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Fabsteel<\/h2>\n

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Fletcher Thorne-Thomsen, Arabie Saoudite 1977<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\nT<\/span>a Fabsteel Company \u00e9tait une entreprise de fabrication d’acier \u00e9tablie \u00e0 Waskom, au Texas. Mon cabinet d’avocats avait initialement repr\u00e9sent\u00e9 son directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral, Fletcher Thorne-Thomsen.<\/p>\n

R\u00e9sident de Shreveport, l’entreprise qu’il dirigeait \u00e9tait une filiale de Universal Oil Products. \u00c0 l’\u00e9poque, UOP (aujourd’hui Honeywell UOP) \u00e9tait l’un des principaux conc\u00e9dants de licences internationaux de technologies industrielles exclusives pour le raffinage du p\u00e9trole, le traitement du gaz et la production p\u00e9trochimique. Elle s’\u00e9tait quelque peu hypertrophi\u00e9e dans les ann\u00e9es 1960 en devenant un conglom\u00e9rat d\u00e9passant ces domaines. Elle a fini par poss\u00e9der des entreprises aussi diverses que des parfums, des additifs alimentaires, des mines de cuivre, des for\u00eats et fabriquait m\u00eame des si\u00e8ges de camion et des gal\u00e8res d’avion. Parmi ces actifs plus \u00e9trangers \u00e0 son portefeuille, il y avait son usine de fabrication d’acier \u00e0 Waskom.<\/p>\n

Une partie de son travail sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9 consistait \u00e0 transformer les produits des aci\u00e9ries, tels que les lingots, les brames, les feuilles, les poutres et les barres d’armature, en formes particuli\u00e8res n\u00e9cessaires \u00e0 la construction d’installations industrielles complexes.<\/p>\n

Le processus de fabrication consistait \u00e0 d\u00e9couper les diff\u00e9rents produits de l’aci\u00e9rie pour leur donner des formes \u00e9tranges et courbes qui pouvaient \u00eatre soud\u00e9es ensemble pour former le d\u00e9dale de vaisseaux, de tours, d’\u00e9chelles et de tuyaux qui composent une raffinerie de p\u00e9trole ou une usine de production de plastique.<\/p>\n

La niche de Fabsteel sur le march\u00e9 \u00e9tait la composante tr\u00e8s \u00e9lev\u00e9e de la main-d’\u0153uvre n\u00e9cessaire pour chaque tonne d’acier qu’elle fabriquait.<\/p>\n

Lorsque les b\u00e9n\u00e9fices d’UOP ont commenc\u00e9 \u00e0 baisser dans les ann\u00e9es 1970, l’entreprise a d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de s’en tenir \u00e0 son tricotage et a vendu la plupart de ses incursions dans des activit\u00e9s non essentielles. Lorsque sa propri\u00e9t\u00e9 de Waskom devait \u00eatre vendue, l’acheteur le plus logique \u00e9tait son directeur. Quelle que soit la personne \u00e0 qui il a \u00e9t\u00e9 vendu, UOP pr\u00eatera probablement \u00e0 l’acheteur une grande partie du prix d’achat, en esp\u00e9rant qu’il sera rembours\u00e9 un jour. Avec Jerry Kaplan \u00e0 la t\u00eate de la transaction, j’\u00e9tais dans les tranch\u00e9es, voyageant jusqu’\u00e0 Waskom et passant des jours entiers \u00e0 faire la navette entre le domicile de Fletcher \u00e0 Shreveport, en Louisiane, et l’usine de Waskom, \u00e0 quelques kilom\u00e8tres de l\u00e0, de l’autre c\u00f4t\u00e9 de la rivi\u00e8re Rouge, dans l’est du Texas.<\/p>\n

Apr\u00e8s l’avoir rachet\u00e9e, Fletcher avait renomm\u00e9 la filiale d’UOP The Fabsteel Company. Pour repr\u00e9senter correctement les int\u00e9r\u00eats de Fabsteel, je devais comprendre l’entreprise de fond en comble. Quel plaisir c’\u00e9tait ! Pendant la majeure partie des ann\u00e9es 70, je faisais r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement l’aller-retour \u00e0 Shreveport pour mon travail juridique. De l\u00e0, je visitais les usines de fabrication qu’elle avait acquises l\u00e0-bas, dans le Mississippi et\/ou l’Indiana, ou je me rendais \u00e0 l’usine voisine de Waskom. Ces installations \u00e9taient d’\u00e9normes structures ouvertes aux plafonds hauts, avec des ponts roulants utilis\u00e9s pour d\u00e9placer les lourdes pi\u00e8ces d’acier qui \u00e9taient fabriqu\u00e9es. Le bruit peut \u00eatre assourdissant lorsque les chalumeaux d\u00e9coupent des formes compliqu\u00e9es dans l’acier brut et que les soudeurs travaillent partout. P\u00e9riodiquement, de grands composants finis \u00e9taient transport\u00e9s par un pont roulant vers une grande cuve de zinc fondu. Un seul plongeon dans la piscine de zinc et la pi\u00e8ce en ressortait avec une fine finition galvanis\u00e9e pr\u00eate \u00e0 durer toute une vie \u00e0 l’ext\u00e9rieur, dans une raffinerie ou une destination similaire, sans jamais rouiller.<\/p>\n

Pour moi, quitter mon bureau d’avocat \u00e0 Chicago pour me rendre en Arabie Saoudite ou me balader dans l’une des usines de Fabsteel au Texas, en Louisiane, au Mississippi et dans l’Indiana a toujours \u00e9t\u00e9 quelque chose que j’ai appr\u00e9ci\u00e9. Il fallait \u00e9galement visiter les lieux o\u00f9 les produits finis \u00e9taient fabriqu\u00e9s. Je me souviens tr\u00e8s bien avoir grimp\u00e9 dans des \u00e9chelles sur des chemin\u00e9es et des vaisseaux et avoir travers\u00e9 des plates-formes \u00e9troites au-dessus d’une raffinerie de p\u00e9trole dans le Chocolate Bayou de Houston. Si certains consid\u00e9raient cela comme un travail minable, pour moi, c’\u00e9tait vraiment la grande vie.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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