Atlas Tube to Re-Open Blytheville HSS Facility
06/01/2011 - Atlas Tube announced plans to re-open its Hollow Structural Section manufacturing facility in Blytheville, Ark., with regularly scheduled mill rollings to begin in September.
Atlas Tube, a division of JMC Steel Group, announced plans to re-open its Hollow Structural Section (HSS) manufacturing facility in Blytheville, Ark. The facility will begin regularly scheduled mill rollings starting in September.
The company said its decision to re-open this plant will allow it to provide high quality customer service, reduce product lead times, and enhance delivery performance to customers in the Southeast and Southwest regions of the country. Atlas will produce round, square, and rectangle HSS at this facility, products that are typically used in various construction and OEM applications.
David Seeger, President of JMC Steel Group, believes that this will enhance Atlas' position in the marketplace: "The new technology we have deployed in Blytheville will elevate our quality, drive higher order turnaround, and give us added capacity to better serve our customers in the southern and western regions of the country," he said.
The company noted that customers serviced from the Blytheville facility will continue to be supported via the Customer Service teams at Atlas's Chicago, IL, Plymouth, Mich., and Harrow, Ont., facilities.
Atlas Tube, a division of the JMC Steel Group, was founded in Harrow, Ont., in 1984 and has been manufacturing Hollow Structural Sections (HSS) for over three decades. It is the largest HSS producer in North America, with five state-of-the-art production facilities in Chicago, Ill.; Plymouth, Mich.; Blytheville, Ark.; Harrow, Ont.; and Winnipeg, Man., which produce in excess of 1.4 million tons of HSS tube annually. Today, its steel tubing products are used applications including commercial and industrial building columns, solar support structures, sports stadiums, bridges, mobile construction equipment, railcars and oil rigs.
