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1973 – Pala,
Inc. is founded by Jose R. Tarajano, Sr. as a union general
industrial contractor for the sugar industry.
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1974 –
The Company expands its service offering to provide general
industrial construction to refineries and petrochemical
plants in the Baton
Rouge, LA
area.
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1980 –
Pala begins performing all the maintenance and modification
work at Shell Norco’s polypropylene facility. This contract
continues today.
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1981 – Pala
Inc. management forms Interstate Industrial Contracting,
Inc. to perform the same services as Pala Inc. using
non-union employees.
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1982 – Pala
opens its New Orleans, LA office and expands its presence in the area
by adding Lockheed Martin at the Michoud Space Facility as a
client.
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1988 – Pala
Interstate begins engineering, fabricating, repairing and
constructing above-ground storage tanks in the
Baton Rouge and New Orleans
areas.
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1989 – Exxon
expands Pala’s contract to include the tank maintenance and
tank farms.
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1991 –
The Company brings the fabrication of tank parts necessary
for its field work in-house, and increases the size of its
fabrication facility from 7,500 to 24,000 square feet.
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1992 – Pala qualifies for the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers’ (“ASME”) “U-Stamp,” allowing it to fabricate ASME
pressure vessels and American Petroleum Institute (“API”)
tanks.
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1994
– The Company performs its first projects in Texas.
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1995 – Pala
expands its service offering by entering the “design build”
construction business, designing and building a sugar
refinery expansion in Florida.
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1997
– The Company enters into a joint venture with Fru-Con
Construction Corporation and assumes all responsibility for
projects and maintenance at Proctor & Gamble’s Pringles
potato chip plant in
Jackson,
TN.
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2000 – Pala receives the Eagle
Award from the National Associated Builders and Contractors
(“ABC”) in recognition of its design and construction of the
Borden Chemicals formaldehyde plant as the best project in
its size category that year.
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2000
– Pala, jointly with Exxon Baton Rouge, developed one of the
first “unit price” contracts for tank repairs in the
United States.
This contract has been expanded to all four of ExxonMobil’s
Gulf Coast Refineries.
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2002
– Pala opens its Houston, TX office to
support its tank maintenance business in
Baytown
and Beaumont, TX.
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2003 – The Company expands its capabilities and
client base by acquiring the assets of Boiler Rebuilders and
Fabricators.
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2003 – Pala is
awarded the maintenance of the tanks for Hunt Refining in
Tuscaloosa,
AL and expands its unit price tank work when
awarded by Shell’s Region 2 Tank Maintenance Contract, which
includes Louisiana, Mississippi
and Alabama.
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2007
– Pala leases an additional shop facility and installs a
state-of-the-art computerized burning table, further
expanding its fabrication capabilities and reducing plate
cutting lead-time by more than 75%.
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2007 – Pala is selected by Motiva/Shell Norco’s
facility after an extensive RFI, presentation and RFQ for a
small capital projects bundling contract. Management
anticipates this contract will lead to similar projects in
other Shell facilities.
