Lakeside Metals Inc

Established in 1982, Lamination Specialties Incorporated is one of the leading slitting and blanking suppliers in North America. Based in Chicago, Ill., the firm specializes in supplying flat-rolled steel products, light-gauge metal processing and coiled-steel storage. It also provides blanks and sheets for several types of ferrous and nonferrous metals, including silicon steels, motor lamination steels, stainless steels, tinplate and prepainted steels. In addition, the company offers a wide range of services like preprocessed material program, chemical and physical laboratory testing, bar coding, cost-yield analysis, stress-free slitting, to name a few. Lamination Specialties Incorporated is an ISO 9001:2002 certified company.

Kreher Steel Company was founded in 1978 and has facilities in Melrose Park, Ill., and Houston. The company distributes a range of carbon, alloy and stainless steel bar products. Kreher Steel Company s products are available in a variety of shapes, including rounds, hexes, squares, coils and flats. Each of the company s facilities has in-house saw cutting capabilities, and its Houston branch has turning capabilities. Kreher Steel Company has the ability to purchase steel for stock and specific customer requirements. The company s traffic department tracks the movement of products between mills, processors and customers.

Metals USA provides a range of products and services in the heavy carbon steel, flat-rolled steel, specialty metals and building products markets. It is an integrated, ISO 9002 certified metals processor and distributor in North America that serves more than 45,000 customers with a product line in the plates and shapes, flat-rolled steel and building products markets. Metals USA s building products division creates products used in the residential and commercial building industry. Its flat-rolled division makes a variety of metal products in sheet, coil and strip configurations; in standard and configured blanks; and custom-engineered prepaint metal products. The plates and shapes group operates more than 20 service centers selling a variety of alloy grades and shapes of carbon steel, aluminum and stainless steel. In 2005, Metals USA merged with Flag Holding Corporation. Metals USA s headquarters is in Houston, with a Fullerton Metals Company division in Northbrook, Ill.