These are pictures of EBI’s 150 class, The Gary Chiasson Elevator, their newest liftboat. It was completed at EBI’s new construction and fabrication facility in Houma, LA in early 2010.
With the purchase of 110 acres of prime industrial waterfront property (former Delta Shipyard Facility), Elevating Boats, LLC expanded its operation into Houma, Louisiana, U.S.A. in 1991. The facility is located on the Houma Navigation Canal which provides direct access to the Gulf of Mexico with no overhead restrictions. This wide channel provides for easy transport of EBI's new class of large liftboats.
EBI’s Houma location primarily focuses on new vessel construction, but it also performs maintenance support for the many liftboats in the fleet, which operate in the Houma area. This location’s accessible and calm dockside work areas allows all vessels which enter the EBI fleet to be inspected for initial inclining, and dead weight survey. Each vessel will receive a Certificate of Inspection upon completion of these tests.
The Houma location also has the equipment to shear, form, and fabricate very large weldments and vessels which greatly enhances the company's ability to build the products necessary to operate in deep waters. In Houma, EBI performs many metal forming services for local businesses. Examples include: crimping or corrugating bulkhead, flange plate, knuckles, rub-rails, and pipe rails for the marine repair industry; rolling large diameter cylinders for tanks or platform components; and crimping and forming materials for cane trailers built for the local sugar cane industry.
EBI recently acquired Southern Enterprises INC. in Ponchatoula, LA in 2009. The new expansion enables EBI the ability to offer more fabrication and manufacturing services such as machine work, welding, fabrication, and manufacturing. Click here to learn more about this facility.
These are pictures of EBI’s 150 class, The Gary Chiasson Elevator, their newest liftboat. It was completed at EBI’s new construction and fabrication facility in Houma, LA in early 2010.
Ponchatoula expansion images coming soon.