Division 5

Division 5

Division 5 was founded in 2001 and operates from its head office in Winston, Georgia. The firm started as a domestic structural steel fabricator and expanded alongside its affiliate, Steel of Carolina, to encompass four manufacturing facilities totaling more than 350,000 square feet. The combined workforce exceeds 200 skilled fabricators and detailers. Rather than managing outside capital, Division 5 functions as a closely held industrial operating company that reinvests in physical plant and production capacity. The firm's core strategy is vertical integration across the structural steel supply chain for commercial construction. It fabricates structural steel — columns, beams, and roof frames — alongside miscellaneous items such as stairs, rails, and ladders, and provides in-house detailing in 3D and SDS/2 software. Deployment flows into four distinct service lines: structural fabrication, miscellaneous steel, joist and deck procurement, and steel erection management through a nationwide network of third-party erectors. Division 5 serves general contractors building warehouses, refrigerated distribution centers, multi-level storage facilities, schools, and hospitals. The geographic footprint spans the United States, with active projects in more than 20 states. Total annual steel tonnage capacity is 75,000 across the four sites. Three plants — in Winston, GA, Tallapoosa, GA, and Hickory, NC — complement the Steel of Carolina facility in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, acquired as part of the Division 5 family of companies. Walk-in sales at the two North Carolina plants support small contractors and residential builders. In the last year, project locations ranged nationally; the firm also completed more than 1,800 projects cumulatively. Division 5's structural differentiator is its closed-loop subcontractor model for general contractors. Instead of outsourcing any fabrication step, the firm employs a full in-house detailing staff and welders, sources joist and deck on behalf of clients, and coordinates a pre-vetted network of independent erectors. This architecture compresses lead times and eliminates procurement friction for the general contractor, effectively making Division 5 a single-source steel package provider rather than a simple fabrication shop.