Company Profile
Pacific Steel & Recycling
Company Overview
At Pacific Steel & Recycling it is our vision to be the best employee-owned company in the world. We're not just in the metal business (new steel and recycling), we're in the people business. If you're tired of feeling like an employee and want something more out of work, you've come to the right place.
Company History
Pacific’s road to becoming a steel and recycling giant began as a one-man operation in Spokane, Wash. Joe Thiebes emigrated from Germany in the 1880s and followed his family’s business tradition of trading hides and furs. Soon, Thiebes sent his son, also named Joe, to the wilds of Montana. And in the early 1920s, the younger Thiebes officially founded Pacific Hide & Fur Depot in Great Falls.
During World War I, the company expanded beyond furs and hides into collecting ferrous and nonferrous scrap. And this scrap metals venture eventually led the firm to branch out in the 1950s into sales of new steel products. The Thiebes family business continued into the third generation, with another son – again named Joe – joining forces with his father as the company steadily opened additional locations under the Pacific Hide & Fur name.
The Thiebes family owned the company and the senior Joe Thiebes continued to serve as chairman of the board until his death in 1988, though he wasn’t involved in Pacific’s day-to-day management. The end of daily family involvement in the business came with the death of the younger Joe Thiebes in 1982. However, Pacific is dedicated to carrying on the Thiebes family tradition of “shooting straight”.
100% Employee-owned!
The founders of Pacific Steel & Recycling decided the best way to retain hard-working, service-oriented employees was to give them a stake in the company – an idea that endures to this day.
We are here for our communities!
Headquartered in Great Falls, Montana, Pacific Steel & Recycling has over 46 branch offices in Washington, Nevada, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, North Dakota, Colorado, and Montana.
Each branch is uniquely committed to its own community’s well-being, because we live and work there. In addition to contributing to the local economy by offering jobs and benefits, we actively support schools, youth sports teams and charitable causes.
Giving back has long been a key part of the Pacific philosophy, and always will be.
Benefits
We are 100% employee owned! This comes with an amazing retirement benefit in the form of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP).