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Turner Industries’ new Port Allen, La., manufacturing facility supports a strategic expansion into advanced power and reactor projects.
Turner Industries is ENR’s 2026 Contractor of the Year for the Texas region. With operations spanning Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Mississippi, the 100% family-owned industrial contractor has been in continuous operation for 65 years.
The company safely logged 45 million hours of work across more than 400 jobs last year with a total recordable incident rate of 0.24, while moving well beyond its refining and petrochemical roots.
Among his 2025 projects of note, Turner completed all construction of ExxonMobil’s first carbon capture and sequestration facility in Convent, La., navigating a mid-project design change and a Port of Houston pipeline delay to finish on time and on budget with no lost time accidents.
That same industrial muscle led Turner into new sectors: a $765 million chlor-alkali retrofit for OxyChem in La Porte, Texas, and a Tesla conveyor and robotics facility in Austin completed under a tight three-week deadline.
The company not only took on bigger jobs, but moved into new markets. Turner built a dedicated sanitary pipe manufacturing bay at its Port Allen, La., facility to serve the pharmaceutical and life sciences sectors, and is manufacturing cooling modules for a Hunton data center project in Childress, Texas.
Turner is also expanding its footprint, with a new center in Salt Lake City, growth in Pensacola, Fla., and new nuclear-grade manufacturing facilities in Port Allen and New Iberia, La., positioning the company for the next wave of reactor projects across the country.
Turner’s Texas regional footprint remains anchored on the Gulf Coast. A complete profile of Turner Industries’ award-winning year will appear in the August 10 issue of ENR Texas & Southeast.
