Huron-area business helping to build America for 75 years
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HURON — TrueNorth Steel is a family-owned business that started 75 years ago in Fargo, N.D., which has since expanded, and currently has nine locations across five states. They have provided custom steel based solutions across the United States. Their steel can be found in numerous industries, including commercial, industrial, agricultural, mining, oil/refineries, and bridges.
TNS has four divisions; Bridge, built and constructed to access county roads, private locations, hotels, golf courses, and farmers/ranchers. Tanks for agricultural use, oil tanks and field tanks to hold numerous fluids and diesel, including underground tanks. Drainage, working with corrugated steel pipe making culverts for county roads, and building private drainage systems under buildings that have land and no area for the run off to go. Structural, as they are building the largest Sanford Hospital in Fargo, they are also building the adjoining bridges to connect to other areas, and have built numerous hospitals, schools, offices, and other huge structures. As well as incorporating their own transportation line to ship their products, FTC Transportation Inc.
TNS employs over 600 people. They are always hiring, and have grown in size in the last few years. Even though they are getting large, their mission is to remain having personal relationships with their customers.
“Most customers know that when they come here for their products that they are getting a lot of in house work from us,” said Savannah Ward, Marketing and Communications Coordinator at TrueNorth Steel. “They like knowing they are dealing with one person or team and knowing that TNS is doing it all, including the shipping, instead of jumping to other places, and companies for help.”