Elmwood-based Laitram Machinery announced in March that it has agreed to acquire Martak Ltd.’s shrimp peeling business. This significant move promises to improve the shrimp processing industry’s ...

In 1943, James Martial Lapeyre, then 16 years old, was working at a Houma seafood-packing plant when he came up with an idea to make shrimp peeling easier. Four years later, the teen’s concept led to ...