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1950's
- Silbo Steel founded by Rudy Boyko
- Silbo initiates its trading in various steel products
- Silbo develops the most extensive network for distribution in the U.S. and Canada of carbon and stainless tubular products
- Silbo begins trading in carbon steel fittings and flanges from Germany
- Silbo develops long-term trading relationships in carbon steel products from sources in Germany, Italy, Brazil, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, China, India and Korea
- Jeffrey Boyko joins Silbo Steel
1960's
- Alan Shalom joins Silbo Steel
- Jeffrey Boyko leaves Silbo to establish TSI.
1970's
- Mitch Shalom joins Silbo Steel
- Oil crisis steel shortages
- Jack Oshinsky joins TSI
- Masumi Kono joins TSI from leading Japanese flange manufacturer
1980's
- First noteworthy anti-dumping case on carbon fittings
- Howard Jakob joins TSI
- Emergence of China and India as trading sources
- Development of real-time computer trading system
- Combination of trading capacities of TSI and Silbo Steel into Silbo Industries
- James Mullally joins Silbo Industries
1990's
- Multiple anti-dumping cases for carbon fittings and flanges and stainless fittings and flanges
- Expanded trading capacities in India, Malaysia, and Thailand
- Jack Oshinsky passes away
- Jeffrey Boyko passes away
2000's
- Silbo introduces trading in: sanitary products; nipples; merchant fittings, and malleable fittings
- Section 201 steel tariffs
- Development of alternative fuels e.g. ethanol
- Financial credit crisis
- Joseph Waldron joins Silbo
- Anti-dumping case against stainless welded pipe from China
- Silbo concludes high eight figure credit facility with two prominent financial Institutions
- Jeff Shalom joins Silbo Industries, Inc.
- Silbo Industries, Inc. named Supplier of the Year by Affiliated Distributors
2010's
- Congress renews GSP
- Silbo continues to expand into new product lines and commodities
- Marcellus Shale boom
- Silbo integrates the Internet with its computer trading platform