Zekelman Industries


Zekelman Industries is a Canadian company owned by the Zekelman family, including billionare Barry Zekelman. They own Atlas Tube, a steel tubing manufacturer in Canada and United States.
A Zekelman Industries subsidiary, Wheatland Tube, donated $1.75mm to the America First Action super-PAC to elect Donald Trump, 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. Zekelman Industries provides steel tubing to the US-Mexico border wall.
Barry Zekelman owns a million-dollar cigarette boat named "Man of Steel".
Zekelman also has owned several superyachts 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".

Subsidiaries

Zekelman subsidiaries and locations include:
John Maneely Co was created in 1877.
Sharon Tube was founded in 1929.
Wheatland Tube was created as a subsidiary of John Maneely Co in 1931.
Atlas Tube was founded in 1984 by Harry Zekelman. A majority stake was sold to the Carlyle Group in 2006 for $1.5 billion CND.
In 2006-2008, the Carlyle Group purchased John Maneely Co for $550 million, then purchased Atlas Tube, and Sharon Tube, forming them into JMC Steel Group under DBO Holdings. Carlyle and Zekelman nearly sold them to Novolipetsk Steel 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 it to Zekelman Industries in 2016.