February 2013: Origin Merchant Partners Acts as Exclusive Advisor to Steel Warehouse on its Sale to Cincinnati Tool Steel Company

February 2013: Origin Merchant Partners Acts as Exclusive Advisor to Steel Warehouse on its Sale to Cincinnati Tool Steel Company

By Tracey Lamping's

All Transactions, Mergers & Acquisitions

February 28, 2013

Origin Merchant Partners is pleased to announce the successful sale of certain assets of the Tool Steel Division of Steel Warehouse Company, LLC (“Steel Warehouse”) to Cincinnati Tool Steel Company Inc. (“Cincinnati Tool Steel Company”). Origin Merchant Partners served as the exclusive financial advisor to Steel Warehouse.

Steel Warehouse is one of the largest family-owned industrial concerns in the U.S. and Mexico focused on the metal service center sector. The company offers a broad range of processing services to provide production-ready steel for metal stampers, fabricators and manufacturers. Services include leveling, slitting, temper/cut-to-length, blanking/shearing, pickling and cold reduction. Steel Warehouse affiliates produce mechanical and structural grade steel tubing and fabricate medium to heavy gauge components for original equipment manufacturers. The Tool Steel Division is headquartered in South Bend, Indiana, and is operated as a master distributor of multiple tool steel products. Its processing capabilities include sawing, milling, and grinding.

Cincinnati Tool Steel Company is a value-added distributor of tool steel, powder metal and alloys based in Rockford, Illinois.

Origin Senior Lead: Bob Wujtowicz