Ranger Steel Acquires Heavy Plate Distributor Nance

Ranger Steel Services has acquired the steel operations of Detroit-based heavy plate distributor Nance.

The acquisition includes Nance’s stocking locations in Detroit, Chicago, Houston, and East Liverpool, Ohio.

The headquarters of the new entity, Nance Steel Sales, will be in Houston. Operations there are scheduled to begin on February 1, 2024.

“The synergy created by further perfecting the product ranges offered by both Nance and Ranger Steel, coupled with the additional yard locations nationwide, will only serve to enhance opportunities to our mutual clientele,” Ranger Steel said in a statement sent to SMU.

Houston-based Ranger Steel is a privately owned steel plate distributor with locations in Houston; Tulsa, Okla.; Fort Worth, Texas; and the Los Angeles Basin.

It serves the shipbuilding, oil and gas, mining, industrial construction, and service center sectors, as well as fabricators of heavy plate, vessel and heat exchangers, storage tanks, bridges, electrical transmission, and rail cars.

Laura Miller

Laura Miller is a reporter and editor for Steel Market Update. Since 2007, she has held various editorial and marketing positions with steel industry publications, associations, and mills. In 2021, after a five-year hiatus working across other industries, she returned to steel trade journalism, joining SMU in 2022. She is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and a past-president of the AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She can be reached at laura@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7869.

Laura Miller

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