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  "description": "Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. is a leading global diversified metal solutions provider, delivering a comprehensive range of metal products and processing solutions. They serve over 125,000 customers across diverse industries with an unmatched combination of metals variety, precision processing, and industry expertise, operating as North America’s largest metals service center company.",
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  "updatedAt": "2026-09-16T12:32:31.611Z",
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    "category": "Metal Distribution",
    "what_it_does": "Reliance Steel & Aluminum Co. is a leading global diversified metal solutions provider and North America’s largest metals service center company. It sells and processes a comprehensive range of metal products and processing solutions, delivering them just-in-time to customers.",
    "primary_audience": "The company serves over 125,000 customers across diverse industries, including non-residential construction, transportation, aerospace, semiconductors, industrial machinery, consumer products, energy, and general manufacturing. Its clientele includes original equipment manufacturers, fabricators, job shops, and contractors.",
    "core_product": "The core products include a broad mix of metal products such as carbon steel, aluminum, stainless steel, alloy products, and specialty metals. Additionally, it provides value-added processing services like cutting, sawing, laser processing, and inventory management.",
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    "named_competitors": [
      "Nucor",
      "Steel Dynamics",
      "Commercial Metals Company",
      "Alcoa",
      "O'Neal Steel",
      "Russel Metals",
      "Ryerson",
      "United States Steel Corp",
      "ATI Inc.",
      "Olympic Steel",
      "Worthington Steel",
      "Kloeckner Metals"
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