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As an industry-leading soft craft specialist, Apache Industrial( Apache) provides innovative and reliable solutions for today’ s construction and maintenance challenges. With its history dating back to 1967, Apache has earned a strong reputation as a multi-service solution provider for industrial, commercial construction, and maintenance clients across North America.
When CEO Stephen Hillier last spoke with Construction Today, he talked about the company’ s involvement with a chip plant project in Texas, as well as Apache’ s plans to invest in its own facilities across the US. One year later, Stephen joins us again to share an update on the company’ s progress in these areas.
“ We’ ve weathered 2024’ s economic storm relatively well,” Stephen opens.“ Throughout the year, we’ ve adopted some interesting new strategies and diversified our offerings into new markets. We’ ve moved more into completing missioncritical work such as microchips and data center applications, while still maintaining our core business within the oil and gas and petrochemical markets. Our work on the chip plant in Taylor, Texas, is progressing extremely well, and we’ re now supporting this client with a series of smaller projects.
“ When we spoke last year, we also discussed an expansion to our Corpus Christi facility to cope with increased demand and activity in the region. We’ ve got several rolling gas lines there and one of our biggest clients in the offshore modernization sector is also in that area. We’ ve upscaled the entire site, including the installation of new fabrication capabilities and an expansion of our blast yard. Since these upgrades, we’ ve increased productivity and can complete more work for our clients, which has already led to lots of positive feedback.
“ This year, we’ re continuing to build what we call our base load business, which consists of maintenance, turnaround, and small cap projects,” he continues.“ This is a very sustainable area for the company, and we want to concentrate on driving efficiency and delivering predictable, reliable outcomes for our clients.”
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Elaborating on Apache’ s strategic structural changes, Stephen explains:“ We’ ve had another year of driving our strategy forward to build a new ecosystem across the entire company. This is driving a different approach to our client relationships, and we’ ve recently secured a significant maintenance project where we replaced an 18-year and 26-year incumbent from the project. Our ability to transition to this project’ s requirements, provide transparent communication, and understand the
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