An independent Fertilizer Manufacturing Expansion Feasibility Study evaluating a manufacturing capacity expansion at an operating rural fertilizer production site in Turkey, North Carolina.
TURKEY, North Carolina — Wert-Berater, Inc., an independent feasibility study consulting firm serving lenders and government agencies since 1998, has completed a Fertilizer Manufacturing Expansion Feasibility Study in Turkey, Sampson County, North Carolina.
Wert-Berater served as independent feasibility consultant to the applicant and the participating senior lender. Party names are withheld consistent with the confidential nature of underwriting and capital-advisory work; figures represent the project as evaluated at the study date.
A $70,000,000 expansion of an operating rural fertilizer production business, funded on a 50/50 cost-share basis under the federal fertilizer program: a $35,000,000 grant against a $35,000,000 applicant match. The study tested the expansion on its own documented merits — verified capital budget, contracted input supply, and a stabilized operating forecast in which sources equal uses at the study date — and reached a favorable determination subject to conditions precedent carried into the executed report.
Added finished-goods production capacity at an existing fee-owned site, expanded post-processing and material handling, and the supporting site infrastructure required to operate the added capacity year round.
$70,000,000 total project cost — a $35,000,000 federal cost-share grant (50 percent) against a $35,000,000 applicant match (50 percent).
The analytical work turned on ramp risk rather than stabilized economics. Stabilized coverage is comfortable at 5.73×, but first-year coverage of 1.68× leaves materially less room, so the study conditioned its determination on contracted input supply, committed offtake at the pricing carried in the forecast, and completion of the added capacity before the first full production year. Sensitivity testing ran price and volume together, in steps, rather than one variable at a time.
Wert-Berater, Inc. is an independent feasibility study consulting firm founded in 1998, providing lender- and agency-facing feasibility studies, highest-and-best-use analyses, and capital-advisory support. The firm has completed more than 4,000 engagements across all 50 states and internationally, evaluating over $40.2 billion in project value for SBA, USDA, EB-5, conventional, and institutional financing decisions. In every engagement, fiduciary duty runs to the lender and the applicable agency.
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