Stainless supplier recommendation?

I have a fairly significant (for me) stainless steel order I need to place. Tubing, sheet, and round bar. Probably around 40k pounds of stainless material. Plus a few more tons of aluminum, brass, and copper. 15k lbs going to Nevada and remainder to my shop in Minnesota. In a normal year I am buying $30k to $100k of material. This is probably close to $200k in one order. I'm obviously keen on keeping as much of my money in my pocket as possible, so I want to make sure I'm not leaving too much on the table.

I've got RFQ's in with:
McNeilus (my local supplier)
Thyssen Krupp - Copper & Brass Division
Alro
Shaw Stainless (part of Olympic)
Liebovich (part of Reliance Steel, which I think has EMJ)

Any other recommendations?

Thanks

We use Liebovich and Speedy Metals. Both are usually around the same price and delivery within a day or two at my shop.

I get some stainless from Barry Dorfman in Cali.

Penn Stainless
The other Reliance sub-companies, like Yarde. They own so many companies, none of them talk to each other, and they all have different pricing.

DanielG said:

Penn Stainless
The other Reliance sub-companies, like Yarde. They own so many companies, none of them talk to each other, and they all have different pricing.

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That's interesting. What a messed up industry.

It does seem like when you need enough of something the sub-companies will go their parent company. On occasional I have had Shaw Stainless go to their parent Olympic for stuff. But it definitely doesn't seem like a common occurance.

Thanks

Update:
a) Shaw Stainless in Georgia is sending a full load of stainless to Las Vegas for me. They have given me very competitive price and service on this type of order in the past. I'd recommend them.
b) The rest of the stuff going directly to me in Minnesota is coming from a handful of different suppliers. Liebovich did pretty well on thicker stainless sheet and plate. McNeilus did well on the 20k lbs of 16 ga stainless sheet. Alro picked up a bunch of bar and smaller tubing. Then the little outfit in Minnesota, A&C Metals, as per usual, came in with pretty solid pricing aluminum. The really random place Coremark came in with high prices on everything except a few bars of copper and aluminum of which they were outrageously cheap on.

I feel like I did okay on this little exercise as I saw prices converge between vendors towards what I expect is a "real" price.

kb0thn said:

I have a fairly significant (for me) stainless steel order I need to place. Tubing, sheet, and round bar. Probably around 40k pounds of stainless material. Plus a few more tons of aluminum, brass, and copper. 15k lbs going to Nevada and remainder to my shop in Minnesota. In a normal year I am buying $30k to $100k of material. This is probably close to $200k in one order. I'm obviously keen on keeping as much of my money in my pocket as possible, so I want to make sure I'm not leaving too much on the table.

I've got RFQ's in with:
McNeilus (my local supplier)
Thyssen Krupp - Copper & Brass Division
Alro
Shaw Stainless (part of Olympic)
Liebovich (part of Reliance Steel, which I think has EMJ)

Any other recommendations?

Thanks

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My wife works for National Specialty Alloys here in Houston, please call Todd Edmister at 281-345-2115.

Have you ever bought from Guy Metals? Haven’t used them much since they were bought by Ryerson, but they aren’t too far from you.