Olympic Steel Inc is a metals service center and provides metals processing and distribution services for a range of customers. It operates through three segments: carbon flat products, specialty metals flat products, and tubular and pipe products. It also performs toll processing of customer-owned metals. It sells certain products internationally, primarily in Canada, Puerto Rico and Mexico. It maintains an inventory of carbon, stainless and aluminum coil, plate and sheet products, and tubular and pipe products. Its services include both traditional service center processes of cutting-to-length, slitting, flattening, sawing and shearing and higher value-added processes of blanking, tempering, plate burning, laser cutting, precision machining, welding, fabricating, bending, beveling, polishing, kitting and painting to process metals to specified lengths, widths and shapes pursuant to specific customer orders. Cutting-to-length involves cutting metal along the width of the coil.