br />
the company owns and operates<br />
five ref<strong>in</strong>eries with a total crude oil<br />
process<strong>in</strong>g capacity of 443,000 barrels<br />
a day.<br />
Aust<strong>in</strong> Industrial is provid<strong>in</strong>g<br />
ma<strong>in</strong>tenance services at HollyFrontier’s<br />
Navajo Ref<strong>in</strong>ery <strong>in</strong> Artesia,<br />
New Mexico, and Lov<strong>in</strong>gton, New<br />
Mexico.<br />
A welcome d<strong>in</strong>ner was recently<br />
held <strong>in</strong> Artesia where workers and<br />
spouses learned about Aust<strong>in</strong>, its<br />
benefits and the transition process.<br />
“We were also pleased to <strong>in</strong>form<br />
those <strong>in</strong> attendance that we<br />
are proud to be work<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> Artesia<br />
Bulldogs territory,” said Jim Bruce,<br />
Aust<strong>in</strong> Industrial operations manager<br />
The Bulldogs are the Artesia<br />
high school football team for which<br />
residents of the city take great<br />
pride. Dur<strong>in</strong>g football season, street<br />
names are replaced with the players’<br />
names.<br />
In addition to Bruce, other<br />
Aust<strong>in</strong> Industrial employee-owners<br />
who attended the welcome d<strong>in</strong>ner<br />
<strong>in</strong>cluded John Bourgeois, Francisco<br />
Canepa, Roger Gossett, Earl High<br />
and Darbie Morris. s<br />
THE SPAN<br />
February/March 2012<br />
Aust<strong>in</strong> Commercial recently <strong>in</strong>stalled more than 16,000 solar modules at the Sky Harbor International<br />
Airport <strong>in</strong> Phoenix.<br />
Aust<strong>in</strong> Commercial completes five megawatts<br />
of solar electric capacity at Phoenix airport<br />
At the<br />
end of<br />
2011, Aust<strong>in</strong><br />
Commercial<br />
(assisted<br />
by Empire<br />
Southwest)<br />
<strong>in</strong>stalled more<br />
than five<br />
megawatts of<br />
solar electric<br />
capacity at<br />
Phoenix’s Sky<br />
Harbor International Airport.<br />
At the peak of construction,<br />
more than 200 workers were<br />
busy complet<strong>in</strong>g one of Arizona’s<br />
largest commercial solar panel<br />
systems. The team completed the<br />
project on-time despite hav<strong>in</strong>g a<br />
compressed project schedule of<br />
less than two months and multiple<br />
moratorium days. The system will<br />
help the airport reduce its energy<br />
consumption<br />
from<br />
the local<br />
utility,<br />
APS.<br />
The<br />
project was<br />
divided<br />
<strong>in</strong>to two<br />
systems<br />
located at<br />
the airport’s<br />
east<br />
economy park<strong>in</strong>g garage and rental<br />
car center. A total of 16,512 Sun-<br />
Power solar modules were <strong>in</strong>stalled<br />
between the two sites. More than<br />
4,000 modules (1.3 megawatts)<br />
connected to four <strong>in</strong>verters were<br />
<strong>in</strong>stalled at the east economy park<strong>in</strong>g<br />
garage, and more than 12,000<br />
modules (3.8 megawatts) connected<br />
to seven <strong>in</strong>verters were <strong>in</strong>stalled at<br />
the rental car center. s<br />
Core Value: Integrity