Cembell Industries

Cembell Industries, Inc. was started in June of 1980 to address the growing demand for ASME Code work in the area. Cembell's first physical location was 5417 Paris Road, Chalmette, LA in St. Bernard parish. We started with one shop and 8 employees. In 1985 we expanded to add Heat Exchanger design & fabrication. In 1990 we expanded to add a field di... vision to repair heat exchangers & pressure vessels on-site. During this time frame Cembell added new equipment and employees to accommodate the demand from the petrochemical industries. We also expanded the original shop by adding a second bay and building an office building. By August of 2005 we had grown to 130 employees. On August 29, 2005 Hurricane Katrina hit, and we lost everything. We quickly decided that if we were going to start over again it would have to be in a different location. The chance that we could be wiped out again was too much of a risk for our customers and for ourselves. On September 15, 2005 we purchased the St. Pierre's fabrication shop in Montz, LA (St. Charles Parish). We had located some of our original employees, retained the employees that were working for St. Pierre's and were open for business on September 16, 2005 - just 17 days after Katrina hit. We salvaged what equipment we could from Chalmette, and purchased new equipment to replace what couldn't be repaired. We also built a new shop at the Montz location as the existing shop was not large enough to accommodate our work. We have since added a new bay between the old Montz shop and the new one plus a reactive metals / clean bay giving us a total of 4 bays. Currently, we have 220 employees. Our company is stronger than it was before the Hurricane. We have been quite successful in our new location, purchasing more equipment and increasing our work force to meet our customer demands.Read More