Zekelman Industries is a Canadian company owned by the Zekelman family, including billionaires Barry, Clayton, and Alan Zekelman. They own Atlas Tube, a steel tubing manufacturer in Canada and the US.

History

Atlas Tube was founded in 1984 by Harry Zekelman. A majority stake was sold to the

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in 2006 for $1.5 billion CND. In 2006–2008, the

purchased John Maneely Co (founded in 1877) for $550 million, then purchased Atlas Tube, and Sharon Tube (founded in 1929), forming them into JMC Steel Group under DBO Holdings. Carlyle and Zekelman nearly sold them to

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(NLMK) for $3.5 billion in 2008, but the deal fell through in late 2008, with DBO/Carlyle suing NLMK for breach of contract. DBO/Carlyle and NLMK settled their lawsuit in 2009, with NLMK paying $234 million. Picoma became part of JMC in 2009. Carlyle sold a majority stake to the Zekelman family in 2011. The company name was changed to Zekelman Industries in 2016.

Subsidiaries

Zekelman subsidiaries and locations include: * Atlas Tube,

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; naming of the Atlas Tube Centre * Hayes Modular,

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* Picoma,

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* Sharon Tube,

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and

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* Western Tube,

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, acquired in 2017 * Wheatland Tube (created as a subsidiary of John Maneely Co in 1931),

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and

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* Z Modular, based in Chicago; also

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; Killeen, Texas;

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, created in 2016

Political involvement

Zekelman Industries provides steel tubing to the US-Mexico border wall. A Zekelman Industries subsidiary, Wheatland Tube, donated $1.75 million to the

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super-PAC to elect

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, a financial maneuver considered questionable for a foreign citizen. Barry Zekelman dined with Donald Trump at a private Trump Hotel DC dinner by America First Action. Zekelman lobbied Trump regarding steel tariffs, the border wall, and trucking regulations. As a foreign business executive trying to buy influence through spending on American elections, the Campaign Legal Center (CLC) filed a complaint against Zekelman with the Federal Election Commission in 2019. In April 2022, the F. E C. fined Zekelman $975,000 in the case, one of the biggest penalties it has ever assessed.

Barry Zekelman

Barry Zekelman owns a million-dollar cigarette boat named ''Man of Steel''. He also has owned several

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s named ''Man of Steel''; he previously owned a 2005 Heesen 3700 named ''Man of Steel''. He replaced this with a steel-hulled Heesen in 2008, the largest they had built at the time. It was sold and renamed ''Inception''. The third "Man of Steel" superyacht was an aluminum-hulled Heesen purchased by Zekelman in 2019; it was previously named the ''Satori'' and then the ''Septimus''. A third boat, described as a lake boat, is also named ''Man of Steel''. In October 2021, it was confirmed that Zekelman was the purchaser of Steven Spielberg's former 282 ft yacht ''Seven Seas'', built by

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in 2010, which he renamed ''Man of Steel''.

References

{{reflist Business in Canada

History

Subsidiaries

Political involvement

Barry Zekelman

See also

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