A Long Track Record for Reliability, Safety and Teamwork

CCC Steel, Inc., was launched in the mid-1970s in Los Angeles by Wolfgang Grünwald, who had earlier been sent to the U.S. by the European steel trading company Coutinho Caro + Co. as part of that company’s Pacific Rim expansion. CCC Steel began as a wholesale distributor of steel, which was mostly shipped into the port of Los Angeles from mills throughout the world at a time when international markets were limited.

After opening Intermountain Steel in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the mid-1980s, the company incorporated end users into its model, adding construction and manufacturing companies to its customer base. That business, a division of CCC, is called IMS Steel. A decade after adding IMS, CCC bought General Pipe, a structural steel distributor in Compton, California. In 1996, the company was sold to Reliance, Inc., North America’s largest metals service center company. Over time, CCC Steel has diversified its model and customer base further with a focus on steel fabricators, civil contractors and other metal distributors.