Reinventing the steel: New leadership revives metal-making firm

With significant investment and a new, energetic owner at the helm, what started as a scrap-metal salvage business has become a high-tech, fast-growing dynamic company.

  • By Brian Hartz
  • | 6:00 a.m. January 31, 2020
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Mark Wemple. With investments like a $200,000 CNC plasma cutter, Troy Underwood has put his entrepreneurial stamp on Tampa Steel & Supply.
Mark Wemple. With investments like a $200,000 CNC plasma cutter, Troy Underwood has put his entrepreneurial stamp on Tampa Steel & Supply.
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When Troy Underwood, owner and CEO of Tampa-based Urban Metals LLC — which does business as Tampa Steel & Supply — says he has a diverse customer base, it’s an understatement.

 

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