Morse Steel

Morse Steel Service inventories, processes, and delivers a variety of steel commodities and finished steel parts to our customers in North West and North Central Washington. Fabricators, manufacturers, contractors, and industrial maintenance departments make up the majority of our customer base. We constantly search for better ways to support our customers and their business.

Why Choose Morse Steel?
We have fun getting to be creative about how to produce value and cost savings for our customers. Our team listens to our customers, and we take into account their needs and wants; the relationship built over time with our customers allows us to understand what they value and how they measure success. When we understand what is most important to our customer we search for creative ways to remove costs or add value to the products and services we provide. Our whole organization is passionate about finding new ideas for our customers. We take time to propose and implement the best plan of action to work with each individual customer. Not everyone finds the same value in the services provided by Morse Steel, but by listening to our customers we can offer the right mix of distribution, supply chain, and manufacturing products and services for each individual customer. Our Customers are so important to us, but we also treasure the people inside our organization: Our co-workers at Morse Steel.Our warehouse staff prioritizes the following four behaviors every day. We ask each person to “stop the production line” if they find that a safe working environment is not achievable or if quality standards are not being met. We want to ship goods on time and work efficiently, but if we can’t do those things safely and meet the customers’ standards for quality we want to stop and re-evaluate.

History Of Morse Steel
In 1884, Robert I Morse left everything he knew in San Francisco and moved his wife and infant son to the town that would become Bellingham, Washington. With the proceeds from their property back in San Francisco, R.I. Morse purchased inventory of hardware and supplies for $3000, and opened up his own hardware store. It was this hardware store that supported the early agricultural, logging, and mining industries with hardware, materials, and supplies. Robert’s son, Cecil Morse, ran the business when his father passed away in 1920. David Morse, the youngest son of R.I. Morse, took over the helm of the company when Cecil died in 1958. David expanded the business to supply hardware to the new industries in the area and ultimately to other small hardware stores all over the NW and in Alaska. In 1959 David invested Morse Hardware in the Steel Distribution business with the opening of small steel service center warehouse in Bellingham.

Ten years later in 1969, Morse built a larger building where Morse Steel Service’s operates today. Bob Morse took over in 1975 and led the company through many changes, including the expansion of the Steel Service Center warehouse in Bellingham and the shift into Rebar Fabrication. During the tenure of Bob Morse, the company divested and sold all of its hardware and industrial supply operation, in order to focus on the Steel Service Center and Rebar Fabrication business.

Today, Mike Morse, the fourth generation of Morse Family and fifth family member to run the business, leads Morse Steel Service. Mike is joined in leadership by Rich Olson – VP and CFO, Gord Nonhoff – General Manager, Scott McCornack – Business Development Manager, and Vern Widhalm – Purchasing and Inventory Manager. Morse Steel Service grew from that early hardware store, into a steel service center that supplies steel and rebar to a variety of industries. Manufacturing, Fabrication, Commercial and Industrial Construction Contractors, and Industrial Maintenance Departments and many other industries represent the customers of Morse Steel. Today Morse Steel service operates a 52,000 square foot facility on 9 acres in Bellingham, Washington and delivers all over the state of Washington with a fleet of flatbed trucks.

We have a great story in our history; however, we recognize that each new day brings an opportunity to improve the service and value we create in our business. Our organization is rich with long-time co-workers who think creatively about how to best serve our customers, who have instincts for quality, and who work together to find solutions for our customers in the distribution and manufacturing services that we provide.

Steel Service
Morse Steel researches and purchases equipment from the best most advanced equipment manufacturers in the world, but far more importantly we hire people in whom we believe and people who are extremely capable of providing the level of quality our customers need for their success. All of our co-workers have a stake in our success and they truly care about getting a job done right.