Richard L. Oreair & Company.

What Richard L. Oreair & Company. does

Richard L. Oreair & Company is a privately held, family-owned industrial electrical contracting firm headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, founded in 1955 by Richard L. Oreair Sr. (a former WWII Navy fighter pilot) and currently led by his son, Richard L. Oreair Jr. (CEO since 1994). The firm specializes in industrial process control, automation, and the installation of Ethernet (Cat 6) and fiber optic infrastructure in industrial environments, with technical capabilities spanning power distribution up to 15,000 Volts, Emerson-Delta V control systems, arc flash analysis, and PLC ladder logic programming. It operates across six organized service verticals: Food & Beverage, Chemical & Petroleum, Wine & Spirits, Heavy Industrial, Networks & Technology, and ongoing Service & Maintenance, serving enterprise clients such as Coca-Cola, Pepsi-Cola, Gatorade, Campbell Soup, Tropicana, Georgia-Pacific, Publix, Diageo, Jim Beam, John Deere, Gerdau, and Symrise/Renessenz.

The firm's service delivery model is project-based, with crews deployed nationally to client facilities for installations ranging from short-duration maintenance and shutdown support to multi-year, multi-site deployments exceeding two years. Pricing is quote-based and scope-specific, with no standardized public pricing. The go-to-market is direct enterprise field sales, with the company's website (oreair.com) as the primary marketing channel and a relationship-driven sales motion anchored by long-tenured customer accounts and repeat awards (e.g., sequential Pepsi and Tropicana engagements). The company employs 51-100 staff and reports no external investors, parent company, or public listing.

Name

Richard L. Oreair & Company.

Legal name

Richard L. Oreair & Company

Website

https://oreair.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Richard L. Oreair & Company is a Jacksonville, FL-based industrial electrical contractor specializing in process control, automation, and network infrastructure for enterprise clients across food and beverage, chemical, distillery, heavy industrial, and network technology sectors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Electrical Contracting

SIC

Electrical Industrial Apparatus (3620), Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial & Process Engineering Consulting (BPAHAIAF)

Keywords

• Industrial electrical contracting
• Process control automation
• Industrial automation systems
• Electrical construction services
• Power distribution systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Jacksonville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Industrial Electrical Contracting Services: Project-based electrical contracting services for industrial facilities. Revenue is generated through one-time project work including power distribution, process control installation, automation systems, network infrastructure, and related electrical work. Projects range from small-scale to very large-scale, lasting from several weeks to over two years.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Richard L. Oreair & Company is an industrial electrical contracting firm that designs, installs, and services industrial process control, automation, power distribution (480V to 15,000V), and network (Ethernet Cat 6 and fiber optics) infrastructure. Their work spans automated production lines, conveyor and packaging systems, brewing/batching controls, distillation process control, and arc flash analysis, delivered to enterprise industrial clients across six verticals: food & beverage, chemical & petroleum, wine & spirits, heavy industrial, networks & technology, and service/maintenance.

Product overview

Richard L. Oreair & Company is an electrical contracting firm that provides a comprehensive suite of industrial electrical services rather than a traditional product platform. The company operates across six service verticals: Food & Beverage, Chemical & Petroleum, Wine & Spirits, Heavy Industrial, Networks & Technology, and general Service & Maintenance. Their core offering centers on industrial process control, automation, and installation of Ethernet (cat 6) and fiber optics infrastructure in industrial environments. The company has specialized expertise in automated production line installations and has completed major projects for companies such as Campbell Soup, Pepsi-Cola, Gatorade, Tropicana, and Flowers Baking Industries.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Food & Beverage Electrical Services Electrical contracting services for food and beverage processing facilities, including process control, conveyor systems, packaging line automation, brewing/batching controls, and production line installations for enterprise clients (e.g., Pepsi-Cola, Gatorade, Tropicana, Campbell Soup, Flowers Baking Industries, Schweid & Sons, Heritage Farms, HEB).
• Chemical & Petroleum Electrical Services Electrical and process control services for chemical and petroleum facilities, including distillation processes, motor distribution, fueling terminals, arc flash analysis, and Emerson-Delta V control systems for clients such as Symrise (Renessenz), Lyondell Chemical, Buckeye, and NuStar.
• Wine & Spirits Electrical Services Electrical contracting services for wine and spirits production facilities, including heat trace systems, bottling and canning lines, distillation equipment, and liquid recovery processes for clients such as Bently Heritage Distillery, Bulleit Distilling Company, Diageo Distillery, Jim Beam, and Guinness Blonde.
• Heavy Industrial Electrical Services Electrical services for heavy industrial facilities, including power distribution (up to 15,000V), control systems, conveyor systems, fiber optics upgrades, and process equipment wiring for clients such as Gerdau Steel Mill, Florida Rock, CEMEX, Argos, Sanderson Pipe, West Fraser, and United States Gypsum.
• Networks & Technology Services Network infrastructure services for industrial facilities, including new network infrastructure design, redundant star topology architecture, fiber optics and Cat 6 Ethernet installations, network room construction, and PLC network integration for clients such as John Deere and Rayonier.
• Service & Maintenance Ongoing electrical service and maintenance for industrial clients, including process controls, pumping systems, control wiring, and support for facilities such as JEA Lift Station and Parker Aerospace.

Named customers33 records

Segments6 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Rosendin Electric: Rosendin is one of the largest US employee-owned electrical contractors with industrial, commercial, mission-critical and renewable practices. It is a direct peer in industrial electrical work, though it operates at larger scale and broader geographic footprint than Oreair.
• MMR Group: MMR Group is an industrial electrical and instrumentation contractor serving power, petrochemical, refining and manufacturing customers across the US. It is a direct competitor for process-control, instrumentation and high-voltage distribution work similar to Oreair's chemical/petroleum and heavy industrial verticals.
• IES Holdings: IES Holdings provides electrical and mechanical design, installation and service across industrial, commercial and residential markets through operating subsidiaries. It is a directly comparable industrial electrical contractor with similar automation, process-control and industrial network capabilities, but at materially larger scale.
• Faith Technologies: Faith Technologies is a large national electrical and specialty systems contractor serving industrial, commercial, healthcare and renewable customers with process-control and automation expertise. It is a direct peer in industrial electrical contracting with overlapping customer profile and similar technical stack.
• Helix Electric: Helix Electric is a national electrical contractor specializing in commercial, industrial and institutional projects including process-control and automation work. It is a direct competitor for industrial electrical and automation installations of the type Oreair delivers.
• Brandt Companies: Brandt is a privately held electrical, instrumentation and process-control contractor serving oil & gas, petrochemical, power and industrial customers. It is a direct peer in industrial electrical contracting with similar automation and instrumentation focus.

Broad incumbents

• EMCOR Group: EMCOR Group is a Fortune 500 provider of mechanical and electrical construction, energy infrastructure and building services across industrial, commercial and utility markets. It competes with Oreair for large industrial electrical and process-control work but operates at vastly greater scale and across multiple trades.
• Quanta Services: Quanta Services is the largest US infrastructure construction firm focused on electric power, oil & gas and communications. While more utility/transmission-oriented, it competes for industrial electrical and process-control scopes at very large scale.

Emerging players

• Power Design: Power Design is a large private electrical contractor with growing industrial and automation work, primarily known for multifamily and commercial. While more commercial-focused, it increasingly competes for industrial process and automation installations similar to Oreair's scope.

Regional players

• Germfree deHart (now part of EMCOR subsidiary): Precision Build / regional industrial electrical contractors in the Southeast US compete for the same Florida and Southeast industrial electrical and automation projects Oreair serves, though typically at smaller scale and with narrower capabilities.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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