T&W Steel Co.

What T&W Steel Co. does

T&W Steel Co., Inc. is a privately held, full-service metals service center founded in 1983 in Lee's Summit, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City. The company distributes carbon steel, alloy steel, aluminum, stainless steel, copper, brass, and bronze products in sheet, plate, bar, structural, tube, pipe, expanded metal, and rebar/remesh forms, and operates in-house fabrication including shearing (up to 1/2 inch by 12 feet), braking, rolling, saw cutting via two HEM vertical band saws, 400 AMP HI-DEF CNC plasma/oxy-fuel cutting (up to 6 inches), and flame cutting (up to 4 inches) from a 40,000+ square foot warehouse. The sales operation is led by President/Sales Manager Kenny Rusche and consists of five inside sales representatives and one outside sales representative (Martin Reynolds) serving Eastern Kansas and all of Missouri with quote-based pricing and credit card acceptance.

The business runs on a sales-led, relationship-driven go-to-market motion: customers request quotes via phone, email, or an online form, and pricing is determined transaction by transaction across prime and secondary grade materials. The company operates as both a distributor and a processor, bundling cut-to-size and formed parts with raw metal sales to reduce downstream handling for fabrication shops, manufacturers, and contractors. Ownership passed to Gary Hill and W.L. Pointer in 2001 after the deaths of original founders Terry and William Homan; no institutional investors, subsidiaries, patents, awards, or formal partnerships are disclosed.

Financially and operationally the business is opaque: there are no disclosed revenue figures, no funding rounds, no AI/digital product surface, and headcount sits at 11-50 employees with nine named staff including President, Controller, Office Manager, Purchasing, and five sales representatives. The website presence is minimal and references Covid-era operating notes, indicating limited digital investment relative to industrial peers.

Name

T&W Steel Co.

Legal name

T&W Steel Co., Inc.

Website

https://twsteel.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

1983

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

T&W Steel Co. is a privately held, full-service regional metals service center and processor in Lee's Summit, Missouri, distributing carbon steel, aluminum, stainless, copper, and brass products and offering in-house shearing, plasma, oxy-fuel, and saw cutting to industrial fabricators across Eastern Kansas and Missouri.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Steel Distribution & Metal Fabrication Services

NAICS

Metal Service Centers and Other Metal Merchant Wholesalers (423510)

SIC

Wholesale-Metals Service Centers & Offices (5051), Sheet Metal Work (3444)

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

• Steel product distribution
• Metal fabrication services
• Steel service center
• Structural metal supply
• Plate processing services

Headquarters

HQ city

Lees Summit

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Steel and Metal Product Sales: T&W Steel generates revenue through the sale of steel and metal products including structural shapes, sheet, plate, bar, rod, tubular products, and fabricated items. Revenue is generated through one-time transaction sales with quote-based pricing, accepting credit cards (American Express, Discover, Master Card, Visa). The company handles orders of all sizes and offers both prime and secondary grades.
2. Metal Processing/Fabrication Services: Revenue from value-added processing services including shearing, braking, rolling, saw cutting, CNC plasma cutting, and flame cutting. These services are bundled with product sales to provide complete steel solutions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

T&W Steel Co. is a regional full-service steel service center that distributes a broad range of metal products — including aluminum, carbon and alloy steel, stainless steel, copper, brass, and bronze — in structural shapes, sheet, plate, bar, rod, tube, pipe, expanded metal, rebar, and remesh. The company complements its product distribution with in-house value-added fabrication services including shearing, braking, rolling, saw cutting, CNC plasma/oxy-fuel cutting, and flame cutting for cut-to-size orders. Sales are quote-based and served to industrial, fabrication, and construction customers across Eastern Kansas and Missouri from a 40,000+ square-foot warehouse in Lee's Summit, Missouri.

Product overview

T&W Steel Co. is a full-service steel center and distributor offering a comprehensive portfolio of metal products and steel processing services. The company provides aluminum, structural steel, alloy steel, stainless steel, copper, brass, bronze, and miscellaneous products across various grades and alloys. Their product lineup includes sheets, plates, beams, channels, angles, rounds, bars, tubing, pipe, rebar, expanded metal, and culverts. Complementing their product offerings, they provide value-added steel processing services including shearing, braking, rolling, saw cutting, CNC plasma/oxy fuel cutting, and flame cutting. The company serves Eastern Kansas and all of Missouri with over 40,000 square feet of warehouse space.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Aluminum Products Aluminum mill products in beams, channels, hexagons, plate, rectangular tubing, flats, round rod, sheet, squares, and square tubing, in alloys including 3003, 5052, 5086, 6061, 6063, plus specialized grades 2024 and 7075; sold to industrial, fabrication, and manufacturing buyers.
• Structural Steel Shapes Structural steel shapes including angles, I-beams and wide-flange beams, channels (bar size, junior, structural, ship & car), flats (hot rolled and cold rolled), and rounds; for fabrication, construction, and industrial use.
• Steel & Alloy Steel Structural shapes, sheet, plate, tread plate, bar, rod, forgings, and tubular products in alloys A36, A588, A572, T1, AR400, AR500, hot rolled, cold rolled, 1018, 1045, 1144, 4130, 4140, 4330, and 4340.
• Copper & Copper Alloys Copper and copper alloy sheet, plate, bar, rod, forgings, shapes, and bearing bronze for industrial applications.
• Brass & Bronze Brass and bronze metal products for various industrial applications.
• Stainless Steel Stainless steel sheets, plates, rounds, squares, hexagons, angles, flats in alloys 303, 304, 309, 316, 321, 416, and PH grades.
• Sheets & Plates Cold rolled sheet, floor plate, hot rolled sheet, hot rolled plate, and galvanized sheet across carbon, stainless, and aluminum grades.
• Expanded Metal Expanded metal products including grating, flattened, and standard varieties.
• Pipe & Pipe Size Tube Pipe and pipe-size tube products for industrial, fabrication, and infrastructure applications.
• Culverts Culvert products for drainage and infrastructure applications.
• Rebar Rebar products for concrete reinforcement.
• Remesh Reinforcement mesh products for concrete applications.
• Wholesale / Secondary Items Non-certified wholesale basis carbon steel items for non-critical or structural applications, supplied on inquiry.
• Steel Processing & Fabrication Services Value-added in-house metal processing including shearing (up to 1/2 inch thick plate at 12 feet long), braking (up to 3/8 inch thick at 1 foot length up to 90 degrees), rolling (up to 1/4 inch thick x 6 feet long), saw cutting via two HEM vertical band saws (18"x20" and 20"x30" openings), CNC plasma/oxy-fuel cutting with 400 AMP HI-DEF plasma up to 2 inches and oxy-fuel up to 6 inches, and flame/line cutting up to 4 inches thick.

Quantifiable outcome

• Over 100 years of combined sales experience providing expert consultation
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights2 records

Direct peers

• Reliance Steel & Aluminum: Largest U.S. metals service center operator with ~300+ locations, offering the same combined distribution + value-added processing model (cutting, slitting, blanking, leveling) to industrial customers that T&W targets in a regional footprint.
• Metal Supermarkets: Franchise-based small-quantity metal supplier serving walk-in and small-order customers — matches T&W's stated ability to 'handle all orders from the largest to the smallest' in a smaller-footprint format.
• Olympic Steel: Mid-sized U.S. metals service center focused on carbon, stainless, and aluminum flat-rolled products plus value-added processing — same product mix and B2B industrial customer base as T&W, just at greater scale.
• Samuel, Son & Co. Family-owned North American metals service center and processor with broad product range (carbon steel, stainless, aluminum) and value-added processing — directly comparable full-service model.
• Klein Steel: Regional metals service center serving the Northeast U.S. with a similar combined distribution + processing model (shearing, plasma cutting, saw cutting) for industrial and fabrication customers — closer in scale and regional focus to T&W.
• Worthington Steel: Processed steel products business serving automotive, construction, and industrial end markets; provides toll processing, blanking, and plate processing analogous to T&W's shearing, braking, and rolling capabilities.
• Kloeckner Metals: Global metals service center with North American operations (including a significant Midwest presence) offering steel and aluminum distribution plus processing services — comparable model with broader reach.
• Ryerson Holding: Chicago-based metals service center with national distribution and in-house processing capabilities (including CNC plasma, oxy-fuel, and plate processing) — directly comparable to T&W's full-service steel center offering.
• Russel Metals: Canadian metals service center with U.S. operations distributing steel, aluminum, and stainless plus in-house processing — comparable product breadth and processing-capable service center model.

Emerging players

• Online Metals: E-commerce-first metal supplier offering cut-to-size metals direct to small business and consumer buyers — represents the digital procurement model that T&W currently does not offer but could face competition from in regional accounts.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/twsteelCO

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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