The location is now CMC Rebar Co.
CMC - short for Commercial Metals Co. - is an international and publicly traded company.
It includes steel mills, recycling, fabrication and distribution.
Brant Smith is general manager and was happy to tell me about the business in Lumberton.
The location makes reinforced steel for concrete structures including bridges, high-rise buildings, cell towers and steel fence posts.
Eight hundred tons of steel are shipped from this plant each month.
The plant has 11 employees - four from Lumberton, five from Poplarville and two from Purvis. Smith was prompt to say that not many places this size can produce the amount of rebar that his workers do.
The employees from Lumberton are Matt Saucier, Joe Fairley, Jeremy Spiers and Don Dewease - and Smith was quick to compliment them for the tremendous job that they do.
Smith also said the business had not slowed down during these tough economic times, and he feels President-elect Barack Obama's stimulus will only help business. ...
THE LUMBERTON SCHOOL BOARD met Jan. 12.
A moment of silence was held for elementary Principal Michael Morris, who was killed in a car accident in December.
Al Young was sworn in as a new school board member. Earl Winslow was named president of the board and Bill Atwood was named secretary.
Repairs to the high school principal's office, which was damaged by a fire bomb, are finished, and the office should be ready for business next week. Bids also have been advertised to replace the field house, which was burned by arsonists.
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