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Cianbro Looks to Expand

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 […]

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Workers celebrated at Cianbro opening

“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 […]

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Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing celebrates grand opening

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 […]

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Brewer, Cianbro sharing spotlight

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, […]

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Rig readied for Penobscot dredging

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 […]

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Peter G. Vigue Thinks Globally But Builds Locally

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 […]

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Cianbro kicks off refinery assembly

4.24.2008 – Cianbro crews began erecting Wednesday at the Eastern Manufacturing Facility in Brewer the first of 52 construction modules that will become part of an expanding Texas oil refinery. Using a crane to hoist the 25-foot steel beams, a crew of about 10 had assembled more than 60 percent of the first module’s initial […]

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DOT plans changes for Cianbro entrance

4.10.2008 – The final designs are not set in stone, or pavement in this case, but Department of Transportation officials are going to change the entrance at Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility to accommodate large trucks. “We’re installing a new traffic signal at the entrance of the new mill,” City Engineer Frank Higgins told city councilors […]

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