Manufacturing

Top Business Deals of 2015

Though the number and scope of major projects announced in 2015 were not as...

Brown and Root acquires Port Allen-based Petrin Corp.

Brown and Root Industrial Services has acquired Petrin Corp., a 43-year-old industrial specialty services...

Baton Rouge entrepreneur: Mike Jastram of Sea Ties Inc./RumbleRoller

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte) Position: Owner and CEO Company: Sea Ties Inc./RumbleRoller What they do: Create custom...

An up-close look at a typical day for a sugar cane harvester

(Photography by Tim Mueller) The Morris Farms Partnership is a fourth-generation farming family cultivating 3,000...

Two brothers have grown Smith Tank & Steel from a startup offering water tower repairs to a multimillion-dollar industrial services firm

(Photography by Brian Baiamonte: Billy Smith and Sam Smith Jr.) Brothers Billy Smith and Sam...

Energy firm plans to turn Louisiana sugar cane waste into biofuel pellets

When sugar cane is ground up, a wet, fluffy, fibrous byproduct called bagasse is...
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An energy firm plans to convert bagasse into biomass that can be burned in coal-fired plants without pricey retrofitting

When sugar cane is ground up, a wet, fluffy, fibrous byproduct called bagasse is...

Stephanie Riegel: Building a better Shaw Group?

It took Jim Bernhard more than two decades to build The Shaw Group. It...

Spending a day on a boat with DAL-CO Marine Services

DAL-CO Marine Services Photography by Tim Mueller DAL-CO Marine Services provides launch services on the Mississippi...

Bernhard acquires Lafayette-based environmental consulting, engineering firm ATC Associates

A group led by Bernhard Capital Partners has acquired ATC Associates Inc., a Lafayette-based...