McIlhenny Company produces more than one million bottles of TABASCO® brand pepper sauce per week in a variety of sizes at its plant in Avery Island, Louisiana. When McIlhenny strategically wanted to double the plant’s output, it called on The Austin Company for assistance. The Austin Company recommended that the company expand the warehouse section of the plant.

The project involved adding an 87,500 SF bay to the existing 102,000 SF plant and warehouse, which were originally designed and constructed by The Austin Company in 1978. Austin also renovated a 5,000 SF area within the existing warehouse. This assignment included production areas, new offices and an employee lounge. The addition, which consisted primarily of a high-bay open space with loading docks at each end, provided capacity for future high-density rack storage.