Service Center News

Federal Steel Supply, St. Louis, has been acquired by Westbridge Capital Ltd., a Canadian private management company. The company had been owned by V&A Capital since 2019.

Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co., Scottsdale, Ariz., donated $1 million to Ronald McDonald House Charities at the annual Reliance Managers' Meeting March 9.

John Genua has joined Polished Metals Limited, an integrated polisher of nonferrous metals based in Hillside, New Jersey.

SAF, a global metals distributor, fabricator and finisher, continues to add new machinery to facilities across its organization with new, state-of-the-art column cover rollers at SAF West in Redding, Calif.

Leeco Steel, the largest supplier of steel plate in North America, has added a Messer MPC2000 MC combination cutting and drilling machine at the company’s Portage, Ind., distribution center.

Advanced Gauging Technologies, Plain City, Ohio, has received a purchase order from Voss Clark for a new AGT Width High-Performance gauge to be installed at its Jeffersonville, Ind., facility. The gauge will be installed on a 72-inch pickle line where it will measure sheet widths of various steel alloys.

Ryerson Holding Corporation, Chicago, has acquired BLP Holdings, Houston. BLP is comprised of three divisions: Absolute Metal Products, Metal Cutting Specialists and Houston Water Jet.

TW Metals, a full-line specialty metals distributor, will break ground March 9 on an addition for a new material handling system at its Carol Stream, Ill., facility. The system is designed and will be built by Swiss-based warehouse logistics firm Fehr Inc.

Direct Metals, an international steel service center headquartered in Kennesaw, Ga., has moved its Illinois location to a larger warehouse in Pleasant Prairie, Wis. The new warehouse will maintain on-time and reliable deliveries of wire mesh, safety grating, bar grating, fiberglass grating, expanded metal, architectural metal and perforated metal orders due to its central location.

Olympic Steel Inc., Cleveland, reported net sales of $2.6 billion in 2022, up 13 percent compared with 2021. Fourth-quarter sales of $520 million were down 25 percent from the same quarter in 2022.