Mill Steel to Expand Head Office, Processing and Distribution Operations
10/04/2011 - Following triple-digit volume, customer, and employee growth, Mill Steel Co. is expanding its Grand Rapids, Mich., corporate office and adding new distribution and processing capabilities in Birmingham, Ala., and Louisville, Ky.
Mill Steel Co. has announced the expansion of its Grand Rapids, Mich., corporate offices to support its growth in staffing and training requirements. The expansion includes the addition of about 5000 square feet of corporate office space and a training facility designed to support the company's national sales and operations training activities.
David S. Samrick, President and Chief Executive Officer, said, "The company continues to see opportunity in all of its business segments, and the Grand Rapids expansion is a necessity given the company's triple-digit growth in both processed and sold tons, customers, and employees since late 2009."
Mill Steel believes its expansion will provide adequate space for up to 50 additional full-time staff and management associates as well as a training facility that will support 80 persons for use in training its sales, engineering, and operating teams on the company's latest initiatives.
"We expect this expansion to assist greatly in the company's ability to conduct centralized sales and operating training programs for its team as well as be a venue in which the entire Mill Steel family can come together for corporate events," Samrick added.
Mill Steel has also announced the expansion of its painted products distribution footprint. On October 1, 2011, Mill Steel expanded its distribution operations to include a 50,500 square foot facility in Louisville, Ky., in an effort to more effectively and cost-efficiently distribute painted and acrylic flat-rolled steel to its mid-Atlantic and Midwest customers.
"The company's decision to locate in Louisville, Ky., offers Mill Steel an outstanding location to not only efficiently distribute its painted flat-rolled steel into those markets, but also expand its sales presence to support its automotive, appliance, tubing, and general fabrication customers receiving material out of Mill Steel's Detroit and Birmingham processing facilities," said Eric Lambert, Senior Vice President, COO and CFO of Mill Steel.
In an effort to further improve its service offerings to the company's automotive, appliance general fabricating, and building products customers in the Southeast and Mid-South U.S., Mill Steel has also announced the expansion of its Birmingham, Ala., processing center and distribution operations. Mill Steel in September 2011 established a 55,000 square foot addition adjacent to its current 121,000 square foot Birmingham processing operation. This expansion enables Mill Steel to both improve its storage and distribution capacity as well as substantively expand its slitting and packaging capabilities. This site expansion includes certain rights to improve its contiguous 3.75 acres of vacant land to provide better inbound and outbound logistics at the Birmingham property.
"The company's decision to expand its Birmingham, Ala., operations is due in large part to the continued conversion of automotive, appliance, and construction customers in the Southeast and Mid-south United States," Samrick said. "We expect this location to not only expand and enhance our production capabilities but more efficiently and timely distribute finished goods to its customers across the entire Southeast region."
Mill Steel Co., based in Grand Rapids, Mich., and ranked in the Top 50 Metal Service Centers, is one of the largest flat-rolled steel products distributors in the Midwest and Southeast U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Comprised of 12 production lines and three production locations in Grand Rapids and Melvindale (Detroit), Mich., and Birmingham, Ala., Mill Steel serves customers in the automotive, appliance, homebuilding and agricultural equipment industries, among others, across North America. The company also has distribution facilities in Laredo, Tex., and Louisville, Ky.
