Olympic Steel opens service center in Georgia

Cleveland-based Olympic Steel Inc. has announced the opening of a new 120,000-square-foot metal processing facility, or service center, in Buford, Georgia. Steel service centers can generate steady and significant volumes of higher grade ferrous scrap.

Olympic says the location in Buford, which is about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta, expands its southeastern United States footprint, which also includes facilities in Hanceville, Alabama; Winder, Georgia; and Locust, North Carolina.

“The opening of the Buford facility strategically aligns our product and processing capabilities to efficiently meet our growing customer needs in the Southeast,” says David Gea, a regional vice president and general manager with Olympic. “The expansion allows us to offer new processed products and additional just-in-time services to our customers.”

The Buford facility will act as a flat-rolled steel fabrication hub, says Olympic. First-stage metal processing will be anchored in the Winder facility, with metal distribution emanating from both the Winder and Hanceville locations.

Pipe and tube laser fabrication and bending and welding will take place in Locust in the Southeast and at Olympic’s Chicago Tube & Iron location.

Olympic facilities in the Southeast can now offer cut-to-length, slitting, leveling, laser and plasma cutting, forming, machining, welding, kitting, assembly and distribution for a variety of carbon, stainless and aluminum sheet, plate, coil, pipe and tube products, according to the company.

In Buford, the company also HAS added a new Mitsubishi fiber optic laser and a 600-ton Verson stamping press, says the firm, allowing the location to “support the company’s commitment to automotive OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) and their tier 1 and 2 parts makers, as well as respond to increasing demand from other OEM customers.”

Olympic Steel has 31 facilities in North America overall.