Moving Metal

Tube and custom aluminum extrusions produced by Clayton Metals, Inc., acquired by Reliance in July 2007.

steel sheet, plate and bar, and carbon steel flat-rolled products. With seventeen facilities, mostly in western Canada, Encore had netted sales approaching C$259 million the previous year. In July, Reliance acquired Clayton Metals, Inc., based in Wood Dale, Illinois. The thirty-one-year-old company averaged more than $50 million in annual sales and specialized in aluminum, stainless steel, copper and brass flat-rolled products, custom extrusions, and aluminum circles. It owned or controlled metals service centers in Wood Dale, Illinois; Cerritos, California; High Point, North Carolina; and Parsippany, New Jersey. In October 2007, Reliance made new inroads into Europe when it acquired Metalweb Limited. Headquartered in Bir- mingham, U.K., with three service centers located in London, Manchester, andOxford, Metalweb had been created six years

trial Metals was founded in 1978 and specialized in carbon steel structural elements and flat-rolled and ornamental iron products. Industrial Metals’ Atlanta facility was larger and more efficient than Siskin’s Georgia Steel Supply Company, and so Reliance consolidated the two operations into an Atlanta service center later that year. In February, Reliance expanded into Western Canada in a big way by acquiring the Encore Group of metals service center companies. Organized in 2004 from a number of predeces- sor companies, the group included Encore Metals, Encore Coils, Team Tube in Canada, and a sales arm, Encore Metals (USA) Inc. Headquartered in Edmonton, Alberta, and primar- ily serving the big oil sands projects underway in the region, Encore specialized in alloy and carbon bar and tube, stainless

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