2023 Business Excellence Winner: Jamie Byrd of New England Mechanical Overlay
Jamie Byrd of New England Mechanical Overlay is the 2023 Business Excellence winner for the Manufacturing category for a large company
New England Mechanical Overlay was founded in 2005 by Jamie Byrd, who started his career as a welder in 1998, and, in 2010, built its current headquarters and 6,000-square-foot fabrication shop in Pittsfield, N.H. Working in the industry while attending Tulsa Welding School and obtaining his master welder’s certificate, Jamie guided the company towards specialization in industrial boiler repair, corrosion-resistant overlay, power plant maintenance, pipe fitting, shop fabrication and other field-specific services. Its sister company, NEMO Fabrication, the manufacturing segment of the company, is a full-service design and fabrication shop specializing in custom ASME tank design and fabrication as well as power and process pipe fitting. More recently in 2018, New England Mechanical Overlay acquired Connecticut-based Harvard NDE.