Porter v. Beloit Corp.

McMurray, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Beloit Corporation entered into a contract for the installation of a “turn key” Rader Displacement Heating System at the Valdosta paper mill of defendant Owens-Illinois, Inc. This project was the first commercial scale implementation of a new paper making process which saves energy by storing and re-using the heat used to digest wood chips. The contract covered the retrofit of nine existing wood chip digesters to accommodate the new system, addition of a new tenth wood chip digester, and installation of a multifunction process control system to provide for…