Joelene Ray, daughter of the company’s co-founder Richard Ray, shares RNR’s history. “It originally started with Richard’s friend William Rodko who was a small repair person and he brought Richard in in 2001,” she says. “They changed the name and changed the operations to a steel company.” The early January 2001 partnership saw Rodko Repair become RNR Steel. Joelene joined the team in June 2001 to work in the office. As the company grew, it was evident they needed more space so in 2010 they relocated. “We moved to our location that we are still at today which is a bigger facility because we couldn’t handle the production in our smaller shop,” Joelene says. “In 2013 or 2014 we put an addition on to make more space because we grew again.” Richard retired last year and today RNR Steel is owned and operated by Joelene and her business partner Edward Carreon. Edward is originally from the Philippines where he worked as a civil engineer doing design and estimating work. He says that when he came to Canada in November 2012, he wanted to continue his career working with structural steel. He was initially hired by RNR as an estimator in April of 2013. Today, he has added project management to his duties. RNR Steel serves an interesting mix of clients from large structural jobs and miscellaneous projects to smaller custom fabrication jobs that form a special niche for the company. Their main source of fabrication is structural steel and miscellaneous metals APRIL 2023
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