O'Neal Steel

O’NEAL STEEL: A RICH HISTORY, AND A GROWING FAMILY

O'Neal Steel, headquartered in Birmingham, AL, is a full-line metals service with more than 60 locations with multi-stage processing to serve fabricators, job shops, and a wide variety of OEMs. Acting as its clients’ business partner, O’Neal can customize client services and introduce ideas as efficient as they are profitable.

In 1921, Kirkman O'Neal started a small steel fabricating business that quickly gained a reputation for dependability and performance, and throughout the Great Depression, O'Neal maintained strong customer relationships. By 1935, O’Neal was one of the South's first metal service centers to customers purchasing below the high-tonnage required by the mills.

In 1946, Emmet O'Neal, Kirkman's son and former chairman, joined. And in 1952, O'Neal opened its first satellite district in Jackson, MS. For the next half-century, through corporate planning and acquisitions, O'Neal expanded and diversified its operations with more than 40 more districts across the nation. O’Neal became the largest family-owned metals service center in North America.

In 1997, O'Neal purchased Metalwest to expand its line of flat rolled service and products.

In 1984, Emmet's son Craft O'Neal joined and became the company’s third-generation leader. After a variety of sales and district management positions, he stepped up as chairman.

In 1998, O'Neal's opened its Weldment division, with operations in Roanoke, Virginia and Monterrey, Mexico, to provide OEMs with a reliable resource for large-scale and labor-intensive jobs requiring specialized facilities and manufacturing expertise.

In 2000, to answer the region's need for a specialized facility dedicated to high-quality tube processing, O'Neal opened its tube-processing center in Lebanon, TN.

In 2004, O’Neal purchased Aerodyne Alloys, LLC, which supplies nickel-based alloys, cobalt, titanium, and stainless steel primarily to the aerospace and energy markets throughout the U.S. and Asia.

In early 2005, O'Neal further extended its product line by acquiring Leeco Steel, LLC—a leading distributor and processor of specialized grades of high-strength steel and alloy plate. Leeco serves customers throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico.

In late 2005, O'Neal acquired the stock of TW Metals, a service center specialized in pipe, tube, bar and rod in stainless, aluminum, alloy and carbon—and a variety of high alloys such as nickel and titanium. TW Metals has stocking and processing locations throughout the U.S. It also operates in Europe under the name Philip Cornes Group, a UK-based processor and distributor of nickel and super alloys.

In early 2006, O'Neal acquired Timberline Steel, a full-line service center with one of the largest and most comprehensive processing facilities in the Rocky Mountain Region.

O'Neal is an ISO 9001:2000 registered company; its operations meet the stringent world model for quality established by international standards. O'Neal is also—and proudly—still a family-owned company; its extended and growing family of dedicated employees provde the finest in quality and customer service.