Hardy Wenzel

In December 2019, Canadian-based manufacturing company Structurlam Mass Timber Corp. announced it would invest $90 million to buy, retrofit and equip a former steel plant in Conway. That facility would supply engineered wood products — mass timber — to build the office buildings in Walmart’s new corporate campus in Bentonville. …“We are trending right on track with our project schedule, our budget is working out well, and our staffing plans are where they need to be at this point,” Structurlam CEO Hardy Wentzel said. …Wentzel said Structurlam commissioned the first of the Conway plant’s two assembly lines in early June. The second will come online in August. That will complete the plant retrofitting, and it will begin producing materials, most of it earmarked for Walmart. …Wentzel said the new corporate campus would be the world’s largest mass-timber building project. …Walmart says its goal is to open the campus in phases through 2025.