Table of Content

1. Company Overview

2. Key Employee

3. Major Product and service

4. Company History

5. Location & Subsidiaries

6. Competitors

7. Employee Demographic
Company Overview
Central Steel and Wire Company is engaged in the distribution of processed and unprocessed
ferrous and nonferrous metals. The Company offers a variety of products, including steel beams,
channels, angles, tees, and rails, as well as hot, cold, and coated steel sheet. The Company also
provides brass and copper rod, coil, sheet, plate, tubing, and pipe, as well as aluminum coiled
and flat sheet, bar, tubing, and extrusions. The metals offered by the Company are generally
obtained from rolling mills in many forms and distributed from the Company’s warehouses, which
are primarily located and serving customers in the Midwest. In addition, Central Steel and Wire
Company provides administrative support for customers through e-COIN, a customized order
inquiry network. Customers range from Fortune 50 companies to large OEMs to small,
independent fabricators, all of whom enjoy access to a selection of prime ferrous and nonferrous
metal products that is second to none.

Operations
CS&W is engaged in the design, engineering, manufacturing and servicing of a wide range of products,
systems and services for the core sectors of the economy, viz. power, industry, transportation.

Key Employee

• Stephen E. Fuhrman (Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and

President)

• Kevin G. Powers (CFO, VP, Treasurer & Director)

• Gregory J. Shunk (Chief Operating Officer and President of Fabrication

Division)

• Timothy D. (Corporate Controller and Secretary)

Hitchcock

• Hugh J. Barger III (Vice President and Director)

Major Products & Services

Central Steel and Wire Company distributes processed and unprocessed ferrous and nonferrous
metals in the Midwest. The company offers structural steel products, including angles and
channels, bar angles and channels, bar tees, I beams, MC channels, rails, and wide flange
beams; and steel plates. It also provides steel sheets and coils, such as abrasion resistant,
coated, cold rolled, CQ 1050, HSLA, low carbon commercial and structural, and spring steel
sheets; coated, cold rolled, HSLA, and low carbon commercial coils; and cold rolled DSAK coils
and sheets. In addition, the company offers hot rolled and cold finished carbon, and alloy steel
bars; steel tubes and pipes; stainless steel angles, bars, coils, pipes, plates, sheets, and tubes;
and aluminum bus bars, bars, coils, extrusions, pipes, plates, shapes, sheets, structural products,
tubes, and wires. Further, it provides copper and brass bars, coils, pipes, plates, sheets, tubing
products, and wires; and bronze bars, bushings, coils, plates, sheets, and tubing products.
Additionally, the company offers floor and safety products comprising alum expanded metals,
expanded steel gratings, floor plates, gratings, Morton safety products, steel expanded metals,
and tread plates; round drill rods; and aluminum, brass, copper, and steel flat and round wires,
as well as steel strappings.
The company serves mining and construction, fabricator, electrical equipment, lawn/garden
equipment, appliance and food service, industrial machinery, agriculture, machine and job shop,
automotive and truck, material handling, energy, fitness and recreational, waste handling, medical
equipment, and service center industries.
Services-

• Processing
• Delivery
• Metallurgy
• Supply Chain
• Material Test
• Reports
Location & Subsidiaries
CS&W distributes its products throughout North America from five facilities that are located
primarily in the Midwestern US.
Service center

• Coon Rapids
• Des Moines
• Omaha
• Milwaukee
• Lansing
• Greensboro
Stock Depot

• Ft. Wayne
Central Coil Processing

• Chicago
CS&W have been acquired by Ryerson group in 2018.
(Ryerson is a leading value-added processor and distributor of industrial metals, with operations
in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and China. Founded in 1842, Ryerson employs around
3,700 employees in approximately 100 locations.)
Competitors
Central Steel & Wire Co. competes with Waukesha Metal Products, Kapco Metal Stamping, and
L&W Engineering.

Employee Diversification
CS&W is a manufacturing institute thus mostly people with medical background are a part. But
due to technical enhancement which company has adopted had made it more diverse. The total
of 16500 employee including social worker works with it

How old are Central Steel Wire

employees?
30%
20%
10%
0%
23-25 25-28 28-33 33-40 40+
Age

How long have Central Steel

Wire employees worked?

17% employees have 10 to 20

years of experience. 16% have
20 or more years of
experience. 18% have 5 to 10
years of experience. 22% have
0 to 2 years of experience.
27% have 2 to 5 years of
experience.

Type of skill people bear at CSW are as follows: -

Sales, Inventory Management, Account Management, Customer Service, New Business
Development, Sales Management, Manufacturing, Sales Operations, Cold Calling, Management,
Sales Process, Strategic Planning.