Realbright Sunrae Water will locate in the former Barwick Archer building in Kensington and is expected to start production in early July. The company will begin conducting interviews in June and is looking to hire about 20 initial employees.
“I am so pleased to welcome this new company to Walker County,” said county commissioner Bebe Heiskell. “We continue to receive wonderful news of businesses choosing to invest in our county. We hope Sunrae will have a long and prosperous relationship with Walker County.”
Realbright Sunrae Water president Mike Schieck said of the company's decision to locate in Walker County, “We considered several locations for our company but felt Walker County was the right place. The county's eco-nomic development team, including commissioner Heiskell particularly, really made us feel welcome and has been great to work with as we have been gearing up to get our feet on the ground in Walker County.”
The company will bottle about 2.5 million 16- and 20-ounce bottles of water a year, with an additional 150,000 five-gallon containers for home and commercial use once full production commences.
“We began working with Mr. Schieck several months ago and are glad to see this project finally coming to frui-tion,” said Larry Brooks, Walker County economic development director. “This business will add more diversity to our local economy.”
Sunrae plans to distribute its bottled water nationally.
“We have other projects that are currently being developed that we plan on locating in Walker County as well,” Schieck added.
The details regarding those additional plans are not being disclosed by the company for now.
This is the second new company welcomed by Heiskell to Walker County in less than a year, with Northern Georgia Logistics locating to Rock Spring in September.






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That's about the size of it.
Good piece in the TFP today questioning whether this is a political stunt. May want to check that out.
RealBright - Sunrae Aquaponics LLC, incorporated on 04/30/12
Realbright - Sunrae Water LLC, incorporated on 04/09/12
SunRae Environmental Inc., incorporated 01/09/11 and dissolved on 05/01/12
and SunRae Environmental LLC, incorporated 05/01/12
All three have the same mailing address, 103 Dexters Run, Juliet TN. Judging by satellite images on Mapquest, it's a residential neighborhood.
Does it technically exist? Yes. Did it exist a month ago? No. Does it have an office or facilities? No.
A few minutes of investigation on the part of any reporter would throw a lot of doubt on most of the claims about this business, not to mention the Barwick plant it supposedly will be using is polluted with toxic chemicals that would make it unfit for anything except sorting trash, which is what all Mr. Schieck's businesses say they do. Except none of them do anything.
Well, thats a great question. Seeing as how the "CEO" of this company has only been in this line of work for a mite over a year (January 2011- Source Linked In profile) and his previous ventures (Eco- Ventures -Location "unknown" leads to a dead link, MasoMedia- Pensacola, Florida) seem to have disappeared without a particle of evidence that they ever existed, one could rightly question if this is some sort of paper enterprise that makes for good newspaper copy,but is full of air.
Which leads us to this guy's current venture. It does have a working website- http://sunraeenvironmental.com- but you would be pretty hard pressed to figure out just what these guys actually do.There's lots of talk about reducing muncipal waste by 50% (!) by...Wishful thinking,I guess. The website doesnt say. Theere's just a lot of buzzword jargon of the type that got Solyndra a cool half a billion of your grandkids tax dollars.
The website (remember,this "company" dates to early last year)also claims to produce ethanol (big red flag- ethanol takes a lot of energy to produce and makes no money without government handouts),electronics recycling,tire shredding,soil remediation,transportation and bio and hazardous disposal. All of this from a company that started a little over a year ago.
But wait,there's more! Sunrae produces organic fertilizers,Solar power and crumb rubber.When they have a spare moment, the team at Sunrae is doing soil remediation research, algae to oil conversion,and landfill reclamation research. Impressive. Even more impressive when the company lists NO PHYSICAL ADDRESS in which it does business.
Oddly, this "mini GE" doesn't list bottled water anywhere on its website. Probably an oversight because they are so busy spreading "organic fertilizer" around.
Okay,folks.Add it all up.Career politician.Slick promoter. Election year (and a grouchy electorate).Are you really that gullible?