PHOTO SUPPLIED BY KIT STEEL – Kit Steel currently employs 15 workers, including welders who work on custom rebar assemblies. Looking at available shops in the area, they realized it made more sense to build a customized shop that would get rebar orders out the door even faster. The company soon began to bid on larger and larger tenders and outgrew the small facility. “We’ve become well-known for getting projects out the door on schedule and on budget, so our customers can make their pour on time.”Īs the new guys in town, contractors began asking the brothers if they wanted to upsize their game. “That allowed us to run the rebar shop more like a fast food company,” Kubes says. Bringing in a new shear line from CRS Specialties in Welland, the machinery replaced an order system based on paper forms and Excel spreadsheets with one that scanned instructions via QR code. They purchased the company in 2018 and quickly worked to modernize the shop. “It was owned by family friends who were retiring, and my brother and I were at that point in our lives where we wanted to do something a little different,” Kubes says. PHOTO SUPPLIED BY KIT STEEL – One of Kit Steel’s largest projects was the Walker Sports and Abilities Centre at Brock University, completed in support of the Niagara 2022 Canada Summer Games. That business became Kubes Steel, a supplier of custom-fabricated steel in Stoney Creek.įounded in 2010, Kit Steel supplied rebar to local precast manufacturers, primarily producers of concrete wastewater pipe and concrete road barriers. Together with their father, Joe, he established a family business fabricating residential ornamental steel railings in the Hamilton area in the 1970s. Their grandfather was a blacksmith who emigrated from Europe. Kubes and his brother Andy come from a steel family three generations deep. “Those photos are a reminder to us of the way we worked with our customers to see these projects through and to celebrate their completion.” “We’re very proud of these projects, even though our rebar is invisible,” says Mike Kubes, general manager and co-owner of Kit Steel. Scroll down a little further and you’ll see progress photos of buildings currently under construction, steel rebar fully exposed. “It is part of the reason why folks aren’t too upset to see them go, because they do have some structural problems as they get bigger,” Kenny said.The website for Welland, Ont.’s Kit Steel features photos of fully-completed projects where the supplier’s product is entirely invisible. However, then the trees began spreading from where they were planted, and had a few additional problems like a tendency for their branches to split, especially among the Bradford variety. Explore PREVIOUS COVERAGE: Pungent, blooming tree to be banned in Ohio next yearĬallery pears were introduced to North America in the early 1900s for agricultural use, the ODNR said, and later grew in popularity as an ornamental tree. The ban doesn’t require existing pear trees to be removed, but the ODNR Division of Forestry encourages people to remove or control Callery pear trees.Ī similar ban is set to go into effect in South Carolina in 2024.
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