Shane Boston
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
About Southern
Built the Southern Way
15+ years as Southern Welding — decades more as the team behind it.
Southern Welding began over 15 years ago as the solution we wished we’d had when we worked for industrial manufacturers. Our team has all come from running and maintaining manufacturing plants. Today, we specialize in keeping these same plants and mills up and running.
90+
Unique Plants Worked
250+
Collective Years on Site
350+
Southern Team Members
50
States Served
120+
Projects Per Year
Who We Are
We Are Welders, Mechanics, Engineers, and Skilled Craftsmen
We are welders, mechanics, engineers and skilled craftsmen of all types dedicated to providing the highest quality of repairs, builds, maintenance and service. We created Southern as the solution we couldn’t find as plant and maintenance managers.
Founded with this mission, we’ve built an industrial services company we all live by — the Southern Way.
Our Story
From the Plant Floor to Founding Southern
From 1996 to 2007, Southern Welding founder Shane Boston learned every part of running, managing and maintaining industrial plants, as did much of the Southern team over the last several decades. They built the industrial services company they wanted as plant and product managers. Today, we’re an integral company in the American Industrial Service family of companies (AIS) and known across the country as Southern Welding.
Meet the Southern Team →Who We Work With
Trusted Across the Industry
The Southern Way
Built By the Team. Backed By the Team.
Fifteen-plus years in, we’re still the same company we set out to build — the one we wished existed when we were running plants ourselves.