O'Brien Steel Service

Founded in 1889, the Keystone Steel & Wire Company began in a humble shed on a rented farm in Dillon, Ill. It has become one of the leading construction wire, industrial wire and steel rod producers in the Midwest. Keystone Steel & Wire Company s first product was a wire fence. Dipped in red paint, the Red Brand fence began selling throughout Illinois in the 1920s. It opened modern production facilities in 1988 and moved to Bartonville, Ill. Keystone Steel & Wire Company s campus in Bartonville is one of the largest wire mills in the United States with more than 2 million square feet of manufacturing space spread out through hundreds of acres. In 1998, the company produced nearly 650,000 tons of steel. It ships its products via truck, rail and barge throughout the United States. Keystone Steel & Wire maintains corporate headquarters in Peoria, Ill.

HHagerty Steel & Aluminum Company is a metals service center that maintains an inventory of steel, stainless steel, aluminum and nonferrous products. The company provides expanded metals, drill rods, channels, beams, and brass and copper products. Its products include plates, sheets, pipes, alloy, hot rolled and cold finished bars and tubes. The company maintains a fleet of delivery trucks that serve customers in central Illinois, eastern Iowa, northeast Missouri and northwest Indiana. It offers several services, including slitting, sawcutting, shot blasting, punching, flamecutting and shearing. The company is a division of Liebovich Brothers, which was established in 1938 and is a subsidiary of Reliance Steel & Aluminum Company. Hagerty Steel & Aluminum Company is located in East Peoria, Ill.

Chillicothe Metal s portfolio of customers include Caterpillar, Cummins Onan, Detroit Diesel, Deutz, Kohler and Waukesha engine dealers. Since 1963, Chillicothe Metal has been one of the world s leading professional manufacturers of engine housings, packaged generator sets, trailers, fuel tank base, and other products for diesel engine distributors. The company s generator set packages can be found throughout the world in such high profile places as the Statue of Liberty, Federal Reserve Banks and at NASA. Chillicothe Metal is located between Chicago and St. Louis in Chillicothe, Ill. The company s location allows it to be close to major engine, generator and radiator manufacturers in the United States. With more than 100,000 square feet of space in its modern facility, Chillicothe Metal is able to offer outdoor and covered storage and can easily inventory spare parts. Chillicothe Metal also maintains full electrical testing facilities for military, petrochemical and utility specifications, as well as complete machine-shop and industrial sandblasting and painting facilities.