Zekelman Industries

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Zekelman Industries is a Canadian company owned by the Zekelman family, including billionaires Barry, Clayton, and Alan Zekelman. They own Atlas Tube, a steel tubing manufacturer in Canada and the US. [1]

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History

Atlas Tube was founded in 1984 by Harry Zekelman. A majority stake was sold to the Carlyle Group in 2006 for $1.5 billion CND. [2]

In 2006–2008, the Carlyle Group purchased John Maneely Co (founded in 1877) for $550 million, [3] then purchased Atlas Tube, and Sharon Tube (founded in 1929), forming them into JMC Steel Group under DBO Holdings. Carlyle and Zekelman nearly sold them to Novolipetsk Steel (NLMK) for $3.5 billion in 2008, but the deal fell through in late 2008, with DBO/Carlyle suing NLMK for breach of contract. [3] [4] [2] [5] [6] DBO/Carlyle and NLMK settled their lawsuit in 2009, with NLMK paying $234 million. [7]

Picoma became part of JMC in 2009. Carlyle sold a majority stake to the Zekelman family in 2011. [3] The company name was changed to Zekelman Industries in 2016.

Subsidiaries

Zekelman subsidiaries and locations include: [8]

Political involvement

Zekelman Industries provides steel tubing to the US-Mexico border wall. [9] A Zekelman Industries subsidiary, Wheatland Tube, donated $1.75 million to the America First Action super-PAC to elect Donald Trump, a financial maneuver considered questionable for a foreign citizen. [9] [10] Barry Zekelman dined with Donald Trump at a private Trump Hotel DC dinner by America First Action. Zekelman lobbied Trump regarding steel tariffs, the border wall, and trucking regulations. [10]

As a foreign business executive trying to buy influence through spending on American elections, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint against Zekelman with the Federal Election Commission in 2019. In April 2022, the F. E C. fined Zekelman $975,000 in the case, one of the biggest penalties it has ever assessed. [11]

Barry Zekelman

Barry Zekelman owns a million-dollar cigarette boat named Man of Steel. [9] [2] He also has owned several superyachts named Man of Steel; he previously owned a 2005 36.8 m (121 ft) Heesen 3700 named Man of Steel. He replaced this with a steel-hulled 50 m (160 ft) Heesen in 2008, the largest they had built at the time. It was sold and renamed Inception. [12] The third "Man of Steel" superyacht was an aluminum-hulled 49.8 m (163 ft) Heesen purchased by Zekelman in 2019; it was previously named the Satori and then the Septimus. [13] [14] A third boat, described as a lake boat, is also named Man of Steel. [9] [2] In October 2021, it was confirmed that Zekelman was the purchaser of Steven Spielberg's former 282 ft yacht Seven Seas, built by Oceanco in 2010, which he renamed Man of Steel.

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References

  1. ↑ "Business sale makes Zekelman a billion-dollar man". 18 August 2008. Archived from the original on 18 August 2008. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Windsor's man of steel bends to market forces". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Reuters Editorial. "UPDATE 1-Carlyle says to sell JMC Steel stake". U.S. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "Carlyle steel unit sale to Russian firm collapses". Reuters.com. Retrieved 8 February 2020. DBO Holdings
  5. ↑ "Former Atlas Tube part of Novolipetsk deal". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 8 February 2020. The company, with 2,100 employees in the United States and Canada, operates through its Wheatland and Atlas Tube divisions and has estimated 2008 sales of around $3-billion.
  6. ↑ Roknick, Michael (25 October 2006). "Wheatland Tube's owner merging with Atlas Tube in $1.5 billion deal". The Herald. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  7. ↑ "Carlyle Will Get $234 Million Settlement For Failed Deal With Novolipetsk Steel". Global Custodian. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  8. ↑ "Locations | Zekelman Industries". Zekelman Industries. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  9. 1 2 3 4 "He's One of the Biggest Backers of Trump's Push to Protect American Steel. And He's Canadian". nytimes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2020. Barry Zekelman, a Canadian billionaire whose business is mostly in the United States, is not a guy who likes to lose — or go slow. On days off, he likes to race his Ferrari 488 sports cars. Or he might climb aboard his Gulfstream IV jet to fly to the Bahamas to visit his 121-foot superyacht, which he named “Man of Steel” in a nod to his role as chief executive of Zekelman Industries, North America’s largest steel-tube manufacturer.
  10. 1 2 "Tape Made Public of Trump Discussing Ukraine With Donors". nytimes.com. Retrieved 25 January 2020. Mr. Zekelman, a Canadian citizen who owns a steel tube manufacturing company that donated $1.75 million to the political action committee supporting Mr. Trump, pushed the president on what he saw as the top two challenges facing his company: cheap steel tube imports from Asia and new federal rules that make it harder to find truck drivers.
  11. ↑ "Donations Steered to Trump Super PAC by Canadian Are Found to Be Illegal". nytimes.com. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
  12. ↑ "Inception". superyachttimes.com. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  13. ↑ "Man Of Steel". superyachttimes.com. Retrieved 8 February 2020. Septimus
  14. ↑ "Price Drop on Heesen Motor Yacht Man of Steel". Boat International. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
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