St. Augustine-based Vested Metals announced Oct. 27 it opened a sales and service center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Viv Helwig, president, opened Vested Metals in 2014.
Vested Metals is a supplier of specialty steel and other metals. It sells to markets such as medical, defense, aerospace, industrial and power generation.
The Indiana location is 20,000 square feet allowing for increased production, packaging and storage capacity.
The company will offer local flatbed truck delivery with its own trucks.
“This new location will allow us to expand our product offering and capabilities and better service our customers in the Midwest and beyond,” Helwig said in a news release.
“It’s a major step in expanding our footprint and increasing our efficiency. Fort Wayne is a strategic nexus for our customers west of the Mississippi. It’s within an hour of major manufacturing hubs like Chicago, Indianapolis, and Detroit. It is also located next to Warsaw, Indiana, known as ‘The Orthopedic Capital of the World.’ This will help us reduce lead times and continue to offer competitive rates for high-quality products.”
The release did not list the cost of opening the facility.
Vested Metals has been named on Inc. Magazine’s 5,000 fastest-growing companies list five years in a row (2019-23). The Flagler College graduate was featured as one of the Daily Record’s Top Entrepreneurs in 2022.
Also in 2022, the company was the North Florida and Florida Small Business Exporter of the Year.