3.18.2008 – Loading a 200-ton refinery module onto an empty barge is a large-scale balancing act that rivals anything found at the circus, said Bob Germack, project manager for Hake Rigging Co., on Tuesday. Hake, a division of Barnhart Crane & Rigging, today will load the first — and smallest — of four massive refinery […]

1.24.2008 – In the last year, hundreds of skilled Maine workers have been laid off. Most recently, two mills in Ashland closed putting 140 people out of work. Bath Iron Works also recently laid off 70 workers. Now, the state’s largest construction firm wants to get those workers back on the job. Officials at CIANBRO […]

1.23.2008 – The cold weather hasn’t slowed the transformation of the old Eastern Fine paper mill into Cianbo’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility, and visiting officials from the Southern company that hired Cianbro to help expand a Texas oil refinery are impressed. “These guys don’t really lose anything to the weather,” Mick Heim, project manager for Motiva […]

11.22.2007 – As the walls of the century-old Eastern Fine Paper Co. mill come down, others are going up, and people are being trained in two shifts to create the massive building modules that will soon be produced as the site. Cianbro Corp. a Pittsfield construction company, is changing the former paper mill into the […]

10.31.2007 – City leaders and Cianbro Corp. have nearly completed a developer agreement to change the defunct Eastern Fine Paper Co. mill site into a manufacturing facility. The parties have been working since January on the agreement that paves the way for redevelopment of the old mill locale into Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility, which is […]

10.19.2007 – The 500 or so workers at Cianbro Corp.’s new Eastern Manufacturing Facility will help make history when they construct the building modules that will be used to expand a Texas refinery into the largest crude oil processing plant in North America. And there is a possibility that the increased refinery capacity could help […]

10.18.2007 – When Cianbro’s Eastern Manufacturing Facility begins operations in April, the 500 or so new employees will have a pile of work to do. Cianbro, a Pittsfield construction company known around the state and the nation, has won a multimillion-dollar, 15-month contract to construct building modules — prefabricated, self-standing building skeletons for a large […]

10.06.2007 – Note: All U.S. military wrecks are the property of the government and it is a federal crime to disturb them in any way without prior permission. Anyone caught in possession of or in the process of collecting historic artifacts from the Penobscot River associated with the Penobscot Expedition will be prosecuted. Local folks […]

10.06.2007 – Note: All U.S. military wrecks are the property of the government and it is a federal crime to disturb them in any way without prior permission. Anyone caught in possession of or in the process of collecting historic artifacts from the Penobscot River associated with the Penobscot Expedition will be prosecuted. History is […]

10.06.2007 – The craftsmanship of brothers Josiah and John Brewer, the city’s founding fathers, is believed to be visible today on the property once known as Brewer’s Cove – the defunct Eastern Fine Paper Co. mill site. The remains of a centuries-old cribbed-and-planked tidal dam and gate can be seen at the mouth of the […]