A proud member of EMC and the Burlington Consortium

Participants celebrated Laurel Steel’s growth from a small shop that sold odds and ends to the concrete industry to a customer-focused supplier with a reputation of providing the highest quality product and service for a wide range of applications, from mining to construction to hockey helmet cages. Visitors toured the facility (on foot or by train!), watched a special video presentation about Laurel and its history, and enjoyed a delicious lunch, complete with cake, ice cream and cotton candy (for the young and the young at heart).

Over the past 50 years Laurel Steel hit a number of impressive milestones:

• First North American cold finisher to earn the ISO 9002 registration; among the first to earn QS 9000 registration (currently TS 16949 registered)
• Implemented BLUESTAR in the early 1990s—a management focus that emphasized teamwork, allowing ideas to flow up from the production floor to create improvements in safety, throughput, efficiencies, quality, and cost. It doesn’t look the same as it did in the 90’s but the philosophy of employee input is still the same
• A safety record of over 2 million hours worked with no lost time accidents from 2007 to 2013. Awarded Nucor’s President’s Safety Award for Excellence in Safety from 2010 to 2015
• The tallest KASTO storage system of its kind in the world, at 85 feet tall, containing 2,300 storage cassettes, and a load capacity of 18,000 tons. Earlier this year Laurel upgraded KASTO with minimal disruption to its customers
• Earned the 2015 NPCA Sustainability Award for responsible production. Laurel Steel has a landfill diversion rate of 97%.
• Awarded the 2016 Heritage Award by the Burlington Chamber of Commerce

Founded in 1967 by Milton Harris, Laurel Steel is a steel processor that values safety, quality and the environment. Part of the Harris Steel Group, a Nucor company, Laurel Steel is located in Burlington Ontario in a 350,000 sq. ft. facility on 22 acres of land.