Vertical Integration at Shultz Steel

Vertical Integration at Shultz Steel

Schultz Steel operates a forging facility in Aerospace industries. Its tasks include: offering a wide range of impression forgings including large and remarkably complex forgings; open die forgings; seamless rolled rings; and regular supply of products in all alloys that include titanium, various kinds of steel, aluminum, alloy, nickel, and cobalt. The company primarily serves the aerospace (commercial and defense airframes, engines, helicopters, and missiles) and commercial land-based gas turbine markets. Shultz Steel's aerospace products include bulkheads, disks, engine mounts, flap and slat tracks, landing gear structures, nacelles, shafts, and windshield frames. It also makes extruded cases, nozzles, and stationary shells for missiles. Shultz Steel's gas turbine engine products include disks, rings, and shafts (http://www.answers.com/topic/shultz-steel-company#ixzz1P5KgdZDT). The company prides itself on being the "most modern vertically integrated forging facility in the Aerospace industries" (Schultz Steel: www.shultzsteel.com)

Vertical integration at Schultz Steel.

Vertical integration refers to the process by which several, or all, steps in the production and/or distribution of the product are controlled by a single company or entity in order to make that company as effective as possible in the field and to give as large a monopoly as possible in the marketplace.