1st of 4 units set for voyage to Texas 3.19.2009 – Loading the 200-ton refinery module onto an empty barge docked at Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility bulkhead required an “engineered ballast plan,” but went better than planned, Bob Germack, project manager for Hake Rigging Co., said Wednesday after the module was settled on the seagoing […]

3.19.2009 – As the first of 53 modules for an enormous Texas refinery expansion was loaded onto a barge Wednesday for a trip to the Gulf of Mexico, Cianbro and city officials reflected on the return of manufacturing to the Penobscot River. “After years of not being fully utilized, the Penobscot River is once again […]

November 2008 EPA Lauds Brewer Mill Redevelopment Effort

11.01.2008 – Cianbro president Andi Vigue says the company is under contract to buy the San Antonio Shoe building in Pittsfield in the next two months. “We want to utilize the space to be the home of our Cianbro Institute, which is where we do all our training and development of people,” said Vigue. He […]

“It is All about the People” 8.16.2008 – A long line of Cianbro employees, all wearing blue Cianbro shirts and white hard hats, stood in the sun Friday listening to a string of speakers tell them that they are the reason the new Eastern Manufacturing Facility already is a success. The employees stood in front […]

8.15.2008 – The Cianbro Companies today celebrate the grand opening of its new Eastern Manufacturing facility. Revitalizing a former paper mill site, Eastern Manufacturing is a state-of-the-art facility to fabricate and assemble modular industrial structures.  This modular facility is the vision of Cianbro Chairman and CEO Peter Vigue, and enables industrial companies around the world […]

8.15.2008 – A video production company on Thursday was at Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility, and at other spots around town, filming for a documentary on what will be the largest oil refinery in United States history. Brewer is featured in the documentary because Cianbro was hired to make 52 modules for Motiva Port Arthur Refinery, […]

Municipal Sewer & Water Magazine – August 2008 Storm – It is up to Everyone  

7.23.2008 – A large barge and crane Monday was moved into place in the Penobscot River, just offshore of Cianbro’s new Eastern Manufacturing Facility, and will be used to dredge the river to make a channel deep enough to handle heavy barges, a company official said. Prock Marine of Rockland has been hired to remove […]

THE TOP 25 NEWSMAKERS OF 2007 ENR.com Engineering News-Record Award of Excellence Peter G. Vigue Thinks Globally But Builds Locally Major modular work helps Maine retain good-paying, skilled jobs Visionary Peter G. Vigue, chairman of employee-owned Cianbro Corp. is creating a new economic paradigm for areas that are losing their traditional industries. The 60-year-old Maine […]