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Bert is president of New Millennium Building Systems and a vice president of Steel Dynamics. New Millennium manufactures joists, girders, trusses, and steel decking for non-residential buildings at five locations in the Midwest and eastern United States.
Bert’s career in the joist business began in engineering with a major national manufacturer in 1966, and he became the plant’s engineering manager in 1975. He then served as sales manager from 1982 through 1987. In 1987, he was appointed general manager of the company’s new metal-building venture and oversaw the start-up of that business.
In 1990, Bert and his sons formed a new business, Service Steel Framing Inc., a structural-steel fabricator based in Butler, Indiana.
In the fall of 1998, Bert accepted a new challenge from his longtime colleague Keith Busse, who had founded Steel Dynamics, to develop a plan to create a new building-systems enterprise. In the fall of 1999, New Millennium Building Systems was formed and jointly owned by Steel Dynamics, New Process Steel, and a management team that Bert recruited. Bert became New Millennium’s president. The company began production at its first plant at Butler early in 2000.
In March of 2003, Steel Dynamics bought out its partners, and New Millennium became a wholly owned subsidiary of SDI under Bert’s leadership. One year later, Bert was named a vice president of Steel Dynamics.
In 2004, New Millennium announced plans to build a second fabrication plant in Lake City, Florida. The Lake City facility began operations in the spring of 2005.
In April of 2006, Steel Dynamics acquired Roanoke Electric Steel Corp. and, with it, three joist-manufacturing operations: John W. Hancock Inc. in Salem, Virginia; and two Socar plants, one in Continental, Ohio, and the other in Florence, South Carolina. These three operations have become part of New Millennium Building Systems, and under Bert's management, are being expanded and modernized to create a network of joist-and-decking manufacturing operations serving the eastern half of the United States. | 