Owen

owen is the parent company of several steel processing and fabrication companies throughout the midwest. our oldest division, pvs structures, was founded in omaha, ne as paxton & vierling iron works in 1885, and focused primarily on our foundry and structural products. the company eventually rebranded as paxton & vierling steel (pvs) in 1954, and our logo has worn the badge of pvs ever since. in the 1950s the ownership broke ground for a new steel facility in sioux city, iowa that would be named missouri valley steel (mvs). concurrently, paxton & vierling branched into service center warehouse sales in the 1960s, and eventually split off as a separate entity when it moved into more advanced steel processing in the late 1990s. this company is now called pvs metals and resides in a state of the art facility in carter lake, ia. owen's next focus was the northern tier, and a new plant called northern plains steel (nps) was built in fargo, nd that also specialized in warehouse and met