Sabel Steel Serves Industry, Consumers

5th Generation Family Business Offers Customers Personal Service

BATON ROUGE — Operating from its $5 million facility on Flannery Road, Sabel Steel is continuing a family tradition that began in 1856 by offering personal, while-you-wait service.  Sabel is a steel distributor, and it cuts steel to the client’s specifications.
Ironically, while the vast majority of Sabel’s sales come from some of the largest companies in the nation and the state, the staff prides itself in its ability to serve small business and individuals in the Baton Rouge area.
Mike Wingard, Sabel’s Gulf Coast regional manager, said, “Most of our employees are local and deeply rooted in the Baton Rouge community.  We enjoy helping local contractors, small business owners, and homeowners who need steel.  Internally, we compete to see how fast we can serve them.  We know our customers’ time is valuable.  So we want a person to walk in, pick up the product he needs, and be on his way in 10 or 12 minutes.  We have an inventory right here of more than five million pounds of steel.  So we have quite a selection.”
Large clients include companies like Shaw, Turner, Performance, McDermott, the petro-chemical industry, the sugar industry, the movie industry, and many others.  Everyday, an average of five 18-wheelers deliver more than 220,000 pounds of steel to Sabel’s location on Flannery Road.  And deliveries head out to all parts of South Louisiana.
Wingard invited clients to come by and visit the facilities at 2809 North Flannery Road, phone 225-356-9812, or visit SabelSteel.com.