Southwest Stainless and Alloy

With the inventory and expertise to meet any order, Southwest Stainless & Alloy specializes in providing our products to critical markets with a focus on petrochemical, chemical, oil & gas, waste water treatment, mining, power generation and pulp & paper industries. We provide material solutions to our customers utilizing both direct and indirect channels. We deliver products that are cut, sized and prepared precisely to specification. In addition to handling custom cut and fit steel piping solutions, we also stock many non-standard sizes and cuts. All of our products are ready to ship with minimal preparation to local, national or global markets.

Southwest Stainless & Alloy is focused on maintaining a high level of quality throughout the entirety of our business. We emphasize continuous improvement in the quality of our products and the service we provide to our customers. Southwest Stainless & Alloy’s team of professionals maintain a fully documented quality control program to make sure that every specification requested by our customers is met. Our commitment to provide the highest industry standards in customer satisfaction remains our highest priority.

History

Founded over 42 years ago, Southwest Stainless & Alloy started supplying stainless pipe, fittings and flanges to the Gulf Coast region. In 1996, we were acquired by Hughes Supply, along with Sunbelt Supply Co., J&J, Stainless Tubular Products and Metals Inc. Southwest Stainless & Alloy started stocking materials including nickel alloys and chrome moly pipe fitting and flanges.

Commitment to Quality & Safety

Southwest Stainless & Alloy is committed to providing a safe working environment for all our employees, and a secure facility for our visitors by being in compliance with all applicable safety and environmental regulations for our industry. This commitment extends to the impact our activities have on our neighbors and the community where our facilities are located and also to the interactions our company associates have with our customers and their facilities we serve.

Why Southwest Stainless & Alloy?

Southwest Stainless & Alloy is a PFF expert, we partner with you to develop and provide a customized supply chain management solution specific to your company’s needs. We carry one of the largest and most diversified inventories of stainless steel and various alloy steel piping products, fittings, flanges, and bar. We also carry extensive PFF inventories in chrome and carbons steel grades, all of which is distributed in JIT programs from facilities located across North America.

Some of our advantages include:

• Schedule-driven performance
• Market visibility due to our large inventory position
• Robust Enterprise Resource Planning System with Metal Trace MTR integration
• Best-in-class customer focus recognized by numerous customers in various energy and industrial markets
• E-catalog seamless punch out to SAP
• Technical support
• Hands-on project management
• Inventory commitments to avoid unexpected premiums
• Allocated tonnage programs to shorten lead times
• Identification of non-stock long lead time items to reduce surplus materials
• Increased buying power by leveraging long-term vendor relationships due to position as global leader in specialty products
• Continued commitment to qualify low-cost quality manufacturers
• Limited buyouts avoiding double mark-ups
• Systems capabilities for seamless transaction thru EDI