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Ozburn-Hessey Logistics Chosen by Steel City Tool Works as 3PL: Steel City in Music City
For Immediate Release
6/28/2006
BRENTWOOD, Tennessee – Ozburn-Hessey Logistics recently added Steel City Tool Works to its client list. The woodworking machinery manufacturer headquartered in Murfreesboro, TN, is operating in approximately 35,000 square feet in one of OH Logistics' La Vergne, TN facilities.
Founded less than a year ago by Mark Strahler and Scott Box and a small group of private investors, Steel City is already up and running with a line of 32 machines for the professional and high-end amateur woodworking market. The company will celebrate the official rollout of these products at the giant IWF trade show in Atlanta in August 2006. "We are in the business of developing and supporting high-end woodworking equipment and needed to partner with a company that could help us get our product to our dealer network in the U.S. and handle our distribution needs," said Scott Box, General Manager of Steel City Tool Works. "We decided to go with OH Logistics because of their flexibility, responsiveness and understanding of our objectives and how to best achieve them. I have had nothing but good experiences with OH Logistics in the past and they were a logical option to help us launch our products." "We are delighted with this new relationship," commented Scott McWilliams, CEO of OH Logistics. "Steel City has a solid business model, a great go-to-market strategy and a strong customer service focus. We look forward to providing them the supply chain services they need as they execute their growth strategy." Steel City's slogan, "By Tool Guys, For Tool Guys," sums up the company's philosophy, which harks back to the old days before big box stores, when manufacturers built solid, no-nonsense machines for discriminating end users and sold them through a supportive network of local distributors. According to SCTW President Mark Strahler, Steel City will "avoid the trap of bringing miscellaneous 'stuff' to the marketplace, which is too often the case in today's woodworking machinery business. That's why we're introducing only one drill press -- not 12. Overloading the market is both wasteful for the market and confusing for the end-user. SCTW concentrates on well-thought-out, well-designed, solidly built products that specifically address what we know to be the confirmed wishes of woodworkers. As for the future, Steel City is dedicated to actively working on new innovative products, tools that will be valuable to our customers."
About Steel City Tool Works
Over the next four years, Steel City plans to introduce between seven and ten new products per year. We're told that the next candidates for product development will include an oscillating edge sander, a 13" portable planer, a 2-HP shaper and an oscillating wide-belt sander.
The bottom line here is that Steel City Tool Works is very intent on becoming a major contender -- if not a household name -- in the woodworking machinery arena in the very near future. They're counting on their broad line of carefully designed, heavy-duty, no-frills machines and their service-oriented dealer network to make that dream a reality.
Steel City can be reached at (615-225-9001) or on the web at: www.steelcitytoolworks.com
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