About CR Meyer

CR Meyer is an industrial general contractor headquartered in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. We've been in business since 1888 because we do what we say we're going to do, project after project, decade after decade, for clients who keep coming back.

As a self-performing contractor, we employ and deploy our own skilled union craftspeople — millwrights, pipefitters, ironworkers, electricians, boilermakers, and more — to perform the critical trades. We don't manage other people's work and call it ours; we do the work … and we're accountable for every outcome.

CR Meyer employees featured in the testimonial video

What Makes CR Meyer Different?

For over 135 years, CR Meyer has operated in some of the most demanding industrial environments in the country — pulp and paper mills, power generation facilities, mining operations, active manufacturing plants, and more. The work is complex. The stakes are high. And the clients we serve cannot afford to get it wrong.

What sets CR Meyer apart is not the length of our history. It's what that history reflects: an organization that has consistently earned the trust of industrial owners by controlling the work directly, prioritizing safety above everything else, and showing up with the same accountability on the last day of a project as on the first.

135+

Years in industrial construction

Established in 1888 in Oshkosh, WI. Still field-focused. Still accountable.

2,000+

Skilled union tradespeople

Boilermakers, carpenters, electricians, ironworkers, millwrights, pipefitters, and more — all employed and managed by CR Meyer, and scalable to suit the job.

Top 10

ENR industrial contractor

Consistently ranked by Engineering News-Record among the top 10 industrial contractors in the U.S.

ENR pulp and paper contractor

Highest-ranked contractor in the U.S. for work in the pulp and paper market, according to Engineering News-Record.

When CR Meyer takes on a project, our own craftspeople perform the critical trades. That means one safety culture governs every crew on site. One project leadership team coordinates every scope. And one accountable team owns the outcome from start to finish.

For plant managers, project engineers, and procurement leaders evaluating industrial contractors, that distinction is significant. Fewer handoffs means fewer variables. And fewer variables means more predictable outcomes on safety, on schedule, and on budget.

Safety leadership

We’re proactive, not reactive. Hazards are identified before work begins, not after incidents occur.

Steadfast integrity

We say what we mean and do what we say. That's been the foundation of our client relationships for more than a century.

Quality tradework

The work CR Meyer's craftspeople perform reflects on this company long after the project closes out. We take that seriously.

Financial stewardship

We manage our clients' budgets with the same discipline we apply to our own.

Creative problem-solving

Complex industrial projects rarely go exactly as planned. CR Meyer's people are trained to find solutions, not excuses.

Trusting relationships

Our longest client relationships span decades. That kind of trust is built through consistent performance, not sales effort.

Leadership Center

How Does CR Meyer Invest in Its Workforce?

The quality of CR Meyer's work depends on the quality of the people doing it. The Charles R. Meyer Leadership Center, established in 2018, is our investment in making sure that quality is sustained across generations of craftspeople and project leaders.

The Leadership Center serves CR Meyer employees and union tradespeople — developing technical skills, safety leadership, and project management capability across the full workforce. It’s also a critical component of our succession planning, ensuring that the institutional knowledge our most experienced people carry is transferred to the next generation, so our clients' relationships with CR Meyer are never dependent on any single individual.

CR Meyer has been trusted with tough industrial projects for over 135 years. If you have a project that requires that kind of experience, let's talk about it.

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