Workers at the New Millennium plant in Butler, Indiana welding steel joists. A manufacturer of steel joists, joist girders, and deck solutions for commercial steel construction projects, New Millennium was founded in Butler in 1999 and celebrates its 25th anniversary on May 2, 2025. New Millennium, a division of Steel Dynamics, now operates seven plants across North America with headquarters in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. — A division of Steel Dynamics Inc. (SDI), New Millennium was founded in 1999 in Butler, Indiana, with one clear mission: To be a trusted collaborator for the design, engineering, and supply of structural steel joists and deck. Today, 25 years after the first steel joist rolled off the production line, the company is one of the largest providers of high-performance structural steel joists, joist girders, and deck solutions for commercial steel construction projects.
“This is a business milestone we celebrate with great pride,” said Chad Bickford, Vice President of SDI’s steel fabrication group, New Millennium. “It’s a reflection of our people—not simply their work ethic over the years but also their remarkable commitment to innovation and collaboration.
People were the strength of our last 25 years of success, and they will also be the key to how we reach even higher in the future. In fact, at the recent NASCC: The Steel Conference, our team wore baseball jerseys all emblazoned with the number 25 on the back in honor of our silver anniversary and our continuing business progress.”
New Millennium employs more than 1,600 professionals and operates seven plants in North America that serve markets in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Working side by side with partners that include owners, architects, engineers, and fabricators, the company delivers specialized products and services to commercial steel building projects that range from medical facilities and data centers to sports stadiums, hotels, and amphitheaters.
To learn more about New Millennium, visit www.newmill.com.
About Steel Dynamics, Inc.
Steel Dynamics is one of the largest domestic steel producers and metals recyclers in North America, based on estimated annual steelmaking and metals recycling capability, with facilities located throughout the United States, and in Mexico. Steel Dynamics produces steel products, including hot roll, cold roll, and coated sheet steel, structural steel beams and shapes, rail, engineered special-bar-quality steel, cold finished steel, merchant bar products, specialty steel sections, and steel joists and deck. In addition, the company produces liquid pig iron and processes and sells ferrous and nonferrous scrap. To learn more about SDI, visit www.steeldynamics.com.
YOUTUBE: JOIST AND DECK MANUFACTURING https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr4Zwi5n2hU
YOUTUBE: MESSAGE FROM CHAD BICKFORD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkjvvMh2_-g
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