Steel of West Virginia, Inc.

At STEEL OF WEST VIRGINIA, we want to be your supplier of structural beams, channels and special shape steel sections. We customize our production to your specific needs. Whether it be chemistry, dimensions or fabrication, we want you to view us as the 'can do' company.
From our beginnings in 1907, through our incorporation as STEEL OF WEST VIRGINIA, INC. in 1982, to the present, we have had a long tradition of product innovation and process improvement. One of our strategic goals is to continue to invest in our company, thus expanding and improving our manufacturing capabilities and production efficiencies. For our customers this means we will be your low-cost, high-quality producer.

Our steel sections are produced from electric furnace steel, continuously cast and hot rolled on highly specialized mills. Our section capability ranges from 2.5 pounds per foot to 70 pounds per foot. In addition to the extensive fabricating capabilities of our main location in Huntington, W.Va., we also have a subsidiary, MARSHALL STEEL, INC., in Memphis, Tenn., that fabricates steel cross members. From our mills, we can ship to your location by truck, rail or barge.

History

Steel of West Virginia is a compelling success story in Huntington. It has produced steel continuously since 1909 and has provided employment for generations of local men and women.

The facility originated in the early twentieth century, instituted and operated from 1909 to 1956 by the Schonthal family. It began with fewer than thirty employees in a 7,200 square-foot building on a three-acre site on the Ohio River at Seventeenth Street. The plant was then owned by H.K. Porter from 1956 until 1982.

In August, 1982, local private investors purchased the property which has expanded to forty-two acres between Fourteenth and Twentieth streets and currently employs approximately 550 local steel-making craftspeople. On December 16, 1998 Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation purchased Steel of West Virginia. Steel of West Virginia operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of Roanoke Electric Steel Corporation until April 12, 2006 when Steel Dynamics, Inc. purchased Roanoke Steel and its subsidiaries. Steel of West Virginia is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Steel Dynamics. Steel of West Virginia's industrial and office buildings incorporate over 500,000 square feet and contain state of the art steel-making and finishing equipment to meet customer's specifications.

Steel of West Virginia custom finishes component parts for just-in-time delivery into customer's assembly operations. This is accomplished at the ever-evolving steel manufacturing and fabrication facility in Huntington and a second fabrication facility in Memphis, TN. By anticipating customer's future needs, Steel of West Virginia intends to remain a significant influence in the steel industry and in the community.