Shaw Stainless and Alloy

What Shaw Stainless and Alloy does

Shaw Stainless & Alloy is a privately held US wholesale distributor and custom fabricator of stainless steel pipe, valves, and fittings (PVF), founded in 1979 and headquartered in Marietta, Georgia. The company stocks and ships 304 and 316 stainless steel products across pipe, tube, butt-weld, cast, and forged fittings, flanges, sanitary clamp/weld fittings and valves, structural products (angle, bar, beam, channel, plate and sheet), stainless bollards, and complementary bronze/brass and pneumatic fittings, with over 1,300 sizes of instrumentation and mechanical tubing carried across 10 US stocking distribution centers. Customers include industrial process operators and sanitary/hygienic processing buyers in food, beverage, pharmaceutical, and biotech end-markets, served via direct phone and website sales channels with downloadable technical catalogs.

The company supplements its distribution core with an in-house Fabrication Division offering laser cutting, waterjet cutting, electropolishing, machining, metal forming, roll grooving, pipe threading, and stainless polishing on a quote basis. Three named sub-brands operate alongside the core PVF business: Barrier Defense Systems (security bollards, ASTM M50 crash-rated bollards, vehicle wedge barriers), an Architectural Division, and the Fabrication Division. Pricing is unit-based for standard catalog SKUs and quote-based for custom and large-specification orders, with no public revenue or funding disclosure.

Operationally, the firm runs a multi-location stocking model with sales via an 800-number phone team, stainlessandalloy.com, downloadable technical resources, and social/marketing presence on YouTube, LinkedIn, and Facebook. Ownership is private and independent, with no disclosed parent company, institutional investors, or external funding rounds; the company is organized as a Georgia corporation under the legal name Shaw Stainless & Alloy.

Name

Shaw Stainless and Alloy

Legal name

Shaw Stainless & Alloy

Website

https://stainlessandalloy.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1979

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Shaw Stainless & Alloy is a US wholesale distributor and custom fabricator of stainless steel pipe, valves, and fittings, serving industrial process and sanitary/hygienic customers from 10 stocking distribution centers with over 1,300 tubing SKUs since 1979.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Stainless Steel Distribution

NAICS

Iron and Steel Pipe and Tube Manufacturing from Purchased Steel (331210)

SIC

Miscellaneous Fabricated Metal Products (3490)

akta.pro primary industry

Steel Service Centers & Processing (Slitting, Cut-to-Length, Blanking, Leveling) (IMAKABAL)

akta.pro secondary industry

Steel Products Trading & Service Centers (Flat, Long, Pipe & Tube, Rebar) (IMAKAJAB)

Keywords

• Stainless steel pipe
• Pipe valves fittings
• Custom metal fabrication
• Stainless steel distribution
• Sanitary process equipment

Headquarters

HQ city

Marietta

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices13 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Stainless Steel Products Distribution: Sale of stainless steel pipe, tube, fittings, flanges, valves, and related products. Stocking distributor model with inventory held at multiple US locations for immediate fulfillment.
2. Custom Fabrication Services: Value-added fabrication services including cutting, polishing, threading, bending, machining, electropolishing, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, metal forming, roll grooving, and pipe threading

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Shaw Stainless and Alloy is a wholesale distributor of stainless steel pipe, tube, fittings, flanges, valves, and related piping products, primarily in 304 and 316/316L stainless grades. The company also offers in-house custom fabrication services including cutting, threading, bending, machining, electropolishing, and laser/waterjet cutting. It serves sanitary, hygienic, and general industrial process applications across the United States through 10+ stocking locations.

Product overview

Shaw Stainless & Alloy is a comprehensive stainless steel and alloy products supplier and custom fabrication provider founded in 1979. The company's product portfolio centers on a complete line of 304 and 316 stainless steel products organized into interconnected categories: core piping components (pipe, tube, fittings, flanges, valves) form the foundation, supplemented by sanitary process products (sanitary clamp fittings, sanitary weld fittings, sanitary valves, sanitary tube) for food/beverage/pharmaceutical applications, structural products (angle, bar, beam, channel, plate, sheet), and specialty items (bronze/brass products, pneumatic fittings, nipples). The company differentiates through extensive inventory (over 1300 tubing sizes) and comprehensive value-added fabrication services including custom machining, electropolishing, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, metal forming, roll grooving, pipe threading, and stainless steel polishing. A complete bollard product line including ASTM M50 crash-rated options rounds out the offerings for security applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Barrier Defense Systems: Security bollard products and vehicle wedge barriers for physical protection.
• Architectural Division
• Fabrication Division

Products and services

• Stainless Steel Pipe

Quantifiable outcome

• 1300+ sizes of instrumentation and mechanical tubing available - one of the largest assortments in the country

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Ryerson: Ryerson is a large, publicly-traded North American metals distributor and processor with extensive stainless steel pipe, tube, fittings, and value-added processing capabilities — a broad incumbent in the same steel service center and processing category as Shaw Stainless and Alloy.
• Kloeckner Metals: Kloeckner Metals is a global metals distributor and processor combining digital commerce with traditional steel service center operations including stainless products and processing services, making it broadly comparable to Shaw's distribution-plus-fabrication model.
• McMaster-Carr: McMaster-Carr is a large industrial supplier offering an extensive catalog including stainless steel pipe, fittings, valves, and tube — overlapping heavily with Shaw's SKU breadth and serving similar industrial and sanitary MRO/Customer needs, though at much larger scale.
• Reliance Steel & Aluminum: Reliance Steel & Aluminum is the largest U.S. metals service center conglomerate, operating numerous subsidiaries across stainless and carbon product distribution and processing — a broad incumbent in the same steel service center category as Shaw.
• Russel Metals: Russel Metals is a Canadian-based metals distribution and processing company with U.S. operations, carrying stainless steel pipe, tube, fittings, and plate — broadly comparable to Shaw in product mix and service center economics.

Direct peers

• TW Metals: TW Metals is a specialty metals distributor focused on stainless steel, aluminum, and high-performance alloy tube, pipe, bar, and fittings — a direct peer given Shaw's deep stainless tube/PVF focus and similar end-market exposure in industrial and sanitary applications.
• Metals Depot: Metals Depot is an online distributor of steel, stainless steel, aluminum, and other metal products in small to mid-quantities with cut-to-size capabilities — a direct peer competing in the same online-direct stainless PVF and cut-to-size market.
• OnlineMetals: OnlineMetals.com is a direct-to-consumer online metals retailer offering small-quantity stainless, aluminum, and specialty metal products with custom cutting — directly comparable to Shaw's direct-to-customer online distribution motion.
• Metal Supermarkets: Metal Supermarkets is a franchise-based small-quantity metals distributor offering stainless steel and other metals with cut-to-size services — directly comparable as a smaller-quantity industrial metals distributor in similar end markets.
• Marco Specialty Steel: Marco Specialty Steel is a specialty stainless steel and aluminum distributor providing sheet, plate, bar, and tube products with processing services — a direct peer in specialty stainless distribution with overlapping product categories and processing capabilities.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@stainlessandalloy
• Facebookfacebook.com/stainlessandalloy
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/shaw-stainless-&-alloy-piping
• Xx.com/shawstainless

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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