Company Overview
Highlights
The largest metal processor and distributor in the United States.
Recently began operations at a new plant in Stockton, California, to serve the San Francisco Bay Area.
Named to Fortune’s 2005 list of "America’s Most Admired Companies."
In February 1999, Ryerson Tull merged with Inland Steel Industries to become the largest metal processor and distributor in the United States. Through its subsidiaries, Joseph T. Ryerson & Son and J.M. Tull Metals, it offers carbon steel, stainless steel, and aluminum, as well as alloy steel, nickel, red metals, and plastics. More than half of the materials sold by the company are processed (think: sawing, slitting, blanking, pickling, cutting to length, leveling, flame cutting, laser cutting, edge trimming, edge rolling, fabricating, and grinding). The company operates some 70 facilities in North America and is involved in global joint ventures in Canada, China, and India. In early 2005 Ryerson bought Minneapolis-based Integris Metals, North America's fourth-largest metals service center, in a $640 million deal. This acquisition strengthens the company’s market position and allows it to greatly improve service to its customers.