Olympic Steel opens Georgia facility

Cleveland-based metals service center Olympic Steel Inc. has opened a 120,000-sq.-ft. metal processing facility in Buford, Ga. The location expands the company’s southeastern region footprint, which also includes facilities in Locust, N.C.; Winder, Ga.; and Hanceville, Ala.

The Buford facility will act as a flat-rolled fabrication hub, with first-stage metal processing at the Winder facility, metal distribution in the Winder and Hanceville locations, and pipe and tube laser fabrication and bending and welding at the company’s Chicago Tube & Iron location in Locust. Together, these facilities 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.

As part of the expansion, the company also has added a new Mitsubishi fiber-optic laser and a 600-ton Verson stamping press with a Coe coil feed system.