Pelican ABC member companies serve 3,000 meals to Capitol Region healthcare workers and nonprofits
The Pelican Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors last week hosted Workforce Feeding Frontlines, a community event for the Merit Shop construction workforce...
Halliburton moving Kilgore operations to Bossier City
Oilfield services giant Halliburton laid off 233 employees in Kilgore, Texas, last week amid plans to close its facility there and move the operations...
Bloomberg: Coronavirus lays bare decade’s worth of miscalculations by ExxonMobil
Perhaps no company has been humbled as profoundly by recent events as ExxonMobil, which missed the shale boom, overspent on projects and saw its...
ExxonMobil modifies Louisiana operations to manufacture hand sanitizer
ExxonMobil Corp. has reconfigured manufacturing operations in Louisiana to produce medical-grade hand sanitizer for donation to COVID-19 response efforts in Louisiana, New Jersey, New...
ExxonMobil Baton Rouge churning out IPA to meet pandemic demand
ExxonMobil is helping to meet demand for products like medical hand sanitizers, alcohol wipes and disinfectant sprays by manufacturing a key ingredient—isopropyl alcohol—and providing...
Louisiana native, NFL QB ‘Bubby’ Brister named CECO Pipeline Services executive
A Louisiana native and former NFL quarterback has been named vice president of CECO Pipeline Services.
Walter "Bubby" Brister has been named vice president of ...
New York investment firm acquires SWAT
A New York investment firm has acquired a majority interest in Gonzales-based Specialty Welding and Turnarounds, or SWAT.
SWAT President Johnny Holifield says the company's...
Indianapolis firm acquires Louisiana’s Bercen Chemicals
Indiana's Vertellus has acquired Denham Springs-based Bercen Chemicals, a leading U.S. supplier of alkyl succinic anhydrides and additives used in the fuel, lubricant, and...
LCA names SAFE Awards honorees
The Louisiana Chemical Association has named the recipients of its Best in Louisiana SAFE Awards that are given to chemical plants that exhibit employee...
FLIR makes ‘strategic investment’ in Baton Rouge emissions monitoring tech firm
S&P 500 thermal imaging giant FLIR Systems Inc. has made what it calls a "strategic investment" in a tiny Baton Rouge firm that has...
