About Us
The History of T J Steel
TJ-Steel was established in January 1998 by Tony Bell who had 30 years industry experience and John Maisey who is the owner and Managing Director of Forlong and Maisey, both John and Tony identified a need to offer lower priced product to end users within New Zealand by utilising the contacts that John had established through his businesses in Asia.
After discussions with some distributors it was decided that TJ-Steel would act as a broker of steel products out of Asia for these companies, however following changes in the attitude of a major distributor a decision was made to stock Hot Rolled Sheet from Thailand that was of good quality for resale, this saw TJ-Steel enter as a very small merchant offering steel to customers within the New Zealand market.
From this point which was mid 1998, TJ-Steel has grown swiftly, even through the Asian crisis which saw the NZ dollar plummet to an all time low of 0.39 against the US Dollar which happened January 2000. Five shifts of premises occurred during 1998 to 2002 to where we are now located in Te Rapa, Hamilton.
Our success has been driven by being innovative, identifying niche areas and having a passion within our makeup to provide total customer service. This philosophy has led us to obtain some very good agencies which continue to offer benefits to our customers.
Our success has been created by keeping things Simple, provide Excellent service and at all times showing Common Sense.
We can now boast a very large customer base, a wide range of steel and associated products and a passionate, fun loving team of people all striving in giving the customers what they need.
As we have grown so has our abilities to match our customers needs, nearly provide the impossible and sharpened our overall service which includes engineering capabilities from Thailand, Vietnam, China and Singapore
Add to this our introduction into the stock and supply of traffic related products plus other TJ-Products that are short listed for the future is exciting
