Border Steel and Recycling, Inc

Border Steel and Recycling, Inc. is a retail sales and service center for structural and finished steel products, steel fabrication, and metals recycling services. We serve customers throughout eastern Montana and western North Dakota.Border Steel and Recycling was established in 1985 by William and Bret Smelser, father and son. Starting out in Glendive, Montana this thriving family business has now grown to include four locations and offers an expanded inventory of new and used steel products.From any one of our locations you can purchase a variety of structural steel products as well as aluminum and stainless steel. The most popular products we carry include square tubing, rectangular tubing, round tubing, angle iron, channel iron, steel rod and strip, steel plate, floor plate, and smooth plate.

We are also a farm and ranch supplier of continuous fence, metal gates, wire fencing and panels as well as metal livestock feeders, maternity pens and water tanks.For your construction projects, we stock steel culvert, plastic culvert, perforated pipe, metal siding and roofing, rail road ties and rough-cut lumber. We also carry a variety of used pipe, rod, grate, guard rail and tanks. Got Scrap? Bring your salvage metals to one of our Montana recycling yards to get the best prices around. We accept all grades of steel, stainless steel, aluminum, copper, brass and tin. We accept auto bodies, batteries, radiators, salvage equipment and implements, and appliances. See our Recycling page to learn how you can prepare your scrap to qualify for the highest price possible.

Border Steel and Recycling also buys hides. We buy beef, deer, elk, moose and buffalo hides from hunters, ranchers and meat processors throughout eastern Montana.Some of the services we offer are local delivery on your steel orders, fabrication services, roll-off scrap container services and removal of your heavy salvage projects like bridges, locomotives and drilling rigs.Here at Border Steel, customer service is our #1 priority because we believe our customers are the most important part of our business. We see to it that our customers get the products they want and the service they deserve.

History

Border Steel and Recycling, Inc. is a family business that's been rooted in the steel industry for four generations.It all began back in the 1940’s with Rex Smelser of Miles City, Montana. With the industrial age in full swing and a strong demand for salvage metals, Rex saw an opportunity for a great business.Farmers, businessmen and railroad managers throughout eastern Montana needed an efficient and profitable way to recycle their scrap metals so Rex found a way to serve them. He traveled throughout the region in his truck buying their scrap metals and reselling them to a large recycling corporation. Rex was well known in the area for his integrity and was a stickler for treating his customers right; a reputation that still holds true today.

Rex developed lasting friendships everywhere he went. Even the folks he sold his salvage to took a liking to him. In 1950, Pacific Hide and Fur, a large salvage corporation recruited Rex to work at their facility in Sidney, Montana. Rex, his wife Apolonia, and each of their children all had a place in the corporation too, including their son Bill and their grandson, Bret.By the 1980’s three generations of the Smelser family were serving the good people of eastern Montana. Rex, Bill and Bret were all employees of the same corporation and with each generation this family's reputation grew stronger.Over time health challenges forced Bill to leave his corporate position and pursue other ventures. Partnering with his son Bret, the two decided to put their experience to work in their own business. So, in 1985, Bill and Bret invested what they had to start up Border Steel and Recycling in Glendive, Montana and they’ve never looked back since.

Today, Border Steel and Recycling, Inc. is a thriving business with a fourth-generation Smelser behind the wheel. After Bill’s retirement, Brady Smelser, Bret’s son jumped on board and together they have expanded their business to include three locations in Montana and a fourth in North Dakota. Like his father and each generation before him, Brady is focused on the heart of their business – customer service.There’s a reason the folks at Border Steel and Recycling are known as "the little guys with big service"… it’s in their blood.

Services

• Border Steel and Recycling offers prompt delivery services to our local customers.  Just let us know if you would like your order delivered and we will add it to our schedule.  You can place an order online and schedule delivery, too.  Go to our Quotes and Orders page to check it out.
• Border Steel and Recycling offers fabrication services for your custom projects. At our Williston, North Dakota location we have a shear, brake, rebar bender, band saw, iron workers and a CNC plasma cutter.  At our Sidney location we have a shear, brake, band saw and iron worker and in Glendive we have a band saw and iron worker. In most cases, we can cut, bend and shape metals to fit your specifications.
• For our industrial and commercial customers, we offer demolition and removal services for your heavy projects. This would include projects like the removal and disposal of metal bridges, semi trucks, oil rigs, and railroad engines. Call for details.
• Border Steel offers the best prices around for beef, deer, elk, moose and buffalo hides.  We buy hides from meat processing plants, ranchers and hunters and we also offer pick up service to meat processing plants throughout eastern Montana. Call for pricing and pick up schedule.

Got Scrap

Border Steel and Recycling buys your scrap metals and then recycles them, conserving energy and reducing the need for new mined metals.  Check out our Steel Recycling and Aluminum Recycling pages to see what a difference you can make when you recycle your metals. 

STEEL: The World's Most Recycled Material

Steel is recycled more than all other materials combined. The stable metallurgical properties of steel allow it to be recycled over and over again, with no degradation in performance.There are endless sources for steel scrap all around you. You can recycle the tin cans in your cupboard, that old bike in the garage, the broken toaster and that car in barn you used for parts.By recycling steel, you are doing your part to reduce the need for new mined minerals. In fact, two of every three tons of new steel comes from steel scrap. The only reason the ratio for scrap isn't higher is because there are many uses for steel that have extended life cycles like bridges, cars and rail road tracks.The American Iron and Steel Institute has put together some interesting facts about steel recycling. Check it out... then think about starting your own steel scrap pile! When it starts to take up too much space, just load it up and bring in to us. It's just one more way you can help keep our environment clean and put a few bucks in your pocket, too!

Economic Benefits of Aluminum Recycling

• The aluminum can is the most valuable container to recycle and is the most recycled consumer product in the U.S. today.
• Each year, the aluminum industry pays out over $800 million dollars for empty aluminum cans - that’s a lot of money that can go to organizations, like the Boy or Girl Scouts of America, or even a local school.
• Money earned from recycling cans helps people help themselves and their communities. Recycling helps build new homes, pays for a group trip, supports a project or buys a lunch!
• Today it is cheaper, faster and more energy-efficient to recycle aluminum than ever before. The aluminum can is 100 percent recyclable and can be recycled indefinitely.
• Used aluminum beverage cans are the most recycled item in the U.S., but other types of aluminum, such as siding, gutters, car components, storm window frames, and lawn furniture can also be recycled.
• Aluminum has a high market value and continues to provide an economic incentive to recycle. When aluminum cans are recycled curbside, they help pay for community services.

Structural Steel  

Border Steel is your source for structural steel and fabrication services. We have four locations serving Montana and North Dakota. Click here to find the nearest Border Steel sales and service center.At Border Steel you will find a wide variety of structural steel, aluminum and stainless steel products including tubing, angle, channel, rod, sheet, plate, bar and pipe.We also carry a large selection of construction products including metal siding, metal roofing, steel beams, steel pipe, black iron pipe, galvanized pipe, rebar, steel culvert, plastic culvert, and perforated pipe.If your job calls for agricultural products like metal gates, steel T-posts, wire fencing and panels, Border Steel stocks these products too.