Atlantic Coast Dismantling Razes Former Raytheon Plant in Massachusetts

To make room for the construction of a 14-acre Home Depot e-commerce distribution facility on the site a former Raytheon ordnance site split among the Massachusetts municipalities of Tewksbury, Lowell and Billerica, Atlantic Coast Dismantling LLC (ACD) successfully demolished a similar sized rectangular-shaped building on a 20-acre site between late June and Oct. 15.
The all-Cat equipment fleet consisted of four 374 and eight 349 excavators with LaBounty shears, Cat grapples, buckets, MTK hydraulic hammers and magnets, and two smaller 339 excavators with sheers used to prep steel for recycling; and two 983 loaders to carry materials to various stockpile and processing locations at the site.