Case Study
Blue Buffalo Manufacturing and R&D Facility
1 Kryton International Inc. 1645 East Kent Avenue, Vancouver BC, Canada V5P 2S8 | TEL 1.604.324.8280 | FAX 1.604.324.8899 | TOLL FREE 1.800.267.8280 | WEB kryton.com Kryton, Krystol and KIM are trademarks of Kryton International Inc. © 2018 CASE STUDY Blue Buffalo Manufacturing and R&D Facility Richmond, IN, USA (201 7) BACKGROUND T o meet continued demand for their pet food, Blue Buffalo decided to build a new $150 million manufacturing and R&D facility in Indiana. The design team drew up plans for the almost 400,000 sq ft plant that is the second Blue Buffalo manufacturing facility in America. Quickly, the team concluded that this facility’s 4,000 PSI concrete floors would be subject to an extreme amount of abrasion from forklifts and sliding skids. T o increase the we