Business View Magazine | June 2019

131 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE JUNE 2019 swallowed the whale. And when we bought AWT, it allowed us to take our family culture and our philosophy on how things should be done, and apply that to a much larger customer base, and add those facilities, which we desperately needed at the time. So, we’re a collection of family and employee-owned businesses, which I think is pretty unique, today. We’ve seen sustained growth through the years, and we focus on trying to be the best at what we do. In the propane industry, that’s adds. “Quality Steel is an operating subsidiary of the LT Corporation. We actually have two sister companies, Quality Steel plus a recent addition to the portfolio of companies under LT Corp.– LP Cylinder Service, Inc. This is a business in Shohola, Pennsylvania, known for high-quality and strong customer service, and we’re excited to bring them onboard. We’ve just transacted that acquisition in the past two weeks and that has brought on a set of services in refurbishing tanks that we didn’t have an expertise in, before. They have a family- owned and high quality service-oriented culture. So, it was a good fit for us and it really better positions LT Corporation, as well as its subsidiaries, in an area of the country where we do a lot of business.” The Company acquired the assets of American Welding and Tank (AWT) in 2013. “When we purchased AWT, they were the leader in the industry,” Hardin says. “By that time, there were only three major manufacturers left in the industry. So, of the major manufacturers, we were the third and the smallest. We like to say that the guppy QUAL I TY STEEL CORPORAT ION