Altex Tube to open mid-October

The Altex Tube steel tubing manufacturer will open its $110M facility on the Steel Dynamics Inc. campus near Columbus in mid-October. 

CEO Zach Smith told The Dispatch the company has finished most of the construction for the new 100,000-square-foot plant on Airport Road and is preparing it for heavy equipment installation that will be arriving from Italy. 

Once complete, the plant will produce 100,000 tons of metal tubing using SDI’s black and pre-galvanized steel coil products. Black steel has not been coated with zinc or paint. Pre-galvanized steel is processed and coated before being sized and cut into tubes. 

The plant will hire 60 employees but will start operations with 30. Smith said that number will increase as the plant ramps up. 

Its primary customers will mostly consist of steel service centers, which purchase materials such as steel tubing in bulk, then resell it to general consumers, Smith said. (The Dispatch 07/11/23) Altex Tube plant set to open mid-October - The Dispatch (cdispatch.com)