Metal Supermarkets

Earle M. Jorgensen Company, also known as EMJ and headquartered in Lynwood, Calif., is one of the largest distributors of metal products in North America. It has more than 40 service and processing centers with an inventory of over 25,000 mechanical tubes, stainless shapes, and hot-rolled and cold-finished carbon and alloy bars. Founded in 1923, the company also offers aluminum, cast iron, brass and chrome bars. Earle M. Jorgensen Company additionally provides special processing services, such as precision saw cutting, plate burning, grinding, honing, roller burnishing, and facing and centering. The company s other services include edge conditioning, electropolishing, plasma beveling, tee splitting, waterjet cutting and thermalizing. Earle M. Jorgensen Company, with one of its locations in Hayward, Calif., is owned and operated by Reliance, which is one of the largest metals service center companies in the United States.

PDM Steel Service Centers are distributors of heavy carbon steel products. The company has been in business since 1954. Every PDM Steel Service Center can provide material pre-processing. The company can also deliver client order on its own fleet of trucks. Steel service centers buy steel products in large quantities from producing mills and hold the material in inventory until sold to a customer. When the centers sell steel, they will perform any processing the client requests, load the steel and deliver it to the user. PDM locations include Spanish Fork, Utah; two centers in Santa Clara, Calif.; Fresno, Calif.; Las Vegas, Sparks, Nev.; Woodland, Wash., and Stockton, Calif. PDM Steel Centers maintains its corporate headquarters in Stockton, Calif.