Chicago Bridge & Iron Cuts 300 Jobs

Chicago Bridge & Iron plans to close its two fabrication operations in Tyler, Texas, eliminating 300 jobs.

CB&I says some of the employees will be transferred to the company’s Beaumont facility. The shutdown will not affect the company’s Tyler engineering center, which employs 360 people.

The Tyler area has lost more than 2,000 industrial and manufacturing positions recently.

Chicago Bridge & Iron Company is a large multinational conglomerate engineering, procurement and construction company. CB&I specializes in projects for customers that produce, process, store and distribute the world’s natural resources. It operates from more than 80 locations around the world, and as of August 1st, 2008, has 18,000 employees.