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Turner Through the Decades

1960’s

A young engineer named Bert Turner buys Nichols Construction Company out of bankruptcy. The company specializes in industrial construction, heavy equipment, hauling, rigging and equipment rental. It doesn’t take Turner long to realize that the industrial construction industry is a series of peaks and valleys. So, he begins to take steps to ensure a steady stream of revenue, embarking on industrial contract maintenance and other services.

Turner Through the Decades

1970’s

Turner begins to acquire companies and add additional services like scaffolding, as well as continually expanding the equipment fleet and growing a nested maintenance footprint. These moves provide the company with opportunities to manage and control most of the elements that make up construction, maintenance and turnaround work.

Turner Through the Decades

1980’s

The Turner group enters the fabrication business, forming International Piping Systems, and introduces a pipe bending process that revolutionizes the pipe fabrication business in the United States. The company participates in many of the large industrial construction projects being built in the Gulf South at the time.

Turner Through the Decades

1990’s

Industrial specialty services, such as NDE and inspection services, specialized welding, and environmental remediation are added to fill client needs as they arise. Proprietary technology is developed to better track and manage work.

Turner Through the Decades

2000’s

The early companies consolidated into one entity– Turner Industries Group– with four main business lines: Construction; Maintenance & Turnarounds; Pipe and Module Fabrication; and Equipment and Specialty Services.

Turner Through the Decades

2010 – Present

A main focus at Turner today is digitizing the wealth of data generated by our employees and at our clients’ jobsites to make data-driven decisions that reduct costs, save time, and improve safety metrics. Our ever-evolving DECIDE WITH DATA® software and services portfolio offers a digital ”toolbox” that can solve critical client productivity, reliability, and safety issues.

The Turner Family Legacy

The Turner Industries story is one of vision, determination, and innovation.

LEADERSHIP

Stephen M. Toups

Chief Executive Officer

David J. Franks

Chief Operating Officer

James P. Sylvester

Chief Financial Officer

Amy Kling

Chief Information Officer

Rick Scardina

Chief Administrative Officer

Troy Bergeron

President, Maintenance & Turnarounds

Mark Brittain

President, Construction

John Richard

President, Pipe Fabrication

Mike Morain

President, Equipment, Rigging, & Specialized Transportation

Eddie Villeret

President, Specialty Services Division

Recent Awards & Rankings

Four-Time CURT CISE Award

Construction Users Roundtable Honors Turner Industries with National Safety Excellence Award

Turner Industries has been honored by the Construction Users Roundtable (CURT) with the Construction Industry Safety Excellence (CISE) Award for its dedication to world-class safety performance. Turner is now a four-time winner of the CISE award—CURT’s highest recognition in safety.

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ABC Excellence in Construction Pyramid Award

Turner Industries was recognized with a national Excellence in Construction® Pyramid Award for work completed on the Wind Blade Rack Fabrication Project during the 2024 ABC Convention in Orlando, Florida.

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Top Spot on LSU Roaring 20 List

Turner Industries has earned the top spot on Louisiana State University’s 2024 LSU ROARING 20 list, which recognizes the 20 highest revenue-generating LSU graduate-owned or graduate-led businesses from all those that apply for the LSU 100 each year. The LSU 100 recognizes the fastest growing LSU graduate-owned or graduate-led businesses.

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#1 Top-Performing U.S. Construction Company by ABC

Turner Industries has claimed the top spot once more on Associated Builders and Contractors’ 2025 Top Performers list, an annual publication that recognizes contractor members’ outstanding achievements in safety, quality, inclusion, project excellence and special designations ranked by number of hours worked.

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AFPM Honors Turner Industries with 39 Contractor Safety Awards

Turner Industries is proud to announce that 39 of its jobsites have been recognized by the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers (AFPM) for outstanding safety performance. The AFPM Contractor Safety Achievement Awards recognize companies that have demonstrated excellence in safety across their operations.

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Corporate Responsibility

Maintaining the trust and confidence of owners, employees, customers and other people with whom we conduct business, as well as the communities we work in, is crucial to our continued growth and success.

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2024 ENR RANKINGS

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