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Advantage Metal Products is a full-service fabricator for sheet metal and machine components. The company provides computerized numerical control punching, press brakes and forming, painting and screen printing and assortment of handheld hardware and rivet tools. It provides fabrication services using various processing and cleaning equipment, such as wet and dry grainers, downdraft table, polisher wheels, die grinders and stroke, belt and orbital sanders. Advantage Metal has a 90,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Livermore, Calif.

Ryerson is one of North America s leading distributors and processors of metals. In addition to its vast inventories, the company offers a complete line of processing capabilities to produce anything from simple shapes to complex sub-assemblies. Customers of Ryerson may obtain several raw materials transformed to finished parts from one convenient source. It conducts its materials distribution operations in the United States through its operating subsidiaries, Joseph T. Ryerson & Son and J.M. Tull Metals Company. The company conducts its materials distribution operations in Canada through Ryerson Tull Canada. In Mexico, Ryerson does business through Coryer, and in India, through Tata Ryerson. Ryerson is organized into four business units along regional and product lines, and is headquartered in Chicago. The company has an additional location in Livermore, Calif.