U.S. Pipe Fabrication

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U.S. Pipe Fabrication, a divison of U.S. Pipe and a Forterra company, was incorporated in August 1991 with the goal of consolidating a significant number of small shops into a single, centrally owned, locally managed producer of ductile iron pipe fabrications.U.S. Pipe Fabrication Custom Fab Pipe. The U.S. Pipe Fabrication business plan is based on getting a quality product into the hands of the customer in a short time. Market areas are effectively restricted by shipping times and delivery constraints to an area within three hundred miles of each shop. To insure prompt deliveries to a growing geographic market, U.S. Pipe Fabrication elected to grow through the addition of shops in many diverse locations rather than expanding a single facility in a selected single city.The first branch was opened in Louisville, Kentucky during the month of August 1991 and within two years of incorporation U.S. Pipe Fabrication had expanded it’s effective market area from three to twenty-three states by acquiring existing establishments in Virginia, New England and South Carolina.From 1994 to 1998 an acquisition was made in Louisiana and subsequently closed after the start up the large Kansas operation was completed. During this period, two U.S. Pipe Fabrication locations on the West coast were purchased from Certainteed Corporation in the Spring of 1996. These branches expanded company coverage to the entire United States and broadened the product line to include hydrostatic test pumps, large steel fabrications, and a variety of specialized linings and coatings including glass and fusion bonded epoxy.