|
| |
Metal
by the Foot, Inc. was established in 1985 and incorporated in the
state of Missouri in 1987. We began in a small downtown warehouse, but moved to
a larger facility in 1989.
In 1996 we moved to our
newly constructed building, centrally located at I-70 & Truman Road (East of
downtown KCMO), which includes a 21,000 square foot warehouse, a 3,000 square
foot sales and customer service show room, and 3,000 square feet of
administrative offices.
We carry 1,600 line items of steel, aluminum, brass, stainless bars, sheets and
tubes. Our total metal inventory weight is close to one-half million pounds.
The show room displays 3,600 different products including:
We also sell welding
supplies and provide a swap service for welding gas.
Our service equipment includes:
-
two automatic
horizontal bandsaws, 
-
three manual horizontal
bandsaws,
-
two 14" hot
saws,
-
one 3/8" x
51" hydraulic plate shear,
-
one 16 ga. x 72"
air shear,
-
one 14 ga. x 4' shear,
one 1/4" 10' digital hydraulic plate shear,
-
one 6' aluminum plate
saw, one manual cold saw, and
-
one each 42 ton and 150
ton ironworkers.
Machine shops, maintenance departments, engineering firms, inventors, builders
and the general public comprise the largest part of our customer base.
Approximately 60% of our business is wholesale and 40% retail.
We receive referrals from almost every major metal supplier in the Kansas City
area, as well as out of town inquiries, which come from as far away as the east
and west coast. Our basic business principal is to give the customer what they
want as soon as possible. Approximately 80% of daily orders are filled while the
customer waits, with an estimated wait time of ten minutes or less. The other
20% are phone orders which are normally ready for pick up the same day.
|
