Gowan is a name that has become synonymous with quality decorative ironwork for generations of Montgomerians. Gowan Iron is central Alabama’s oldest decorative metal company. Gowan Iron’s reputation is a product of our late founder’s love for his craft. A. R. Gowan (1912 – 1998) passed this passion for metal, not only to a second and a third generation of Read more...

Our Business Founded in 1954 we are one of the country’s largest high-volume steel processing companies, delivering quality processed flat rolled steel. From our Chicago base, we operate a network of 10 flat rolled steel processing centers throughout the U.S. and Mexico that provide value-added processing of hot rolled, pickled, cold rolled and coated sheet products to manufacturers and producers Read more...

The determination of a 16-year-old boy to share in his nation’s World War I military responsibilities, despite the Army’s minimum age requirement, is reflected today in a strong and still growing Birmingham steel fabricating company. In 1919, after the conclusion of World War I, Walter J. Hanna, who was still two years underage, was accepted as an enlistee in the Read more...

With corporate headquarters in Irving, Texas, Commercial Metals Company operates local recycling centers; steel mini mills and micro mills; fabrication facilities; construction-related product warehouses; heat treating facilities; and other metals related operations in the United States and Europe. You’ll find our steel in sports stadiums and public buildings, highways, bridges and rail systems, and structures around the world. Our vertical Read more...