for condos, apartments, and commercial and industrial buildings along with bridges and other civil infrastructure. The company also does a wide variety of custom fabrication jobs including fabrication of mezzanines, stairs, railings, miscellaneous brackets, access ladders and columns. Warehousing for projects is also provided. “When I started here, RNR Steel was more on the structural side. Seventy to 80 percent of the jobs we were doing would come from the structural side and only 20 to 30 percent of them were miscellaneous. But lately, because of the market where everybody is really looking for work, they really want to get the job even though they’re really not making that much money on the structural side.” “Miscellaneous is more on the specialty side, like guardrails, ladders, something that everybody doesn’t want to do,” he says. “These days I would say we are more on the 50-50 percent structural and miscellaneous.” Joelene is quick to point out that RNR maintains a strong commitment to their smaller customers who have been loyal through the years. “Originally, our business ran a lot on walk-in customers, so we still cater to those walk-in customers. We do a lot of small jobs as well just because they were the ones that grew us to the size that we are now. If we told them, ‘No, we don’t do that anymore,’ we just don’t think that’s fair to customers who have dealt with us along the way. So, we still cater to those smaller customers on top of APRIL 2023
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