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Article: Nice guys 'finish' big; Excelsior Steel Processing puts its vast array of grinders, polishers and blanking lines to work in Canada, and now the United States, to create fine and custom finished products for a variety of applications.
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- Metal Center News
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- May 1, 2005
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Building on a 37-year history of success in Canada, Excelsior Steel Processing Ltd. expanded last year by establishing a subsidiary Excelsior Steel Processing Inc., in Middletown, Ohio, to take advantage of the large, lucrative U.S. market.
The company was founded in 1967 by William Coward, who had been a stainless steel manager for a service center in Toronto, responsible for buying polished product. William started his own company when he saw that customers needed someone to apply finishes to specialty steels in both Canada and the northeastern United States.
His son, Thomas E. Coward, Excelsior's current president, says the business started operating ...