Shaw closing Oklahoma pipe plant

For the third time in just over a month, the Shaw Group is laying off workers at a pipe fabrication plant. The company is shutting down Shaw Tulsa Fabricators in Oklahoma, laying off 168 workers, according to the Tulsa World. The Tulsa plant makes pipe for the construction industry. Last month, the Baton Rouge-based engineering and construction firm announced it was shutting down a pipe plant in West Monroe, a move that will put more than 200 employees out of work. Then it was announced late last week about 40 workers at its Sunland fabrication plant in Walker would be laid off. Shaw officials have blamed the layoffs on the “ebb and flow” of demand in the construction industry.