Steel Distributor Acquisitions | Global M&A Database

M&A in Steel Distribution

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Source: MCI research. – = no data. Data as of August 2026.

1. List of steel industry acquisitions shown above includes all types of distributors – including metal traders, service centres and steel stockholders.
2. Turnover and employment figures above are estimates for target company.
3. Barrett Steel acquisition was of selected Aartee Bright Bar assets, from administration. These assets included several distribution depots. The Aartee hot rolled business in Dudley was not included in this takeover transaction.
4. Cedar Holdings (who purchased Stemcor from Apollo) is China's largest private commodity trader.
5. Full name of Jiangsu Bojun is the Jiangsu Bojun Industrial Technology Co.
6. MSCUSA denotes Macsteel Service Centers USA.
7. Tibnor is a subsidiary of SSAB. Its acquisition of Sanistål was an asset purchase.
8. Ib Andresen Industri (IAI) has steel service centres in Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
9. Russel Metals purchase from Samuel Son & Co included seven steel service centres. These included five depots in Western Canada (Winnipeg, Calgary, Nisku, Langley and Surrey) and two SSCs in the USA (Buffalo and Pittsburgh).
10. United Steel Supply, with its HQ in Austin Texas, is a leading distributor of painted Galvalume® flat rolled steel. It has 4 distribution centres located in Mississippi, Indiana, Arkansas and Oregon.
11. Klöckner operates roughly 110 locations across North America and Europe and supplies more than 60,000 customers.

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