Continuous Improvement - for Over One Hundred Years
In today's market, it is taken for granted that customers demand quality and continuous improvement in the products that they buy. No company can thrive unless its products and services keep up with the rapidly changing requirements of the marketplace and unyielding customer demands for total quality.
	In 1889, J.C. Steele, a brick manufacturer in Statesville, North Carolina, designed and built improved brick making machinery. This led to the founding principle of his company - a principle that has remained unchanged for more than a century - continuous improvement in the design, materials, and manufacture of clay working machinery.
	To gain first hand knowledge of the industry, members of the family have operated separate clay product plants since 1916. This provides firsthand experience for improving designs and making machines more effective and more dependable.
For J.C. Steele & Sons, attention-to-detail design and an overriding commitment to quality is nothing new. The company's mission remains unchanged since the 1890's, to simply provide clay processing machinery of the highest quality that completely meets the needs of users.
J.C. Steele & Sons today
J.C. Steele & Sons is the largest producer of heavy clay products machinery in the United States. Export sales to many parts of the world make up a large part of total sales.
The company has remained under family management and is engaged exclusively in the manufacture of clay processing equipment. Plant facilities have been enlarged and updated and include a modern, fully-equipped foundry. Multiple electric induction furnaces are used in the carefully controlled production of alloy castings. The machine shop features a number of precision tools, many of which are computer numerically controlled (CNC). The engineering department utilizes the latest computer aided technology for design, drafting, and analysis.