Shaw to Provide M&R Services for AK Steel Rockport Works
01/20/2011 - AK Steel has contracted Shaw Group Inc. to provide maintenance and reliability engineering services to the company’s Rockport Works steel processing facility beginning in March of this year.
AK Steel has selected Shaw Group Inc. to provide maintenance and reliability engineering services to the company’s Rockport Works steel processing facility in southwest Indiana. Shaw will begin work on the five-year master service agreement in March 2011.
“We are excited to embark on this new agreement, which brings Shaw’s proven safety-focused, comprehensive performance to this state-of-the-art steel processing facility,” said J.M. Bernhard Jr., Shaw’s Chairman, President and CEO.
Shaw noted that the undisclosed value of the contract would be included in the company’s Plant Services segment’s backlog of unfilled orders for the second quarter of fiscal year 2011.
Shaw executes plant maintenance, modifications, engineering and support services for industry-leading clients in the nuclear, fossil, chemical, petrochemical, manufacturing and refining markets. Shaw has continuous, multi-site presence in more than 55 sites across the U.S., including the country’s two largest nuclear power fleets.
The Shaw Group Inc. is a leading global provider of engineering, construction, technology, fabrication, remediation and support services for clients in a range of industries. A Fortune 500 company with fiscal year 2010 annual revenues of $7 billion, Shaw has approximately 27,000 employees around the world and is the power sector industry leader according to Engineering News-Record’s list of Top 500 Design Firms.
