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JD Fields Leases Industrial Space at Port Houston

Written by Laura Miller

May 24, 2022

JD Fields & Company Inc. is set to lease new industrial space at Port Houston. Using the property’s multimodal shipping capabilities will allow the steel pipe supplier to further streamline its distribution capabilities.

JD Fields secured the lease of 133,125 square feet of space at the Greens Port Industrial Park from commercial real estate firms NAI James E. Hanson and NAI Partners. The 735-acre industrial park, part of Port Houston, has a total of over three million square feet of warehouse space, storage for 1,600 rail cars across four rail yards, and seven deep water and nine barge berths along the Houston Ship Channel. The property can easily handle ocean vessels, barges, trains, and trucks to allow delivery and shipping of steel in all forms.

JD Fields is a Houston-based steel pipe distributor focused on the energy and civil infrastructure markets. In 2021, the company announced its expansion into steel pipe production through the JDF/HDM Spiralweld Mill. The mill was originally meant to be located on the campus of Steel Dynamics Inc.’s new flatrolled mill in Sinton, Texas. But the company later decided to build the mill in Houston to take advantage of shipping capabilities there. In September 2021, JD Fields further added to its steel portfolio with the $24 million purchase of the steel piling assets of L.B. Foster.

By Laura Miller, Laura@SteelMarketUpdate.com

 

Laura Miller

Laura Miller is a reporter and editor for Steel Market Update. She has held a variety of positions within the steel industry since 2007, including reporting and editing for Steel Business Briefing/Platts, the Association for Iron and Steel Technology, and Kallanish Commodities, as well as marketing for what was then known as ThyssenKrupp Steel USA (now AM/NS Calvert). After a five-year hiatus working across other industries, she returned to steel in 2021 and has covered the flat rolled, tubular, and trade areas of the industry. She is a member of the Association of Women in the Metal Industries and a past-president of the AWMI Pittsburgh Chapter. She holds a BA in Latin American Studies from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. She can be reached at laura@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7869.

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