BELVIDERE — Ceroni Piping Co. plans to break ground on a 30,000-square-foot building in November.
The $5.5 million facility will replace farmland and a house near the intersection of U.S. 20 and Interstate 90 in Cherry Valley.
The company leases space at 1372 Ipsen Road in Belvidere.
“We’ve been in the area since 1998 doing mechanical contracting and piping work," CEO/President Steve Ceroni said. "It’s finally settled down enough economically where it looks like it’s stable enough to build something permanent in a new location.
“We started with about four guys in our office, and I think we’re up to about a dozen now."
The size of field crews fluctuates, depending on the size and number of projects.
The company contracts field teams through Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 23 to install piping systems, do pumping and heating process work, and manage construction projects. Among its projects is helping dismantle the NDK Crystal tower in Belvidere. An explosion there in December 2009 sent thousands of pounds of debris soaring hundreds of feet from the building, wounding two people and killing a trucker in the parking lot of the Belvidere Oasis off I-90.
Local 23 business manager Rick Beck said Ceroni Piping is the second-largest contractor in northwest Illinois between Belvidere and the Mississippi River. It and hires about 45 union members to do field work each year. The company once hired 180 union workers for a project at Chrysler.
Ceroni Real Estate, a division of Ceroni Piping, closed a deal on 22.5 acres of farmland at 974 U.S. 20 in June 2014. The company plans to split the land into three subdivisions, building on one and selling the others.
“It’s going to be really just an upgrade for our office facilities, and then we’ll have (metal) fabrication, too," Ceroni said. "We do that now, but there’s a possibility (fabrication) could expand. ... Right now (recovery) is a slow, slow process for the area ... but we’re hopeful."
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