Service Centers
Reliance Leads MCN’s Top 50 for the 12th Year in a Row
Written by Tim Triplett
September 12, 2019
Reliance Steel & Aluminum continues to dominate the service center market, ranked No. 1 once again in the just-released Metal Center News Service Center Top 50 with $11.5 billion in revenues.
In total, North America’s Top 50 metals distributors accounted for a record $61.1 billion of the industry’s sales last year. Sixteen of the companies responding to MCN’s survey topped the billion-dollar mark. The ranking ranges from Reliance at $11.5 billion down to No. 50 Klein Steel with sales of $112 million. The ranking is based on full-year revenues from 2018.
Rounding out the Top 10 are: Ryerson, Inc., $4.4 billion; Russel Metals, $3.2 billion; ThyssenKrupp Materials NA Inc., $3.2 billion; Kloeckner Metals Corp., $3.2 billion; Samuel, Son & Co. Ltd, $2.85 billion; O’Neal Industries, Inc., $2.7 billion; Steel Technologies, $2.6 billion; Worthington Industries, $2.5 billion; and Toyota Tsusho America, $2.3 billion.
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