Broadway District Welcomes A.C.E Marine and the U.S. Coast Guard

The facility located at 201 S. Pearl street is expected to make medium response boats for the U.S. Coast Guard. Once production is underway, it could be as many as one new boat nearly every two weeks for the next five years, with a possible three-year extension on the contract. The boats are aluminum, which required a completely separate facility from the one in Marinette, to avoid steel contamination. A.C.E. stands for Aluminum Craft Excellence, and is a subset of Marinette Marine. The facility is expected to employ upward of 100 persons, not including the dozen or so U.S. Coast guard personnel that will also be on the site.