Earle M. Jorgensen Company (NYSE: JOR) celebrates initial public offering

04/15/2005

The Earle M. Jorgensen Company is a leading distributor of metal bar and tubular products used by North American manufacturing companies. They purchase over 25,000 different metal products in large quantities from primary producers, including a broad mix of carbon, alloy and stainless steel and aluminum bar, tubular and plate products. Earle M. Jorgensen sell these metal products in smaller quantities to over 35,000 customers spanning various industries, including machine tools, industrial equipment, transportation, fluid power, oil, gas and energy, fabricated metal, and construction and agricultural equipment. They distribute their broad range of metal products and provide their customers value-added metal processing and inventory management services from their distribution network of 35 strategically located service and processing centers in the United States and Canada.