PTI Group,, a company that provides housing for thousands
of workers in oil fields and other remote locations built its first modular
unit this week at the former 103,000 sq ft Barvista Modular Home factory
southeast of Loveland, CO.
PTI Group, based in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada,
is a subsidiary of Houston-based Oil States International. Oil States CEO and
president Cindy Taylor said business is booming, with its market capitalization
growing from $450 million when the company went public in 2001 to $4 billion
today.
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Kelly Hart, Operations Manager for PTI's new Colorado factory |
Ron Green, CEO and president of PTI Group, said his company
owns and operates 22,000 rooms in North America,
making it one of the largest hoteliers on the continent.
That number of rooms will increase immediately as the Johnstown factory gears up
its production.
PTI Group makes and delivers residential units to remote
sites. It can quickly set up multistory modular buildings at self-contained
camps housing as many as 5,000 people, providing the workers with hot meals and
facility management services.
It also supplies smaller units, which the Johnstown plant will build. Operations manager
Kelly Hart said his facility will build three types of structure - a
two-bedroom, two-bath unit; a duplex with two attached one-bedroom units; and a
smaller command center.
The Johnstown
facility's first completed unit was a two-bedroom structure, which visitors at
Thursday's event toured. The structure, which resembles a sturdy mobile home
with wood framing and siding, is built with high snow load and wind tolerances.
It has a flat-screen television in each wood-paneled bedroom and a larger TV in
the living room, a jetted tub in one of the bathrooms and a washer and dryer.
Hart said PTI Group's Johnstown
location has 50 employees so far - most of them hired locally - and will be
adding about 10 a week as production increases.
The company expects to have about 250 workers within five
years and twice that many if it adds a second shift, he said. Units built here
will go to sites in Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, North and
South Dakota, Texas
and Montana,
Hart said.
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