BREADTH OF INVENTORY

Today's turbulent market poses real challenges for metal consumers. Product scarcity, consolidation of the producer base and increasing costs of raw materials has produced conditions unique in the North American industrial base.

EMJ has responded by investing in a vast expansion of our inventory. Our massive stock of bar, tubing and specialty plate is the largest in North America. Our focus on sales of core products allows us to maximize volume purchases, producing the lowest available material costs in North America. Leveraging our immense buying power is a central component of our efforts to provide our customers with "Total Cost Reductions".

Our promise to our customers is to have the material they need, in stock and ready for immediate delivery. We fulfill this promise every day and our pledge can be measured by the tremendous growth in the variety and quantity of material we stock.

Our worldwide supplier base assures a constant, uninterrupted flow of replacement material and allows us to obtain the specialty metals that our customers demand. Depth and breadth of inventory, in abundant quantity, is another means by which EMJ supports our customers.