The Shaw Group

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The Shaw Group is a Fortune 500^[1] corporation headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It employs more than 20,000 employees all over the world. Its core compentencies are piping, energy, chemical, construction, and nuclear power.

The company is split into the following divisions:

Energy & Chemicals (which includes part of the former Stone & Webster)
Environmental & Infrastructure
Maintenance and Construction
Fabrication and Manufacturing
Nuclear

1 Energy & Chemicals
2 History
3 See also
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Energy & Chemicals

The Energy and Chemicals business line has four divisions. They are Power, Process, Technology, and Consulting.

[edit] History

The group was founded in 1987 by Jim Bernhard, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, and two individuals as a fabrication shop. The company was originally known as Shaw Industries Inc. The company grew by acquiring stock of Alloy Piping Products, Fronek A/DE, Inc, Naptech, Inc., Pipe Shields Inc., United States Crafts, Inc., Merit Industrial Constructors, Inc., Cojafex B.V., Prospect Industries plc, joined with Entergy Corporation to create EntergyShaw L.L.C., Stone & Webster Inc., The IT Group, Inc., Envirogen, Inc., MWR, Inc., Badger Technologies from Washington Group International, and Energy Delivery Services from Duke Energy Global Markets, Inc. The company has grown by 18,000 employees in 18 years.