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Amada FLCAJ 4020

Kloeckner Metals Featured Equipment: AMADA FLCAJ 4020

This article was published on: 03/6/18 10:00 AM

The AMADA FLCAJ 4020 is a fiber laser machine that is not only unbelievably fast but also offers a clean cut. This machine has the ability to process a longer sheet with less energy. The FLCAJ 4020 provides a first class product to our customers on time, every time.  Learn more about this machine below: …

Branch Spotlight: Dallas

This article was published on: 02/27/18 10:00 AM

Expanding Capabilities Kloeckner Metals’ Dallas branch has some big expansion plans in the pipeline. In 2018 they will be getting both a new tube laser and a Kinetic burning center with a CNC machine. This adds to their already impressive value-added capabilities, which include multiple ironworkers, four saws, a BLM Jumbo tube laser and three …

Opportunities at Kloeckner: Rachel Owen

This article was published on: 02/20/18 10:00 AM

Since starting with Kloeckner Metals in 2006, Account Manager Rachel Owen has worked in three different departments. She started out in the purchasing department, after moving from Pittsburgh to Atlanta. At the time, it was a really good job market and Owen had several job offers. Even though Kloeckner wasn’t the highest paying job offer, …

AFI Wins Continuous Improvement Award at Global Conference

This article was published on: 02/13/18 10:00 AM

Every year Ingersoll Rand invites its top 100 suppliers from around the world to their annual Global Supplier Conference to talk about how the previous year went, what’s the plan for the upcoming year, and where are they going in the future. American Fabricators was one of their key suppliers invited to this year’s conference …

ZAM Coating and the Animal Containment Industry

This article was published on: 02/6/18 10:00 AM

At the Iowa Pork Congress, Kloeckner’s Tulsa Building Products partnered up with Wheeling Nisshin to introduce a great new product to the animal containment industry: ZAM coating. ZAM is an acronym that stands for zinc, aluminum, and magnesium. The coating is a hot dip layer like galvanized and galvalume which is coated on steel to …

Kloeckner Metals | Employee Stories: Edward Pimentel

This article was published on: 01/30/18 10:00 AM

Kloeckner Metals is more than a company, its a community. Watch Edward describe his experience at Kloeckner as he battled cancer: Video Transcript  I set up and run the slitter. It’s a big machine that slits coils into different strip widths for the different size tubing they want to produce. I’ve been here for 30 …

Voortman V550-6

Kloeckner Metals Featured Equipment: Voortman V550-6

This article was published on: 01/23/18 11:29 AM

Kloeckner Metals carries the Voortman V550-6. It’s engineered as a high-pressure punching and shearing machine for flat and angle figures. It can be supplied with several shear options to accommodate practically every application. Check out our equipment profile video: Video Transcript  Kloeckner Metals is one of the largest metal distributors in the world. We’re very …

Opportunities at Kloeckner: Robin Portera

This article was published on: 01/16/18 10:00 AM

In 1999, the Kloeckner Metals’ purchasing department was located in New Orleans. It was there that Robin Portera started as an expediter. When hurricane Katrina hit, Kloeckner moved the purchasing department to the corporate headquarters in Roswell, Georgia. Portera decided to move up with it, and Kloeckner put the purchasing employees up in a hotel …

Branch Spotlight: Kloeckner Hawaii’s Galvanizing

This article was published on: 01/9/18 10:00 AM

Kloeckner’s Hawaii branch is unique. It has three completely different profit centers, and all three are high value-added businesses. The branch’s galvanizing plant is the only one in the state, and the branch manufactures premium metal roofing. As a steel distributor, the branch also has value-added capabilities such as burning, punching/drilling holes, shearing, and saw …

Millennial Spotlight: Mary Kathryn Lamping

This article was published on: 01/2/18 10:00 AM

Mary Kathryn Lamping is a millennial who works as an account manager in fabrication at the Kloeckner Metals Murfreesboro branch. Not too long ago, however, Mary Kathryn was living in North Carolina and working at another steel company. When her now-husband got a job in Nashville, she wanted to make a switch. She found that …

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