Newton Thomas, who founded The Newtron Group, a $1 billion Baton Rouge-based industrial construction contractor, died Saturday at the age of 81. Thomas began his career as a project estimator with Southern Instruments and served a two-year term as president. He left Southern Instruments to start Newtron, a union instrumentation contractor, in 1973. In 1982,
Newtron Group founder Newton Thomas dies
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