Funding from Louisiana's Economic Development Award Program, or
EDAP, and the federal GO Zone program helped make it possible for
Bevel Tech Group Inc. to expand its plant and nearly double the
size of its staff.
Bevel Tech specializes in boring deep-water pipe that is used
for oil lines placed in waters around the world. The company used
EDAP and GO Zone bonds to improve its infrastructure and develop
more products.
"Originally, we were a small company with only six employees,"
said Bevel Tech Owner Kevin Bourgeois. "But in the last couple of
years, we've experienced phenomenal growth. A lot of that growth
couldn't have been possible without local and state economic
development officials, who were instrumental in giving us the
guidance and assistance to make the growth we needed a
reality."
Located in Ascension Parish, Bevel Tech is a full-service
machine shop, field machinist and Steel Catenary Riser machining
specialist. Construction of its new 24,000-square-foot facility was
finished in December 2008. The new facility will enable the company
to continue providing its machining services to the petrochemical,
power generation and offshore sectors.
