Industries
The industries that build here
Defense, aerospace, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing have deep roots in Utah, and PortSLC sits in the middle of them.
Defense and aerospace
Primes and their suppliers cluster in Utah because the security, acreage, and cleared workforce already exist in one place.
- Hill Air Force Base
- About 30 minutes
- Hill AFB employment
- About 26,900
- Hill AFB economic impact
- $12.7 billion a year
- Air and rail access
- Both on site
- Composites supply chain
- Hexcel, in region
Life sciences
Regulated manufacturing needs a workforce that has already worked under those rules. Utah's has.
- Cold chain air freight
- SLC International, 10 minutes
- Regulated manufacturers in the region
- BD, bioMérieux, Stryker
- Room to expand
- Contiguous parcels
Advanced manufacturing
Heavy freight, large sites, and skilled trades in one footprint, which is why rail equipment and materials producers build in the region.
- Rail served parcels
- Available now
- Oversize freight access
- Rail and interstate
- Industrial zoning
- In place
Ready when you are.
Tell us the requirements and we will say plainly whether the site fits, and which parcels to look at first.
Stephen Smith
Associate Vice President, Regional Project Area Development
Utah Inland Port Authority