Pacemaker Steel and Piping Company

On April 1, 1956 at the age of 27, F. Eugene Romano (Gene) founded Pacemaker Steel in Utica, NY. Pacemakers initial business plan was to serve the central NY State tool & die industry with a complete range of tool and die steels. Due to the early success of the endeavor, a full line of cold finished carbon steel bar was added in 1959. In 1960, Pacemaker became a full line general distributor for Reynolds-Metals, one of only three in the entire state of NY north of the NYC metropolitan area. Pacemaker was growing quickly as a reliable major supplier to the healthy manufacturing that spread across NY from Poughkeepsie to Buffalo. In 1968, Pacemaker purchased a competitor in Binghamton and then added a full line of hot-rolled shapes, sheet and plate to its inventory, along with cold-rolled and galvanized sheet. The company kept growing, always employing its founders principle of consistently providing high-quality products, at a fair price, delivered on time. In 1969, Charles Mi...