Bernard Bayou Industrial District focus: composites
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...Bernard Bayou Industrial District has become the gathering point for a group
of businesses involved in work with composites. The focus has been
shipbuilding, but the implications for other fields are obvious.
...Bernard Bayou Industrial District is home to Northrop Grumman Ship
Systems Gulfport Operations, which is the company's composite center of
excellence. Next door is Trinity Yacht, and beyond that is Seemann Composites,
a company that has built a name for itself as a specialty fabricator that has
worked closely with some of the largest names in the business on DoD
contracts, including several in the aerospace field.
...Just down the street from Seemann is the Gulfport facility for Dubai-based
Future Pipe Industries. And while that company makes huge pipes for the oil
and gas industry, it also hopes to play a role in opening up a research and
technology center here.
...One of the most significant events in recent years has been...