7.21.2009 – Maine’s first-in-the-nation mail-in prescription drug disposal program, launched in 2007, has been funded for another two years and plans to expand its presence and impact significantly. The program aims to protect public health and the environment by safely disposing of unused prescription drugs. Prepaid, tamper-resistant envelopes available at drugstores, medical offices, community agencies […]

6.12.2009 – Capts. Doug Fournier and Tom Toolis spent this week preparing to take the second load of four locally built Cianbro refinery modules down the Penobscot River. The barge is scheduled to leave the Cianbro Eastern Manufacturing Facility’s deep-water bulkhead at around 11:30 a.m. today. The modules, which can be as large as six […]

5.07.2009 – The USDA Rural Development program has issued the city a low-interest loan to move and improve the septage dumping site and to purchase new video equipment to search out problems, said Kenneth Locke, environmental services director. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development’s Water and Environmental Program issued the city $865,000, which will pay […]

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, […]