Webco Industries history

1976 – The first weld mill is installed at SWT.

1977 – SWT enters the stainless tubing market.

1979 – The company enters the mechanical tube market.

1980 – Webco Industries Inc. is founded to become the parent company for SWT. The company, however, continues to do business as Southwest Tube Manufacturing.

1983 – Webco gradually starts bypassing pressure tube distributors and begins selling directly to fabricators.

1984 – The Mannford plant is the first in the nation to successfully weld 294C tubing, a difficult high chrome alloy.

1988 – The Oil City, PA plant, formerly Van Huffel Tube, is purchased and refurbished to serve the mechanical and boiler tube markets.

1998 – Construction begins on a major expansion to Webco’s Mannford stainless plant.

2004 – Webco consolidates and relocates its Nederland, TX pressure tube distribution facilities to a new facility in Orange, TX.

2006 – Webco opens a new value-added facility in Reno, PA facility, near its Oil City plant, which begins supplying carbon steel and other tube products for a variety of applications.

2008 – Webco opens its newest corrosion resistant alloy plant in Kellyville, Oklahoma.

2011 – Dana Weber becomes the CEO of Webco and is honored by the Journal Record with the prestigious award “Woman of the Year.”

2012 – The Star Center Tube Division plant in Sand Springs, OK officially opens on May 31, 2012.

2016 – The Jeffery Watt Williams Center for Manufacturing Excellence opened at our Star Center Complex.

2017 – State-of-the-art Finishing line installed at Southwest Tube Division.

2018 – Significant expansion at the Kellyville Stainless Plant.