Heartland Fabrication, LLC builds inland barges at its Brownsville, Pennsylvania facility, where it also operates metal-processing and coatings businesses. The company says Heartland Fabrication began in 2005 and has grown to more than 300 employees, continuing a local boat- and barge-building heritage that dates back over 130 years. Its barges are made in the United States for transport on the nation's inland waterways.