Watch | McAbee Pigfitters Honor Mike Copeland
Every year members of the McAbee Pigfitters, our very own cooking team, spend countless hours preparing their award-winning pork to support “BBQ & Blue Jeans,” an event hosted by The DCH Foundation.
In the News | How a pipe spool fabricator digitized traceability for welders
Tim Heston, The FABRICATOR, Sept. 20, 2022 By the early 2010s, the leaders at McAbee, an industrial contractor and pipe spool fabricator in Tuscaloosa, Ala., saw the issue as more than a paperwork problem. It sapped efficiency and forced talented, well-paid people to spend too much of their day walking the length of McAbee’s 144,000-sq.-ft. floor…
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In the News | How to Beat Tuscaloosa’s Soaring Heat
Asher Redd, WVUA 23, June 14, 2022 Everything we have always hated about summer hit us like a Mack truck yesterday, but this is only the beginning. Monday saw temperatures hit 96 degrees, even though it felt much hotter. Temperatures are set to only increase as the week continues. Kevin Lancaster, who is the superintendent of…
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Behind the Brand
In 2021 we launched into a new uniform marketing approach that includes a new website, brand refresh and, carrying over into 2022, an audit and upgrade of our current business development, marketing and preconstruction processes. We are working to make our communication with customers before, during and after project completion more seamless and efficient. That…
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Watch | McAbee Moves Tuska to Bryant-Denny Stadium
The University of Alabama called on McAbee to help lift, transfer, offload and set a 10,000+ lbs. bronze elephant sculpture, known as Tuska. Tuska has been on display at NorthRiver Yacht Club since 2001.
Setting Our Sites on New Beginnings
Hi there, and welcome to the new McAbee website! If we haven’t had the opportunity to meet, my name is Doug Killough and I am the Marketing Manager here at McAbee. I wanted to be the first to welcome you to the new McAbee website. Let me show you around. First, you will notice our…
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In the News | The story behind how a 175-ft.-long pressure vessel was made
Dan Davis, The FABRICATOR, Aug. 3, 2021 In July 2019 McAbee, an industrial contractor and fabricator in Tuscaloosa, Ala., got a call to quote work to build a pressure vessel that would be 175 ft. long from the tip of one formed end to the other and would have an empty weight of 520,000 lbs. This desalter, which…
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In the News | Meet Tuska, the 19-foot tall elephant statue placed in front of Bryant-Denny Stadium
CBS 42, April 12, 2021 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (WIAT) — Alabama fans now have something new to cheer about. A 19-foot tall and 7-ton elephant statue named Tuska now stands in front of Bryant-Denny Stadium. “I saw it and I had to pull over to take pictures and see it myself and it just…
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