Atlantic Steel

[1][2] Atlantic Steel's history dated back to 1901 when it was founded as the Atlanta Hoop Company, with 120 employees, and which produced cotton bale ties and barrel hoops.

[4] A replica of his office exists at the Millennium Gate museum in Atlantic Station.

[5] By 1952, the plant had 2,100 employees and was producing not only hoops and ties, but also "poultry and field fence, barbed wire, angles, round bars, channels, tees, handrail, reinforcing bars, nails, rivets, welding rods, shackles, [forgings] and fence posts".

[6] In 1979, the Ivaco company of Montreal, Quebec, Canada acquired Atlantic Steel.

Operations were partially shut down in the 1980s as competition from home and abroad intensified.