Jersey Shore Steel Company still manufactures rail steel as it did when it was founded in 1938. Today, however, the money is in angle steel, posts, and shelving products. The company's largest customers are in the bed frame and furniture industries. Its fabricated steel angles are manufactured to customer specifications and used in such applications as fencing, garage door supports, highway signs, and shelving. Jersey Shore Steel's annual steel rail capacity is around 170,000 tons. The company was founded by John A. Schultz in 1938 and continues to be a family owned and operated.

Kalamazoo Fabricating makes electrical panels, controls and drive components using its media blasting, painting facilities, and various lathes, mills, and saws. A division of Envirodyne Technologies, the company has expertise in the areas of custom equipment fabrication, coolant filtration, material handling systems, conveyors, and wash systems. Products are finished using dedicated media blasting (glass bead, sand, walnut shell, etc.) and paint. Kalamazoo Fabricating's installation of controls, drive components, and electrical panels take place at its plant's final assembly building. Industrial conveyor maker PRAB acquired Envirodyne in May 2008.

Kenwal Steel Corp. was founded in 1947 by Sol Eisenberg in Detroit, Michigan as a modest but ambitious supplier of steel products. As with most new businesses, the initial years of the company, which was then called Kenwal Products Corporation, were marked by a limited range of operations and services.The company's customers during this period were a small pool of automotive based manufacturers. During the 1960's, Sol's elder son, Kenneth Eisenberg, joined the business and helped lead its development into a more diverse and service oriented company. Kenwal began taking on new customers in different industries whose steel needs and requirements demanded that the company expand its own range of steel services.

Kreider Corporation was established in 1952 as a sheet metal shop, and today has grown to a dynamic metal stamping and four-slide house with value added capabilities in assembly, welding, tool making, product and tool design.

Kuntz Electroplating is a leading North American polishing and plating facility that puts the finish on steel and aluminum wheels, bumpers, and other auto and body parts. Customers include OEMs of automotive components such as General Motors, Toyota, and Honda. In a partnership with Harley-Davidson and Leggett & Platt, Kuntz Electroplating provides cosmetic nickel chrome plating on the American motorcycle maker's engines. Kuntz Electroplating was founded in 1948 by Oscar Kuntz. In 1989 the company acquired a sister business, Formulated Coatings of Brampton, which operates a cathodic e-coating facility.

Ladish company designs and manufactures high-strength forged and cast metal components for aerospace and industrial markets. Jet engine parts, missile components, landing gear, helicopter rotors, and other aerospace products generate nearly 90% of the company's sales; general industrial components account for the remainder. Aerospace industry giants Rolls-Royce (26%), United Technologies (19%), and General Electric (11%) together account for more than half of Ladish's sales. Nearly 50% of its sales come from outside the US (the UK representing more than half of all foreign sales).

LaFrance Corporation is a recognized leader in the manufacture of high-quality nameplates. LaFrance's Benmatt Industries unit makes a range of customized products including key fobs, license plate frames, and trailer hitch covers that are used as promotional items by auto dealerships. The company's J.A.T. Creative Products division, which was set up in 2004, provides products to promote and advertise companies, organizations, and special events. LaFrance also operates PacTec, a producer of standard and custom modified plastic electronic enclosures. LaFrance has manufacturing plants in China, Japan, and the US.

Lincoln Industries specializes in the functional and decorative finishing of steel, aluminum and brass, operating more than 20 automated and manual lines capable of more than 40 finishing processes. Lincoln's integrated finishing services include sourcing, materials management, manufacturing and assembly, polishing, packaging, inventory management, and design and engineering support.

Lingotes Especiales designs and produces metal components for use in automobiles, appliances, construction projects, and other products and industries. It also operates laboratories, employs design teams, and contracts with university laboratories to develop new products and improve existing ones. The company's research and development teams include personnel who are fluent in English, French, German, and Italian. Lingotes Especiales also makes sure that its process is as environmentally friendly as possible. Lingotes Especiales was founded in 1968.

Lock Joint Tube manufactures mechanical and structural grade steel tubing for OEM and metal fabricators. The company's various sized and shaped tubing offers a breadth of applications, from bedside tables and wheelchairs to IV stands and hand railings used in medical facilities. Customers hail from the automotive, healthcare, office furniture, and exercise and display fixtures market. Lock Joint Tube is privately held by Lerman Enterprises (a network of four industrial metal companies), which also owns Indiana-based Steel Warehouse Company, Inc.

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