Davie’s Quebec facility is currently undergoing an $840-million upgrade to bolster its capacity for the work set to begin there on a new Polar Max icebreaker destined for Canada’s Arctic.

Canadian shipbuilder Chantier Davie Canada Inc. is getting an American sibling.

Davie’s parent company Inocea Group is establishing a new U.S. entity, Davie Defence Inc., to run its new Texas shipyards and bid for a contract from the U.S. government to increase its icebreaker fleet.

In June, Davie announced its intention to acquire shipyards in Galveston, Texas from Gulf Copper & Manufacturing Corporation. That transaction is now nearing completion (pending a few regulatory approvals) under Davie Defence Inc., which has dubbed its new facility the “American Icebreaker Factory.”

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