In 1946, Robert Daugherty, the founder of Valmont, returned from a tour of duty with the Marine Corps. He and his Uncle Frank saw the need for agricultural equipment and founded Valley Manufacturing Company. In 1947, the VALLEY line of agricultural equipment was introduced.

In 1953, Valley Manufacturing purchased the patent for what would be known as "Center-Pivot Irrigation" from part-time farmer and inventor Frank Zybach. Bob Daugherty saw the need to raise the pipes and suspend them above the particular crop but quickly discovered that the standard 6 5/8" OD heavy-wall line pipe used in conventional irrigation systems was too heavy to be safely suspended. That need for a lighter wall pipe spurred the beginnings of Valmont Tubing.

Beginning with 6 5/8” OD tubing, Valmont began manufacturing steel pipe and tubing for internal use when in 1959 the company foresaw an opportunity to manufacture pipe and tubing not only for its own irrigation systems but to expand into producing it for other companies.

Over the years, Valmont Tubing has expanded from its irrigation beginnings to expand to serving other customers in the agricultural industry along with such diverse markets as transportation, pneumatic, exhaust, construction, structural, and many other industrial applications. In addition, steel service centers sell our product into various other applications. An increased range of tubing sizes along with additional finishes, chemistries and value-added operations have been added to better serve our diverse customer base and to position us as an industry innovator in the welded steel tubing industry. Today, Valmont Tubing produces over 50 different sizes of of welded steel tubing available in a wide array of finishes and chemistries.

Mission Statement

Valmont Tubing's mission statement proudly reflects over 50 years of providing our customers with the superior tubing and customer service to fit your needs. From your initial inquiry through the your order placement & delivery, you can count on Valmont Tubing to listen, to understand, and to provide the right products on time and on budget helping to uncover hidden costs in customer's processes that we can help with.

As the business world continues to change rapidly, Valmont Tubing constantly examines the marketplace for new opportunities to increase our capabilities and to partner with our customers to help them succeed. Hand in hand with the business environment is Valmont Tubing's commitment to remain at the very cutting edge of new tubular products and technology. Over the years, we have introduced many new processes, new sizes and shapes and products to the marketplace, and our research and development efforts never stop. As our history shows, when the need for additional line capacity exists, we move swiftly to turn that need into reality.

Valmont Tubing defines quality in the electric resistance welded steel tubing industry. For state-of-the-art products, more and more companies are discovering the Valmont Tubing difference. When your company saves by dealing with Valmont Tubing, we both succeed.

At Valmont Tubing, we succeed when you succeed. It's that simple.

Our mission statement is our promise to you, our customers…now and in the future.