Greetings!
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Summer is finally here and I'm really getting quenched and tempered by the heat!
While cooling down, I enjoy communicating with customers, vendors and co-workers on Facebook.
I just posted a summer portrait of myself on Facebook. Post your favorite summer photo on my Facebook page and I'll send you a Leavitt Tube Man hat!
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Visit Leavitt on Facebook 
Facebook is an online social networking website created in 2004. We have recently launched the official Leavitt Tube Company page on Facebook.
Users of Facebook can add their own Facebook friends, send or receive messages and update their profiles to notify other Facebook friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join organized networks by workplace, school, etc.
Our Facebook page will be utilized as a mechanism for communicating events and information, archiving marketing materials and staying connected with customers, vendors and employees.
Please click below for a shortcut to our Facebook page.
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"Skip Here" is a familiar phrase to many folks. If you've ever called in to schedule a truckload pick up with us, you've heard this. The face behind the voice is none other than Skip Cowan, our employee spotlight for July.
Skip started at Leavitt Tube in 1966 kind of by chance. He had been working as a cost accountant (and before that a butter delivery specialist) and was ready to move on. Many of his friends were working at Leavitt Tube at the time, so he stopped by in his three-piece suit and asked to talk to Personnel. They told him they weren't hiring at the time but would keep him in mind if something came up. As he walked back to his car, a Leavitt manager from the office spotted him, and offered him a job on the spot...because he was wearing his three-piece suit! This was on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving...and he started that Friday as a janitor and has had an incredible ride ever since.
Skip has done just about every job that we offer here at Leavitt - he's hauled steel, loaded trucks, slit steel, ran the mills, was a foreman, a shipping clerk and now he's our dispatcher, finding trucks for our valued customers and talking to numerous truck lines every day. Skip has been doing this for the past 10 years, getting in at 4:30 am to make sure all of our truck loads are taken care of.
In his spare time, Skip enjoys playing golf and spending time with his three granddaughters and one grandson...and soon to be two grandsons! On Friday, July 2nd, he found out that will now be a great-grand father. Skip has been married to his wife Bonnie for 44 years and they reside in Lowell, IN. He has two sons.
Mark your calendars - Skip will be celebrating his 44th year at Leavitt Tube this November...make sure to give him a call and congratulate him!
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About Leavitt Tube Company
Leavitt Tube Company began producing mechanical steel tubing in 1956. Over the more than 50 years since, Leavitt Tube Company has evolved into an industry leader with one of the broadest size ranges of Structural, Mechanical and Hi-Y50 Pipe Size Tubing in the industry. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois Leavitt Tube Company currently operates 10 tubing mills with facilities in Chicago, IL and Jackson, MS.
Phone: 1-800-532-8488 |
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We are still accepting orders for the following sizes rolling in July:
Pipe Size
.84"
1.05"
1.315"
1.66"
1.9"
8.625"
Rectangle
1" x 2"
1 1/2" x 2"
1 1/2" x 2 1/2"
4" x 2"
5" x 3"
6" x 2"
12" x 2"
Please call your Leavitt Tube Sales Representative for additional Details. |
Coming Soon:
Operational Improvements
Leavitt will soon unveil details and photos of major improvements at our Chicago location. We are excited about the projects and look forward to sharing more information in future Leavitt Tube Pipeline articles. |
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Leavitt Goes Green With ISO 14001
Leavitt Tube Company is now in conformance with the International Environment Management Standard ISO 14001 (2004) certification. AQA International, a third-party auditor based in South Carolina, issued our certificate on March 23, 2010.
At Leavitt Tube Company, we are committed to:
The ISO 14001 environmental management standard exists to help organizations minimize how their operations negatively affect the environment, comply with applicable laws and regulations while continually improving on the above.
We are exploring new technologies to reduce energy consumption. As an example, with motion detecting lighting installed in Chicago, we now use 25% less electricity. |
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