Business View Magazine | December 2019

233 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE DECEMBER 2019 ArcelorMittal, Steel Dynamics, Inc., SSAB Steel, and Gerdau Steel. Those are the main folks that buy our steel scrap. We ship all over the region – to mills and foundries in Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska, Missouri, and occasionally, Indiana and Ohio.” Although M. Gervich & Sons is a relatively small operation, Doug believes the company has some distinct competitive advantages. “We have six trucks that service our accounts and we pride ourselves on offering what we call instantaneous service,” he states. “When we get a call, we’ll be there to pick up that supplier’s scrap within 24 hours. There are not a lot of dealers that can do that. And we make annual, personal visits to consumers – the steel mills and the foundries – those that consume or melt our scrap, to see what we can do to encourage them to buy more scrap from us, and what we can do to provide the scrap just how they want it – sized, sorted, and cleaned up to meet their needs. If someone is buying stainless steel scrap, they don’t want D & D TRUCKING 800-633-9037 | deb@d-dtrucking.com Durant, Iowa SCRAP & FOUNDRYHAULERS SERVING IOWAANDSURROUNDINGAREAS M. GERV I CH & SONS , INC .