Structural Steel Services Inc. (SSS) was established in Meridian, Mississippi in 1975 and in its over forty years has grown into one of the largest and most highly respected industrial steel fabricators in the country.

SSS has been providing structural and miscellaneous steel requirements for the, power, petrochemical, pulp and paper, LNG, and refinery markets for 43 years and more recently major bridge fabrication. SSS offers complete project management for material procurement, engineering design, detail drawing preparation, fit up and welding, surface preparation, sophisticated paint systems and shipment of structural and miscellaneous steel. SSS has supplied structural and miscellaneous steel to projects in North America and internationally up to 60,000 tons. Offering our customers flexibility and professional management assures the project of on time deliveries and quality products that exceed expectations.

SSS brings to any project a company that operates without any long term debt and a strong financial balance sheet. Our facilities are state of the art with equipment utilizing the best current technology. Producing a quality product for our customers and employee safety in the workplace are Structural Steel Inc.’s top priorities as a company.

As an AISC certified structural steel fabricator with AWS and CWB welding certifications and intermediate and major bridge fabrication including fracture critical endorsement and sophisticated paint endorsements, SSS has provided structural steel requirements to jobsites utilizing their own trucking subsidiary in North America, and by shipments to international locations.

Workplace safety with the goal of preventing loss time accidents is accomplished through employee safety teams who participate in every segment of the company’s operations. SSS is proud to deliver a quality product on-time to our customers while maintaining a safe working environment for our employees.

History

In 1975, Tommy Dulaney, plant manager for Bates Steel in Meridian, Mississippi, decided to strike out on his own. He started fabricating structural steel in a 12,000-square-foot shop that had formerly been a chicken house. Dulaney promised Jack Bates, his old boss, that he would not take employees from Bates Steel, and he honored that commitment.

More than four decades later, Structural Steel Services, Inc., operates six plants in Meridian totaling more than a million square feet. One of those plants is the former Bates Steel facility, which Dulaney bought in 1995. We employ 300 workers, many of them longtime employees or the children of longtime employees. After doing extensive work in Southeast Asia in our early years, we have spent most of the last two decades focusing on industrial projects throughout the United States. The company has annual revenue of $100 million.