BATON ROUGE, La. – Bernhard Capital Partners (“BCP”), in partnership with Houston-based KBR, Inc. (“KBR”), announces the re-establishment of Brown & Root, a globally-recognized Industrial Services Provider. Under the terms of the agreement, KBR’s Industrial Services Americas Group, together with Wink Engineering, will become Brown & Root and continue to serve its customers in the downstream, refining, petrochemical, chemical and manufacturing industries with a renewed singular focus on customer service and project execution. The Company will provide an industry-leading breadth of services to the Industrial Services segment of the energy marketplace.
With operations throughout the United States, Mexico and Canada, Brown & Root will have over 6,000 employees, and will provide a range of industrial services for refineries, petrochemical, chemical, and manufacturing plants.
“Brown & Root is recognized around the world as a premier service provider in industrial services. We’re proud to build on the gold standard of the Brown and Root legacy, with a reputation for dependability, innovation and reliability since 1919,” says Brown & Root Industrial Services CEO Andy Dupuy.
“We will expand our industrial services offerings for the future to better meet the needs of our clients. The combination of Brown & Root’s current management team, with the addition of new key management, provides current and future clients with best-in-class leadership and comprehensive capability. By creating an industrial services-focused company, Brown & Root will combine the financial strength of its partners with the structural flexibility to remain agile and competitive to service many market opportunities,” says Dupuy.
Brown & Root’s global headquarters will be located at Brown & Root Plaza, 2600 CitiPlace Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.
