Ohmstede Industrial Services is a field service company headquartered in
League City
League City is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, in Galveston County, within the metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 112,129.
The city of League City has a small portion north of Clear Creek within Harris C ...
,
Texas. It was founded in 1905 by German immigrant August Ohmstede. It was originally a machine and auto repair shop. In the 1940s, Ohmstede began specializing in the repair and maintenance of
heat exchangers. Specifically, Ohmstede performs much field maintenance on
shell and tube heat exchangers commonly found in
petroleum refineries
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and
petrochemical plants.
Today, Ohmstede has offices throughout the
Gulf Coast region, with over 500 employees.
Texas offices are located in
Beaumont,
Corpus Christi, and
La Porte. Louisiana offices are located in
Sulphur
Sulfur (or sulphur in British English) is a chemical element with the symbol S and atomic number 16. It is abundant, multivalent and nonmetallic. Under normal conditions, sulfur atoms form cyclic octatomic molecules with a chemical formula ...
and
St. Gabriel.
Ohmstede was acquired by
Emcor
EMCOR Group is an engineering and construction company based in Norwalk, Connecticut, US.
It comprises 80 or more operating companies, has approximately 170 locations and employs more than 33,000 people. The company was listed as number 375 on ...
in September, 2007, for approximately $455 million.
Ohmstede is a member of the
Tubular Exchanger Manufacturers Association (TEMA).
References
External links
Ohmstede Ltd.G.E.O. Heat Exchangers
Manufacturing companies established in 1905
Companies based in Beaumont, Texas
1905 establishments in Texas
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