MYER Industries LLC plans to invest $2.3 million to establish a new manufacturing headquarters and production facility in Grand Bay, a project expected to create 24 jobs over the next four years. The company, a wholly owned subsidiary of MYER Companies, has acquired an existing industrial building at 12780 Saeger Road in Mobile County.
Plans call for renovating and upgrading the property so the company can consolidate its ASME-certified fabrication operations into a single dedicated production facility. Construction is expected to begin this month, with the facility slated to be operational by August 2026. The move gathers the division’s fabrication work under one roof, replacing a scattered arrangement with a purpose-focused plant designed around the heavy equipment and certified processes that pressure vessel work demands.
The project lands in Grand Bay, the southwestern Mobile County community near the Mississippi line along U.S. Highway 90. The area’s industrial character and access to the regional highway network make it a practical home for heavy fabrication, and the new facility adds to a stretch of coastal Alabama that has seen steady industrial investment as manufacturers position themselves to serve the Gulf’s chemical, energy, and marine sectors.
What MYER Industries Builds
MYER Industries specializes in fabricating custom pressure vessels, heat exchangers, process equipment and other heavy industrial products, serving customers in the industrial, chemical, marine and process industries across the Gulf Coast region and beyond. The work is exacting by nature: pressure vessels and heat exchangers must be built to the standards of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers code, which governs design, materials, welding, and inspection for equipment that will operate under pressure in demanding industrial settings.
ASME certification is a meaningful credential in the fabrication world. Shops that hold it must maintain documented quality systems, qualified welders, and rigorous inspection procedures, and customers in the chemical and process industries typically require it from their suppliers. A dedicated, consolidated facility lets the company organize its floor around those workflows — large weld positions, material handling for heavy plate, and testing areas — rather than splitting production across locations.
The Gulf Coast market those products serve is one of the most concentrated industrial corridors in the country. Refineries, chemical plants, shipyards, and energy facilities line the coast from Texas through Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and all of them consume pressure equipment on continuous cycles of construction, maintenance, and replacement. A Mobile County fabricator sits close to that demand, able to deliver and support equipment across the region without long supply lines.
A Family-Rooted Company Grows
Bradley Myer, general manager of MYER Industries, said the division has quickly built a reputation as a premier ASME fabricator in the short time since it launched, and that the new facility will give the company a stronger foundation for future growth. He added that the investment reflects a continued commitment to the company’s employees, the community and the future of American manufacturing in Mobile County.
MYER Companies was founded in 2013 and now counts more than 200 teammates across its manufacturing and field service operations. The company was named the Mobile Chamber’s 2025 Manufacturer of the Year, an honor that recognized both its growth and its standing in the local industrial community. The Grand Bay expansion continues a trajectory that has carried the organization from a single enterprise into a family of companies serving heavy industry across the region.
The 24 jobs the project is expected to create will arrive over the next four years, adding skilled positions in welding, fitting, quality control, and production support. In a region where industrial employers compete for certified welders and experienced fabricators, the new facility doubles as a recruiting asset — a modern, dedicated shop that signals stability and long-term work to the tradespeople the company needs.
Grand Bay’s role in the project reflects broader trends in Mobile County’s industrial geography. While heavy manufacturing has long clustered around the Port of Mobile and the riverfront, outlying communities along the Highway 90 corridor have attracted their own share of industrial tenants seeking space, access, and room to grow. A renovated industrial building brought back into productive use also fits the pattern of adaptive reuse that communities across south Alabama have promoted — putting existing structures back to work rather than building from bare ground.
The timing aligns with a strong stretch for Mobile-area manufacturing. The region’s port, its growing industrial base, and its pipeline of major projects have made it one of the Southeast’s busiest markets for industrial construction and skilled trades employment. Companies that fabricate for the process industries benefit directly from that momentum, since every new plant and expansion along the Gulf ultimately needs the vessels, exchangers, and fabricated components that shops like MYER Industries produce.
The Economics of Expansion
A $2.3 million investment is a substantial commitment for a specialty fabricator, and it buys more than walls and floor space. Heavy fabrication requires overhead cranes, welding power, plate-processing equipment, and laid-out production flow, all of which come with renovation and outfitting of a dedicated building. Consolidating operations into that single site also trims the logistical drag of split production, letting the division schedule work, move material, and meet delivery commitments with fewer handoffs.
For the local economy, the effect compounds. Industrial wages tend to run above regional averages, and each fabrication job supports work elsewhere — suppliers of steel and consumables, trucking companies that move finished vessels, and the service businesses that surround any working industrial site. In south Mobile County, where good-paying skilled jobs close to home are precious, a 24-job expansion carries weight well beyond its headcount.
The company’s recognition as the Mobile Chamber’s 2025 Manufacturer of the Year placed it among the region’s most respected industrial employers. The chamber’s annual honor highlights companies that demonstrate growth, workforce commitment, and community involvement, and MYER’s expansion months later tracks with the kind of trajectory that award is meant to celebrate. Company leadership framed the new facility in exactly those terms — an investment in employees and community as much as in production capacity.
Looking Ahead
Construction starting this month puts the project on a path toward August 2026 operations, a timeline that will move through renovation, equipment installation, and commissioning before production ramps up. As hiring progresses over the following four years, the facility is expected to settle into its role as the division’s fabrication headquarters, anchoring MYER Industries’ work for the industrial, chemical, marine, and process customers it serves across the Gulf Coast.
For Grand Bay, the arrival of a growing manufacturer with a national certification and a parent company of more than 200 employees is a notable addition to the community’s economic base. For the region’s industrial supply chain, it adds capacity at a moment when demand for American-made pressure equipment remains strong. And for MYER Companies, the expansion marks another step in a story that began in 2013 and now points squarely toward a larger future in Mobile County manufacturing.
The company says the new facility will give it a stronger foundation for future growth — and if the division’s early record is any guide, the Saeger Road plant will spend little time idle once the lights come on.
Pressure vessel fabrication is a niche within metalworking that rewards precision over volume. Vessels destined for chemical plants and processing facilities are engineered to contain liquids and gases at pressures and temperatures far beyond ordinary service, and every weld is subject to code inspection before the equipment ships. Heat exchangers, similarly, are built to transfer heat between fluids in refineries and process plants, where a fabrication flaw can shut down an entire operation. That is why customers in these industries vet their fabricators carefully, and why an ASME-certified shop with a modern dedicated facility has a genuine selling point.
The marine side of the company’s customer base ties the business to another of coastal Alabama’s strengths. The region’s shipbuilding and ship repair sector is among the largest in the nation, and vessel construction draws on the same network of certified fabricators that serves the process industries. A Mobile County shop positioned to serve both sectors can weather downturns in one market with work from the other — a resilience strategy that experienced Gulf Coast manufacturers have long employed.
Workforce and Training
The hiring that accompanies the facility will tap into a skilled-trades pipeline that the region has been building for years. Southwest Alabama’s technical and community college programs train welders, pipefitters, and industrial maintenance technicians, and employers along the Gulf Coast have partnered with those programs to keep pace with demand. For new graduates in those trades, a growing fabricator opening positions near home offers an alternative to following construction work across the region.
Company leaders have framed the expansion around people as much as capacity — a commitment to employees, the community, and the future of American manufacturing in Mobile County. That language reflects a conviction shared by many in the region’s industrial sector: that American fabrication shops compete on quality, certification, and delivery, and that investment in facilities and workforce is how they stay competitive against both domestic rivals and imports.
As the renovation progresses at 12780 Saeger Road, the visible signs will be familiar to anyone who has watched an industrial building come back to life — site work and upgrades, then equipment, then the first crews on the floor. By the time the facility reaches full operation in August 2026, Grand Bay will have gained both a manufacturer and a piece of the Gulf Coast’s industrial future, and MYER Industries will have the consolidated home its growth has earned.