19-02-2025
New advanced technology manufacturing facility coming to Jackson County
JACKSON COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – Pulse Industries is building the first-ever mass production facility in Jackson County, for industrial linear accelerators. Industrial linear accelerators use electron beam technology to treat various products.
Pulse Industries plans to utilize the new technology for four main purposes. The first is food safety applications, making crops taste better, better for you, and increasing their shelf life.
'Treating food and food products for phytosanitary applications, bringing food in from foreign countries for domestic consumption. We make it safe by killing off bugs and flies and seed weevils and other food-borne pests that would otherwise impact American farmers' abilities to safely grow crops,' Pulse Industries Founder & Chief Technology Officer Eric Burgett said.
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The industrial linear accelerators can also be used to provide clean and sterile medical instruments. They'll be used to treat drinking water to destroy what are deemed 'forever chemicals'.
And lastly, the technology can treat and upgrade oil products, getting more energy out of just one barrel. Some companies only produce four accelerators a year.
By moving into this new facility in Marianna, pulse industries will be able to streamline manufacturing, allowing the production of about one hundred accelerators a year.
Company officials hope to begin moving to the renovated facility on Industrial Park Drive in the next couple of months. Officials say Jackson County is an ideal spot for this project.
'They don't need all the congestion, they don't need all the cost of growing to be landlocked in an urban area. They need a little elbow room. And so this friendly business environment has made it attractive to them, affordable,' Jackson County Economic Development Committee President Darwin Gilmore said.
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Marianna received a $1.65 million rural infrastructure grant to prepare the 278,000-square-foot facility.
Pulse Industries plans to create hundreds of skilled jobs. Officials believe this initiative will be a catalyst for future development.
'Being a pro-growth area, it's just going to wake up people to the opportunity here to have an affordable cost of living and a manageable business environment that allows for their growth,' Gilmore said.
Pulse Industries officials hope to begin production in a year. They say the initiative will create a new industrial category, making the accelerators accessible at a scale once considered impossible.
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