Our History

Sterling Industrial, LLC located in Evansville, Indiana was founded and incorporated in Indiana on June 1, 1982, by Daniel G. Felker.  From that period of time it has grown from a start-up Company to a status of having been recognized as the 39^th ranked Specialty Contractor in the 2009 listing of the Engineering News-Record Periodical Top 600 Specialty Contractors with revenues in excess of $200 million annually.  It has grown from a Tri-State Area Contractor to an area of operation that now covers the United States.

Sterling Industrial, LLC provides civil/structural, electrical, mechanical, and refractory contracting services for new construction and maintenance/retrofit applications, well as shop fabricating and machining services to complement our field services and Customer needs. We serve our Clients in the Power Generation, Chemical, Plastics, Aluminum, Metal Processing, Oil Refining, and Paper Processing Industries. We pride ourselves on being a full-service Contractor attentive and responsive to the needs of our Customers; providing a full range of services and solutions for construction and maintenance projects in the industries that we serve.

Sterling Industrial Core Values are:

• Safety. We are committed to providing a safe work environment. Safety is our first priority.
• Long-term customer relationships. Mutual success is the basis for long-term, profitable relationships.
• Ethics. We hold ourselves and our partners to the highest standard of honesty and transparency.
• Quality and timely services. As craftsman, we have a unique pride in ownership while delivering on our commitments.
• Continuous improvement philosophy. We foster a culture that challenges the status quo and are continually in search of better ways for everything that we do.

Power Generation and Heavy Industry Markets

• Safety is a top business priority and commitment driven by top management thru the Company, with a full-time Safety Department.
• SBM Project Management and Project Controls combine with a professional approach to complete our projects safely, on time, and within budget.
• Union Building Trades Crafts employed include boilermakers, pipefitters, ironworkers, laborers, millwrights, operating engineers, electricians, carpenters, teamsters, cement masons, bricklayers, and sprinkler fitters.
• Full Service Boiler Repair and Maintenance for the Industrial and Power Generation sectors.  Complete boiler and associated equipment installation and repair.  Refractory repair/replacement.
• Installation and repair of Pollution Control Equipment such as scrubbers, precipitators, fabric filters, and ancillary equipment.
• Foundations, steel erection, equipment setting and precision alignment, piping, electrical and instrumentation.  Rigging/setting and assembly of plant equipment.
• Largest employer of boilermakers, pipefitter, ironworker, electricians and millwright crafts in the nation.
• Maintains ASME and NBIC Accreditation for PP, S, U, U2, and R stamps.
• Numerous Maintenance Agreement/Alliance Contracts in force in our region.
• Specialize in 24/7 service to meet the Customer’s needs.
• 150,000 square feet of shop fabricating and machining facilities and specialized equipment.Specialized focus on fabrication, installation, and welding of special/exotic alloy metals for the Chemical and Power Generation Industries such as duplex stainless steel, and high chromium/high nickel alloys.
• Fulltime Quality Control Group for both field and shop work, including personnel certified by AWS and ASNT for various types of NDE.

Commercial and Institutional Markets:

In addition to the Power Generation and Heavy Industrial markets, Sterling Industrial provides new construction and maintenance services for the Commercial and Institutional market sectors, alongwith some residential electric service work.  We have performed new construction work for pre-engineered buildings, concrete foundations, structural and ornamental installation, plumbing, electrical and architectural finish work on commercial/institutional applications such as offices, banks, stores/malls,schools, churches, and warehouses.  Additionally we provide maintenance and repair services for the same type of facilities.  Skilled craftsman are employed in providing these services include carpenters (form and finish), laborers, cement finishers, ironworkers, plumbers, electricians and bricklayers.

Whether it is new construction or maintenance or repair, Sterling Industrial, LLC prides itself on the quality of our work, and a timely response to the Customer’s needs in order to generate future business opportunities with our Customers.