EMJ Announces Quad Cities Expansion.BREA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 11, 1998--The Earle M. Jorgensen Co. (EMJ EMJ Emergency Medicine Journal ) Wednesday announced plans to construct a new Quad Cities
The Quad Cities are a group of cities which flank the Mississippi River in Iowa and Illinois in the midwestern United States. Service Center facility in Eldridge, Iowa Eldridge is a city in Scott County, Iowa, United States. The population was 4,159 at the 2000 census; a special census conducted by the city in 2004 counted 4,807 residents. [1] Eldridge is a part of the Quad Cities metropolitan area. . EMJ has purchased 10.5 acres of land in Eldridge for the construction of a new 100,000 square-foot facility to include warehouse, processing and office space. The facility is scheduled for completion in mid-1999. "This new facility supports our strategic plan for continuous improvement in our market," stated Gary Chess, district manager. "The expansion will allow EMJ to offer increased service capabilities, along with the complete EMJ product line, to our customers in Western Illinois and Iowa." EMJ, with headquarters in Brea, is one of the largest independently owned distributors of metal in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. with 23 domestic service centers, two Canadian service centers and five processing centers. EMJ inventories more than 40,000 sizes, shapes and grades of bar, sheet, plate, structurals, expanded metals, tubing and pipe in carbon, alloy steel, stainless steel, stainless, n a steel that contains a minimum of 12% chromium and approximately 0.5% carbon to resist corrosion. and specialty aluminum and steel. |
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